Market Samurai – this is a great tool that will analyze your competition and show you where the low hanging fruit is.
Compete – gives you in depth market intelligence. See how much traffic a web site gets, who’s sending the traffic, and if the web site is gaining popularity or losing it. The best resource for doing market research.
Alexa – is one of the oldest market research tools online. Their clickstream capability makes it a very powerful tool to use when looking at where the traffic is coming from to a particular CPA offer.
Quantcast – is a great market research tool for providing a vast amount of demographic data which is very useful when getting traffic from facebook and myspace.
Google ad planner – their main strength is that they tell you “affinity”, which simply means where the traffic is coming from, and where it’s going. They also have powerful demographic data.
Spyfu – is a great tool to spy on competitors to see their ads and keywords.
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