Why can I only add 3 competitors?

[s-s]

I am very new to all of this and need to learn.

So please accept my apology if I just didn't find it, but I've been searching and can't find a way to add more competitors.

Thanks

[LesleyPaone]

That is just the way it is, that is how moz works. If you are only monitoring one domain in your account, I think you should be ok setting up multiple campaigns with the same domain and monitoring more competitors that way. I haven't tried this, but it seems like it would work.

[s-s]

I didn't think about that. I will definitely try that and see, but it is sad to see that I can not add more than 3 competitors.

At least for the beginning, where every competitor matters.

[LesleyPaone]

One thing I tell my clients it "Don't fish too big". The way that I do things is I shoot for the competitors that are close by, pass them up, then add a new list. I do ecommerce and a lot of my clients think that Amazon and Etsy are competitors. I have to tell them that they are not, they are market giants that have thousands if not tens of thousands backlinks built daily.

[s-s]

I absolutely agree with your statement that those sites are just too big to be considered competition. The ones I wanted to add are true competitors, which I have about 8 in the US. I passed 3 already, so 5 more to go

whats your stand on tiered linking? Our site is fairly new (1 year and 3 months) but we managed to rank first page position 6 and 7 for two different url paths, which I believe was due to my on page SEO.

But as it is with everything, I want it faster and better and easier

[LesleyPaone]

I would be careful with it, I would pick good quality links over anything else personally.