My competitor is too strong, What should I do?

Just try and post on all the blogs he has, and find others. Forums, social media, directories, social bookmarking, press release, yahoo answers, articles, squidoo, pinterest etc etc...sadly with Google Panda they seem to ranking new sites on the front page insanely difficult, so it maybe a time thing too.

Depending on where your competitors links are on a particular blog they may only be temporary. If your competitor simply left a comment on a single blog post. The site homepage could have a pr4 or pr5 that is throwing him/her a little love, but as the site makes new posts it will drop down to a page with less pr and maybe none. Unless they have a permanent link on a permanent pr4 to pr5 I wouldn't count on it sticking forever.

First of all, look into getting links on the blogs he already has his links on. If that is not possible (or even if it is) you should look into guest posting. You should fine the top blogs in your site's niche and contact the owners asking them if they would be willing to accept a guest post on __________. It also helps to have a guest post pre-written that you can send to them. Hope this helps!

His links are inside the posts and are actually totally irrelevant to the articles. I tried contacting those blogs but they didnt reply. I dont know why but I get a feeling that he owns all of those blogs, they are very similar as well.

I am going to start guest posting as that I think is the only other way. Do I have to get more links than him to beat him?

Also, are there any blog networks that have high pr blogs in it and is cheap?

Getting sites from relevant sites are also important. Try to get links from blogs, sites which are relevant to your site's niche.

If your competitor have bunch of high PR blogs then you must use those blogs as a backlinks.I hope you will surpass your competitor. Can you share your competitor URL

Try link exchange, you can send an email to your competitors and request for a link exchange.

Looking forward for your stronger site

Ken is right. Get SpyGlass and check his links. Then put your links their too
If all else fail .. Do it in a Blackhat way. LOL just kidding

Well Try To Post Your Links on These Sites Where Your Competitor Links is Situated! Also Try To Make your Content More Unique & Fresh!!

Try private label articles on different and create web 2.0 properties to get the back links. You can find all niche private label articles from article wizard [dot] com

Post your private label articles and ping them once a day...! May this strategy aid you

Good luck

You will find that the majority of high PR backlinks he has are from blog networks.

You need to just sign up with some and do the same thing. If he has his own network though, then that's harder still.

Match and exceed. Content, links, etc. Blog network links are easy to buy.

That's just one option though.

Sheesh. First advice - look for answers elsewhere because unfortunately the latest trend is for people to answer who have no idea what the answer is. If the links are unrelated and it looks like a SEO network there is no way Contacting the blogs for a link is going to work. He either owns the network or is renting space and rarely are those sites email monitored or pass spam filtering.

Second all the article directory junk links, web 2.0 is not going to beat his high Pr links and the advice just ot get some blog links fails also unless they too are high authority.

You are up against one of two things based on your description. He is using a home page backlink system or he has his own. If he were using the big networks like BMR etc then his links will show rolling off pages as well but you seem to sugges thtat is not the case.

IF you want to find "Free" alternatives good luck. If thats a requirement I'd say go back to keyword research and pick another keyword.

"Waste" some hours to see EACH page your competitor has a backlink from, try to get a backlink inside (don't waste time with blog commenting!) // Also try to find some extra do-follow forum, blog or social website to get backlinks from (which your competitor DOESN'T use!!!)

It's time to increase your link building, diversify your backlink platorms and randomize the frequency at which links go out on a daily basis.

Try to get strong backlinks form high pr sites.

I would like to give advice you,don't follow what your competitors has been done.but follow which activities still not done by your competitor.There are plenty techniques which would give you quality backlinks as below:

*Web Directories
*Social Bookmarking
*Forum
*RSS Submission
*Article etc..

I think you should look at the big scheme of things...
First: he has a bunch of pr5/pr4 backlinks, but how many total backlinks does he have?
If he has say just 100 backlinks and just 10 are pr4/pr5 you can outrank him easily.
On the other hand if he has 10000 backlinks it can be a whole different story (at least it will take you some time to outrank him).
Second: Is he still builiding backlinks or it's a set it and forget it website where all the backlinks where built in just a few instances?
If he's actively builiding backlinks it can be harder for you to outrank this website, but this is also important for question 3...
Third: are the high pr backlinks from home page articles from blog networks?
If yes, new articles will be published and the articles will his backlinks will eventually be pushed to page 2 of the blog (which usually hasn't got the same high pr of the first page).
If on the other hand if he's still building backlinks to that website you can expect some new high pr blog posts to appear.

After you've considered this, then you can select the best strategy to outrank him.
Depending on your experience and the tools at your disposal you can do many things, but since you say you'd prefer a cheap/free way you can start by doing some manual backlinks yourself by commenting on high pr blog posts (the high pr must be of the actual page!), creating some forum profiles (especially if it's from .edu/.gov forums) and add a signature, then maybe post in some of the high pr threads (only if your post is relevant or the forum hasn't been touched for years) and get backlinks from your signature.
You could also outsource somebody to do some link building from fiverr for 5$ but I can't guarantee they'll do a good job.
Anyway it's useless to build backlinks if they don't get crawled/indexed, so the other thing you can do is grab all the backlinks you've built and ping them and/or make an rss feed and ping it.
There are better ways to do this, but this is the cheapest one (which usually doesn't bring much results)