Tool for finding what keywords a competitor ranks for?
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Does anyone know of any good tools that display what keywords a competitor ranks for?
I have many competitors that I know get a lot of traffic, but I'm not entirely sure where the traffic comes from so it would be nice to plug in their url and get a general overview of what keywords they rank for and what positions.
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If you use a MAC - SERank is great
If you use a PC - Web CEO
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Agree with the guys here, another vote for SEMRush, though having analysed my own sites on it numerous times, its really a rough guide not an exact science, very useful all the same.
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You may wish to explore SEOProfiler and SEMRush, both of which have features that can help you identify what keywords competitors are ranking for.
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Hello,
A good tool which I think could help you better understand the types of keywords your competitors rank for is www.semrush.com. It's a paid service(from $69.95) but there is a free version which provides you a little insight.
What's good about this tool is it provides the organic keyword rankings for your competitors so it helps you improve your keyword research etc...
There is also 'keyword spy' feature if your competitors are advertising through adwords.
Although, I wouldn't put my house on it being 100% accurate, I would say it should be around 70-80% which is pretty cheap considering it's only $69.95 month.
Hope this helps
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There is a difference between keywords they rank for, keywords they get traffic for, and keywords they make money from. I rank number one for the phrase "People usually build battleships, battlecruisers, and cruisers" and all kinds of other exact phrases from my home page -- but it doesn't mean that anyone is searching that, or that it's making me any money. Adobe Reader ranks for "click here" but it's not a converting phrase for them.
My gut says you'd need expensive tools where they have access to a ton of data at an ISP level to see what queries people are typing for sites you do not own.
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I am familiar with both those tools and they do not provide what I am looking for. Specifically I'd love something that spits out a report of the top 100 keywords they rank for in google and shows their positioning in the SERPs.
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I use SEO site tools extension for chrome. This allows you to easily see their meta description and keywords. Same as looking in their header tag just a bit quicker.
SEO book have a keyword analyser. http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/
They should be ranking high for their most mentioned keywords if their doing things correctly.
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Use OSE and look at their anchor text. This should give you a clue as to what keywords the have optimized for.
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