Is there a GAP in any SEO tools?

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I am looking for ideas to build my new software tool

I have used various Auditing tools, services and so on but my experience is limited. There is a huge spectrum of SEO software that I have never used or never had the opportunity to use them.

Can you share your thoughts on what is the most missing feature or tool in the SEO space?
 
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njbox said:
I am looking for ideas to build my new software tool

I have used various Auditing tools, services and so on but my experience is limited. There is a huge spectrum of SEO software that I have never used or never had the opportunity to use them.

Can you share your thoughts on what is the most missing feature or tool in the SEO space?
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I think you are late to the game. there are major providers who are competing with each other to deliver on SEO tools feature. you cannot compete with those guys.

Sorry to burst your bubble.
 
njbox said:
I am looking for ideas to build my new software tool

I have used various Auditing tools, services and so on but my experience is limited. There is a huge spectrum of SEO software that I have never used or never had the opportunity to use them.

Can you share your thoughts on what is the most missing feature or tool in the SEO space?
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Of course there are gaps. There's no perfect product. All I can say is, try all tools (online/offline) and see what's missing and build one and have success.

If you have programming skills, go for it. Otherwise, you will have a hard time finding the right people to build your product.
 
I'm going to agree with @fb3003 - you are a bit late to the scene. Ahrefs is unbelievable. Deepcrawl caters to me like I'm part of the royal family. Moz just got acquired. These companies have money and great tools. I've been in SEO for 12 years and the amount of tools available now have made my job easier than ever. A decade ago you'd have to switch between Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder to get anything done but those days are long gone.

I'd be interested to see what ideas @TomTheCat has because the gaps are rare. Talent hiring is fairly easy, as is raising VC money right now. There are lots of ideas, but you have to step out of the SEO space into an industry with more money and less advanced competition.
 
macdonjo3 said:
I'd be interested to see what ideas @TomTheCat has because the gaps are rare. Talent hiring is fairly easy, as is raising VC money right now. There are lots of ideas, but you have to step out of the SEO space into an industry with more money and less advanced competition.
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Well, I've managed to find a gap in expired domains niche. Most tools won't let you have easy access to them and you need to use multiple tools to collect them. ~40% of domains aren't listed on major SEO tools.

I'm not speaking about .com / .net / .org because here almost all of them are there, if they had value once in their lifetime, but on ccTLDs data is not complete at all, and there are very good expired domains out there. I'm steadily building the lists for more than 2 years and are growing day by day.
 
fb3003 said:
I think you are late to the game. there are major providers who are competing with each other to deliver on SEO tools feature. you cannot compete with those guys.

Sorry to burst your bubble.
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I appreciate your insight and this is the reason need to validate the niche before I enter.

The SEO industry is estimated into several billions so I think there is always room for another tool. I don't want to build any copycat. Looking for a twist that solves one purpose very well and then build around that, start filling the gaps.
 
macdonjo3 said:
I'm going to agree with @fb3003 - you are a bit late to the scene. Ahrefs is unbelievable. Deepcrawl caters to me like I'm part of the royal family. Moz just got acquired. These companies have money and great tools. I've been in SEO for 12 years and the amount of tools available now have made my job easier than ever. A decade ago you'd have to switch between Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder to get anything done but those days are long gone.

I'd be interested to see what ideas @TomTheCat has because the gaps are rare. Talent hiring is fairly easy, as is raising VC money right now. There are lots of ideas, but you have to step out of the SEO space into an industry with more money and less advanced competition.
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Thank you for your insight. You have more experience in variety of SEO tools and truly respect that. I am not leaning towards SAAS right now. Just desktop tool initially.

Would like to hear more about pains and wow factors from your experiences
 
TomTheCat said:
Of course there are gaps. There's no perfect product. All I can say is, try all tools (online/offline) and see what's missing and build one and have success.

If you have programming skills, go for it. Otherwise, you will have a hard time finding the right people to build your product.
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Like your positive tone. I do plan to develop the initial parts myself and will start trying all of the tools. Thank you
 
A more accurate SERP analyzer would be more than welcome. You would enter your keyword, and the tool would analyze the top 10 google results.

