The Complete NOOBZ Guide to Competitor Link Research!
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I think they killed it a wile back I seen people mention it in another thread of mine.. I'll ask around and see what I can do.
McPatrick
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- Feb 1, 2015
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I finally had time to read the thread, some good information. I often drop some of the best customer backlinks to link audit tool and keep a close eye on when they get removed. When one gets removed I instantly ask my team to get me few good links - usually this is enough to go up few spots.
Thanks for a awesome share
just st wondering for ahrefs, does it show the da/pa of the backlinks your competitors have??
i saw a screen shot and it had dr and pr in the collum listings. Is that the same thing(ahrefs version)
No it's not the same thing.. that's ahrefs attempt at their own metrics I believe. You would need a tool which combines and shows them all through API access, for example SERPWoo has all the data from ahrefs, moz, majestic and more built in.
Neverex
Newbie
- Jul 23, 2015
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If you're just starting, do you jump straight to competitor link research or do you do some basic link building before it?
I personally first build some Web 2.0s, then jump to social bookmarks, article submissions and blog comments, then start to build links to my Web 2.0s and then some good profile links and public blog networks and guest posting. All this around few months not few days to make it look more natural.
And after that I move to researching competitors links.
Is my "basic linknbuilding" worthless, should I just jump to competitor links, when talking about brand new website, any opinions?
I personally first build some Web 2.0s, then jump to social bookmarks, article submissions and blog comments, then start to build links to my Web 2.0s and then some good profile links and public blog networks and guest posting. All this around few months not few days to make it look more natural.
And after that I move to researching competitors links.
Is my "basic linknbuilding" worthless, should I just jump to competitor links, when talking about brand new website, any opinions?
bilaltheseofreak
Newbie
- Nov 17, 2015
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Thanks for this helpful sharing dude! gonna apply a few of them with my upcoming projects. I hope not many of my competitors have read this thread 
Thank you Tommy....
I use semrush to get competitor list domains.... get lots of them.
Then, I use cognitive SEO (Free trial, get 25 domain analysis),
it's a very good tool. give us how high the quality of the domain using TF/CF Majestic. They also categorize the backlink whether it is blog comment, forum, guest post etc.
Open link Profiler (cant post link), is also a very good link tool....
I use semrush to get competitor list domains.... get lots of them.
Then, I use cognitive SEO (Free trial, get 25 domain analysis),
it's a very good tool. give us how high the quality of the domain using TF/CF Majestic. They also categorize the backlink whether it is blog comment, forum, guest post etc.
Open link Profiler (cant post link), is also a very good link tool....
louisviller
Newbie
- Dec 6, 2015
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Very helpful thanks. Except that most link resources require subscription.
BPOTryout4400
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- Dec 7, 2015
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This post is very good. It's time to follow this guide and beat my competitor.
VirtualService247
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- Dec 7, 2015
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A perfect idea, this will really help me with my current task. Analyzing what your competitor is doing that makes them on top will give us an idea that we can apply on our own project then make some improvements and make it better.
A T R O X
Newbie
- Feb 6, 2017
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Hi,
I have read all the White and Black sticky but this was the most helpful. However, I have some questions. Noob alert!
As this Guide was realized some time ago is it still mostly applicable or are there newer methods?
I went through all the Steps with Moz Toolbar and the Site Explorer. (No change for Ahrefs & Majestic, maybe Fiver)
Out of the 10 Links, 1 was Wikipedia and 4 did not show Links on Moz, 2 out of those were Forums. The default with the Site Explorer is Page. When I change to root, I do get links for those 4. Am I correct that for the rank, the Page is the direct competition not the Root, therefore that specific Page is only relevant. When I changed to Root, I went through the list, a lot of general stuff but there were 3 Links that had high DA/PA and were relevant to my niche, so I picked them up. That is OK?
Last, going through my list, I started trimming, first DA20 then PA30. Here again PA trumps DA? Because I had some 27-29PA->50+DA but I still get rid of them?
After the trimming, 3 links had 0 links, 1 had 1, and the others 5+. This is a good thing? I guess the 1 Page Sites are all weak except 1. Therefore it should be easier for me to Rank better, correct?
Again, thanks for the great Guide!
I have read all the White and Black sticky but this was the most helpful. However, I have some questions. Noob alert!
As this Guide was realized some time ago is it still mostly applicable or are there newer methods?
I went through all the Steps with Moz Toolbar and the Site Explorer. (No change for Ahrefs & Majestic, maybe Fiver)
Out of the 10 Links, 1 was Wikipedia and 4 did not show Links on Moz, 2 out of those were Forums. The default with the Site Explorer is Page. When I change to root, I do get links for those 4. Am I correct that for the rank, the Page is the direct competition not the Root, therefore that specific Page is only relevant. When I changed to Root, I went through the list, a lot of general stuff but there were 3 Links that had high DA/PA and were relevant to my niche, so I picked them up. That is OK?
Last, going through my list, I started trimming, first DA20 then PA30. Here again PA trumps DA? Because I had some 27-29PA->50+DA but I still get rid of them?
After the trimming, 3 links had 0 links, 1 had 1, and the others 5+. This is a good thing? I guess the 1 Page Sites are all weak except 1. Therefore it should be easier for me to Rank better, correct?
Again, thanks for the great Guide!
patrick007
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- Jan 7, 2017
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Thank you very much, Tommy !
i'll save the link to this post on a excel spreadsheet
i'll save the link to this post on a excel spreadsheet