How Often Do You Visit Competitors Website?

[TravG]

Just curious how often everyone visits their top competitors websites? Searching my targeted keywords and looking at the sites who out rank me is a normal practice. I try to check them at least once per week and also look at the website just below me.

Do you check your competitions websites and how often?

[ocreditor]

If not straight-up checking what they are doing, then I come across sites on my day, on my endless study of the industry.

[Moonlight Cat]

For my main search queries - every day.

[-Shay-]

I only visit sites that I believe are scraping my content or using my research to write their content.

I have no interest in trying to "keep up with the Jones", I don't care how others are selling something and I don't care about checking back link profiles.

I like to think of myself as an innovator, not an imitator. I also believe that I know my niches well enough so that I don't need to visit other sites for keyword ideas or any other tactics. I just do my own thing and try to do it well.

[TheGooner]

Never. Really. Never.

[AceOdds]

The occasions I check out competitors are:
- When looking for a new niche to target
- When I hear of google algo updates I like to check how the rankings have changed.
- When I notice search traffic going up or down significantly, usually via google analytics.

[sweetbet]

Whenever I'm looking for new affiliate programs to promote.

[xecutable]

Just once, before I copy all of the content . Kidding, if I ever visit a competitor's site it would be as a user, not as an affiliate webmaster looking at the competition.

[TravG]

I am curious why so many of you do not look at the competition? In any business you have no know what the competition is doing and trying new so you can keep the advantage. I have had a lot of jobs outside affiliate marketing and always kept abreast of what my compeition was doing. I guess I just carried that on to this as well.

Personally if someone is ranking higher than me for a keyword I am trying to dominate I almost rip their site apart looking at it to see what I could do better and what they are doing that I am not.

[xecutable]

I believe, and this is my own opinion, that sometimes ranking has nothing to do with content or the ideas on the site. Say I borrow an idea of somewhat that's rank 1 today, and after the next google update they go 5th page. Same goes for the next rank 1 etc.

There are people and companies that get ideas and show them to the world, and there are others that borrow and idea and try to perfect it. Take for example Facebook, and every other social network. Creating a habit of getting idea and trying them, to me is more valuable than looking at someone elses creation.

I guess there's no harm telling this now, but a year ago, I was sitting around and decided to write live streaming previews. Though many had some sort of live streaming pages, or preview pages, nobody seemed to have included both in one. I did it, ranked well on each and every live streaming game. Since all other competitors were illegal streams I had no competitors in the gambling niche. Plenty of registrations and deposits (although low value) per match. Now a lot of sites do it, I lost my spots, but it was fun while it lasted.

I don't wanna come out arrogant, or anything like that, I just state how I see things. Others may have different views.

[-Shay-]

I am curious why so many of you do not look at the competition? In any business you have no know what the competition is doing and trying new so you can keep the advantage. I have had a lot of jobs outside affiliate marketing and always kept abreast of what my compeition was doing. I guess I just carried that on to this as well.

Personally if someone is ranking higher than me for a keyword I am trying to dominate I almost rip their site apart looking at it to see what I could do better and what they are doing that I am not.

If you feel you are the best at what you do, it doesn't matter what the "Joneses" or the "Smiths" are doing - hence why I don't care what my "competition" is doing or how they're wording things - unless of course they're stealing my content (at which time I take appropriate actions).

[LauMan3]

I voted for daily.
It's not just for seeing how much you rank and if they stole your content.
You have to keep an eye on how the industry is working and how it's developing, whatever that has been working for you
might stop anytime. So keeping an eye on your competitor allows you to make sure you are not missing anything good that is happening.

[-Shay-]

I voted for daily.
It's not just for seeing how much you rank and if they stole your content.
You have to keep an eye on how the industry is working and how it's developing, whatever that has been working for you
might stop anytime. So keeping an eye on your competitor allows you to make sure you are not missing anything good that is happening.

Would you not get an understanding of your industry from the various programs you work with and from knowing your industry first-hand?

[Doolally]

Very rarely, if at all.

I do visit other members sites when looking to sign up with another gaming site for my own use though to use their aff links.

[yervand]

Probably about once a week, but I look at all different kinds of sites at the same time. Some I wouldnt even consider competitors, but I like to get new ideas.

[lowrisk]

Yeah we keep an eye on our competitors from time to time. It's just normal business practice isn't it? So long as it doesn't effect your productivity, what's the problem? Even the mighty google keeps an eye on it's competitors, anyone remember the background images? When they had Bing envy?