ShaneRQR

Hi,

Yes, you can do country-specific and language-specific searches (and both combined).
Also, you can pinpoint specific cities much more easily using SECockpit than any other kw tool I know of.


And just as a note to everyone, since this topic has come up in this thread a few times: it is now possible to import lists of your own keywords into SECockpit.

GerryMedia

I used SE Cockpit during the pre-launch and I am impressed with the amount and relevance of the data presented outright on the screen (you can enable/disable columns).. I loved its ability to tell you if the top 10 included YouTube, Squidoo, Amazon, and sniper sites, and also lets you know if a TLD domain name or a Blogspot address is available for a keyphrase.

I also love the drag and drop interface, it acts like a desktop application and it uses nifty Ajax.

ShaneRQR

Thanks for the feedback!

Since the latest update, you can also instantly see if there are videos (youtube or any other video results), images, Google Places, news or Google Products listings in the top 10 for each keyword.

michelr

Quick review after using secockpit to research the keywords for 3 niche sites. When I understood that secockpit is going to cost somethig around $77 per month, I thought it can't be worth the price. But after using the service for a while, I opted in for the 6 months membership and here is why:

Having all data related to a keyword, calculated right away, makes keyword research extremly fast. That way it is much easier to find interesting keywords that have a high search volume, weak competition and high CPC and AdWords competition. And thats almost all I need to know to evaluate a keyword.

I used to use Market Samurai and of course their competition analysis (amount of indexed pages about the keyword, keyword in title etc) is an indicator about the strength of the competition. But it's not the same like getting data from seomoz about the strength of a site, because it can occur that a keyword has a low amount of pages indexed, but the sites listed on page one in the search results are highly optimized. With Market Samurai I need to do this kind of check additionally and for each keyword that is interesting to me.

Again, you can get all this data for your keyword research without using secockpit (if you have a seomoz membership) and filtering and analyzing keywords in several steps. But saving hours every month doing reasearch that way, is clearly worth the investment for me.

Tashi Mortier

Just wanted to pop in here to thank you for the chance of getting a trial for this awesome tool.

I'm really sorry I can't afford to pay for the monthly fee right now as it's such an amazing tool.

You can just put in so many keywords and they all get analyzed amazingly fast - the tool came up with many typos that still get so many searches, so many interesting ideas that I would have never thought of.

I never even got through to use your project management features.

I hope you don't mind that I took some notes to build some sites around the keywords I found I hope I'll soon earn enough money to afford your tool, because then I won't cancel my membership anymore!

Patricia Sphar

When I can afford it (which will be soon), I'm getting this! Why? I read all the posts on this thread and the vendors are incredibly professional. They explain their reasons for a monthly fee and are thorough in answering questions here. These guys should create a WSO that teaches WSO vendors how to do a quality, ethical product because they could give lessons! I'm impressed just with this thread! I can only imagine the product....

Benhur

I just learned SEC today and read all the post and went to their site
and it's worth a try.

UMS

I've known Shane for a little while now and it certainly didn't take long to know that he is a very honest and upfront person who creates quality products and does awesome presentations.

Now I don't what to sound like the Shane fan club here, but I have no hesitation in recommending any of his products.

A great example is his Backlink Battleplan v2.0, which was a completely revised edition of BBP that came out in 2010. While he could have easily charged for the upgrade (think of all the money Google Sniper 2.0 made), Shane decided that it was a free upgrade for all existing BBP customers.

I think that action speaks volumes about his business ethics and model.

BTW, I've been a user of SECockpit for quite a while now and and I'm really impressed with the number of improvements that have been made recently. Additionally, when Google make changes (eg: getting rid of the WonderWheel), Sam has been very quick to develop an equivalent feature.

LEIVA

That software looks amazing i just check it, im getting into the adsense sites but i think $77 for a starter is bit expensive. Maybe no expensive but considering that a new person is getting it for his own first adsense sites maybe not worth.

Btw this software has a affiliate program ? will be nice to earn some money with the month-to-month recurring

Steve Crooks

I've been using SECockpit now for the past couple of months after getting a bit disgruntled with Market Samurai's bugs and general slowness. Out of fairness, MS has sorted a lot of its problems it seems now.. Anyway, here is my honest opinion of SECockpit..

