Analyzing The Top Ranked Websites On Google
The study of analyzing the Top Ranked Website on Google, is indeed very important to your own websites success. Please read this page carefully and consider applying it to your own pages.
Analyzing Websites On Google
Now to analyze the top ranking websites all you have to do is search in google for the keywords that you chose to optimize for. The results are the websites that you are competing with. Open each page and study why you think they are ranking so well. Look back at other articles on this site and see what on-page methods they use. Just write down what on-page factors they have decided to use and use this information to rank better than them by doing what they do and a little more. For example if they have their main keywords in <h1> tags but don't have them in <h2> tags then you can do both.
The most important analysis you need to do is of their off-page optimization. I suggest you use Instant Position's free link popularity check to look up your competitors and see who's linking to them. Then you can go to these websites and request a link also! Here's the tool:
http://www.instantposition.com/link_popularity_check.cfm
It's not easy to outrank your competitors and the reason is that they must be good at search engine optimization to have received that rank. So you need some time and effort to reach the top but you can do it and there's no doubt in that.
A handy trick to consider using, is to contact all the sites that have listed your competitions links, and request they place your links. By doing so you will build a similarly powerful links profile in addition to the links you already have, this is often enough to push you up the rankings.