Local SEO business competition
 

Well, i came to a conclusion that my competitors ranking higher are and HAVE BEEN creating websites and linking it to their flag ship sites..using different name registrar and cloudflaire to hide IP... pretty common yeah? because I just cannot see this any other way..

is this the SEO end game like.. 50% of the work??

Pbn’s have been around forever your just learning this ?

And yes backlinks are needed to rank.

Nevermind

You could don the blackhat yourself not going to suggest details or you can keep building. I am sure you can dominate geo targeted traffic with content and linking.

Ok - there is way to much to explain here and without knowing your competitor or even you I can't just assume that's what is happening. Keep in mind that google is much smarter than what it was in finding IP / hosting etc. than before so there maybe another reason for this. That being said - SEO is extremely important (and from experience a pain in the ass to some). It's also changing over the years so you'll need to keep up on it.