Blogging is in the most competitive phase today, you can see many new blogs created every day by many new bloggers, and some bloggers are very young in age.
Every blogger says that we bloggers are very friendly while doing blogging, but its true all bloggers live in a competitive environment , they can say that they are very friendly but I found every blogger who do blogging seriously keep sharp eye on their competitor, maybe they have very good relations in public but still they are competitors in their business.
I am sharing some tips by which you can beat your competitors in blogging or in your online business.
Focus on SEO News
SEO plays a major role in any Online business or Blog, if you can optimize your blog as per the latest trends of SEO then you can get better SERP and you can drive good traffic to your blogs, You should follow all major SEO blogs and Also follow Google for their algorithm changes, Page rank Updates.
SEO News are important may be you are blogging about bogging so you can get some quick news for your readers, also it helps you to make your blog as per the latest changes of algorithms to avoid penalty.
By following these Profiles you can get latest updates about SEO and web trends about online business.
Top 5 SEO People to Follow on Twitter
Matt Cutts – @mattcutts
Google’s ‘Head of Web Spam’.
Rand Fishkin – @randfish
CEO of SEOMoz.
Danny Sullivan – @dannysullivan
Editor of SearchEngineLand.com.
Ann Smarty – @seosmarty
SEO Consultant who talks about new SEO, not what everyone already knows.
Andy Beard – @AndyBeard
SEO, Blogging , Social Media, Online Marketing & other boring geek stuff uQast Product Manager.
Monitor Your Competitors
If you are a blogger then you should work like a spy, you should keep an eye on the activities of your competitors.
If you are not monitoring your competitors then you are in problem because they are monitoring you and they plan their strategies as per their competitors’ moves.
But one thing never do any harm to your competitors because their competition is important for your growth so always give them a healthy competition, many bloggers devalue others blogs by spamming their blog and websites links into whole web, but this is a bad SEO practice.
Find Negative attacks against You
As per my above point antagonist may do attacks on your blog, by spamming your links into different spammy websites, or in comments on different blogs, because Google can find spammy links and if someone is doing negative link building against you then you can lose your SERP rankings very soon.
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The best solution is to monitor your website with Google Analytics and always keep an eye on the incoming traffic to your blog, also monitor your backlinks, because quality matters a lot and if someone is doing negative link building against you then your blog or website may penalize in next Google algorithm updates.
Unique Writing Style
You can’t write unique content every time sometimes you have to present some old topics in new ways, and if you follow your unique writing style then you will never face writer’s block in your career, because you can do justice with Rewriting Post a post which is quite popular and old, your writing style can make a huge difference between you and your competitors.
If you follow your unique techniques to write a new blog post which your competitors are not using then you can get very good response and if you are natural with that kind of writing then it will not be easy for your competitors to grab your unique writing style.
Explore Uncovered Topics
Blogging is to explore as much as you can, if you want to create new content for your blog every time, then you should always keep exploring your niche, new posts loved by everyone on the web, I know there are many thing explored already but not everything explored so you need to concentrate on new news and ideas.
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I think above link will surely help you get to post ideas for your blog, by exploring new things you will noticed by others and you can get best rankings in search engines because you are writing unique and something new.
At Last I can say one thing you need to do lots of things to get better results from your work, so never hesitate before doing any experiments, no one knows what you will explore.
Please leave your Feedback and your opinion about this Article.
Competition is definitely increasing in every field….More and more people are looking to make money online….From web designing, freelance writing and now even there is lot of competition between bloggers… Bloggers want to rank their blog better than other blogs and that’s why all bloggers are competing with each other…
Nishant this post makes me understand that I need to constantly work on SEO and write very unique content… I believe that a blogger can beat any kind of competition if he writes content which no one else can produce….I wish you could come up with tips for freelance writers and logo designers as writers and designers both are also facing lot of competition.
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Yes its true competition is increasing in every field but you can stay out of completion by doing something different unique , so nobody can follow your ideas and your methods of making money online, I think more people are now start working from home and the number of freelancer increasing day b day, Information is God now a days and if you provide good information on web then you can earn huge amount.
Many bloggers are doing domain flipping and website flipping but that is not a long term business online if you want regular income then you have to start a blog.
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Thanks for sharing the SEO people to follow on Twitter. Very well written Nishant! As you told, unique content is important and I like the tip to explore the uncovered the topic. Gonna try the tips to beat my competitors.
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Hi Nirmala,
Glad you liked the post, Exploring and experimentation is the part of blogging, if you can explore new things in blogging then you can get top rankings in search engines.
Hope you will get succeed soon.
Nice Post Nishant… and Thanks For Seo People to Follow on Twitter..
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Hi Mosam, Glad you liked the post, those are the top sources to get SEO news from whole web.
very nice post Nishant ,agree with u a unique writing style is imp to beat competitor in blogging.Gonna try to implement above tips. Thanks for sharing .
