Just signed up for my free trial at http://www.soloseo.com (found on PRWeb). Anyone else using it? So far Im REALLY impressed.
But I am not impressed as the sites design is not very good A professional SEO site should have a good design compare it with www.submitexpress.com you may get the answer
I'm sorry but it looks way better than submitexpress. Both from the outside and from the inside (code-wise). Besides, submitexpress gives me loads of spam. Horrible. I'm gonna try soloseo now, thanks for the link.
This site is good and offering different type of tools to track your advancements. for $29 a month for sites one can at least monitor his/her site's performance, and prepare the reports. Not a bad site to try.
lol - I could go on about what is SOOOOO wrong with that idea... but it's not worth the time... I shall at very least put this gem out there for the Pros who read this to save time on going there; If that don't say it all about the headspace of the folks running the site.. nothing will
Ok, well its not for a pro - but it does help me track my ranking in G, compare my site to others that rank well, monitor my backlinks, and whole lot more that I used to do manually or go to multiple sites to do. I like it and am probably going to sign up (paying).
Sure..using tools created by a company that obviously doesn't have a sound understanding of SEO - great idea... You may as well save the money and spend more time on the boards... Grab a copy of Web CEO or something and a NicheBot account.. (which uses Wordtracker AND KW Discovery data for research) Even as far as services..there are better ones In the end, like I said, if I see a company to be lacking in SEO understanding, I am certainly not recommending them to ANYONE.. not simplty Pros.. U are saying it's OK for a novice to get crappy information?
Like I said.. I won't even spend much more time writing a review.. nor should I have to. There was a ton I didn't agree with on the site.. I put the easiest one.. and if you don't know that TBPR and Alexa are useless.. U will likely have further inappropriate info... fact of lie. If they knew their shit - that wouldn't have been put on the site. So a product built on a faulty premise is likely to have other problems.. I am merely posting so that those whom know and trust my 'wisdom' would save themselves the time on it... that's my only goal.. Not to debate the service.... everyone is free to do as they please.. I am simply putting my bits on it Couple more quickies? Doesn't way what sources... NicheBot uses data from (among other places) Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery.. certainly not lightweights It also doesn't discuss how it ranks 'top keywords' - NichBot is one of the few places using more effective 'intitle' and 'inurl' operators... there is NO mention of any of the reasoning behinf the data For KW research tools (paid at least) NicheBot is simply better I would really like to know more about this. Since they dropped the ball on some SEO fundamentals, I do have reservations on the SEO onpage advice. Some mention of the actual SEO company that has approved said process might be an idea... Link Building - this is all recip centric.. we don't generally bother much with recips... so - whatever on that one Pretty sure there are a TON of free toolbars out there for this In the end I simply do not trust the company's understanding of SEO - and the tools are either redundant or can be found elsewhere. Thus when I see a statement such as; It's coming from SEO expertise unknown - and already mentioned the TBPR and Alexa data... so I am simply putting 2+2 together on what knowledge they would be espousing
Did you even try it out then? Sounds like you havent. The keywords ARE using WT/OVT/ and Google. Ill admit, it is pretty basic and most of the tools and whatnot can be found on other website (including many free websites), but it does a pretty nice job combining everything in one and so far its working great for what I need it for. Anyways, I respect your opinion and wont hassle you anymore - just curious to exactly why you didnt like it.
They should certainly state things better as far as methods and tools (WT and KWD) - You really want professional SEOs to endorse it.. THAT's how to make $$ with SEO.... For me, some 'off' statements like the Alexa one ( scared me good) makes things hard to swallow from that point in... best of luck with it though... try and set up your own data sets to see if you show a positive ROI on using it... since whenever we spend $$ - it must be accountable.
