IBP & SEO Power Suite Software?

[Sticky74]

Hi

I desperately need to do some SEO work on my site. I admit I'm pretty much a dunce at these sort of things so am looking for some software to guide me and take some of the pain out of it.

A number of members of another forum I'm on recommended IBP but I've also been looking at SEO Power Suite. I've downloaded their free trials but the IBP is extremely limited to it's difficult to compare. They're also pretty pricey!

Had anyone got any experience of either, or a better one? I definitely need one that is easy to use and will hold me hand through the process. Thanks.

 

[VinceSamios]

IBP and Power Suite are ONLY good for agencies who want to run fancy reports. They have extremely limited practical function.

 

[Mystro]

Hi

I desperately need to do some SEO work on my site. I admit I'm pretty much a dunce at these sort of things so am looking for some software to guide me and take some of the pain out of it.

A number of members of another forum I'm on recommended IBP but I've also been looking at SEO Power Suite. I've downloaded their free trials but the IBP is extremely limited to it's difficult to compare. They're also pretty pricey!

Had anyone got any experience of either, or a better one? I definitely need one that is easy to use and will hold me hand through the process. Thanks.

Tried both, and depending on what your looking for, they both offer good advice but for IBP it compares a lot of whats in your top 10 sector and assumes they have done whatever correctly so advises you to do the same but slightly better, it ranks my site 99% for a very competitive keyword but im still page 3 and cannot budge it, however it would give you a good insight.

Traffic travis Version 3 also has a page analysis tool which is very basic but will grade your site a-d

It would be worth trying 2 or 3 different software packages

Paul

 

[OldWelshGuy]

As Vince says above, SEO software is good for tracking rankings and producing reports with ease.

SEO by numbers has gone, you can't expect to get an automated piece of software that looks at each page in isolation to handle the complex tasks needed. With a bit of training you could master the basics.

 

[makeusvisible]

I use the SEO Powersuite range of software on a daily basis.

It is a really great bit of software, but it has become less effective than it used to be as many of the rules which used to work have gone by-the-by. However, I do still find it value for money which is why I do use it.

The Rank Tracker tool which is part of SEO Power Suite is the best I have ever used for tracking the rank of multiple sites/pages for multiple keywords. It can link in with analytics and auto-add keywords you might not currently have on your radar. It's a daily-use tool to monitor the effects of changes you have made to sites. Obviously, only any use if you actually log which changes you make/when.

SEO SpyGlass (also part of SEO Powersuite) can be used to monitor competing websites. I tend only to use this once a site hits page 1, and I'm looking to replicate what some of the competing sites have done in terms of backlinking. Again, it's not automated in any way, it's just a way of collecting data and displaying it in an easy to read form. Saving you time, and letting you get on with much more valuable work.

SEO Analyser is in my opinion the most important tool in the suite. Not because it has any magical solutions, but because it can analyse the top ten results for any keyword and average out things like keyword density, meta data, tags, alts, and even page speed and WC3 compliance. This information is very useful once a site hits page one, and gaining even a single place becomes a challenge.

It is important to note that their license is 6 monthly, not for life. So it is VERY expensive. As an SEO provider I would sooner use data collection tools like this to collate information, rather than spend valuable time doing it manually. This literally means I can get more work done.

Someone in a previous post mentioned that the software can export/create reports. This is not true unless you buy the extremely costly PRO license, so just keep that in mind as it is a lot more expensive.


My general opinion is that you will not get value from the suite unless you are managing at least a dozen or so sites. It is expensive, the support is poor, but in terms of collecting data it is a huge time saver, and as long as you're not expecting some kind of SEO automated tool, you will like what it does.
Hope that info is of use to some of you.

 

[Ali-v-8]

I have yet to see software that will create a good SEO campaign. There are SEO tools that assist but 99% of SEO software's out there rely on content to work. but as any good SEO will tell you, "you need to do a keyword analysis prior to content being read"

 

[VinceSamios]

For SEO software to work, it first needs good theory behind it, which most don't. Then it needs to be well written in order to make good sense of the data (many aren't) and then it needs to recommend (or better implement) affirmative actions.

The big software packages all fall over at the theory level.