Seems nice but going from a keyword search to my account and back, there was another charge on the credit as if a new search was done. This was I fear the charges will rise up with very minimal use.
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#112I'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 think the best place to learn is Afrefs Academy
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#113On popular mid-sized websites spiders/bots traffic is about 50%. On less popular - up to 90%. Every new SEO tool adds to it. Vercel, Cloudflare et al will happily charge their customers for that parasite load. Web search engines will become worse because of it. Seems like we will be better off blocking it altogether.
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#114Seems nice but going from a keyword search to my account and back, there was another charge on the credit as if a new search was done. This was I fear the charges will rise up with very minimal use.
Double checked, your search is cached for 5 minutes (that's the timeframe when new request would not happen)
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#115your pricing for kw tracking seems nonsensical to me.
eg i have a site where pages rank for 1,000+ keywords it has many pages like this..
tracking for just this ONE SITE would still cost me hundreds of dollars with your plan.
add more sites, and we are paying thousands of bucks. seems like we should just roll our own serp scrapers + use proxies when pricing is out of hand like this ...
[an ex ahrefs user. ditched it after ~ 4.5 years fwiw]
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#116your pricing for kw tracking seems nonsensical to me. eg i have a site where pages rank for 1,000+ keywords it has many pages like this.. tracking for just this ONE SITE would still cost me hundreds of dollars with your plan. add more sites, and we are paying thousands of bucks. seems like we should just roll our own serp scrapers + use proxies when pricing is out of hand like this ... [an ex ahrefs user. ditched it…
I don’t understand why people track keywords for their own sites with third party data, when Google Search Console hands over the real data for free.
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#117whoever is wondering about the website home page design, it looks direct copy paste from here: https://tailwindui.com/components/marketing/elements/headers...
This is funny to me because it also looks just like Plausible Analytics' design. (They also used Tailwind). I guess both took heavy inspiration from the tailwind example design https://plausible.io
There was a bootstrap era, where everything looked the same. Then there was a materialUI'ish era, this was weaker in dominance because the design is more controversial and often downright bad in UX. Now we are in tailwind era.
Not hating, it looks and works ok and I understand spending time on custom design is not something you should optimize for as an early stage era startup.
But I do miss the times of mid noughts where people were playing with styles (css zen garden anyone?)
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#118your pricing for kw tracking seems nonsensical to me. eg i have a site where pages rank for 1,000+ keywords it has many pages like this.. tracking for just this ONE SITE would still cost me hundreds of dollars with your plan. add more sites, and we are paying thousands of bucks. seems like we should just roll our own serp scrapers + use proxies when pricing is out of hand like this ... [an ex ahrefs user. ditched it…
I'm not sure you got the idea. You wan't be charged for "tracking", but will be for getting keywords your site ranks for. So one page (50) of keywords your site ranks for would cost around $0.05. You can do it twice a week, resulting in 8 requests/month, $0.4 total bill.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)?
It's extremely close to real data just like in Ahrefs
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#120- No option to download as excel sheet - No option to sort by columns
Yes, you're right, it's not available just yet, but on our roadmap Thank you for feedback!
Hey again. We've been working late hours and now columns sorting and csv export are available, thank you for your feedback!