Ethos Planning

SoloSEO is a new SEO project management software. Thus far it seems fairly interesting– the pricing of 29 dollars a month is rather reasonable. Its great to have all of these tools in the same place (finally)

I love these kind of projects where after you see it you simply so “duh” why the hell did it take this long for a web-based PM system like this to exist for a very web based industry.

All the best to the folks at SoloSEO.

A SoloSEO Review:

When I fired up SoloSEO I was a bit surprised at the starting point, but I can understand– the system is intended for the novice user. And frankly, it is a good check list for everyone.

I am still reading up and tying to figure out the full value of the Link Build It! Bookmarklet. The basic premise is to create a centeralized location for storage of all your link building information. (It pulls pagerank of the bookmarked page and also gives an estimate to how many backlinks exist for the page)

I can’t wait to see how that expand the process and expand the entire concept behind the SoloSEO project. The checklists are great– but I am excited to see what kind of documentation it provides for the VERY novice SEO.

A few things I’d love to see added to the system:

• Storage of keywords in their keyword report.
• Stronger documentation for the novice SEO. Make it new user friendly. Give more than one or two brief sentences explaining what something does.
• I’d love to be able to start a task and then move on and come back when the task is done (maybe have a status bar on the right hand side to let me know when a certain takes like the competitive analysis tool is done)
• A select all on the competition link search would be grand– I dont want to have to go through and click them all
• I wish the software had more customization available–  I’d like to be able to move things around and create an interface that makes a bit more sense to me
• Again, I wish I could start the “keyword finder all 3 search” without having to sit on the page and actually wait for the report to finish.  I am not that patient.
• “More”  What the hell does more mean?  Does it need its own header navigation?

Also, I love the fact that they give a hat tip to SEOmoz when they use Rand’s link hunting methodology.  I am also stuck between on the fence– on one hand I’d personally love to get less hand-holding when using their system but I can absolutely understand why they would include it (and I’d love to see a novice option and gives even *MORE* hand holding) what to do.
I really do believe SoloSEO could be extremely useful for those running their first SEO campaign or for those webmasters who may be stuck wearing the SEO hat as well.