[solved] I'm creating a do it yourself seo software....I need opinions on a few things

Just a heads up, the biggest problem with sending out self hosted email campaigns is the major email providers (gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc...) will usually flag automated emails as spam, even If the subscriber did an optin, this means a lot of emails get sent too the spam folder in the subscribers inbox.

I'm not saying your system will get flagged as spam, just that part of the reason people use things like Aweber, etc... is because the big email providers know those services police their own system for spammers, again not saying your system is for spamming.

Getting around the spam folder in subscribers email inbox isn't always easy, unless each individual subscriber manually says the emails coming from your system aren't spam, I doubt very many people would find the email in the spam folder to begin with.

Ok, if you say so.

So currently it just submits to the other spammy directories like I said. I use directories in my SEO campaigns, but generally only the paid ones outside of Yelp, Google Places, Foursquare, etc. The paid ones would be tough to code (because I'm not going to trust something to automate taking money out of my account), but submitting to those local directories would be a useful feature. There are a lot more too. Localeze, iBegin, Brownbook, etc. One issue, and I'm not sure how you will handle it, is some of the good ones require phone verification after submission.

I don't really do blog commenting for SEO clients, so you would have to get someone else's opinion on the benefit of that. If I was going to do it though, again, I would just use Scrapebox most likely.

As Yukon pointed out, you are going to run into potential problems with delivery rates on this. Beyond that, if you get enough spam complaints, the registrar may shutdown the domain they are originating from. There is a reason that Aweber, Constant Contact, etc. own this niche.

Google and Bing do not show many backlinks, so it is going to be very limited data there. Tie it into Majestic or SEOmoz... something like that, and it would be far better.

What is link score?

Broken links are good to check for. Xenu does it for free though.

Sitemap generator is fine, but there are plenty of free tools that do that too.

Wait. You are going to maintain a database of the internet? I highly doubt you have the computing resources to do that. It would take thousands of computers to do it well. If you are just using Google and Alexa's backlink data, well it is very limited information.

And what kind of information about backlinks is your tool going to provide? Page PR? Number of other external links on the page? IP of the domain? Will it tell me the anchor text? If the link is still there or not? Will it compare the link profile of one site to the link profile of 3-4 other sites?

SpyGlass does all of that right now for me.



What makes yours better than the ones that are already out there? How about reporting functions? Will it FTP my reports to a domain? Will it schedule rank checking? Will it automatically email out rank reports?

Originally Posted by cnich23 Social Bookmarker.

Ok. Does it blast social bookmarks? Does it drip feed them? Does it use different accounts? Can I schedule it?

I'm not trying to rag on your idea. If I was new to the business and looking for something to do this stuff, maybe I would be interested in a product like this. However, between SpyGlass, Rank Tracker, Scrapebox, Magic Submitter, etc. which are tools I already have, I would see no reason to switch.

On a monthly basis though, I wouldn't pay more than $30 for that. Magic Submitter is around $60/month, already does a lot of what you are talking about, and most of the things it doesn't do, I can teach it to do. It doesn't do rank tracking and link analysis, but I am completely happy paying a premium price to SEO PowerSuite for a tool that does that really well. Link analysis is probably the most important part of what I do.

I'm not sure your tool is going to give me more data than SpyGlass, SEOmoz, Majestic, and Ahrefs already do. In fact, I'm pretty certain it won't give me anywhere near the data I'm already getting from using them. Google and Alexa give very limited backlink information.

Again, I'm not trying to bash your product. As an SEO, I'm just not really seeing the unique selling points to it or where it will help me save time and grow my business.