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This is truly by a long, long shot the coolest, nay most awesome SEO tool I've ever had the pleasure to encounter and work with! Hamlet Batista has made a marvelous job of concatenating just about all conceivably essential SEO factors into one smart, easy-to-use and deceptively simple (but in actuality: extremely powerful) interface.
Be it "Competitive Intelligence" (one of my favorites) focusing on rankings, search engine exposure, links, age of domains and their respective authority status, be it the countless nifty functionalities allowing you to analyze, tweak and optimize your pages in real time - as a fellow software developer I can only marvel at how well thought-out and easily usable this highly complex and sophisticated program is!
 Once you've dug into the innards of RankSense, it will allow you to save tons of time and human resources on standard tasks (and then some) no serious SEO can do without. The "Link Text Analysis" tool alone is worth a mint: try achieving that kind of granularity and precision by manual investigation - or even with some of the tools available out there currently -, and it's enough to give you the creeps. With RankSense, by comparison, it's a downright breeze.
The interface is beautifully crafted, exceedingly well structured, detailed and, yes: actually helpful! help available at every single step - quite worthy of a design award in its own right, too.
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If nothing else, expect to be surprised at what you may find out when putting RankSense to work: about your own pages, about your competitors' standing, about the interesting connections (or, equally significant: lack thereof) informing the entire setup. These days, search analysis has mutated into one huge labyrinthine puzzle, and RankSense thankfully offers the red thread to guide you safely through it all.
There's lots and lots more impressing stuff to say about this program, but in a nutshell: it's nothing repeat NOTHING any up-to-date SEO can do without. Great show, Hamlet, with not a single fly in the ointment as far as I can discern (and don't we all love hunting those out...) - so by all means do keep up the good work! |
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Ralph Tegtmeier aka fantomaster has been active in web site development and web marketing since the Fall of 1994. He is the co-founder and principal of fantomaster.com GmbH (Belgium), a company specializing in webmasters software development, industrial-strength cloaking and a variety of upmarket search engine optimization tools and services, pioneering among other things such benchmark products as the world's most comprehensive database of verified search engine spiders, fully automated IP delivery applications and intelligent automated link building networks. |
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I'm pretty excited about RankSense. The information it mines is really valuable, and I don't have to waste precious time or brain-cells to get at that information.
My favorite feature is the Keyword Appraisals section. After adding keywords to the basket (which was an interesting and useful process to begin with), I am taken to a screen that helps me measure which keywords are most likely to drive visitors to my site with a reasonable amount of effort. Knowing this, I can then judge which keywords to target first. |
It's algo graphs how much each phrase is worth in terms of traffic, dollar value, competition, and opportunity. With one of my new sites, I want to be able to focus on high value, low competition phrases first, so I can get some traffic flowing. Once I've got some rankings, I can focus up the chain on those with higher-traffic potential. I could certainly calculate this on my own for a few keywords, but to be able to sit back and let RankSense do it for me with a long list of keywords is priceless.
Other features: The competitive analysis features are also interesting and useful, as I can get a quick glance at what my competitors are doing that I might need to focus more attention on. I don't tend to pay too much attention to the on-site recommendations only because I trust my own gut (and experience) for that, but I can see how it can be useful to some. I do, however, take a look at the results just to get an idea of what RankSense thinks of my onsite optimization.
The link text analysis report is very interesting and informative. I like not only seeing what sites are linking to my competitors, but also seeing details about those links that help to gauge the quality of those links. And what would any good suite of tools be without reports? The plethora of reports feeds my need to see it all at a glance. All in all, a great search marketing tool.
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Donna Fontenot, aka DazzlinDonna, is an Internet Entrepreneur and SEO, who has long utilized search engine optimization and affiliate marketing to create a successful online business. Her goal, ultimately, is to coach others so they can make a living online from the comfort of their homes (and in their pajamas). Her motto is "You'll never shine if you don't glow." |
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The work of an SEO is never done: initial SEO involves lots of research and analysis, and then, when you've achieved a good search engine showing for your site, you need to periodically keep an eye on things to make sure you'll stay there.
On a daily basis I need to spend hours conducting:
- Keyword research to make sure sites are using the best possible search terms.
- Competitive intelligence to find out what we need to do eat the competition's lunch.
- Site analysis to pinpoint exact trouble spots and find what needs to be done.
Unfortunately, all this work is time-consuming and boring: repetitive drudge work that I hate. But it has to be done, and done to a high standard if I am to get the excellent results my clients pay me for.
Until now there has been no reliable way of automating those processes. I've tried a few programs but always gone back to doing it manually because I cannot leave the results to chance where a client's website is concerned, and for some of the programs I simply could not find the time to learn how to use them—they were so darned complicated.
Then Hamlet Batista came out with his fabulous program, RankSense. It is an understatement to say that this piece of software shaves hours off my daily work schedule. I can now take on more projects than before because a lot of time-consuming chores are done for me in the blink of an eye. It also means I can complete critical site analysis quickly and accurately in order to impress clients with my initial response to their queries.
