ContentKing vs. Semrush

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ContentKing
Score 9.9 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
Semrush
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Semrush is a relatively popular search engine optimization tool set from the company of the same name based in Pennsylvania and founded in 2008. Largely the platforms relies on competitive intelligence, and features SEO staples like backlink checking, keyword analysis to refine SEO and PPC campaigning and locate low-cost / high-yield keywords, analysis of competitors who co-occupy desired ad and listing spaces, domain vs. domain analysis, as well as site audit and domain tracking. Semrush can…
$129
per month
Pricing
ContentKingSemrush
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Pro
$129.95
per month
Guru
$249.95
per month
Business
$499.95
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ContentKingSemrush
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details17% discount for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
ContentKingSemrush
Considered Both Products
ContentKing
Chose ContentKing
The UX is amazing on the tool, the monthly price is doable. I use SEMRush for keyword research, Ahrefs for link profiles and ContentKing for audit and history. They all have their specific strong points.
Chose ContentKing
We switched from DeepCrawl as it just didn't provide the same features and support, more annoyingly they were a sales and marketing rather than a product led business which means they were more interested in you signing the contract, than maintaining your custom afterwards, an …
Semrush
Chose Semrush
Semrush was more comprehensive than the other tools and better maintained. Our key requirements for a product were that we could use the data and that it was cheap enough for us to use across the business. The competitors either weren't well maintained, had poor quality …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
ContentKingSemrush
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
ContentKing
7.0
14 Ratings
10% below category average
Semrush
8.5
148 Ratings
9% above category average
Page grader7.411 Ratings8.5123 Ratings
Competitive analysis5.43 Ratings9.0143 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics7.514 Ratings9.0144 Ratings
Site recommendations7.612 Ratings8.2133 Ratings
Keyword analysis00 Ratings9.3148 Ratings
Backlink management00 Ratings8.3141 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings8.3144 Ratings
Task management00 Ratings7.188 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
ContentKing
7.5
8 Ratings
1% below category average
Semrush
7.7
135 Ratings
1% above category average
Local SEO7.53 Ratings6.0123 Ratings
Global SEO7.58 Ratings8.8109 Ratings
Social SEO00 Ratings7.7101 Ratings
Mobile SEO00 Ratings8.5108 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
ContentKing
7.9
11 Ratings
6% below category average
Semrush
8.5
120 Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-domain support8.510 Ratings9.0110 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools7.311 Ratings8.0114 Ratings
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User Ratings
ContentKingSemrush
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(14 ratings)
9.4
(148 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(6 ratings)
6.9
(4 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(6 ratings)
9.9
(17 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ContentKingSemrush
Likelihood to Recommend
ContentKing
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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Semrush
This is suited to plan for keywords in a single market, but it struggles when you need to consolidate several markets. It is well-suited to discover new keywords directly related to the ones being used currently to expand the content the company is creating to get better results.
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Pros
ContentKing
  • 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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Semrush
  • Great visuals for keyword position tracking, love that you can see the page that is ranking
  • Enjoyed the auto-generated reporting feature (specifically in the context of keyword position tracking)
  • Shows many different and useful views for competitive research
  • Great templated keyword research tools for those who are not as hands-on with SEO
  • I LOVE the Keyword Magic Tool for honing in on longtail, high-opportunity keywords
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Cons
ContentKing
  • 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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Semrush
  • Extra seats can be expensive, as [an] agency with multiple team members this can be frustrating
  • Backlink data is not great, misses out a lot of backlinks (better off using a specialist backlink tool like Link research tools LRT)
  • Tracking multiple keywords, across multiple clients can be costly
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Likelihood to Renew
ContentKing
Because it does its job very well.
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Semrush
I [previously] used Semrush for many years and I cannot find any other tool being so complete and easy to use.
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Usability
ContentKing
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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Semrush
SEMRush has a slight learning curve, but everything is organized really well. Once you learn where everything is, using the software and running reports is incredibly easy. You can easily add new projects, get help for improving on-page SEO, and there are even video tutorials that walk you through the whole system if you still feel uncomfortable with it.
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Reliability and Availability
ContentKing
No answers on this topic
Semrush
Semrush available when you need it!
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Performance
ContentKing
No answers on this topic
Semrush
SemRush performs well with few errors!
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Support Rating
ContentKing
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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Semrush
I'm in a FB group for Semrush paid users and it amazing! They are fast to respond, take suggestions and help with questions. I have not felt alone in using this product at all. Highly recommend their support team. When I had an issue I can jump into the group and they will help get me the right person to help or even tag their programmers to look at something that is going on. Love the group!
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Implementation Rating
ContentKing
Very easy to set up.
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Semrush
I did it by myself and do not have a comment!
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Alternatives Considered
ContentKing
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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Semrush
We have used both Ahrefs and Semrush extensively at our agency and Semrush remains the tool of choice. We find that Semrush has the largest selection of tools & features to use, with the highest accuracy, and provides top-tier analysis recommendations. It's really is the ultimate all-in-one tool when comparing other performance measurement tools in the digital marketing space.
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Scalability
ContentKing
No answers on this topic
Semrush
Semrush is flexible and scalable software which can be deployed across multiple departments and sites as needed.
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Return on Investment
ContentKing
  • 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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Semrush
  • Using Semrush on behalf of our clients, we have seen some impressive growth in organic visibility, traffic, conversion and revenue, across multiple industries.
  • The site checks available with Semrush have helped us to pitch and sell our services, securing new clients.
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ScreenShots

ContentKing 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.