1. The speed with which it pulls in and then displays all the data is extremely fast. On its own this is a massive plus for me, as I plough through a lot of keyword research. It take sapproximately 30 seconds to display about 1000 keywords and its associated data, which is fantastic.

2. The data I mention in point 1 is very comprehensive and the best bit is that it uses SEOMOZ for a lot of that data. If you don't know what SEOMOZ does then I suggest you search on Warrior about the services they offer. In short, their backlink and other data is second to none and as close to Google's algo as you can get for an independent service.

3. The 'at-a-glance' table view of everything can get a bit crowded if you have everything open at once. Thankfully, you have the ability to switch of the things you don't want to see, so it isnt a massive problem.

4. The competitive analysis for me is the best bit and the overriding reason why I shall be keeping my subscription for the long term. I am not clear on the algorithm it uses to measure (I know it uses SEOMOZ) for part of it, but whatever, it is very accurate. What used to take me a longish time to do for just 1 keyword, now takes 30 seconds to pull in the data for a thousand keywords! I measure the competitiveness of a keyword based on its on page and off page SEO attributes and my test reveal that SECockpit have a similar approach.

There are a few minor niggles with SECockpit but they really are minor. For instance, I would like the ability to automatically size each column of the table so I dont have to keep resizing just to read various long keyword phrases. Also, the filters are great but some of them seem to use an arbitrary number. The problem is that it is difficult to get a frame of reference for some of the columns. For example, the CPC column is easy to understand as it is measured in $ but the niche value, what is that measured in? I would also like to see some checkboxes next to each keyword so that you can select a bunch of keywords and then choose to export just those as an Excel spreadsheet.

Shane seems to be very open to implementing new ideas into the software but thankfully not at the expense of functionality and useability!

Overall, I thououghly reccommend SECockpit. It is expensive, but when you can afford this tool, you should get it.

Benhur

Shane,

I sent you pm about Backup Battleplan. I submitted a ticket but
no response. I hope you can help me.

thanks
edsel

D37

I have his backlink battleplan 2.0. It's awesome!

johnsmart

Well SECockpit is very good tool to use mostly for your keyword research purpose just like Market Samurai but with more simplicity. The downside is, its a monthly subscription tool but really does a good work with your refining and keyword research.

Is unfortunate that is not yet out to the public. But just might get one for my keyword research when launched.

D37

It's been out for a while now.

theinternetdude

Hi

I have been using secockpit for over 6 months now and here is my overall impressions and some perspectives to consider.

Keyword research in my humble opinion, is really the foundation to doing well online. If you go after organic listings, then its really your bread and butter. Some people will just invest a little time on keyword research, but if you really think about this for a minute, picking the right keyword terms, could mean ranking for them in a couple of weeks vs a few months.

I really like this program and what it offers in terms of better keyword analysis and giving me a much cleaner understanding of the true compeition. Getting SEMOZ data is much better to rely upon, rather than inflated search results from Google. I mean, I have checked various keyword terms, too many to recall with Google vs SEcockpit and the results have been like, grand canyon differences. So why is there such a variance? Part of the reason could be, what's in it for G to give you conservative numbers. I'm mean, from a business only perspective, its probably better for them to give you search numbers that are higher, than lower - right?

When it comes to searching out possibilities, secockpit, really does give you the bigger picture. In other words, when I look at keyword results, my bottom line question, can I compete against the other's on page 1? I have found literally dozens of keyword terms in just the past month alone, that I am going after now, via seo, amazon product reviews etc. It has paid for itself many times over, because its data that I can trust much more.

The only 1 negative for me, sometimes when you close out a search result (keyword tab), it sometimes hangs there longer than it should. Perhaps over time, this is something that Shane, can probably tweak.

The cost - yes it is a monthly program, however is it worth it?

I would say 100% yes and if you are looking for one of the best keyword tools out there, then consider doing a trial month with them to test it out.

Cheers

cypherslock

How does this compare to Espionage Software's offering? Trying to decide...and you mention trial month? I only saw the option to immediately pay into the subscription plan.

