What SEO tool you wish existed?

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Is there any SEO tool or application that you wish had existed? Or something that you currently do manually and can be automated? Or something that exists but could be cheaper or better?

I am looking to develop something in 2013 and looking for ideas.
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  • Profile picture of the author BKKBound
    How about something that identifies content which is listed in the wayback machine archive which is no longer indexed on Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author nietzsche
      Interesting, could you explain a little bit more why that would be useful?
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    • Profile picture of the author RyanLB
      Originally Posted by BKKBound View Post

      How about something that identifies content which is listed in the wayback machine archive which is no longer indexed on Google.
      That's a good one.

      I wish there were a widely-used guest posting plugin for wordpress that would allow people to submit guest posts, check for uniqueness, and then continue to check and make sure the post was unique after you approve it. I've approved guest posts on sites that allow for guest post trading only to find out that they submitted it several different places before google indexed anything. This may exist but isn't widely enough used if it does.

      A program that will constantly monitor important links you've created (guest posts, reviews, etc.), let you know if they disappear and have a good organizational backend for all of your websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
      Originally Posted by BKKBound View Post

      How about something that identifies content which is listed in the wayback machine archive which is no longer indexed on Google.
      Free content. I do this too =)
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  • Profile picture of the author BKKBound
    Well if its available on the wayback machine but not contained within google then that is unique content. Especailly in the situation where its publicly re-publishable like articles with linkbacks...then you could literally have a unique content source.
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  • Profile picture of the author dotgirish
    xrumer should have been cheaper
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  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    I would wish to have a tool which would create content when we put a brief description of the content we require along with the keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by kaytav View Post

      I would wish to have a tool which would create content when we put a brief description of the content we require along with the keywords.
      That already exists. It's called a writer.
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      • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        That already exists. It's called a writer.
        It's called an Indian who I pay $2 per 700-word post. Funny thing is, my Indian writes better than 50% of native Americans.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by Icematikx View Post

          It's called an Indian who I pay $2 per 700-word post. Funny thing is, my Indian writes better than 50% of native Americans.
          I would bet 50% of the writers who say they are American, are in reality not.
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    In 2013, I have a plan to outsource few link builders and also article writers for my few projects.

    Manual link building is always better than automated link building.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I'm always amused when people hire low budget writers, If you don't have the time or interest in creating articles, don't!

    Chances are the webmaster that hires out articles isn't going to read the $3 crap that some article writer in a 3rd world country could care less about. If you want junk articles it would be more cost efficient to simply spin all the junk you could possibly want/need on your own. Not that I recommend spinning, just trying to make a point (junk is junk).

    For OP, how about something that scrapes only internal links anchor-text on competition pages? Not backlinks, just internal links. Not scraping Google results either. Sort of like xenu link sleuth but instead of checking 404s, scrape anchor text then export the anchor-text + URL + page-title to a .csv file. Maybe count OBLs on the anchor-text page? Get the basics running & you could add a few options later on.
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    • Profile picture of the author trytolearnmore
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I'm always amused when people hire low budget writers, If you don't have the time or interest in creating articles, don't!

      Chances are the webmaster that hires out articles isn't going to read the $3 crap that some article writer in a 3rd world country could care less about. If you want junk articles it would be more cost efficient to simply spin all the junk you could possibly want/need on your own. Not that I recommend spinning, just trying to make a point (junk is junk).

      For OP, how about something that scrapes only internal links anchor-text on competition pages? Not backlinks, just internal links. Not scraping Google results either. Sort of like xenu link sleuth but instead of checking 404s, scrape anchor text then export the anchor-text + URL + page-title to a .csv file. Maybe count OBLs on the anchor-text page? Get the basics running & you could add a few options later on.

      Would this search string work?

      allinanchor: <<your keyword>> + site: <<site of competitor>>?
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  • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
    Honestly, I can't think of anything.

    The only tools I use now are:

    -Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    -Scraepbox
    -Xenu Link Sleuth
    -Ahrefs

    Everything else (like the actual link building) needs to happen manually for it to work IMHO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shout Out Digital
    A tool that tells Google all the SEO cheating companies out there lol
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  • Profile picture of the author nietzsche
    @BKKBound Interesting idea.

    @Backlinko I know nothing beats manual link building. But if there is a manual process that you follow to do manual link building, you could automate all or parts of it, couldn't you? Eg. You could automate content discovery, account creation, and anchor text suggestion etc. I

    @yukon I think you are onto something here. What additional features are you think? What about adding keyword analysis of the internal links, and possibly ranking of pages based on in-page-seo and keyword difficulty, kind of like hittail but based mostly on in-page-seo.
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    • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
      Originally Posted by nietzsche View Post


      @Backlinko I know nothing beats manual link building. But if there is a manual process that you follow to do manual link building, you could automate all or parts of it, couldn't you? Eg. You could automate content discovery, account creation, and anchor text suggestion etc. I
      I definitely would if I could .

      I really did rack my brain but couldn't think of anything. If you have any ideas you want to bounce off of someone let me know.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by nietzsche View Post

      @yukon I think you are onto something here. What additional features are you think? What about adding keyword analysis of the internal links, and possibly ranking of pages based on in-page-seo and keyword difficulty, kind of like hittail but based mostly on in-page-seo.

      I guess the main thing for me is, I want to know If my competition is serious about my [exact] keyword phrase. The way I figure is, they'll probably be running the exact same anchor-text on multiple internal pages If they're serious about the keyword.

      You can do different searches on Google but that's kinda clumsy & doesn't return anchor-text, about the best you can do on Google is inurl, intitle, or a site wide keyword search.

      I know I could run spyglass for external links anchor-text, but something for only internal links would be useful IMO.

      Scraping competitions anchor-text might reveal new keywords that are relevant to the original keyword. Needs to be able to export to a .csv file for sorting & removing any junk text, or better yet have a bad word text filter to remove any junk anchor-text before they're even displayed to the end user, by bad words I mean things like (home, click here, etc...).

      Might be time consuming running something like this on a large site, it would defiantly need to be a light weight tool.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by nietzsche View Post

      What about adding keyword analysis of the internal links, and possibly ranking of pages based on in-page-seo and keyword difficulty, kind of like hittail but based mostly on in-page-seo.
      No. Please no analysis. I hate when people start putting their opinions into tools like this. Keyword difficulty has so many different things that go into it, there is no way a tool is going to give you a very accurate rating.

      Just give me the data. I'll take it from there.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        No. Please no analysis. I hate when people start putting their opinions into tools like this. Keyword difficulty has so many different things that go into it, there is no way a tool is going to give you a very accurate rating.

        Just give me the data. I'll take it from there.

        Agreed, just the raw data. It would need to be able to export the data (CSV).

        It also has to be light weight & running in the background, If it bogs down my slow a%# AT&T DSL it won't be any use to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author ztak07
    One where all I had to do was push a button
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  • Profile picture of the author nietzsche
    @yukon
    I am not fond of desktop software. Would an online version (saas) be okey? It will run the job and let you export the results into csv or it can automatically export to a google spreadsheet if you want.
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