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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Ads

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.

    $500

    in Ads credit in the first 60 days

    Moz Pro

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AMozPro , from Moz in Seattle, Washington, is an SEO platforms for tracking the performance of all inbound marketing efforts comprehensively. It reveals how content is being shared through social channels and how that drives traffic to a website, and features a broad toolset for search engine optimization: rank tracking, link opportunites, site audit via Moz Analytics, prospective keyword analysis and content grading, as well as a crawl test to find broken or poorly designed site elements. Moz…

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    Google AdsMoz Pro
    Editions & Modules
    Offer A
    $500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer B
    $1500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer C
    $3000
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Standard
    $99
    per month
    Medium
    $179
    per month
    Large
    $299
    per month
    Premium
    $599
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google AdsMoz Pro
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Google AdsMoz Pro
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Google Ads
    Google Ads can be more useful than LinkedIn & Facebook Ads because it is reaching a larger pool of users. Both platforms have even better/more targeting options, but they limit the amount of reach you will receive. Google Ads catches users at the top of the sales funnel.
    Incentivized
    iContact
    Chose Moz Pro
    Moz Pro and Ahrefs each have their own strengths, and we use both. There is a lot of overlap between the two, but I find that there are certain things that each does better. For keyword research, backlink analysis, and site crawls, we generally gravitate toward Moz Pro because …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    Moz tends to be more consistent with their data/metrics. Their crawler is also pretty powerful and able to pick up large sets of pages where some other tools may fall short.
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    Personally I think Moz is one of the top tools being used in the market for search engine optimization. It provides great insights, is easy to use and is easy to read and understand with their simple and comprehensive dashboard. I personally choose to use SEMRush above all …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    I like that I don't need to download anything to use all of the features MOZ has to offer. It is all contained online, so I don't have to open separate applications. And the cost is extremely reasonable.
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    Google AdWords, though not a direct competitor, and Google Analytics, used in combination and with expertise, can cover many of the SEOmoz features, for free.
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Google AdsMoz Pro
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Google Ads and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Moz Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Google Ads and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Moz Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Ad dashboards7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization6.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Google Ads and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Moz Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Google Ads and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Moz Pro
    7.3
    41 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings8.041 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings7.036 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings7.141 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings7.039 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings7.037 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings6.022 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Google Ads and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Moz Pro
    5.9
    32 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings5.327 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings5.323 Ratings
    Mobile SEO00 Ratings6.225 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings6.827 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Google Ads and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Moz Pro
    7.0
    33 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings7.130 Ratings
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    Google AdsMoz Pro
    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google AdsMoz Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    8.0
    (78 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    7.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google AdsMoz Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Ads is a useful advertising tool to build brand exposure and generate lead volumes for your chosen product. Whilst it can be costly at times due to competitor bidding strategies and requires constant monitoring to ensure campaigns perform as expected, it typically provides the desired quality and quantity of leads for custom budgets.
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    iContact
    Businesses looking to keep track of their web presence and utilize a tool to identify areas of opportunity. The trends tracking and competitor modeling allow businesses to be able to build an SEO strategy that they can track progress over time and fill in content gaps. This is used by our company in conjunction with our marketing automation tool and Google's web presence suite (eg. Google Analytics, Search Console, Tag Manager).
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    Pros
    Google
    • Automated targeting via Smart Shopping campaign. It's one of the best campaign types in Google Ads. In the beginning, you may see lower revenue and ROAS, but once you give some meaningful time to your campaign, it is most likely to perform well.
    • Smart bidding strategies: Google Ads has developed some really great bidding strategies such as maximizing conversion and maximizing conversion with ROAS settings. Based on one's requirement and their goal with revenue and target ROAS, they can choose the appropriate bidding strategy.
