| SeoDigger Premium Account: Should You Upgrade Your Membership?

SeoDigger Premium Account: Should You Upgrade Your Membership?

Posted on February 14, 2008
Filed Under Keyword Research, Search Engine Optimisation |

*Read this first* If you have no idea what SeoDigger is, it’s a Free Keyword Research Tool for gathering Competitive Intelligence. To find out more you might like to read the SEODigger review I wrote when they first launched back in May 2007.

It looks like the guys behind SeoDigger have just rolled out a “Premium Version” of their keyword research tool. This is hardly surprising as it appears to be the logical progression for sites like these - offer a powerful tool for free while you are beta testing it and add progressive layers of value and iron out the bugs as you gather user feedback. The same thing happened with SpyFu and no doubt other products will follow a similar evolution in the future.

At this point I can’t find a whole lot of useful information on the site regarding the features and benefits of upgrading to a premium seodigger membership. As usual, the developers seem more focussed on development and deployment than documentation. That’s fair enough, stick to what your good at and fix the rest up as you go. Besides, once you’ve used SEO Digger a couple of times you’ll see that it’s a fairly simple interface to get your head around.

Features and Benefits of SeoDigger Premium Membership

It took me a little digging around (no pun intended) to find out what is the difference between regular SeoDigger and Premium SeoDigger. In a nutshell:

With Premium account you can perform up to 1000 queries per hour. Also you can export in CSV up to 100000 results for each domain (if you need to export more than 100 thousand queries, contact us). You can choose duration of Premium account for 5, 30 or 180 days.

That’s some pretty meat axe shit right there. Currently, the free version is limited to 10 queries per hour for registered users (5 queries per hour for non-registered users) and CSV exports are limited to the first 1000 results. So, if you’re researching a site that ranks for 2000 keyword phrases you have to download the first thousand results and step through another four pages, cutting and pasting 250 results at a time. This represents a minor inconvenience for researching small to medium sites (or piddly niches with low competition). For larger sites with 10k+ keyword phrases, you might as well forget about it unless you’re willing to upgrade to premium access.

It appears also that the free version has been crippled just a tiny bit by requiring you to wait for your reports to be processed before being made available for download. Please note when I tried this it only took a couple of minutes. I’m not sure if this applies to premium exports yet as I haven’t tried it out yet.

The core benefit that I can discern is quite simple - it will save you a lot of time to perform aggressive and large scale competitive keyword research!

SeoDigger Premium Account Pricing

The premium pricing model will be familiar to anybody who has signed up for other premium keyword tools such as wordtracker or wordze. Subscriptions are based on the number of days access you receive and is broken down as follows:

Available Subscriptions

As with wordtracker and other tools, unless you are a heavy user you would probably be better off putting all your research jobs into one basket and going nuts on them for short, intense periods rather than paying up front for longer term access you may never use. If you think about it in terms of a solution to a pressing keyword research problem, $5 to get a bucket load of data in a short burst of time makes good economic sense.

Are the Improvements to SeoDigger worth the Premium Price?

If you need to do some hardcore competitive keyword research then the premium account sounds great and I will definitely try it out next week when I start my new job (more on that when I know more about it). Previously, you would have been limited by the number of queries you could perform in an hour as well as potentially having to copy and paste many pages worth of results for sites that rank for huge numbers of keywords.

Is There An Affiliate Program for SeoDigger Premium?

At the time of writing I can’t see one but it would make sense for them to roll one out sooner rather than later. Allowing users to benefit from spreading the word will help extend their reach. Again, given the similarities between SeoDigger and other keyword research tools like WordTracker and WordZe (both of which offer affiliate programs) I would say it’s only a matter of time before SeoDigger Premium follows suit and starts signing up affiliates. If and when they do, I will gladly sign up for it because I find it extremely useful for quickly immersing myself in new niches and keyword landscapes and will happily recommend it to others.

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