We’ve used SEO Elite for about 3 years now and we’ve found, overall, it’s a great peace of software. However, there are several features and options we wish were added as well as other fluff that is there to make you feel like the $167 is a good value. There are 8 projects that can be run on the software. We’ll go through the usefulness of each below.
- Analyze backlinks using a specified search engine
- Get links to your website
- Analyze allinanchor. allintitle, allintext
- Verify that link partners are still link back
- Find where your site is ranked for a given keyword(s)
- Find out how many pages are indexed
- Find possible authority websites
- Submit your articles to article directories
Analyze backlinks using a specified search engine
By far the most useful feature of SEO Elite. Have you ever tried using google or yahoo to analyze the links for a specific site? It’s a nightmare especially for a larger site. Google only gives you a sample of backlinks. Yahoo gives you every link, even internal links. The best part of this feature is that it lets you filter the results based on specific factors like PR, alexa rank, reciprocal, nofollow, age, IP, etc. The reports view also lets you see the %’s of anchor text used to link to a specific site. Rank 9 of 10.
Get links to your website
This feature is a bit difficult to use. Using the variables of your choice, it attempts to search for useful sites that allow link exchanges or submissions. It also gives you the ability to automatically submit to all of them via email or through their submission form. Since every site has it’s own submission process and different submission variables, it was hard to use this feature accurately. On the plus side, it does give you a quick view of specific sites that offer link exchanges. We found that it was easier and less confusing to submit to them manually. Rank 3 of 10.
Analyze allinanchor. allintitle, allintext
Really not much to this one. Like the title suggests. It lets you analyze the allin’s of a specific keyword and compare it to the current google rankings. Nice easy feature. Rank 6 of 10.
Verify that link partners are still linking back
Nice feature for those that pursue reciprocal linking. Although reciprocal linking is becoming more and more less effective, if you still use this approach it is a useful tool. Rank 7 of 10.
Find where your site is ranked for a given keyword(s)
Not sure how we feel about this one. We haven’t tried it yet for fear of repercussions. Remember Web Position Gold. I know they are vastly different, but we’d prefer to stay on the safe side. Plus much of this can be done manually. Comment if you’ve used it. Rank 2 of 10.
Find out how many pages are indexed
Once again, and easy feature that can be done manually. Let’s you see how many pages are indexed for a specific site. Still, it’s nice to have a quick and easy option to do so. Rank 6 of 10.
Find possible authority websites
Now this feature we found to be very useful with one caveat. It quickly and easily allows you to find similar websites linking to high ranking websites based on keywords. A great feature with only one drawback. It doesn’t show you specific pages. It only gives you the top level URL. Damn, so close to being a perfect feature but still very useful. Rank 8 of 10.
Submit your articles to article directories
Allows you to submit articles to prominent article directories. Haven’t used this one yet but it doesn’t seem to bad. Only one problem with it. You have to have accounts setup with most of the sites in order to submit. Probably easier to do it manually and target the best one’s. Rank 5 of 10. Comment if you’ve used it.
Conclusion and Rating
SEO Elite scored a 46 of a possible 80. Having the ability to analyze the back links of your competitors is one of the most important factors in search engine optimization. The other features the software offers, while interesting and fairly useful, didn’t really do it for us. So if you’re looking for some software to analyze your competitors back links, you’ve found it. If your looking for features beyond that, look elsewhere.
Also checkout SEO for Firefox another great piece of software that has some of the same features but free. Not completely thrilled with it but we’ll talk about it in our review coming soon!!!
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This post was written by admin on September 18, 2008
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