Assessing Traffic Rankings

[kevincohr]

Is anyone aware of tools that you can use to assess the visitor traffic to rental web sites ? I use Alexa, although my understanding is that it is only based on sampling those web surfers who have the Alexa tool bar installed. Other suggestions ?

Thanks,

Kevin

[roxytoo]

something like this u mean?

http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/

[kevincohr]

If I understand correctly, Webalizer is primarily a tool you can use for analysing your own web site. What I'm looking for is something that I can use to get an indication of the number of visitors to rental listing sites such as VRBO, Holiday-Rentals etc.

Alexa ranks sites from 1 (highest) to n million (lowest) based upon the usage it detects among those who have the Alexa toolbar installed. I would like to be able to turn that into an estimate of the average number of visitors per day/month etc.

Anyone aware of tools I could use ?

Thanks,

Kevin

[roxytoo]

sorry Kevin I misunderstood!!

[kevincohr]

sorry Kevin I misunderstood!!

No problem !

Kevin

[ashtondav]

H-R publish their visit stats on part of their site. It's a total though and not drillable

[kevincohr]

Because there are so many different ways to measure ( visitors, unique visitors, pages viewed etc) , it's hard to know how to compare any published stats such at Holiday-Rentals.

I took a snapshot, using Alexa, on Jan 9th that you can find here :
http://www.compareownerholidayrentals.c ... nkings.htm

However, it's still hard to translate this into actual visitors on a consistent, like for like basis.

Any ideas would be welcome.

Kevin

[thisfrenchlife]

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for:

http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex/

But it compares the number of pages search engines have in their database.

I think it will be difficult to track down actual visitor stats as most companies keep these close to their chests.

I also think people are beginning to realise the value of a focussed site, so the biggest is not always the best.

There are a load more web tools here:

http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html

All the best

Craig

[kevincohr]

Craig,

Many thanks ... lots of very useful tools, much appreciated !

Kevin

[Paul Carmel]

Kevin,

A word of warning......The Alexa tool bar is useful, but it's jam packed full of spy wire. I recently stopped using it, and the amount of spam I get trying to sell me software has dropped dramatically.

[mpprh]

Hi

Thanks Craig.

There is some excellent stuff in your link : http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/seo-tools.html

I spent a long , but valuable, time checking out some of those tools.

Peter

[kevincohr]

Kevin,

A word of warning......The Alexa tool bar is useful, but it's jam packed full of spy wire. I recently stopped using it, and the amount of spam I get trying to sell me software has dropped dramatically.

Paul,

Others have made the same comments to me. However, I regularly use Yahoo Anti-Spy and Spybot to "clean" out my PC, and they both give warnings against Alexa, but I've kept it installed and havn't had any issues.

Regards,

Kevin