SEO Blog

The following is a spec for my SEO Ranking Display App.

1. Public user interface that allows for the adding up of a list of keywords that are to be tracked.
2. Setup where the rankings for each keyword are checked daily via the API (not scrapped).
3. The ability to show a x/y line graph of all keywords over 1 week, 1 month, 3 months 6 months and user imputed dates.
4. Each keyword will have a different color line and a mouse over that line will show the keyword and the page that is ranking for that keyword.
5. The graphic page will have tabs for Google, Yahoo, MSN and All. In the All mode the lines for each graphic will be Google doted, Yahoo dashed, MSN dot-dashed or some think like this. The display of three search engines for 10 to 20 keywords on a graphic at one time is going to be hard. There may need to be a mouseover of a search engine button that will make the lines of that search engine thicker or brigher and the other ones dimmer. This needs to be considered so that when viewing all 3 search engines (or more) at a time one will be able to make sense out of it (thanks for this point expertu).
6. The x/y line graphic will have 1 at the top and down to 100 at the bottom. Starting date on the left and ending date on the right. For anything under 30 days the units will be days. Anything 30 to 60 days will be 2 days; anything 60 to 90 days will be 3 days and anything over 90 days will be 7 days.
7. Also we may want to add a setting in the users account where these can be changed.
8. At the right side the keywords will be listed and sorted with the highest rankings going first. There will be a JavaScript check box where you can uncheck any or all keywords and they will not be displayed.
9. The app will access the traffic logs of the users site and save those numbers to its own db. It will then display the traffic on the y axis in the say way as the ranking of a keyword. This can be checked on or off.
10. The graphic set up can be saved and will have a RSS feed. The feeds will have a xml to XHTML conversion file that will allow them to be displayed live on a external website.
11. At the top of the graphics will be showing the BL and Documents in Index for each of the G/Y/M, Links in Yahoo/DMOZ directory, and the Alexa Ranking.
12. I would also like some why to track the traffic. This might be difficult as the issued of accessing the log files on another server may be an issue.
13. The issues of API limits has been raised also. I need to looking into how Google, Yahoo, and MSN handle this. Also restrictions to commercial uses.