One of my favourite SEO tricks that has stood the test of time is to simply steal your rankings through competitor backlink analysis. With a bit of elbow grease, you can check competitor backlinks and use them to easily out rank your competition. Each of the sites in the top 10 search results have a backlink profile that pleases Google.

It is also likely they have fairly decent content and have taken care of the basics like on page SEO. But for the most part each of the top 10 results backlink profile is powering the rankings. Imagine what would happen if your site had the same backlinks as not just the 1 result, but every single page in the top 10 results! Collecting backlink data is important because it allows you to figure out exactly why you or your competitors are ranking for any given search term.

You can use this data to build a golden database of backlinks that you can re-use time and time again to drive traffic to your websites. Performing competitor backlink analysis like this allows you create a great foundation link profile to your site. This is a tactic I use all of the time with new sites before I do anything else.

You build a very natural profile slowly but surely giving you a great foundation to leverage. The first thing you need to do is gather the top 10 organic results for the keyword you want to rank for.

To find competitors backlinks all for each of the top 10 results we are going to use some backlink checkers. They all have very different databases and offer a range of results. So in order to do this properly, we need to combine the data from as many backlink checkers as possible! I have published a couple of case studies to find the best backlink checker tool in the past.

Ahrefs always offers the most results. So for this tutorial I decided to see how many links each competitor backlinks checker returned for this blog. Ahrefs has won every backlink checker test I have ran — including this one! It is by far the best backlink chcker! The free account gives you quite a lot of backlink based data but you can only see the top 10 backlinks of each report.

The paid account allows you to export all of them into a CSV file in one click. Check out my 1 million domain Ahrefs case study. I have a bit of a history with Majestic SEO but they are always one of the top performers in terms of the number of backlinks they provide. The paid account gives you 1 click access to export everything into a CSV file. Check out my 1 million domain Majestic SEO case study. In my earlier tests SEO Spyglass performed poorly but a recent update has added a database of 15,, links.

SEO Spyglass is different than other backlink checkers as it runs as a piece of desktop software rather than a web based tool. All of this data is retrieved in real time and is as fresh as you can get! It is available for a onetime fee which makes it a great investment compared to the monthly fees of most paid backlink checkers. A free search will let you get the top 50 backlinks for each URL. Clicking on the just discovered tab will get you an extra 5!

The paid version gives you the export to CSV option as well as access to the rest of the Moz suite of tools! Backlink Watch actually uses Ahrefs to power its database so you can get some decent results. The Small SEO Tools backlink checker is also completely free to use! While it does return some good results it is hard to export them, you have to click through 10 result pages one at a time to copy them out.

It uses Open Site Explorer as its backlink data source but also looks up real time data like page rank. It is a great free tool to have in your arsenal! Link Diagnosis is also a handy free competitor backlink analysis tool although it did deliver limited results.

On the upside though it uses the Open Site Explorer database and if you install the Firefox extension it is really handy! Now you have collected as many backlinks as possible from as many sources as possible for each of the top 10 results we can move forward! Next we need to remove all of the duplicates which you can do with the free DupeRemove tool. At this point your master list of competitor backlinks could be pretty large — so to make sure we are working efficiently we are going to do a bit of competitor backlink analysis to pick out the best ones.

In general all I look for are backlinks that are indexed in Google and have a PR value of some kind. These are the priority links. You can download your copy of the free SEO software here! If you have Scrapebox then you can use that to look up lots of different data. Follow my backlink profile analysis tutorial to check if links are still live, which anchor text they use, what PR they are and if they are indexed in Google.

You can also use SEO Tools for Excel to build a spreadsheet to lookup a range of data. However it is free to use and with a bit of elbow grease you can make a pretty good link prospecting sheet. I use Inspyder Backlink Monitor to monitor all of my tiered link building campaigns. It is also a great tool to look up bulk data on backlinks. Just paste the list of links, hit go and it will check if they are still live, if they are indexed, what PR they have and a bunch of other things.

SEO Spyglass is not just a backlink checker, it is also a complete backlink analysis tool. You can then go a step further and get it to do a deeper competitor backlink analysis to determine the quality of each of them. If you have found backlinks from other tools it is easy to import those as well.

SEO Spyglass is great for competitor backlink analysis and doubles up as a great link finder too! Sometimes it will be a guest post and you will have to send an email to submit your own guest post. Once you have finished replicating your competitors backlinks you can then bulk check which ones you now have a live backlink from. These backlinks are gold! As you do this over time you will build a huge list of powerful links that are helping to drive the top 10 results.

In the future you can come back to this spread sheet and use it for other projects over and over again. I also add a column called Niche with options like Technology, Business, Finance, General to make it easy to filter them by topic. The end result will be that you will have all of the backlinks your top 10 competitors do pointing to your 1 site. This is a really great post Matthew. Just about anyone can do it, it just takes a bit of effort and time, but you can contribute your own content, expertise and advice to people in the links and comments you write.

Win Win situation for both website owners. He has described everything in detail. What i like most in this article is that he has covered almost every SEO tool you will need to build backlinks. For example- If there is blog which is only 6 months old. It does not have a very good link profile. Now, the owner of the blog starts building backlinks. I was randomly looking for backlinking strategy, the tools and other info all over the web.

But when I finally landed on to your website, I closed all the other tabs from my screen. Here I got much more than what I was looking for. I am new to SEO and I am preparing myself for the interview and this massive information is going to be a big help to me. I ran the url through SEO Spyglass and clicked on the top link to go to the page.

There was nothing obvious how the site got their backlink, I mean nothing in the comments section or in the article.

Good to see a number of methods for those who may not have scrapebox also. Yeah you need to use a small amount of common sense but it sounds more like your competitor is under a negative SEO attack more than anything. I literally published my own article on this same topic last night… But yours is in much more detail and much more thorough while mine skims the surface!

What do you think about Open Site Explorer? This is what I think about open site explorer — http: Take a bow sir! You have, yet again, produced a gem of a post!

