Pluginseo launched late last year and were a finalist in the London Seedcamp 2009 – they claim to offer “a simple way to get more and better quality search engine traffic to your site”, so I thought I would put them to the test and use it on one of my sites.
First their 60 second signup is really that – grab the javascript you need to put into your site onto the pages you want to track, add the keywords you think that are relevant, and put in the URL of your competitors. Being honest my application actually got corrupted, but my email to their support line got an instant reply and fix, so no complaints there. And then once I added the javascript, the tracking started reporting immediately, so so far fairly idiot proof.
One option was instead of adding javascript tracking, you gave them access to your Google Analytics account – I have multiple sites under the same account and there was no explanation of what they actually retrieved so I would be reluctant to use that.
The guts of the site is the reactor which tracks the good and bad changes to your SEO environment such as keyword ranking, inbound links and makes the suggestions on how to improve. I have had nothing reported yet, but it has only been live a few hours so I should give it some time before judging it. Possibly the most interesting part for the beginners is how it learns from its competitors, I will wait to see what it does with the varied list I entered.
They also show you the competitor sites which rank for you keyword (for those too lazy to look at google themselves) and also relevant content which might inspire you to write your own (or plagarise depending on your preference). Finally they have their own analytics, so for a small site they could become a single stop for measuring changing, improving your site.
However, pluginseo does not solve the big problem we all have, in how to get good quality inbound links, which is exactly what seededbuzz is going to do for you. I will report back later as I get more advice from pluginseo.
I’d be very interested to see what pluginseo returns for you.
I will definitely report back but will give them a few days to sift through the traffic and links
[...] 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 [...]