Ask HN: Feedback on a friend's SEO tool

- Make it clear that an email address is optional for a report. I almost left the page right away before deciding to try it out with the email field blank.<p>- Merge "Things you need to work on" and "full report". Put errors/suggestions on top.<p>- Auto-expand the top most report field or make it more obvious that those are links.<p>- Add re-analyze site button. Typing the URL in over and over again is tedious.<p>- "You have too many meta keywords." It says I have more than 10 phrases but I only have 9. Off by 1 in the code?<p>- Change "domain is too new" to yellow instead of red since there's nothing that can be done about it.<p>- "Good! You your page has a meta description." has a broken img link in the report text. Ditto with "This page has a title tag."<p>- "The CSS on this page isn't valid." The only invalid part is foo-border-radius. I think that's typical.<p>Pretty useful. Caught that my HTML wasn't valid anymore due to some changes I made recently.<p>It also convinced me to add a sitemap to my site even though it's only a 1 page weather webapp.

1) I know they don't <i>need</i> my email in order to analyze my site, so I am immediately suspicious. There is no checkbox for agreement with a privacy policy, nor is there language stating I will never be spammed, etc. Thus, I did not try the demo.<p>2) If they really do demand my email address to try their service, they should let me see a screenshot, at least, so I can get a sense of whether or not I want to risk giving them my email address.<p>I think that this errs on the side of giving too little information to make an informed choice about wanting to use their service. There are many sites that will, without requiring an email address, do some basic SEO analysis for me. Without knowing what their site does, I was not enthusiastic enough to actually try their product.

Seems to come up with an error if you accidentally put white space in front of the URL. Otherwise looks like a useful tool.