API's for User Profiles other than Alexa
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Hi,
We are building an app that requires some audience profiling of websites as part of its architecture.
Alexa provides some of this info, along with visitors by country which is useful, however I am quite skeptical of the information it provides as it is well known it can be way off (particularly on smaller sites), so are there any other API's that provide better data along the same lines as Alexa?
NOTE - The app will profiling websites without having their authorized logins etc, so it needs to be an API that doesn't require authorisation from the website to get the data .
Many Thanks
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Hi,
Rand did an article about those websites last month : Testing the Accuracy of Visitor Data from Alexa, Compete, Google Trends, Doubleclick & Quantcast
I found the SeoTools for Excel very useful, maybe you'll find ideas for your app in it
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