Ever wondered what kind of web traffic your competitors is having, which are the top keywords & which strategy to adopt to increase your website traffic? if yes then we got some great tools to monitor and study web traffic of any website or specially that of your competitors. You have to keep an eye on them.

1- Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends

So first on the list is Google trends which can help you compare & study keywords / topics that are mostly searched in Google. You can enter up to 5 keywords or topics and Google trends will present you with data regarding how often they have been searched for, which geographical location the keywords are most important & a time line on the relevancy of the keyword / topic with past time. Located beneath the Search Volume Index graph is there News reference volume graph. This graph shows you the number of times your topic appeared in Google News stories. When Google Trends detects a spike in the volume of news stories for a particular search term, it labels the graph and displays the headline of an automatically selected Google News story written near the time of that spike.

Google trends also gives you a snapshot of the fastest rising searches for different points of time, you can see todays top 100 rising search queries with geographically targeted locations or you can see top keywords of the previous year.

2- Link Popularity Check
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

Link popularity check is one of the best ways to quantifiable and independently measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility. Simply put, link popularity refers to the total number of links or “votes” that a search engine has found for your website.

3- Attention Meter
http://attentionmeter.com/

Attention meter is a simple tracking tool with which a user can have a measure of the traffic on his website. The user simply has to enter the URL’s of five websites with which he has to perform a comparison of the web traffic. The next step shows the status of his website in terms of traffic.

4- Popuri
http://popuri.us/
Popuri is an application which reveals the status web traffic for a website after two simple steps. Initially the user has to enter his website URL and then the URL’s of various search engines on which he has to perform a rating check. The next step reveals the position of the user’s website in terms of web traffic. This is a freeware and does not require the user to sign up.

5- Seo digger
http://seodigger.com/
This tool is a superb creation for search engine optimization and web marketing. How? I will tell you. With Seo digger the user can extract the key words which the top rated websites on search engines have used. This application is great assistance for web professional and traffic monitors. The website offers a free account which does not require registration. There is also an option available for a paid account

6- Quant cast
http://www.quantcast.com/
This application tracks web traffic and website users by entering the profiles of other websites. Quant cast co ordinates with legitimate publishers who provide a correct measure of the web traffic. This process is conducted with the help of a feature named Quantified Publisher. Quant cast is a facility for both advertisers and publishers. It is a freeware but the user is required to register for an account.
7- Spy Fu
http://www.spyfu.com/
Spy Fu allows a user to get a complete detail about his competitors in terms of web traffic. This detail includes all the key works which are used from marketing purposes and SEO techniques. It is not a freeware, how ever the facilities offered make the application worth purchasing so lets glance at a few of them. Spy provides a complete insight about the web traffic with respect to the key words but also according to the corporate category in which the particular company is listed.
8- Traffic Estimate
http://www.trafficestimate.com/
This application provides a user with an analysis of the web traffic a user gets on a search engine by entering a URL. The user simply needs to enter the URL of the web site and click the “estimate button’. After this simple twp step process the user gets an estimate of the web traffic. This is a freeware and does not require the user to register.