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SEO question for the experienced

by App Developers
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Hi, I have a few questions regarding SEO. I have a competitor that checks my site in the following way: site: mysitename.com "Keyword Here"
They check it about 20 times a month. What are they looking to find with this search? I have pulled the search a few times myself and it pulls most of the time my website pages. Does this also pull backlinks for that particular keyword? Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author afam4eva
    I think it's one of your competitors that are doing this. They probably want to know where you're getting your backlinks from. So that they can equally get backlinks from there or at least know how to checkmate your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Fleki
      If i do it to my website it lists all of the pages that have the keyword that you mentioned highlighted.

      It looks like they're looking for the pages of your website that are optimized for the certain keyword to me.

      It could be something else though...
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You can't get backlinks from a site:domain.com search.

    Chances are they are checking out your keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sue McDonald
    Yes it is most definitely a competitor checking out your keywords and trying to find out why you are probably higher in rankings than they are. There are no links.
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  • Profile picture of the author App Developers
    Interesting. Thanks Mike. I guess I can try it out on a few of my competitors and see how it works out. Thanks for the information.
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  • Profile picture of the author nunugenius
    to check competitor backlink, use yahoo site explorer

    do it efective, just backlink from dofollow attribute, and use wheel in 15-20 sites web 2.0
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  • Profile picture of the author honed
    Wouldn't that be a tedious method? If they are smart enough to use that method, then why not one of the many online keyword analyzers (keywordspy, spyfu, wordtracker etc.)?
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    • Profile picture of the author dadamson
      Originally Posted by honed View Post

      Wouldn't that be a tedious method? If they are smart enough to use that method, then why not one of the many online keyword analyzers (keywordspy, spyfu, wordtracker etc.)?
      You will probably find that they are actually using a tool to do this, search queries by the tool will still show up as visits if the tool/user follows through to the page. And it sounds like they don't know how to use it properly lol!
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  • Profile picture of the author Terellk
    They are trying to see how many pages you have with your website. Search engines love the more content pages you have. And it is possible they are looking for how many backlinks you have, but the best way to do that with google for example is "YourWebsite.com" which still sucks.....
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