The very first step after you have set up your blog or website is to find similar sites and then to trace them to find how they are getting traffic.
You can easily find similar sites like that of your blog and website using the following tools.
1. SEMRUSH
Semrush is the best tool you can find on the entire internet to get similar websites and other blog or site analysis in bulk.
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2. Sitechecker
This is all in one SEO tool that comes with the following features
Website Health Checker
Launch SEO audit for the whole website
Check website positions by keywords
Check your backlinks to gain more traffic
Submit URL to check SEO Parameters
Estimate traffic stats by channels
Track changes critical for SEO instantly
Track website positions by keywords
Track backlinks you have built or found
How to Find Similar Sites to Track Competitors Websites
- Enter your domain name [ site name ] in the tool above or in the website traffic checker.
- Analyze the SERP checker. Choose the best keywords for your business.
- Check all the sites which are ranked at the top of the SERP tool.
- Try website Explorer from another website Ahrefs. One of the tabs shows websites that rank in organic search results for the same keywords as the target website in the country.
How to analyze similar sites
When you collect a list of similar sites, this is a good time to find out their strengths.
- Crawl competitors’ websites and research their site structure.
- Compare how much traffic has each of them related to others.
- Check backlinks for each website and collect a list of backlinks that refer to the majority of competitors.
3. Ubersuggest
Apart from the Ahrefs tool as discussed above, this tool is also from the world’s number one digital marketer Neil Patel.
This tool used to be free till 2020 but now has been made paid partially. Still, membership cost has been kept very low as compared to other sites.
Ubersuggest is a most worthy tool after Semrush which stands at number one in the list.
4. Alexa – Free and Paid
Alexa is a site analysis tool from Amazon. If you want to use Alexa similar sites tool then you need to put a website for analysis in Alexa. It will also show 5 or 4 other similar sites along with the stats of the site that you are tracking. If you need to find similar sites in bulk you need to upgrade to paid plan but these 4 to 5 suggestion comes for free.
You can find Alexa’s similar website tool here.
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