My Next Journey: Build SEO Tools

I’m going build SEO Tools to save me from boredom!

Ok ok, so I’m really not sure how much boredom this will really save me from (as I am incredibly busy these days), but this is definitely one more thing to add to my list of projects; and make a priority!

A colleague of mine at Covario (formerly Netconcepts) once presented the greater group with a magical Google Spreadsheet that did all sorts of neat things like suggest websites to get links from and show top 10 competitors for a given search term.  This really opened my eyes to a new world of possibilities.

Being as busy as I’ve been, however, I haven’t really had a chance to look into these possibilities until just last week.  And I’m here to say that Google Spreadsheets can help SEOs a LOT.  Sounds kind of funny, I know, but its true.

Using them can help you with things like tracking indexation across the major engines along with keeping tabs on inbound links or even exploring new opportunities for inbound links… in a more automated fashion.

Pairing up the power of Google Spreadsheets with a good scripting language like Python or PHP, and leveraging both via the Google Spreadsheets API, could end up being a very valuable tool for SEOs.

So I am going to spend a lot of time this week digging my head into figuring out what resources I can leverage to make this happen.  Python is exciting and I would like to play with it some more, but right now I’m thinking PHP may be the best way to get it done.  There’s definitely a Spreadhseets API library for PHP, and it is my main focus as a language right now, so it will probably make most sense to just use PHP.

Stay tuned and follow along to find out what I can do to help SEOs by leveraging Google Spreadsheets and PHP.

Cheers!