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Get Your Website To #1 In Google With Seoaholic.com
In: Business Ideas|Marketing By: Brian Armstrong
28 Jan 2010This is an exciting announcement. For the last few months I’ve been working on a new web app (was contracted to build it actually) and today is the beta launch!
The site is Seoaholic.com. The name is a made up word which combines SEO (search engine optimization) and “work-a-holic”.
This is a beta launch so the tool is still a work in progress, but feel free to try it out and send me any feedback on what you like and don’t like.
The main benefit of this tool is to bring more traffic to your website by:
- Building more incoming links to your site
- Improving your search engine rankings
- Tracking your keyword rankings over time to see big picture SEO changes to your site
As you may know, building incoming links to your website is one of the best ways to improve your search engine rankings. Seoaholic goes out to find “link opportunities” for you and ranks them by (1) how valuable the link would be if you got it (2) how likely you are to actually get a link from that site. Seoaholic helps you (and your team) track the process of getting incoming links from those website owners.
A link opportunity is typically a page on a website that is already linking to your competitors or related websites, but they aren’t linking to you yet. It might be a blog post, a list of resources, job posting board, etc. You have a good chance of getting a link from these pages because they are already linking to sites like yours (by good I mean maybe 25% chance of success instead of 1% like most link building campaigns). The last step is still up to you: contact the website owner to ask for a link, submit your site (if their site allows it), or write an interesting piece of content they would be likely to link to. This last step is standard linking building stuff, and remains a manual process (we don’t want this to turn into a spamming tool).
The tool manages the rest for you (finding the high value opportunities, checking if they actually linked, managing your team’s progress, and seeing how it ultimately affects your rankings). We imagine it being used by anyone from small time bloggers (who want to improve and track their search engine rankings over time) to hardcore SEO consultants who do this for a living.
Here Is A 90 Second Demo Video
If you don’t see the video embedded below (i.e. you’re reading this in email) you can click here to watch it on YouTube. Click the “full screen” button below to get a better view or try it in HD.
And Here Are A Few Screen Shots (Click The Screenshot To See A Larger Version)
1. Discover new link opportunities and manage the link building process from one screen.
2. Track your website’s average search engine position over time plus total incoming links
3. Watch your individual keyword rankings vary and spot big picture SEO changes to your site
Try It Now For Free…
The first 5 keywords you want to track and build links for are absolutely free! To try it out with your website just click here to sign up in 30 seconds.
Feel free to leave me any comments or feedback in the comments below!
Until next time, keep breaking free!
Brian Armstrong
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Erica Douglass
January 29th, 2010 at 2:08 am
Hi Brian,
Very cool! I already signed up. Love the idea and many times had thought of doing something like that myself. Will be interested to see how you iterate it.
-Erica
Brian Armstrong
January 29th, 2010 at 3:31 am
Thanks Erica :)
Gordie
January 29th, 2010 at 3:12 am
Hi Brian,
I’m officially naming you “The Entreprenator”. Actually that’s a freakin’ cool nickname for you. Lol!.
Congratulations on getting another project off the ground.
One thing, if I were to contact a webhost asking for a link, wouldn’t most of them want one in return?
Cheers,
Gordie “The World’s Fattest Lifestyle Designer”
P.S. I wrote my latest post with you in mind about how a couple of years ago you said you weren’t happy with your voice when you made presentations. Come and join the debate. :)
Brian Armstrong
January 29th, 2010 at 3:33 am
Haha, thanks Gordie :) I did produce a lot of startups last year (I assume that’s what you mean). FeedmailPro.com, BuyersVote.com, and about half of Seoaholic.com, while working on UniversityTutor.com!
Frank
January 29th, 2010 at 4:57 am
This looks very interesting. Will definitely check it out!
Brian Armstrong
January 29th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Thanks Frank, hope it’s useful for people!
kareem
January 29th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
sweet tool brian, i’m playing with it right now!
Brian Armstrong
January 29th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Thanks Kareem!
Wayland
January 30th, 2010 at 5:50 am
Great work Brian. I am an SEO specialist, mostly doing work on an enterprise scale for Fortune 1000 companies. This tool they need. Well, a tool like this that can manage thousands of sites and millions of keywords! But nonetheless. Great work.
Brian Armstrong
January 30th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Great! Would love to get feedback from someone like yourself. Feel free to send me any suggestions (or use the “feedback” link in the bottom right of Seoaholic.com while using the app). Thanks!
Chuck Cohn
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Brian,
Looks great. Already created an account. Look forward to using it.
Best,
Chuck
Brian Armstrong
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Gracias!
Dennis
February 9th, 2010 at 12:57 am
Thanks for the great content and information. I am always going through the internet searching for good content and to also get ideas for my home based business web sites and future articles on this basic and general subject. Again, thanks for the great content and I will be coming back to revisit this site again for more information in the near future.
kong
March 27th, 2010 at 5:00 am
Hi Brian. Thanks for the great information you share with us. I like the information you posted here. I’m still new to real estate investing. I just found a REI mentor through local REA. I also own an education website (university/college website). I saw you posted UniversityTutor.com and would like to know if you own that site? If you do, that would be a nice website to link onto mine (CityStudent.com). It’s an education articles website but I haven’t have the time to do much since I bought it. I plan on real estate to get some money before I will do a little redesign and some more page adding. Let me know what you think. ^_^
Brian Armstrong
March 27th, 2010 at 5:32 am
Nice design on the website! I don’t really do links but yes UniversityTutor is a site i’m working on. Welcome to the site!
David Lee
April 14th, 2010 at 11:15 am
This looks interesting. Signing up for it now!
Brian Armstrong
April 15th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Thanks David!
Mark Hustwayte
April 26th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Hi Brian… thanks for the info..sounds like a fantastic SEO tool!
I am currently testing out the following keyword search terms: trademark, trademarks, trademark registration and trademark search but seems to be taking a very long time to come back with any results. Have I entered too many search terms? Another potential issue is that I am located in China. However I did manage to get onto the site which suggests that there is no problem with the server that your site uses.
Perhaps searches take a long time or do you not get the results until you start paying for the application?
Mark Hustwayte
April 26th, 2010 at 8:48 am
Looking into a bit further I see I can only register one website and one keyword so am trying with “trademark” on its own.
It doesn’t seem to come up with any suggestions for link building…. perhaps trademarks are just too boring an area for it!!
Brian Armstrong
April 27th, 2010 at 5:56 am
Hi Mark,
It could be backed up – I would check back in a few hours. Or send a support query to them using the “+ Feedback” link once you are logged in. I’m actually not working on that project any more so I don’t have direct control. But I was contracted to build it initially. Hope it helps!
Brian
Mark Hustwayte
April 27th, 2010 at 6:19 am
hi Brian – thanks for your help – contacting them now