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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BrightLocal

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/ABrightLocal is a search engine optimization tool that tracks search rankings, builds citations, and monitors online reviews and stresses local search performance.

    $39

    per month

    Siteimprove

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Siteimprove platform offers tools used to create digital experiences optimized for quality, accessibility, analytics, and SEO. Sitemprove offers content insights and recommendations in a prioritized list to improve the impact of changes. It is available through three solution packages (Inclusivity, Content Experience, and Marketing Performance).N/A
    Pricing
    BrightLocalSiteimprove
    Editions & Modules
    Track Plan
    $39
    per month
    Manage Plan
    $49
    per month
    Grow Plan
    $59
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BrightLocalSiteimprove
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBrightLocal offers custom enterprise plans for businesses with more than 50 locations.—
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    Community Pulse
    BrightLocalSiteimprove
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    BrightLocal
    No answer on this topic
    Siteimprove
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    BrightLocalSiteimprove
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of BrightLocal and Siteimprove
    Feature
    BrightLocal
    6.7
    12 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Siteimprove
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    Ratings
    Keyword analysis7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backlink management4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking7.711 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page grader7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analysis7.611 Ratings00 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics9.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    Site recommendations6.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task management3.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of BrightLocal and Siteimprove
    Feature
    BrightLocal
    8.6
    13 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Siteimprove
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    Ratings
    Local SEO8.613 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social SEO7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile SEO10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global SEO7.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of BrightLocal and Siteimprove
    Feature
    BrightLocal
    9.2
    11 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Siteimprove
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    Ratings
    Multi-domain support8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools9.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of BrightLocal and Siteimprove
    Feature
    BrightLocal
    -
    Ratings
    Siteimprove
    7.5
    3 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Lead Conversion Tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Event Tracking00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
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    BrightLocalSiteimprove
    Small Businesses
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Matomo Analytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Lead Forensics
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Chartbeat
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BrightLocalSiteimprove
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (14 ratings)
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrightLocalSiteimprove
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BrightLocal
    If you are a local business owner or marketing agency catering to local businesses, BrightLocal is a must have software. It has everything you need to track your local marketing efforts and to identify opportunities to make improvements, all at a very reasonable price point. You can also create nice looking reports to send to clients which are simple to create.
    Incentivized
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    Siteimprove
    Siteimprove works well for managing the health and performance of your customer-facing sites in terms of performance, digital experience, and accessibility. It also helps to define policies to proactively avoid experience breaks or issues for customers before they occur. It can improve by providing more options to configure policies for large sites with thousands of pages.
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    Pros
    BrightLocal
    • When we use BrightLocal's citation building service, I know that we're getting quality citations done right. Their staff will email you with any questions and always double check the information before creating inaccurate citations.
    • I love that BrightLocal is very quick about making changes when requested. For example, if we can't find a city on the drop-down list, you can chat them and they'll add it. Or if a report is pulling incorrectly, they'll re-run it within a reasonable timeframe.
    • BrightLocal has a lot of different reports that are easy to send to your clients. You can even add them to a web-viewable dashboard so that your client can simply bookmark a link and view their reports when they please.
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    Siteimprove
    • User-friendly customisable dashboards, easy to make a dashboard from a template, or create your own, and add in whichever 'widgets' are relevant for what you are looking at
    • Flagging words to review, allowing users to check and confirm if the word is 'accepted' or is a misspelling
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    Cons
    BrightLocal
    • Up and down rankings were not always right on with the local search, but only off by one or two spots
    • It felt like it was only used for local SEO, and I know there are more features, just never got to them.
    • Didn't seem useful for every single client in the way Ahrefs or Spyfu did
    Incentivized
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    Siteimprove
    • I don't like that there are different navigation paths to go from point A to point B. When I want to navigate to a specific place, I have more than one way to get there, which means I have to make a decision about how I want to there and I'd rather the designer make that design based on what would be most efficient for me.
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    Usability
    BrightLocal
    No answers on this topic
    Siteimprove
    Tool has undergone numerous changes, both to function and UX/CX. Makes it less than user friendly at times. But on the other hand, that does indicate a willingness to improve the product in a continual manner - which they've done nearly year after year - but it's always a case of who moved my cheese with each new iteration.
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    Support Rating
    BrightLocal
    Although their customer support has always contacted me, they have not always been helpful. Many times I've had reports or information disappear with them telling me they had no record of it, even when I had reports that the information was in there. There are times when their system did have bugs and the support was able to help me there. Overall, the support staff is there but they cannot always do much and need to wait for their development team to get back to them which often takes a long time.
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    Siteimprove
    I've used support often and it has been responsive, thorough and considerate of our needs. I can get a tech right away, they understand the issue, and work with us to resolve it. Often the problem is with the site we are trying to scan, sometimes it is with their product. I appreciate that they go beyond support into continually helping us implement SiteImprove in more places with 3rd party integration.
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    Alternatives Considered
    BrightLocal
    Thryv reached out to me about 3 weeks before signing up with BrightLocal. While all of their features were impressive, there were only about 3 features that I would have used. Thryv wanted $200 per month for their service, which I found to be way overpriced for what I was wanting to use it for. I selected BrightLocal because it had the features I wanted at a lower price and then add ons. After using BrightLocal for a week and speaking with Becki, a customer service executive, I have discovered more features that I would use on BrightLocal than on Thryv.
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    Siteimprove
    We have used or tested other tools that get installed on a computer or that are hosted online, but none of them offer the features that come with Siteimprove. TotalValidator Pro will check your site for accessibility issues, but it is a manual check and there is no historical reporting. I can;t remember the names of the other online solutions, but even if they offered similar features as Siteimprove, they were all very expensive .
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    Return on Investment
    BrightLocal
    • BrightLocal's ranking reports have helped us better serve our clients' SEO needs, especially local SEO.
    • Reporting is nicely accomplished with their online client report dashboards.
    • Negative: some of their software defects are glaringly obvious take forever to fix, creating a number of awkward moments when we talk our clients through their reports.
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    Siteimprove
    • Siteimprove has helped bring our accessibility scores up from middling to near-perfect.
    • Siteimprove has helped reduce our broken links, style violations and misspellings.
    • Siteimprove's heatmaps have helped us make the case for enforcing best practices on the website among key stakeholders.
    Incentivized
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