What do you Use to Spy on your Competitors?

by CarloD.

Posted: 15 years ago 16 replies

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Hey Warriors,

I am reading lots about spying on the competition.... what tools are people using?

Thanks

Carlo

#competitors #spy

Fox30 15 years ago

SpyFu
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those are a couple!
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johnpetrov 15 years ago

spyfu.com
compete.com
keycompete.com
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- TE2 15 years ago
  
  Alexa
  Quantcast
  Compete
  Spyfu
  
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  CarloD. 15 years ago
  
  Hey Guys,
  
  Thanks, I am familiar with those. Much Appreciated....
  
  I use quantcast and compete already... and am familiare with keyword spy and spyfu....the next step...
  
  Do you scout out offers on certain domains and see what others are promoting?
  
  I guess for CPA I am not following how you "spy" on the competitor... any suggestions appreciated.
  
  Carlo,
  
  ps- CPA is a new area for me, just trying to get my facts straight for when I launch my first campaign starting this week... got market research and traffic and tweaking and testing for the most part down (as in the process I will follow) just not sure about spying.
  
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  TE2 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by CarloD.
  
  I guess for CPA I am not following how you "spy" on the competitor... any suggestions appreciated.
  
  Here's one way to spy...
  
  Use compete.com to look at the CPA offers URL. Look at the bottom center of the page at "Referral Analytics". That tells you the top sites sending traffic to the offer. Go to those sites to see what ads, links, etc... are sending the traffic to the offer.
  
  I better get a few hits on the "Thank You" button for this share.
  
  Regards,
  
  John
  
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  CarloD. 15 years ago
  
  @TE2 Gracias por favor,
  
  Much appreciated, I'll have to do some looking around with the tools I currently use to maximize the amount of info I can get out of them.
  
  Carlo
  
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Flipfilter 15 years ago

Spyfu everytime!
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trimmy 15 years ago

Definitely spyfu and alexa
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ChrisBa 15 years ago

Originally Posted by CarloD.

Hey Warriors,

I am reading lots about spying on the competition.... what tools are people using?

Thanks

Carlo

If I did this I would use spyfu
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andrewstevens 15 years ago

Market Samurai
PPC webspy
Keyword Spy
Alexa
quantcast
SEO Quake Pluggin
and good old google search helps if you know how to use it

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sunnyleon 15 years ago

For these purposes, I use spyfu and alexa tools.
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Kenster 15 years ago

Lots of good tools above.

People in internet marketing always forget about offline though. You can sneak up to peoples windows and see exactly what they are doing if you have binoculars and keen sense of your surroundings as if you were a spy. Can't hide or fake your traffic from me now...mwahahha. Ahhh, maybe this is bad advice, I take it back!
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joshrodrigue 15 years ago

I also recommend spyfu as it hasn't let me down yet
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vigneshrajesh 15 years ago

I am using spyfu and keywordspy to do this....

Just give a try ............
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- CarloD. 15 years ago
  
  Thanks Everyone,
  
  .... I havn't been doing ppc/cpa for a while, and mainly just alot of keyword research with wordpot/google keyword tool/keyword elite 2.0
  
  I have already put the new tools to work...
  
  Market Samurai
  PPC webspy
  Keyword Spy
  Alexa
  quantcast
  SEO Quake Pluggin
  and good old google search helps if you know how to use it
  
  I like to think of myself as a "google search expert" heh...
  
  Thanks again,
  Carlo.
  
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onlineleben 15 years ago

In addition to some of the technical solutions already mentioned, I use a free email account and subscribe all my competitors newsletters and also to RSS feeds if available.
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