Google Trends for Websites for Checking Competitors

Webmasters have been using tools like Alexa for a while to see how competitors compare in terms of traffic. Recently Compete came along, with much the same kind of features. Now Google is getting in on the act.

Enter “Google Trends for Websites”.

Google Trends has been around a little while, with that you can see the progress and demand for certain keywords. This looks at a website and sees how much traffic is moving and also lists some phrases people use to find it.

Enter your domain over at the trends site and it should give you a snapshot along with a graph of your traffic peaks and troughs. It should, but right now for my own site it doesn’t so I have to demonstrate using my friend Darren’s ProBlogger.net instead.

Google Trends for Websites: problogger.net

As you can see, Google agrees, it places chrisg.com as the first “also visited”. For a moment I thought it was measuring just my visits but it seems to be the same for everyone. I would have thought problogger readers were more likely to be johnchow and shoemoney readers before mine but there you go, shows what interesting results you get.

So while it allows you to snoop on your neighbors, a nice little surprise gift with the tool is it tells you who your neighbors are. Pretty neat huh?

As with all labs projects, it could break or be taken offline at any time. So take a look now while it is working :)

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Chris Garrett 
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