DISQUS

planetc1 · 1 year ago

I was totally unaware of this tool Andy. Found the link at the top of your post after reading through and trying to get a grasp on everything you explained. Checking it out for myself. Thanks!

planetc1 · 1 year ago

I was totally unaware of this tool Andy. Found the link at the top of your post after reading through and trying to get a grasp on everything you explained. Checking it out for myself. Thanks!

Info Product Boy · 1 year ago

Andy,

great post! Specially that you shared Ryan Deiss' video on the cool way to use the Google Adwords tool.

Cheers,
Richard

Info Product Boy · 1 year ago

Andy,

great post! Specially that you shared Ryan Deiss' video on the cool way to use the Google Adwords tool.

Cheers,
Richard

Seth Garrison · 1 year ago

Excellent analysis Andy

Very thorough as usual. I was also surprised that SSS analyzed
the home page only. I have resubmitted other pages separately.

I also know that the social bookmarking stats are not correct.

Overall though super proffessional lead up and presentation. The Stompernet guys are top-notch.

Seth Garrison · 1 year ago

Excellent analysis Andy

Very thorough as usual. I was also surprised that SSS analyzed
the home page only. I have resubmitted other pages separately.

I also know that the social bookmarking stats are not correct.

Overall though super proffessional lead up and presentation. The Stompernet guys are top-notch.

Jaan Kanellis · 1 year ago

I only watched the first video so far "The LOST Video" and i found it pretty helpful in explaining eye tracking and helping with a pages overall conversion rate.

Jaan Kanellis · 1 year ago

I only watched the first video so far "The LOST Video" and i found it pretty helpful in explaining eye tracking and helping with a pages overall conversion rate.

Duane · 1 year ago

After all the hype I thought it was a very poor effort and not exactly ground breaking stuff. Basic SEO and it needs a huge upgrade.

AndyBeard · 1 year ago

Duane I am looking on it as a useful free bonus that has potential if they carry on working on it.
Lots of people swear by the tools from SEOmoz and when they introduced some tools to monitor SERP positions, people were oohing.
SEObook has a serps monitoring plugin for Firefox and the seo for firefox toolbar which does some of this, but guess what? You forget to use it - it takes time to use it.

Duane · 1 year ago

After all the hype I thought it was a very poor effort and not exactly ground breaking stuff. Basic SEO and it needs a huge upgrade.

AndyBeard · 1 year ago

Duane I am looking on it as a useful free bonus that has potential if they carry on working on it.
Lots of people swear by the tools from SEOmoz and when they introduced some tools to monitor SERP positions, people were oohing.
SEObook has a serps monitoring plugin for Firefox and the seo for firefox toolbar which does some of this, but guess what? You forget to use it - it takes time to use it.

Jacques · 1 year ago

I am always looking for good SEO tools, this one seems like it is worth checking out. Regarding metas, my experience has been that they are near worthless, although I always make sure mine pass basic seo tests ;-)

Jacques · 1 year ago

I am always looking for good SEO tools, this one seems like it is worth checking out. Regarding metas, my experience has been that they are near worthless, although I always make sure mine pass basic seo tests ;-)

Ajith Prasad Edassery · 1 year ago

I was eagerly waiting for the Friday release to write about the same...In the meantime as you said, I did give my email address and got a one page free report that was pretty useless :)

Not sure how the whole product is. Do they still have the $1 offer?

Ajith

Ajith Prasad Edassery · 1 year ago

I was eagerly waiting for the Friday release to write about the same...In the meantime as you said, I did give my email address and got a one page free report that was pretty useless :)

Not sure how the whole product is. Do they still have the $1 offer?

Ajith

Ed Hardy · 1 year ago

Once again a wonderful post. This is my first time responding but I just needed to after this post. I love all the tools you suggested and I WILL be using them!

Ed Hardy · 1 year ago

Once again a wonderful post. This is my first time responding but I just needed to after this post. I love all the tools you suggested and I WILL be using them!

John Cussons · 1 year ago

Andy

Your Stompernet Site Seer - Ripped Apart review is spectacular! And the Google Sneak attack video TIP is HUGE.

I am in the pre-launch phase of a new online digital photo prints and digital photo memory expression gift items business and I am pleased to report that Google sees me they way I am and that I have a LOT MORE work to do :)

Cheers

John

John Cussons · 1 year ago

Andy

Your Stompernet Site Seer - Ripped Apart review is spectacular! And the Google Sneak attack video TIP is HUGE.

