Thursday, October 19, 2006
This is still in beta but spyfu.com can be very useful for obtaining competitive analysis. Simply type in a term that you want to compete for and spyfu.com will return the cost per click, organic results, paid results, competitor meta info, similar searches, and more. Here's a screenshot with the important info circled:
Comments:
Great tool! Do you know where they get the data from and how old it is?
Here is a quote taken from their press release "The site is powered by Velocityscape Web Scraper Plus+, which constantly extracts data from search engines, Alexa, Dmoz, Wikipedia, and other sources. "The whole process takes nearly ten thousand computing hours," boasts Ryan McLaughlin, Velocityscape's engineer in charge of the process. "To give you an idea of the amount of data we're dealing with: it's more than 100 times the size of the US Yellowpages."
Can also give KeywordSpy.com a try for a keyword research tool, with results actually reflecting what advertisers are using at the current time.
Great tool! Do you know where they get the data from and how old it is?
Here is a quote taken from their press release "The site is powered by Velocityscape Web Scraper Plus+, which constantly extracts data from search engines, Alexa, Dmoz, Wikipedia, and other sources. "The whole process takes nearly ten thousand computing hours," boasts Ryan McLaughlin, Velocityscape's engineer in charge of the process. "To give you an idea of the amount of data we're dealing with: it's more than 100 times the size of the US Yellowpages."
Can also give KeywordSpy.com a try for a keyword research tool, with results actually reflecting what advertisers are using at the current time.
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