How to track competitor who uses another website on the url?

[bluehelmet]

Hi everyone,

The thing  is pretty simple:

I have a competitor who uses a different format of url, very similar to this:

www.example.com - but he started to use a thing like this: example.mtv.com

The problem is that every analysis that I make tell me something about mtv.com instead of the site I want. The url is redirected.

Sorry about my english, but I think it is very clear. I want to know how to track something like this, because even in competitor analysis I'm getting info about the big site, and not the one I need.

Thank you very much.

[bluehelmet]

The real problem is that when I put the old url of this site with www.example.com.br, the competitor analyses only track links and stuff till the change of the domain, because now, all the urls are like www.example.mtv.com.

I have no idea what I could do track this site anymore, because I don't see any change at all.

I think the tool itself should realise that I just want the "subdomain", even if that is no relation between the sites.

[donford]

example.com

and

example.mtv.com

Are 2 different domains.

In this case example.mtv "example" is the sub-domain of mtv. This could mean he has switched host, or owns both domains and just moved his example site to his mtv domain. In this case your competitor has given up his domain authority for example.com.

Open Site Explorer can still read sub-domains if your competitor recently switched then the lack of information is probably because he just recently switched. Meaning, the indexing agents haven't had a chance to index his new site. The only other thing I can think to mention is when researching sub-domain url's make sure you leave out the "www".