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How to Legally Mine Keywords from Your Competitors Stats

by Noel on July 13th, 2008

Now here’s something that is on the gray side of SEO but this is one little trick that a lot of SEOs out there DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW.   I’m spilling some beans now so better pay attention and bookmark this page for future reference.

We all know that websites have web statistics.  The same kind of stats that most of you frequently look to see  how many people visited your website yesterday.   Apparently,  some people forgot to”hide” this stats from the public.  Some actually don’t care, and worst,  some webowners doesn’t even know this is happening on their websites.

Since good old Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is so great at “finding” websites,   some of these webstats are actually indexed in google,  for every to see!!!    Cool isn’t it?

So here’s how to do some data mining for keywords.  Just type these at Google

inurl:awstats.pl intitle:”Statistics of”

Then you will see a bunch of websites whose awstats are accessible by the public.

Just click away and do your keyword research.   Awstats has a lot of information such as day to day site traffic, but the most important would be the keywords stats.

I’ve done one sample research with screen caps on my personal site in case you want to see it.

Click  Keyword Mining 

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