Ask HN: What tools do you wish existed for SEO that don't?

4 points by dnevogt12 11 years ago | 10 comments

ereckers 11 years ago |

I'd like to see a simple line graph of a keyword and my position in the SERPs for that keyword plotted over a time.

For instance, I'd like see my position for the keyword "folsom county apple juice" at a certain point in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr... etc.. Options for weekly, monthly, yearly.

I was at an SEO talk once and asked about that, and I got some canned response like "search optimization isn't a 'keyword' focused business anymore".

Maybe that's true, but I can see the ranks in Google Webmaster tools, and that's what I'd like to see plotted. I don't even care if it's an approximation, what I'm mostly interested in is the trend line. Am I moving up or moving down over time?

Granted, I'm pretty lazy and this might exist, but I've looked at a few services and I haven't seen it yet.

builtbybalance 11 years ago | |

What you are looking for is called serpwoo.com ;)

Also any rank tracker can do that too. I use proranktracker.com for my personal URLS and serpwoo to track the entire top 20 sites for any keyword.

ereckers 11 years ago | | |

Thanks for pointing this one out to me.

After seeing this and SerpBook, I'm not really sure how I've missed these services all this time.

What I'll have to figure out now is reputability.

kateklink 11 years ago | |

have you tried serpbook? it has exactly functionality that you described, although it's paid

ereckers 11 years ago | | |

Awesome. I have not tried serpbook, but I'll check it out. Thanks for pointing me to it.

27182818284 11 years ago |

My biggest frustration is just the whole black-box-ness of it all. Why is a site that I have on the frontpage of Bing but on page four of Google for the same keyword? That sorta stuff.

bbcbasic 11 years ago | |

An open-source search engine, if possible might solve that problem. In which case it would probably tell you that you need more high authority back links.

kateklink 11 years ago |

I wish there was a tool which automatically updates all your SEO effort after a new Google update instantly

nniroclax 11 years ago |

a way to automatically pinpoint and remove duplicate content

johnmcalester 11 years ago | |

Nice idea. Maybe a WordPress plugin that could search for identical text strings and present an interface with options for how to handle the content (301, delete, etc.)? a quick search for "WordPress duplicate content plugin" didn't reveal much.