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The whole post was awesome..every steps mentioned is important .. But I like that line “you should never harm your competitor’s blog..” by any means….. That point was wort mentioning there… YOU GOT IT….
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Hi Nishant,
I mentioned that point because some people may misinterpret that point “monitor your Competitors”, they can harm them and that is not a good way of blogging.
yeah… thts right… harming anyone’s blog is not going to take your blog upwards in rankings either…and you obviously cannot take down all the thousands of blogs above you…:P
Nice post
Always keeps an eye on your competitors It does not cost much to blast your site with backlinks always weekly check you webmaster tool if you find any thing fishy Use google discover tool.
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Right Google webmaster tool is one of the best tool for bloggers and website owners, I think that can help in many ways like in seo, Backlinks, Errors etc.
if some one spam my links mean how can i recover from that?
how can i remove that links?plz give me ideas
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Google working for content creators as well, they created a tool “google disavow tool” which helps you to remove unwanted link to your blog or website, if you found some spammy links to your blog or website then you can use google disavow tool to remove them but be careful before using it.
Pure content and SEO are the main aspects that can help your competitors and let your site rank higher above them on the SERPs.
Hi PrIyAnGsHu,
You are right Content is king always and if your blog working for your readers then you will surely get better rankings..
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Hi Frank,
You have to produce quality content for better ranking and sometimes if you are dealing with tech blogs or news blog then you have to be quick as much you can, also learn the use of keywords in your blog post.
Hey Nishant,
Excellent tips, even though I’m not really out there to beat my competition. I just do what I feel in my heart I need to do on my blog.
I’m really happy for my fellow bloggers’ successes.
thanks for sharing the thought provoking post!
Akos
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Hi Akos,
You are doing perfectly, if you do what makes you happy then other things leave behind without any problems, and if you do it from the heart, then nobody can compete with you because you are unique and different with others.
Competition happens who many people do the same thing in the same way…..
Glad you liked the post, Hope you will love the other upcoming post on Geek Blog Tips.
Nishant, Bloggers only in blogging niche are enemies of each other because ya know that blogging is a crowded niche where everyone is trying to pull themselves up and trying every new strategy to beat their competitors while being competitive isn’t good. I don’t like being competitive because by competing with others, I won’t be able to focus on my own blog.
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Ehsan,
Blogging is crowded, but mostly bloggers are on tech niche, there are very few blogs in blogging niche if you compare with tech blogs, you will find millions of blog with the same information in technology niche , and mostly newbies start their blog with tech niche because its easy to maintain and they can get news and information easily to publish on their blogs.
Hi,
Yes you have just highlighted the best tips as possible and these are going to help all bloggers a lot. Writing on unique content and highlighting uncovered topics can be the best possible way to draw the attention of your readers because readers do like to go through exclusive contents. Apart from this, I like the other tips that you have shared including the social media points as suggested. Thanks for the share!!
Hi Aditi,
Thanks for writing a comment, I think most of tips are well known and some are new as well, glad you liked the post, Hope you will visit again..
Thanks
Thanks for the SEO list. You’re right. Blogging is super competitive today but a point that shouldn’t be overlooked is also true. Blogging is fun. Making your blog better is a labor of love. Life is short. It great to have something to do that’s fun and a form of self-improvement at the same time.
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for stopping by, I agree, and sometimes your blog growth depends on your personal behavior if you are perfectly fit mentally and physically then you can see better results and same time when you are in bad times your blog growth in its worst time.
Blogging is fun when you do it as your passion.
Although i generally focus on blogging only but sometimes other bloggers may do negative attacks as they might feel competitive, so its better to be aware and your blog post really helped… Thank You
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Thanks Nishant, these tips are really helpful to beat competitors. Normally I follow these tips but one more tips I follow is that I do not try to compete with others.
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Write article that cannot be written by your competitor. Follow a unique writing style. Make your reader feel that you are the best.
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Matt cutts is my Guru. I have watched almost all webmaster videos on youtube and learned a lot. I am religiously following him since 2010. Thanks for this post.
Hi Nishant,
Tell more about competitor and Negative SEO.
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This is once of the best and informative post i have read, some people are posting articles without knowing the basic step of communication and writing skills.
You have the ability and know the way of how to convince your reader to read the whole article, very creative post, just keep it going.
Thank you
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Being Competitive is helpful in every field of life but beating our competitor gives a awesome feeling . Very nice article Nishant Bro
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Hello Nishanth,
Can you please tell me how you will be able to identify whether there is some spamming going against your website and also please share a tool/website where you can check the backlinks to my blog.
Thanks,
Rafi
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Hi Nishant,
One can keep himself updated by following Top SEO People and their views. Analyzing your competitor’s sites and grab best things from there that could help your blogs. Thanks for sharing.
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