Best Tool for Competition Analysis?

Michael Levanduski

12 years ago

I use Market Samurai. Not sure if it is the best, but it works well for me.

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kid3378 12 years ago

Market Samurai! Definitely the best tool when analyzing competitors sites.
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- kenn1thlotts 12 years ago
  
  There are so many competitor analysis tools available which helps while making an SEO strategy. One of the best tool i feel is SEMrush. It i an advanced SEO tool that can be used to collect large amounts of SERP data from the site you are reviewing. These data can then be used to streamline your marketing strategy.
  
  Have a look to this article I have recently visited it includes the top competitor analysis tools that are used by most of the SEO experts currently.
  
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- Enuke 12 years ago
  
  Open site explorer is good tool for analysis the back link of the competitor
  
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arindamroy

12 years ago

Hello,
I think, both tools (Market Samurai and Traffic Travis) are good. I used Market Samurai but pro version needed. Is there any free tool for competition analysis?

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menzana

12 years ago

How about Majestic SEO? do you had ever tried?

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Ben Acharyaa

12 years ago

Market Samurai does not say a word about competition!

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InitialEffort

12 years ago

You can use MajesticSEO. Market Samurai is another software that pulls their data from Majestic SEO.

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reaboss

12 years ago

i use market samurai ,it works well for me, i check the seo competition to find low competition niches

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damongreene

12 years ago

If you are waiting around looking for a tool (which I do recommend using tools) you can go oldschool for now.

Majestic SEO, open site explorer will give you backlinks and anchor text as well as actual sites your competition is linking to. Then I would us the google operator intitle:"your keyword" to see who has their site optimized for your keyword. That is a good start.

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MikeFriedman

12 years ago

Originally Posted by damongreene

If you are waiting around looking for a tool (which I do recommend using tools) you can go oldschool for now.

Majestic SEO, open site explorer will give you backlinks and anchor text as well as actual sites your competition is linking to. Then I would us the google operator intitle:"your keyword" to see who has their site optimized for your keyword. That is a good start.

Whatever you do in your competition analysis, don't waste your time doing this. The number of websites in the index has nothing to do with the level of competition. Analyze the top 3 websites. Those are your competitors.

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SeoModena 12 years ago

This is true. Many people waste so much time for analyse first 10 positions on Google.
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seekdefo

12 years ago

Long tail pro does the job for me

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Dentist

12 years ago

Thanks for the responses, so there is nothing else compared to Traffic Travis... which is broken too...
Basically what I used to do was analyze the top 10 competition in Traffic Travis, and it had a formula considering the backlinks to the pages, backlinks to the website, average PRs, etc. and used to give you a final response for how difficult the competition for that keyword is, and based on experience I had found that answer quite precise, but it is been a while since that response doesn't work properly. They have changed something and the correct answer is gone.
The substitute way is analyzing top 10 (or top 3) by myself, but it takes too much time, so I wanted to see if there is any other reliable software for that....
BTW, majestic SEO is good for checking the websites' backlinks individually one by one, but as far as I know not the best for giving a good final report of competition difficulty.

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Ben Acharyaa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dentist

Thanks for the responses, so there is nothing else compared to Traffic Travis... which is broken too...

Traffic travis is free so yeah nothing compares to that.

Basically what I used to do was analyze the top 10 competition in Traffic Travis, and it had a formula considering the backlinks to the pages, backlinks to the website, average PRs, etc. and used to give you a final response for how difficult the competition for that keyword is, and based on experience I had found that answer quite precise, but it is been a while since that response doesn't work properly. They have changed something and the correct answer is gone.

There was never a correct answer with traffic travis. it just used to give out some random numbers based on which its impossible to judge any competition. For example two different keywords when run through traffic travis can give you similar result like all 10 results had PR 3-5, tons of backlinks etc etc but there might be a heaven and earth difference between them in real competition.

Lets say you ran a keyword through traffic travis or market samurai and it throws you with some numbers. Website in the first position has PR2 while the page at the bottom of first page has PR4 plus it also has less backlinks than the page ranking at number 10. and to add to that its a recently registered domain, so what do you make of that?

The substitute way is analyzing top 10 (or top 3) by myself, but it takes too much time, so I wanted to see if there is any other reliable software for that....

There's no such tool i've heard of where you run a keyword and it automatically tells you how tough the keyword is, the strength of backlinks, internal linking etc etc..

BTW, majestic SEO is good for checking the websites' backlinks individually one by one, but as far as I know not the best for giving a good final report of competition difficulty.

I use SEO Spyglass to begin with, just to have a look at competitors powerful backlinks. it gives me a good idea of what i'm up against, what kind of links i need to build to beat my competition. i could care less about majestic seo and its citation flow or trust flow. plus it doesnt even load up all backlinks!

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Dentist

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ben Acharyaa

Traffic travis is free so yeah nothing compares to that.

There was never a correct answer with traffic travis. it just used to give out some random numbers based on which its impossible to judge any competition. For example two different keywords when run through traffic travis can give you similar result like all 10 results had PR 3-5, tons of backlinks etc etc but there might be a heaven and earth difference between them in real competition.

Lets say you ran a keyword through traffic travis or market samurai and it throws you with some numbers. Website in the first position has PR2 while the page at the bottom of first page has PR4 plus it also has less backlinks than the page ranking at number 10. and to add to that its a recently registered domain, so what do you make of that?

There's no such tool i've heard of where you run a keyword and it automatically tells you how tough the keyword is, the strength of backlinks, internal linking etc etc..

