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Our plan is to offer some advanced reporting and features as part of a member account. Below are some things we’re thinking about, followed by a questionnaire. We’d really appreciate it if you answered our questions in a reply to this blog post. Thanks!

Here are some features we are considering:

  • See reports for the top 50 (or top 100) results.
  • Save (10, 20, 100, etc) queries for quick reference.
  • A guarantee that queries a member is tracking will receive daily updates.
    (queries tracked by free users may need to be archived or dropped due to space/performance issues)
  • Keep a list of websites (that you own/operate) that are highlighted in the results.
  • Ability to do a “reverse lookup”, where you enter a web address and we’ll show you all of the search terms and rankings we have in our DB for that URL.
  • More reports!
  • Graphs of how one site’s ranking moves over time within a query’s search results.
  • Custom time frames for reports.
  • Ability to choose which “data center” a query is directed at… or which zip code the query is coming from. (for locally-sensitive searches)
  • See related searches for your queries and how popular they are within Search Rascal.

Questions:

(1) How many search results would you like to see in your reports? 10, 50, 100?

(2) How many queries do you think you would want to track with Search Rascal? 1, 5, 10, 20, 100, 1,000?

(3) Are you ever going to look at the non-Google reports? Are there other search engines you’d like to track?

(4) How much would you be willing to pay for a Search Rascal member account? $0. $5/month. $10/month. $29.99/month. $100 per year?

(5) Are there any other features you’d like to see?

(6) Do you have any other questions?

Thanks so much. I’m hoping to make Search Rascal the best reporting tool of its kind. We really appreciate your help in doing that.

8 Comments on "Questionnaire: What do you want from a member account?"

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wrote on April 1, 2008 at 3:58 PM

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Josh

wrote on April 14, 2008 at 1:39 PM

Hi. Excellent service you have here. To answer your questions based on my preferences.

I would like to see 10 results per page, much easier to read in my opinion. Plus do we really care what is below Top 10?

I would probably track up to 100 queries, other than that it just gets too messy and you forget what you typed in.

Is there a way you can maybe get a link to Alexa.com showing their Traffic Details on the page that gives the placement and such? This will be really helpful in determining where the certain site is heading, whether it be up or down.

Also in Firefox, when I hover over the entry that is listed, can you make it so no matter where I click it will take me to that site in a new tab or a new window?

Another great feature I could think of is maybe a Preview Site button. This might be a little complicated, but I thought I would mention this anyways.

As for how much I’m willing to pay? Well…depends on how useful and how this scales.

Are you monitoring the placement of certain sites with an electronic algorithm or are you having humans monitor?

This sounds like a really great service and I can’t wait to see what it becomes.

Jason

wrote on April 14, 2008 at 1:49 PM

Josh, thanks a bunch for the feedback. Regarding some of your ideas:

>> Is there a way you can maybe get a link to Alexa.com showing their Traffic Details on the page that gives the placement and such?

The Compete Toolbar is a third-party app that would work well with our site to get this data.

http://tools.compete.com/

Or even the Alexa toolbar.

Compete also has an API (http://www.compete.com/api) that we could plug into to get some relevant numbers.

>> Also in Firefox, when I hover over the entry that is listed, can you make it so no matter where I click it will take me to that site in a new tab or a new window?

It should be doing this now. Which links aren’t opening in a new window?

>> Another great feature I could think of is maybe a Preview Site button. This might be a little complicated, but I thought I would mention this anyways.

A “preview site” feature is another one that would be easy to add using a third-party: http://www.snap.com

>> Are you monitoring the placement of certain sites with an electronic algorithm or are you having humans monitor?

We have some code (our “rascal”) which gathers the ranking data and stores it in a database.

Josh

wrote on April 14, 2008 at 1:55 PM

Regarding the Firefox clicking issue. I mean in terms of hovering over anywhere in that particular cell box. For example on Barack Obama http://www.searchrascal.com/report?q=barack+obama

If I go just to the left of Today into the blank space it highlights like it will click and open the site, but it does not. I’m not sure if this is what you are referring to.

jason

wrote on April 14, 2008 at 4:53 PM

Josh, thanks for elaborating. I like it.

I think we’ll get that link update and the Snap.com integration up there shortly.

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wrote on April 22, 2008 at 1:30 PM

Great Service. Look forward to seeing more!
(1) 50

(2) 100

(3) It’s nice to see the comparison although we do use the 100lb gorilla the most.

(4) $10/month

(5) Can’t think of any now, but I am sure I will.

(6) Not yet. Great idea. I’ll spread the word!

seoz87

wrote on May 8, 2008 at 3:21 AM

How about a free account for me

:D

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