Very good post Matt!! Perhaps one easy way to get ranked is to follow what your competitor is doing: As you know Matt I respect you, however in this one… I am going to have to disagree with you on this one.

As we all know these techniques mastered the days of being able to fake out Google and other Engines and still does on most engines. However if you really dig deep into those links you guys are building you may see depending on the industry of course that you are NOT GETTING much ROI out of those leads.

So WHY do it? If you ask most successful marketers where do you get most of your leads from? Just as links so are Keywords and OLD way to Market. You can take the Yellow Brick Road to somewhere in Kansas or maybe go directly to OZ… Your Choice! Ok, that is my 2 Cents. The bottom line is if you want good search rankings, you need backlinks.

Well you need a lot of things, but backlinks is one of the main ones! Hello William, I think you may be a little confused. If you are replicating the back links of the top 10 organic searches. Google has already deemed these as worthy back links no mater what stage of the Google algorithm we are under.

I may not be an expert. Content — be it blog post, article writing, social media or videos. Google is always a fan of good useful content.

And then within everything you post or write just include a link back to a page on your domain. Back links it has in my opinion been a simple plan. Get more links then your competitor and you will rank as high or higher depending on these 2 factors.

My winning plan — Replicate the back links of the top competitors for your website and keywords. See who is linking to them and why. Now look at these post your competitor made, his articles, his content and write better articles.

It will make better more relevant content and will boost your rankings. In fact mention your competitors article or post and add content they failed to mention it will give you better content and with the new way google is doing with hummingbird changes it will boost your ranking also.

Also linking out to the top 10 will increase your rankings, it makes you more relevant and your page becomes the discovery hub for that topic at hand. Agreed to your point because content is he engine, power of our sites. But you missed the point that keyword ranking is much more important than these backlinks because if top 10 competitors are existing on first page for years then replacing them with new article is tough but yes it is possible: Even if you were diluting the PR, your competitors at least the original top ten back link profiles you copied would get diluted equally the same so your rank -assuming you got to number one— would stay number one.

Thanks Matt for another great tutorial and showing that it is not always necessary to get the latest, greatest SEO tool or service out there to get started in building quality backlinks. I have a local client and local. I put out great content and decent backlinks. My next step is to follow your tiered backlink strategy to see if I can bump it up and give juice to the links that he already has.

Any ideas on how to outrank local directories? His own website is ranking around the bottom of the page. Sorry my question kind of sucked. What I meant to say is it still important to get more links than a competitor? I plan on researching their backlinks and then replicating. I would replicate links and then see where the land lies — sites like yelp get a nice natural boost from Google when it comes to local.

Exactly what Matt said. Id also consider trying to get a yelp listing and local. They point to your clients info anyways and if a searcher sees great reviews they will likely go to your clients site or even call them from the listing.

This will typically give your clients another bump in the results. You could end up being the top local listings and get the site to rank top underneath that. Just so I am clear, do you use all these backlink checkers each time you do a campaign? Seems very time consuming however you cannot argue with the results. Is it just the links to the specific page that ranks in the top 10 that we are after or the links for the main domain?

Also, you may see some of my friends from Web Pro World coming over for a visit. Hopefully, they will find the info valuable and want to be your friend, too.

When talking about stealing the backlinks — would this only pertain to web 2. For instance if the competitors have back links from newspapers and legitimate ie not link wheel blogs — how would you add your link to those?

You just saved me a whole heap of time. Owe you a pint: Nice Tute Matt, you devil!! I had the general idea of this, but your explanations fill in a few gaps. A very good post. This reminded of an instance in the past when a competition of our business came crying in a meeting we had with a major supplier because they complain that their customers phone us instead of them when their customers use Google or Yahoo in searching for their company name.

The customers could not find their contact info anywhere on the web — instead our contact info dominated at least 3 pages on search. I know it is wicked of me to have done that but if they did not steal our customers by offering them a big cut on our quote to the clients, I could not have done it. I just got even and taught them a good lesson on playing fair.

Would you advise replicating the links even if your top competitors are using some ultra spammy links? In my field some of my competitors are pointing a ton of spammy links direct to their money site. I would really like to know what criteria you use when replicating the links?

Do you simply try to replicate as many links as possible or do you target ones you see as particularly high value. Hats off to you. This is a really detailed tutorial. I wanted something like this and its good to have it bookmarked for future reference. Thanks for the article. I got my work cut out for me. My biggest competitor basically owns the first page of 2 of the big 3 search engines. I think Google has been generous to me because I use their products all the time and do little favors.

If you ran a quick search you would see what I mean. It might just take time and hard work to out do him. What do you suggest? I follow you on twitter trdvdind.

I created some tiered layers which directs to all my local information and bombarded them with spam. Hey Matt, you stated this about SEO Spyglass: Could you tell me where can I paste the top 10 list? Only problem i find is when alot of the top 10 have lots of links from PR domains, But hey you can combat that by having your own little network. Thats true and by doing this you will have learnt exactly what it takes to rank and if you need a network etc.

Sometimes I cannot get links when I do this, As a previous poster said they have lots of links from PR domains, but at least you can see how they are ranking and just copy what they are doing.

Nice tip on trackbacks. Also Inspyder Backlink Monitor a nice little tool, but you can use Sleuth Xenu which is free to check for live links and it does it a lot faster. I see I have my homework for the weekend. I am such a beginner that SEO and traffic kind of confuses me but I hope this really helps.

Thanks now I am going to go bookmark this. That thing has been around since forever. Thank you very much for your great post. I would start with http: After you have gone through this process, how long does it take before you begin to move up in the serps and how long do you stay there? You might be right about that but the answer makes a huge difference. After all this is a lot of work to do and it might not be worth the time investment in the end.

As more people use this strategy — and if they are going after the same keywords — their rankings will go up and down like a roller coaster. I think they call it the Google Dance. Happens a lot in my niche, probably not so much with others. Any advice for folks on the other side of the coin? In other words, what do you suggest to someone when they find that everyone else is using this strategy to steal their top rankings for keywords?

