Analyzing the Competiton (what to look for)

[WM-Scott]

I check Position (naturally), Backlinks, Metas (as they relate to Content), Content (as it relates to Metas), Age..What else? Let's start a list..

[zeruel]

Indexing, Title and Description, Domain age...

[haga]

images, flash, javascript...

[mit]

Keyword Competition first of all.

[Sonal]

The Keyword Competition and also PR

[TeewhY]

The very first thing to look is the keyword competence, see if the keyword your using is widely used by user's around the globe. you can check it by using tools, you can use google adwords https://adwords..google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

[joshsteve4]

I guess you should also look for their partners, since its your competition's you should consider them as possible partners..

[fascinatingAngel]

Keyword competition should be prioritized first since you have same targets...

[jabo]

I always try to check
keyword competition
backlinks
traffic-use compete.com but not really sure of its accuracy
content

[arturobraganza]

Originally Posted by jabo

I always try to check
keyword competition
backlinks
traffic-use compete.com but not really sure of its accuracy
content

Keyword Competition? You mean you only depend on competition only? I think that's not enough. You may have checked your competition, but are you aware of your keyword searches per day?

[global-seo]

compete.com is not that accurate.. it only gives an estimated traffic for once site

[heatman07]

I think u can use Google Commands like:

allinurl:<keyword>
allintitle:<keyword>

I use this commands to check how many competitions I have. I also use the things told by the guys here.

[Himalayan]

Keywords are the main and very important for every website because we know that keywords are basically the search term in search engines so everybody want to come on top pages with their targeted keywords.

[Myamsterdam]

Same thinking. Guys....

Keywords Competitions.

[SmallBusinessSEO]

our usual (quick overview) research of a search goes like this.

1. amount of exact match phrases in the titles in first 3 pages of the search
2. allintitle: search
3. allinanchor: search
4. allintext: search
5. amount of people advertising on it (PPC)

then general optimisation levels and backlinks of the number 10 site and number 5 sites.

specific research of individual sites is much more complex.

[Mousee]

SmallBusinessSEO, what about the number of indexed pages? Can you explain why don't you consider this the most important?