WebComp Analyst

This site has been recommending WebComp Analyst as an indispensable SEO tool in analysing competitor rankings and backlinks to help you develop your own promotion strategy designed to outnumber those competitors for your chosen keywords.

I just became aware of a new competitor software to WebComp Analyst and took a quick look at the competition …. Competitor Dominator as a potential rival. Jere we will offer an opinion whether to buy it instead.

Having had a look at the blurb, I still remain committed to WebComp Analyst ….
Why …? Easy.. there is no substantive difference netween the two products and you can save $100 by buying WebComp Analyst and still get the same fast end analysis results.

Here are my results when trying to promote WebComp Analyst myself for two domains - http://www.webcompanalyst.co.uk and this domain : http://www.affiliate-stores.co.uk.

In only 6 days of building backlinks, I was challenging Jonathan Legers own site for the number 1 spot. Look at the screenshot here taken from using WebCEO SEO tool :

WebComp Analyst Ranking Challenge

What does that tell you? Well, to start with, look at those little + icons. Those show that I entered around 50 search engines for the first time for either keywords “WebComp Analyst” or “WebCompAnalyst” in only 6 days …. look at the screenshot yourself and you will see how I rapidly moved up the rankings (up arrows) to get close to (and in many cases achieved) the absolute top ranking for those keywords. Sure there are some few down arrows where I dropped, but look at the overall direction with so many search engines adding my domains or increasing my search engine position in so short a timescale.

Now it is not my intent to completely dismiss Competitor Dominator, but it seems to me that their product is nearly triple-priced compared to the product that is giving me great success at building good rankings.

My opinion? Save your money … WebComp Analyst is good enough and we are all here to make money, so why throw extra away on Competition Dominator when it doesn’t seem to deliver any extra value for the extra $$s?

So how did I build my links to get to this competitive position and how much did it cost? Well …. I didn’t even have to twist anyone’s arm to give me a backlink … my tool of choice is Fast Blog Finder. If you haven’t already realised, Blogs are a great way for you to contribute to posts that are relevant to your selected keywords. It is even more rewarding when you filter to identify the dofollow blogs that really give you link-juice credit.

Don’t necessarilly ignore nofollow entries identified by because at the end of the day you don’t just want search engines to visit your site … even if a blog is tagged as “nofollow”, you may have something interesting for human visitors and it is they who will make purchases rather than the search engine robots.

Rather than paying for links which the search engines may identify as paid links, do grow them organically yourself. I can’t recommend highly enough for that and armed with WebComp Analyst you can laser-target the right anchor links and number of them.

As you will have noted from the earlier screen-shot, I really like WebCEO as a tool to monitor improvements in ranking over time. There are free and paid-for versions … personally, I am still using a free version and it is good enough for me, but you may like the extended features of the paid-for version …. that is your choice, but please don’t buy straight away; instead register a free version of WebCEO and within a month or two you WILL have an offer in your inbox saving you 40-60% of full-price (and costing me 40-60% commision … sigh!!).

Well ….. those are my key tips to traffic. The only other one that I can think to recommend is link-vault.com. With link-vault, you can have some (up to 100) organic links created for free on a daily basis provided that you are happy to add a small script to at least one of your own domains giving links to other domains in the link-vault network. You may be concerned about giving up control about whom you are linking to, but there are manual visual checks on new domains and I have yet to find a bad neighborhood on link-vault.com. … so also recommended as a link-building tool.

There are many different opinions on SEO and it is entirely possible that you disagree with some of the advice here, but this is what works for me.