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Did you program this yourself Ray? If you're an SEO who can program as well, call me super jealous!

I don't think they're that mutually exclusive. "SEO" is mostly just a matter of figuring out some basic things, and if you're actually being professional about it, doing some testing.

After all, that's why he's able to automate it.

I'm much more impressed with people that do two things that are relatively further apart, such as someone who can hack kernel code and also has good design skills.

That's not to take anything away from what he's done, mind you - any startup is something to be proud of. I just don't think it's miraculous that a good developer is also able to get a good grasp on "SEO".

That's a good point. Grasping how SEO works isn't all that complicated.

Being able to actually bring in traffic from organic search in competitive niches is the real kicker.

Yes, I did.

1 founder startup? impressive looking so far / I signed up for a beta using my email in my profile if you want to hook me up...

Yup, single founder. Thanks. I'll send out all of the invite requests today over the next 24 hours.

In fact, Ray was the one who wrote the blog post circulated around here a couple weeks ago about single founder startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1489341

Great job, Ray!

It's really rare to see a 1 founder startup do so well, but if you ever meet Ray in person, you'll know he's completely capable!

Ray's helped Fanvibe's SEO out so far, we're loving his tools! Try out Ginzametrics, it's really slick.

Looks nice - you've got a request from Conversion Voodoo for a beta spot - looking forward to trying it out!

Thanks! You'll have it in under 24 hours. :)

This looks good to me. You've got a beta request from Voltage Creative as well. We're a marketing agency that actually offers SEO services, but we're always looking for ways to fill gaps for the clients that fall through the cracks. IE, the ones that are big enough to need SEO, but too small for an agency. It would be great to have some software to point them toward.

Agencies are some of my best customers, and they seem to love it because it helps them with the workload of their existing clients, so they can bring in more business.

Looking forward to hearing what you think.

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