Well I can be Is this a lot of work compared to manually spinning a bunch of content to use with software? This is the easy shortcut. I would first use this to create a competitive foundation then depending on where you sit on the risk scale leverage that with additional link building which might be gentle guest posting or all out blog network spam.

Because they are ranking for the exact keywords that she and I talk about all the time. Pat Flynn has been on the other side of the coin and so has my other friend Lisa Irby. So in essence what you have is a bunch of people doing the exact same thing as a bunch of other people? Hey Matt, a waste of time in my opinion. Why would you spent time doing such a boring and useless job when you could be making quality content that people naturally link to?

You know what is? I share your angst with the concept that cracking content will save the day and see you effortlessly sail past your competitors to take your deserved position at 1 in SERPS. It might be a bit disheartening though if you are going for something juicy and profitable, because most of the links will be paid and will set you back tens of thousands of dollars.

At least in the iGaming industry in which i operate, that appears to be the case. When things like this happen you have to either have a lot of money, or start your way from the bottom targeting noncompetitive longtails. Hey matt, as always, great post. No matter what others say, backlinks are still the way to go oh, and hey, thanks for getting out of business and being no longer a competitor, if you think backlinks are no longer working.

Wow, as I did this, I was amazed at how the number of links from sites on page 2 and beyond fell off considerably. I thought I would have to do so much work to even crack the Top 10, but now it looks way more attainable. I now have a couple of weekend projects!

Very timely because I just launched a new niche blog and since I am new to IM and SEO was wondering were to start. Now I have a roadmap. So I reviewed my competitors in ahrefs and it looks like about of the top 10 use purchased links. Several of them show most of the links coming from Russia…and these are large, U.

This is a great idea. I actually use it when I create a niche site. It give the site a great base as you pointed out. I imagine that you would have to put a candidate through a vetting process to make sure that they knew what they were doing as well. This is indeed one of the best researched post about ripping off your competitor Ii have ever read.

Thank you for sharing these links and the strategy of how to apply them to analyze the top rated sites. After a quick run-through with just one or two URLs I do notice a pattern.

Much of the content is paid posts, links, or content e. So does link spamming and then removing the backlinks. When you say finding all of the backlinks for each of the top 10 results are you talking about the actual pages or the corresponding domains? I am asking because i tried with ahref and majestic seo to find backlinks for a particular url and they found nothing.

I have a customer with a niche product that has always ranked well and for a long time, everything is optimised discretely and gets good general back links and social media. However over the last 8 months it has gradually been over taken by rubbish info sites and old content.

In fact all the eCommerce sites have dropped for the niche keyword some rightly so. None of the competition have back links except the Wikipedia or produces much social media for their pages, even though their site homepages generally do. It almost seems that doing nothing on the site is better than something. But i need your advice for something. I pmed you on the forum.

And this tutorial of yours is awesome. I always wondered how these seo guys talk about high pr links. I used to wonder how they get these high pr links and then do seo. Backlinkwatch does allow you to copy and past into excel like you mentioned. Is it not worth going after these? Also if my competitor has links do I go after all of them which would take a while or should I start with a week and see where it takes me? I would still try and get them if they look worth the punt but would but them on a lower priority.

Hmm, I just checked yours. You have some nice ideas, I should steal some. But stealing competitors rankings can be good for newbies. This is Jerry from Malaysia and I just want to say thank you for blowing my s p 500 historical data download away. I am new for SEO and always tempted from those SEO tools out there like Senuke, Magic S… Do you think is a good idea to use these kind of softwares for our own money making site?

Yes indeed — http: Very useful guide indeed, will surely try this method. Thanks a lot for sharing all the details. I was a little concerned as well if this is still as effective as in the past and then like Ileane had shared, how long does it take but reading through the buy radioshack stock and your responses I got my questions answered.

I give this post a 5 star rating. It has taught me so many things I did not know of, thanks so much for sharing this post. What do you think about the other software they provide in the full SEO Powersuite package they offer? Well SEO Powersuite is one of binary options for suckers age old tried and tested tools and is a great suite for anyone.

IMO the RankTracker is the best in the business! I also use link assistant for some out of the box stuff like http: It looks like you compared Ahrefs default domain counts with Majestic SEO and Opensiteexplorer default URL counts. External Backlinks 2, Referring Domains Referring IPs: Referring Pages 1, Total Backlinks 1, Referring Domains Referring IPs Referring Subnets External Backlinks 24, Referring Domains 1, Referring IPs: Referring Pages 10, Total Backlinks 13, Referring Domains 1, I make too much money for wic IPs Referring Subnets Total External Links 3, Total Linking Root Domains Linking C Blocks William Rock disagrees with you on this one, which does he agree with you on?

One less competitor I guess. That was a freaking awesome article Matthew. I am trying to learn SEO and ranking my websites and today I learned a lot about stealing my competitors ranking and moving up the SERPs. Amazing post as usual. I do this too for new sites and its working wonders. This is something that is really good for peoples who are new to seo.

How many proxies do you use for scrapebox? I have made a list of 8. But when I try to check if they are indexed my private proxies get blocked. Even if I set scrapebox at 5 sec interval.

This is a great and insightful post, full of information that anyone new to SEO should be reading and doing over and over again. Small SEO tools are free online backlink checker exchange rates euro dollar historical also providing more services which are also free. I am migliori indicatori forex mt4 it and would recommend it.

My proxies are from Nick Crow an newipnow. Could it be that other people use the proxies as well or do I abuse em to much? Been following you for a long time now. Anywho probably i will 95 list of binary option robots posting my own income journey very soon.

Hope to be featured on your blog. I go up against large franchise companies that have tons of PR announcement back links. What do you suggest against these? Also what do you suggest about the david vs goliath task of being a local little guy against the big franchises.

Most large companies hire clueless SEO agencies so its fair game. Thanks for all those great tuts on online marketing, always keeps me ahead of the game: I think I found the solution, copy and paste all backlinks in SEO spyglass, then update the linkfactors for each link. This can take a while and some private proxies are recommended. When this is finished you can see the link strenght for each link and you can prioritize your link building efforts. Thanks a million for this amazing bit of information.

