SEO is an exciting, high-stakes game. Millions of dollars of targeted traffic is up for grabs by those with the skills to capture it. Succeed at SEO and you'll be rewarded with endless streams of interested visitors. Fail and your website languishes in obscurity. The bad news is that in this game the rules change weekly, and one of the world’s most powerful corporations tries their darndest to keep everyone in the dark.
Fortunately, search engines aren’t the only ones who can leverage the power of machine learning to rank websites. Anyone can do it, as long as they’re willing to assemble a 100 billion+ node linkgraph, analyze over 300,000 websites, and tap some of the world’s smartest minds to make sense of all the data. This is the story of the team crazy enough to tackle that challenge and in the process invent a totally new kind of SEO software.
Answering that question (and others that followed) ended up requiring a multi-year journey through the amazing world of data mining, under an apprenticeship of sorts with one of the country's leading data miners. After 2 years developing and refining the data models that would become CanIRank, we eventually realized that we knew more about what drives search engine rankings than practically anyone outside of Mountain View.
Rather than keep it to ourselves, we decided to launch a new kind of SEO software: where other tools simply provide data, we could use our ranking models to draw useful and actionable conclusions. Thus was born the world's first SEO Intelligence software, helping to give startups, ecommerce stores, bloggers, and SMEs a chance to compete against the mega-corporations who rank due to the size of their SEO budget rather than the quality of their content.
A serial entrepreneur for nearly 15 years, Matt combines deep expertise in online marketing with the experience of having built businesses from startup to 8-figure revenues within 5 years. Matt is captivated by the ever-changing strategic puzzles characterizing modern SEO, which he's unlocked to garner top rankings in competitive niches ranging from finance and law to online dating and internet marketing.
President of Abbott Analytics, Chief Scientist at SmarterRemarketer, a frequent speaker, author, and trainer, Dean is an internationally recognized data mining and predictive analytics expert. To be honest, I think Dean agreed to help us out mainly because he thought CanIRank would be an intriguing challenge —
A true wizard of front-end code, Marcin can somehow coax Javascript, CSS, and HTML into doing things you never even imagined were possible. For example, have you ever seen a Mega Man-like video game rendered entirely with CSS? (Those of us who have lost entire days trying to get a few boxes to line up properly...
For many, graduating with honors from Stanford, writing and producing your own TV show, and working as an expat computer scientist in Moscow would make for a pretty proud career history. For Holland, that was just the beginning. We all watched in amazement as he transformed himself from a comedy-writing...
Who is Ankur? A farmer, chef, published author, philosopher, licensed reverend, Stanford-trained computer scientist, and "revolutionary of love", it's safe to say that Ankur's unique identity is not easily encapsulated in a 100-word bio. For our purposes here perhaps it suffices to say that Ankur is both a creative problem solver...
Natalia has been creating beautiful and usable interfaces for 7 years as a designer with Active Design, Ravelia, and ELPassion. As keeper of the sacred CanIRank "look and feel", she is responsible for making sure all the pixels line up in a suitably pleasing fashion. Anyone who has struggled to work with designers who consider...
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Once upon a time, in the hallowed halls of Stanford University’s Toyon residence, time, place, and circumstance came together to create a unique home for 4 fortunate students: Matt, Ankur, Holland, and Ajay, known by most simply as “The Quad”. So exceptionally did the fortuitous roommate matching accomplish the goals of Stanford...
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If you don’t want to spend thousands of dollars a month hiring an SEO "expert" who may or may not deliver results, CanIRank is an incredible DIY option that actually works. The system gives you the exact steps to follow, in very clear instructions, to improve your keyword rankings over time. Highly recommended!
I have not only gained a much greater understanding of how SEO works, but I have seen the success of my website grow far faster than ever imagined thanks to CanIRank.
By using more ranking factors (200+) than the usual manual or automated methods, CanIRank gives you the most accurate readout I've seen regarding your chances of ranking new and proposed pages. Plus, it's fun!"
SEO can be boring, but CanIRank's system shows me enough different methods that I can jump from successful strategy to successful strategy, making SEO fun again!
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