Ask HN: Review My App: SEOSiteCheckup.com

[javahava]

I developed a search engine optimization (SEO) tool targeted for non-programmers/small businesses, to help them easily analyze and improve their site for search engines. I haven't found many tools that do this (they generally seem a bit confusing), so I built an app that tries to do this in a more user-friendly fashion:

http://www.seositecheckup.com

I'd love to hear your feedback as to whether this is going in the right direction, missing some key features, or if the balance between SEO-speak/web terminology/simplicity should be tweaked. I've included explanations and links in the analysis where I thought it would be helpful, but I'm unsure of the right balance. Thanks for your thoughts!

[javahava]

I developed a search engine optimization (SEO) tool targeted for non-programmers/small businesses, to help them easily analyze and improve their site for search engines. I haven't found many tools that do this (they generally seem a bit confusing), so I built an app that tries to do this in a more user-friendly fashion:

http://www.seositecheckup.com

I'd love to hear your feedback as to whether this is going in the right direction, missing some key features, or if the balance between SEO-speak/web terminology/simplicity should be tweaked. I've included explanations and links in the analysis where I thought it would be helpful, but I'm unsure of the right balance. Thanks for your thoughts!

[chunkyslink]

I got an error when I tried to search

"Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier '/' in /home/jjoczpw/public_html/functions3.php on line 1702"

[javahava]

Hm; strange - i don't seem to get any error? can you email me what URL you're checking? [e-mail]. thanks!

[abhishekdesai]

This is good tool. How different it is from other tools such as websitegader.com or mysitegrader.com?

[javahava]

My tool looks for a number of other factors which those sites don't, and specifically ignores other factors which they do (it's a matter of personal expertise/opinion as to which factors are really impactful/helpful for beginner/intermediate SEO analysis). It's also supposed to more clearly convey why certain factors are important to analyze, and just how important they are among the entire list. If that's not immediately coming across, that's good to know. Any other suggestions for better making that point/differentiation would be great.

[onreact-com]

"Keyword tags are missing from this page. You should include meta-keywords to help indicate what your page is about to search engines."

No, it's not 1999 anymore.

[javahava]

Heheh, yes, definitely. That's why I've tried to indicate that it's only moderately important at best. Perhaps its best to remove that analysis entirely, but I think beginner's would be looking for that kind of analysis (just to see what keywords are being used - if anything, to check/avoid keyword stuffing there).