11. Search Operator You now know which sites are doing the best job with their anchor text (and what keywords they are going after) so its time to see where they get all their links from!
12. Now that you know the sites that are on top by using “allinanchor:”, you can do a search with those sites and the keywords that you are targeting to get a better idea of places to find links, and why the competition ranks.
13. ALSO: You can now start to compare the top sites, and gain valuable information (including top keywords) from sites like Compete.com
14. You can take the top sites and compare the data side by side.
15. If you use tools that are available to you (and FREE), like the SEO For Firefox Tool (by Aaron Wall of SEOBook), You can get very exciting site comparison data.
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19. The easiest option is to use the SEO For Firefox tool to gather this data by doing a site: search in Google. This will tell you what pages/content are doing the best. Its obvious what you would then do with that kind of data! Data for: Digg, Delicious, SU, Twitter and more! Great for researching STRONG content!
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