Agency Analytics vs. Google Search Console

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Agency Analytics
Score 8.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Reporting software designed specifically for marketing agencies, boasting over 5,000 agencies as users of AgencyAnalytics for reports and live marketing dashboards. It can report on SEO, PPC, call tracking, social media, email marketing, and more with 60+ integrations. The solution aims to displace spreadsheets and help users grow their agencies, and is presented as an easy-to-use reporting software that just works the way it is needed to. It is available to try out through a 14-day…
$12
per month per client campaign (minimum 5 client campaigns)
Google Search Console
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Google Search Console is a search engine optimization software solution offered by Google.N/A
Pricing
Agency AnalyticsGoogle Search Console
Editions & Modules
Freelancer
$12
per month per client campaign (minimum 5 client campaigns)
Agency
$18
per month per client campaign (minimum 10 client campaigns)
Enterprise
contact for enterprise pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Agency AnalyticsGoogle Search Console
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsWhat is a Client Campaign? A client campaign represents a client (their website and integrations).
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Agency Analytics
Chose Agency Analytics
Agency Analytics is the best analytics platform for analyzing and reporting on multiple digital platforms under one roof. I haven't run into anything more powerful for analytics in my 10 years of marketing. Other platforms fall short on their list of integrations and what …
Chose Agency Analytics
The software has a very professional format, which gives it an edge over other competitors. Agency Analytics also facilitates the black-link management for SEO purposes, which is again a good thing. My customers have seen the dashboard of Agency Analytics and because the depth …
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Agency Analytics conducts site diagnostics, which is a complete evaluation means for traffic evaluation. Agency Analytics has done extra SEO features, through SERP tracking among other competitive approaches. Also, recommends the features to include in a site, to make it more …
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AgencyAnalytics is our preferred choice after using the above platforms and many others like them. Big or small, expensive or cheap, AgencyAnalytics takes the cake every time!
Chose Agency Analytics
This is my first experience with a tool like Agency Analytics because I don't have a digital marketing background. My background is in sales, but I quickly realized that Agency Analytics is a selling point for prospective and existing clients. We also use Ahrefs and Semrush, …
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We identified Agency Analytics as the most well-rounded software for our agency’s needs. The platform was reasonably priced and included integrations for SEO, paid search, paid social, and organic social. Having reporting and tools for all major marketing channels will be …

Chose Agency Analytics
Agency Analytics is a great value. It offers enough tools and features that are very useful, and it's a more affordable platform than other similar tools. It is missing some key depth in both SEO and reporting, which is a shame. It does do a much better job at bring digital …
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I've used Conductor Searchlight in the past and it's a great tool. Agency Analytics however includes many additional features that are considered premium features in Conductor Searchlight. Agency Analytics bundles features and third party integrations that come standard and the …
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We still use BrightLocal to build citations and show our clients their Google My Business ranking placement. However, I like Agency Analytics better for their website ranking tool. I also like that Agency Analytics allows us to add clients as users to their campaign. Overall, I …
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We stopped using Raventools because the report rendering was ridiculously slow.
Chose Agency Analytics
I've used MOZ fairly extensively and I've found Agency Anaytics overall is a better tool for managing and monitoring keywords and SEO improvement opportunities. It's easy to use, quick to set up and less expensive than MOZ.
Google Search Console
Chose Google Search Console
I think these tools are a lot better than GSC, to be honest, because they bring everything together in one place and offer better keyword analysis capabilities. However, I would select GSC over these tools because it is Google's proprietary data, and ultimately, I am optimizing …
Chose Google Search Console
It's a product from the same team as the no. 1 search engine. It's free, so there's no burden, and you can use it for as long as you want and for as big a company as possible. Others are very expensive, and data can be inaccurate sometimes. Google Analytics serves a different …
Chose Google Search Console
GSC does not give you as much information as a paid tool, but it does give you direct clicks to keywords which these other tools have no way of knowing.
Chose Google Search Console
Semrush, Ahrefs, Botify and Sistrix
Chose Google Search Console
Google Search Console needs to be used alongside other tools like that ones I mentioned. By itself, it's only able to provide basic information for baseline issues. Thankfully, it does integrate well with a lot of other services and can be useful when linked up to those tools. …
Chose Google Search Console
The best part about Google Search Console is it is FREE to use. However, the performance report shared by Google Search Console may not be as detailed as the one shared by Ubersuggest. Ubersuggest also has tons of other additional features and they have a free version too. I …
Chose Google Search Console
Bing helps us to submit websites to our bing search engine, manage sitemaps crawl status help to disallow URLs. However it is only for the Bing search engine, obviously, we need to use the Google search console for Google indexing.
