SEO Free Software Review – WebCEO 8.0
SEO free is a 40,000 search per month term. Why? Because SEO is expensive if you pay a professional to do it. (I know – I’m a an SEO professional.) So free SEO sounds pretty tempting. However, that leaves you with three options.
- Sign up with one of the inexpensive do-it-yourself SEM online tools like Lotus Jump or Raven SEO Tools…
- Use a bunch of free browser tools like all the Firefox SEO toolbars (I’ve used a lot of these myself to supplement my other software)…
- Get free SEO software like WebCEO…
I’m going to review WebCEO because I ‘ve used it for years and I like it for on-site SEO. When I went professional, I bought the full blown package but if you’re looking to just do your own website, you don’t need the paid version.
The WebCEO software review…
WebCEO SEO software is a very impressive SEO tool. This is one of the “old school” SEO software packages that does it all. And I mean, DOES IT ALL. As long as your primary focus is onsite SEO. While it offers off-site linking capabilities now, I haven’t used it yet and for offsite SEO, I really like actual online tools like like Lotus Jump or Raven SEO Tools.
This is actually the very first SEO software I ever bought and I still use it. That should say a lot right there. I’ve been using it for seven years and I just haven’t found anything better for on-site SEO.
In fact, the only comparable software is Web Position Gold. (Which I also own). There are certain things that Web Position Gold is a little more convenient for than WebCEO like creating reports for clients. Web Position Gold does it faster. And since I do organic search engine optimization professionally for a living, the time savings was worth it to me to buy Web Position Gold.
However, I still recommend WebCEO to most business owners and to people who want to get into doing onsite SEO for clients. That usually includes webmasters, marketing firms and website designers.
WebCEO is not something you’re going to pick up overnight. This software takes some real willingness to study the manual and work with it every day. But the rewards can be substancial.
Let’s take a look at what WebCEO has to offer…
Keyword Analysis Tools…
Keyword research is the most important part of the job. Mess that up and everything else that follows it will be a waste of time and money. It’s crucial in search engine optimization that you get the right keywords for your website. WebCEO offers the ability to spy on your competitiors and find out what keywords they are using and how.
Then you can use WebCEO’s keyword analysis tools to find out the KEI or Keyword Effectiveness Index. It’s an algorithm designed to compare how many people are suing that keyword versus how many people are actually searching for it. By comparing these two factors and running specific calculations, the KEI will tell you just how tough or easy it will be to compete for that keyword.
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Search Engine Submission Tool…
Another popular feature of WebCEO is the Search Engine Submission tool. One thing I like about it is that you can automatically import information from other parts of this campaign to speed up the submission process. Also, WebCEO is very carful about this process because a lot of search engine submission software has been badly dinged by Google for “automating” the process.
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Ranking Checker Tool…
As you may have guessed, I’m not going over every tool in WebCEO. There are twelve of them and that’s just too many for one review. Instead, I’m covering the ones I find most impressive and useful. The Ranking Checker Tool is one of those great SEO tools. Any professional SEO will tell you that you have to keep track of the rank in the major search engines regulary for every one of your keywords. This is probably the perfect tool to do that with.
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Website Quality Management…
This is another tool that every professional SEO can’t do without. It checks the pages for broken links, bad HTML, non-compliance with W3 standards and a host of other potential problems that Google will ding you for.
I’ve actually worked for clients that I was able to give them a big boost in the rankings by running this tool and having their webmaster fix all the problems that visitors couldn’t see but rankled the search engines.
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WebCEO 8.0 Review Summary
Like I said, this software package has 12 different tools including:
- Keyword Research
- Search Engine Optimization
- Search Engine Submission
- Link Popularity Analyzer
- Link Partner Finder
- PPC Campaigns Manager
- Ranking Checker
- Web Analytics
- Website Quality Management
- Web Page Editor
- FTP Uploader
- Website Monitoring
To be honest, I’ve never used the Pay Per Click Campaigns Manager. I have a partner who manages all my PPC campaigns and he’s “old school.” Does it all manually. But if that tool operates as well as the other ones I DO use, it should delight and impress you. The whole package has impressed me.
One thing I will say. I don’t use the Link Partner component because I prefer to have one way, incoming links for my clients. No link swapping. I don’t believe it has any value anymore for SEO.
All told, I’d say get it. It’s a great investment in your business whether you’re going to do just your own website or you plan to do organic search engine optimization for a living.
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PS Here’s a few of the companies that use WebCEO:
Company
Ask Joanne, LLC
Services offered
Ask Joanne, LLC provides search engine optimization consulting and services, pay-per-click campaign setup and maintenance, keyword research, and link building for small business professionals.
Location
Orlando FL, USA serving clients nationwide for over 8 years.
Why do you use Web CEO?
I have been a WebCEO user since 2004. It is fantastic tool for SEO professionals. The tools I use most often are the link reports (particularly the link text analysis) and the link partner reports. It’s great resource for measuring site presence and for competitive analysis.
Company
Anvil Media, Inc
Services offered
Anvil Media, Inc. (Anvil) is a search engine marketing (SEM) agency specializing in search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) management, search engine marketing public relations (SEM), online reputation management (ORM) and social media marketing (SMM) services. Anvil’s SEM clients benefit from a broad array of search engine marketing services designed to increase revenue and decrease costs while supporting branding and marketing initiatives.
Location
Portland, OR, founded in 2000
Why do you use Web CEO?
Anvil relies on WebCEO’s software as an integral component in measuring the success of our client’s SEM campaigns, particularly site & competitor rank checking. We look forward to exploring the additional services like Web auditing and analytics.
Kent Lewis, President
Company
3zero Limited
Services offered
Website Design/Redesign
Dynamic Website Development
Flash Websites
Ecommerce Websites
CMS Websites
Location
Cardiff, UK
Clients
Nautilus, Xerox, Oregon State University, Jive Software, PC World Magazine, Planar Systems, Lucy Activewe
Why do you use Web CEO?
We invested in the Professional version of WebCEO around 3 months ago. It has proved an invaluable tool for us to use in-house during the development stage of websites. Developing a site for a sector that one is unfamiliar with can prove daunting, however with the use of the keyword analysis tool, WebCEO has helped 3zero to produce better optimized sites time and time again.
Contact Details
Robert Clark, Company Director
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7 Comments
April 8th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
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April 5th, 2011 at 1:09 am
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March 2nd, 2011 at 9:42 am
Excellent review!
I have spent many hours,researching SEO software for the past 2 months, this review has confirmed to me, I will be purchasing WEB CEO.
I am a small business owner and am not interested in purchasing a library of programs…
Thank you for this very intense and well thought out review…you have helped me make my choice!
Many Blessings!! Linda
August 19th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
We spent exhaustive hours comparing various Internet marketing software to find a robust tool that included the ability to provide our clients with automated reports branded with our name. We’re very pleased that we purchased WebCEO. The product is wonderful and our customers are excited about what we are providing. WebCEO has automated and organized a lot of our SEM tasks which saves us time and allows our junior team members to provide higher quality services. I highly recommend not only WebCEO but specifically the Professional Unleashed version.
August 19th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
We’ve been using Web CEO for 4 years with our International client base. It’s an absolutely indispensable tool for SEO. The program is very comprehensive and the support is outstanding. If you’re not using Web CEO, you’re not unleashing your full potential.
August 16th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
I use IBP software for seo. basically in seo field our effort is very important for website. i will see this software demo because i mainly focus on link building programs
August 6th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Very helpful, well thought out and meticulously researched. Thanks.