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Re: Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool

#103

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.

Exactly! I've been using Ahrefs for a couple times a months and the price is sill the same

Re: Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool

#104

looks 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?"

Thanks for feedback! We'll try to make it as clear as possible.

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

Re: Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi. Your searches cached locally for some time, reloading the page clears the cache

agreed on this, caching would be very nice. i don't care if results are even a week+ out of date

It makes sense, I agree. We'll try to adjust this

Re: Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool

#108

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.

Exactly! I've been using Ahrefs for a couple times a months and the price is sill the same

How does the keyword data in telescope compare to the data in Ahrefs? (monthly global volume, keyword difficulty, etc)?

Re: Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool

#109
I'm not someone who has ever worked with SEO but I'd like to use this tool for other research purposes. Can you make a guide for someone who's entirely new to SEO but is experienced in the field of web and CS.

The 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.

Re: Show HN: I’ve made a cheaper SEO research tool

#110
one thing to be aware of - is SEO is a kind of a losing game. Cheap in terms of organic traffic since organic traffic costs 0.

but 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

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