Archive for the ‘competitive analysis’ Category

PPC Spying Tactics in 2009

Monday, December 29th, 2008

It’s going to be a fun world in 2009, fellow affiliates. Prepare yourselves to fight ’till death! I mean, let the games begin As many of you know, I’m a competitive research junky. I think the best way to get into a new niche is to deconstruct the top competition: figure out what they are [...]

Interview With iSpionage.com Developers

Friday, June 20th, 2008

iSpionage.com is a PPC competitive intelligence tool that allows users to track which ads and keywords advertisers are using on Adwords, Yahoo & MSN. Unlike other competitive intelligence tools, iSpionage provides sophisticated ad tracking. You can see which ads your competitors are split testing, which position the ads are appearing, and how many times their [...]

Competitive Intelligence Tools

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Yesterday I presented about competitive intelligence tools at Barcamp. Here are the links that I shared in my presentation: Link Intelligence SEO For Firefox – Simple Firefox add-on that shows # of links, age of the domain, whois info, dmoz info, and tons of other information when you do a Google search. You can also [...]

Reverse Engineer Your Market

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Uncover The Hidden Marketing Strategies Of Your Online Competition I’ve put together a FREE 5-part video email series that shows you exactly how I discover what my competition is up to… Here’s How To Easily Reveal: What domains your competition owns. What keywords, landing pages, and ads any company is using in their online marketing. [...]

Google Hot Trends

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Discover what the most popular Google searches are each day with Google Hot Trends. Also, don’t forget to check out other trending tools I blogged about.

Trending Tools To Track Marketing Trends

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Keeping track of current trends is one of the easiest ways to spot a developing niche for your affiliate campaigns. Here are the trending tools I use: Search Engine Trends: Google Trends Google Hot Trends Yahoo Buzz Microsoft What’s Popular AOL Hot Searches Lycos 50 Popular Searches at Dog Pile Top 1000 Searches at Search.com [...]

Find Domains Hosted on an IP Address

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

One of the most fascinating aspects of internet marketing is the ability to track everything. With analytics tools, keyword spying software, and some basic Google queries, you can begin to reverse engineer any internet marketing campaign. Many affiliates will host all their domains on a single IP address block (not smart), which allows curious people [...]

PPC Competitive Analysis

Friday, July 20th, 2007

I was lucky enough to get into the private beta of Zamdoo . Zamdoo is a competitive analysis tool that allows you to grab all the ads for a keyword on Adwords, Yahoo, & MSN. You download a client application which runs on your computer and scrapes the results every hour. Then you log into [...]

Dominate Any PPC Market

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Here’s how I use KeyCompete to dominate any market: In this tutorial I will show you how to use a unique program called KeyCompete to find the exact keywords that advertisers are using on their Google, YSM and MSN pay per click campaigns. If you ever wanted to know which keywords your competitors are bidding [...]