Starting your competitor SEO analysis tool belt.
You’re not out to start a war with your competitor, nor are they really an enemy. You should take the time to know their strategies so you can improve on your own marketing. Knowing how a competitor is marketing their site online will help you develop methods to match or beat them. You might be surprised how much you learn about your own site after an in depth crawl.
Know thy Enemy.
We have created a short list of tools we have found to be essential in page analyses. We’re positive you will find them useful and they are all FREE
Screaming Frog SEO Spider.
This is an excellent tool to help you collect tons of data form your site or a competitor site. You can also run multiple instances of the software allowing you to view and compare the results. Screaming Frog SEO spider is easy to use with a well organized interface. You are able to view details about the titles, Meta descriptions, H1, H2 tags and much more. Download free for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu. The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop program you can install on your PC or Mac which spiders websites’ links, images, CSS, script and apps from an SEO perspective. It fetches key onsite page elements for SEO, presents them in tabs by type and allows you to filter for common SEO issues, or slice and dice the data how you see fit by exporting into Excel.(The free version does have a 500 URI crawl limit though).
Check out their site and start fixing that SEO
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
We will be continuously adding new tools and if you have any suggestions or a tool you can’t live without let us know.