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Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Step by Step Guide to Perform SEO Competitive Analysis


Market is growing day by day and every business is  taking in account brilliant strategies to grow themselves and gain more potential customers. Although there are various strategies present in SEO, but there are some which every business uses in common to get more success rates as well as customers. Now since with the growth in market, competition has increased and that is the reason it is must these days to do an analysis of your competitors in order to help with your own strategies, which might turn out giving better results then them. So in this article we will discuss in detail regarding how to perform competitive analysis. But first lets dive in to the reasons as to why competitive analysis is important for any business:

1.      Firstly it provides you with points on what your competitor is doing well.
2.      Next, it provides ideas for planning strategies.
3.      And lastly it helps finding link opportunities.
There are many more positive reasons to the ones mentioned above, but we rather focus on the ways to perform analysis. So let’s begin.

1.      Find their Keywords : Keywords always play an important role in the raking of your business online presence i.e. website, which is why it is very important to check for the keywords your competitors are using and there are various tools available in the market which can help do the research quickly and efficiently. Let us take SEMrush as an example which is the most widely used tool for the purpose of keyword research.
Below mentioned steps can be used to perform the keyword research:

·        Enter your competitors URL into the search bar.
·        Under the “Organic Research” section click on “Positions”.
·        See what keywords your competitors are ranking for.
·        After you are done with the list of keywords it is time to analyse.

2.      Analyse their Site Optimization :  Analysing your competitors on-site optimization is very important, it gives and insight into the strategies. Let’s have a look at the ways of analysing site optimization.
Keyword Density: The first and foremost important thing u must look into any good ranking website is its keyword density, kit will provide you with a rough idea regarding how  must place keywords in your website, one tool to do determine the keyword density is “Keyword Density Analysis Tool”. This tool is easy to use and will provide you with quick analysis on how and what keywords will have greater impact in the SERPs and rankings.
Meta Information: The important thing is to look at their meta descriptions, what all keywords have been used and the way these descriptions are written, are they informative enough and are they approaching the audience to perform any kind of action. Since meta descriptions play an important role in any website it is must to write them in a proper and planned way.
Internal Linking : Since links have always played an important role in ranking of your website it is very important to analyse how your competitors have been making use of these links, because the goal is to use limited backlinks but quality ones in order to get good rankings of your website.

3.      Content Analysis : Content has always had an important role in the ranking of any website and that is the reason why your website needs to have good quality content with enough keywords to help it rank good. Some of the aspects which important while creating content are:
Word Count : Your website must have required content length which helps it getting recognised in the market so in order to that u must check for word count in the competitors websites.
Uniqueness of Content : It is very obvious that the content which is unique will have greater impact and effect in the market and will be able to develop interest among the readers, which is why it is very important to create a unique content.

4.      Analyse their Design :  It is very important to analyse the website design of your competitors website because it is the only online presence of their business and it is what helps you gain more potential customers.
Performing competitive analysis is as important as planning strategies for your business and the above mentioned point will help you perform competitive analysis for of your competitors for your business as well. Although this article does not contain all the points but I hope it helps you along the process. Happy Reading!!

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