It’s about one month now since we opened up SEO Meter to the public last month. So far, I’ve received many positive/useful comments about the tool. Here are some of the bloggers’ comments about our tool:

Thumbs up:

All and all SEOmeter is a pretty cool website. I use compete.com a lot so I know I will be using this website a lot too.

SEO Meter is a brilliant name for a brand and I can see this site growing into a very valuable service.

This is the kind of site that I would love to start. It has a good idea, feels a need, and is very brandable.

I love automation of process. All of this information about a site can be obtained by doing a search or looking into Google Webmater tools, but wouldn’t be easier to just set it and forget it? In this case I say yes.

If you run a blog, news site, or very large site, then the fee will probably become worth it…. All in all. Pretty gosh darn neat if you ask me.

I’m just more fascinated on graphs and how much the trends change over time. This gives you different things to check your experiments. Maybe you start posting more or less. It could affect your search engine referrals.

The SEOMeter.com site is easy to use and it explains in greater detail all of the benefits of using this type of Search Engine Optimization Tool.

I must say, it’s a very useful tool, one that every webmaster on earth should take advantage of…Some newer webmasters might not see the need for it for a while, but it’s nice to know that there is something out there to do this efficiently for you.

Seometer is a valuable addition to any blogger or sites owners toolkit and with its ease of use something that won’t take more than a few minutes to get up and running with.

Thumbs down:

Is the system foolproof and 100% accurate? It shows that ReadWriteWeb is visited more often than Engadget, while Engadget is a lot more popular.

after a blog reaches a certain point (becomes really popular), the graphing loses value as every single blogs graph would eventually plateau at the same point

you can have your very own Google Crawl Cycle chart but I’m afraid all this did was make me yawn. Not more stats to pour over,” I thought.

The graph provided by the SEOmeter SEO tool looks an awful lot like the graphs that you see on Alexa.

It is ridiculous to charge price for a service that is completely dependent on Google’s crawling policy and if google, like yahoo and msn, suddenly decides to “not publicise” their crawl timestamp, this service will just go bust.

Suggestions:

Maybe a paid version were it tracks your spider traffic accurately by putting code on your site or server.

Ok the first thing I would do is upgrade the method used to determine Google’s crawl rate… I would use the Statcounter approach, giving people a script or a file to place on their site. They would then come back to SEO Meter to log in and check the results. This would be a lot more accurate method to test the rate and would bring more repeat traffic back to SEO Meter.

I’ll get back to some of these thumbs down comments and suggestions later.

After receiving a number of feedbacks from our users, we decided to make one important change for our tool: making SEOmeter a free tool for everyone!

There are a couple of points that I’d like to highlight for our new free SEOmeter tool:

• Google’s cache history is limited to the latest three months. Any history older than three months will be discarded and won’t be accessible.
• Free submission is limited to top-level domain or sub-domain only. Internal URL submission is still subject to annual payment.
• Website under construction, or with incomplete content or poor design will not be accepted.

If you have any question or suggestion, feel free to add it here.

If you have a website to submit, get onboard!

“Noarchive” meta tag is used when you want to prevent or remove cached pages in a search engine. This meta tag is known to work for all major search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com. It is also known that “noarchive” meta tag does NOT affect your search engine rankings or indexing, but only determines whether or not search engines will cache the crawled content.

The “noarchive” metatag can be used when a website publisher charges a fee for access to its content, and thus want to prevent content theft, but still would like the content to be indexed and ranked by search engines. Also it’s useful when the content changes frequently, and it’s not desirable to keep the outdated stale content cached by search engines for human access. This meta tag is sometimes exploitted by blackhat SEO to hide their cloaking techniques.

Sites that currently use “noachive” meta tag to protect against search engine caching include:

• http://www.webmasterworld.com
• http://www.nytimes.com

These sites are indexed in Google but not cached because they have the metatag ‘noarchive’ for all robots.

<META NAME=”GOOGLEBOT” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE”>
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE”>