HitsLink vs. Serpstat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HitsLink
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
HitLinks is an inexpensive web analytics tools providing page view and unique visitor data to smaller site. Customers tend to be media sites with fairly simple analytics needs. The tools requires that some code be appended to all pages to be tracked, and does not offer any social media tracking.
$20
per month
Serpstat
Score 9.3 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Serpstat is a platform to manage online visibility. It is for companies that are interested in ranking and business online presence. Serpstat offers 50+ tools for: • Competitor Intelligence. Identifies market players to analyze • Content Marketing. Locates high-quality and ranking content • Full cycle SEO Management. Tools to improve Google rankings • Market Intelligence and Analytics. To explore a business's niche and world best practices used by market leaders •…
$59
per month
Pricing
HitsLinkSerpstat
Editions & Modules
10,000 Page Views
$19.95
25,000 Page Views
$24.95
50,000 Page Views
$29.95
Individual
$59
per month
Team
$119
per month
Agency
$479
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HitsLinkSerpstat
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$59 per user
Additional DetailsEach plan includes access to 230 Google databases. To meet the demands of big enterprises, Serpstat offers specific services to enterprise customers.
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Features
HitsLinkSerpstat
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
HitsLink
-
Ratings
Serpstat
9.5
14 Ratings
20% above category average
Keyword analysis00 Ratings9.814 Ratings
Backlink management00 Ratings9.213 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings9.214 Ratings
Page grader00 Ratings9.310 Ratings
Competitive analysis00 Ratings9.514 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings9.814 Ratings
Site recommendations00 Ratings9.57 Ratings
Task management00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
HitsLink
-
Ratings
Serpstat
9.4
13 Ratings
21% above category average
Local SEO00 Ratings9.111 Ratings
Social SEO00 Ratings9.57 Ratings
Mobile SEO00 Ratings9.54 Ratings
Global SEO00 Ratings9.713 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
HitsLink
-
Ratings
Serpstat
10.0
12 Ratings
17% above category average
Multi-domain support00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
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User Ratings
HitsLinkSerpstat
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.6
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
HitsLinkSerpstat
Likelihood to Recommend
Net Applications
If you're looking for a comprehensive, user-friendly web analytics tool, you should definitely consider Hitslink. Before you subscribe to the software, take a test run on their Demo version of the site, as it behaves exactly like the full professional version. The biggest disadvantage is that Google+ registered users' search engine traffic data will be mostly (if not completely) blocked. However, this drawback is rarely a significant hindrance to analyzing your website's traffic, but it is something to be aware of.
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Serpstat.com
If you are looking for an affordable all-in-one SEO tool to manage multiple websites then Serpstat is a great option. It is not the best in category for any one feature, but it offers a wide range of very good SEO tools, all housed in a single app. If you are serious with SEO, this will not be your only tool but it will save you the cost and trouble of managing several different SEO monthly subscriptions for various tools.
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Pros
Net Applications
  • View website traffic stats and trends in user-friendly charts, graphs, and lists.
  • Easily parses out website users by search engine, search term, geographic location, referral website, and other specific characteristics.
  • Shows which websites users are coming from, what pages on your site they've landed on and which ones they leave your site from.
  • Gives statistics on how long users are viewing specific pages, which allows for the analyzing of the effectiveness of each webpage on a website.
  • Easily view real-time as well as long-term traffic statistics
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Serpstat.com
  • Serpstat has an incredible Chrome extension. It allows us to perform an on-page analysis, domain analysis, and look at on-page SEO parameters. Rather than logging into Serpstat I'm easily able to access and view competitor and our own analytics at a moment's notice.
  • We love using the organic keyword tool to help us track keyword positions over time and benchmark against ourselves and our competitors. These reports also give a dashboard view of all keywords, along with keyword volume, keyword competition, and the average cost per keyword.
  • Being a global company it's important to not only view rankings in the US, but other major countries as well. With Serpstat we are able to view how our website performs all around the world.
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Cons
Net Applications
  • Specific information such as search term and geographic location is blocked for users coming into your site through Google who are also signed into a Google+ account, making it increasingly more difficult to analyze trends as more and more people acquire Google+ accounts. This is part of Google's strategy to make companies pay them directly through their Google Analytics software, and it is working against services like Hitslink.
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Serpstat.com
  • As a complete product, Serpstat stands with other industry tools. Keyword data is good, but again, as someone who purchased a basic plan to demo the product, limited information really turns me away.
  • Compared to other industry tools, Serpstat is literally right in the middle. There doesn't seem to be any differentiation that makes it stand out against Ahrefs or SEMRush. Perhaps something exclusive to Serpstat would make the product more alluring.
  • Share counting doesn't seem too useful, especially as an SEO tool. The content marketing tools are going in the right path, but do not provide enough information to really be useful.
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Likelihood to Renew
Net Applications
Hitslink is as useful as it is user-friendly. I haven't seen another website analytics tool as comprehensive and at the same time straightforward as this service. The only downside of Hitslink is Google's blocking of information from its registered Google+ users to the software. As Google+ continues to reign in more of the population, I can see this being a significant problem for Hitslink to overcome. However, there is still a vast majority of search engine users whose actions are visible through Hitslink, and as long as this stays the case, the service will be an invaluable tool for website administrators.
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Serpstat.com
I am very happy with the program and their services.
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Usability
Net Applications
The service is incredibly intuitive and very easy to learn. The only drawback is not having a mobile-optimized website to easily view website reports on the go. But on a PC or Mac, Hitslink is as user friendly as it gets. I have yet to see a navigation system on any SaaS website that makes a service that is this comprehensive seem so straight-forward.
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Serpstat.com
It is pretty easy to use as an SEO tool as I've used a few others prior
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Support Rating
Net Applications
No answers on this topic
Serpstat.com
I believe I've only contacted support once because I had a question about access to a feature, and they told me it wasn't available on the plan I was on. No big deal, they were polite and prompt to respond and answered my question to my satisfaction. I haven't had any real issues with the software, so I haven't needed much in the way of support outside of that question, but I have no reason to believe their support wouldn't be helpful in more pressing situations.
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Alternatives Considered
Net Applications
No answers on this topic
Serpstat.com
I have used Google Analytics and found it to be good, but limiting. Serpstat does have a much more transparent way to identify, and examine the wealth of SEO links that my sites have. I've tried a few other free programs online for tracking ranks and I looked into other paid versions for SEO tracking. None of them had a good balance between value for money paid. Serpstat finds a good home in value and return.
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Return on Investment
Net Applications
  • Faster lead conversion
  • Improvement of the effectiveness of landing pages (and all webpages on our sites for that matter)
  • Increased employee efficiency by allowing us to make targeted changes to webpages in real time
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Serpstat.com
  • We had a positive ROI with Serpstat in under a month. The time it saved us with website audits and the ability to cancel other monthly subscriptions, and redundant SEO tools, was a huge positive for us.
  • We save dozens of hours a month with SEO research by being able to use a single app for the majority of our SEO work where we used to have to jump back and forth between several different tools.
  • We've been able to offer prospective clients a free website audit as a lead-in for our marketing services. Serpstat has made it fast, easy and inexpensive to offer this valuable service.
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