How to analyze the site for the number of purchased links and SEO costs, etc.?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

There is my site and there are many competitor sites.
While mine is on the 5th page of Yandex.
In Google on the first.
What is TIC and PR is understandable, but I have them 0, while in Google I'm in the top.
Since I am a beginner (or not) SEO specialist, I have a few questions that are very important to me.
1. With the help of what or what request you can check how many sites link to competitors' sites.
2. Are there any tools that would be useful?
3. What other queries like site:site.ru do you know?
4. My site is currently focused on St. Petersburg, but many buyers do not enter St. Petersburg in the request. How can I make the search engine know that the buyer from St. Petersburg by IP issued my site in a higher priority? What does it depend on?
Website traffic counter .
5. Is the purchasing strategy correct? I buy links and focus primarily on traffic on the counter on the site. If let's say the site has a high TIC but the traffic is low, I discard it.
6. When choosing eternal links (or regular ones), how to understand that the site is alive and will be successfully indexed.
7. Am I correct in my opinion that sep is currently the best link buying tool?
8. What other known and working ways to raise the site to the top?
On my sites, I developed an engine that takes all keywords on the topic from wordstat.yandex.ru and generates pages with titles from them once. The generated pages become normal and the content in them does not change anymore.
Also, a text generator is built into the generator, which, based on ready-made sentences, generates unique text on each page; when checking uniqueness, verification services give > 70% uniqueness.
As a result, on each page of the site at the bottom there are five following links to the following pages from the generator with the title text:
Main page:

<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+1">ключевое слово 1</a> 
<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+2">ключевое слово 2</a> 
<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+3">ключевое слово 3</a> 
<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+4">ключевое слово 4</a> 
<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+5">ключевое слово 5</a>

Keyword 3:

<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+4">ключевое слово 4</a> 
<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+5">ключевое слово 5</a> 
<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+6">ключевое слово 6</a> 
<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+7">ключевое слово 7</a> 
<a href="site.ru/ключевое+слово+8">ключевое слово 8</a>

8. How efficient is such a generator? How is it perceived by search engines?
9. Is the strategy of buying one link per generator page effective? (Your options and thoughts)
Short links service , shorten url.
10. How not to get a generator ban from a search engine? So that it doesn’t happen that money is spent on buying links for the generator, and then bases and without explaining the reasons, the site will disappear from the index.

Answer 1

1. ahrefs
4. Smart search engines will understand everything themselves, just write St. Petersburg or don’t write in the title
5. In general, yes
6. Is the main page updated, news dates, links work from non-updating sites
7. Rented ones, yes, not bad
8. If they are accurate workers will not tell you them))
8. Well, if your site is banned, then you will know for the future that this cannot be done. SEO is studied only by experiments and mistakes are paid with bans
9. It seems to me it looks unnatural
10. Don’t do a generator, fuck this shit in general))

Answer 2

That looks like good service.
www.linkpad.ru

Answer 3

xtool.ru includes a linkpad and many more interesting things... For example, it shows positions in Yandex and Google, the history of changes in puzomerok... Tailored for Yandex.

Answer 4

I think that the problem is not in the answers, but in the question. To answer them all, you have to live your life! :)
Maybe break them down into similar ones, sort them by importance. And start asking important 1-2 questions. Then the answers will be more interesting. IMHO :)