Today is a very big day for me, because today is the day when I get to start telling everyone about our latest creation: STAT – Search Tracking & Analytics Tools.

STAT is a comprehensive suite of search analytics tools geared towards the needs of search marketers. Make no mistake: STAT is not another SEO tool, it’s an analytics tool, and it is truly one-of-a-kind.

STAT is ideal for researching competition, tracking organic rankings in the major three search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing), and monitoring incoming backlinks and indexed pages. Further, with the ability to monitor changes to SERPs in real-time, you can identify algorithm changes when and where they happen. STAT archives past SERPs and audits them in the background to determine key search metrics that affect your rankings. Best of all, STAT does all of this in a drag-and-drop window based interface; it is a web application that looks and behaves like any of your run-of-the-mill desktop applications. Because of the intuitive nature of the platform, using STAT is easy and you can hit the ground running.

After a year of being available only to larger search agencies, I’m proud to announce that STAT is now open to the general public on an invite-only basis. If you want to signup, visit STAT – Search Tracking & Analytics Tools and I’ll send you an invite ASAP.

I could talk ad infinitum about how amazing this platform is, but really, it’s best if you experience it for yourselves. To take it for a test drive, visit STAT and click on the link for a demo.

Web Applications are EASY to build! Anyone can do it!

First, you need an idea. This can be the hardest part. Basically, you just want to think about something people do every day that you can do better.
Here are some ideas to get you started:

• web-based makeup mirror (requires a webcam)
• sea-monkeys…give them facebook pages, make them twitter…put them up for adoption.
• a calculator, with lots and lots of ajax….and really big buttons.

These are just a few ideas, but you get the picture. Take some time coming up with your idea, and be patient! You have to refine the idea before you waste time building something no one will ever use. Take at least 30 minutes to decide.

Once you’ve decided on what your highly profitable Web App is going to do, you have to build it! This is the easiest part. You don’t even have to know how to write code. Really! There are new programming languages that don’t even require complicated things like squiggly brakets {} or dollar signs $.  Thanks to the magic of Ruby on Rails, if you can write a grocery list, you can write a Web App. Seriously!

Do you know how to view the source code for an HTML page? Great! That means you know how to design a website! Now, I know, designing things is complicated, but don’t worry about it! NO ONE DESIGNS THEIR OWN WEBSITES ANYMORE! Seriously! All you need is a Template. There are even WEB APPS to build Templates for WEB APPS! Totally meta! Gnarly!

So, you’ve got your ruby, you’ve got your template….you’re almost done! Now, you need a LOGO! Most people say you should hire a designer to get a Logo done professionally, but you don’t want to spend any money out of pocket, do you? I mean, what are you, Mother Teresa?!? Hell no! I recommend you just rip one off for now, and once you make some revenue, you can buy some cheap stock Logo from istockphoto.com.

Remember, in order to maximize Web App profits, you need to always be vigilant so that no corners escape uncut. When building your Web App, you should be sure to try and burden yourself with as many of the details as possible. You need to be prepared to be the programmer, the tester, the designer, the marketer and the support staff, ALL IN ONE! But don’t get stressed out about handling a big workload, because it’s not like you have to do ANY of those things at 100% efficiency, as long as you’re the only one doing them. The people who will use your Web App are just nameless, faceless drones anyways; it’s not like you owe them timely responses to their emails. Always remember that your users are eternally indentured to you in exchange for access to your Web App.

OK, so you’ve got your Template, you’ve got your Logo……..it’s time to do some programming! First, you want to download as many plugins and gems as possible. The more the better, because the more gems you have, the less code you have to write. Remember when your teacher crushed your dreams and told you that there are no unique ideas left, that everything has already been done? Well, when it comes to Gems, its true! There is a Gem or Plugin for every possible thing you could ever conceive of wanting to do – now, or in the future. So basically, just get as many Gems and Plugins as possible, and just start plugging them in wherever you need content.

Look at you! You go-getter! You’ve just programmed your first Web App! It’s going to be the BEST CALCULATOR EVER! Don’t worry about scaling it up. If your users ever start calculating pi, you can just use the Cloud, man! The Cloud is where it’s at! In case you haven’t heard of the Cloud yet, I’ll tell you a bit about it. The Cloud is this place in the Amazon Basin, a humid, godless, no-mans-land inhabited by under paid savages (Amazonians). Anyways, the Cloud is like this giant parking garage, but instead of cars, they’ve parked hundreds and hundreds of servers which they’ve woven together with millions of long, tangled fibreoptic wires (hence the name ‘the Cloud’). Anyways, you just email your program to the Amazonians, and they’ll put your program on a piece of the cloud, giving you the ability to add as many mongrel instances to your server cluster as your heart desires. Scaling?!?! What Scaling?!?!

