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6 comments on “14 Competitive Intelligence Tools (aka How to Spy on Matt Cutts)”

1. 

   Dennis Kuntz Says:

   November 17th, 2008 at 10:09 am

   I attended this session and it was one of my favorites. And in talking with other attendees, I’m not alone.

   While Andy was presenting his list of tools I was furiously typing the URL’s and bookmarking them. I was able to put them to use almost immediately (during the session itself).

2. 

   Saad Kamal Says:

   November 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am

   Haha I like your cartoon on the 2nd slide

   To add on to your list:

   - SpyFu.com – Excellent for PPC. But also useful for organic.

   - http://www.archive.org – Can be useful if they have been business for a long time. You can see how they were (say 3-4 years back). What changes they made in their pricing/services and so on.

   - Aiderss.com – Helps you to find out which of your competitors’ posts and topics are engaging people. This should provide you with a list of topics that you should probably be covering in your own site.

   - Google Trends for Website (http://trends.google.com/websites?q=marketingpilgrim.com%2C+toprankbl og.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0)

   - Google Insight for Search (http://www.google.com/insights/search/)

   - Xinu Returns (http://xinureturns.com/) – Find out how well a site is doing in popular search engines, social bookmarking and other site statistics

   Saad Kamal’s last blog post..Mashable Open Web Awards Nomination Suggestions

3. 

   Dennis Kuntz Says:

   November 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am

   Another great tool (used in penetration testing for recon and also for forensics) is Maltego:

   http://www.paterva.com/maltego/

4. 

   Ami Ohayon Says:

   November 18th, 2008 at 10:16 am

   I hadn’t used the ranks.nl tool before (I use a paid tool that does something pretty similar) … but thanks for the tip, it’ll be a useful link to give clients to check their sites.

5. 

   Erwin Tan Says:

   December 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm

   The slides contains some powerful urls.. Thanks!

   Erwin Tan’s last blog post..Unleashing The Niche Genius In You

6. 

   BestMark Says:

   January 3rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm

   Great information. Thanks a lot!

 

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