Competitive SEO keyword analysis is a proven way to acquire the strong backlinks that are making your competitors achieve top search engine optimization (SEO) rankings. Here is a solid strategy to increase your online presence and build high search rankings for your website.

The concept is based on the current fact that the most important factor in your organic (non-paid) search engine rankings is the quality of links from other sites (backlinks) that point to your website. This is particularly important in Google rankings. Yahoo and Bing count the actual website content more, but all of the top 3 search engines consider backlinks a major factor in achieving high search engine rankings.

Baseline Before You Start

It is important that you can gauge the results of your efforts. Before you start an Internet marketing campaign (that’s what this is) you need to baseline your current state of affairs. We recommend using tools like Statcounter or Google Analytics to measure your traffic. You also want to do initial counts of your backlinks and rankings for your selected keywords. Ideally at least every week you’ll update the numbers in a spreadsheet so you can see how your efforts have paid off.

So, how to get quality backlinks?

Analysis Of Competition

1. Do a Google search for the keywords you want to be found by – that you think will convert into the best conversions.
2. Make a list of all of the top competitive sites.
3. Do a backlink search for each of the top competitive sites and see where their backlinks are coming from. SEO Elite automates the search for backlinks for one company, and IBP (Internet Business Promoter) does it for several at once. Some of the backlinks are nofollow and some are just unattainable. Focus on the high PageRank backlinks that you can acquire, and that are highly ranked in terms of Google PageRank (higher is better) and Alexa ranking (lower number is better).
4. Go to these sites and get the same or similar backlinks.

Backlinks

Here are some proven methods to get high-quality SEO backlinks that will provide top seo rankings:
1. BLOGS – when you have the list of highly ranked sites some of them will be blogs. Verify that the blog does not have nofollow in the links by looking at the code of links for previous posts. If the anchor links are not nofollow then place a comment using your keywords as your name. Do this regularly, and if you have employees have them do it daily also. Here are lists of dofollow blogs at forums.digitalpoint.com.
2. FORUMS – If a backlink is a forum, have employees create accounts there. Create a signature that has links to your website. Sometimes their terms of service require that you post several times – like 10 or 30 – before your signature shows in your postings.
3. Have everyone post intelligent solutions to postings placed by people with problems pertinent to your industry.