… and the winner is … Beta Test Competition roundup
Dec 16
A quick closed Beta Test roundup
After inviting hundreds of users to our closed beta tester group,
we gave away quite a couple accounts for the great feedback, and even 15 Google Wave invites when they were hot for the PubCon 2009 version
Feedback, Features, Funky new stuff ahead!
Also quite a lot of the feedback is already factored into the most recent version, which is called “SES chicago version” – just like
- new Domain Authority checking methods based on Site Links
- new breakdowns for Domain popularity, IP popularity of your back links, Class C popularity
- Domain Registrar NAME scrape & display – find link networks easier with that – just like Google!
- new GEO breakdown for country popularity of your back links
- nice AJAX tables with filters, grouping, re-ordering, etc.
- nice graphs & pie charts as you can see here
- And of course a lot of improvements like
- better link detection
- crawl enhancement
- report speed enhancements
- new link graph input sources for the Common Back Links Tool
- and most important: A huge list of great new inputs for our ROAD MAP!
And the winner is … KUDOS
We asked for your feedback – and we got it.
Tons of excel sheets, zillions of mails, requests, replies, questions, etc…
We collected all that, grouped it by user, grouped it quality and impact on the system
and so far have awarded rewards to the following beta testers:
12 Months SuperHero accounts
- Todd Malicoat – if you don’t know stuntdubl and his blog, you shouldn’t consider yourself a link buildier. Todd has been working with Jim Boykin of WebuildPages for a while, and likewise Todd gave us a TON of great feedback early on – and lots of stuff is still on the roadmap
- Greg Boser – similar to Todd, Greg is an alltime, allstar SEO that you should know and follow! Greg has been working in SEO before I even knew SEO existed. Greg has been building links before I knew links have to be built to rank stuff. Some of the advice that Greg gave me on the Link Research Tools actually delayed rollout a lot, but I think it was really worth it!
- Dave Naylor – and Dave, well – one idea of him could give you insights and a ton other follow up ideas. Again, do follow him or you’re missing out big times.
- Francois Planque – genious french creator of B2Evoluton. More ideas that time, people and money to work it off – for now. Thanks so Much!
- Michael Geneles – helpes us, with a great intercultural touch between Russian, European and US attitude of an below the radar SEO to think about things we might otherwise have missed. Thanks Man!
3 Months SuperHero accounts
- WIEP – a link building hero you should know and follow at twitter.com/wiep
- Martin Sinner – a top german SEO – owner and founder of IDEALO.DE and many other awesome projects
- Gerald Steffens of SEO.DE – a top german SEO – mostly known as “SEO photograph” on ALL german events
1 Months SuperHero accounts
More to come …
We’ve just invited another round of people to the closed beta users this week, so we’re expecting more feedback, more tests and ideas in the next ideas.
We’re also going to setup a collaboritive voting system, so users can suggest features and vote for them in a hopefully very democratic way. Of course whatever is being voted on needs to be digested, planned, funded and finally implement…
But since our goal is the best link research tool on earth, I’m confident we’ll manage all that!
Thanks & to your success!
Christoph C. Cemper
and the team of
CEMPER.COM and
the LinkResearchTools.com
PS: did you get in the waiting queue for the closed beta group? those people in there will be the first to get into the public Link Research Tools. If you haven’t signed up, why not do it today?