Google Website Trends - An Alternative to Alexa & Compete.com?

Surely not an alternative to my beloved Hitwise but you can track the rough traffic levels to particular websites with Google Website Trends.



Just looking at MyVoucherCodes.co.uk you can see where they get most of their traffic from, or related sites and other websites people those people have also visited.

It looks like Google has been recording this data for a fair while (at least May 2007) but its the "also visited" bit that gets me. It can be from those occassional tracking redirects in the SERPS, but more probably from the Google Toolbar - any way, its good to have a bit more an insight into how your competitors get their traffic.

It's this listing that made me take notice, however:


Quidco UK Voucher Codes Quidco Discount Codes Quidco Discount ...
Quidco UK find promotional codes, money off coupon codes for great discounts at quidco.com. Find and share the best up to date Quidco UK voucher codes, ...
www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/discounts/quidco.com - 56k - Cached - Similar pages

Come on Mark! It redirects to some Adsense and then back to your homepage. I vaguely remember something on the forum about this thing you're doing. It's not big and its not clever!

Well maybe it is. He's getting more traffic than Dixons now!

But it's nice to be associated with sites also visited when people visit Affiliate Future, Paid On Results and Buy.at - does this mean I can start charging for advertising ;-)

Anyhow, go play if I were you.