Finding sites to target for backlinks
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How can I quickly find a list of sites that link with follow and 301 links to my competitor, but not to me?
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By the way, if you need some help with excel and vlookup, check this link outl
http://www.distilled.net/excel-for-seo/
These links may help you also;
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/an-inside-look-at-competitors-backlinks-with-open-site-explorer
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-profiling-with-open-site-explorer
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/weed-out-your-lowest-performing-pages
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I would then just pull another query for your site. Export the results of both to excel and do a vlookup to remove the links that point to your site and your competitors
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And that will show the ones that link to that competitor but NOT to me? I thought that was just the links for that competitor (regardless if they linked to me or not).
thanks.
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Quicker than a toilet stop in rattle snake country.
Go to Open Site Explorer > Type in your competitor's URL > from the 'show' drop down select 301. Job done!
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