How to find out where a website gets all its traffic from?

[Toni]

Checking out a website on Alexa it says that it gets approx 30% of its traffic from search engines..... so lets say I want to find out where the other 70% is comming from is there any tool to help me find this info?

Thanks

TM

 

[MichaelOsborne]

Toni
We have built tools to suss things like that out, if you PM me the site i will let you know what i find.

 

[PIngels]

You should implement Google Analytics on your site.

Do a search for Google Analytics. It's easy enough to implement and very informative.

 

[drounding]

Are you talking about your own site or someone else's?

 

[Toni]

Yeah, thanks for the replies......... I am not talking about my own website but a competitors... any way of seeing where all their traffic si coming from?

 

[PIngels]

I am not aware of any legal ways of doing this. Such information would be confidential.

 

[OliviaSSLGuru]

You can't actually get the details from where the website gets its traffic from, unless its your website. But you can keep an eye on where your competitor keeps on posting, by creating an google alert of that website. This way, you will get the urls, where your competitor keeps on posting.

 

[Fresco_Creative]

As mentioned here already, google analytics. Its free and easy to use and very easy to understand. From the data you will receive from it, you will be able to use it positively and enhance the performance of the website and allow it to direct where you take it

 

[Toni]

As mentioned here already, google analytics. Its free and easy to use and very easy to understand. From the data you will receive from it, you will be able to use it positively and enhance the performance of the website and allow it to direct where you take it

I actually meant a competitors website

 

[SEO Lady]

You could look at their web URL in Yahoo Site Explorer to see who is linking to their site.

 

[Wholesale-Suppliers]

I am using the softwares seo spyglass and web auditor to track the backlinks of my competitors. These softwares are in full pack by seosuit and comes with link assistant pretty fantastic softwares if someone is using it here he must knows about their effcicancy

 

[12ish]

You can set up google alerts and do social media tracking. Something like socialmention gives you an idea of exposure.
Neither of these can tell you traffic, but traffic has to go through a link, and they do show those.
If you have money to spend there are paid tools that go further.

 

[DotNetWebs]

...but traffic has to go through a link...

Not once it's been bookmarked, or if the user types the URL into their browser, or if the link has been emailed to the user, etc. etc. (unless of course they have the Alexa spyware installed)

That's why there is no tool available that can give you a truly accurate measure of traffic.

Regards

Dotty

 

[12ish]

Not once it's been bookmarked, or if the user types the URL into their browser, or if the link has been emailed to the user, etc. etc.

Absolutely, so sign up for their newsletters as well.

 

[Vacman2000]

Simple as is most seo work

Scrapebox

 

[primrose]

We use Google Analytics - it is easy to set up for your site and gives great statistics and information.

 

[DancingWithPoodles]

only thing I gonna say is never use competitor's Google analytics to find out otherwise you are going to get the stick from forum members on here

 

[accounting-help]

That kind of information is only available to the web-site owner. There is a thing called PPC webspy which menas you can see which keywords a competitor is bidding on though.

 

[Top Hat]

Hitwise is thing you need ,very expensive, but they may do a demo for you to get a snap shot of you competitors traffic sources (and they may have cheaper reports now)

 

[thetime22]

Thumbs up if you know that anyone who replies "Google analyitics" didn't read the thread.