I feel that RankSense gives me an edge and allows me to get to the part of SEO that I enjoy—writing copy and making the actual changes to HTML that can have such an amazing impact on search results. I love every aspect of RankSense, but if I have to choose a favorite RankSense tool, it would be the Competitive Intelligence tool. It's simply the most sophisticated I've seen. I can run different competitive analysis checks for separate criteria. I can see how to rank higher than a whole list of websites in one click. What more could I ask?. |
I cannot recommend RankSense highly enough. It is worth twice the money Hamlet's charging, especially when you take into account all the hours you'll be saving on a weekly basis. And that's not to even mention the fact that your results can now be a lot more accurate than they might have been in the past. |
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Marketing consultant, SEO copywriter / marketmou.com.
I like to get to the nub of the matter. Perhaps it's strange that I should choose SEO consulting and Internet marketing as a way to make a living, since it's surrounded by hype, and being straight and honest is so important to me. But I've always been up for a challenge and I'd like to make sure that at least a small corner of the industry gains a good repution, while trying to remedy the fact that so many onine businesses know so little about SEO! I'd like to contribute to a more open--and accurate--atmosphere on the Internet regarding SEO. |
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Sooogood.org is my father’s Iraqi cooking site with recipes and how-to videos available nowhere else on the Web. You can’t get these recipes anywhere outside the Middle East—and certainly not in English. The content is top-notch and unparalleled on the Web, so you can imagine his chagrin when he typed ‘Iraqi food’ into Google only to find his site listed on page 6.
I knew right away that SEO was both his problem and his solution. Since the site is his labor of love and not for profit, the idea of hiring an expensive search engine marketing agency was out of the question. Instead, I suggested RankSense.”
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The first tool, Discover Rankings, analyzed SoooGood.org’s log files, which had piles of valuable data, including a few keywords that were worth winning. Some intrepid users had scrolled through many pages of useless Google results and come across the site. “Iraqi recipes” seemed to be a favorite keyword phrase. The Keyword Suggestions tool offered some helpful variations we hadn’t thought of like ‘Iraqi cuisine’ and ‘Iraqi food recipes.’ With RankSense we also created a sitemap with all his pages/recipes instantly, and submitted it directly to Google and Yahoo.
We also looked at the site’s chief competitors, RecipeZaar.com and Allrecipes.com. Using RankSense, we studied how they used the keywords, as well as where they were getting their links. We decided to optimize the text on our site to match what we had learned. The On-page editor made this easy. What’s left for us to do is some serious link building. Because the site offers visitors excellent content and recipes that they can’t get anywhere else, asking for links will not be too difficult. Link building does take time, however, and it’s something that RankSense has made us more and more motivated to do.
But even now, try typing in ‘Iraqi recipes’ into Google and you’ll see we’re on the first page. You’ll get some great Iraqi recipes too! |
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As a multilingual copywriter, translator, and web designer, Benjamin Zadik (www.ibabbleon.com) does SEO as part of his job every day. But when his dad’s Iraqi food recipe site www.sooogood.org was in the SEO doldrums, he needed to find an economical answer. RankSense seemed just right because it’s affordable and works best on sites like sooogood.org—sites with valuable content that deserve to be number one in the rankings. |
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Hamlet is a seriously smart guy who knows what he is talking about when it comes to the search engines' algorithms. His new software tool, Ranksense, automates a lot of the boring bits of SEO and also provides great insights that can be hard to get.
I particularly like the analysis of upcoming keywords - it extracts ranking information and keywords from your log files enabling it to suggest places to target your effort next. |
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Will is a director of Distilled, a search marketing agency based in London. Distilled works with businesses of all sizes on both paid and natural search projects. Will also writes on the Distilled blog at www.distilled.co.uk/blog
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I like having all the SEO tools integrated into one program. Since doing SEO is in man respects, repetitive, this software makes tasks easilty repeatable after you are setup and have completed your initial phases of SEO.
I am also impressed with the support. The guys at Ranksense seem like they are willing to talk about anything related to search marketing. So if you ever need help learning something about the tool, or SEO in general, the support is there. |
SEO is heavily loaded up front with different types strategic and tactical analysis. Once you get through the initial phases you need SEO tools to follow through on the everyday work. |
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Sean A. Golliher is founder and editor-in-chief of www.semj.org a search marketing research journal. He also operates as a consultant for companies needing help with search engine optimization and paid advertising techniques. He has reduced his consulting business down in order to devote all his energy to his research journal. The journals main objective is to bring integrity and research into the field of SEM.
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RankSense is an amazing piece of software that takes the grunt work out of SEO. The program is extremely easy to use and is targeted towards webmasters and publishers who do not know all of the technicalities of SEO.
The Smart Mode takes you through a step by step process and enables you to perform professional-grade SEO on your site on your own. Best of all, you learn as you go and the experience is priceless.
I'm a professional agency SEO now but I wish I had this when I was first starting out. |
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Gyutae Park is a professional SEO in New York City and blogs on Internet marketing strategy at Winning the Web - www.winningtheweb.com |
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The fact is that most website owners don't have the time or knowledge to do all the work needed for great search rankings. RankSense helps to solve that problem. What used to take days, now takes hours and RankSense holds your hand the through the whole process. |
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Jeremy is an Internet marketing specialist from Dallas/Fort Worth with a broad range of experience operating online ventures. He blogs at www.xuru.com and is also a regular contributor to the popular search marketing blog marketingpilgrim.com |
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