[Hidden-tech] With Alexa no longer useful, where do you get traffic info on a site?

Thu Aug 22 11:03:01 UTC 2019

The freemium version of SEMrush.com has traffic estimates too. Over the years occasionally I checked its estimates with the traffic of my firm's bigger clients as shown by Google Analytics, and the estimates we're quite far off. I just put on my todo list to do the same check for similarweb, though that todo list's height grazes the moon, so my team probably won't get to it for several weeks, in part because such information is rarely central to my firm's work.

This opens to the more general topic that the accuracy of the reports produced by digital marketing tool suites that are under $3,000/mo, and some that over that cost, have major inaccuracies. If they are consistently inaccurate, they can still be useful, but I have not taken the considerable time needed to ascertain consistency of inaccuracy by which relative numbers would be useful.

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No, actually seeing how much traffic their sites get is part of what goes into my marketing recommendations to my clients.

Thanks for clarifying.

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On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 1:47 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com<mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>> wrote:
At Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:12:38 -0400 Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com<mailto:shel at principledprofit.com>> wrote:

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> Thanks! Robert and Max I will check out similarweb. I have the tab open and
> will look at, it probably tomorrow. Paul, I didn't know Goolge Anaytics
> could work on a site you don't own. How does one do that?

Oh, it doesn't...  I just assumed it was your site...

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> > traffic info on a site?
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> > Back in the old days, if I wanted to get a sense of a site's popularity, I
> > went to alexa.com<http://alexa.com> and typed in the URL. Now what I get is an offer of a
> > freebie trial. What no-cost tools are folks using to determine numbers of
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