“Study the position of your website in relation to competitors”

SEO SpyGlass is a collection of tools to help you position your web page at the top of the search engines. The program analyzes the sites of your competitors to help you understand how they arrived at their positions. In this way, it makes it possible for you to copy their strategies.

It makes analyses of the major search engines including international versions of Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. It then compares your site with that of the competition and offers a complete report which gives you an idea of how fast you climb positions in the search results. It gives you a huge breakdown of the results including the total number of backlinks your competitor has, the exact URL of each and every backlink, the Google PageRank of both the domain of the backlink and the backlink itself and the Alexa Rank of the backlink domain.

This is a fully comprehensive SEO tool that will improve the ranking of any website even if not particularly significantly.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in SEO SpyGlass:

Many regional versions of Yahoo! search engine have been updated

Limitations:

Doesn't allow you to select all search engines

OS requirements for SEO SpyGlass:

OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista

Minimum requirements:

Java Runtime Environment 1.4
Free registration: Publisher's website

Pros

Breaksdown data as to how your competitors are doing
Gives lot of tips on how to improve yours

Cons

Not optimised for all search engines
Ranking improvements not always major

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From the publisher of SEO SpyGlass

SEO SpyGlass is an extremely powerful competition research tool designed to let you see exactly how your competitors got to the top in search engines — so you can mimic their winning linking strategy, improve on it, and blow right by them in Google, Yahoo! and MSN!

If you want to get ahead of the field, you need to make sure your website has the best chance of achieving a high ranking. SEO SpyGlass gives you the power to do so.