What are the keys to making great SEO Tools?
I am very interested in SEO from a web development perspective. I don’t feel the average (or even above average) web developers know enough to be good at it. When I started my job at ClickStop, I thought I knew enough to “be dangerous”. It turns out, I did – dangerous to my SEO.
That got me thinking – maybe I could offer some sort of test on my site to rank people’s pages, reflecting an SEO ranking…SEO Tools for Web Page Analysis.
There are a number of things that are “standard”:
- Keyword to focus on
- Is the keyword in the title
- Is the keyword in the meta description
- Does the keyword show up in the content – if so, how many times?
What things am I missing? How would you build a service like this.
I’m thinking of building a REST service I can pass URL’s to and have it analyze the page sent…is this what you would do? Please give me more suggestions in the comments.
Thanks,
tom
It sounds like a good idea. Don’t forget about WordPress’ XML-RPC capability in addition to using REST.
Good idea Matt – I know of a guy who may be able to help me with tha…{hint, hint}
That would be useful tool. SEO is one of those things it’s hard to quantify for the client. Something that assesses the page, then gives a brief explanation for the grade would be great.
Ha – OK, kind of a “how to fix it” kind of thing. Good idea!