Oil trading academy signals crossed this helps my laptop computer repair business. Yeah that golden links database is on the shelf right next to the stock market prices for the next year.

I seem not to get the dup remover working. It says it takes only ANSI text files when I add my notepad files. Hey Matt, awesome ideas. Would you recommend us paying the algo updates of SEO SpyGlass? Your backlink checker roundup made me switch to Ahrefs. Is Link Diagnosis still working… For a long time its not working in my Firefox browser.

Matthew you are our hero, who gives out your knowledge for the betterment of the entire seo Professionals and marketing community…: So, do you have any tips how to build safe backlink for blog comment and forum post after penguin 2.

Hi mat, as you said: Hi Matt and thanks for the great post. I have been busy doing what you have suggested and, although for me it has been a lot of work, it seems to be working out quite nicely.

I will check back in and let you know my results. Great post — thanks. In my space the competitors that outrank me are guys like Amazon, Ebay, etc. You get the idea — super big giants.

Hi Matthew, just starting this task, awesome tutorial!! Just wondered, when I enter my domains into ahrefs to get the back links from my top 10 google results, shall I put the main domain that comes up in google or the subdomain that comes up too?

The 1st result I get is a large department store but I am only interested in competing against their sub domain that comes up, but other competitors I want to compete site slave trade routes from africa map if that makes sense?

Is this correct also? This is a really great post. You posted some verry important information my friend. You just won a new fan. Dead chuffed I found this page! Thank you so much for the clear cut approach you took. Glad it helped, feel free to submit a testimonial at http: There is one more site called ranksignals, in ahrefs i think you cant check more than five websites,it will ask you to signup fo further checking.

I wanna ask a question that can i know the content of competitors which who publish on any article, blog, press etc. Can we get it?

You have done a great job. Now i am confident that i can make a list of my competitor backlink. Yes i have many question and i will ask later. But here is my one question, that if i able to find the one of competitors backlinks website, then what to do if there is no option of comment over there or no option of guest posting. Teacup chihuahua puppies for sale bay area what should i do??

Well work out how they got the link, perhaps their is a paid advertising option they used, perhaps they just sent an email to the site owner etc. Thanks for your great posts, I love discovering really in-depth articles — they are few and far between! Can you help please? Thanks for your reply Matthew. When I log in all I see is a way to update my contact details, and at some point in trying to get to the program, I came across a different page with some strange news headlines?

Discovered this article on The Next Web. Excellent tips for SEO. Great idea, only thing is each of these backlink check sites only let you put in web URLs and only let you see 5 backlinks per site searched. Matt, how do you know that these links have not been disavowed by the webmaster because they were considered Spam from the last Penguin update or the sites they came from were hit by Panda… They will still show up on link finding tools.

This would be a minimizing transaction costs of option hedging strategies on a long term basis. Doing what competitors did worked for me or 7 years, but Google is now fighting links with a vengeance and I paid the price in the last 8 months.

I agree with point 1, but this does tell you if you need them to rank — when replicating links use your common sense. Great info to someone new to the SEO world trying to get a jump start on my competitors in real estate.

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Hey Matthew, 1st I salute you for your all posts, You are a real Mentor for me. I have submitted my blog to many places but still It has not got any backlink or link juice. Just create a profile with a link to your site, the link exists. Hi Matthew, this probably out of topic question. But my site just got slapped by google. You could use http: I use ahref and backlinkwatch. I gonna try ur south texas cattle market report rankchecker.

Can you tell me which software you use for making professional video tutorial and adding animation?? No that would only hurt you — linking to your competitors is a great way to boost your rankings. Thanx for these tip, I just used the backlinks checker and wanted to know that does it matter that a backlink should be a dofollow one to increase ranking or it could be nofollow one also. I am new to SEO and this kind of articles help us improve our knowlegde.

Keep sharing your ideas, and thank you make shitloads of money sharing this incredible ideas. Thanks for these free tools!!! You saved a lot of my time which would have otherwise got wasted in geting first hand experience on those tools. Hey Matthew i had tried to download the rank cracker Seo tool for my blog http: Hi Matt, great article indeed. Going to use your strategy on more than one projects.

What anchor text ratio should I use? As in, what should be the percentage amount of anchor text for my chosen primary keyword and the same for secondary and generic keywords? I am sorry if this is a repeat question; I did search the site but could not find what I am looking for. I will also appreciate if you can share the reason for choosing whichever of these two options you opt for.

I feel that I should download all the backlinks of the TLD only if the whole TLD is relevant to my niche. Matthew I am forex kangaroo tail impressed.

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Thanks for a meaty piece of writing for me to get stuck into! Hi again Matt, I hope I am not being too annoying with all my questions. I am running a campaign for a client using the same strategy that you thankfully shared above.

The issue I am facing in this campaign is that the top 10 sites of SERPs have too few backlinks. Like Only in total. But all the sites ranked are sites with very high DA but the issue is that I can only mine the subpages backlinks in most cases as the TLDs target on more than one niche. What would you recommend in such a case? Any tutorial on how to do that? Thanks very much for your help.

Barrick gold share price yahoo finance is an awesome article! I toronto forex traders new to all this stuff. Cause in my niche this guy has back links.

Well that depends, if you invest in tools — no. But all you need is your web browser and time if your not willing to invest. Thanks for the great article! Hi Matthew, Correct me if Im wrong here, but SEOspyglass seems to be a viable analyzer tool for discovering backlinks from sites using their robots. Great post — really helpful. I intend to get a VA to help with this. As the article is replicating a put option a year old is the anything that has changed since then?

I read previously that the recent updates were diminishing the usual back link building strategies — is going after links like this likely to incur penalties? Great to hear that it still works today. I have just read the entire blog again and you mention twice about linking to your competitors. Do you use Do Follow links to them 2. Do you link from your main site or blog or a tiered site. Or is their a tool that could eliminate the need to do that? A classic post Matthew.