Chose Google Search Console
The search console provides more detailed data on actual real-world performance. The search console also helps with submitting new websites for indexing whereas other tools only analyze existing SERP results. The search console also gives additional data of keywords that a page …
Chose Google Search Console
All of these other tools have positives and negatives. We use Google Search Console along with SEMRush in the past and are using it with Ahrefs right now. Search Console is like the foundation of monitoring our search presence and these other tools are what lets us do the heavy …
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Semrush costs money to obtain the full range of data that Google Search Engine doesn't supply. Start with GSC and then move to Semrush, is my opinion.
Chose Google Search Console
Google uniquely provides specific data that is important for optimizing SEO and performance for websites. While it doesn't provide as comprehensive an analysis as other tools like Ahrefs and Moz, it provides Google performance-specific data that can't be found elsewhere. When …
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I don't know other such tools.
Chose Google Search Console
The data is more accurate in Google Search Console and you can communicate back with Google using this tool.
Chose Google Search Console
If you need advanced SEO information, then of course you need to use expensive tools. Google console will give basic information, but most importantly, it will give promptly and free of charge. So do not ignore the possibilities of this great free tool, because all webmasters …
Chose Google Search Console
There is a lot to learn on how to do SEO properly. As a freelance photographer, I don't have enough time to do this properly. I usually use the options and tips that my web host (Squarespace) provides. It is much easier and simpler to use, but I am sure the results will not be …
Chose Google Search Console
We use both SEMrush and Google Search Console. Google Search Console and SEMrush share some similar features, but they're two very different software suites. SEMRush is a more robust platform for SEO and SEM. It offers a lot more features than Google Search Console, …
Chose Google Search Console
Although Statcounter is more like Google Analytics than Search Console, it still has a lot of overlap. Statcounter is relatively small, so it does not provide anywhere near the functions of SC. But, it's good to have a secondary source of traffic and other related data, one …
Chose Google Search Console
We are using Ahrefs and SEMRush along with the search console. Ahrefs helps in creating our backlink strategy while SEMRush for content gaps and opportunities. Search console is more preferred as it is completely free and data comes straight from Google. But you cannot see …
Chose Google Search Console
We also use SEMrush for our sites to get a better overall picture of our backlinks, keywords, rankings, etc for all our search engine optimization needs, but at a cost of $99/month, it can be quite expensive and does what Google Search Console does for free, albeit in a more …
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Google Search Console offers more information than Google Analytics alone (though they can be integrated together). Google Search Console is also a free tool, so that can be an attractive facet when compared to Moz or other SEO programs (though the information provided is …
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Google Search Console is obviously not as robust as a paid service like SEMRush, but it provides quick, easy, at-a-glance insights to make our jobs easier.
Chose Google Search Console
I wouldn't really call Google Search Console a competitor of these major SEO software that has backlink management, competitive research, keyword research, PPC research, and so much more a part of them. It's just a bare-bones SEO tool and sitemap submission specifically for …
Chose Google Search Console
Google Search Console does a lot more than most webmaster tools and is easier to navigate than Bing Webmaster Tools. One other tool that we predominately use is SerpCheetah, which provides real-time organic keyword positioning rank in the SERP and can be broken down by device, …
Features
Agency AnalyticsGoogle Search Console
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Agency Analytics
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Ratings
Google Search Console
4.8
Ratings
46% below category average
Keyword analysis00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Backlink management00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Page grader00 Ratings3.20 Ratings
Competitive analysis00 Ratings1.30 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Site recommendations00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Task management00 Ratings1.00 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Agency Analytics
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Ratings
Google Search Console
7.2
Ratings
5% below category average
Local SEO00 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Social SEO00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile SEO00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Global SEO00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Agency Analytics
-
Ratings
Google Search Console
8.0
Ratings
5% below category average
Multi-domain support00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
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Advanced Web Ranking
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User Ratings
Agency AnalyticsGoogle Search Console
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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9.2
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(0 ratings)
6.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Agency AnalyticsGoogle Search Console
Likelihood to Recommend
Agency Analytics has made marketing procedure effective, where all the approaches have been brought in a single dashboard, for easy functionality. Also, the back link tracking or monitoring has been efficiently handled by the application. The SEO procedure from Agency Analytics perfects the ranking of what we market and we secure more audiences. Finally, the competitive analysis from Agency Analytics captures the exact information concerning the opponents and the services or products they offer.
