AboutUs Weblog

Who’s Loving Us Now? Bloggers & Reporters, That’s Who!

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 10:00 AM PDT

Last week we announced our new AboutUs Site Report, an affordable tool for business owners that helps them make their websites more visible to search engines – and the people who use them.

We were delighted to see three local business reporters immediately publish articles about the Site Report. As of today, at least five bloggers who write about search engine optimization (SEO) have tried the Site Report, and written about their experiences with it.

Bloggers use the Site Report

Wolfgang Bloomfield has been using our free Website Visibility Report for some time – and created a video about it. Now he’s got a new video on his site that navigates you through the AboutUs Site Report for one of his own sites. It’s a great guide to finding the most relevant pieces of information that affect the search engine optimization of any website.

Rob Metras, another blogger who’s been using the free Website Visibility Report, likes the deeper look that the new Site Report offers. He says the $9.95 report is “a worthwhile investment,” and points out that real people are always available to help.

Carl Mueller has previously reviewed AboutUs.org’s free features on his blog, Jump Off the Ladder. He tried out the Site Report and found some opportunities to fix the meta descriptions, H1 headings and a few other elements on his websites.

Carly Wood, another longtime member of AboutUs.org, points out that the new Site Report is an affordable way to start making basic changes to your website to improve SEO. She likes the convenience of seeing at a glance whether title tags and meta descriptions are “too long or short, without having to spend too much time devising clever ways to count characters en masse.”

Andreas of Xavier Media has also been using AboutUs.org for some time. In his most recent post, Andreas points out that the Site Report allows you to check your website every time you make a change, and make any necessary corrections “before Google, Yahoo or Bing penalize you for it.”

Mainstream media cover AboutUs Inc.

Mike Rogoway, technology reporter at The Oregonian, has covered AboutUs several times. He wrote about our new Site Report as our first for-pay SEO service for small business owners.

Ben Jacklet, managing editor of Oregon Business magazine, points out that our Site Report was designed to guide business owners who know they need to rank higher in Google, but aren’t quite sure how. He quotes CEO Ray King’s caution that it’s never worth it to resort to black hat tricks and games to improve search results. “The goal is to build a reputation with credibility, good content and good services.”

As the former technology reporter for the Portland Business Journal, I was very happy to see Suzanne Stevens,the PBJ’s Web editor, cover the AboutUs Site Report launch. Suzanne pointed out that while there are other SEO tools on the market, the AboutUs Site Report is tailored for small business.

Have you written about the Site Report? Let us know!

I hope I haven’t left anyone out….if you’ve tried the Site Report and posted a review, let us know: Editor@AboutUs.org. And thank you!