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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Clearscope

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AClearscope, from the company of the same name (also known as Mushi Labs) is an AI-powered SEO platform designed to make it easy to get more out of content.

    $129

    per month

    Screaming Frog

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $149

    per year

    Pricing
    ClearscopeScreaming Frog
    Editions & Modules
    Essentials
    $129
    per month
    Business
    $399
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ClearscopeScreaming Frog
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ClearscopeScreaming Frog
    Considered Both Products
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    No answer on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
    Features
    ClearscopeScreaming Frog
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Clearscope and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Clearscope
    6.4
    6 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.6
    53 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Keyword analysis8.06 Ratings7.020 Ratings
    Competitive analysis8.06 Ratings7.827 Ratings
    Site recommendations3.63 Ratings7.824 Ratings
    Task management5.93 Ratings3.09 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings5.023 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings7.122 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Clearscope and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Clearscope
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.9
    37 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Local SEO6.34 Ratings5.017 Ratings
    Mobile SEO5.84 Ratings7.823 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings7.112 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings7.829 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Clearscope and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Clearscope
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.1
    42 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Multi-domain support7.95 Ratings7.731 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings4.435 Ratings
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    ClearscopeScreaming Frog
    Small Businesses
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Yoast
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Yoast
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ClearscopeScreaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    8.5
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ClearscopeScreaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    Clearscope shines if you're using freelance writers or even just need a way to easily keyword optimize long-form content. While it can be used for marketing pages, I've found it does best with longer-form blog content in the hands of writers. So, if you have inexperienced writers or those less savvy/comfortable about SEO optimization, I'd recommend only using it for blogs. articles or other long-form content. Have some SEO experience under your belt? Use it for EVERYTHING that needs keyword optimization and is over 300 words. It'll help give you ideas and give you a better idea of how to work in that semantic SEO.
    Incentivized
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    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is well suited to auditing brand new websites, when you need a quick, holistic view of the websites technical issues. Its great for providing a top line view of a websites architecture, perhaps for a new business approach where you need to assess the scale of work to maintain a website. Its also a useful tool in situations where you might need to see whether a large scale change in the website has taken place, you can see word counts, pages and their https response codes. Screaming Frog may be less useful if you need an idea of the customer experience on a website, it doesn't really provide information that helps assess how fast a website loads, what issues might come up when trying to convert or faults with the payment process. Screaming Frog is largely a technical SEO focused tool, it also can't assess the quality of a websites, layout or the quality of the content used on the website. As mentioned, its niche, but very useful within that niche.
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    Pros
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    • Helps produce relevant and engaging content.
    • Integration with WordPress through an easy to use plugin.
    • Deliver data-driven results.
    • The content rating system makes it easy to understand how your content is performing now based on your specific keywords.
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    Screaming Frog
    • Crawling client sites of up to thousands of pages. Gives you almost every tool that you need to do a proper SEO audit.
    • Custom extractions using CSSpath, Xpath, or Regex. I'm not even a techy, but their support section here is a huge help with the provided examples.
    • Customer service and support - Dan is ALWAYS very prompt to respond with helpful answers on Twitter if needed.
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    Cons
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    • Cost is a little prohibitive for small teams/businesses.
    • Running reports could be more intuitive. Some users have run them incorrectly, costing credits (which Clearscope has been kind enough to refund).
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    Screaming Frog
    • Requires Java. This isn't a huge deal as many computers already have it installed, but it's yet another 3rd party component.
    • The free version has a crawl limit of 500 pages per site. This is fine for smaller sites, but if you're running a big e-commerce site then you'll need to pay for Pro version.
    • The user interface isn't very pretty. This is an analytics tool so it doesn't really have to be, but it might be helpful for improving the overall user experience.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    No answers on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    The tool has become integrated into our teams daily workings and I have yet to find a tool other than scremaing frog to replicate all of our use cases for it. It's a great tool and we're sticking with it
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    No answers on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    The main problem of Screaming Frog SEO Spider is it being an offline software which limits itself to a single pc and that creates problem when multi user agents want to get involved or even work on it, it’s a difficult task to collaborate on it and do research for keywords at one place
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    Support Rating
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    No answers on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is a relatively primitive system, and doesn't need to be supported by devs or other software. Screaming Frog does interface directly with some programs that are most needed (Google Analytics, Search Console, Page Speed Insights), so that's convenient. It isn't widely supported by other programs, but it also doesn't need to be.
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    Implementation Rating
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    No answers on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    If the software was a little easier to use for beginners, there really wouldn't be an issue
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    They're all similar but different. We use Frase and MarketMuse during other parts of our content creation process. I have used Surfer when clients supply reports and think it's also a solid tool. But nothing beats Clearscope when it comes to content optimization as you finish drafting.
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    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO health of any website, Screaming Frog is the best
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    Return on Investment
    Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
    • It's made it easier to create content that is ready to rank with little effort.
    • Articles updated with Clearscope have started ranking.
    • Articles created with Clearscope rank better out the gate than ones written without it.
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    Screaming Frog
    • Increased employee efficiency - We spend many less hours tracking down and reporting simple meta tags.
    • Better Client Servicing - We are able to ensure we have a total look at a client's site before we recommend anything.
    • True Pricing Structure - We are able to more accurately predict how much help a client may need based on factors such as size of site, number of redirects, proper use of meta tags, etc.
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    ScreenShots

    Clearscope Screenshots

    Screenshot of The Optimize text editor experienceScreenshot of Keyword Search for targetingScreenshot of Report History for content managementScreenshot of Google Doc Add-on integrationScreenshot of WordPress Plugin integration