I use SEO Spyglass to begin with, just to have a look at competitors powerful backlinks. it gives me a good idea of what i'm up against, what kind of links i need to build to beat my competition. i could care less about majestic seo and its citation flow or trust flow. plus it doesnt even load up all backlinks!

Thanks for your input.
I used to use the paid version. Under the SEO tab, there is a module for competition check which gives you "easy", "relatively easy", "medium difficulty", "difficult" or "extremely difficult" for each keyword checked. Using it with the right VPN, it used to work quite well for me. "Easy" keywords were really easy to rank and so on... It used to be based on median and average PR of top 10 results for that keywords, number of in anchor backlinks, etc., Recently they added a new factor to their formula (whatever it was) and IMO they messed it up. Now, the results are not accurate anymore....
Spyglass is good, but takes too much time to analyze even one keyword. When working with different clients and many keywords each, none of the other ones was scalable enough for me.

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Ben Acharyaa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dentist

Thanks for your input.
I used to use the paid version. Under the SEO tab, there is a module for competition check which gives you "easy", "relatively easy", "medium difficulty", "difficult" or "extremely difficult" for each keyword checked. Using it with the right VPN, it used to work quite well for me. "Easy" keywords were really easy to rank and so on... It used to be based on median and average PR of top 10 results for that keywords, number of in anchor backlinks, etc., Recently they added a new factor to their formula (whatever it was) and IMO they messed it up. Now, the results are not accurate anymore....
Spyglass is good, but takes too much time to analyze even one keyword. When working with different clients and many keywords each, none of the other ones was scalable enough for me.

I used to rely on traffic travis. If it showed "easy" or "relatively easy", i knew that i could rank for this keyword. but once i started to work on a few competitive keywords it was too difficult to judge the competition based on traffic travis. i had to look at the competition manually to see how strong the backlinks are, whether the backlinks are anchor targeted or not, site structure and all. yeah its time consuming but its definitely worth it for me.

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RizeAcademy

12 years ago

Long Tail Pro... by far.

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linkassistant

12 years ago

Try SEO PowerSuite. We offer competition analysis for various SEO aspects: keyword rankings, backlinks, on page seo and site structure.

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Mike Anthony 12 years ago

Originally Posted by linkassistant

Try SEO PowerSuite. We offer competition analysis for various SEO aspects: keyword rankings, backlinks, on page seo and site structure.

Seospyglass is decent and your ranktracker is good but until you integrate your tools I cannot think of a less efficient way of analyzing competition.
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- Mike Anthony 12 years ago
  
  To this day I cannot find anything more efficient than Firefox for competitive research.
  
  Install SEO Quake
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  go to first page in Google
  
  and you get more data than any tool out there plus you see the page titles and snippets to see how the keywords are being targeted or not targeted
  
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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

You've probably skipped a lot of decent keywords relying on Traffic Travis to tell you what the competition was like.

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Dentist 12 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

You've probably skipped a lot of decent keywords relying on Traffic Travis to tell you what the competition was like.

Could be, but when it comes to SEO consulting business for other clients, and ranking only limited useful keywords for them, it is always helpful to have a good estimate about how long it will take for you to rank specific keywords (i.e. how difficult the competition is) . The other ways mentioned are working too, but Traffic Travis used to be much less time-consuming and hence more scalable for me.
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HorseStall

12 years ago

Here are a list of tools for keyword analysis - Competitive Analysis Tools

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patco

12 years ago

Market Samurai works good. Of course Traffic Travis ... and don't forget backlinkwatch for their backlinks!

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yunoblog

12 years ago

Open Site Explorer!

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vinothkumarspyke

12 years ago

Market samurai is good tools now i am using this tools its very usefull for me

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ModernDomains

12 years ago

Ive tried long tail pro and some others which are very hit and miss in their analysis. Ive been looking around lately and there seems to be a lot of good reviews about the competition analysis provided by secockpit although it is expensive.

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seoace

12 years ago

If you're talking about competition analysis for keywords then nothing beats Ultimate Niche Finder. Market Samurai doesn't even come close to what this software does.

By the time MS measures the competitiveness of 10 keywords, UNF would have already measure the competitiveness of 500 keywords.

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Cason

12 years ago

Originally Posted by seoace

If you're talking about competition analysis for keywords then nothing beats Ultimate Niche Finder. Market Samurai doesn't even come close to what this software does.

By the time MS measures the competitiveness of 10 keywords, UNF would have already measure the competitiveness of 500 keywords.

UNF is really inaccurate though. even prior to the latest bugs after the Keyword Planner was launched

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Christian William

12 years ago

i prefer Traffic Travis and it work excellent with me

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HN

Banned 12 years ago

Just let me know guys what exactly you expect from "the best competition analysis" and I 'll add it to my keyword research tool. If you can think of it I can make it happen.

Here's my tool:

Free - Keyword list

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Cason

12 years ago

I'm using Moz. I love their keyword difficulty checker, it's pretty damn accurate & I can check multiple keywords at one go.

Can traffic travis do that btw? I'm looking to switch to a non monthly payment option

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morgan456

12 years ago

I recommend for Raven Tools..It shows accurate results and excellent to me.

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kindarthur

12 years ago

According to my view i prefer you to go with WordTracker or WordStream's Keyword tool why? because its easy to handle and its processing time is very less. I hope it will helps you out.

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susanhall

12 years ago

I am using traffic travis for keyword competition.

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Moneymaker2012

12 years ago

Just Backlinkwatch,
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FranksToys

12 years ago

I use a combination of two things.
Majestisc SEO and maybe ahrefs + scrapebox.

I then scrape a lot of data and use the data that majestic and ahrefs uses to find good links and perform analysis. Makes life a lto easier.

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