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Re: Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

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Post by singlow »

methyl wrote: post #16
rmccoy6435 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The one advantage that I can think of is this can run on websites that are in development and not accessible to something running in the cloud. A lot of enterprise websites have their dev/stage behind a VPN and being able to run this against those without having to find out how to jump through hoops would be really nice (which is looks like this is capable of doing since you just need to feed it a URL). On top of tha…

> On top of that you also don't have to worry about what they're doing with the data output by the program on their server. Why would you care if the site is available in the Internet and you can't control who is browsing it? This is a valid argument only for internal websites which are not a subject for SEO anyway.

But it can run on sites that will be public but are not yet deployed.

Re: Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

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Post by garethbrown »

grandpoobah wrote: post #28

why is the windows download 130mb? that seems excessve

Yeah and that's compressed :) I'm in the process of getting it down, but there's a few things in there don't help its size. For instance, the latest versions of Electron and Phantom a reasonably big.

Re: Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

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Post by SyneRyder »

btown wrote: post #17
throwaway2016a wrote: post #9

This looks really good. My only comment I have is that if I am purchasing a piece of desktop software I expect there to be at least the option of an annual license. Monthly feels more like a service than a product and I think of desktop software as a product. But I realize Desktop software pricing is evolving so this may just be old school thinking on my part. Also, if I'm a Mac user (I am) I expect to be able to buy…

Adobe Creative Cloud (as well as how streaming services have made people at all levels inured to low monthly subscriptions) has made this type of monthly pricing much more normalized - good for providers who can now point to recurring revenue, not so great for users who usually end up paying more.

It's worth considering what your particular customers want. I make Photoshop plugins, and since the CC subscription came in, I've heard of a lot of customers jumping ship to one-off purchase products, like Affinity Photo and Paint Shop Pro. But some other customers are happy with it.

Also, while Creative Cloud is paid monthly, individual plans have a minimum term of 12 months. If you cancel, you have to pay out 50% of the contract term (unless you prepaid for the year, in which case there are no refunds).

http://www.adobe.com/legal/subscription-terms.html

Re: Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

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Post by hathawayp »

will_critchlow wrote: post #26
will_critchlow wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Almost everything looks like a graph. Almost nothing should be drawn as one." It's really hard to make sense of full link graph visualisations. I'm talking about this in an upcoming conference presentation. We should share notes :)

Oh - I meant to say - that quote is from this book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596514556.do

Nice, thanks. Just ping me or Gareth if you want any of our input :)

Re: Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

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Post by hathawayp »

cubano wrote: post #35

Avast free WebShield on Win7 is giving me a FileRepMalware error and is aborting the download and connection. I am not exactly an expert on Avast and this particular error but perhaps someone here would like to know about this.

That's frustrating, sorry. It's a 'reputation issue', that over-protective anti-virus software doles out to smaller software vendors like ourselves. Basically they don't know if it is good or bad because we haven't had millions of installations.

i.e. it's a false positive

Re: Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

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Post by seosimon »

Have been using during the beta programme - really useful tool for doing site audits and focusing quickly on the areas that can make the most difference. Already using on client work and it is now a key tool for me alongside Screaming Frog and others. https://a.paddle.com/click?said=431&aaid=2812&link_id=380&ch... (my affiliate link)

Re: Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs

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Post by hathawayp »

SnowingXIV wrote: post #36

What's this doing differently or better than screamingfrog? Which is also a desktop program and provides quite robust information. SF has been one of the standard industry tools for those doing SEO for years.

The main difference from Screaming Frog (which is legitimately awesome) is the reporting. Once it has finished crawling it will do a lot of pre-processing for you and build graphs, lists of hints, etc...

I've written a more comprehensive answer to this here: https://sitebulb.com/resources/guides/how-is-sitebulb-differ...

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