I am in the pre-launch phase of a new online digital photo prints and digital photo memory expression gift items business and I am pleased to report that Google sees me they way I am and that I have a LOT MORE work to do :)

Cheers

John

trailers · 1 year ago

I was also surprised that SSS analyzed
the home page only. I have resubmitted other pages separately.

trailers · 1 year ago

I was also surprised that SSS analyzed
the home page only. I have resubmitted other pages separately.

Haydn · 1 year ago

Another thorough post.
think ill skip on this tool. Though I have taken the advice and signed up.

Haydn · 1 year ago

Another thorough post.
think ill skip on this tool. Though I have taken the advice and signed up.

Andrew Shotland · 1 year ago

Andy, thanks for taking the time to put this together. Saved me a lot of time.

Andrew Shotland · 1 year ago

Andy, thanks for taking the time to put this together. Saved me a lot of time.

Chris Lang · 1 year ago

Google is no longer treating www.andybeard.eu and andybeard.eu the same....

I believe this is a setting in Google webmaster tools that you set. I asks if to propend www or the top level domain, look for it it is in there.

Chris Lang · 1 year ago

Google is no longer treating www.andybeard.eu and andybeard.eu the same....

I believe this is a setting in Google webmaster tools that you set. I asks if to propend www or the top level domain, look for it it is in there.

Andy Jenkins · 1 year ago

Thanks for the review Andy!

We're pretty excited about SSS Revision 2 - and now that we've got the scalability bugs worked out and the queuing working flawlessly, we'll start to turn on the intermediate and advanced tools over the course of the next few weeks.

In terms of the "basic analysis" that's offered, one thing that I'd like to point out is, according to our constant surveying of our members and subscribers, 70% of IM'ers self-identify as newbies in the Traffic and Conversion space.

Thats why we aimed this tool at their skill level, understanding that more intermediate and advanced users would be very familiar with the information that we aggregate with the tool.

We thought, "They are not even going to UNDERSTAND a LSI report, let alone know what to do with the data..."

Again, as Jerry pointed out in the end of the video, our roll out was to be staged - and this is stage 1. Stage's 2 and 3 will not only provide the analysis that the upper 30% of our subs desire, the nature of the staged roll out will help us educate them correctly about the advanced features use and functions.

Hope the clarifying our position helps assuage any or all vitriol that may be created because of mixed expectations.

Best,

Andy Jenkins

Andy Jenkins · 1 year ago

Thanks for the review Andy!

We're pretty excited about SSS Revision 2 - and now that we've got the scalability bugs worked out and the queuing working flawlessly, we'll start to turn on the intermediate and advanced tools over the course of the next few weeks.

In terms of the "basic analysis" that's offered, one thing that I'd like to point out is, according to our constant surveying of our members and subscribers, 70% of IM'ers self-identify as newbies in the Traffic and Conversion space.

Thats why we aimed this tool at their skill level, understanding that more intermediate and advanced users would be very familiar with the information that we aggregate with the tool.

We thought, "They are not even going to UNDERSTAND a LSI report, let alone know what to do with the data..."

Again, as Jerry pointed out in the end of the video, our roll out was to be staged - and this is stage 1. Stage's 2 and 3 will not only provide the analysis that the upper 30% of our subs desire, the nature of the staged roll out will help us educate them correctly about the advanced features use and functions.

Hope the clarifying our position helps assuage any or all vitriol that may be created because of mixed expectations.

Best,

Andy Jenkins

Jerry West · 1 year ago

Andy,

Thanks for taking the time to do the review Andy. Seriously, much appreciated - even the bad stuff. :-)

Let me go over some of your comments and findings ...

- Small Text ... white text on green background. Yeah, eye strain. We'll work on a "printer friendly version" of the page. Did you at least click on my affiliate link for 1-800-CONTACTS?!?! ;-)

- Being clearer what each section is about is dead on too. I'll work on improving the descriptions of each section. While Andy and I did that in the video, it didn't make it into the text portion of the report. It needs to be there.

- "Your Expectations". Those types of features should be available in the future versions. Seriously, we didn't want to get into too much with the first roll out as we had no idea the servers were going to be able to handle the volume. It had a few hiccups, but its done nearly 10,000 reports since Friday, which is good in my book.

- Removing the "www" from the site query. You're exactly right and this one was completely my fault. I don't how it slipped past me. You would think with 10 years of software testing under my belt I would have seen this one. Thanks for pointing it out.

- Sitemap error. This is due to the system finding the sitemap.xml file but linking to the sitemap.xml.gz file. I found that one earlier and it is getting fixed right now.

- All the "off page" checks are coming in a future version. Obviously we couldn't do it in the first rollout due to huge demand we'd put on Google and Yahoo!.