I have been avoiding this due to time constraints but honestly, it has to be done! I guess I could outsource the research to save time. I have some of the tools and services, but not all. Can you recommend a good service to use for the research aspect? I would want to personally manage the link building process, however. All the tools I use are mentioned in this post and you can take a look at http: Is there any way in getting your backlinks Index faster or we just have to wait for Google to naturally discover your backlinks.

Here you go http: So, my question is would Google penalize my website by using this method? Since links are not natural in Google eyes? I would appreciatte if you can resolve me this doubt since I dont want to be penalize again by Google. If you build any link of any type to your website you violate Google webmaster guidelines pure and simple.

But even then, you can still get penalised. What Home depot stock price target mean is do I add the 30 links in one go in each thread or how you recommend to proceed? Just one last thing, I promess is last: D … I just checked and he seems to put all 30 forum threads on the same day and post them all like in an hour, I do the same?

Yes I am thinking the same thing, because it will look that was largest stock broking house in india by software not naturally, in my opinion.

Warrock nx cash generator for the in-depth explanation as well as all the backlink analysis links. I was not aware of many of these, so I found it all to be pretty darned useful. You could import them into GSA anyway though! Well not all backlinks can be replicated with software, sometimes you need to use your noggin a bit and perhaps send out an outreach email, publish your own guest post, pick up the phone and get your hustle on etc.

Just i get all the backlinks from competitors with the help of Rank Cracker. I begin with the list of GSA software to publish. Have to use the same anchor with competitors of each link? This is just what I needed, thanks Matthew. I always here you need to build links, but this is the first time anyone broke it down like this. By the way I had a Problem recently my site traffic gone down suddenly …what should be the reason …i tested everything working fine but search engine result are disappointing now….

Well I would start with http: Thanks for a very thorough article. I have top volume traded stocks in nse question for the author and this community: These are the paid directory links in Yahoo Local.

Hi Matt, if for example a competitor has 30k backlinks but only unique referring domains, would it make more sense and save time to just check the domains? This forex-finance.net mmgp exactly what I needed to read!

I have for years written quality content and try to make each post very structured as far as onsite factors. I have never been able to figure out how I was being beat and now I have the tools to take my optometrist calgary stock exchange building farther!

Thank you so much. I am now a new subscriber and am looking forward to reading your posts. Is there any checklist I can go through before replicating any of these links? And, most importantly, what would be a natural velocity to replicate all these? If I suddenly throw out hundreds of backlinks, will it affect my sites credibility?

If yes, how should I correctly replicate them while keeping the risk at bare minimum? I talked about the velocity Matt; should I steady build these links a day or just finish them up within a week?

This strategy is work for me, By using paid subscribe of one of tools you mentioned above, I can read some backlinks of my competitors. Your postings are awesome Matt!

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Wow, this is incredible. Pretty much exactly what I am looking for. Nice shared Matt, and you bring the post with excellent, I like the strategy steal backlinks from competitors, it will reduced the time hunting quality backlinks.

Ahrefs still 1 Matthew? Or you use other tools nowadays to spot competitors link profile?

Great post Matthew, in-depth and very informative. The step-by-step explanation of how to go about finding backlink was amazing and easy to understand. I am so surely going to try it out!! Thanks for sharing your views: Hi Matt, have been searching the web for a problem we have and wonder if you have a solution.

Thanks for you time. Sounds like you got hit with an algorithm update which I would suspect to be the new update of Penguin 3. Take a look at http: Shall we get some tools to work in this direction? Great post though I have question. I am new to SEO, is this still relevant? Some of the folks are saying link building is not that Important with Panda release now. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. This tactic always works wonders for all niches. Thanks Matt for this how to guide to get my competitors backlinks!

I have been watching 2 of my competitors and they rank for 1st and second spot on Google for money maker part 2 tonya ridley high searched keyword.

If i have any problems can i ask here for help at all? It takes me SOOOOOOO long to go through each link from every website. Is there a faster way to do it: Ive been following your blog posts for over a year now, I can honestly say compared to all the other seo blogs you stand on top of binh duong trade and development joint stock company mountain.

I find most of my competitors spend lots on Adwords to get there ranking and over time they have got best automated futures trading brokers Google pr. Do you recommend paying for the site links and is it better to do keyword search backlinks or just look at the competitors site links. Matthew, I did what you said in this tutorial and checked my competitor backlinks and started going through the list of only indexed links and also had PR from the Page Level.

What I found was a lot of blog comments from non relevant niches, most likely some automated tool. Do you think this a good strategy even if these links come from non relevant niches?

Thanks Matthew my spidey sense is indeed booms and busts in chinas stock market estimates based on fundamentals. No more of those blog comments. I want to rank a blog post 1 in Google for a low competition keyword but seems pretty tough for a newbie like me. Should i build backlinks pointing on my main website or to my blog post?

Hi, thank you very much for this info. Its most valuable information. I think you are an expert in this field. I have read a lot of your article to open my small knowledge. Hopefully to visit my little website. Ahrefs Pro is my favorite backlink checker tools. Smallseotools is best for beginner. Thanks for sharing Great Idea: Thanks for the post. I cash for recycling aluminum cans using this method of using competitors backlinks years ago and it did work very well then…unsure if this is a great way now though.

Nothing has changed in that respect, this strategy will continue to work forever because its based on five minute trading strategies for binary options power of observation and what is working in the current moment your executing it.

I noticed that it is easy to get the same links if it is a blog comments, forum post, directory listing but the guest post is pretty hard. Thanks forexoma live market analysis the reply Matthew! Never the great depression and stock market crash ideas like this were possible when it came to backlinking, great road-map thank you.

Hi Matthew, great article. I was actually checking out some competitors that ranked on the first page and they only had like 5 backlinks. Do you see this quite often? Surprised that google would rank them so high on a blatantly obvious working of the system. Hi Matt, This was an awesome post. Being a small business owner, i realize that inbound marketing is the most effective, yet most neglected piece of the puzzle.

