RankScience
p/rankscience
Grow search traffic with data science
Alexis Ohanian
RankScience — SEO split testing & automation platform
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RankScience makes it easy to test changes to your website that can lift search traffic, and also automates a growing number of technical SEO tasks.

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Luciano Arango
Congrats on launching! Does the product work well for startups or is it geared more for larger companies?
Ryan Bednar
@iloveluce Thanks, and good questions! RankScience works for everyone from startups just getting started with SEO all the way to large corporations. We work with teams of all shapes and sizes : )
tela
@iloveluce @ryanbed I'd think you need a baseline of search engine traffic to test against, and enough traffic for the split test to generate a winner in a reasonable amount of time (like any A/B testing effort). So maybe not the first thing you do, but a good idea to add this as an SEO tactic.
Ryan Bednar
@iloveluce @tela This is true! You need a baseline level of traffic for SEO A/B testing to work. Our platform makes it super simple to deploy SEO enhancements on any single page, without writing code.
Ryan Bednar
Hey folks! Our goal is to help businesses succeed through SEO automation. I'd love to answer any questions you have about the product, or SEO split-testing in general!
Shreyaa Ratra
@ryanbed Hi Ryan, Congratulations on the launch. The product looks dope. Few thoughts if you are planning to scale B2B sales : a) Reach out to funded start-ups. Since they have recently raised money, they will be focussing on SEO and what better than RankScience. b) Reach out to companies hiring for SEO. Since they are hiring for SEO already, it means they have money plus SEO is their area of focus right now. Hence Rank Science. Would be happy to hear your thoughts.
Michael Ma
@ryanbed Congrats on the launch! Any thoughts on how this compares to hiring an SEO consultant?
Ryan Bednar
@shreyaa_ratra Thanks! I initially reached out to startups in my network that care about SEO. We haven't done any paid acquisition or outbound sales, but are planning to ramp that up.
Alexis Ohanian
@ryanbed Congrats, Ryan! It's been great watching your journey over the years and congrats on the big next step with launching self-serve.
Shreyaa Ratra
@ryanbed , Do let me know whenever you plan to scale your outbound. We have built Easyleadz.com - Virtual Sales Assistant which can help you identify right companies ( as mentioned above), find contact details of decision maker and send them personalised mailer and follow up if they do not respond.
Daniel Ahmadizadeh
Congrats! How much traffic should a startup be already generating for RankScience to be effective? What's the metric that allows a startup to know that it's worth it to use RankScience vs. something else (ex. doing it ourselves)?
Ryan Bednar
@danthevc Traffic only matters for running SEO split tests, but since we do SEO automation as well, RankScience works well for getting companies with zero traffic off the ground, too.
Harry Strick
Can you please explain how a line of code has the permission to change existing code on a website? Also, how do you automate the optimization A/B testing? Is this manual or done automatically? If automatic, what metrics do you use? Super interesting - thanks!
Ryan Bednar
@harrystrick Thanks! RS hooks into your front-end and makes HTML changes on your website. Our software crawls your site and proposes SEO experiments using natural language processing and our data on successful experiments for similar sites. It's a mix of manual and automatic testing. The metrics we use are Clicks, Rankings, and Impressions.
Harry Strick
@ryanbed I'm pretty sure that RS Hooks can't change HTML code right? Or am I wrong? It's essentially an auditor that also looks at analytical data to see how to optimize?
Ryan Bednar
@harrystrick RankScience changes your HTML code! That's the magic : )
Ryan Bednar
@harrystrick Ah, sorry! The technical answer is via CDN+Proxy server+JavaScript
Alex Wawl
Looks very nice. Maybe we will be useful for you in the future Worfor
Ryan Bednar
@alexwawl Sounds cool! We have a 30 day free trial on our site, or you can signup to request a demo and we can walk you through the product and explain it. : )
Saijo George
Congrats @ryanbed , how are you guys different/better from the others like ODN, RankSense, etc?
Ryan Bednar
@saijogeorge Hey Saijo, I haven't used either of those but I've heard good things about ODN and I'll check out RankSense (cool name : ). We're focused on SEO automation (so more than just A/B testing for SEO) and my sense is others are more focused on building tools for SEO agencies/consultants. The SEO industry is massive though and I have no doubt there's room for many successful companies.
Dave Yen
Awesome to finally have a way to help automate SEO. Nice!
Ryan Bednar
@dave_yen Thanks!
Chris Chen
I've been using this for a few months and my developers could stop working on SEO. Recommended
Ryan Bednar
@chris_chen That's great to hear! It's expensive to have developers working on SEO tasks. Our software gives marketers the ability to make SEO changes and run tests without having to rely on developers.