Zeb

This looks like a very interesting keyword tool. I'm a fan of keyword tools so i have MS, TT, NF etc but these tools returns results from google's kw tool...I might be looking into getting SEC and compare it's returned results. If it really shows you the golden nuggets, it will justify it's monthly cost. Speed also seems to be a plus point for SEC. We'll see how it pans out and i'll report back.

Zeb

Update : Well i've been using the tool now for a couple of weeks and i've exhausted my niche/keyword research. I mean this thing is fast and it pulls in lotsa data and keywords. Way faster than any keyword tool i know and the data it gets from seomoz is nice.

MS does pull in alot of keywords and data as well but MS doesn't do super fast analysis of the top 10 competing pages in google. MS pulls data and brings you search results in quotes, while SEC pulls data for all the top 10 competing results for all keywords in a short matter of time.

The closest that comes to secockpit is niche finder as in the way it analyzes the competition. But NF only brings in a few keywords compared to SEC. However NF is a pay once product.

I ended up with a bunch of keywords data that i can use for a few months now with SEC. Gotta get articles and build backlinks to it now.

Now there's a dilemma. Since i did a whole lotta research, i might not have much keyword research to do for abit. Should i continue with the subscription or should i quit for now and sign up again when i need to do more research? What worries me is that if i opt for the latter, the price might go up when i do. Hopefully Shane has a compromise for users who signed up early.

cypherslock

That's something that I've wondered myself. I just stick with MS and NF.

Zeb

The cons of MS is that you'll have to analyze keywords one by one to get data on your top 10 competition for a particular keyword. This takes alot of time compared to SEC.

The cons of NF is that you can't import a keyword list to analyze additional keywords. You can only input one keyword and it brings back about 50 keywords (which according to NF are the best keywords). If only NF is able to import keyword lists and analyze ONLY those keywords, it would be a very powerful tool. I've mentioned this to Brad and he doesn't think that this can be done, which is a shame.

The cons of SEC is it's monthly price. It's the perfect kw research tool to analyze a whole bunch of kw's and it's top 1o competition in a matter of seconds.

cypherslock

Zeb, I think you've come across a winner here: You've identified not only the issues across all three but how to fix them. So go build it! I guarantee I'd buy it.

Money79

Hi,

But this software works fine also for not English country?

Thanks.

Traxior

There was one bug early on for abroad search, but after i complained about ti, it was gone.

I'm using SEcockpit every day, at English search and also at Norwegian searches.

Andy Hart

hey,

The main website doesn't have an FAQ so to those that have purchased, one quick question:

As the software is "in the cloud" where is all your data stored? Keywords, and the whole campaign planning details?

Who has access to this data?

Thanks
Andy

Madam X

Just attended a Webinar on this software. This software seems totally incredible & one of my first thoughts was the same as yours. Whoever has access to all this data - are they then able to control the Internets? It's up in the Cloud, so of course, this date is stored somewhere.

Madam X

I think the proper method for your searches would be to keep your data current. Surely the keywords would change dramatically after two whole months. That would be why you'd need to pay the monthly fee. Evil geniuses that they are!!

stormyweather

I just bought SECockpit today and the first search I tried didn't work.

I now see that I hadn't got far enough in the training videos. If you get a bunch of keywords that have less than 30 searches per day, the tool deliberately does not perform analysis on them. Which of course makes sense.

josephjabawaba

Hi Shane,

I just came across this thread and thought that I would pop in and thank you for your product. I actually searched really hard for a keyword research tool everyday for about a week, following up on every lead that I could find. I needed something that gave me real-time results, was easy but powerful to use, and was within my price range (I'm just starting off, so don't want to get stressed on too much money going out). I came across quite a few services, but the only one that gave me the confidence to spend money on that had all I needed was yours.

Yours was clearly the best as it was really fast, very easy to understand, and really well laid out. I enjoyed the interface as it was pretty intuitive and as it was browser-based I didn't need to worry about which computer I was using to access it. Also, as you said in the video, it is really fast in coming back with results. It is pretty instantaneous and with loads of options of how to sort out the results.

It is actually quite funny, as when I was thinking about whether to join or not while watching your video (on the website), I was also thinking, "Just listen to this accent, this guy can't be lying!". There's something extra trusting about a Swiss accent, I think. It turned out to be true.

