Actual Traffic of a blog is not easy to figure out. We use a lot of tools like Alexa, Stats Counter and a lot more. But all of these tools use some kind of external resources to give an estimate of the actual traffic. And most the time, it is not even near to the actual traffic. So, today I would be telling you about a service by Google that can help you get insights of any website/blog and that too in detail, classified as age, gender, education of the readers etc. But, before telling you about it, let me show you which are all the areas where you may want to know about this info about any website/blog.
Why do we need to know the Actual Traffic on Any Website?
There are a lot of reasons why I would like to know about the actual traffic of some other website. Some of the reasons are listed below:
- You Want to Advertise on that Website/Blog.
- You Want to Guest Post on that Website/blog.
- To Get Information About your Competitors.
- You Want to Purchase that Website.
- You Want to Catch someone’s Lie
The above mentioned are few selected reason out of the hundreds, that why anyone would like to know about the actual traffic of some other website.
How to Check the Actual Traffic?
Now, as we are aware why we need to check the actual traffic of any website, so the question arises How to Do It?
So, Google is here with the solution – “Google Ad Planner“
Google Ad Planner is one of the best tools that I have come across. You can easily search the actual traffic of any domain name divided into geographical regions, per day visitors, unique page views per day, total page views and a lot more divided into different categories. Let’s have a look how it works:
1) Login to Your Ad Planner Dashboard with your Google Username & Password
2) Click on “Begin Research”.
3) Enter the URL of the website in the “Search by Site” column & Press Enter.
4) Now you will be able to see the actual traffic of the website certified by Google itself.
Traffic would be categorized according to Traffic Statistics, Daily Unique Visitors, Age, Gender, Education, Audience Interest, Keyword Searches for that website etc.
Which tool do you use to analyze actual traffic of any website/blog? Have you ever tried Google Ad Planner before? Do Share your views about Google Ad Planner..
Ifham khan
Thanks a ton Harneet for this informative post, I have heard about google ad planner but frankly I don’t know the use of it. Let this tool help me a lot for competiting with my competitor. Again thanks a lot man.
Harneet
Thanks Ifham for dropping your comment. Yes, now you can compete with your competitors with a detail insights of their traffic. Keep Visiting.
Gautam
thanks for this informative post. it’s not always true traffic instead of you can choose some good paid tools for that for specific sites keywords targeting or competitor analysis.
Harneet
Thanks Gautam for stopping by. Yes, there are a lot of paid tools in the market that we can go for as well. But if we look into free ones, then Google Ad Planner is really trust worthy. Keep Visiting.
Bhushan
I have read a lot of about this Google Adwords Keywords Tool fro, this site.that was very informative post.again this related topic has given us some thing extra…
Harneet
Thanks Bhushan for your comment. Keep Visiting.
Ajay
I wasn’t aware of this tool. Thanks for sharing it with us. Till now i only used Alexa rank to determine the approximate traffic of a blog.
anurag
yes it works very well thanks for sharing with us….
sudhir@getfreewiipoints
Never used this before. I use to go with Google Adwords tool always before posting an article. should try this one also.
deanne sotero
Hi Harneet, I will surely try Google Ad planner. By the way, is it free to use?
Harneet
Yes Deanne. It is free to use.
Sandeep Kumar
Try this, but it is not showing anything for my site, not even your site. why.
Harneet
Sandeep Kumar, Actually You have to submit your website to this service and attach it with the Google Analytics Account.
Sandeep Kumar
Dear Herneet
Would you tell me how can i submit my site. My blog is already attached with GA.
Bhupendra
Never used this tool, Thanks for sharing.
Corey Frankosky
I have been looking for this information! Thank you very much.
It is hard to find the exact traffic for a particular website and I like to analyze my competitors.