What tools do you use to spy on your competitors?

[SearchBlogger]

Hi,

I just wanted to find out what tools (if any) people use to spy on their competitors online.

I've used Google Alerts, SpyFu, Yahoo Site Explorer and a few others to keep an eye on what others are doing with their online marketing.

Does anyone else have any other recommendations?

Thanks

Jamie

 

[Curious]

Take a look at SEMRush. Picked up some nice little nougats from a few searches on there.

 

[lapseoservices]

Market Samurai, SEO Spyglass are great tools I use

 

[makeusvisible]

Market Samurai, SEO Spyglass are great tools I use

MS and Spyglass are two I use too. Very effective tools.

 

[Curious]

Have either of you had any trouble with MS recently? ie Taking an age to pull data through and sometimes just not getting any all together?

 

[RadiusBPO]

Have either of you had any trouble with MS recently? ie Taking an age to pull data through and sometimes just not getting any all together?

Yea!!!! It's so bad I use the Google KWT to get the data before feeding them into MS for SEO competition... Very annoying, and they took their forum offline so we can't complain about it. Wish there was a good web based version cause this "air" version is getting way way too memory heavy

 

[Curious]

Thank god its not just me! I've given up on it to be honest - couldn't even get the SEO Competition module to pull in anything yesterday.

Especially because its turned into a memory hog (it makes my computer slower than sleeping sloth).

If anyone knows of anything similar I'd be interested to hear about it. I've just signed back up with SEOMoz for a month to try out their serp analysis tool - not had a chance to play with it yet though.

 

[garyk]

Yep Ive noticed that too over a period of time MS has got slowly worse.

 

[ColinC]

SEOMoz Open Site Explorer - epic!

 

[JohnnyCash]

I mainly use an army of Filipinos and Yahoo Site Explorer. Sort my competitors backlinks and email every single one of them.

 

[makeusvisible]

Have either of you had any trouble with MS recently? ie Taking an age to pull data through and sometimes just not getting any all together?

YES. Major problems. they sent an email out earlier today advising that they have had problems with their cloud provider. They hope to have it resolved soon.

 

[swasa11]

Hi, Compete & SEM rush is the best tool for competitors.

 

[madhusmita]

I am using the backlinkwatch tool for competitor analysis.This is a very useful tool for getting new sites.Google Alerts also works fine for this purpose.We can get lots of new sites for creating our link.

 

[C.Rebecca]

I use a tool called ‘Keyword Country’ to monitor my competitors’ Internet marketing strategy. I get alerts when they change their SEO or PPC strategy. Not just this, the tool also lets me rip off my rivals’ most profitable keywords responsible for upto 96% of its website traffic. I am all for it

 

[MarkVintson]

Market Samurai and SEOMoz are really a great site explorer that i frequently use to spy my competitors.

 

[rich06]

Majestic SEO FTW!

 

[gilchrist]

No one can beat Market Samurai .....go for it

 

[sonnas]

between seomoz and semrush, which one does people think is better? also better value for money?

 

[Digital Investments]

SEO Powersuite - monitor rankings, onsite optimization, backlinking strategies and gain in-depth analysis of your competitors as wellas your own sites

 

[RBS]

http://www.keywordspy.com

 

[markhamilton]

I prefer to use backlinkwatch and Yahoo Site Explorer tool for competitor analysis.This is a very useful tool for getting new sites.Go Thru Below List-----SpyFu - Download competitors keywords in AdWords.
Compete - Ttraffic trends for competing websites.
Quantacast - Site traffic and demographic trends.
Google Trends - Traffic trends for websites.
Search Status - Toolbar that shows how websites are performing.
Xinu - Evaluates sites.
SEM Rush - SEMRush can show you keywords for any domain that ranks high enough to be in the top 20 search or Adwords results.
Trellian Competitive Analysis - Trellian compiles and analyzes internet usage statistics.
Search Rascal - Compare search ranking.
SpyderMate
Anonymizer - Anonymous competitive intelligence.
Rank Pulse - Ranking activity values.
Basic Link Intelligence - Analysis of linking scheme.
Demand Metric - Fee based competitive analysis.
Exact Factor - Analyze search engine ranking and compare to competitors.
Review My Web - Competitive analyis tools emailed.
Market Leap - Compare backlinks of competitors.

 

[goliveuk]

Markhamilton, very useful post Thanks
I use SEO Powersuite and Google tools
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