Submitted by Giorgos on
SeoDigger is a tool that I have been using for some time now to help me with competitor traffic and keyword analysis. With SeoDigger I have been able to easily find what keywords a competitor has targeted and what positions the site is holding for those keywords. Its a tool created by the SEOQuake team and it deserves a big applaud and a little explanation for the uninitiated.
What is SeoDigger ?
From the creators of SeoDigger
Detecting search keywords for which a site is ranked high.
With Seodigger.com you can find out for which keywords your site ranks high enough to be in Google Top 20. You can analyze your own sites as well as sites of your competition, using the information obtained for SEO analysis, building a semantic core, finding out how well is a site optimized for this or that search request, and a lot more. Apart from a list of search queries, wordtracker and overture results are also determined (keyword popularity calculated by Wordtracker.com and Overture.com).
Its very simple to use it and it will be illustrated with an example. Lets say we are interested in "travel europe" and would love to have some related keywords and some indication of the traffic they might have.
We search google for "travel europe" and grab the first site that comes on top of the results (at the time of writing of this, travelswise.com was on top). Feeding seodigger with this URL will result in the following
SeoDigger gives us the keywords and the position the site was holding at the time SeoDigger last updated the database.
Thus in this case we see that travelwise.com was on 2nd position for "travel europe" on 23/06/2008 (I assume the last update of seodigger's database) . The rest of the information presented on the table are the id of the keyword, overture's daily estimated traffic (I believe) and wordtracker last 90 days traffic statistics.
I intentionally have sorted this results with the wordtracker's statistics that give me a good relative estimate of keywords with lots of traffic. In this example "europe travel" "travel europe" "european travel" "europe travel guide" would all be keywords that we might want to target for our own site and expect some good traffic; of course competitiveness has to be taken into account before we actually start our SEO efforts.
Sometimes the results returned by SeoDigger don't fit in one page and sorting is only allowed on the displayed statistics, thus its preferred to download a csv archive to your spreadsheet application and analyze the statistics there. Another pitfall is that for free user account only the first 1000 results can be downloaded but even those are very valuable and the cases where more than 1000 results are present are somewhat rare.
SeoDigger - I believe - gathers the position statistics for each site from the users that have the SeoQuake plugin activated (which are mostly SEO professionals or hobbyists) but still it gives a very good indication of relative traffic and the tool undoubtedly is an excellent tool for competitor and keyword analysis.
What are your thoughts on SeoDigger ? Any success stories ?
25 Comments
Submitted by osbti (not verified) on
seoquake looked a little bit shady, but it was probably just me that couldnt really work it/didnt put enough time into installing it
Submitted by G.Suvorov (not verified) on
Hi.
Thank you for your review of our service.
Let me tell you how SeoDigger works:
We have base of 60 million popular keyphrases.
For each keyphrase we collect first 20 Google Search results and build
Seodigger index.
We use usa version of google.com.
So, SeoQuake users do not used to do this.
Cheers.
G.Suvorov
SeoQuake Team
Submitted by Zey (not verified) on
There's a tool better than that --- KeywordSpy
Submitted by dhunt (not verified) on
Been using SEO quake for long time ... THis tool looks cool
Submitted by drraman (not verified) on
Is the service free ?
Submitted by webmaster (not verified) on
doesnt firefox have a seo toolbar?
Submitted by adda4u (not verified) on
I used seo quake ..it is good but it need to be more professional in design ...Other than it is perfect ...
Submitted by vita (not verified) on
Great post. I know the owner of this site - he is Russian and he gave a nice presentation about his site in some of our Bg forums - similar languages.
The service that this site provides is really useful and the data is from month or more. I use it for some site, which are indexed for more than 2 months by google.
The service is more than free, but the guy told me that soon could make it with some kind of membership. It will have free as well, but the paid option will has more advantages as it should be.:)
I don't think that there is better tool than this one, it is one of its kind.
Submitted by kotadiya (not verified) on
Really nice Post.......I liked your blog
Submitted by steve (not verified) on
Great information. I did not know about this tool so far. As I use seoquake as seo tooland found it quite helpful, i will try this keyword tool for sure.
Submitted by Alex (EmergeMG,... (not verified) on
This tool is amazing, i am totally going to check it out.
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Submitted by G.Suvorov (not verified) on
Good day,
In your blog you wrote about our service SEODigger.
Now we are preparing to launch a new service for specialists in SEO and SEM area and we'd like to invite you to participate in beta testing.
Your questions and proposals are really important for us, so if you have any, don't hesitate to adress us.
If you are interested in being involved in beta testing, just inform us.
Our email is: mail(at)semrush.com
Best regards,
SEODigger, SEOQuake and SEMRush Team
Submitted by steve (not verified) on
Yes, seodigger worked well for me. Its easy to use.
Submitted by edy (not verified) on
no more free :(
what services like this are free?
Submitted by ittelligent (not verified) on
Been using SEO quake for a while, it is a great tool for anyone serious in the SEO game
Submitted by john.glendenning (not verified) on
I've also been using SEO quake and SEOlinx as well... its compatible with both IE and 'Fox
Submitted by admin (not verified) on
I am using seoquake tool.I didnot know this before.
for keyword search I used google keyword tool.
Submitted by admin (not verified) on
I am using seoquake.Very good and useful tool.
Submitted by visiblenet (not verified) on
Thanks for posting so much valuable information on SEOdigger. It's a very useful tool, one of my favorites. We also use Wordze a lot, in addition to Wordtracker and various Google tools. The new Google search-based kwd tool is pretty impressive, and has been a long time in the coming.
We also use a tool we've developed in-house. It is now offered for free on our company website. We encourage feedback so please let us know what you think.
http://www.visible.net/tools/keywords/
Submitted by R & G Techn... (not verified) on
SEOquake has been very useful . I am quite happy with the design actually. And the Google search based keyword is a lifesaver!
Submitted by Jeremy (not verified) on
It is disappointing that SEODigger is no longer available for free. It was a very useful tool. You can check out other free keyword tools on my website here: http://www.keyword-research.info/free-keyword-research-tools
Submitted by Rebecca (not verified) on
I haven't tried SEODigger.... As a matter off fact I am fairly new to this field, but I am doing my best to learn.... Thanks for this post.
Rebecca.
Submitted by juan.suarez (not verified) on
I have heard that Google Analytics does the same, doesn't it? which is the difference between them?
I have used several tools of
Submitted by X4 Labs (not verified) on
I have used several tools of this kind, but can say that SeoDigger is one of the top notch really. Cool article btw. Tom