Comments on: Who is Your Competition on the Web?

By: Atul Sharma

Atul Sharma — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:58:27 +0000

Its really a good idea to join the competitors that you can,t defeat, get back links from them which definitely would held in ranking you batter.

By: Akash Kumar

Akash Kumar — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:33:31 +0000

The competition maybe Google, Wikipedia or any other big Fortune company but they are best at their job and we are at ours so we can outrank them it just needs a proper strategy.

By: Alex Mason

Alex Mason — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:02:12 +0000

Agree with what you are saying:

The web is a unique social experiment which has promoted co-operation from the outset.

Surprised to see no mention of the opportunities for co-operation using the social media tools (linked in, facebook etc) at our disposal to actually be able to get directly in touch with anybody with an account.

By: Tadeusz Szewczyk

Tadeusz Szewczyk — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:27:06 +0000

Ted: Good question. I think it depends on the site and the market it’s in. I can join forces in some niches while I can’t in others.

Joining your enemies is a sign of your weakness though. You have to strive to be able to survive without them, aka PPC etc.

By: Ted Goas

Ted Goas — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:56:29 +0000

You always give me great ideas that I can bring to mgmt. at my office.

Would doing both “If you can’t beat them, join them” and “Joining forces with other bloggers or peers” be a good way to go? Or just focus all efforts on one?

By: richard of networx recruitment

richard of networx recruitment — Wed, 18 May 2011 11:11:57 +0000

Yeah I thought Google were going to give a lot more weight to local results and through them into the mix with the normal search results?

By: Pei Yin

Pei Yin — Mon, 16 May 2011 09:16:37 +0000

yea, thanks for the sharing with the updated info. Everybody is now depending each other to get better ranking in Search Engine. Previously, we are doing SEO for our own only. Today, a new site is hard to survive if it is not a fresh content, if the owner does not share (using the organic way), if the owner has limited budget. owh~ another challenging world.

By: Tadeusz Szewczyk

Tadeusz Szewczyk — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:39:30 +0000

Mike: Thank you for the kind feedback!

Kent: Creating a community is the next step. Even a loose connection with a few like minded individuals can often work wonders.

Nick: Also consider local search. Locally (via Universal search blended results) you can even rank for one word keywords like “shoes” in your area.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:40:27 +0000

I often encounter clients who are hoping to rank better locally, so they only look at local competitors and forget that there are a lot of potential customers who don’t search for “Pittsburgh widgets”, they search for “widgets”. A local apartment site for example, will not only have to compete with other local apartment listings, but the giants like apartments.com. It can be done, but requires outside the box thinking. Joining forces with other small competitors as well as those who are not direct competitors but are in overlapping markets can help even “the little guy” succeed.

By: Kent

Kent — Sat, 07 May 2011 18:50:25 +0000

This article wakes me up and made me realise that Wikipedia IS a competitor for me for certain keywords.

You are right, internet marketing is about building community if you are not large like big companies. Join them to build your own community for your SEO.