Works on Iranian domains

Your Link Competitors works for Iranian domains too

The domains that share linking sites with you, ordered by how many they share. The more they share, the closer that domain sits in your link neighbourhood.

  • Location independent
  • Based on shared linkers
  • The .ir substitute for SEO competitors

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Domains that share the most linking sites with you, and it works for Iranian sites too.

  • What it costs $0.051
  • Data source DataForSEO
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The short answer

If two sites are linked to by the same sites, they operate in the same space even if no report shows a shared keyword. This tool measures that overlap, and because link data does not depend on country, it works for .ir domains exactly as it does for any other.

This tool was built for the exact problem SEO competitors could not solve in the Iranian market. There the basis is ranking keywords and that data does not exist for Iran, so the output stays empty. Here the basis is links, and links are the same links regardless of which language a site writes in and which country reads it.

Its second value is finding competitors you did not know about. Sites that share many linking domains with you are often the ones introduced in the same forums, appearing in the same directories and reaching the same audience, even if you have never heard their names. For small and specialised markets this is usually the most accurate definition of a competitor.

There is a third, directly operational use: any domain high in this list is a good source for the backlink gap. You already know you share linking sites, so there are very likely linking sites that have linked only to them and not to you. That list is the link-building to-do list.

Where the data comes from

DataForSEO backlinks competitors. It is based on overlapping referring domains rather than keywords, which is exactly why it is not location-dependent like the Labs tools. A real limitation: directories and large news sites that link to everyone show up near the top without actually being your competitors.

When it helps

When "SEO competitors" comes back empty for your Iranian domain, this is the working substitute. Also useful for finding competitors you did not know about.

Where it does not help

It has one real limitation you should know before reading the list: directories, large news sites and anywhere that links to everybody appear at the top without genuinely being your competitors. The reason is simple, they share linking sites with everybody. Review the first few rows with that in mind and set aside the ones whose subject is general; the real competitor usually sits a little lower. The second limitation is that link overlap does not prove competition in search results. To see whether you really compete over a keyword, put that keyword into the full Google results.

One thing we learned using it

The basis of this tool is referring-domain overlap rather than keywords, and that single design difference is what makes it independent of location, unlike the Labs-based tools. For the Iranian market that makes it the only tool in this family you can show a client without first explaining why the output is empty.

What it costs

Price per run $0.051

No monthly subscription. You top up a wallet and the price of a run is printed on the button before you press it; if you never run it, nothing is deducted.

Questions about this tool

How is it different from SEO competitors?

The basis of measurement. That one measures overlap of ranking keywords and has no data for Iran; this one measures overlap of linking sites and does not depend on location. For an international domain both are useful, for an Iranian domain effectively only this one.

Why is Wikipedia or a large news site on the list?

Because they link to everybody and therefore share linking sites with everybody. Skip those rows and look for domains whose subject is close to your work.

What do I do next?

Take two or three domains from the top that genuinely are your competitors and put them into the backlink gap. Its output is the list of sites that linked to them and not to you, which is exactly your link-building to-do list.