Yahoo myWeb and Counter Intelligence
April 28th, 2005 by Site Admin in SEOIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
Yahoo Launched myWeb search storage tool this week. I’m not a big fan of search engines saving what I search for but this is slightly different. Whereas the Google search tool acts in a passive mode saving every search you make, Yahoo requires a direct action on your part, worlds apart. Now there is some debate over how exact the copy being saved is at WMW (see Yahoo rips Adsense ads) so I guess it depends on what you are looking for.
However I think this is a great counter intelligence tool. You could do a backlinks search on a competitor at Yahoo, save the results weekly, and try to establish a correlation between changes in rankings.
Some other great counter intelligence tools that I’ve seen lately:
Googspy: Lets you see what Adwords terms your competitors are bidding on.
URLTrends: Lets you monitor a variety of aspects about your competitors websites
One of the best counter intelligence threads comes from BakedJake at WMW Dissecting Competitors’ SEO Work (WMW supporters forum)
tags: (search engine optimization | seo | sem | search engine marketing | google | yahoo | webmasterworld )
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