Comments on: Using Pivot Charts to visually analyse competitor link profiles

By: las dunas

las dunas — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:47:42 +0000

at first glance i was confused about the stacked graph.
If you look at a competitive sites profile, it is not said that that is the right profile, right?

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:38:15 +0000

Awesome article. I'm going to use this often now!!

By: Bowdeni

Bowdeni — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:09:11 +0000

An overwhelming issue I have with the OSE data is that it doesn't factor in penalisation. I work in a keyword niche that big players buy big paid links. What I find is that often the paid links that have been penalised often lie on high PA pages, so skewers the data. Waiting for those issues you outlined to be resolved too.

By: Costa Rica SEO Crew

Costa Rica SEO Crew — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:33:44 +0000

Great post! This is a great way to visualize your links and competitors.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:29:20 +0000

I’m loving this Patrick – many thanks.

Someone has finally got me pivoting!

I’ve found that using a standard line graph gives the clearest view.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:47:19 +0000

I’m confused, though. I just got finished doing what was recommended and running a commercial ecommerce client site against 10 competitors. My client’s site was ahead of them all in almost every metric, but is below them in rankings in the major search engines. So what is my takeaway? Didn’t seem to give me much input on what to work on…

I’m interested if you’ve had this happen and what might cause it? Any comments or advice?

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By: Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:54:56 +0000

hey, Its an really good article & instructions provided with chart analysis & pivot table is even more helpful.I will try this out for sure.Thank for the informative post!

By: Urban Mapz

Urban Mapz — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:11:38 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, especially the useful links like Open Site Explorer. I find that in most of my campaigns replicating well established competitors’ link profiles is often sufficient, but I note in this case you’ve really given a lot of thought to doing your research when the above method isn’t applicable. Good post!

By: Neil Walker

Neil Walker — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:39:35 +0000

Hi Patrick, Don’t mean to spam your comments out but I really did like this idea above, I made an adjustment where I have added in Percentage of Count, as Open site doesn’t export a full list of links, this way I think you get a general more accurate view of the percentage of your competitors link profile.