Has anyone used Hitwise? Are there other products like that in the market? If I wanted statistics on a number of websites as far as number of visitors, demographic info etc, where could I find that? I don't mind paying for a service either. thanks in advance.
You want information on competitors websites? The easiest way is to reverse engineers their keywords a linking partners. Then you can take a traffic guesstimate with a site like Alexa. You'll never get a completely accurate picture but you can map trends and get what you need.
Actually I saw some stats from Hitwise and I'm not sure what that costs, but they gave quite a bit of demographic info, daily hits, analysis of hits etc for websites within the real estate industry. I believe that a real estate company (who i am not at liberty to name) is a client of theirs and got this info from them. I just wanted to see if there were others who could do the same. I am already trying to contact them for info. I will keep you posted on what I find out, but it is actually pretty useful stuff.