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Discussion in 'SEO Search Engine Optimisation' started by ratboy, Apr 8, 2012.

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  1. ratboy United Kingdom

    ratboy Well-Known Member

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    Great tip and tool I've found for finding great links for your site in a competitive niche, hope you enjoy (and if you do, I'd really appreciate you adding my B&B site - link below, to a site of yours in return)

    1. Sign up to Majestic SEO - (https://www.majesticseo.com) £1 a day for a great SEO backlink tool
    2. Paste your competitors url into the Site Explorer bar
    3. Go to: "Top Backlinks" - this gives you a list of all their backlinks, which are rated, higher better quality etc
    4. Visit each link that is rated highly - and request links to your site from each site
    5. Repeat for all of the Top 20 in your niche search, which could be a lot
    6. Watch your site climb the ranks

    It works and costs £1 a day and a bit of donkey work!
    Johnny
     
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    Is it any different to Domain Pop? I'm assuming the difference must be that it lists the most popular / best backlinks that the competitor has?
     
  4. ratboy United Kingdom

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    Not sure haven't used it - but yes shows you competitors backlinks - advantage is most of these will be good link pages which you can usually get added to.
     
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    wonder_lander Well-Known Member

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    Cheers Ratboy, I've signed up to the silver package and am impressed with the reports so far!
     
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    Just a post-Penguin update to this.

    Do it slowly.
     
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    julian Banned

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    what happens when you find the backlinks are from the BBC or Times etc - might be a bit difficult to get one of those when your sites just some crappy WP flog?


     
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    No idea Julian! :D
     
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    You could also get in an experienced copywriter who will help your copy tick all the right SEO boxes and be thoroughly Penguin-proof! ;)
     
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    Very good point - it's a waste of time building links to a made for Adsense shovelware content site. Invest the time and money in ONE decent site, and promote that. Once it starts to get real traction, repeat slowly and cautiously with ONE more site.
     
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    With hindsight - this should have been common sense!

    for me anway! :-S
     
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    I have been using that for a while nice tool.

    My friend wrote an article about seo tools for .net magazine, i was going to post a link, but i cant find it on their site.

    If anyone's interested i can pop up a list or pdf scan of the list.

    Lots of handy little tools out there which can be useful.
     
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    stender Well-Known Member

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    Blimey, where you been hiding?

    List would be good thanks.
     
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    If you have a business(ish): you can usually throw some money at The Telegraph to get them to publish a press releasey type thing. The link is very buried on their site though and you'll probably need to call them.

    You won't be able to duplicate every backlink your competitors have, and the older the links are the harder they usually are to replicate as well.

    If you have a site that's not obviously commercial (e.g. a few affiliate links, Adsense or similar), you can often get it on relevant Wikipedia pages as a reference.

    Penguin is mostly about links. A good SEO copywriter will help with internal link structure, but that won't even be close to your site being "thoroughly Penguin-proof".
     
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    deconstruction Well-Known Member

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    Hi Stender

    Was spending too much time on stuff like forums. So went cold turkey for a while.

    Back now, but probably a little less often :)

    Will get a list when I am in the office tomorrow.

    Thanks
    Simon
     
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    Do you have a link, to the link?
     
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    It's usually a sign of success not posting on forums anymore. Hence i'm still here.
     
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    Just had a link but can't find it :( I'm sure it was from looking at the backlinks of a member here :S I think it's a fairly common tactic. They have an email address but I can't find the specific section of the website that lists them.
     
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    My favourite backlink checking tool at the moment is http://www.seoheap.com/backlink-checker/ - it's free and it groups the backlinks into domains rather than making you wade through pages and pages; it also indicates with a Home icon as to which sites are owned by them.
     
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    Shame YSE died,it was the best backlink checker out there.Majestic isn't as good as you think.It's good simply because there are few options.
    I find https://ahrefs.com/ better than majestic.

    I wouldn't even waste my time looking at competitors links for too long,focus on getting unque high pr links your competition doesn't have and can't get(if you know how to create them).
     
  21. AlanProdigy

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    Thanks ratboy. Will use it for sure for my future websites. :)
     
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