I option trading classes atlanta love to spend time doing the tasks as advised by you above, however, the more pressing demands of running a business are making me consider outsourcing this important activity.

I wanted to know: Do you provide project-based SEO and Link building services? If not, can you point me to any agency or freelance professional who can optimize my website without resorting to techniques that may potentially result in penalties.

Yes that is a problem many small business owners face unfortunately. You can take a look at what is on offer here http: Hi Mathew, awesome content!

I immediately fired up backlinkwatch to analyze the number 1 competitor in my niche. This blows my mind. I have an idea for using this that seems like it might work really well. Build small sites focused on the niches you are interested in within the major industry In other words, do this once at jquery mobile change select options dynamically top level, and woodstock auto brokers can become a player quickly within a number of niches with smaller search volume keywords.

Does buying s&p 500 put options seem like a sound strategy? It sounds to me like a one time project can provide a full time SEO future for someone, even if your goal is to build multiple smaller sites that are all loosely related by the major industry they belong to. This post helps me understand what I need to do to take down how to earn money online tutoring competitors!

I am new in SEO field. Sometimes i see the competitor who have no back links at all. But still they ranked well. I am just curious to know how can i find or know what they did. What kind of job they did yo get ranked. Opensiteexplorer, Ahrefs, Majestic Seo free. Is there any tools that can be helpful guess what they are doing?

Competitor Analysis is one of the important techniques if you are focusing on SEO services. Mostly people are not aware about this technique, but it is very important for analyze your competitors. Wow such good information and lots to get stuck into. Thanks for sharing your hard work. I am getting lot of information from your blogs. These are very nice. Keep inform me alpha forex limited linkedin your new blogs.

If i want to rank my site for a local competitors company or product name, without having his name or product name on my site, would a link building campaign be the best bet? I just found a content about steal your competitor back link. Will there not come a point when everyone is copying their competitors backlinks, surely its more ethical and organic to acquire ones own and grow your site with great content that people want to share.

Is this strategy still working? How much ranking boost can it offer? And is it long term and white hat? I have an extensive list of 2 of our main competitors backlinks. Over in total. Nice layout here for the newbs like me.

I was doing a little keyword research today for some niche ideas and saw that some people were ranking in the top 3 results with only 3 backlinks. How is that possible? Last night I was all set to buy GSA and a keyword tool, but then I saw that and it made me wonder if backlinks are really that important anymore.

I just used some of these backlink checkers website,some of them I did not heard it,thanks for all this info. I just started to use them. I am currenly using free version of Ahrefs but it was showing up to 10 urls. I checked majestic after reading your article and the free version seems much better than Ahrefs! We have around landing pages. These pages were indexed by google 9 months ago. Do you think it is wiser to change the urls from the beginning and wait them to be indexed again or leave it as it is?

This backlinks tutorial is all I need. I thought Google was penalizing PBNs? You need to watch my free training videos here http: Keep following your blog to steal your knowledge, off course Legally! I respect Matt and his writeup gave me initially the right frame of mind to try this. After lot of playing with backlink strategies I came up with below strategy. I am missing small things but I have mentioned almost everything.

I am fully set up on GSA I am just not sure of the best way to set up this specific task of replicating the backlinks. Great article, I am just beginning the process. I am just wondering how many links I can add each day without alerting google?

Thank you Matthew this is one of the best articles i have seen on link building, i have taught of something like this previously but your article shed more light. Have been trying to implement this recently.

I have thoroughly analysed their site speed, structure, content, keywords etc and nothing out of the odinary comes up. Ideally I would like to generate lots of backlinks to various pages on the site, but about two thirds of competitors best links are unobtainable, due to — sponsored links, paid site, interview with CEO etc.

The nice is flooring, we sell and deliver flooring. The other company I looked at has the same DA as us, but a lot of their keywords are outperforming ours. Out site is as good as if not better UX wise, it is faster via page speed and y slow, all pages are indexed in google, and overall we have much more links and of general better quality than them.

It is a big mystery on how they are doing super well? This is where I need yours or others if they are reading expert advice?? Thank you, I just started making a website about programming, I will try to use it on my website. I hope I will get many backlinks with this. Yes, think about what you are actually doing with this strategy and you will understand that it is timeless.

Thanks For sharing your information sir,this is very informative and helpful. Awesome tutorial, despite of its useful information I really enjoy reading, Thank you, I just started making a website.

Matthew, do you do this as a service. Do you know what to do in this case? Yes just review it yourself and make a decision on what to do, maybe its a web 2 so you can create a web 2. Maybe its just a link from a private blog network so you can build your own network etc etc.

This is an awesome strategy. I have finalised on main keyword for my site and top search results are filled with e-commerce sites. And the ranking inner pages of these sites do not have even a single back-link! So, will it be easy to rank with fresh new domain? Since my competitor do not have any back-links and its scarce to find blogs in this category And yeah, KC according to Long tail pro is Yes you could go for that, but there is more to niche research than just finding a keyword that is easy to rank for.

I read all the articles and they are really impressive. Hello sir, I am quite new to SEO, and came to know about competitor analysis. I Googled it and I found your post. It was a worth reading post and as for the free tools, I found Small SEO Tools more efficient. But One question…how can I subscribe to your newsletters?? New to SEO like saga vyas but this has really help.

More strength… Waiting for more from you. This is just an terrific article about how to Legally Steal Your Competitors Search Engine Rankings. Even I am doing from past months. In starting even I faced difficulty in ranking my site. This is I feel something best thing to just check the competitor list. And I feel Ahrefs and SEMrush are the best tools in providing the required information.

Hi Matthew thankyou so much for this article. We are in the process of redesigning our computer repairs website and getting more and more local content, blog articles services pages written etc to keep the organic seo side happy.

We currently sit on the top of page two for our particular keyword computer repairs brisbane. We are really keen to get some link building going as we have never really done this and managed to get some good business through targeted suburb pages. Link building is the next step for us, it seems that having great content alone cannot win the battle. This was a great article and glad to see it is active and alive after a few years. Well, I would start with this http: I analysed the back link profiles for the other 9 websites listed on page 1 and all of them seem to be totally unaffected by Penguin.

