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Seeing other peoples traffic sources?

by Jayy
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If I know the website of someones website,

is there anyway I can find out what traffic sources they are using for getting traffic to their homepage.

like bing ads
media buying
organic seo

??
#peoples #sources #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author bit twiddler
    Try "WhatRunsWhere", they have a 7 day $1 Trial.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cwarren78
    "adbeat" is another.....
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    • Profile picture of the author Jayy
      is there any free ways to do this
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  • Profile picture of the author bit twiddler
    Search for FollowScout. It is free and will give you some good data. But, for significant and copious amounts of data, WhatRunsWhere I believe still renders more data than Adbeat. The free tools available for Competitive Intelligence Reporting simply don't provide enough data to make the right decisions, IMO.

    The other free way is to use the search engines and find the niche related sites that may have the ads that lead to the landing pages. This is the long way and will not produce all of the information you require.

    T J

    PS: Here is a post by Mike from WahtRunsWhere that I found on another forum.

    Re: Adbeat VS WhatRunsWhere - Which Is Best?

    Hey. Hopefully you don't mind me chiming in here. Here are some of the differences/stats for our software(whatrunswhere):

    1. We started collecting data in late 2009, so we have a huge amount of archived data from a lot of different ad networks. Most competitors started off Google only, so their archive data for non-Google ad networks is quite limited.

    2. We have not only mobile web, but mobile android. We scrape ads that are appearing in over 20,000 different Android apps..something no one else can claim at present. The basic package that includes mobile is only $50 more than our normal package.

    3. We currently have >100 different ad networks classified for Web display, and ~120 classified for mobile...but even then, our technology can recognize banner ads that we don't know the ad network of. So while we have those number classified, we'll show you ones from ad servers before anyone else. If a network appears while we're asleep, it will be in the software by the next day. The total number of adservers we've gotten ads from is well into the thousands. We're also classifying about 10-20 new ad networks every week right now.

    4. We have a 1 page-load, 1 impression philosophy: we load the pages as the user does and only store the ads that showed up during that page load Some competitors(who I will not name directly) reload iframes over and over again, rendering their data almost completely worthless. If the Javascript on the homepage is splitting up the impressions between different ad sources, reloading an iframe will just show you the same one you saw the first time.

    5. We have in-house staff that deals with all support, nothing is outsourced. If you're using our software, the live chat will put you on with someone who actually knows the software and is physically present in one of our two offices.

    6. We've been scraping international much longer than anyone else - we were the first to go international and still have the best spread of international data in both mobile and traditional web.

    Per Mike:
    If you've got any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer. There weren't too many answers in this thread so I figured I'd reply. There's a lot of differences, I could probably tell you more if I knew more about your priorities.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jayy
      Thanks you for help mate, checking that followscout out now.

      redirects to follow.net so I'm assuming it's that
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      • Profile picture of the author bit twiddler
        Yep, that's the place.

        Originally Posted by Jayy View Post

        Thanks you for help mate, checking that followscout out now.

        redirects to follow.net so I'm assuming it's that
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        • Profile picture of the author Adbeat
          Hi TJ, this is Mike Colella the founder of Adbeat. I'd encourage you and anyone else to try Adbeat for 14 days and only $1 here https://www.adbeat.com/trial and compare against other services first hand.
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          • Profile picture of the author bit twiddler
            Thanks Mike,
            I don't remember seeing that option on your site. I would be pleased to try it out this week. Thanks for the option to give it a go...
            T J
            Originally Posted by Adbeat View Post

            Hi TJ, this is Mike Colella the founder of Adbeat. I'd encourage you and anyone else to try Adbeat for 14 days and only $1 here https://www.adbeat.com/trial and compare against other services first hand.
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  • Profile picture of the author mediamarket
    Try semrush it's free and has all needs you described
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