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.
Read full review If you have a Google ads PPC campaign and then I would say this is more or less essential if you want to know what your competitors are doing. You can get very useful data out of it even if you subscribe for one month. And the pricing is very reasonable. Even if you don't use Google ads, I would say this is still useful for your SEO/SMO team since it gives you a great idea of what keywords and traffic your competitors are working on.
Read full review 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. Read full review Keeping a tab on competitors organic and inorganic activities Helps identify where the competitor is getting the backlinks from. Identify competitors top content and the keywords that's bringing them traffic Get proper information of their current and past ADS run on Google. Read full review 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). Read full review As with any database, their keyword database has limits, so the data returned is relative to their database, not necessarily the full picture. When SpyFu database or scoring chances, the data provided can spike, thus causing confusion among stakeholders, we're reporting to. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
Love this tool but would like insights from all 3 major search engines not just Google. I would also like deeper understanding of the placement for local businesses on Google Places/Maps. Insight into mobile search rankings and best landing pages per industry would also help :) Overall, SpyFu is a necessity for serious search marketers.
Read full review Support Rating Clearscope (Mushi Labs, LLC)
SpyFu comes with a link to tutorial videos. I recommend you watch them. The software is capable of so much you really need to watch the videos and learn how to get the most out of it. When I have a question 90% of the time it's there. When it isn't, and I reach out to them, support is always quick and concise.
Read full review 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.
Read full review I was surprised to find I preferred
Semrush when it comes to keyword research. SpyFu is great (and less expensive than
Semrush ), but I felt the data
Semrush provided was vaster than SpyFu. I was able to get more competitors spending insights in
Semrush than SpyFu. Overall, I liked the ability to use both in our keyword research for both paid and organic marketing.
Read full review 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. Read full review Helping us track our ranking. It helps solve the problem of ambiguity when it comes to Google Ads. It makes the strategy more clear. You can sift through lots of different online analytics to find the information, but it takes way too long. SpyFu has it all in one place! Read full review ScreenShots