Daniel and Ciaran take an in-depth look at online tools to help you with any competitor benchmarking you might need to conduct. These tools are all ones we have tried and tested over the years and include a few which were never intended to be used that way but they work and do a good job if you understand what it is you are looking at. Some of them are paid for services but a lot of them are free and all of them are worth checking out.
Have we missed any of your favourites? Drop us a line and let us know and we may well give you a shout in a follow-up episode.
Useful Links
SE Ranking
Opensite Explorer ( soon to be retired)
Moz link Explorer
Moz Toolbar
Google Display Planner
Google Keyword Tool
Alexa
Similar Web
SEM Rush
Spyfu
Raven Tools
Klear.com
Bitly Analytics
goo.gl (shortly due to be retired)
Mailchimp Email benchmark data and Industry Stats
Litmus Email data
Instagram- Statista
Think with Google
Google Trends
Global Statistics Compendium
We Are Social Digital Stats 2018
Which is the fastest growing social network article
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