Competition
Competition
In every business online or offline we need to understand our market and without doubt that includes what the competition is doing, how, when and why?
This will help you to avoid travelling down the wrong road, spending weeks if not months of wasted time and money, when in fact you could see what your competitors are doing right now and adjust your own strategies accordingly.
The information enables you to exploit your competitors strengths and weaknesses, shape your ideas and dismiss old ones, whilst developing and improving products and services keeping you ahead of the game.
A deeper understanding of another successful website, in terms of structure and marketing techniques, will fast forward your own changes and improvements, as the old saying goes don’t try and reinvent the wheel.
As you’ll notice this page is merged, regarding some of the products, because the software really can jump into each category for competetive research analysis. There are some links at the very bottom of the page that will take you to the Keyword Tool page, for example, to read more about that particular topic.
Free Software
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Fully featured enterprise level software from Google allowing enabling you to analyse the traffic in quite some detail. Click Here.
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Google’s Keyword Tool
Google’s Keyword Tool is a very capable web based software, allowing you to do deep keyword research based upon Google’s database of searched terms. There is CSV export function so that you can import the data into Excel etc. Microsoft actually do some plugins for Excel that allow you to do deeper analysis.Click Here
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Keyword Discovery Tool (trellion) has a free trial with some limitations as you would expect, again gives you a feel for the software as it is quite involved, so well worth spending sometime navigating your way around. Click Here.
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SEO Spyglass is certainly one very impressive software suite, they are currently offering a free trial which gives you an amazing feel and insight into what this software can do. Of course some key functionality, like saving projects as been disabled, well worth giving this software a test drive. Click Here.
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KeywordSpy is also offering a lifetime free trial to help you get to grips with their interface. Again some functions, like amount of searches and length of list, have been limited but gives a fair account of what the software can do. Click Here.
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Sheer SEO is another contender for your hard earned dollars, fully featured software looking to win your heart. Currently they are offering a 3 months free trial to evaluate the software, have a look, only you can decide if it goes far enough to meet your needs. Click Here.
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iSpionage is offering a full access 7 Day Trial for $1.00 Dollar, then payments would start in full from the 8th day. This gives you plenty of time to look at the software and see if it meets you requirements. Click Here.
Professional Software
Try the free or low cost trials, it’s a great way to evaluate the products as each has their strength & weaknesses, only the user will know what level of functionality is going to be of value to them and their projects needs, and remember your requirements will change over time.
To link to the category pages directly, just click on the links below.
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