    • Reporting: A business owner and advertising must know about their audiences, how their campaigns have been performing, what's working and what's not, and for that reason, powerful, effective reporting is needed, and Google Ads provides rich details reporting that covers almost every aspect of a business.
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    iContact
    • It finds relevant keywords and lets you know your chance of ranking with them.
    • It helps you find content that needs work to rank better.
    • It helps you improve any technical issues with your web pages.
    • It helps you audit your current site for any technical issues.
    • It helps you keep track of your most important keywords.
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    Cons
    Google
    • If you don't know what you're doing, it will be a costly mistake. You need to target ads, and it is difficult the first time to do that.
    • There isn't a feature to run an add for a couple set date spans, just hours you want to run them or a single date span.
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    iContact
    • Some of the auto-gen visual tables aren't all that useful for smaller companies. For instance on the Search Visibility tab, many of my clients have a tiny % of keywords in the top-10, so the table shows basically 4 overlaid flat lines. I wish we had some options to customize this table or expand the range or something.
    • I wish there were some more tools relating to the technical aspects of the site/pages. The whole tool is very keyword-oriented, which is fine, but I feel like over time this has become and will continue to be less important than technical aspects, site speed, voice search, etc.
    • There's an Anchor Text tab, but it only looks at Inbound links—I wish this feature was for on-site anchor text—this could be a much better optimization tool. Because there's nothing you can do about inbound link text.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I think Google Ads is good for getting your company out there and becoming more visible to potential customers in general. However, for specific product launches, social media advertising might be a better fit. Also, our user base is younger so social media is a better channel for our target audience.
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    iContact
    We've been paying monthly for Moz for at least four years. We rely heavily on it for our daily work, and would need to re-engineer many of our processes if we were to cancel our subscription. I suspect we'll continue to use Moz as long as we are in business (assuming they maintain their quality).
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    Usability
    Google
    This is more of a subjective rating, because I think it can be increased with how much our ad spend is. The more of an ad spend, the more visibility we can get, and therefore all features can climb. With an overall larger presence the usability is that where we can get messages out quick, and that's the main thing we try to do with our campaigns.
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    iContact
    it's easy to use once you get the hang of it and most people with any sort of background in using online tools and analytics systems can figure it out. it's just not as intuitive as it could be like google webmaster tools or Adobe (Site Catalyst)
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    iContact
    Every time I've ever needed it, it's been there.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    We have not yet had an account rep who hasn't tried to bully me or other employees to raise our budgets. At the same time, several years ago, one attempted to help refine our ads and ended up changing the ads to be something we were not affiliated with
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    iContact
    As I have mentioned before, if you have enterprise subscription, the staff are super helpful. Moz also participated in the marketing tech conferences especially moz in seattle. These sessions are super useful in helping digital marketing analyst like me to investigate new marketing techniques, tracking leads and conversions and eventually monetize them. Their staff is not only knowledgeable in their own product but they have been around. For example Dr Peter from moz always publishes his insights and I have relied somewhat on his opinions.
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    Online Training
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Our agency invests heavily in Google Ads (particularly paid search advertising) on behalf of our clients relative to competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo because Google is the top search engine in the world. Google collects the most search data which enables the company to improve its AI to drive better performance for agencies and brands. As such, our paid search and app install campaigns always start with Google. If a client has a large budget, we will allocate media dollars to other search engines, but in some cases, the entire search budget goes to Google because we see the best returns.
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    iContact
    Moz emerged as an industry leader with a great reputation for driving optimal SEO performance and ROI for customers. Moz' thought leadership on all things SEO gave us a lot of confidence to invest and partner with them. The wide array of product features was also something that was important to us relative to Moz' competitors. In the end, we felt there wasn't anything we couldn't do with Moz. We were also impressed with the on demand platform training and tools provided from day 1. Lastly, Moz was one of the more expensive platforms, but it wasn't the most expensive, so we felt we received great value for the overall price.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Google Ads is often one of our highest ROI channels, especially when you factor in branded ads.
    • Depending on the stage your business is in, search ads can be really powerful from an ROI perspective, providing an investment with a very high spend cap.
    • If you do not manage the campaigns well though, you can quickly spend a lot of money on nothing. So make sure someone is keeping an eye on your account.
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    iContact
    • Here I can easily find competitor's ranking keywords and their backlinks. It also gives you another exciting feature where you can compare two domains at the same time.
    • The thing that I don't like about this software is, that sometimes your page can take too much time for crawling.
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