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Comments on: Researching the Validity of Online Competitive Intelligence Tools – Introduction http://wellontop.com/competitive-intelligence-research-introduction Internet Research in the Fields of Business, Psychology, & Technology Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sheena Harries http://wellontop.com/competitive-intelligence-research-introduction/comment-page-1#comment-54 Sheena Harries Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:30:00 +0000 http://wellontop.com/?p=402#comment-54 how do you effectively use tools? how do you effectively use tools?

]]> By: Sean Weigold Ferguson http://wellontop.com/competitive-intelligence-research-introduction/comment-page-1#comment-45 Sean Weigold Ferguson Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:06:54 +0000 http://wellontop.com/?p=402#comment-45 Mike,<br><br>That's a great point, and one I hadn't given enough thought. I'm currently revisiting this project, and would love to see what you came up with. You can reach me at: Sean at <a href="http://wellontop.com" rel="nofollow">wellontop.com</a> Mike,

That's a great point, and one I hadn't given enough thought. I'm currently revisiting this project, and would love to see what you came up with. You can reach me at: Sean at wellontop.com

]]> By: Mike Roberts http://wellontop.com/competitive-intelligence-research-introduction/comment-page-1#comment-44 Mike Roberts Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:25:21 +0000 http://wellontop.com/?p=402#comment-44 Hey Sean,<br><br>We just did a similar study to help calibrate our search traffic estimates for SpyFu SEO Recon Files. I initially made the same assumption you make here about Quantcast Quantified data. So, we pulled the Quantified numbers for about 10k websites. <br><br>Turns out, the Quantcast tracking pixels aren't necessarily deployed on an entire website -- so there's often significant under reporting. When I thought about it, it made sense, because Quantified sites often do so to sell ads -- and so they don't put the pixels where they don't sell ads. Mistakes and laziness is another possible explanation ;)<br><br>But, what we did was pull data for the same domains from Compete and from Alexa. When all three numbers were within a certain range (I think we used 50%), we considered the data valid. So, that brought the list down to like 4500 domains. <br><br>Anyway, I'm happy to send you some data if it helps.<br> Hey Sean,

We just did a similar study to help calibrate our search traffic estimates for SpyFu SEO Recon Files. I initially made the same assumption you make here about Quantcast Quantified data. So, we pulled the Quantified numbers for about 10k websites.

Turns out, the Quantcast tracking pixels aren't necessarily deployed on an entire website — so there's often significant under reporting. When I thought about it, it made sense, because Quantified sites often do so to sell ads — and so they don't put the pixels where they don't sell ads. Mistakes and laziness is another possible explanation ;)

But, what we did was pull data for the same domains from Compete and from Alexa. When all three numbers were within a certain range (I think we used 50%), we considered the data valid. So, that brought the list down to like 4500 domains.

Anyway, I'm happy to send you some data if it helps.

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