These people do not use the software for any unpopular practices: they have revealed its hidden powers as a link management tool. We no way recommend link exchange in 2013, and we occasionally have thoughts about excluding LinkAssistant from SEO PowerSuite altogether.īut our long-term customers are against it as they keep using it. First, we launched LinkAssistant, which was originally meant for link exchange and market research. It wasn’t SEO PowerSuite as it is from the very start. Surprisingly, very few people downloaded this software until we put a $30-price label on it! It was then that we saw a real interest in the software from the community, and it was the very moment we decided to develop and market SEO software.Ĭurrently, SEO PowerSuite is made up of four tools: Rank Tracker, WebSite Auditor, SEO SpyGlass and LinkAssistant. We saw it working good and saving us time with our routine tasks, so we shared it for free, assuming it could be helpful for someone else as well. When we started mastering SEO to optimize our development service site, we wrote a script to check our rankings (a prototype of Rank Tracker) and a program to reach out to link partners (the prototype of LinkAssistant). Was there any one event, incident or epiphany that happened to you that led you to visualize and create SEO PowerSuite? A lot has changed over the eight years, but my passion for the niche is the same. It turned out to be a fascinatingly vibrant industry, which keeps me captivated to date. You bet we wanted it rank high for crazy competitive keywords, so we started looking into SEO: rules, principles and strategies. Back in 2004, Viktar and I started a website to market our development services. The launch of our first site was the turning point in my interest to SEO and online marketing. How long have you been doing SEO and/or online marketing? However, it didn’t take us long to realize there’s market for SEO software, so we focused on developing that. For about a year, we were doing IT projects for customers worldwide. My friend Viktar, who’s currently Link-Assistant.Com’s CEO, and I started a development outsourcing business in 2004. SEO Powersuite is four tools that help SEO specialists do ranking analysis, SEO website audits, find link opportunities and more. Link-Assistant offers SEO Powersuite for search engine optimization professionals. I interviewed Aleh Barysevich, the Marketing Director for Link-Assistant. Good day, all you SEO heroes out there! Today, Search Engine Academy is doing something a little different.