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Become a Virtual Spy: Use free Web tools to sleuth your online competition

Linking over to an article written for Catalog Success about free sleuthing tools for investigating your online competition. (Here’s the same article on our site, which provides the opportunity to comment.)

The article discusses

* Google Notepad
* SEO For Firefox
* Quirk’s Search Status
* press releases
* IT job openings
* executive bios
* redacted text in HTML source
* key search terms
* robots.txt
* wayBack Machine
* social networks
* news outlets
* catalog data cards
* WhoIs digging
* DomainTools
* IP googling
* SEO Logs
* port scanning

Article link: Become a Virtual Spy: Use free Web tools to sleuth your online competition

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