Discover what backlinks your competitors have. Use our powerful, yet easy to understand tool, to figure out their link building strategies
With our tool you can see which links your competitors have gotten. Use this to figure out their link building strategies.
If a site links to your competitors, chances are they write about your industry. This is a good opportunity to discover new relevant sites for backlinks.
In Morningscore we show you the combined value of all a site's links. See which of your competitors has the best backlinks and how you compare to them.
The number of competitors you can track at a time depends on which Morningscore package you have. Each package has a different number of website credits, that they can spend.
It's important to note, that a competitor site only takes up 0.5 credits each, instead of the 1 credit that non-competitor sites require. This means that if you are tracking 5 competitors and 2 websites at once, then you are using 4,5 credits in total.
When choosing competitors you should generally try to focus on pages in a similar field to you. This will ensure that you can get much better inspiration for new link building or keyword opportunities.
Choosing a competitor that is bigger than you can be good to get inspiration for new territory to conquer, in the form of new target keywords or new possible links. You should be careful with this however as these sites often have very sought after keywords and links, which can be tough to get for a smaller site.
Competitors of similar size can be good if you want to have an effective way to compare yourself to the competition, and see where your website's strengths lie, as well as discover which features could use a little more work.
Links and backlinks are very important for SEO. Google have a lot of factors it looks at when ranking pages, but one of the important ones is the authority of the page. The authority are based on how many links a page has from other pages.
This is because Google views a link to another page as a recommendation of said page, thus raising its authority. This in turn makes other recommendations from that site a lot more valuable.
This question depends a lot on the size of your business, as well as the field you are in. While having more relevant quality links can never hurt, it is important not to get blind sided, by link building if there are other aspects of your website you need to work on.
As a rule of thumb, you should usually have at least as many links as your similarly sized competitors. This can however vary on your field, but it is stille a good idea to set this as a goal post.
If you aren't sure how many links your competitors have, you can find out by using Morningscore.
Your linkscore in Morningscore is a representation of how well your link building would fit a real life business. This means that Linkscores are divided into specific tiers as seen below:
When judging your Linkscore, you should think about how well this result compares to the actual size of your business. If you are an international corporation, but your linkscore is at the Lemonstand tier, then you should probably work on your link building.
If you go to the "all links" tab in Morningscore you will be able to see a purple bar, with a number besides all of the listed link. This number represents you links "value".
Value is a metric used to describe how valuable a link is, and also helps you decide which links could be worth building, when looking at a competitor's links. The value of links is also a part of what helps us calculate your Linkscore.
If you click on the URL at the left side af the data you will be able to see the link value of each of your individual links. The link value is based of the metric "Domain authority", which is one of the factors Google looks at when ranking websites. The domain authority is based on how many pages point towards the website in question. In this case more pages means better links.
This is because Google sees links as a recommendation of the site. So therefore, a website will be able to give valuable links if they have a lot of already valuable links pointing towards them. Our value metric in Morningscore is an approximation of the domain authority that Google uses, as the exact values of specific domains are only know to Google.
Please note that these numbers are approximations, as only Google knows the exact number of link value, each site can give you.
We calculate the value by comparing the number of external links leading to a specific page with the number of external links leading from that page.
Link building as a whole is not against Google's terms of service, but some kinds of links and link building methods are heavily disincentivized by Google. Some of the most common offenders are bought links, and links from link-farms.
A lot of these bad link building methods are being struck down by Google, though they can still work today. But Google always tries to enforce their rules more effectively, so it is not recommended to follow them.
Bad link building methods can give success now, but the link could be worthless in the future if Google manages to make bad link building harder, or in the worst case lead to a penalty from Google.
So in conclusion you should try to stay away from bought and low-quality links or other types of malicious links.
Knowing what backlinks your competitors have established can help your SEO performance immensely. One of the main way your SEO can benefit, is by discovering new sites with potential for link building.
Your competitors will often occupy the same niche as you. Because of this they might have gotten backlinks from sites, which are relevant to the field you are in. If a page is relevant to you and gives links to other sites like yours, then chances are they will be open to give you a link as well, which will boost your SEO performance. This can be a great way to find link building opportunities, but also for connecting with pages which can be relevant for later promotions of your brand.
Nofollow and dofollow links are a very important part of link building, and making sure you get the most value out of your link building activities.
If a link is marked as "nofollow", it means the link will not give as much value to the page it links to, as it normally would. But what are the use cases for nofollow links in link building?
If one website links to another page Google will normally see it as recommendation of the page is linking to. This is however not always ideal, as you might not wish to give certain pages any link value, like if you are covering a harmful or dangerous website. This is where nofollow links are relevant.
Inversely "dofollow" links just describe normal backlinks without a nofollow tag. When it comes to link building and SEO, dofollow backlinks are of course better than nofollow backlinks. This does however not mean that nofollow backlinks are completely worthless as they still provide some value.
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