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firestarter · 03-15-2007, 05:50 AM

Hi MG,

Thank you very much for your input!

Off topic:
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The thing is, my goal is just that, to get on the first page so that means i would need to push competitors down the SERPs.
It's not that i would want to create traffic for my business but for personal developments.

But i need to actually have a good strategy to determine which results are actually worth competing for.

Doing an additional search with a search operator combo i discovered that the actual competing pages are in fact not that many by doing a search command like:

intitle:"keyword keyword" inanchor:"keyword keyword"

which gives me:

Results 1 - 10 of about 929 for intitle:"keyword keyword" inanchor:"keyword keyword"

So there are 929 competing pages that take the effort to optimize their page titles and anchor keywords in their back links.
That's an interesting number and worth my time to analyze these competing pages further.

What other type of SEO factors do you take in account for to analyze the competing pages that you can use to improve on your own project?

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firestarter Inactive Join Date: 03-13-07 Posts: 12 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	Hi MG, Thank you very much for your input! Off topic: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting to see that there are 3,587 views on this thread but unfortunately only 1 member had interest to join in on the discussion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The thing is, my goal is just that, to get on the first page so that means i would need to push competitors down the SERPs. It's not that i would want to create traffic for my business but for personal developments. But i need to actually have a good strategy to determine which results are actually worth competing for. Doing an additional search with a search operator combo i discovered that the actual competing pages are in fact not that many by doing a search command like: intitle:"keyword keyword" inanchor:"keyword keyword" which gives me: Results 1 - 10 of about 929 for intitle:"keyword keyword" inanchor:"keyword keyword" So there are 929 competing pages that take the effort to optimize their page titles and anchor keywords in their back links. That's an interesting number and worth my time to analyze these competing pages further. What other type of SEO factors do you take in account for to analyze the competing pages that you can use to improve on your own project?