Comments on: Analyze Your Blog’s Competition

By: Zander

Zander — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:37:20 +0000

hey Darren

I totally agree with what you’re posting here, but I’ve got one question, How do you find your competitors?

I’ve done an ample amount of searching but can’t seem to find something quite like my website…
Is my niche to small or can you direct me to some methods of finding these sites?

my niche by the way is: A blog exploring my journey into the Game Industry and Tips / Advice for 3D students / Enthusiasts.

Zander Erasmus

By: edy hartono

edy hartono — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:37:24 +0000

A very nice method, i believe we could enjoy things on internet.
And a relationship do does matter.
I hope less then 31 days to make my blog complete and competed.

By: Bloly Adsense Blog

Bloly Adsense Blog — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:20:06 +0000

I have no competitors for my free car insurance adsense blog theme for Bloly Blog site script….however…thanks for your tips!

By: Blog Bloke

Blog Bloke — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:34:30 +0000

I couldn't find a trackback for this post so this will have to do: Making allies of your competitors within your niche.

By: alex miller

alex miller — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:17:19 +0000

I love and am attracted to nicely designed blogs. I would like to redesign mine, but have had comments about how much readers like my design.

I enjoy honest, simple, short and personal posts written in the voice of the writer, not in complex language. In these short posts, I enjoy interactivity, slides, movies, pictures more than reading. I have little of this type of post. I write to much and encourage to little interactivity.

This challenge has been great for me in so many ways!

Thanks Darren

By: NYC EMS

NYC EMS — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:53:54 +0000

I looked up on Alexa and the completion isn’t too extreme…but I do have my work cut out for me!

By: DayJobNuker

DayJobNuker — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:32:43 +0000

I have no competion. I am the only one who wants to NUKE MY DAYJOB!

By: Missy

Missy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:48:03 +0000

Darren: My biggest problem with this task, is that i haven’t yet picked out a niche. My general category is vegetarianism, but it could potentially branch off a million different ways, like vegetarian diet, lifestyle, recipes, meals, shoes, newbie vegetarians, latin vegheads, etc. How do i pick one? What should be my guiding force?

Missy.

By: Lucia

Lucia — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:37:37 +0000

I have to admit… I didn’t analyze my competition for any blogs I write. But that’s because I know I’m a bit of an oddball and no matter what I write it will be different from other people.

After all, I was tempted to title my blog “What a knit-blogger can tell bloggers about blogging”. But, I decided that was too long.

Still, it might be a better name than the one I picked!

By: OknooRap

OknooRap — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:25:03 +0000

Hello, I am Newbie here, BTW I’ll try for analyze my blog. Thanks for you all.

By: Darren Coxall

Darren Coxall — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:59:25 +0000

I spend a lot of time re-visiting those who write similar content to mine or those who visit the site. My regular visiting keeps them coming back to the site and checking the content in return.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:36:55 +0000

Darren you have started a good discussion.
I am doing the same niche analysis of my other blog topic which is on software. One thing I noticed is that many blogger feels insecure to extend relationship with niche bloggers. Some time they unnecessarily criticize the blog. So can you tell me how to deal with such bloggers?

By: Cher

Cher — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:16:52 +0000

Good information. It is really necessary to analyze the competition, whether it may be a blog or website. As the blog is updated regularly, it needs to be analyzed at a regular fashion.

By: HighFivez.com

HighFivez.com — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:32:16 +0000

Nice points. There’s no competition. We’re all happy campers in the Blogosphere. ;-)

By: Brian Purkiss

Brian Purkiss — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:50:57 +0000

Thanks for that!
I think I’m going to give it a try!

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:17:54 +0000

Excellent points Darren. It’s tough to do better than the competition if you don’t know much about the competition.

By: The Adsense Consultant

The Adsense Consultant — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:07:05 +0000

Of course another very good tip.

I believe that with the advent of adsense and the ability that one has to make money with their blog that any way that bloggers can find to help improve upon their blogs will not only help improve their blogs but also help improve their earnings if their blogs are earnings-oriented.

Doing research on one’s competition is also a good way to help optimize one’s site for the search engines. Since search engine traffic constitutes where a lot of site visitors come from it would be a good idea to “use your competition” to help place you higher in the search engine results – especially if you can manage to rank higher than your competitors!

By: Brad V.

Brad V. — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:18:15 +0000

I don’t like use of the word “competition, because as Darren pointed out, blogs in the same niche can end up being great allies.

Also, it’s not like we are trying to get customers to buy only our product and no one else’s. I think most readers prefer to read more than one blog in the same niche to see what different people are saying about a specific topic – I know I do!

When I read other blogs in my niche, I use what I read to figure out if a topic is important and worth writing about on my own blog.

Great post though! Thanks!

By: Starfeeder

Starfeeder — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:16:22 +0000

Hey Darren, great post :)

I’ve studied (or rather been reading/socializing) on my “competitors” websites for several years now, the oldest being close to 9 years old.

-I definitely know what they do best, and what they don’t do best
-and I’m experienced in our topic (StarCraft) both in a general sense and per my niche (professional gaming)

-my topic/site is going to cover a specific niche that I’m very passionate about.

My question to you is; when it comes to just starting out and getting on the playing field with these other blogs/websites how is it best to go about paid advertising?

.. start small and escalate, start a big massive campaign, or launch ads in segments?

By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:14:01 +0000

What a great tip, Pete … “A good tip for this is go to alexa and type in ‘your market/niche’ + blog in quotes e.g “dog food blog” and check out the blogs that have a good alexa rank.” …. this is something I am doing as soon as I post this comment, thanks!