not quite what i was looking for, but thanks for typing all thatUnderstanding your competition and their backlink strategy is important. It helps understand what kind of a backlink strategy has been working for them. Taking inspiration from them, we can formulate our own link buidlinf strategy. It is similar to how we look at the top ranking pices of content for a keyword to understand the kind of content structure that people have been reading and google has been deeeming worthy of ranking. Hope this helps! Good luck with your link building endeavours