The website is placed in position 1, page 1 of search results for both phrases. It has to be the numbers. An algorithm is a very complicated, mathematical equation that processes numeric information to reach a result, not alpha.

After seeing the back links of my competitors I instantly questioned how they survived penguin and, knowing the logic of how algorithms work and the fact they use numeric data to produce a result, it has to be the numbers.

The feeds which provide the information in order to produce that number might have been gathered by crawlers and bots which read alpha data but, whatever cached data is drawn from when displaying a list of results, the site which appears at number 1 has to have the most number of instances of the keywords stored in the cache.

Hi Matt, is there a tool or a way to check quickly T2 backlinks of competitors? Those would be backlinks that point to backlinks that point to money site. This can give way bigger picture and reveal tiered strategy of a competitor. Wow this is one of the best articole about backlinks competitor analysis… I learn a lot and i will apply all I learner here. Thank for sharing this kind information, if you have another blog regarding marketing so please update.

I will certainly follow other which you have mentioned. Hi Matthew, Gr8 article. Their backlinks seem to be coming from extremely irrelevant and even spammy websites gambling, weight loss, comment spam etc. Would you recommend me replicating such links for my website as well? I would first replicate the relevant and the quality ones, then sit back and measure the impact before going after the irrelevant ones.

We are going to replicate these links direct to our money site. We are not going to use any form of web 2. Thank you so much for the tips! Those tricks are very handy and I will implement it soon and lets see how it goes. This is way too good article. If you can add more to this or create a new post on how to steal backlinks of a inner page of competitor website that would be great. Do you mean export results using TLD and then from excel sheet filter required results? Take the inner URL of your competitor, plug it into a backlink checker and then replicate those backlinks?

I have started a website so this information is very important for me. First of all thank you for sharing in detail.

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I give you sample: When I use Ahrefs, I get great result. Than when I jump on to Majestic. I will add this article to my SEO Book collection. Thanks again for the insight. Thanks for another great article Matthew. I was doing most of this already, but definitely picked up some good tips. This is the good information about back link analysis. This is the great process about increases the back link ranking. This is great information. Nice Tips and Tricks provided.

No one do that now days, whatever you have done for newbies like us. This Will surely help in many ways. Link buildingBacklinks analysis, Backlink tracking etc. Good tips and advices! Thank you Matthew by sharing good information to all SEO Lovers. We are expecting more tips from you. Hi Mathew, I used your method and found the backlinks and referring domains of my competitors who got 1st to 4th first page google ranking.

I am on the bottom of the second page. I got the free Ahrefs trial and when I looked up one particular top competitor www. Of the 12 backlinks, half of them were from its own website. The rest were from local business listings. In this billion dollar industry, how on earth did they get top ranking? Are backlinks that unimportant to Google?

But they have been at the 1 rank for at least two years. I thought Google disallowed PBN since Using Moz Pro I checked the Linking Domains of my competitor and found the top listing is. Then I checked the Inbound Links and found he has a one page words blog created with Weebly using an url that ends with. Can that single blog link to root domains?

The blog is really poorly written, And his site got to no. I host at one time on godaddy. Tthanks for sharing this post…so nice that you show different methods and tricks. I learned a lot from this post its really helpful to all. I dont comment any website. But know that its really time consuming compared to basic methodes, like talking about your website to real people, sharing real paper flyers.

You have to go all in! If you go for it, know you will have better rankings and more money, but less time to spend your life with friends and family. If you go for it, you will have for years little time to spend your money and enjoy your life. I just had enough time to write this!

What do you recommend out of all those you have choose above as the best SEO competitor backlinks. You could use this http: This article should be read by all bloggers to stay updated. The ranking algorithms are changing frequently and one must be uptodate to survive the Internet world. Will definitely try this out! By the way, how come you get such a huge amount of comments on every blog post? I found the competitors back links as no follow but when I check on the back link checker mine says I have no back links does this take a while to update?

Interesting… Ive always been a content kind of guy myself and totally rubbish at link building apart from doing a few social signals for each post pinterest, twitter, facebook etc — time to start driving a few links I think. Outstanding resource for small business owners — just straight to the point and actionable. Sick of reading about getting links organically — being a 1 man service business with content that would bore you to death makes it near impossible to create content of interest for people to then link too.

My site which is a few years old, has a few links but not many of value. My site is better from a content and technical point of view — imho. So to my question…. I have a nice list of links I can acquire but given that currently I have amassed no more than 2 links in each of the last few years how should I approach the building process? Should I look at doing a day or monthly or does it really matter? Thanks for the invaluable information in what is a very secretive sector, mostly surrounded with fear of getting you site penalized.

Great article matt, It helps me a lot to get back linking sites of my niche. These are very useful tools for blogger. I personally prefer Ahref tool because it show each and everything of competitor website.

Thanks for the tutorial because I got more tools for testing. Thank you for the great post. What if many of the top 10 organic results for your keyword search link directly to your competitors sites? I doubt I can get them to list us. We will consider ahrefs subscription to improve our website SEO. We are also checking excel SEO tools and they look great. The question is — how many backlinks per day is it safe to gain?

I am doing it all manually. But my question is, for a blogger that is just trying to get on his feet and does not have the capacity to afford the monthly subscription for Ahrefs what will be your best advise in getting quality backlinks and been able to rank his content on Google first page? Lately, but finally I reach to your post. And learn how to steal. You write things very clearly. Which is really understandable. We really appreciate your help to learn new things. This is really a valuable post.

While searching on internet backlink stealer, I found your blog post. I went down reading it and got my hands on lot of essential tools that can quickly help managing backlink campaigns. Thank you for sharing this post. Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail. Send post to email address, comma separated for multiple emails.

You can even do it with a combination of free tools!

How To Legally Steal Rankings With Competitor Backlink Analysis

What You Will Learn How to steal rankings with competitor backlink analysis How to check competitor backlinks How to perform competitor analysis How to steal their best backlinks How to build a links database The Competitor Backlink Analysis Method Do a search for any keyword on Google.

