Google Trends vs. Majestic SEO

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Trends
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Google Trends is a search engine optimization software solution offered by .N/A
Majestic SEO
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Majestic surveys and maps the Internet and has created a large commercial Link Intelligence database. This Internet map is used by SEOs, New Media Specialists, Affiliate Managers and online Marketing experts for a variety of uses surrounding online prominence including Link Building, Reputation Management, Website Traffic development, Competitor analysis and News Monitoring.
$49.99
per month
Pricing
Google TrendsMajestic SEO
Editions & Modules
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Lite
$49.99
per month
Pro
$99.99
per month
Full API
$399.99
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google TrendsMajestic SEO
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Google TrendsMajestic SEO
Considered Both Products
Google Trends
Chose Google Trends
We use Google Search Console and Moz mostly for our website improvement, and Google Trends we use mostly to look for trends: what people are searching for now. Google Trends is free and has very clean, simple and understandable user interface, it gives lots of usable data for …
Chose Google Trends
Google Trends has the biggest source of data and is the most accurate. It cannot be used without any other tool because of its own limits (keyword suggestion, semantical analysis, etc.).
Majestic SEO

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Google TrendsMajestic SEO
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Google Trends
8.4
33 Ratings
8% above category average
Majestic SEO
8.5
20 Ratings
9% above category average
Keyword analysis10.031 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Backlink management4.67 Ratings9.020 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking10.012 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Page grader10.08 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Competitive analysis9.019 Ratings8.019 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics7.07 Ratings9.015 Ratings
Site recommendations10.08 Ratings7.015 Ratings
Task management6.24 Ratings9.08 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Google Trends
10.0
23 Ratings
27% above category average
Majestic SEO
8.5
16 Ratings
11% above category average
Local SEO10.020 Ratings8.012 Ratings
Social SEO10.014 Ratings8.59 Ratings
Mobile SEO10.015 Ratings8.511 Ratings
Global SEO10.023 Ratings9.015 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Trends
3.7
10 Ratings
78% below category average
Majestic SEO
9.5
17 Ratings
12% above category average
Multi-domain support5.84 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools1.610 Ratings10.014 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Google PageSpeed Insights
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Advanced Web Ranking
Advanced Web Ranking
Score 8.3 out of 10
Advanced Web Ranking
Advanced Web Ranking
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Dupli Checker (DupliChecker.com)
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google TrendsMajestic SEO
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(33 ratings)
9.0
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(6 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google TrendsMajestic SEO
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Google Trends is appropriate in so many scenarios, but I definitely suggest it for content ideas and inspiration. Many people utilize it after already writing their content to add in popular phrases or words, but that is not enough. The platform should be used prior and during the content creation process so that you can use the data to see what your audience/customers are interested in at the moment and create the content based on their interests. It can help, but I find it much less appropriate to use it after your article, eBook, etc. is already written. Maximize on this useful tool by ensuring the topic you're writing about is relevant in the first place before simply adding in popular keywords. An article that's written based on what's trending will be far more successful than an article that solely has popular phrases added to it.
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Majestic SEO
Majestic is a really great tool if your company is spending considerable resources on ongoing SEO efforts. In general, Majestic isn't for beginner SEO users, but a more advanced tool to get into deep SEO tactics. I would recommend this for agencies that have a significant investment in SEO. If you're a small team or a small business looking to improve SEO for yourself or company, there are platforms that offer a variety of tools for new to moderate expertise.
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Pros
Google
  • Google Trends shows me geographic locations where a particular topic may be useful for advertising.
  • Google Trends allows me to drill down into those locations to metro and city levels where I can focus on exactly what local business clients need to know.
  • Google Trends allows me to identify and qualify search terms that my client's need to optimize their websites and social media content for.
  • Google Trends shows me what people are talking about in a specific location over a specific period of time. This is a great way to know what I should be posting on social media.
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Majestic SEO
  • I like Majestic's own metrics Trust and Citation flow, that are very representative of the real value of the website and it's potential effect on the rankings of the website it's linking to.
  • Also, theme (topic) of the website is very useful in the backlink report. This allows to easily identify backlinks relevant to your business.
  • The index of number of backlinks that is provided by Majestic is usually a lot bigger than the indexes of their competitors.
  • Lost link tracker is very useful for tracking dropped links of your projects (you can verify and track multiple domains). This allows to keep track on how many of your ads and articles stay live and sometimes we contact publishers to tell them that their changes on the website (i.e. updates) caused our article or link to go down.
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Cons
Google
  • Top charts: would be nice to include top charts for the current month.
  • Explainers: would be good to have some information buttons next to graphics and charts to show in depth what criteria go into making those charts.
  • More images: would be interesting to see trending image searches.
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Majestic SEO
  • Its API for developers and big companies sometime don't give the actual data.
  • Rank tracker is not 100% accurate, but you can create a rough estimate by the report.
  • Backlink history is also missing some links, but I found them mostly.
  • Sometimes site explorer does not give the actual report, so you should check manually too.
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
No answers on this topic
Majestic SEO
Once you've grown accustomed to the depth and accuracy of Majestic's crawl, it's hard to consider paying for anything else (or settling for free options). SEMRush and MOZ can get you somewhere, but in the right hands, a tool as powerful as Majestic can do a lot for a business's link building strategy.
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Usability
Google
Google Trends is very easy to use. you just search for a certain keyword or phrase, and it tells you how often that keyword or phrase is searched, where in the world it is searched, and over the last decade, how often it is per year.
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Majestic SEO
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Support Rating
Google
I haven't needed to use any support for Google Trends. However, I've used Google's support in general and it's a hit or miss. Usually, there's a long wait or they don't understand my problem. They are the only ones that can help, so sometimes I feel stuck. They prioritize paying customers for sure.
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Majestic SEO
In started when our team started to use this tool, we had trouble understanding many of its features, so its customer support team was our teacher to understand all its complicated features and also how they are used to get better results. Nowadays we are working very efficiently without any help.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
Overall I think that Ahrefs is a better product when it comes to really drilling down and getting all the data that you need in order to understand a given behavior or problem. Ahrefs is much more powerful in its feature set but does not have the same level of overall data/visual data representation that Google Trends does.
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Majestic SEO
Majestic has features that most of their competitors don't. The backlink index is better than SEMRush in my opinion which also lacks being able to look at links from a range of dates. Their metrics are harder to fool when compared to Moz and I would say that AHREF's is a good competitor but each company keeps their own index of links so its good to use more than one tool
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Return on Investment
Google
  • Google Trends has shown me when a keyword is no longer working for my website so that I can adjust the content accordingly.
  • It shows me seasonal differences so I can adjust my PPC budgets to be on pace with the trends.
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Majestic SEO
  • ROI is difficult to ascertain in healthcare marketing, mostly due to privacy laws. Although, Majestic has improved our insight into our digital content, giving us data to work with on the primary site, which has led to an overall increase in organic search.
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