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If you just want to understand how much traffic you're getting from Google organic search results, and study the queries and landing pages that make up this traffic, this is a great tool. If you also want to figure out where you may be missing opportunities or making it hard for people to find your site, this can help with that. However, GSC is not going to give you step by step instructions for how to fix SEO issues, and won't help prioritize anything either. It's essentially like a car dashboard, but doesn't do any driving or tell you how to drive.
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Pros
  • Beautiful platform. Easy to use and view.
  • Transparent for us with clients as we can add our clients to give them live access to the dashboard.
  • Loads of integrations!
  • The company quickly adds new integrations and takes feedback seriously, often making changes from it within the same quarter.
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  • Provides details on what other sites contain backlinks to your site, along with the page they direct to within your site
  • Displays impressions and click throughs for Google search queries
  • Individual page performance by location and device category as it pertains to generating clicks leading to your site
  • Basic indexing and readability issues within your site
  • The new interface that just rolled out is much easier on the eyes
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Cons
  • Would like to see the stars feature to bring keywords to the top of the report have 1 click to remove all stars that were checked off previously.
  • Would love to have a feature to track how clients are ranking for keywords; currently only shows the # of keywords ranking in the top 10 positions of Google but doesn't show the actual keywords for each competitor.
  • Would extremely love to see a feature where the keywords can be viewed/filtered by position; for example page 1 of Google only, page 2 of Google only.
  • Would love to see a keyword tool to check keyword rankings or search volume for specific keywords; similar to Google's keyword planner.
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  • It can be a little difficult to navigate
  • More training resources would be an asset. A beginner is given the power to completely destroy a sites search results at the push of a button. Likewise it is a powerful tool to enhance search results also.
  • An option to take care of multiple versions of the same site simultaneously would be helpful. An option to use the same validation script across all versions and administer them simultaneously would be a time save (i.e. non-www, www, http://, and https:// versions of the same site).
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Usability
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It's easy to use, but some features are lacking a clear explanation. Somethings don't always match up. For example, the Core Web Vitals often doesn't match what you would see in the Chrome Lighthouse report or the Google Page Speed Insights tool. The tool itself is a little too basic and has to be used alongside other SEO tools and other Google properties such as Analytics
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Support Rating
They are always on top/ahead of the curve. There has never been a time where I haven't had the platform work professionally when I needed it. They stand behind a top-quality product. It's easy to support something when they put hard work into development and maintenance.
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As with all Google software, your primary source of help is their forums, their knowledge base articles, or whatever tutorials you can find on the web. Often answers on their forums are not straightforward and may not address the actual issue you're experiencing. The KB articles are typically written like instruction manuals - for better or for worse. Tutorials on the web may vary, but the odds are good someone out there had the same questions as you and was kind enough to document their experience.
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Alternatives Considered
The software has a very professional format, which gives it an edge over other competitors. Agency Analytics also facilitates the black-link management for SEO purposes, which is again a good thing. My customers have seen the dashboard of Agency Analytics and because the depth of information is so powerful and impactful, it convinced them to hire us as their marketing team. Agency Analytics also comes up with substantial SEO and other competitive analysis solutions that make it more preferable for the end-users.
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It's a product from the same team as the no. 1 search engine. It's free, so there's no burden, and you can use it for as long as you want and for as big a company as possible. Others are very expensive, and data can be inaccurate sometimes. Google Analytics serves a different usecase altogether.
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Return on Investment
  • It's a selling point. A major client saw that we were giving access to AA to her, and LOVED it.
  • We can identify issues and solve for them before we lose clients
  • It's an integral part of our sales process. We gain clients by being able to visually show the impact we've had on other similar businesses
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  • It has helped a lot in optimizing our webpages for the right keywords.
  • It has an overall positive impact on our business in terms of better rankings and CTR.
  • After the successful submission of our sitemap, we saw a sudden boost in our SERPs.
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ScreenShots

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