SEOBOTS.io
Simple tools for marketers, SEOs and growth-hackers
We had a really productive December in SEOBOTS.io 🔥 fresh new bots at your service:
- Instagram hashtag users scraper
- YouTube comment scraper
- Booking.com hotel scraper
- Google indexation checker
- Company name to URL converter
More to come in 2020!
Getting users to sign up for your app is only one part of the puzzle, but making sure they understand how your tool works and turning that into a habit is a whole other thing! Arguably, it's even harder than the first one, if you ask me.
There are different ways to ensure you are on the same page with your users, and webinars are one of them. Since I never tried it, I thought that it might be a good time to actually step up and do it!
Which is why I've decided to do a test webinar next Wednesday where I'll be showing the benefits of using my app in my everyday marketing routine, and, of course, crediting people who show up with free credits to spend.
So far I blasted emails to all of my subscribers and was very surprised that 10 of them secured their spots. Which means there's no turning back. I can't get sick or run out of electricity. Super nervous.
If you'd like to be a part of this event, you are welcome to join the party! Just don't forget to sign up to get your webinar link: https://forms.gle/jCukfCnNTRazUSXR8
Signing up new users for SEOBOTS.io is hard, because the project does not have a single direction, and this is a built-in flaw that exists from the day of its inception.
The site is playing the role of a "Jack of all trades", trying to solve multiple problems on a single platform. It's a collection of automation tools that help me throughout my daily grind, which I shared with the world, thinking that many are facing the same ol issues.
While I was right, the problem is, there are too many people with too many problems that are different from mine. My solution? Try and solve them too.
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One criticism I get for my website is why would anyone pay for my SEO services if our own site doesn't have great SEO? I usually counter by saying that we just launched and SEO isn't our main priority right now.
The reason I bring this up is because I wonder if actually having good SEO could help build your legitimacy? I would be much more inclined to use an SEO bot if I knew it delivered results. If these tools are so valuable, I would expect the creator of the tools to take advantage of them and rank highly on some keywords.
Just my two cents, we saw a spike in our paid clients when we added testimonials and samples of our content. Maybe you can try a similar strategy. Would love to talk more in-depth if you have any questions or comments. Always enjoy chatting with someone else in the SEO world!
Cheers!
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Thanks for your reply! I'm running an IT agency with SEO being a huge part of it so can relate to what you are saying. You're absolutely right – when it comes to personal projects that are bringing "innovation" (in Founder's head), SEO is never the top goal. For example, none of my affiliate sites have this problem – links are getting built and content is regularly written. But this particular project to me is an "innovation playground" where I don't have to think about the boring routine of planning my anchor texts in a huge Excel spreadsheet! 😂
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Haha absolutely! Would love to schedule a call sometime and talk shop. I'm sure that we can help each other in terms of networking. Also, if you have a newsletter please add me to it! dpark@altum.io
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Big day for a small side-project!
We've been experimenting with crawling social networks for a little while and spent the whole last week creating a profile scraper for Instagram to see if we have the capacity of doing scraping at scale.
If you are a digital marketer, have a look, and don't forget to leave feedback!
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Congratulations! How do you deal with the legalities of scraping?
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Thanks! I'm closely watching the LinkedIn vs scrapers case, for example this just came out yesterday: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/10/20859399/linkedin-hiq-data-scraping-cfaa-lawsuit-ninth-circuit-ruling
Which is a very good sign for every SEO software out there.Additionally, the data scraped by my bots is not getting re-distributed, re-published or sold.
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With all the noise and all the opportunities out there, it's really hard to say NO to new features because you have no idea what's actually going to work. Nevertheless, saying NO is the most important thing a startup founder can do (one of) as you can easily get caught up in the YES-es and drive your startup off your main course. I've been saying a lot of NOs these days, and I do feel like it slowly starts yielding positive results.
Happy to say that even after all this time I'm still excited to work on #seobots. Today we've added a new bot to our growing Bot-family: Google Indexation Checker bot. A simple but useful addition to any SEO professional. The bot checks if a list of specified URLs is present in Google Search results, which comes in very handy when you need to analyze a bulk of pages. You can try out the new bot here: https://seobots.io/bots/google-indexation-checker
Ok, that was pretty difficult and took us like 3 weeks of going back and forth. The Slack team had been extremely polite and helpful throughout the whole approval process and I can't thank them enough for their patience. In the end, we managed to pass the moderation and I'm happy to announce that all SEOBOTS.io bots are getting Slack support starting tomorrow.
After listening to another IH podcast I thought that it might be a good idea to add my project here and try and update its' progress from time to time, say, once every week.
I'm really skeptical about this kind of journaling however I'm willing to give it a go and see if my user counts, productivity or product quality will go up (or down!)
Wish me luck!
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Did you make it all in December only by yourself?
What is your stack and how much experience do you have, Denis?
Hey!
I'm using Ruby on Rails for the application. All the bots mentioned were built during the month of December. I do have a freelancer to help me out with things.
Experience in what exactly? Programming? Not sure, but I've been doing it way too long 😅
Yes. In programming.
Hey @grammakov. This seems interesting. I would have liked some short description about what / how I would need / use one of these scrapers for.
Thank you for you feedback @Zolo! Most users who need to work with our bots know exactly what they want to achieve. If you don't need to scrape, say, booking.com, you probably won't be looking for this kind of bot around the web. However, I'm sure I could help you automate some of your workflows if I knew your specific needs.
I was just curious about what I'd use a scraping bot for. I checked out one of your scraping demos and I realised it's about converting website data into a more structured, machine-digestible format (that then is maybe fed to some other piece of code to find some specific information).
If you don't mind my asking, what can we use these bots for in the context of SEO? I'm genuinely interested, maybe I'll find a use for them myself if I understand the possibilities.
Sure, let me throw in a few examples so you get an idea.
One of the most popular bots we have is the Subdomain Explorer. It aggregates data from several sources and returns known subdomains for a given website. This kind of feature is popular among SEO and security specialists who are doing a site audit and need to know about all of the site's undocumented entry points. Sometimes there are dozens of subdomains the client has no clue about.
Another opportunity is using bots for lead generation. The Instagram Profile Scraper bot goes through a list of profiles you feed to it, and scrapes emails and phone numbers of your prospects, so you don't have to do that manually.
If we're talking pure SEO, I use a couple of bots on a daily basis, to keep track of my sites' health. For example, I use the Analytics Checker bot that sends me my yesterday's traffic stats first thing in the morning. I get a report on my organic traffic, queries users searched for using my site's search and my event/goal conversions.
I also use a ton of Element Checker bots to daily-check if my Robots.txt file is in place, my sitemap.xml is working properly, and my H1 tags and title tags are intact. Sometimes when you roll out changes on larger projects, stuff breaks. These bots let me know when it happens before it's too late and my Google positions tank.
Hope this makes some sense! I really feel like I should start a YouTube channel where I'll be explaining how the system works and what it does, and how one can benefit from plugging into it :D
This sounds very cool. I’d strongly suggest having these explanations (and more) on your landing page. At the moment the visitor has to know their use case and be able to see the other possibilities - you should consider clearly and prominently connecting the dots for them.
Thank you @Shaunau! You are 100% right.
I'm planning on dedicating the entire 2020 to marketing efforts.
Thanks, @grammakov! The subdomain aspect was very cool. Using it for unit testing is also something :D
This is very interesting. I'll have a try at a bot.
Count me among your subs if you do start a YT channel :D
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Rails for the application, Ruby for bots.