3 Tools For Spying On Your Online Competition
Are you spying on your online competition? There comes a point in every business blogger’s life where we must check out our online competition. You don’t have to but you just never know what you might learn.

Here are three sites that have great tools to help you see what your competition is doing online.
Compete - This site helps you uncover your competition’s unique page counts, rank, reach, average visitors stay, growth and much more. It’s also a great tool for keyword research. Compete Search Analytics helps you find out which keywords are sending traffic to a website or category.
Spyfu - Is similar to Compete in that it is helpful for keyword research.
Quantcast - This site gives demographics in a format that is easy to read.
But, of course, if a blog is new, you are not going to find any information. So, what do you do in that case? How do you check out your competition? Share your comments below!
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