As far as I know, there are only a few good tools that do this. SurferSEO has pretty much to offer, but not all of them. Also, surferSEO is quite pricey.

There are dozens of questions that an SEO copywriter would be interested in while writing a piece that no tool offers at the moment.
 
notNewB said:
A more accurate SERP analyzer would be more than welcome. You would enter your keyword, and the tool would analyze the top 10 google results.

As far as I know, there are only a few good tools that do this. SurferSEO has pretty much to offer, but not all of them. Also, surferSEO is quite pricey.

There are dozens of questions that an SEO copywriter would be interested in while writing a piece that no tool offers at the moment.
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That is a unique angle and pain point.

I too was thinking about the following

Many tools provide you keyword research but is there a need for a tool that breaks up your current page content into keywords and phrases. Using the density count of phrases and keywords it can then tell you what the page is optimized for?

Do SEOs ever have the need for such functionality or is it too much work to bother doing it?
 
njbox said:
That is a unique angle and pain point.

I too was thinking about the following

Many tools provide you keyword research but is there a need for a tool that breaks up your current page content into keywords and phrases. Using the density count of phrases and keywords it can then tell you what the page is optimized for?

Do SEOs ever have the need for such functionality or is it too much work to bother doing it?
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Great idea, but I would NOT use a tool that does only this. This would go as a good feature of a tool.
 
Now here's the thing though.
When it comes to "ranking a webpage" or "google page 1 ranking" or whatever you wanna call it.
The "SEO problem" is pretty much solved or solved for now.
To be honest with you.
So most likely you gonna have a hard time getting customers for your "SEO tool".
What's not solved is the "content problem".
 
TomTheCat said:
Well, I've managed to find a gap in expired domains niche. Most tools won't let you have easy access to them and you need to use multiple tools to collect them. ~40% of domains aren't listed on major SEO tools.

I'm not speaking about .com / .net / .org because here almost all of them are there, if they had value once in their lifetime, but on ccTLDs data is not complete at all, and there are very good expired domains out there. I'm steadily building the lists for more than 2 years and are growing day by day.
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Fair, but I guess this just means going after smaller niches. I am doubtful the MRR would reach anything substantial. Do you agree?
 
macdonjo3 said:
Fair, but I guess this just means going after smaller niches. I am doubtful the MRR would reach anything substantial. Do you agree?
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I agree with you, MRR won't be substantial. I plan to build features that are available only if you buy 2-3 tools that are right now on the market, this making my product cheaper than the competition and easy to use since I will have a 3 in 1 product, and this will get me where I want.

Since I don't have big costs involved other than my time and servers, it counts. There will be some costs on the way, but only one time. With great marketing I can get this product up to $50k profit per month, which is more than enough.
 
I just started documenting the development process and my idea.

Here is the idea and excerpt
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Deciding on the Product features and planning
I knew building a crawler and a robust seo auditing tool is not a small task that can be done over the weekend. I wanted to have thorough understanding of the industry and all the pain points.

So I kept deferring building any plans and feature list.

Instead, I decided to become a SEO myself.

I enrolled into Glen Allsopp‘s MarketingInc course and SEO Blue print

Started going through all the modules on lead generation, client acquisition and other SEO modules.

I decided to offer SEO audits as service. Glen even kept sending all the audit leads to all his members including myself. I joined upwork and offered audit service. I became good at using ScreamingFrog and doing all the analysis.

Using my dashboard software, I even built a SEO log analysis tool over a week’s time. The dashboard app InfoCaptor is very robust, it can consume csv files and create tables for you. All I had to do was slice and dice the Apache logs data and publish them into various dashboards for log analysis. I even called it LogTiger or something
===============

Here is the full article https://www.crawlspider.com/seo-monitor-track-seo-changes/

This all started way back in 2018 but it was only beginning of this year I started building components of the tool. I intend to post complete details on my development and marketing efforts
 
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