This was a list of research tools for our internet marketing class.

1. Researching the Competition
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2. • General Competitive Research Tools
• Alexa - shows traffic trends for competing
websites. Alexa has a heavy webmaster bias
that is nowhere near as noticeable at
Compete or Quantcast.
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3. • Compete.com - shows you traffic trends for
competing websites. Allows you to compare
sites head to head. Also offers a paid search
analytics tool which is both exceptionally
useful and affordably priced.
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4. • Quantcast - shows site traffic and
demographic trends and details. Also allows
you to download a list of their top 1,000,000
websites.
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5. • Google Trends for Websites - free tool from
Google showing traffic estimates, visitor
country location, top 10 related websites, and
top 10 related keywords. Only returns data for
fairly high traffic websites though.
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6. • Google Search Insights - shows keyword
trends, hot keywords by category, and top
geographic regions for a keyword.
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7. • Archive.org - see how old a website is and
what it looked like in the past
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8. • DomainTools - see Whois data and how many
times a domain has changed hands
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9. • http://marketing.grader.com
• SEMRush.com
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10. • SearchStatus - highlights nofollow links, shows
PageRank, shows Alexa rank, and provides
links to some backlink information
• Xinu - lists some SEO related data plus more
general web related data points like Alexa
ranking and Del.icio.us bookmarks.
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11. • SpyFu.com
• KeywordSpy.com
• WordPot.com
• Adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool
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12. SEO Training Course
• http://www.seobook.com/free-account/
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