Wordtracker launched Wordtracker Academy this month. It’s basically a library of articles, e-books, case studies, and other helpful info on running your own keyword research.
Wordtracker sells keyword research software on a subscription basis, but the Academy is free. It covers some crucial topics for keyword research, including:
Long tail keywords. The [...]

The Bigdaddy updated was first mentioned by Matt Cutts on Novemember 30th in a blog comment where Matt noted “66.249.93.104 is the test data center (I think; as I get older, I get worse at IP addresses and phone numbers). If I do put out a call for feedback, the keyword will be bigdaddy…”
The [...]

Well it official SEO Company now owns CheckRankings.com. Roderick Coleman of ColemanBusiness Webdesign made me an offer that I felt like I could refuse.
I also picked up a programmer on contract with the deal also. Andrey from Ukraine has done a good job on this Website and we have had a [...]

Well I am developing the Keyword Ranking Montior Tool (KRMT) from both ends. The spec has been finish and submitted to my team of programmers in Russia. The backend is going to be done in Perl and we are still not sure if it going to be Perl/GD or flash for the display.
While [...]

Well I looked at the Overture PPC data base and based on the searches I decided to change the name of the keyword ranking display app to Keyword Ranking Monitor Tool. The numbers are not big but I would like to target “keyword ranking”, “keyword ranking tool”, and “monitor keyword ranking”. Also I [...]

Well things don’t always go as fast as you would like them to go. I spend a good number of hours yesterday discussing the project with two differnet programmers and writing out a new spec. I also called Rand Fishkin and picked his brain on how accessing the Google and Yahoo API was [...]

Well the mockup display seems to have helped me make some choices as far as the layout. I am now going to get the graphs redone using JpGraph. JpGraph is an Object-Oriented Graph creating library for PHP 4.3.1 and greater. We are also going to do image maps so we can mouse over the graph [...]

Well when this puppy is up and running I will be emailing 1302 SEO firms that I parsed out of DMOZ’s RDF (well that job is spec’ed out but has not been done yet). If only 10% of them respond and each uses this service for 10 domains, 3 search engines and 20 keywords [...]

Well it’s not completed, but we have made a start on it. I got one of the programmers I use on contact to hammer out a mock up for the front end display. (If this is broken when you try it, the programmer is working on the backend.) It’s not the best lay out but [...]

Well I have picked a name for the Web app, Keyword Ranking Display App. I also have come up with an simplified design for the display of the rankings. On the left side of the display page there will be a list of the keywords a client wants to track, one keyword per line. To [...]