A good thread you started drig, I just noticed the traffic from here so I thought I'd check it out. thegypsy, you have stated some issues you have with us, so I'd like to approach a few of them. 1) What's the harm in tracking PageRank and Alexa Ranking? PageRank and Alexa are not perfect by any means and are only limitedly useful, but generally they give you some idea of what they measure. No one is saying they are everything that is important, but it is at least something we can measure statistically, so we do. 2) You suggested that we lack a "sound understanding of SEO". We don't claim to be industry leaders or SEO gurus, but we know SEO, especially do-it-yourself SEO. If we did not have a sound understanding of SEO, how would you explain the testimonials and feedback we have received from top SEOs as well as smaller SEO firms? By the way, we also met with 8 of the top SEOs at PubCon and demo'd it to them personally with very positive feedback. http://www.soloseo.com/site/testimonials.html 3) When you actually use the keyword research tool, it clearly states the sources. Perhaps I'll add that to the public web page about the tool. Not hiding anything here, and actually it's a pretty sweet tool. 4) If you actually use the content optimization tool, each tip comes from blog posts and articles from industry leaders, describing "optimal" ways to write a title, use headers, meta tags, and write content. 5) Link Building - this is the opposite of link recip (reciprocal links). Building off of the link building cycle by top SEOs like Todd Malicoat (StuntDubl.com), we designed our link building management system. It lets you keep track of links and contacts you have made for requesting links. You can track the status of your links from new to contacted to complete, and it even checks if the link is active each week. Tell me that isn't cool. http://www.stuntdubl.com/2006/10/17/link-cycle/ 6) Link Build It! is a bookmarklet for assessing the strength of a page/link, and yes there are tons of other free ones just like it. But how many of those integrate with a link management system? NONE. 7) We have professional SEOs that have endorsed it, let me give you a short list: http://www.stuntdubl.com/2006/11/29/soloseo/ Todd Malicoat of StuntDubl.com, one of the industry's top SEOs. http://www.toprankblog.com/2006/11/soloseo/ TopRankBlog. Thomas McMahon is with Lee Odden's (top SEO/marketer) Top Rank team, and did the full review. We met with Lee Odden himself at PubCon (Vegas 2006) and he really liked it too. http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/soloseo-project-management-software-review/ Michael Gray (GrayWolf) (another top SEO), did a review for us through reviewme.com. Even though it was paid, he seemed to really like the features. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4054 Loren Baker at SearchEngineJournal.com, very well known in the industry. http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/11/soloseo-seo-project-management-tools.html Andy Beal of MarketingPilgrim.com (another top SEO and SEO consultant) - Andy loves it, and was willing to take us on as a client because of it. He helped SoloSEO shine at the end of its development. Try it out for yourself and see if we have something of value to you or not. From our customer feedback, SoloSEO is providing the tools they need to be more efficient and effective in their SEO.
There is a HUGE problem valuating Alexa and TBPR - I am sure all of your luminaries would agree... thus I instantly have issues with the source of the rest of the information I would be seeing. If Todd, Michael or any of the gang wrote that in their Blogs.. I'd be off to another resource in short order Your kidding me right? Getting SEOs to put their name up ANYWHERE on the web (especially with a link) is not the toughest thing to do ya know... those guys make a habit of it over at ThreadWatch on a daily basis... Link Nepotism - ha ha ha ha.... You even just stated U R using Todd’s methods... hell use mine and I will give ya a testimonial too - lol Outside of that - I would certainly add more content stating the data sources used as well as the developers backgrounds in SEO. I approach everything with an open mind - I have no reason to do otherwise. And I think it is a great idea...or I wouldn't have even gone to the site... There were simply some SEO no-no’s that tainted the experience initially. (oh - and like I said we don't really use recips in our programs.. but it is certainly useful for nOObs I suppose) I used to Rag the gang at NicheBot - Jim and the boys really worked hard and got a ton of feedback from the SEO community. They listened and eventually got a good thing going. To which end I gave him some props http://www.huomah.com/search-engines/search-engine-optimization/seo-keyword-research-tools.html Which is rare for ol ranting me - So I shall certainly bookmark it and keep ya on the radar Best wishes with everything ADDED; On a side note - I have also spent time chatting with Marina and Co at WebCEO on things with their tools as well .. I am not randomly being a jerk - I truly like to see better tools :0)
gypsy that stuff is a little too complicated for many members of this forum, that's why you see all the PR threads getting thousands of views and hundreds of replies. Its become an obsession, but I can't really blame them because before I really started to study SEO, the toolbar PR was all that I had to hold on to because that's what I was taught.