DIYSEO Review Round-up: Buzz on the DIYSEO.com Launch

Posted April 8, 2010 by Andy (8 comments)

Wow, what a great launch! We’ve had hundreds of new users sign up so far and have received a lot of great feedback. I wanted to highlight some of the coverage we’ve received so far around the Web.

DIYSEO Coverage

Our launch debuted at TechCrunch, and then we later received several other writeups. Here are some highlights:

• TechCrunch: DIYSEO Raises $1 Million, Launches Simple Service To Help Small Businesses Manage SEO
• VentureDeal: DIYSEO Collects $1 Million Venture Capital Financing
• SEO 2.0: DIYSEO Interview with Patrick Gavin
• SearchEngineWatch: DIYSEO: Good Starting Point for Small Businesses?

DIYSEO Feedback

We expected due to the nature of the product that we would get some criticism when we launched–for two reasons. Firstly, a few SEO consultants might feel threatened that we are “automating” the SEO process. Frankly, prior to our launch we underestimated how many SEO’s would feel this way. One thing we’d like to point out however is that DIYSEO is priced at a $49/month price point and is aimed at small businesses with very basic Web presences–not the usual SEO consultant’s client. We acknowledge that at a certain point–especially in competitive, non-local niches–clients may outgrow DIYSEO and want to spend more time and budget on search engine optimization. At this stage, they would probably hire an SEO or social media consultant. Meanwhile, SEO consultants can benefit from sending clients with “micro” budgets (e.g., less than $1,000 a year) to DIYSEO via our affiliate program. At the end of the day, we believe the SEO ecosystem will support all kinds of services (manual, automated) at various price levels to support different segments of the market… and DIYSEO will have a place in that market! Pat has some more thoughts on how DIYSEO and SEO consultants can mutually benefit on his personal blog.

We also got a lot of feedback regarding our feature set, usability, and localization (e.g., DIYSEO.com currently isn’t geared very well to UK-local sites). The truth is, we have our work cut out for us! Our planned roadmap has hundreds (yes, hundreds) of future features, usability tweaks, localization initiatives, and CMS-level customizations planned. SEO is complex enough that if we tried to cover everything, we never would have launched. At some point we felt we need to get DIYSEO to the point where it would really help local, US-based SMB’s with their SEO, and at that point, we believed it was time to show ourselves off to the world. That said, we are 100% focused on rapidly improving all aspects of the DIYSEO platform, and our main process for allocating our development time is listening to our users! So if there’s something you’d really like to see on DIYSEO.com please drop us an e-mail or tweet, or post in the DIYSEO user forum. We’ll be listening, and we’ll be working hard at making DIYSEO better.

DIYSEO Reviews

A lot of bloggers gave DIYSEO.com a spin and posted their own review. Though, one common comment we heard a lot was “don’t take anyone else’s opinion, try it for yourself!”… so after reading these please feel free to sign up for a free seven day trial and give it a try!

• John Andrews’ DIYSEO review
• Shoemoney’s DIYSEO review
• Hobo SEO’s DIYSEO review
• Organic SEO Consultant’s DIYSEO “pre” review
• Website Magazine’s DIYSEO review
• RWT Webmaster Tools DIYSEO review

DIYSEO Buzz on Twitter

Here are just a few tweets about DIYSEO we came across (there were countless more):

kd_uk:

checked out diyseo, kenshoo & marin software for getting your site discovered through SEO. Some pretty useful tools

@florist:

@541live But the nice thing about this one, it’s made simple. (re: www.diyseo.com)

@morafi:

SEO for your small business. How good is it ? RT @YounisMaqousi: DIYSEO? a cool and interesting site ==> http://tcrn.ch/a0BXeB

And my favorite tweet…

@johnandrews:

Signing up and using DIYSEO is easier than live blogging the process on my WordPress hosting. Sigh.. I need a vacation already.

You can check out more DIYSEO chatter on Twitter with this search: http://twitter.com/#search?q=diyseo

Connect with DIYSEO

This is just a friendly reminder that if you’re a DIYSEO user we’d love to “connect” with you, so if you have a moment please:

• Connect with DIYSEO on Twitter
• Connect with DIYSEO on Facebook
• Connect with DIYSEO on LinkedIn

That’s it for now. Thanks to everyone for their support and stay tuned for some new feature announcements in the near future!

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