This article on SEO tips and tricks are focused on revealing free tools and strategies which I have been using successfully. This will help you to identify who your competition is and also how you can beat your competition.

Let´s get started with some SEO tips and tricks which I found useful for my own journey on Google. No matter what kind of keyword you are trying to rank for, you have to be conscious whom you compete against. You can only beat your competition, means taking their spot on Google if you know WHICH, HOW MANY, and from WHAT sources they have backlinks. There is a little tool that I want to share with you that helped me to get better overall insights on many points that are playing part when it comes to ranking high on search engines.

Traffic Travis:

This little tool called Traffic Travis (free version) helps you to get the search engine optimization tips you need to become super successful. But don’t forget that getting the tips alone is not enough you must also apply them to your daily backlinking. It doesn´t matter if you are aiming to rank high with your main website page or sub pages, because the strategies always work. The same counts for article writing where you also have to know how many articles and also from which sources.

The purpose of T.T is that this tool gives you many details about the sites that are ranking on the top 10 – 20 spots. Here is your competition, and the sites that you want to overtake in order to make money and rank your website at the top of Google.

The first thing to which you have to pay attention to is whether there are ranking main domains or sub pages (category pages). If there are only ranking sub pages it´s likely for you to overtake them with fewer backlinks. Secondly, you have to pay attention to the PR (Page Rank). The higher the page rank of a site the more it is trusted by Google and the harder for you. You want to compete with PR´s which are as low as possible. The age also plays a part, because if a domain is older and ranks well on Google even with significantly less backlinks than others, that means that the site is doing a lot right!

Next, you want to check the BL (backlinks) of a particular site. The more it has the more backlinks you might have to get. But here it is important to know that the quality of backlinks is as important as the quantity. Theoretically, you can beat a site which has 5000 backlinks with 50 backlinks from the right sources. You can also check in the yahoo site explorer search options from which sources these sites got the backlinks. If you are smart you can check if it´s worth going after the same links or not.

Lastly, you need to check the title, description and H1 tabs. If they are all checked, that means that the particular website has optimized for these points. Even though a few sites might fulfill many till all of these points, you can still beat them by getting more high quality backlinks. These search engine optimization tips work for article writing, backlinking, but only if you put them to work for you! Now start applying these seo tips and tricks!