This morning at SEOmoz, we're having a dev priorities meeting to decide which items in our queue of tools, upgrades and improvements will take priority for the next 45-60 days. For fun, I thought I'd open it up to our community and ask you - what would you most want to see from us in Q1 of 2009:
Meeting starts at 10am Pacific (70 minutes from now) :-)
p.s. I know another Linkscape update isn't listed on there, but it is already in the works and should refresh much of the most important content and grow the index size again (no definitive deadline yet, though).
Actually I see a need for a KW tool upgrade not mentioned there. One that takes a keyphrase, get's list , then takes every keyphrase in that list and gets all derivatives from that, then does the same thing with the new result set.
So in basic terms, for every keyword it finds, it also does a lookup for that keyphrase so as it walks down the tree it pulls in almost all the tail. Almost completely automating the keyword research task.
You end up only needing to create your core list and then cleaning up the list of the thousands the tool returned.
Prolly not this go around but feel free to add it to your list :)
What do you mean by the derivatives? You're looking for related searches right? What tools are out there that do that part already? Whare are their strengths and weaknesses?
I voted keyword research tools integrated with keyword difficulty and keyword trends (with graphic) which can be downloaded into CVS and another update for PRO Guide for 2009 would be really great..
The SEO Auditor Tool gets my vote!
Voted for SEO Auditor.
Top secret one by a long way. The rest seem marginal, top secret is ALWAYS more fun :-)
Morning Rand -- I voted for the Keyword Difficulty tool. If it wins I'd love to see a way to categorize my keywords according to campaign/client.
That would indeed be nice to see when dealing with multiple clients at the same time.
Being able to submit more than 3 kw's at a time would be great.
That would be nice
I agree that this would be nice to have but I see other tools on the list that would be more important.
Since the first stage in optimizing a site is to do a keyword research, voting for the keyword difficulty tool is the best choice for me.
Looking forward to the best keyword tool that can help more individuals and businesses in their endeavor to get the topnotch rank in natural SE results which SEOMOZ has always been looking at.
That's why every time I meet individuals starting a career in SEO, I told them that I have never found an organization as near perfect as the SEOMOZ.
PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION!
Need more advanced keyword tools with difficulty and competition metrics... that is the hard, grinding part of SEO for me.
I voted for the KW research tool ;)
Same here.
Now if only I could get my company to pay for a membership ... still working on it guys ...
Its pretty tempting to vote for anything that's labeled "Top Secret"
Yep.That got me too...
I voted for Keyword Research Tool....
Thanks for all the votes and comments. We actually used some of this to help inform our direction. If you'd like, I can put some more information on the blog about where we're going, what to expect in the future and rough estimates about when we might be there. The only trouble is that directions can change rather quickly, so saying a certain product will be here on a certain date isn't always possible.
Rand, it's great to see a variety of tools already in the PR0 Toolset. I personally chose the SEO Auditor Tool as I think it would provide the most benefit to myself and other SEOmoz users. Audits can get complicated and pricey when outsourcing, whereas keyword research, rank checking, etc. can be done with tools which are freely available. Good luck with the meeting!
Dave
Hi,
I personally voted for the keyword rank checker and tracker tool however most of the suggested improvements are welcome. You are doing a great job there and it looks like you are investing a lot to develop the best tools helping SEOs all over the world.
Improving Linkscape is also important, at the moment I find it one of the best link analysis tools however didn't use it too often lately.
A new keyword research tool would also be helpful however it should offer much more than other similar tools like Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery or Google's Free keyword tool.
i know its about a day late, but more geographic specific tools would be super!
More advanced KW tools would be great.
I also agree with the previous commenter about case studies. Real world examples of client success/interaction/problems would be great.
.. free Pro Membership ...!?!
oops! too late to the party
All of these are improvements I'm looking forward to but I'd like to see the toolbar become more customizable. Seeing my name at the top of the webbrowser is great and all, but with the dozens of screen caps I do daily it would be way more useful if the mR, mT, DmR and DmT bars could be placed at the bottom of the browser where you currently have the highlight nofollow links icon.
This brings up another improvement I'd like to see: Can you allow us to choose what features are shown and what isn't? The customization of the SearchStatus plugin is one of the features that makes it so useful.
Keyword tool for me though the SEO Auditor is a very close second :)
Top secret got my vote too. Though I'd have also voted for faster index updates to Linkscape as well.
We are working to making them faster and more automated (so they don't eat up tons of time here), but it turns out to be very challenging. If y'all could just stop making changes to the Internet for a few months and let us catch up, that would be great. Thanks! :-)
create a relationship with other online tool vendors so we can get all tools in one place.
i would love to have this integrated with shoemoney tools, webuildpages, seobook, majestic seo.
this would be a killer app.
Offer More Report Output Options.
I would love to be able to save reports as PDFs and have a printer friendly option for reports. Being able to use in ppt would be another wish. Thanks!
When it comes to resources and tools, all I see and it's everywhere is either SEO basics (non-practical advice) or keyword research tools (link analysis occassionaly). As a SEO specialist however what I need, and it is almost a daily need is a tool or handbook that is regularly updated on how to conduct SEO audit for a website. You have done that once in a WBF video, and it was awasome, I have prepared a great post for my blog from the video. So my vote goes to the SEO audit.
I was just wishing today that there was a tool that showed me the number of dofollow versus nofollow links on the page.
I have a feeling I will doing this one myself.
1. Free unique tools
2. Some actual real case studies. We own ro took this website. Before we changed anything it got x traffic and y conversions. We applied all the SEOmoz work and now 6 months later they get x traffic and y conversions.
While we'd love to do this, as you can probably imagine, folks are somewhat reticent to talk about specifics - it's their competitive intelligence and internal strategy after all. However, totally get the message - we'll try to provide more direct "here's how to do this and these are the results you'll see." Maybe we can even find a willing volunteer who doesn't mind having some of that stuff exposed.