Using Compete.com to find unusual sources of Traffic

Posted by Marshall Sponder on July 10, 2009 | Link It

Been trying to find something to post about today – but for some reason that’s been tough.  I hoped to write more about Compete.com‘s new offerings – but most of them are not working for me, yet; however, I was contacted by Compete yesterday and they will be giving me access to their full  Enterprise account capabilities some time next week.

Still, I looked at Compete.com Keyword Destination Tool for some keywords and found thinks that really surprised me.  For example, when I searched on my own name, I found the only destination Compete.com showed was one I’d never, in a million years, have found, using my site referral logs:

Further investigation found this photo of me at the Roger Smith Hotel for a Charity Event I went to recently.   You would have thought that Compete.com would have picked up the main traffic on my name as going to one of my blogs – but it gave me this, instead.   Hmm.

I also found it interesting that, according to Compete.com, the singular and plural form of a word like “entrepreneur” has different results in terms of where traffic ends up at – probably a function of how Search Engines work – take a look

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs

Interesting musing for a Friday.

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