Why Backlink Data Is Important Collecting backlink data is important because it allows you to figure out exactly why you or your competitors are ranking for any given search term. Step 1 — Get The Top 10 Results The first thing you need to do is gather the top 10 organic results for the keyword you want to rank for. Just do a quick Google Search and make a note of each URL. Step 2 — Check Competitor Backlinks To find competitors backlinks all for each of the top 10 results we are going to use some backlink checkers.

Which Is The Best Competitor Backlinks Checker? These are ordered from the biggest to the least below- Note: Small SEO Tools free — The Small SEO Tools backlink checker is also completely free to use!

The free version actually lets you do quite a lot of things not just checking backlinks! Link Diagnosis free — Link Diagnosis is also a handy free competitor backlink analysis tool although it did deliver limited results. You can even export all of the backlinks easily in one click! Step 3 — Creating A Master List Of Competitor Backlinks Now you have collected as many backlinks as possible from as many sources as possible for each of the top 10 results we can move forward!

Open notepad and copy all of the links into one master. Once you have done that we can move onto the actual competitor backlink analysis. Step 4 — Competitor Backlink Analysis At this point your master list of competitor backlinks could be pretty large — so to make sure we are working efficiently we are going to do a bit of competitor backlink analysis to pick out the best ones. Method 1 — RankCracker RankCracker is my private SEO tool that I developed for this exact process.

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It is time to download RankCracker too. But there is one question i want to ask you Matthew. How many backlinks we should create at once? February 7th, at 1: Great knowledge I owe you a beer buddy! Its what I need for my freelance designer London site! September 24th, at 1: Hi Matthew I was randomly looking for backlinking strategy, the tools and other info all over the web. I am new to SEO and I am preparing myself for the interview and this massive information is going to be a big help to me Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all Cheers!

September 25th, at No problem Vineet glad it has helped you out! November 14th, at 5: At the risk of sounding a complete fool… I ran the url through SEO Spyglass and clicked on the top link to go to the page.

November 21st, at 6: View source and search for the domain to see where it is first. What a great post mat! October 18th, at This is a crazy cool tutorial. D You just once more outranked your self.

October 9th, at Great methods thought Matthew. October 5th, at 9: Hi Seb, You got a link for it? October 5th, at 8: Hi William, What on earth are you talking about? October 6th, at 8: October 11th, at 8: October 27th, at 7: Hi Matt, Why does linking out to the Top Ten increase the worth of your site in the eyes of google? October 28th, at 8: Because your page becomes the gateway drug, dofollow links. November 9th, at 1: Great Post TY for this info- Really appreciate!!! November 10th, at August 24th, at Hi, Agreed to your point because content is he engine, power of our sites.

October 12th, at 2: That is truly not the case. As you pointed out — leads come from organic and PPC. As Mathew put it, inexperienced link builders are the death of sites. Hi Matt, How about those backlinks which are mini-sites? Should I replicate them? I noticed that my competitor is using minisites to rank. Same with paid directories and sponsor links.

Most sites rank well using it. October 7th, at 9: Hi, By mini sites do you mean their own private network? Their own private network.

What do you think? October 21st, at 2: All we need is a little bit of elbow grease, some smarts and lots of good help from you! Like you said… its a win win win. Cheers Gordon hope it helps some people out!

Freakin awesome once again! I have 2 quick questions: Hi, 1 is it out ranking his site for his own brand? Thanks for the response! October 8th, at Hi Stephen, I would replicate links and then see where the land lies — sites like yelp get a nice natural boost from Google when it comes to local.

Forget about backlink numbers so much, its hard to measure in that way. October 9th, at 3: Cool man sounds great, thanks! October 10th, at Ranking to your top 5 competitors will increase your rankings. October 27th, at 8: Thanks for the share Chris much appreciated! Thanks for this post! Ps became an email subscriber yest — glad I did! Hi, Well from a newspaper site it could be from a comment or a user generated content area.

If its from an actual article, well just pick up the phone and speak to the paper. Haha no worrys, cheers Rudy! Matt, A very good post. Keep up with sharing your knowledge, bro.

Thats the beauty of the web! For me, if a backlink is good enough to be in googles index its good enough to point at my site. Some people make it a lot more complicated but I just keep it simple: Its an age old technique that often gets lost in the quest for ranking: October 5th, at 6: But that really was something new to me!

October 6th, at 9: Thats a very good way of looking at it! I suggest you step your game up if you want to compete: Take a look at how he is doing it, then do it better: October 5th, at 2: Another spot on post Matt Personally i have got better results over the years by doing this than using any automated tool. Only problem i find is when alot of the top 10 have lots of links from PR domains, But hey you can combat that by having your own little network Keep up the great work: Hi Matt, Sometimes I cannot get links when I do this, As a previous poster said they have lots of links from PR domains, but at least you can see how they are ranking and just copy what they are doing.

Nice tip on trackbacks ; Also Inspyder Backlink Monitor a nice little tool, but you can use Sleuth Xenu which is free to check for live links and it does it a lot faster. Hi, Yeah that is sometimes the cases but then you know what you need to do: Hahah yeah its pretty old school just a shame it only returns limited results.

Your article very interesting, I learned a lot from you. Great backlink checker tools… can spy competitors… then beat them! I am new to SEO but I can understand how effective it can be. Hi, I would start with http: Thats not really a question that can be answered accurately.

October 6th, at Hi, Well I can be This is the easy shortcut ; I would first use this to create a competitive foundation then depending on where you sit on the risk scale leverage that with additional link building which might be gentle guest posting or all out blog network spam. October 10th, at 2: Matthew, If I were anyone else I would totally agree with you. Hi, So in essence what you have is a bunch of people doing the exact same thing as a bunch of other people? There is some serious risk there!

October 19th, at That does make it a bit hard to differentiate yourself. October 22nd, at 9: October 12th, at As Matthew said, the idea is to create a solid foundation, so that you have the chance to rank.