This one is for all the publishers running Adsense out there. Ever wanted to know who your competitors were in your niche, and the approximate volume they are doing compared to you? Well, that info can be easily found, courtesy of Google itself using Adwords.
Here’s how to do it: (click to enlarge images)
1. Log into your Adwords account.
2. Click “New Placement Targeted Campaign”
3. Enter a bogus campaign and adgroup names (you will just be deleting this). Add the countries where you want to check your competition and where your site is targeted.
4. Enter a fake ad, and continue.
5. Here is where you want to be: “Target your Ad“. Now click the “List URLs” button, and enter your URL in the box. Click “get available placements”. In this example, the niche we would be checking out is cars and our site is cars.com.
Google will then display your competitors under “Placements” with their average daily impressions. Sweet huh?
After you are done checking out all the data don’t save any of this, or you will start a new placement targeted campaign. If you share this tip, a link back would be appreciated!
Wow dude, this is a great tip. Thanks for sharing.
I wish they had narrower impression ranges though
Ya, well you know Google. They are going to give up that much info.
This is exactly what I have been looking for.Thanks for sharing, very helpful. Here’s another great tool to help with your online endeavors, http://portal-feeder-review.com
Hey -
All I have to say is Right on!
Thanks for sharing that for sure !
This is one hell of a neat trick
~Brew
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That is a sweet tip! Thanks for sharing. I also wish the ranges were more narrow….
Thanks for sharing bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is a great tip. I have tried site placements before but have not tot that it could actually help to sense my competitor’s traffic..thanks
wow this is actually what i have been lookin for, i didnt think this actually existed though!
Great post! thank you for the info!
Hello,
Now this information is available on Google Ad Planner, with more options ;D
FRED
Nice…timely tip find being that I’m working on some new placement campaigns anyway. Any amount of competitive intelligence when entering a market certainly helps.
he he this is something that can be very useful. This is seriously useful.
Well it also means one thing- That I’m watched too! Oh Oh!
Clever idea! So many useful tools to get the scoop on your competitors.