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Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

kevin in bellingham — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:13:02 -0000

Thank you for the information. I will start looking into those handy little trick asap. I dont think I will go as far to remove the competitors links though.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Slotted — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:55:43 -0000

>I am already using your rules

Of course you are. You are a realtor. Screwing people is what you do.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

San Diego Homes — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:32:27 -0000

I am already using your rules. thanks

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

San Diego Insider — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:02:32 -0000

Not my style either. I would rather beat you than cheat you.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Dylan Darling — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:47:36 -0000

I would never go this far.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Eric Badgley — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:07:08 -0000

I would say this in unethical and I would use this form of seo on my site

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Johnny Fuery — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:07:59 -0000

I agree that competitive intelligence is key, and looking at competitor's source code, meta tags, etc. should be a commonly employed strategy. I would even go so far to say that SEO should be started there.

However, I disagree with you when it comes to removing/changing links of your competitors. That is extremely uncool. One can be extremely successful in business without cheating.

Don't do it.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Greg — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:03:39 -0000

Competitive: having a strong desire to compete or to succeed

Intelligence: the gathering or distribution of information, esp. secret information

"Ryan, your conclusions are all wrong. Halsey acted stupidly"

Thatâ€™s crazy talk with hijacking links and sure smells of the road to failure. Although re-inventing the wheel is not the goal, originality is. If you recall your history most all bandits eventually died an uncomfortable death in captivity for trying to circumvent the system.

Building credibility is one key to your success online and the suggestion of hijacking links to better ones position is just plan crazy talk and does nothing but damage credibility.

Using analytics to determine ones competitors and what these competitors are doing to build their linking structure is very sound advice but attempting to hijack links is only for the foolish.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Aaron — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:15:41 -0000

Any smart business is aware of their competition and what they are executing. You're not paying someone inside to squeal the secret recipe, you're paying attention to what you have visibility to. This happens in every other form of marketing and advertising everyday. You focus on making the wheel better, not re-inventing it. The only thing I wouldn't do is try to replace a competitors link with your own, that crosses a line with me (and it looks like Kirby as well). Otherwise, I say do your homework and include research on your competition, their success and their failures. You're foolish not to.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Kirby — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:39:15 -0000

It doesn't take competitive intelligence to cheat; just Yahoo and the ability to lie to someone. Real competitive intelligence entails a lot more than this and if you know what you are doing, gives one the ability to compete and win without rank amateur sabotage.

Andy, this shouldn't get rewarded with a scholarship.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Jeff Horsager — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:52:49 -0000

Kid Disco, great article. Good luck in the contest. Your fellow entrant.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Dawud Miracle — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:06:38 -0000

Really nice post. I've known much of this for some time, but for some reason I've been unwilling to do anything with it. I guess it seems a bit sneaky to me. But sneaky doesn't necessarily mean bad. So look out.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Sujan Patel — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:04:47 -0000

Sneaky but true. Best way to start SEO on your site is to check out you competition and know it like you know the back of your hand.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Mark Barrera — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:26:31 -0000

Great post! So far, I think this is the best in the running.

Re: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You

Alister Cameron // Blogologist — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:33:55 -0000

Thanks for the mention and link to SEM Search, CK!

Always a pleasure to be of service to the search marketing community :)

-Alister