2. If the website you enter has sufficient volume you will be presented with three tabbed pages; Summary, Traffic, Demographics.
3. The Summary page is great since it is fairly detailed and provides an excellent view of volume, demographics, and brand / site affinities.
4. Study the Similar Audience and Audience Keywords on the bottom right of the Summary page and you will be able to determine where else your competitor’s site visitors are going on the internet and which keywords they tend to type in.
Here’s an example of how you could use Quantcast in your Web 2.0 Sales and Marketing efforts. Let’s say you just decided to compete in the new Virtual PBX phone service market. Your business model is designed around a web marketing channel. You’re still learning this new space so you google "virtual pbx" and you see the following….
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Our Small Business PBX is a low-cost virtual phone system providing a small PBX with a big business image. www.virtualpbx.com/services/small-business.asp - 13k - Cached - Similar pages |
Instant activation for web-enabled local virtual pbx serving 92% of all LATA’s across the nation. Most US cities are covered with the most comprehensive … www.voicenation.com/local-virtualpbx.shtml - 27k - Cached - Similar pages |
Onebox Virtual Receptionist, a Virtual PBX solution, is an affordable, flat rate virtual phone system perfect for your small business. www.onebox.com/ - 13k - Cached - Similar pages |
Our virtual PBX system at GotVMail with 800 numbers service gives you professional virtual office features, unique, nationwide toll free numbers, … gotvmail.com/ - 7k - Cached - Similar pages |
toll free numbers, 800 numbers, virtual business phone system, virtual PBX, click-to-call. www.ringcentral.com/ - 42k - Cached - Similar pages |
Looking for a virtual PBX or hosted PBX system? Our Hosted Virtual PBX Phone System comes with voice mail, Auto Attendant system, fax mail, find me follow … www.messagingservice.com/ - 42k - Cached - Similar pages |
Get your toll-free number and 800 numbers with virtual pbx features like auto attendant, conference phone, call forwarding, internet fax and voicemail and … www.800pbx.com/ - 32k - Cached - Similar pages |
Directory of virtual PBX services, including virtual PBX software, hosted PBX solutions, and other virtual PBX systems. Bowse our listings to find the right … www.business.com/directory/telecommunications/businesssolutions/virtualpbx/ - 130k - Cached - Similar pages |
Mar 16, 2008 … A hosted virtual PBX VoIP service may be the solution to your business needs. www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/143392/virtualpbxputsaprofessionalspinonvoip.html - 48k - Cached - Similar pages Searches related to: virtual pbx |
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Notice from the above Google search that onebox.com, gotvmail.com, and ringcentral.com come up in the top three paid ads. So now you can go to Quantcast.com and enter each URL and compare their audiences as well as keywords. You can draw your own conclusions from the demographics data on which buying groups are engaged in the Virtual PBX market as well as where else they spend their time on the web and which keywords they are typing to search for a resolution to their active pain.
As you can see below from Quantcast, after typing in gotvmail.com you see that 800 numbers are the primary keyword their visitors are typing.
Audience Keywords |
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KeywordAffinity
| 366.4x | |
| 4.0x | |
| 2.4x | |
| 2.3x | |
| 1.9x | |
| 1.7x | |
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Type onebox.com in Quantcast and you see….
Audience Keywords |
KeywordAffinity
| 448.2x | |
| 298.8x | |
| 246.6x | |
| 1.8x | |
| 1.7x | |
| 1.4x | |
| 1.3x | |
| 1.1x |
Notice that onebox.com comes up first which means they must be doing a great job of advertising and drawing traffic to their site based on their name. Since they are owned by J2 Global Communications they must have the budget for it. Also, notice that the second keyword is free voicemail service but not 800 numbers as with gotvmail.
Let’s check out ringcentral…
Company name comes up again and lot’s about free fax and free voicemail. Hmmm. You’re starting to get a pretty good picture of what the market is responding to.
Audience Keywords |
KeywordAffinity
| 508.0x | |
| 422.4x | |
| 357.4x | |
| 312.3x | |
| 214.1x | |
| 169.3x | |
| 133.9x | |
| 115.4x | |
| 115.4x | |
| 112.9x | |
| 76.9x | |
| 76.9x | |
| 73.3x | |
| 65.9x | |
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Notice evoice.com in one of the similar audience listings so you search in Quantcast on them.
Audience Keywords |
KeywordAffinity
| 1364.5x | |
| 1150.6x | |
| 1008.2x | |
| 914.9x | |
| 742.0x | |
| 593.4x | |
| 509.7x | |
| 392.1x | |
| 313.7x | |
| 305.0x | |
| 203.9x | |
| 169.0x | |
| 112.7x | |
| 84.5x | |
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Plenty of references to free voicemail, internet answering machines, etc. Also notice sweepstakes sites in the brand affinities. The net conclusion you can draw which is pretty obvious is this is a very price sensitive market segment looking for a variety of free services included in their basic service fee. They are buying virtual pbx services to reduce their monthly phone costs and get more for less. Since you are a new player in this market you better be prepared for a high degree of price sensitivity and will need to attract customers with a "bigger bang for your buck" approach. The seat of the pants approach I describe above is not intended to compete with or replace expensive / advanced market research. However, for those of us who lack the funds for said research I think it is very cool that in a matter of minutes you can find very useful information about your target market. Enterprise Sales Professionals in established companies can also benefit from researching competitive URLs and learning about their visitor’s interests and affinities. In summary as you can tell I love Quantcast as a source of information to help shape your web marketing approach. Happy surfing.
P.S. Here is information I pasted from www.quantcast.com to help you learn more about how it works.
How Quantcast Works
From Quantcast
Quantcast’s Quantified Publisher profiles are based on a uniquely holistic media measurement system that combines the best characteristics of other web audience measurement approaches.
We Start With Panel-Based Data
Most rating firms estimate web audiences the same way radio audiences were estimated 70 years ago: by surveying a sample of people and extrapolating to the larger audience.
Our estimates start the same way, with a panel of several million people who anonymously share their web usage history with us. Using statistical techniques we project which sites the rest of the U.S. web audience is visiting and publish basic profiles reflecting those estimates.
Unfortunately, panels aren’t perfect. Panels have biases, and with millions of destinations on the Web, even a panel as large as ours can’t do justice to niche audiences. So our analysis doesn’t end there.
Directly Measured Data
With publishers’ cooperation, web visits can be counted directly and accurately. Our Quantified Publisher program enables publishers to tag their sites and services for measurement free of charge. We can then gauge the actual reach, frequency and popularity of their websites, videos, widgets, games and more.
Direct measurement isn’t perfect either. Web logs ultimately measure page views, not people. Because of technical challenges like cookie deletion, it’s hard to know how many actual people are visiting, much less to get any insight about “who” they are. So we’re still not done.
A Unique, Holistic Model
We combine the directly measured data with the panel-based information and use our Mass Inference algorithm to produce refined profiles that accurately represent web audiences.
Advertisers – Find an Audience!
View detailed audience reports for millions of websites and services to find the audiences you seek and build your brand online with confidence.
Publishers – Make Your Audience Count!
Demonstrate the unique value of your audiences and attract advertisers by tagging your websites, videos, widgets and games for direct measurement.