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competitive seo

The trouble with competitive SEM tools

February 9, 2010
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I’ve written about competitive tools before, but my last post was more of a general tool roundup. This post addresses a huge issue with competitive search marketing tools: accuracy, or lack thereof. There are several tools I’ve been keeping an eye on for the past year or so: SpyFu, SEMrush, and KeywordCompetitor. I check these [...]

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Competitive SEO Tools

October 8, 2008
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After my last post on Why Compete Sucks, I found this SEOmoz post that seems to corroborate it on a larger scale. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of alternatives out there, so I thought I’d outline some other tools that can help provide competitive SEO information. I’ll focus first on free tools, but I will [...]

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Why Compete Sucks

September 24, 2008
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I know it sounds linkbaity, but I couldn’t come up with a title for this post that better reflects my assessment of Compete. On the surface, Compete seems like a good idea — they have a five-year daily clickstream history for 2 million consumers, and 80 million page views per day. Compete’s tagline claims that it [...]

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