Hey everyone,
My name is Nick and I'm the founder (and solo bootstrapper) of SanityCheck.
I've been doing SEO since around 1998 and the fun times of Alta Vista and Excite.
A couple of years ago I realised how much time I spent in spreadsheets so I decided to use the API for Google Search Console to automate a lot of the manual time consuming jobs I was doing.
After an initial MVP, once I started building a few pre-configured reports I realised other people would find this useful too.
I use the tool every day to:
- discover new content ideas
- find content and pages to improve
- identifying click through rate improvement opportunities
- run SEO tests to see if changes have improved rankings
- making sure PageSpeed scores remain good on important pages
This was initially a 'scratch your own itch' type product, but it has been improved massively from customer feedback.
I use it every day and it saves me hours and hours of time each week.
Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback in the comments.
@kensavage hey Ken, there's the 'Accidental Keywords' report within the app that shows you long tail keywords that you might not be targeting yet. Sometimes you can find some really juicy keywords and queries you haven't considered before that your site accidentally ranks for. If you were to take these and create content for them there's a good chance your site could rank quite highly for them.
Once a week SanityCheck also emails out 10 Accidental/Long Tail keyword ideas for you to take a look at.
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It is a simple to use yet highly effective tool. I have used it for strategic SEO growth around high value key word rankings since it launched and it has really paid off. I am a paying customer btw :-)
Pros:
Easy to use and the information it gives you is amazing
Cons:
Can become addictive :-)
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Been using this product for a while, and some of the deeper insights it offers me as an SEO and content creator is brilliant. I strongly recommend diving into using this tool if you are looking for ideas to create better content based on your own data. It also has some great SEO testing features that you need to give a go
@nickswan as someone with limited experience with search console who finds it suboptimal, I like this idea and look forward to checking it out.
have you thought about a free tier for domains with low (but hopefully growing) traffic? I'm thinking domains that don't have enough traffic to make it worth paying $200+ per year. you'd have the info via the API to know when [insert best metric] gets above a certain level and could then say "you no longer qualify for the startup plan. your 14-day trial starts today" or something like that.
@danmeyer1 hey Dan, thanks for the feedback. I have been considering a free tier over the past week. I think it is something I am going to put some serious thought into. There are certain aspects of the app this would make sense for.
@nickswan wow, finally a product to enrich and structurize Search Console's data :) How about we publish an interview about SanityCheck at StartupRadius? Ping me at paul@startupradius.com if interested!
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It is a simple to use yet highly effective tool. I have used it for strategic SEO growth around high value key word rankings since it launched and it has really paid off. I am a paying customer btw :-)
Pros:Easy to use and the information it gives you is amazing
Cons:Can become addictive :-)
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Really nice and easy product to use for keyword tracking. But the benefits are in the other features
Pros:Great price for keyword tracking. Extra features add more value, ie page speed tracking and keyword suggestions
Cons:Tell me more about what to do and what the potential gains might be
I like the emails with the daily stats and use the app every day.
Pros:Easy to understand the effects of your SEO initiatives. Recommends SEO actions and initiatives. Daily email with key stats.
Cons:Nothing I can think of.