Is your competition #1 on Google?

Do you wonder what their marketing methods are?

Let's try to figure it out!

My favorite site to use it www.HubSpot.com - they have a site called WebSiteGrader.com that measures the marketing effectiveness of your site...AND your competition's site! They use all types of factors to figure your website "score" and gives you a great baseline to see if you are improving your site with your SEO efforts. (AND how your competition is doing too!)

Now how to REALLY scope out the competition - it's easy! Use these sites to set up "alerts" that are emailed to you as frequently as you want them delivered:

1. Alerts.Live.com
2. Alerts.Yahoo.com
3. Google.com/alerts

What are you looking for? To see how often they are submitting eZines, press releases and more on the internet and what they are writing about and how often. These types of alerts will show you want you need to be doing to keep up with them.

Miscellaneous Tips:

1. Make sure your blog is hosted on the same domain as your website so you get the credit for it.
2. Optimize your blog with SEO, alt tag and other plug-ins that will give your blog a boost
3. Bookmarks will help your site be considered more relevant (del.icio.us, etc.)
4. Register and claim your blog with popular sites (technorati, etc.)

Questions? Let me know!