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How To Ethically Steal Your Competitor’s SEO Traffic

Many times due to ongoing Google changes, webmasters are faced with a specific situation for improving their site for SEO benefits.

What actually happens is that they end up disappointed with the changes and say Google is bad rather then using the changes to their advantage. Because if you are on top of the changes you will be one step ahead of your competitors. The lack of search engine results is mainly due to the lack of awareness on common SEO techniques, ranging all the way to more complex strategies.

Although the results of SEO efforts may vary depending on the niche your website belongs to. Many niches are a lot easier to combat when the competition is low while there are other niches are extremely tough where the competition is high.

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If your chosen niche is highly competitive, one thing that you can never ignore is competitive intelligence or analysis. As a matter of fact, analyzing the competition is considered to be an important part of every SEO process. In terms of competitive intelligence, what you’ll actually do is analyze the competition, evaluate their SEO strategies and then develop an SEO campaign that helps your website get ahead, rank better in search engines and get more traffic.

Beating out the competition, is commonly represented as stealing your competitor website’s traffic.

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While trying to beat the competition, what you’ll typically do is –

Track the Competition – The very first thing in the process is, of course, identifying the key competitor(s). In many cases, finding out your main competitors may be easy. At other times, it will take a good amount of research to know who you should actually beat to get ahead in SERPs.

Evaluate the Competition – The next step is to take a closer look at the website of your key competitors. You’ll begin with things like checking the way your competition website is designed, the kind of content they have featured and the overall structure of the website.

Analyze the Keywords Your Competitor Uses – Now, you move on. You start to analyze the keywords that your key competitor uses. This research provides [Read Full Article]

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