We are all curious and we all would like to know how our competitor’s sites are doing. It’s always good to gauge your site against other’s in your niche to understand how well your site is performing in the big picture.
Here are some places on the internet where you can do some investigation:
- TrafficEstimate – Check this out to view the estimated number of visits to the site within the last month. This figure is only an estimate however at least it will give you some idea.
- dnScoop – Allows you to search for any website and will display a wide variety of information such as Alexa rank, the monetary value of the site, Google page rank, backlinks, age and rough traffic numbers.
- Alexa – Great site to compare your traffic to others. Does not show you any traffic numbers however all you need to do is compare your Alexa traffic rank to another site to get an idea.
So go do some snooping around and find out where your competitors stack up!
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As you all know, posting useful comments on other bloggers’ blogs helps you to increase the number of backlinks to your website increasing your sites’ search engine visibility. Commenting on .Edu blogs are particularly helpful since University students are always researching and on the lookout for good reading material.
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