Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills

Posted: 11 Dec 2010 09:31 AM PST

I accidental launched free seo report last thursday night….

Well it wasn’t me but rather someone in our office who was adding the video code to my post and instead of saving it accidental hit the publish button.

Here I had this really awesomely coordinated plan to launch with a bunch of websites on Monday… and just like that ITS RUINED!

We gave the office guy who launched it a lot of shit and asked if there was anyone of our other projects he felt like launching…

But sometimes you need something like that to kick you in the ass and just do it! So there goes nothing!

But the real question… would Latvia’s pride and joy aka The Elk (as on his page), who we partnered with to program the back end, be up for the challenge?

After all as you can imagine, there is a ton of intensive stuff going on under the hood and we knew the site would be bombarded with requests when we launched.

I just looked at our statistics and was pretty happy to see:

Confirmed users: 4507

Waiting for email confirmation: 180

Total number of reports: 13,298

Completed reports: 13,296

Avg processing time for reports: 4.1min

Hate letters from SEO’s that are now out of work: Too many to count

That’s right we had ZERO issues. Every report that started finished successfully and the average time was almost right at 4 minutes. wow…

Check out a few comments from users we received:

From Phil:
Shoe – That free SEO site is the bomb! I purchased this software a while back for my desktop that had some of the functionality but I had to enter all these API keys (which I could not even get one from Google anymore) and it lacked a lot of the detailed reporting and features that you guys have. Ohh did I mention it was $600???? I already purchased a monthly subscription for unlimited reports and have done over 50 without a hiccup. My clients are going to flip at the new reports we will provide them!

Jason:

I just took a look at the Free SEO Report and am amazed at the quality and detail of the report! I have been somewhat neglecting SEO to some extent with my website and this definitely shows me in more depth of what I need to do to fix that. Thank you for all you do! I wish you the best of luck with its success! Have a great and relaxing holiday, Jeremy!

But we got a few questions about the service as a whole:

Cost:

James:

Hi- it says free seo report but in your TOS it talks about costs. This sounds really fishy to me.

Damn buggers that actually read the TOS (don’t you guys have anything better to do)…

We basically took the model of freecreditreport.com. We give you a full featured, free, fully enabled, totally bad ass report and once we get you addicted to the crack we charge $10 per report or unlimited reports for $19.95 a month.

Unlimited service? Really?

Brady:

I loved the free report and signed up for the unlimited monthly account. I have already run a lot of reports and they look great but my questions is this; is it truly unlimited? Like I can honestly run as many as I want? Or is it like my Unlimited American Express Card which actually has a limit (in the fine print somewhere). I plan on running 50 reports a day and I am not sure if you have thought about this money wise because you can’t be profiting from me with all the resources this is taking up.

Yes Brady its truly unlimited. As for our profitability I think we will be ok. Obviously we are not trying to get rich from this service.

Sharing Accounts

Nick:

I just purchased an account and wanted to know the rules for sharing accounts.

Nick that is a really good question and one no doubt others will ask. Here is our official stance right now and what we have in place. If anything changes with this we will let you know.

You can share your account as long as it comes from the same ip address within a reasonable amount of time. For instance if your company or agency purchases an unlimited account to run for their clients I am fine with that so long as THEY are the ones doing it from their office. If your friends want you to run reports for them I am ok with that as long as YOU are the one running the reports.

We have in place a great system to alert us when an account is being shared and its actually pretty easy to tell. Any accounts found to be publicly shared will be terminated immediately.

If you have any questions on this feel free to contact me.

If you have not checked out Free SEO Report yet give it a try and please let me know your feedback!