Likelihood to Recommend Businesses looking to keep track of their web presence and utilize a tool to identify areas of opportunity. The trends tracking and competitor modeling allow businesses to be able to build an SEO strategy that they can track progress over time and fill in content gaps. This is used by our company in conjunction with our marketing automation tool and Google's web presence suite (eg.
Google Analytics , Search Console, Tag Manager).
Read full review Moat is well suited to implement into digital placements that are being served through third-party ad servers (
Campaign Manager , Flashtalking, etc). It holds your publishers accountable from a viewability standpoint. If you are running high dynamic or site serving placements with 1x1 or click trackers, you aren't able to measure viewability and are at the mercy of publishers providing viewability metrics.
Read full review Pros It finds relevant keywords and lets you know your chance of ranking with them. It helps you find content that needs work to rank better. It helps you improve any technical issues with your web pages. It helps you audit your current site for any technical issues. It helps you keep track of your most important keywords. Read full review Breaks down how well each creative has done in a campaign. Allows us to see the progress of a campaign through its time live. Can easily be organized to pull the data you're looking for. Can export into an excel doc to then dig deeper and format and look at data outside of Moat. Read full review Cons Some of the auto-gen visual tables aren't all that useful for smaller companies. For instance on the Search Visibility tab, many of my clients have a tiny % of keywords in the top-10, so the table shows basically 4 overlaid flat lines. I wish we had some options to customize this table or expand the range or something. I wish there were some more tools relating to the technical aspects of the site/pages. The whole tool is very keyword-oriented, which is fine, but I feel like over time this has become and will continue to be less important than technical aspects, site speed, voice search, etc. There's an Anchor Text tab, but it only looks at Inbound links—I wish this feature was for on-site anchor text—this could be a much better optimization tool. Because there's nothing you can do about inbound link text. Read full review I’ve experienced some issues exporting reports into an Excel doc and have to manually copy and paste data with can be very time-consuming. You have to manually wrap video tags with the MOAT pixel which can be a tedious process. Video and display are in separate interfaces so you have to export separately and then consolidate into one report. Read full review Likelihood to Renew We've been paying monthly for Moz for at least four years. We rely heavily on it for our daily work, and would need to re-engineer many of our processes if we were to cancel our subscription. I suspect we'll continue to use Moz as long as we are in business (assuming they maintain their quality).
Read full review Usability it's easy to use once you get the hang of it and most people with any sort of background in using online tools and analytics systems can figure it out. it's just not as intuitive as it could be like google webmaster tools or Adobe (Site Catalyst)
Read full review Reliability and Availability Every time I've ever needed it, it's been there.
Read full review Support Rating As I have mentioned before, if you have enterprise subscription, the staff are super helpful. Moz also participated in the marketing tech conferences especially moz in seattle. These sessions are super useful in helping digital marketing analyst like me to investigate new marketing techniques, tracking leads and conversions and eventually monetize them. Their staff is not only knowledgeable in their own product but they have been around. For example Dr Peter from moz always publishes his insights and I have relied somewhat on his opinions.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Moz emerged as an industry leader with a great reputation for driving optimal SEO performance and ROI for customers. Moz' thought leadership on all things SEO gave us a lot of confidence to invest and partner with them. The wide array of product features was also something that was important to us relative to Moz' competitors. In the end, we felt there wasn't anything we couldn't do with Moz. We were also impressed with the on demand platform training and tools provided from day 1. Lastly, Moz was one of the more expensive platforms, but it wasn't the most expensive, so we felt we received great value for the overall price.
Read full review Moat gives our team more insight into how campaigns are running. They give a more detailed breakdown per creative whereas other platforms only touch upon the limited or more specific information.
Read full review Return on Investment Here I can easily find competitor's ranking keywords and their backlinks. It also gives you another exciting feature where you can compare two domains at the same time. The thing that I don't like about this software is, that sometimes your page can take too much time for crawling. Read full review It has given the media and analytics team more granular metrics to measure for campaigns that may have awareness objectives and no KPIs. Measuring view ability ensures that clients media dollars are being viewed by the targeted audience. Moat allows you to gain metrics that can be very insightful and how users are interacting with placements, creative, etc. Read full review ScreenShots