Website Ranking Tools - How do you stack up?

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How does your Web Site Rank against everyone else?

There are a bunch of tools out there that you can use to track your web sites' statistics. However, without being able to compare your statistics with your competitors you can't really know if you are performing well or poorly. That is where website ranking sites come into play. These sites use various methods to try to rank as many different sites on the web as possible for all kinds of different metrics.

Website Ranking Check #1 : Alexa

Alexa.com is a popular website ranking tool.

Alexa.com is a popular website ranking site. It allows you to check a sites relative rank, pageviews, and 'Reach'. Alexa is preferred by a large number of SEO professionals but it is pretty universally agreed that there are some limitations to the service.

Alexa gathers all of its data from a toolbar that users can install on their browsers. Since users know that alexa is tracking their movements and only their movements, many believe that the rankings can only be useful for comparing niche sites that are similar (pets.com vs. dogs.com)

SEO Made Simple: Strategies For Dominating The World's Largest Search Engine (Volume 1)

by: Mr. Michael H. Fleischner, Michael H. Fleischner

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 12/22/2009)

The Art of SEO (Theory in Practice)

by: Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, Jessie Stricchiola

Amazon Price: $39.62 (as of 12/22/2009)

Does Alexa really Work?

Bloggers sound off on Alexa's effectiveness

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Exclusive: Free Trial For Our Alexa Ranking Service | Money Making 101: There is a large number of search engines and other online services that use the Alexa metrics to analyze a site's user-ability and popularity. With a nice, juicy Alexa rank ? you will get a large amount of traffic to your website, ...

Compete.com Metrics and Site Rankings

A new, younger competitor to Alexa

Compete.com is a slightly newer site than Alexa. They also rank websites but on several different metrics in 3 different categories : Visitors, Engagement, and Growth. Unlike Alexa they admit that they are drawing their data from approximately 2 million different users and website plugins.

After doing some sample searches I found that the statistics for groups of similar sites track pretty closely with compete. This tracking will probably break up a bit as it draws more users.

Search Analytics: A Guide to Analyzing and Optimizing Website Search Engines

by: Hurol Inan

Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 12/22/2009)

Five Simple Steps to Improve Your Website's Search Engine Ranking

by: P., Bensky

Amazon Price: $12.95 (as of 12/22/2009)

Is Compete better than Alexa?

Peoples Experience with Compete Analytics

40 Top Article Submission Sites, With Page Rank, Alexa Rank ...: The article submission sites are listed and ranked by Google PageRank, Alexa rank, monthly unique users on Compete.com, and search volume for phrases containing the domain name as determined by the Google keyword tool in Adwords. ...
How to Drive More Links Via Public Relations | BuzzStream Blog: So I thought we'd turn the the PR-SEO question on its head and ask, ?what would a PR, blogger relations, and social media engagement campaign look like if your client or company perceived links and organic rankings as the primary benefit?? How would that change our strategy and tactics? ... For example, GigaOm (331k uv/mo) may have 3x more traffic than InternetNews.com (139k uv/mo) according to Compete.com, but based on link building value, they are roughly similar: ...
2010: The Year Information Pollution Takes Off | SEO Book.com: While they may target the longtail they rank for a lot of stuff. In the last 2 years Compete.com has shown eHow's unique US visitors to have increased ~ 6-fold to about 25000000 monthly uniques. That is just 1 property and that is ...
Similar Sites to Alexa That Rank Web Site Traffic: The site that I located that comes closest to the amount of data that Alexa has appears to be compete.com. Below is an image comparing the traffic rank of cnn.com and microsoft.com again to show the similarities between compete.com and ...

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Website Ranking Tools - How do you stack up?

How does your Web Site Rank against everyone else?

Website Ranking Check #1 : Alexa

Alexa.com is a popular website ranking tool.

Does Alexa really Work?

Bloggers sound off on Alexa's effectiveness

Compete.com Metrics and Site Rankings

A new, younger competitor to Alexa

Is Compete better than Alexa?

Peoples Experience with Compete Analytics

More Ranking Sites

Vote your favorite to the Top!

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