Comments on: 14 Competitive Intelligence Tools (aka How to Spy on Matt Cutts)

By: BestMark

BestMark — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:49:41 +0000

Great information. Thanks a lot!

By: Erwin Tan

Erwin Tan — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:48:13 +0000

The slides contains some powerful urls.. Thanks! Erwin Tan's last blog post..Unleashing The Niche Genius In You

By: Ami Ohayon

Ami Ohayon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:16:21 +0000

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.

By: Dennis Kuntz

Dennis Kuntz — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:21:15 +0000

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

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

By: Saad Kamal

Saad Kamal — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:10:52 +0000

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.

- 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

By: Dennis Kuntz

Dennis Kuntz — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:09:37 +0000

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).