Well I am developing the Keyword Ranking Montior Tool (KRMT) from both ends. The spec has been finish and submitted to my team of programmers in Russia. The backend is going to be done in Perl and we are still not sure if it going to be Perl/GD or flash for the display.
While that is all happening and things are getting started I have another RAC programmer from Romainia working on the frontend mockup. Their are two reasons I am having the frontend mockup done at the same time. One is for brain storming reasons and the other is I need the visual stimulant to fuel my drive to keep this project on track.
This tool is all about display anyway. There are lots of tools out there that will scrape the SERP or connect to the search engines API and give you results, it’s just the way they display them.
I want the KRMT to be simple and easy to quickly give a non-SEO type a quick view of the over all picture. I want the viewer to be able to look at the blacklinks, pages in index, alexa, site traffic, and 20 keywords in less than 5 mins. At the same time I want them to get a good picture of what is happening.
Lets say Joe Public over 3 months spends $9000 on 200 directory submissions, 30 article writes and submissions to article sites, 6 press releases, and 20 text link ads on relevant home pages. He wants to be able to watch a number of things.
His over all traffic in uniques visits, number of visits and the number of pages viewed. A quick mouseover the Site Traffic link that he can see that.
He wants to be able to watch and see what kind of an increase he gets in inbound links and if the percent of his site pages in the index increases. Mouseover over the Backlinks and Pages in Index and it is all right there.
He then wants to be able to quickly track the differnet sets of keywords that where targeted to show how they go up in the search engine results position for Google, Yahoo and MSN. With KRMT you can mouse over 30 keywords in 3 minutes and get a good grasp of how each keyword is doing.
The frontend programmer is working on version 0.50 as we speak. Version 0.50 will show an area graph in the background of each keywork graph for the number of visits to the page that is ranking for that keyword. That means as your ranking goes up (or down) you will be able to watch the change in traffic for that page quick and easy.
I have some other front end features that I am considering and will post them later. I am looking at being able to mouse over a cell in the grid and have the line number popup. We are currently considering Java or Flash to do that.
Version 0.6 or 0.7 I will decide on what language we are going to use for the frontend and at the same time release the RSS feed with the XML to XHTML convertor. You will just do an include statement of the XML to XTHML convertor in a site template file and poof the graphs will be on yoru own site.
This will make things nice for SEO firms that will want to repackage this tool and provide it to there clients.
