Conductor Website Monitoring vs. gShift (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Conductor Website Monitoring
Score 5.1 out of 10
N/A
A solution that aims to ensure customers find valuable digital content with 24/7 website monitoring from ContentKing, now part of the enterprise organic marketing platform from Conductor. Website changes happen, and they happen fast. That’s where ContentKing for Conductor comes in. As a real-time SEO monitoring and auditing platform, ContentKing keeps track of everything happening on a site as it happens, such as if links suddenly break or…N/A
gShift (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
gShift was an enterprise SEO, Web presence analytics and content performance platform designed to help agency and brand marketers optimize, monitor and report on the performance of their multi-channel owned, earned and paid campaigns. The product is discontinued.
$199
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
kontextURLs
$199
Influencer Marketing module
$299
Brand Professional
$325
Agency Professional
$999
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Conductor Website MonitoringgShift (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSEO Platform pricing is based on the number of keywords per month. kontextURL pricing is based on the number of clicks registered per month. Influencer Marketing module pricing is based on the number of influencers and/or rosters managed.
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Conductor Website Monitoring
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Ratings
gShift (discontinued)
8.6
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Keyword analysis00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Backlink management00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Page grader00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Competitive analysis00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Site recommendations00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Task management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Conductor Website Monitoring
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Ratings
gShift (discontinued)
8.3
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Local SEO00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Social SEO00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Mobile SEO00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Global SEO00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Conductor Website Monitoring
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Ratings
gShift (discontinued)
6.0
2 Ratings
34% below category average
Multi-domain support00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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Advanced Web Ranking
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Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Conductor Website MonitoringgShift (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(14 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Conductor Website MonitoringgShift (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Conductor
The times when [ContentKing] is most useful is when working with migrations, or changing dynamic websites that you want to continuously monitor fix and rapidly resolve issues. Because you can share URLs to key issues and create segments out of them it is very easy to highlight issues. Because it isn't charged a per user level this does mean you can give access to clients and their development teams.
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gShift's pace of development is pretty amazing and they are very responsive to enhancement requests and other feedback on their solutions. gShift is well-suited for an agency environment where multiple clients need the basics in keyword rankings and website analytics and PPC reporting integration. gShift is less suited for a large organizations with multiple properties or web presences that are all integrated but require silos for reporting purposes or any type of parent-child reporting relationship that necessitates reporting at the property level as well as summarized reporting for all properties.
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Pros
Conductor
  • Proactive monitoring of the website on a broad spectrum of on-page and technical issues.
  • Insights for page-specific action points based on different data streams.
  • Identifying technical and on-page website issues.
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  • Bringing most of your applications to one platform.
  • Managing Gmail Accounts.
  • Bringing all your communication channels to one spot.
  • Easy setup and account integration.
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Cons
Conductor
  • It is a single host only, which means that if your website spans mulitple subdomains it falls down
  • It isn't as easy to control as desktop crawlers, the continuous nature means you can't just give it a set of URLs to monitor.
  • Some of the issues it highlights aren't always issues, and so you need an expert user
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  • Minor bugs and defects are an ongoing issue - for example, PDF export capability for custom dashboards seems to be down frequently. While these type of defects are always resolved in 1-2 weeks, the fact that some of them keep reoccurring is an ongoing frustration.
  • Custom Dashboard functionality is limited to pre-set defaults as far as what data points or "beacons" as gShift calls them, that you could pull.
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Likelihood to Renew
Conductor
Because it does its job very well.
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Usability
Conductor
Really like the walkthrough onboarding of the app to get your bearings when you sign up. You can quickly glance at the interface and understand where everything is located and what each feature is used for. The dashboard is incredibly useful to understand the health of your site and address any persistent issues on your site quickly.
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Support Rating
Conductor
They respond very quickly and have deep technical knowledge so they will always find a solution to your problem. They are based in Europe but are planning to open offices soon in the USA that will help with time-difference issues. If you are based in Europe, you will get an answer in 15 minutes.
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Implementation Rating
Conductor
Very easy to set up.
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Alternatives Considered
Conductor
Content King provides a much more immersive dashboard. Additionally, the reports offered by Content king give us much more granular data allowing management to see the results country site by country site. The other tool would have required us to hire an external developer to create a custom dashboard to provide reporting. This to, us made the decision easy.
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They are very different tools can't compare them.
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Return on Investment
Conductor
  • My website health score went from 700 tot 986/1,00 in three years time.
  • The authority of my website went from 1,9 to 2,6 in three years time.
  • The visitors to my website climbed from 10/day to 60/day in three years time.
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  • We have been able to identify other keyword ranking opportunities and increase our on-site conversion rate.
  • gShift has helped us prioritize content and discover content that is over-performing, and better optimize that content and use it for remarketing purposes.
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ScreenShots

Conductor Website Monitoring Screenshots

Screenshot of ContentKing: Real-time SEO Auditing & Monitoring Platform. Because search engines never sleep.Screenshot of Real-time SEO Auditing. Because the competition doesn’t wait.Screenshot of Monitoring & Alerting™. Because you need to know before your rankings are impacted.Screenshot of Change Tracking™. Any change can impact your SEO performance. With ContentKing you finally have the visibility into all those changes.Screenshot of ContentKing is trusted by companies all over the globe.Screenshot of APIs & Integrations - Enrich your data. Work with it in any way you want.

gShift (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Web Presence Overview Dashboard - collection of data beacons to help focus on analytics, keyword and content performance trends, competitive visibility trends, keyword discovery, content discovery and competitor discovery.Screenshot of An agency level beacon designed to highlight keyword/content, analytics and domain-specific trends across multiple web presences.Screenshot of Keyword Dashboard - a collection of beacons designed to provide keyword visibility and discovery insights.Screenshot of Content Engagement Dashboard - Customizable kurl  dashboard designed to provide insight on content performance.Screenshot of Content Conversion Dashboard - Customizable kurl dashboard designed to provide insight into performance, optimization and ROI of content campaigns.Screenshot of Site Audit Recommendations - prioritized list of website issues based on technical SEO best practices.