A friend asked this question today. What is the most important and vital SEO method to implement ? It should be like..you can bypass all the other methods, but can’t possibly leave this one out.

Quick-SEO-Tips It’s a fair question because my friend doesn’t  have the time to go checking each and every SEO metric and run reports every day. He wants to focus on his blog content and may be once in a while do some SEO “spring cleaning”. That’s all he can do.

Well, honestly it is a difficult question because what SEO method/procedure is best suited for you is much depended on what type of site you have. As my favorite saying goes – “Formulas work only in chemistry – not in SEO”.

But one thing is for sure – if you were to select on “method” in SEO that you could not miss, is the competition analysis part. Yep!

In fact, it is the only one thing that never let’s me down and gives sure results.

Snoop on what your competitor is doing/had done, gather up all the data from his website grade him on all the SEO metrics. Make a checklist on his strengths and weaknesses.

Ex:- Site A has 250 backlinks and Site B has 100 backlinks yet Site B is on No.1 position, then find out all his backlinks and their “values”.

Try to either a) Mirror it OR b) Beat it.

Either way, it will bring you close to him.

So if there is one SEO method that you shouldn’t avoid doing, that is indeed ‘Competition Analysis’.

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  2. I have applied this method for my client’s sites as well as for my own site. When you check back links of top ranked site in search engines, you will find most of the links are coming from non relevant contents or paid links. getting backlinks from those sites are very tough.This method is very time consuming.

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  3. Well Mani, I have gone through almost all your SEO tips and they work very well, infact this one is also one among them.

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  4. Couldn’t agree more - so many people ignore what their competitors are doing. You need to do exactly the opposite and study exactly what they’re doing then try and do more. Good luck!

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