How to find out how many backlinks your competitors have:

The number and quality of links pointing to your site is one of the major factors that influence the position of your web site in the search engines. Ideally you want to be on the first page for your main keyword phrase to receive the most traffic.

This may be almost impossible if it’s a very competitive phrase, ie: your competitors have 500 backlinks pointing to their site and you only have 50.

Here’s how to find out how many backlinks your competitors have:

1.
Enter your main keyword phrase in the Google search box.
Make a note of the top 10 web sites.

2.
Do a backlink check for each of these web sites by entering site: www.domain.com
in the Yahoo search box.

3.
Click the link “only this domain”

4.
Repeat this procedure for your own site to see how many backlinks your site has.

5.
Repeat this procedure for your other main phrases to see which phrase is the
least competitive.

6.
Select the phrase that is the least competitive ie if you have 50 backlinks for
one of your phrases and your competitor has 75 you only need to get another 26 to
out rank him (providing they are quality links).

7.
Generate lots of backlinks to your web site by writing articles that include
keyword phrase in the content.

8.
Submit your articles to the top article directories.

9.
Write and submit 3 articles per week over 2 months. Write more if you have
time, less if you don’t. The most important aspect of this exercise is to do it
consistently.

10.
Monitor your results by checking your rankings and site stats. Some article
directories provide stats on how many people read your articles.

You’ll get more backlinks as you increase the volume of articles you produce.