bebo.com, facebook.com, myspace.com traffic

Last week Google Trends started allowing you to compare websites and not just keywords

compare: bebo.com, facebook.com, myspace.com

Yikes!

More intresting to me is compareing some sites in our sector of car hire holidayautos.co.uk, avis.co.uk, nationalcar.co.uk, carrentals.co.uk, hertz.co.uk

How useful it this? Well by looking at several competitors i can see their top traffic terms, and work out which other sites send them traffic. Ok we know the majority of these keywords already, but now we can see how much traffic these words are sending the competition and where to focus our efforts.

Interesting to see how much traffic carrentals.co.uk must send some of these big brands :) checkout the also visited and you’ll see carrentals, looks like we account for a lot of some sites traffic(they dont send us any ;)). From our own stats we can see the exact number we send someone, then compare that to how much other sites send.

GrayWolf noticed that google has immited all thier own sites :) Guess Google are worried how it would effect share price? I dont see this as evil, there is some nice info thier, but wont make much difference to people already going full pelt to gobble up all thier realted traffic :) Besides if like us you have the cash you can get much more deatiled info from companies like HitWise.

Anyway, trends is still fun :)

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