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Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

AndyBeard — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:51:21 -0000

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

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Hector — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:47:18 -0000

HOw can I get access to Site Seer?

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Yannis — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:59:54 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Yannis — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:59:54 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Paul Simister — Mon, 26 May 2008 09:08:46 -0000

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.

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Paul Simister — Mon, 26 May 2008 09:08:46 -0000

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.

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Dennis Edell — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:38:59 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Dennis Edell — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:38:59 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

AndyBeard — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:42:48 -0000

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.

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

AndyBeard — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:42:48 -0000

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.

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Justin Smith — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:33:25 -0000

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.

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Justin Smith — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:33:25 -0000

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Jerry West — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:29:28 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Jerry West — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:29:28 -0000

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?!?! ;-)

- 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!.

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

Jerry West

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Andy Jenkins — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:12:43 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Andy Jenkins — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:12:43 -0000

Thanks for the review Andy!

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..."

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

Best,

Andy Jenkins

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Chris Lang — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:47:18 -0000

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.

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Chris Lang — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:47:18 -0000

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.

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Andrew Shotland — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:41:09 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Andrew Shotland — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:41:09 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Haydn — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:09:35 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

Haydn — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:09:35 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

pablogeo — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:11:14 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

pablogeo — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:11:14 -0000

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

Re: Stompernet Site Seer – Ripped Apart

John Cussons — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:06:48 -0000

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