10 Free Web Tools for Monitoring Your Website’s Popularity
I have mentioned in my previous post about distractions for bloggers that stats can be very distracting, and they can reduce your work efficiency if you obsess with them. If you use the stats wisely, they can be your most versatile weapon when planning a strategy for your business. Often times when webmasters want to grow their site, they evaluate their competitors against their own website to see what they can do to get an upper edge.
Well I have come up with a list of 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Website’s Popularity and your competitor’s website popularity. This way you can come up with a better game plan and get the leverage over others.
1. Yahoo Site Explorer
I know that all of us are interested in checking where are we getting our backlinks from. Well Yahoo Site Explorer is one of the tools that does the backlink analysis and it shows you which sites are linking to your site, or your competitor’s site if you type their url. This way you can see how you can increase your backlinks.
2. Feed Compare
Feed Compare lets you compare the rss subscriber counts using the data from feedburner. If the site doesnot use feedburner, or has this data hidden, you will not be able to use it. But if they do then you can see the trend of their subscribers growth or decline.
3. Compete
Compete lets you analyze the traffic of the site of your choosing. It shows you the unique visitors, pageviews, keywords and alot more information if you are PRO member. They also assign a compete rank to a website based on the stats.
4. Quantcast
Quantcast is another popular site traffic measuring tool. It allows publishers to “Quantify” their website by placing a script in their web pages so that quantcast can measure their traffic statistics directly. If someone does not put the script on their website, then the data may not be accurate.
5. Tweet Volume
Tweet Volume measures how many times a certain keyword has been mentioned on twitter by the users. You can search author name, websites, urls and so on.
Above are the tools that are actually useful in what you are doing. Below are some of the fun tools that you can try and have fun with but they might not be the most accurate ones.
Most of the tools below takes in account of various stats and they give your site an estimated value, and so on. But such measurements are very subjective therefore I would not use them as my main source of tracking.
If you have any more tools you want me to add surely suggest it to me either in this post, or via twitter.
Remember these tools are free, and they are just to get an estimate figure. They are obviously not the most accurate analytics tool, but they do the job. I would not make any serious decisions using these tool. Meaning don’t go out and buy a site for 50,000 because one of these tools said so. Enjoy
Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
I often use Yahoo Site Explorer and Google Webmasters Tools, it seems to me that are the most useful.
Yes, i also use mainly Yahoo’s and Google’s webmaster tools. The others you have mentioned really look interesting, but i guess are mainly time consumers if you don’t strict need of them.
I like to use Google’s Webmaster Tools they work great for me.
Most of these tools I have used or still using. websitegrader.com also is an excellent tool.
I didn’t know about a number of these tools, thanks, I’ll try them out
I have so far been using only google analytics. Thanks for these tools which of course will add muscle to my knowledge about my site.
I might have to look at some of these. Thanks Syed
I don’t like compete or quantcast. They seem to pull numbers out of their ass.
wow you have a lot of back links.
How long have you had this blog?
I have had this blog for about 1.25 years… Alot of backlinks? Is it in the millions yet ??
A good tool is http://madridwebdesign.es/blog/category/seo/page/3/ a tool are a set of bookmarklets that you can place in your browsers bookmark bar.
Cheers
these are great, I have really only been using Google Analytics and the built in stats on feedburner. These great tools will give me some more information on what is really going on with my traffic.
A good and more accurate alternative to statbrain is webtraffic24.com. It shows much more stats also