I think what you've done with it is great. The product just needs more exposure as it should have been easier to find on the web because this is the service that people are searching for when they search for keyword research and other SEO stuff. You've put a lot of work into delivering a great product, and it shows.

If anyone wants to pm me, feel free. I'll try to respond as quickly as possible.

Joseph

bfas

SECockpit is still the best tool in it's class, and the one we use for all our in-house revenue-generating site opportunities.

It's also one of very few products we recommend without reservation and give a "5-star" rating to on our forum.

Michael

GAVROCHE

Who can compare SEOCockpit with SEO Power Suite, Web CEO, AWR (Advanced Web Ranking) and iBusiness Promoter?
It will help me find out if is a good idea to use SEOCockpit after the mentioned software (all are better than MS and MNF).
Thanks.

iampino

Hello, just bought SECockpit, and I'm going through the videos.

The videos talk about RankTracker, but I don't see it on my dashboard window (on the left). Is it disabled?

Thanks

kim458

Just a question, comparing NF that brad callen created and this online keyword research tool, what are the major differences? hmm

IMentreprenette

SECockpit is my keyword heaven!

Without secockpit I would still be spending a day making sure my keyword research is top notch! I mean before I use 5 keyword research tools including NF and Market Samurai..and it would take me all day gathering the keywords in that subniche! With secockpit I can be done in 15 minutes (considering I can be anal in keyword research). Plus like theinternetdude said, having SEOMoz data, you can trust the keyword analysis you're getting

I opted for the half a year discount which is roughly ~$50/month Try it out and see if you like it..But in my opinion..definitely worth the price!

jacksonlin

I heard that Keyword Blaze (in theory) is equivalent to SECockpit?

If only it actually worked.

Leadzguy

I agree on Keyword Blaze. Has some bugs to be worked out for sure.

ShaneRQR

Keyword Blaze is not comparable to SECockpit, other than that they kinda use a similar way of displaying SEO analysis data.

Just like many other tools, Keyword Blaze does SEO analysis (i.e. checking the top 10 currently ranking pages) on a keyword-by-keyword basis. You select a keyword you want to analyze, it pulls in the data, you check the results. Then you select the next keyword, wait for the data etc.

SECockpit does this kind of keyword SEO analysis at a rate of around 300 keywords per minute, for every search you perform. To get the equivalent SEO data you see in a single keyword list in SECockpit (takes about 1 minute to generate) would literally take hours of time using Keyword Blaze.

I'm not saying that KB is either good or bad, but I do want to make a clear distinction between the way these two tools work.

wexgen

I used both SECockpit and Keyword Blaze and they are similar in many ways.

Hi Shane,

I have some "disturbing' question: Why is the competition data from Se Cockpit is different from Keyword Blaze for the same keyword, as both of the software claim to use SEOMoz Data, even for the difficulty level for the competition.

wexgen

Cherie H

I'm not a technical person but thankfully after working in Internet Marketing alot of what you are all saying makes sense. For me as a web content writer competition analysis is huge so I can strategise and advise, not just on keywords but markets. When explaining to clients what it is we actually do it is not one or the other but a synergy of actions that help with SEO. SE Cockpit certainly sounds as if it is the full package and where productivity and quality go hand in hand. Thanks for this and I will be checking it out.

swiminsoda

Just got back in town and was about to order... did the price just increase?

Update: 13 May'12
After watching Shane's video on Adam Franklin's blog I had to have it. Not once did I have to wait for the tutorial videos to load and I was able to cover 14 of them in less than 2 hours. I've never seen a tool that works so fast, delivers so much data and yet it's so easy to navigate and use.

Chronic IM

Thanks to your review bro! This will help me in using web tools for my sites!

JoshN

I dont know if I believe the data is more accurate but I like the tool because it gives a good "broad picture" view of massive sets of data. Then I manally check with other tools and google keyword tool.

I have found the SEOmoz rank to be significantly different than the actual PR. Like seomoz rank listed as 1 and actual PR of 3... thats a big difference.

I still see this as being the future of keyword tools but theres room for improvement still. I do appreciate that they added a rank tracker. Another thing for me to use to occupy my OCD need for data.