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[james_paul_photography]

As the owner of Rage Sitemap Automator I've been creating Sitemaps for my websites for quite a while. Now I realise the importance of them so I thought it was time to look at how my sites have been ranking and trying to develop that, I've downloaded the demo of 1.6 and now beta of SERank 1.7 plus SEKeyword. I have around 1900 html pages on my site (many with keywords, many without). When I started trying SERank, i tinkered around with just a few of my favourite keywords seeing what results they would bring. Now I realise that I would like to see how every keyword is performing, what works what doesn't.

On exploring SEKeyword I realised that it is a page orientated application i.e. it will search a particular page and fetch the keywords and suggest others. I like that and it has suggested some good alternatives that I would have never thought of. SERank on the other hand, seems to be site orientated i.e as in you input your website URL and it will find how all your pages rank based on the keywords list provided. It seems to do it's job well.

When I was using SEKeyword though, my main thought was that I wanted the software to scan my site and suck down all of the keywords to build a library which could be exported to SERank. Instead I was having to go through each URL and manually create a list then export keywords to SERank. With so many pages this was going to take a lot of time to build my library. What I would love to see in the future is some sort of automation so that SEKeyword goes through your site and not just each individual page.

I just wonder whether the future plans for SEKeyword is heading in this direction, I know for me it would be a huge time saver and just wonder whether other people have thought about this.

Thanks
James

[RageSW]

Hi James,

It is best to optimize each individual page for certain keywords. Each page should focus on a subject matter with their own keywords.

In SERank you can set it to check only the exact page you enter by setting this in the Preferences.

We are considering adding the kind of features you are looking for in SEkeyword however as an option.

[james_paul_photography]

Hi James,

It is best to optimize each individual page for certain keywords. Each page should focus on a subject matter with their own keywords.

In SERank you can set it to check only the exact page you enter by setting this in the Preferences.

We are considering adding the kind of features you are looking for in SEkeyword however as an option.

Thanks thats great to hear.
James

[MichaelQ]

It is best to optimize each individual page for certain keywords. Each page should focus on a subject matter with their own keywords.

I've just been playing with SE Keyword a bit myself over the weekend and had similar thoughts to James. Adding all the URLs for a domain / project does get a bit messy and time consuming.

I agree that optimising each page for keywords is important and should be the final ultimate goal. However sometimes it would be great to just hit a site and get an overall view of keywords.

Would help a lot for working with new SEO clients who have the overall view of their site - and aren't clued into the individual page thing yet.

Another alternative I would like to see is a "project" folder. Having individual URL's starts to get very messy when there are several sites. It would be great it I could create a project folder for a site and add URL's to it, then collapse it to hide the mess while I worked on another one.