Step 5: Unleashing Your Competitors' Biggest Traffic Sources

Finding out which sites are sending your competitors a hoard of visitors is a powerful way of increasing your own site's traffic! Below you will find a list of traffic-intensive resources that your competition is using to drive visitors to their sites. These are the sites with the highest Alexa Rank values of all the sites that link to your competitor.

Alexa is a very powerful tool used to rank website traffic. The value calculated by Alexa is trusted all over the globe and is commonly referred to as Alexa Rank or Alexa Traffic Rank.

Here's a bit more info on Alexa Rank...

How can I get a site's traffic estimate?

The simple way of doing that is to install the Alexa Toolbar. Once installed in your browser, it will let you see the traffic rank of any site you're visiting.

Here's a sample screenshot of a site in a browser with Alexa Toolbar installed:

Note: Don't be confused by the traffic rank values. Lower values mean bigger traffic! So the #1 traffic site has a traffic rank of 1.

Traffic-intensive sites you need links from

What you need is get links from these exact sites. A good way would be to place banner ads or text link ads on them, and since these sites are visited by a huge number of people daily, a good share of them will come to your site!