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How to use your
competitors for
freeeeee links
http://www.slideshare.net/lauralouise90
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in april i focused on getting you the big
links without spending a penny.
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missed it?
http://bit.ly/lhbrighton418
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today we’re going to
build on that…...
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it’s all about using and
beating your competitors
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first of all we need to
go back to basics
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we have two types of
competitors in seo
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ranking
anyone in the
top 10 or even
top 20
business
what we monitor
might not be seo
focused
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here’s a quick tip with
your business competitors
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information on your
competitors is readily
out there
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so, what can you do?
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broken link
building
build on
research
hashtags
backlink
analysis
reverse image
search
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broken link
building
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fixing a 404 helps
both you and the site
in question
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and if your competitors were
silly enough to throw away a
good link opportunity
let’s capitalise on it!
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use
screaming
frog to find
inlinks
which 404
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don’t forget
to use
include or
exclude to
make your
crawl more
manageable
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contact the site and suggest
they link to you instead
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get the content created…. if
you don’t already have it
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watch the referral traffic
come in...
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here’s something similar
we’ve been doing with HEWI
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couldn’t get the website
redirected
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so instead, we’ve been
finding all the broken links
and getting HEWI added in
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30+ links
and still more to contact
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reverse image search
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an oldie, but a goodie
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….and you don’t need
any tools
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download a competitor’s
graphic that did well and drag
and drop it into google images
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you’ll then see serp results of
sites which covered it
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get in touch and ask them to
feature your material
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here’s one we made
earlier…..
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54 referring
domains
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we were making a luxury and
housing price list, so looked
at who covered Ben’s
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we got in touch with
the journalist
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they loved our index and
we’re now making a special
version for them.
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build on research
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there’s so much research and
thought leadership already
published
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and a lot of it is out of date
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get in there first
and update it
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once you’ve created an up to
date version, outreach to
those that covered the original
use majestic to find the sites.
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a tactic we’re currently
trying is to create a uk
version of us data
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we took all the data from the
client’s analytics and we’re
comparing it with the us data
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169 links to thredup’s piece
which we can now target
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not a single
penny spent
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hashtags
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i’ve been using this
strategy for years
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it’s a really easy sneaky
way to get your
competitor’s blogger list
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start with
looking at
new links
on majestic
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then literally google the
hashtag
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it’s so simple
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found 25 pretty solid
opportunities for a
homeware client
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let’s not forget the
basics
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backlink
analysis
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my favourite for this
is semrush gap analysis
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not only do you get the
domains, you get exactly
where the link is
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this means you can
understand the context
of the link
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but even a list of 10-20
gives you something to
bite into
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majestic’s new index is
perfect for frequent
analysis
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you get a quick view of
press and priorities
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without having to sift
through links you’ve gone
through before
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make life even easier by
setting up alerts for
competitors
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take advantage of
broken links
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build on data and
research
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use their performing
assets and hashtags
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but most importantly
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don’t overlook basic
backlink analysis
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How To Use Your Competitors For Freeeee Links - BrightonSEO September 2018