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Inbound Marketing Competitor Analysis
JOHN DOHERTY – INTERACTIVITY DIGITAL MIAMI 2013
JOHN DOHERTY
Head/Senior Consultant, Distilled NYC
@dohertyjf
JOHN DOHERTY
Head/Senior Consultant, Distilled NYC
@dohertyjf
This is my conference
shirt.
Competitor Analysis For Me Used To Be (Just) This
@dohertyjf John Doherty
“We’re training you to be the digital CMOs of the
future.”
Will Critchlow to Distilled consultants
Then Will Critchlow said -
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Just SEO Isn’t Enough Anymore
@dohertyjf Source
Just SEO Isn’t Enough Anymore
@dohertyjf Source
All of these matter
Inbound Marketing Channels
“Inbound marketing is advertising a company
through blogs, podcasts, video, eBooks, whitepapers, email
marketing, SEO, social media marketing, and other forms
of content marketing. Contrast: buying attention.
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbound_marketing
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@dohertyjf John Doherty
@dohertyjf John Doherty
We can spy on
ALL of these.
Obligatory Spy Image
Spying on High ROI Activities
Written ideas here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/competitor-research-in-
an-inbound-marketing-world
Email is High ROI
@dohertyjf http://www.marketingcharts.com
66% say above
average ROI
Are Your Competitors Doing It?
@dohertyjf http://www.marketingcharts.com
Spying on Your Competitor’s Emails
@dohertyjf John Doherty
Subscribe to their emails.
Collect their data.
Run your own tests.
Protip – automate.
Collect Important Info
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Competitor
Date
Time
CTA
Subject
Did you click?
Automate with Zapier/IFTTT
@dohertyjf http://zpr.io/2WP and
https://ifttt.com/recipes/93216
SEO
SEO is High ROI
@dohertyjf John Doherty
75% say above
average ROI
SEO Competitor Research
@dohertyjf John Doherty
Onpage Keyword Targeting
Content (onsite)
Links (External)
Tools
Onpage Targeting A little bit of scraping knowledge goes
a long with in finding your competitor’s
keywords.
You’ll need this formula:
=LEFT(CELL,FIND(“(NBED
DIVIDER)",CELL,8)-1)
Use Scraper and 100 result Google
Advanced Search for faster scraping.
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Links
@dohertyjf They’re still important!
LinkDetective.com Spreadsheets
SERP Exposure Link
Anomalies
Tools
@dohertyjf All paid, all useful
LinkResearchTools
SEMrush
Tools
@dohertyjf OpenSiteExplorer.com
This alone is valuable.
Tools
@dohertyjf OpenSiteExplorer.com
Could be shady
Content
Content is High ROI
@dohertyjf John Doherty
62% say above
average ROI
Content
@dohertyjf http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=conten
t%20marketing
“Everyone’s doing it”
Content
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What are your competitors doing?
Webinars
Blogging
Conferences
Videos
Meetups
Guides/Training
Content
@dohertyjf If your competitor is doing this, you should
know.
http://www.distilled.net/training/
And What’s Working?
@dohertyjf http://sharedcount.com/dashboard.php
And What’s Working?
@dohertyjf http://www.johnfdoherty.com/data-driven-
content-marketing/
Social
Social is where conversation happens
Influences many
other channels.
Who’s Sharing Their Content?
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Twitter influential - http://topsy.com/(URL)?infonly=1
G+ influential - http://plus.topsy.com/URL?infonly=1
Who’s Sharing Their Content?
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Scrape It
(make a copy)
Who’s Sharing Their Content?
@dohertyjf John Doherty
Scrape It
(make a copy)
Add in FollowerWonk’s Authority API
Spy on Competitor Tweets
@dohertyjf John Doherty
http://www.allmytweets.net/?screen_name=SCREENNAME
http://www.socialmention.com/
Email SEO
Content Social
Inbound Marketing Competitor Research
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