Now that you’ve got your Template, and your Logo and your Program on the Cloud, you’re ready to start marketing!!! This part is really really easy. You just need to stir the pot a little bit, & kick up a little media interest. For example, let’s say one of your Virtual Sea-Monkeys ends up having to see a Substance Abuse Counselor…..that’s marketing gold! Big-mouthed bloggers love stories like that! The more sensational the better, especially because people will put your media story on sites like Digg, or StumbleUpon. These sites will send you visitors who will really take the time to read your story, visit your site, interact with your product, and develop long-lasting, meaningful connections with your brand. You just have to keep your eyes open for marketing opportunities!

By now, thanks to your Web App, you’re probably well on your way to dealing with your delinquent mortgage payments and are no longer dodging your relatives. Congratulations! Feel free to send your former boss a cruel and insensitive e-card from someecards.com, because You’ve Arrived!!! You’re a big web success story! Expect to hear from Inc. Magazine within minutes.

But! But! But! Don’t stop there! This is just the beginning! Now that you’ve seen how easy it is to create one Web App, create more! Don’t worry about the Web Apps that you’re already managing, it’s OK to let them slide. If you want, you can start an affiliate program and get affiliates to keep marketing your old, stale Web Apps while you’re busy building new ones! You’ll want to get an Email Autoresonder so that you’re not burdened by time consuming support requests to have subscriptions canceled, you’ve got better things to do! You’re an entrepreneur!

I’m getting ready to head out on vacation in a few days, so I’m taking an opportunity now to wish you all a happy holiday! Be safe, have fun, and don’t drink too much eggnog (that stuff is BAD for you!!!).

If you’re a member of the Content Club (oh, you lucky dog, you) then you will shortly be receiving a very, very special Christmas gift from me to you. (hint: it’s content. surprise.) I sent you all a collection of 5 huge databases of reviews of various type of electronic products (cellphones, cameras, etc). Monetize the crap out of it! It’s very relevant and keyword rich. If you didn’t join the content club yet, well, sorry, but you missed out on this one. Don’t worry, I’ll be sending out more stuff in the new year.

Also, I wanted to let you all know that Datapresser has been getting a bit too popular lately, and we’ve had to make some changes to the number of people we can let access the service. For now, we have discontinued the Unlimited Plan, because a number of you (you know who you are!) have been going hog-wild with your blog farms. It’s likely that we’ll be discontinuing the Personal Plan in the new year, as well as re-evaluating some pricing. But for now, they’re still available.

OK, that wraps it up!

Merry Christmas everyone!

-Rob

To be honest, my original intention was just to stop offering databases all together. I never really offered them with the intention of making huge profits; rather, it was a unique service I could offer to my readers who were interested in investing in quality content. I never really realized how many of your saw Seocracy.com as a source for quality database content, and I was pretty surprised by the number of requests I’ve received to bring back the databases.

So, instead of just dropping the databases from Seocracy.com all together, I’ve decided to create the Seocracy.com Content Club mailing list! By joining the Content Club mailing list, you’ll be able to start receiving cool, unique (and FREE) Database content in your inbox.
To start you off, I’m offering a SWEET database, which you’ll be able to download as soon as you sign up.
Check the Content Club link above this post, or click here, and sign-up now!

-Rob

Of course, you guys may find that there are some design kinks, which I hope to work out over the coming  weeks. That said, the migration to Wordpress is especially cool because it makes it easier for me to write new posts and publish content. I will soon start porting over old projects, code, scripts, and samples to The Lab section, so keep an eye out for that.

Cheers,

Rob

Enjoy!

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On Friday Im heading out to Boston for the Affiliate Summit conference plus a little fishing with the crew from Advaliant.

If any of you are in Boston for the conference and want to meet up, feel free to shoot me an email to contact{at}seocracy{.}com, or just get me on twitter!

I’ll be in Boston until the 13th, after which I’ll be in New York on some business until the 18th.

I’ll be sure to post some pics when I get back. Plus there are a few new posts I’ve been ITCHING to make lately,and hopefully when I’m back, I’ll get off my arse and write them.

Upcoming post topics that I’d like to write about? A brand new type of Link Dump. Document based Link Distribution techniques. Effective & Efficient ways to mass install wordpress blogs. Google Insights as a keyword research platform. Asynchronous cloaking visitors with ajax…plus a few others. Sounds promising, right? Right; well, chances are I’ll never get around to writing all those topics……which one are you guys most interested in reading about?

Have fun guys! I’ll post again when Im back from travelling.

I thought I’d take a second to post it here for you all to see.

Enjoy!

BTW: Alex does great video work. He’s one of the most talented and reasonably priced video producers I’ve worked with.

I Could Be Anything monitors the Twitter public timeline and looks for messages that can be appended to the words “I am”.

Back when I was doing my degree, I used to create alot of work that involved typography and poetry, so this was a fun little site to build. I played around alot with how to filter out certain stop words (he, she, etc), and punctuation marks, also I discovered that typically if a sentence fragment has more than four words between “the” and a punctuation mark, it won’t make sense when appeneded to “I am”.

Anyways, this might all seem pretty mundane, but it makes for great research. Twitter provides unlimited data for me to work with, and whenever I have time, I’ll continue tweaking and trying to perfect the filters.

Enjoy!

PS: You may want to view it in full size, since the images don’t look great at this width.

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