How to calculate the most powerful websites in my industry?
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Hi,
I would like to do some research and put together a post on the most powerful websites in my industry, and was wondering if you have any advice on how to calculate this - or if there is a tool available?
Rather than making assumptions, I would like to try and be as accurate as possible.
Thanks in advance for suggestions.
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Thanks for your responses and time. Apologies for being so vague I was trying to find out if there is a tool that does this or encourage a discussion on the topic, this is my first seoMoz question - I'll think of a better one next time ;o)
BTW the motivation for this is purely for producing interesting content and to point readers (students and professionals) to the most powerful sites in the industry (for what it's worth, I wouldn't make the list - but aim to one day).
Here are my thoughts on this subject - please don't feel like you have to reply.
So I was thinking to create a spreadsheet with a list of the websites in the industry (your right, I pretty much know who will be up there).
e.g. Companies, Brands, Associations, Academic Centres, Media & Bloggers from the industry and also include the websites that appear in the top 10 search results for variations of each keywords.
Score each site on a range of factors (compared against each other) - here are some ideas:
- Domain Authority
- Amount of links
- Quality of links (only counting links over a certain domain authority (20) - 20 Page Authority for .Wordpress/Blogspot sites)
- No of Blog post Retweets
- Average number of comments for top 5 posts
- Links to page/ratio
- Social Profiles (whether they have them and size of follower base)
- Page Loading speed
- Readability level
- How often the website is updated (if poss)
- Amount of times appearing in the search results for keywords (position 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5)
- Alexa Rank (although I don't feel confident relying on Alexa)
- Amount of indexed pages
Thanks again for any response and ideas.
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....or perhaps prepare a post on another subject.
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I kinda had the same impression... if you don't know the powerful sites in your own niche then maybe you need a different niche.
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I don't know you and don't want to offend you, but if you're putting together a post and asking us for advice on how to do it, then why are you doing the post?
If I walked into a class and the teacher asked me for advice on how to run his class, I would hustle over to the drop/add office.
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The most powerful websites in your industry will be the ones that are beating you everywhere... then use the SEOmoz tools to get some data.... then call somebody at each company and they might give you an earful.
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