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    Google Trends

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Trends is a search engine optimization software solution offered by .N/A

    Social Mention

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ASocial Mention is a free tool which is a kind of Google search for the social web. It provides basic search and alerts across a very broad variety of social channels.N/A
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    Google TrendsSocial Mention
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    Google TrendsSocial Mention
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Google TrendsSocial Mention
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
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    Features
    Google TrendsSocial Mention
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Google Trends and Social Mention
    Feature
    Google Trends
    6.0
    35 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Keyword analysis8.533 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backlink management5.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking5.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page grader5.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analysis8.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics5.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Site recommendations5.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task management6.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Google Trends and Social Mention
    Feature
    Google Trends
    6.3
    24 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Local SEO6.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social SEO6.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile SEO6.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global SEO7.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Google Trends and Social Mention
    Feature
    Google Trends
    6.0
    11 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-domain support6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Search Console
    Score9 out of 10
    Social Suite by Reputation.com
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google TrendsSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (35 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google TrendsSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Trends is great for research and planning, to analyse keyword demand and associated costs. It really does help plan to capture consumer demand. It can be a little tricky to use, as the UX design isn't brilliant, so you'll need to learn how to navigate the website.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention is a great tool for monitoring social media. This Tool can also be used to search specifically taking the keywords in the blogs, comments, news etc. It offers a third party API for users. It can be used to send email to clients of their brand performance data. This tool can indicate if your mentions are angry, happy or neutral but the data can't be reliable.
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    Pros
    Google
    • I love how Google Trends presents the popularity of a specific query by location. For example, my product may be more popular or more "searched" in a specific state or city. This helps a lot for direct mail campaigns or any sort of in-person marketing efforts like events or pop-ups. You could use the information from Google Trends to decide what locations will be more receptive of your product/industry or you could see where people have little to no interest and build a brand awareness campaign focusing on those areas.
    • Another great feature within Google Trends is that it shows "Related Queries", which are basically suggestions of better keywords or phrases to incorporate into your content. If you search for data on a keyword you're using that's too broad (your content won't stand out among other web pages) or too narrow (not many potential customers are searching that keyword or phrase), Google Trends will suggest a related keyword or phrase that is more appropriate or trending at the moment. You could go back and incorporate these phrases into your content so that it's more likely to be found on search engines.
    • Within the Google Trends "Related Topics" section, you can choose whether you want to see topics that are "Top" or "Rising". I like this feature because looking at a "Rising" topic can help you create content that's more likely to be seen - especially if you're a beginner. Most topics that are in the "Top" category can have thousands of web pages that you're competing against and you can feel like your content is drowning. But the topics in the "rising" category can be great for newer sites that haven't developed authority online yet. You can write on one of these topics and be one of the first sites to create content on that topic, which gives you a head start over other sites.
    • Google Trends "Categories" is also a great feature. If you don't have any content ideas for your website, you can easily find inspiration by selecting a category that's relevant to your industry. The top keywords or topics will come up and you can create content on those topics to increase your number of web visitors. For example, if you work in the fashion industry and you don't have content ideas, you can have Google Trends generate data for the "Beauty & Fitness" or "Shopping" categories to see what's trending. Google will tell you if a specific brand, person, or event is trending and you could write an article based on one of those trends. Since people are searching for that topic, your content will be seen. This is a great way to create timely content even if you're new to an industry or simply haven't kept up with it.
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    Social Mention
    • Can predict future response from today's number.
    • Let's you judge which types of campaigns to run.
    • Has a very well managed dashboard of results.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Google
    • It would be nice to have breadcrumbs available so that I can go backward in a particular search. One I click a topic and then click the related terms two or three times, I find that I'm so far down the rabbit hole that the "Back" button in my browser is a really inconvenient way to find my way back to a certain stage of my search. If there were breadcrumbs I could jump directly back to a particular stage and chase another rabbit from there.
    • It's easy to get lost searching in here for an extended period of time. I would be nice to be able to print a report of my whole session when I have finished.
    • It would be nice to have a Top Tends board of job searches or other information related to jobs that are currently popular Google searches.
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    Social Mention
    • Under the "Free" dashboard you are limited to only receiving weekly results.
    • Can't negate those tags which contain my tags.
    • Lots of tweets missing, no noise filtering. Sometimes we get very old contents which are not needed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Social Mention
    I love that Social Mention is so easy to use. It does not take a long time to learn how to navigate the site when you need information quickly. I don't use it as much in my new job, but I recommend it for basic monitoring and when you need social media information right away
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Social Mention
    While it's easy to use and pay for it's totally useless.
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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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    Social Mention
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Social Mention
    It doesn't work as well since we changed our name. We used to have a very unique twitter handle etc. so it was easier for social mention to find us. For folks who have unique names it's excellent if you don't it may not be that helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Trends is a great place to start in the content curation, content research, blog post writing, and resource page creation process. It is not, however, a place to do serious SEO optimization. Tools like Moz, or Analytics SEO would be a better place to go after you do initial research on Google Trends to dial in your keywords, and optimize content for search engines.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention streamed everything together, calculated my sentiment for me, allows me to filter what results I am personally looking for, extract my RSS feed and navigate to one of the channels of buzz.
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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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    Social Mention
    • The paid-version actually had a negative ROI for us as it would sometimes feed us topically inappropriate articles and didn't allow us to filter by source so as to eliminate inappropriate blogs and inappropriate news sources (like highly politically partisan ones).
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