Locate your Competitors Traffic Sources -SEO related sources - vs. other sources.

[DavidS-282061]

Is there a tool out there that will help you locate your competitors traffic sources?

I would like to see how much of their traffic is coming from SEO related sources - vs. other sources.

I know compete will do this - but they are ungodly expensive.

Thanks!

[E-dreamz]

Short answer: No

Longer answer: There are quite a few 'tools' out there, but they just provide an estimate or guess. Some of them have free versions that give a few example domains that send traffic. I've never seen them actually show anything that matched my actual Analytics.

Ohter answer: Forget the competition and focus on your site. Destroy them in rankings and PPC.. No more  worrying about the competition.

[DavidS-282061]

Can anyone name some of these tools?

[scanlin]

www.ispionage.com gives away some data for free -- enter a domain and then it shows you a summary of how much they think that site is spending on PPC, what their ads are, who else is competing for those same keywords with PPC, then some SEO stuff like what words they rank for on each of the major engines, and who they think the domain's competitors are.

For traffic you could use www.compete.com (use 'site profile' tab), or maybe www.alexa.com to get a relative sense of how one site's traffic compares to anothers.

Then you can combine the two -- use compete.com's traffic along with ispionage's estimate of PPC spend and you can get a sense for how much of their traffic is purchased vs free.

http://www.spyfu.com if fun to play around with, too, to analyze your competitor's PPC.

[AlanMosley]

google analytics will tell you where each request has come from

[E-dreamz]

Something tells me that his competition is not going to give him access to their Analytics.

But if they do - Alan is correct...

[E-dreamz]

Those are the tools I was thinking of, but it is hard to recommend them since they are typically wrong. Again just run them on your own website and look how skewed the results are.

[AlanMosley]

sorry missed the word "competitors"

[DavidS-282061]

Anybody else out there?  I too have found these tools to be unreliable....