Comments on: 3 Ways to Explore Website Traffic

By: antonio

antonio — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:51:11 +0000

According to Alexa 10million pages are added to the web everyday. Without knowing what your website is doing and how to improve its ability to attract targetted audience you will never know if your product or service is the right product or service. Many of website site failures being in the design stage. It seems nobody really is paying attention to the details of what it takes to make TRUE SEO friendly pages. From choosing the domain name, choosing the right keywords and then having those keywords in description and title as well as the catagories and pages, would make a huge difference. Starting with a sitemap also helps to place you on search engins fairly quickly. And then be ready to proactively contineu to change and refine your contents. Every 3 months search keywords are changing so continue to fine-tune and retool your site. 77 percent of all users on the web read blogs. So maybe instead of static site, get a blog so you can easily keep updating the contents and search keywords. Ultimately a great site is one that generates enough traffic and conversion to be a viable source of income.
Thanks for great writings.
Tony

By: Traffic Mystic Secrets Tutorials

Traffic Mystic Secrets Tutorials — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:43:33 +0000

I would go with saad on quantcast.. I’ve tried both compete and quantcast and quantcast seem to provide more relevant results.. though this may because of the niche I promote in which is very specific.

By: Lowline Angus

Lowline Angus — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:31:39 +0000

I agree. Ann has provided 3 very good tools. But, like a couple people mentioned above, quancast is another good tool too, IMHO.

By: John Spohr

John Spohr — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:37:24 +0000

I think Ann has provided 3 very good tools. And while some don’t like Alexa because they think it is inaccurate, so what… it’s relative. The alleged inaccuracy applies to all sites it analyzes. I use Alexa and other tools as guides, not full blown web analytics.

You have to keep things in perspective!

Regards,

John Spohr

By: avi

avi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:07:21 +0000

I find that google’s 3 week old product – “google trends for websites” is quite useful. When logged into your google account, and only when logged in, google will release estimated traffic stats for any given non-google owned web site .

For example,

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=searchenginejournal.com

Google trends is showing that SEJ gets approximately 7k-14k unique daily users.

The tool does not provide data on sites that receive very little traffic.

By: Saad Kamal

Saad Kamal — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:34:51 +0000

you missed – http://quantcast.com — which is pretty good too.

By: Software Testing

Software Testing — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:18:15 +0000

@ Ann,

What is your idea about ComScore,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComScore

Can we use this to explore websites and its traffic behavior?

By: Jillian

Jillian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:54:05 +0000

Another trusted place is quanstcast.com and is worth noting at least in the comments here.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:44:07 +0000

Quantcast is another valuable traffic estimation tool. However, people should keep in mind that these services get data primarily from U.S. sources — hence, their estimates for sites that obtain a lot of traffic from outside the U.S. tend to be very wrong.