The best way to track the web traffic of the clients

I am aware of GA and Webmaster tools. I have around 12 my own niche websites. But, I am very interested in SEO and have been learning it and thought of using that knowledge. We have to start at a point, no body is perfect. We learn new things on the way.

I know SEO is the basic foundation for a website and I will not go and wrongly advise a client. I am just starting it with my friends and then grow. We can grow if we are willing to admit and learn.
I posted this question because I do not want to promise keyword rankings for the clients instead promise them a percentage of traffic. So, I need a tool to track the clients traffic. And what if the client does not want to share Google Analytics. I hope you will understand. Thanks for your comments.

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AntonioSeegars1

9 years ago

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AntonioSeegars1

Did you read what the thread starter said below? He already knows about analytic tools. He's looking for tools that track sites in other ways. Hence, my suggestions.

No he is not. Did you read what he said?

Hi,

I have just started providing SEO services to my local businesses. Could anyone please tell me the best tool to keep track of my clients traffic. What is the usual practice in the market. I cannot afford for a paid tool. What free tools are available at the moment. Your suggestions are appreciated.

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What is it you are not understanding? He wants to track the web traffic his clients are seeing on their sites.

SEMRush does not do that. SEMRush guesses at traffic. It does not track anything. Plus its guesses are based on search traffic and PPC advertising. It does absolutely nothing to provide data on other sources of traffic.

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vithobaaseo

9 years ago

Hi there are many free tools available.. some of them are listed below..
woorank.com
ahrefs.com
opensiteexplorer.org(http://moz.com/researchtools/ose)
majesticseo.com
screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
cognitiveseo.com
moz.com/tools
webconfs.com
seocentro.com
raventools.com
seo-spyglass.com
tools.pingdom.com
spyfu.com

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by vithobaaseo

Hi there are many free tools available.. some of them are listed below..
woorank.com
ahrefs.com
opensiteexplorer.org(http://moz.com/researchtools/ose)
majesticseo.com
screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider
cognitiveseo.com
moz.com/tools
webconfs.com
seocentro.com
raventools.com
seo-spyglass.com
tools.pingdom.com
spyfu.com

None of that does what the poster asked.

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saurabhthakur12

9 years ago

Google Analytics is the best way to track the web traffic. It is the most popular tool that track detailed traffic information of website.

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rmacklyn

9 years ago

Of course every answer here would be Google analytics. There is no other better tool that GA. Yes Crazyegg is another great tool in this segment. You can take a change trying this as well but it's paid.

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Well, Clicky is also free to use on one site... And you can set up your own tracking server and install something like Piwik or OWA. These tools are as free as it gets, the server resources are not.

But I agree, it seems likely that OP is looking for Google Analytics.

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npoint

9 years ago

I am using Clicky, it`s a lot better than Google Analytics

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skyhoundinternet

9 years ago

Google analytic is the best .

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9 years ago

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AntonioSeegars1

SEMRush is a tool you can use to see how much traffic a website gets. It shows traffic based on the keywords that people search for.

Alexa is also good if your clients install it on their websites.

Those are absolutely horrible suggestions. All either of those do is guess at what the traffic volume is. Why the hell would anyone use either of those to track traffic for a client?

And why in the world are you posting a response to every single freaking thread in the entire section? There are about 30 threads in a row right now that you have spammed.

Why don't you buy a goddamned ad instead of junking up the forum?

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yukon

Banned 9 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

And why in the world are you posting a response to every single freaking thread in the entire section? There are about 30 threads in a row right now that you have spammed.

Why don't you buy a goddamned ad instead of junking up the forum?

They have the situation under control, lmao.

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9 years ago

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AntonioSeegars1

Can you prove that SEMrush and Alexa are not good tools?

I bet you can't, because they are great tools that many people have successfully used to track their stats.

Nobody said they weren't good tools, although Alexa is horrible. Totally useless. They are not the right tool for the job.

Their traffic numbers are horribly inaccurate. They are guesses.

The OP was looking for something to track traffic for his client's sites. For that you want an analytics program like Google Analytics, Piwik, Clicky, etc. Those will give you accurate stats about your visitors and what they are doing on the sites.

SEMRush and Alexa are only guesses for sites that you do not have access to. No SEO would ever use them to track their client's traffic.

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Originally Posted by AntonioSeegars1

The creator of this thread says he has clients, so this means that he has access to their sites, or at least has access to his clients so he can tell them to install the Alexa toolbar and work SEMRush into their sites.

Argh... say it ain't so.

Feeding competition data is crazy, even half baked data like alexa.

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AntonioSeegars1

The creator of this thread says he has clients, so this means that he has access to their sites, or at least has access to his clients so he can tell them to install the Alexa toolbar and work SEMRush into their sites.

I wouldn't suggest that an outsider use these tools, but when you have access to sites there perfect tools to use.

That is completely moronic. If you have access to the sites, then you use an actual analytics program to track traffic. You don't use something that estimates traffic.

No SEO uses the Alexa Toolbar for anything. It is a useless POS. SEMRush is fine for trying to gain some insights into competitor sites, but you would NEVER use it to track the actual traffic of a site you have access to.

Plus, even if you could track your traffic with SEMRush, it will not let you track any kind of conversion data. You need an analytics program.

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forrestsmyth

9 years ago

Clicky looks good as an alternative to Google Analytics. It has a WP plugin (by Yoast) which makes integrating it with your Wordpress site dead simple, and displays stats on your WP dashboard.

I'm not an SEO guy, so don't know of it has limitations compared to GA, but anything that makes things easier for us technically challenged folk is a good thing in my book.

Just about to try it.

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Web Work Horse

9 years ago

I would use GA, web tools from Google and bing...never tried clicky but might.

But MAKE SURE you set up server side tracking(AWSTATS is one i know of).

This will show the most accurate number of visits/visitors, as it is from the server...this will also be the largest number, sometimes by far, which is nice to show to clients.

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jessdsouza123

9 years ago

I prefer Gostats, It is free and real time web analytic tool. It tracks website traffic information in detail and reports accurate data.

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Helena R

8 years ago

You can use Alexa Traffic Rank website.
It is based on Alexa data.
Moreover, the database covers 7 years of traffic data, and it is free.

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nettiapina 8 years ago

Originally Posted by Helena R

You can use Alexa Traffic Rank website.

Did you really have to post this total BS to an ancient thread?
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