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Ask HN: What tools do you wish existed for SEO that don't?

by dnevogt12 on 4/28/15, 2:47 PM with 10 comments

• by ereckers on 4/28/15, 4:29 PM

  I'd like to see a simple line graph of a keyword and my position in the SERPs for that keyword plotted over a time.

  For instance, I'd like see my position for the keyword "folsom county apple juice" at a certain point in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr... etc.. Options for weekly, monthly, yearly.

  I was at an SEO talk once and asked about that, and I got some canned response like "search optimization isn't a 'keyword' focused business anymore".

  Maybe that's true, but I can see the ranks in Google Webmaster tools, and that's what I'd like to see plotted. I don't even care if it's an approximation, what I'm mostly interested in is the trend line. Am I moving up or moving down over time?

  Granted, I'm pretty lazy and this might exist, but I've looked at a few services and I haven't seen it yet.

• by 27182818284 on 4/28/15, 3:49 PM

  My biggest frustration is just the whole black-box-ness of it all. Why is a site that I have on the frontpage of Bing but on page four of Google for the same keyword? That sorta stuff.

• by kateklink on 4/28/15, 3:27 PM

  I wish there was a tool which automatically updates all your SEO effort after a new Google update instantly

• by nniroclax on 4/28/15, 6:30 PM

  a way to automatically pinpoint and remove duplicate content