Is it correct to follow competitors website?

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   Hi,

I have read a lot to follow your competitor's websites and try to get baclinks where your competitor's site have. Or follow the keywords used by competitors website. But I think it is not good idea to blindly follow your competitors website for links or keywords or anything else as your competitor's website may be of very old it may have a lot of negatives for which may harm our new site because of updation in search engine strategies and alogrithm.

As an example while working on link building for one of my site i come to know that my competitors website has a lot of backlinks from bad neighbourhoods and I also found stuffing of keywords a little bit but still his site performing well it may be because it was around 10 years old and at that time search engine strategies and alogrithms were not so advanced.

In this way i think it is not good to blindly follow the cometitors website for backlinks and only try to get links from relevant sites is better..

what do you think...?

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coolslko Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Location: India Online Status: Offline Posts: 328	Topic: Is it correct to follow competitors website? Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 3:33pm
	Hi, I have read a lot to follow your competitor's websites and try to get baclinks where your competitor's site have. Or follow the keywords used by competitors website. But I think it is not good idea to blindly follow your competitors website for links or keywords or anything else as your competitor's website may be of very old it may have a lot of negatives for which may harm our new site because of updation in search engine strategies and alogrithm. As an example while working on link building for one of my site i come to know that my competitors website has a lot of backlinks from bad neighbourhoods and I also found stuffing of keywords a little bit but still his site performing well it may be because it was around 10 years old and at that time search engine strategies and alogrithms were not so advanced. In this way i think it is not good to blindly follow the cometitors website for backlinks and only try to get links from relevant sites is better.. what do you think...?
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nancy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 79	Posted: 03 Sep 2007 at 10:57am
	Well, we should focus only positve points of competitor's website and it will totally wrong to follow it blindly..
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skysoldier Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 52	Posted: 03 Nov 2007 at 7:54pm
	In addition, ways like this may put you site in supplemental results and may even get penalized by G
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coolslko Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Location: India Online Status: Offline Posts: 328	Posted: 05 Nov 2007 at 7:16am
	Ya.. thanks for your suggesstions Nancy and Skysoldierfor. I also analyse that keeping eye on what your competitor does, isn't a bad idea, but following the same things that they do isn't always a good idea. We have to check for links that they are relevant to your site and divert traffic to your site. It will take a little time but beneficial to your website. Edited by coolslko - 05 Nov 2007 at 7:17am
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