DIGGING INTO

To better define your strategy and effectively maintain the competitiveness of your web resource, you need to start analysing some technical aspects of your company rivals. The main questions you should answer:

• When was their online store found?
• What kind of promotions do they have?
• What position does the site take in the search results?
• What contextual ads do they use?
• What pricing strategy do they follow?
• What is their current ranking behaviour?
• How are their pages and content […]
  

EXAMINATION

After your competitors have been identified and categorised, you can move on to the next stage – examination. To come closer to these rivals and discern more details you need to analyse their websites as a client and become their client.

Thus, this stage consists of two steps: external (visual) and internal examination.

External (Visual) Examination

Firstly, we advise getting started analyzing the websites of your direct competitors. Just take a view of their online store, and answer several questions:

• Check, if their […]
  

IDENTIFYING

The point of departure – Your analysis is to understand who your competitors are, and categorise them. This is the easiest section, nonetheless, the most crucial step for the later stages of your research.

To organise your time better, download the Competitive Analysis Template spreadsheet. Change this by adding or removing the columns that you feel are relevant to your requirements.

Begin looking for your competitors on Google Advanced search or […]

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