Spy on the competition
Here is a short list of some of the more popular competitive research tools:
• Compete.com Search Analytics– shows a weighted sample of keywords driving traffic to competing sites, so you know which keywords are the most important to your business. Compete.com Search Analytics also allows you to buy a list of top keywords by industry.
• KeyCompete– shows a list of keywords that competing businesses are buying on search engines.
• SEO Digger– shows a list of keywords that competing sites rank for in the organic search results.
• SpyFu– shows a list of keywords that competing sites buy or rank for
Google Analytics offers industry benchmarking, and more recently Google Trends for Websiteslaunched, showing 10 popular keywords driving traffic to the most popular websites.
