Ooophs – it nearly 4 months since I last posted to this blog – things have been very busy with SeededBuzz and a few other projects, but that is no excuse as all you bloggers know – so I promise to do better in future.
So when I left off, I was starting to look at PluginSEO as a tool to help drive organic traffic. Once you have installed the tracking code and setup the configuration (see my first PluginSEO post), you leave it for a few weeks and then start to get suggestions on how to improve your SEO.
The dashboard is split into several sections, first is the activity and results from your site for new links found and any movement in your keywords, but more interestingly for me is the link activity of your ‘competitors’, which give a good insight into how active they are and where they are getting links from.
The site then processes all this information to make specific, actionable suggestions on how to improve your SEO. Some are fairly obvious such as blog about a certain keyword, but some are more interesting in terms of identifying Social Media conversations which you should join as they involve your keywords. Other areas find sites you could/should get links from but from what I could tell they are only going a couple of steps away from your competitors to find sites and so it does seem quite limited – there are a lot more sites out there that have relevance, influence and you are more likely to get links from. In a similar way, they also suggest keywords you should be using or at least tracking.
So overall, I think if you are very new to SEO and want something to help direct your activity it is a start. If you are more serious about SEO and can identify a good list of competitors or similar sites, it might be worth it just for the activity tracking which will save you a lot of time on following other sites.
Final note, they have just changed their charges so there is no completely free version for small sites, but there is a trial and a promise that if your organic traffic does not increase month on month, you pay nothing.
I would love to get comments from anyone who has used PluginSEO or knows of other entry level SEO advice/management tools.
And next week I am going to look at the web analytic site/tool Clicky which we have installed on SeededBuzz and how it compares to Google Analytics.
Thanks for the review.
We’re setting ourselves apart with our simplicity and no-nonsense approach, so your feedback is very welcome.
I’m excited about how products like seededbuzz are making link building easier.