Is it possible to see how many visitors a competitor has received for any given keyword over a set time period?
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Is it possible to see how many visitors a competitor has received for any given keyword over a set time period via either Organic / Paid means?
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I've just stumbled across hitwise.com, they seem to have the holy grail in regards this issue! a price to boot also.
Anyone had any experience with them?
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wow! Ive never been on a forum that receives such a quick response. Thanks guys!
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The only way you'll see that data is if you get access to their analytics.
But, you could always guesstimate by watching to see where they are ranked for certain keywords, and knowing how much traffic is predicted for each term.
So, if a keyword gets 1,000 searches per month, and they are #2 in Google, you could safely assume that they will get at least 50 clicks.
It's not an exact science, and quite frankly, you should really spend your time on building up your own rankings instead of worrying about how much your competition is getting.
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You will not be able to get precise info. But if you can get a general feel on an organic level by taking their rank position and multiplying by the estimate a first position rank or a 2nd position rank gets.
Use keyword tools to estimate how much traffic that keyword gets to do the calculation.
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It isn't possible to be precise (that's information that only they have), but you can make a rough guess based on search volume and rank. If you know a keyword you're interested and their rank, you can take a good guess at what they're getting for it.
For example, you can guess that if they're #1 on a phrase and it's a phrase with 5000 monthly searches, they're probably getting about 1200-1500 visits a month for it.
But there's no way to know more precisely than that.
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