How to spy on the competition?
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Techxan
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All you can do with his ip address is get yourself into trouble.
7yearitch
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Ok that's not my intention. I just want to do a bit of spying on the competition. I'm sure a lot of businesses do it..
AmericanPrince
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Their ip would hardly be of any use to you.
7yearitch
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what if they have whois protection? Any way around that?
Zwielicht
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Yes, big businesses spy on each other in order to find information that could ruin their competitor or help themselves. Small businesses usually just do competitive analysis reports. Here are a few easier ways to find their websites:
- Searching the company name
- Searching the owner's name
- Searching through their inbound links (I'm sure many of them have connected their sites)
- Searching their outbound links (for the same reason as before)
- Searching their keywords (especially if they are in a relatively esoteric niche)
7yearitch
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no company name.. He builds niche sites.
never uses his own name for his properties. Cant find anything after doing a search
will try searching the links, great idea.
keywords not sure how to do this.
he uses whois protection so not a lot can be found from whois
well, i figured if i could get his ip address, i could just see which properties are registered using that ip, and therefore find out his overall approach and find a way to top him.
guess i had the wrong idea.. Thanks anyway