I have always been a big fan of Hittail. Hittail saved me thousands of dollars, not only by brining my websites to the top 10 position on the search engines for some quiet competitive keywords but also by helping to optimize my PPC campaigns. PPC campings really was a “side effect” for me. I noticed that if I optimized a page to Hittail’s suggestion, I could then maintain very low bids on the same suggestion without compromising the quality score. Not so long ago I signed up for a paid account with Hittail, at $90 a year I believe it is a steal.
When Darren from Problogger mentioned 103bees.com in one of his recent videos, I was immediately reminded of Hittail. I knew that I had to try this site. I have only been testing 103bees.com since yesterday, but I can see some very promising features. It offers a particular report called “top questions”. In essence this report provides you with information on how the keywords used to find your website are also used in the question queries. I have no idea how do they hey do it, but this information can be very useful if you write a lot of “how to” articles. In fact 103bees.com has already provided me with an idea for a “how to” article.
I am not ready to give up Hittail just yet. It has a proven record as far as I am concerned. 103bees.com will have to prove it’s effectiveness.
We're always happy to look at new features, so long as they are consistent with the exactly-what-you-need approach we've taken. Would features like top questions be useful? It's fairly straight forward–look for hits that have who, what, why, when and where in it, that also have a high hit count. I expect you'll be excited by some of the new features we're preparing that have more to do with that “side effect” you mentioned.
Mike,
I am not sure how useful top queries would be. It's nice to know them but at the end of the day I am using Hittail because I was able to achieve results…..
Of the top “question queries” were analyzed in the same way as “suggestions” are then yes it could be extremely useful. Who would not want to rank first for a question query?
Look for ward to the new features.