| SEODigger: A Keyword Research Tool to Bury Competitors With

SEODigger: A Keyword Research Tool to Bury Competitors With

Posted on May 21, 2007
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SEODigger is a brilliant new SEO Keyword Selection and Keyword Competition tool that shaves literally hours off the time it takes to perform extensive keyword research for SEO/SEM uses. Not only is it incredibly powerful, it’s free!

SEODigger has a clean, simple interface and provides an incredible amount of keyword data with minimal effort on your behalf. Simply enter the URI of a domain or link into the query field and SEO Digger will report all individual keyword phrase for which the address has a top 20 Google ranking.

More specifically, SEODigger returns the following data;

1. ID - Handy for ordering results in a spreadsheet,
2. Date - Indicates the date this Google query was last checked by SEODigger,
3. Keyword - The Keyword or Keyword Phrase the address ranks for,
4. Position - The ranking in Google.com SERPs the address has for the Keyword,
5. Wordtracker - The amount of times the Keyword has appeared in the Wordtracker database over the last 90 days, and
6. Overture - Traffic estimate for the previous month according to Overture.

The automation of the steps required to manually collect this data will save you plenty of time. In terms of competitive research, SEODigger exponentially widens the potential scope of research targets you can investigate.

See the SEODigger Results For Yourself

Try this right now: Perform a Google search for the keyword phrase of most interest to you at this moment in time, grab the address of the no.1 result and paste that into the query box at SEODigger.com. You are now privvy to the SEO keyword research strategy of the Top Dog for that particular niche! You can see within seconds a neat list of all the keywords for which this domain ranks within the top 20 of SERPs. Very nice.

In some industries the dominant players will rank for tens of thousands of individually targeted keyword phrases (and more than a few not-so-targeted terms). SEODigger hands your competitor’s keyword strategy to you on a platter, with a sidedish of statistics relating to the search volumes for each term. I’m sure that’s enough to get the SEO’s and Domainers salivating and I can testify that SEODigger has reignited my interest in the aforementioned industries.

For example, say I have an interest in Australian Tourism, I would search out the flesh eating, amorphous blob of that particular niche, in this case TotalTravel, and put them under the SEODigger microscope. I’ve spent a good few hours harvesting their keywords and I’m still only a third of the way through the gargantuan list of 67029 unique keyword phrases they rank within the top 20 for.

So far, I’ve counted the following results for TotalTravel;

• No 1. Rankings: 3163
• No 2. Rankings: 4442
• No 3. Rankings: 4971
• No 4. Rankings: 5168
• No 5. Rankings: 4704
• No 6. Rankings: 4458

Considering a lot of the other sites I’ve been checking out barely rank in the top 20 for a few hundred terms (let alone no.1), you can see that it pays to go direct to the source when it comes to keyword research. SEODigger just became your new best friend if you actively compete online or have been trying to break into marketing on the Internet.

It can also be a bit of a giggle to find sites ranking for wholly inappropriate terms. For example, the website of Wicked Campers (a camper van hire company in Australia, New Zealand and the UK) ranks for such terms as wicked bikini australia, free video of naked people and even dildo story!

SEODigger Restrictions

The SEODigger keyword research tool is free to use and register for. Use is restricted as outlined on the SEODigger website

Anonymous visitors limited to hourly 5 links searches, registered users has unlimited links and limited to hourly 10 domains searches!

I’m pretty sure the creators of SEODigger are from Russia so for full effect you might like to read that aloud with a thick Russian accent.

SEODigger could be improved by allowing users to export results to .csv for easy manipulation with spreadsheets. At present, I’ve found the most efficient method of collection to be cut and paste the results to a text editor and then into a spreadsheet application. SEODigger reports just 50 keyword phrases per page so it can still be time consuming to collect information. It still kicks the crap out of manually collecting each unit of data, of course!

***EDIT*** Ask and ye shall receive, SEODigger now supports exporting reports to .csv BUT the exported results are limited to 5000 keyword phrases.

I’m sure it won’t be too long before somebody develops a way to automate those extra steps - SEODigger Elite, anyone?

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