The SEO competitive analysis helps you to find out the kind of competition your business is facing over the Internet. It is a key aspect in the beginning stages of an SEO campaign. With competitive analysis you can select the right keywords and plan an effective SEO strategy.

MOZ columnist John Reinesch has shared five tips to help marketers perform a competitor analysis for the SEO.

Reinesch says, ” By seeing where our competitors are strongest and weakest, we can determine how difficult it will be to outperform them and the amount of resources that it will take to do so.

Identify your competitors

The first step in this process is determining who are the top four competitors that we want to use for this analysis. I like to use a mixture of direct business competitors (typically provided by my clients) and online search competitors, which can differ from whom a business identifies as their main competitors. Usually, this discrepancy is due to local business competitors versus those who are paying for online search ads. While your client may be concerned about the similar business down the street, their actual online competitor may be a business from a neighboring town or another state”.

How to Do a Competitor Analysis for SEO

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