Like my clients (and myself), most website owners want to grab top search engine rankings. To do this you need to do two things.

1. You must optimize your site properly for specific keywords.

2. You must obtain links to your website from other relevant and popular web sites.

Why not find out who is linking to your competition?  If you can find your competitions links easily, that would help right! Then all you will need to do is determine how to get a link on the same page for yourself!

One tool that I personally love and use regularly is the Linkhounds BackLink Finder. This helps you to find quality links and provides a wealth of information about the links as well.

Another great tool to find your competitions links is SEO Spyglass. They offer a great tool to find links easily, and once you find all the links for your competition you can arrange them by website popularity.

You can also search Yahoo to find competitions links rather easily. Use the following search query in their engine:

links:dataflurry.com

Don’t include the www. because some inbound links may have been only pointing to the partially qualified domain name dataflurry.com vs the fully qualified domain name www.dataflurry.com

Due to the fact that link popularity is now considered a top factor in handing out top rankings, you must find out what links are really succeeding online.  Make sure you always use good anchor text in your links. 

Joel McLaughlin

DataFlurry Phoenix Marketing