This is super nice Keyword research should absolutely be a pay per use thing instead of a SaaS. So many marketers I know use Ahrefs literally for 2 days for keyword research for a new project and cancel right after. But they still have to pay for the full month.
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#102It's a much needed tool! I saw one more project do this with a credit based system, I read in this article: https://saasgodfathers.com/article/seo-tools-without-subscri...
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#103This is super nice Keyword research should absolutely be a pay per use thing instead of a SaaS. So many marketers I know use Ahrefs literally for 2 days for keyword research for a new project and cancel right after. But they still have to pay for the full month.
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#104looks really cool, i've often through there should be an alternative like this, especially for just getting started my first feedback is i'm not totally sure on the difference between "keyword explorer" and "keyword ideas" on the home page it would be nice to add those names as meta titles too. I have both open in separate tabs, but it's not easy to tell which is which (page title is all "Telescope - Keywords Researc…
it might be nice to explain somewhere how the billing works too. my first thought is "am i billed again if i go to page 2 of the results? or add a new filter?"
To your question: you're getting billed every time request happens - second page and new filters produce a new request to get data from the provider
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#105Awesome. All those tools are so freaking expensive.
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#107Where do you get volume and CPC data? keyword planner API?
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#108This is super nice Keyword research should absolutely be a pay per use thing instead of a SaaS. So many marketers I know use Ahrefs literally for 2 days for keyword research for a new project and cancel right after. But they still have to pay for the full month.
Exactly! I've been using Ahrefs for a couple times a months and the price is sill the same
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#109The guide could cover jargon and how the tool can be used to get started, it would really offer me a huge reason to start using this. Right now all I know is I need to have SEO incorporated into my website but I have no idea how.
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#110but then once you rank higher - google will have your competitors bid on your domain / keywords. then again you will pay the google tax on your domain.
if you run a business that generates revenue from millions of low CPC's - e.g aggregation engines that sell clicks - and have millions of pages to spread traffic then SEO might be worth it.
but then adept competitors - pursue mobile apps. hardly any tax there. -- that's why many sites push you to download their app.
source - worked on an internal linking engine for an aggregator and was able to see the impact of SEO