Comparing traffic to your competitors

[aygabtu]

What do you use to compare yourself to your competitors as far as traffic?

I use this site, which you can get it to update every 15 days: Website value calculator and web information

My site was well behind my competitors, since they have more than a one year head start, but I have recently pulled ahead in the 1 week and 1 day time frames. If that trend continues the 3 month and 1 months will reflect that in a while also.

[dotcomken]

I do not focus on the traffic, unless you have analytics access no one will know. Some people use alexa rankings, I focus on a couple things:

Total indexed pages
Total backlinks
Total backlinks from unique domains with relevant content
Total links from high quality sites <- very important
Social links

Bottom line - See what you competition is doing and do it better.

Spyfu is a decent tool to try out for some competitive insights. I am lucky to have comScore. Linkscape from seomoz is another great paid tool.

[DanTheSeoGuy]

Semrush is another tool you can use to do competitors research.

[aygabtu]

Originally Posted by dotcomken

I do not focus on the traffic, unless you have analytics access no one will know. Some people use alexa rankings, I focus on a couple things:

Total indexed pages
Total backlinks
Total backlinks from unique domains with relevant content
Total links from high quality sites <- very important
Social links

Bottom line - See what you competition is doing and do it better.

Spyfu is a decent tool to try out for some competitive insights. I am lucky to have comScore. Linkscape from seomoz is another great paid tool.

My competitors have been around a lot longer than me so they have hundreds of backlinks. Not necessarily quality links though. I do compare my ranking in the search engines, but alexa is the next best thing I have found. The site I linked to in my original post uses alexa information but gives more of a breakdown of recent trends. This is helpful for me because my 3 month stat is very high because of the newness of my site, but the 1 day and 1 week stats show I am making good headway.

[jhonsean]

When you say competitor its an established site that are stable in the market If you want to compare your site you must determine the source of its huge traffic for you to determine what's the best method to overcome this site.