- Also, a few people had concerns how we were checking EzineArticles ... just looking for the domain name, and most link back with targeted anchor text. Most don't know that EzineArticles is one of the most heavily scrapped sites out there - and if you articles get scrapped do you think your links will stay in tact? No. So, include a text version of your domain name, that way if they do get scrapped they are easier to track down and plus, you have a solid way of seeing how many text references there are to your domain.

Lucky for me, most of the fixes are minor, so I may avoid the "Iron Maiden" for now.

Jerry West

Jerry West · 1 year ago

Andy,

Thanks for taking the time to do the review Andy. Seriously, much appreciated - even the bad stuff. :-)

Let me go over some of your comments and findings ...

- Small Text ... white text on green background. Yeah, eye strain. We'll work on a "printer friendly version" of the page. Did you at least click on my affiliate link for 1-800-CONTACTS?!?! ;-)

- Being clearer what each section is about is dead on too. I'll work on improving the descriptions of each section. While Andy and I did that in the video, it didn't make it into the text portion of the report. It needs to be there.

- "Your Expectations". Those types of features should be available in the future versions. Seriously, we didn't want to get into too much with the first roll out as we had no idea the servers were going to be able to handle the volume. It had a few hiccups, but its done nearly 10,000 reports since Friday, which is good in my book.

- Removing the "www" from the site query. You're exactly right and this one was completely my fault. I don't how it slipped past me. You would think with 10 years of software testing under my belt I would have seen this one. Thanks for pointing it out.

- Sitemap error. This is due to the system finding the sitemap.xml file but linking to the sitemap.xml.gz file. I found that one earlier and it is getting fixed right now.

- All the "off page" checks are coming in a future version. Obviously we couldn't do it in the first rollout due to huge demand we'd put on Google and Yahoo!.

- Also, a few people had concerns how we were checking EzineArticles ... just looking for the domain name, and most link back with targeted anchor text. Most don't know that EzineArticles is one of the most heavily scrapped sites out there - and if you articles get scrapped do you think your links will stay in tact? No. So, include a text version of your domain name, that way if they do get scrapped they are easier to track down and plus, you have a solid way of seeing how many text references there are to your domain.

Lucky for me, most of the fixes are minor, so I may avoid the "Iron Maiden" for now.

Jerry West

Justin Smith · 1 year ago

Thanks Andy for the very detailed review. It made me glad that I didn't spend a bunch of time with it. I watched their pitch video, and even gave them my email address (whoops), but I probably won't end up trying it out. thanks.

AndyBeard · 1 year ago

Justin I think the features you will be most interested in are still to come. There is noting wrong with giving the Stomper guys your email address, I have been on their list for over 2 years and have never thought they abused it.

In all honestly, I look forward to them promoting something, either their own, or someone else's because that is almost a guarantee I will learn stuff that you won't find for free on forums.

Brad and Andy constantly give me a reason to be on their email list, whereas many in the SEO field constantly give me reservations about why I should stay.

Justin Smith · 1 year ago

Thanks Andy for the very detailed review. It made me glad that I didn't spend a bunch of time with it. I watched their pitch video, and even gave them my email address (whoops), but I probably won't end up trying it out. thanks.

AndyBeard · 1 year ago

Justin I think the features you will be most interested in are still to come. There is noting wrong with giving the Stomper guys your email address, I have been on their list for over 2 years and have never thought they abused it.

In all honestly, I look forward to them promoting something, either their own, or someone else's because that is almost a guarantee I will learn stuff that you won't find for free on forums.

Brad and Andy constantly give me a reason to be on their email list, whereas many in the SEO field constantly give me reservations about why I should stay.

Dennis Edell · 1 year ago

I'm on the list and am enjoying learning from the videos immensely...not sure if I'll go beyond that yet.

Dennis Edell · 1 year ago

I'm on the list and am enjoying learning from the videos immensely...not sure if I'll go beyond that yet.

Paul Simister · 1 year ago

An excellent review which matched my thoughts when I tried it when I came back off holiday. Freat to see Andy Jenkins and Jerry West add their comments.

I have huge faith in StomperNet but I must admit that I expected a more comprehensive analysis from the build up.

Paul Simister · 1 year ago

An excellent review which matched my thoughts when I tried it when I came back off holiday. Freat to see Andy Jenkins and Jerry West add their comments.

I have huge faith in StomperNet but I must admit that I expected a more comprehensive analysis from the build up.

Yannis · 1 year ago

Awesome article...I had use the Site Seer, the same day it launched...but I totally forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me.

Yannis · 1 year ago

Awesome article...I had use the Site Seer, the same day it launched...but I totally forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me.

Hector · 5 months ago

HOw can I get access to Site Seer?

AndyBeard · 5 months ago

It was available as part of a previous Stompernet promotion. I would assume it will be made available again sometime.