by Chase Granberry on October 5, 2009
There are a lots of ways to pull out insights from the AuthorityLabs interface. The Summary section can help people understand pure visibility of a site within search engines. Here are a couple examples…
This Summary section was pulled from a site tracking 1000 keywords. In the middle of August they pushed a big SEO update. The plan was for that update to fix a lot of on-page issues and it looks like it worked. When we started tracking these keywords they were doing really well on Google, relatively well on Yahoo! but they weren’t anywhere on Bing. You can see that by comparing average ranking data. Over the past month they’ve managed to improve their visibility on Bing quite a bit. They started with an average rank on Bing of around 100, and now they have an average rank of 56 which speaks a lot for some of the techniques they’ve used.
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by Chase Granberry on September 29, 2009
You may have noticed your keyword count decrease since yesterday, here’s why…
We’ve updated the way we count keywords within an account. We used to count each keyword / domain combination as a seperate keyword. If you had three domains tracking the same keyword, it would count as three keywords. We now only count keywords based on the keyword / locale combination. So if you have three US domains tracking the same keywords, it only counts as 1 keyword towards your limit. But, if you are tracking the same keyword for three different locales (e.g. US, UK and CA for example) it counts as 3 keywords towards your limit.
by Chase Granberry on September 22, 2009
We’ve been working hard to build the things our customers have said they want. These are what we’ve been working on, and as of today, have enabled for all accounts…
AdWords Search Volume Data
We’ve been working with the AdWords API for a while. Everyone has had average global monthly search volume figures for Google in their .csv exports, but just now we enabled them in the interface. Read more >>
by Chase Granberry on August 19, 2009
Update: Changes are live!
We’re going to be pushing a pretty big update to AuthorityLabs soon. We’ve revamped and cleaned up the interface quite a bit and added a bunch of features which should make managing an account a lot easier. Most notably though, this new interface will make room for keyword tagging which isn’t completed yet but will be in the next couple weeks. We’ve always wanted to build something which enables marketers to easily access, analyze and find opportunities within keyword ranking data. This update and keyword tagging will get us a lot closer to that goal while keeping things pretty simple.
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by Chase Granberry on July 22, 2009
Ultimately we want to provide full web-based white-label seo reports and we’re on our way. Today we added the ability for each AuthorityLabs account to sport their own logo. When you upload a logo (in your account tab > Edit Account Info), the company name on the top of each account gets replaced with an image of your choice.
So instead of this…
You see this (or whatever image you choose)…
This is just the beginning. Soon you’ll be able to customize your own account colors, and alias our domain to yours.
by Chase Granberry on March 25, 2009
I’ve noticed that a few people are googling ‘authority labs penalised.’ Evidently some are concerned that checking your rankings with us will penalize your positioning within search results. I guarantee that it will not.
IP addresses will get penalized by search engines when they detect an abnormal amount of searches coming from a single IP. When this happens Google, for instance, throws up a CAPTCHA to make sure that humans are actually using their service and not automated rank checking software like WebPosition. A lot of the time poor quality rank checking software can poll search engines too often. They don’t like this because it takes up valuable bandwidth.
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by Chase Granberry on February 2, 2009
SilverPlatter.info is one of the best sites for Phoenix music. The site was recently updated, so I was poking around and realized they could do a lot of things better with regards to search. I’ve outlined a few things for them here. The people who run it don’t do it for the money, they’re simply trying to foster the music community in the valley. It’s desperately needed, and appreciated by music lovers here. Hopefully they’ll implement some of the things I talk about.
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