Majestic SEO vs. Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Majestic SEO
Score 8.4 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
Screaming Frog
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$149
per year
Pricing
Majestic SEOScreaming Frog SEO Spider
Editions & Modules
Lite
$49.99
per month
Pro
$99.99
per month
Full API
$399.99
per month
Paid Version
$149.00
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Majestic SEOScreaming Frog
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Majestic SEOScreaming Frog SEO Spider
Considered Both Products
Majestic SEO
Chose Majestic SEO
Most of the SEO platforms have their own unique features. Majestic really focuses on backlinks, which is arguably the most important aspect of SEO. It is not a full-feature platform such as Moz or SEMRush, but they are the best in backlinks. Majestic fits in any large-scale SEO …
Chose Majestic SEO
Majestic is #2 on my list. SEMRush is my favorite because of its breadth of scope. The features it offers for a similar price are, in my opinion, superior. Majestic is better in terms of domain analysis. SEMRush is better in terms of keyword tracking, SEO Audits, PPC analysis, …
Chose Majestic SEO
Majestic SEO is sort of in its own league compared to Open Site Explorer and Google Search Console. GSC really only offers the links it finds and does limit to 1000 links on export. OSE is part of a larger package of Moz tools. It does a solid job of finding links but doesn't …
Screaming Frog
Chose Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO …
Top Pros
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Features
Majestic SEOScreaming Frog SEO Spider
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Majestic SEO
8.5
20 Ratings
8% above category average
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
8.1
50 Ratings
4% above category average
Keyword analysis9.016 Ratings7.419 Ratings
Backlink management9.020 Ratings6.022 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking9.011 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Page grader8.014 Ratings7.020 Ratings
Competitive analysis8.019 Ratings8.225 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics9.015 Ratings9.950 Ratings
Site recommendations7.015 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Task management9.08 Ratings8.08 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Majestic SEO
8.5
16 Ratings
11% above category average
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
8.0
35 Ratings
5% above category average
Local SEO8.012 Ratings8.116 Ratings
Social SEO8.59 Ratings6.510 Ratings
Mobile SEO8.511 Ratings7.821 Ratings
Global SEO9.015 Ratings9.827 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Majestic SEO
9.5
17 Ratings
11% above category average
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
10.0
39 Ratings
16% above category average
Multi-domain support9.017 Ratings10.028 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools10.014 Ratings10.032 Ratings
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User Ratings
Majestic SEOScreaming Frog SEO Spider
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(23 ratings)
9.9
(52 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.2
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
7.9
(18 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Majestic SEOScreaming Frog SEO Spider
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is well suited to auditing brand new websites, when you need a quick, holistic view of the websites technical issues. Its great for providing a top line view of a websites architecture, perhaps for a new business approach where you need to assess the scale of work to maintain a website. Its also a useful tool in situations where you might need to see whether a large scale change in the website has taken place, you can see word counts, pages and their https response codes. Screaming Frog may be less useful if you need an idea of the customer experience on a website, it doesn't really provide information that helps assess how fast a website loads, what issues might come up when trying to convert or faults with the payment process. Screaming Frog is largely a technical SEO focused tool, it also can't assess the quality of a websites, layout or the quality of the content used on the website. As mentioned, its niche, but very useful within that niche.
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Pros
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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Screaming Frog
  • Crawling client sites of up to thousands of pages. Gives you almost every tool that you need to do a proper SEO audit.
  • Custom extractions using CSSpath, Xpath, or Regex. I'm not even a techy, but their support section here is a huge help with the provided examples.
  • Customer service and support - Dan is ALWAYS very prompt to respond with helpful answers on Twitter if needed.
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Cons
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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Screaming Frog
  • Requires Java. This isn't a huge deal as many computers already have it installed, but it's yet another 3rd party component.
  • The free version has a crawl limit of 500 pages per site. This is fine for smaller sites, but if you're running a big e-commerce site then you'll need to pay for Pro version.
  • The user interface isn't very pretty. This is an analytics tool so it doesn't really have to be, but it might be helpful for improving the overall user experience.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Screaming Frog
The tool has become integrated into our teams daily workings and I have yet to find a tool other than scremaing frog to replicate all of our use cases for it. It's a great tool and we're sticking with it
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Usability
Majestic SEO
No answers on this topic
Screaming Frog
Easy for me to use because I have using the product for a long time and understand the ins and outs of it. If I was a newbie, I would be completely lost. It does take some prior knowledge to operate this software and understanding of what a crawl means
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Support Rating
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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Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog is a relatively primitive system, and doesn't need to be supported by devs or other software. Screaming Frog does interface directly with some programs that are most needed (Google Analytics, Search Console, Page Speed Insights), so that's convenient. It isn't widely supported by other programs, but it also doesn't need to be.
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Implementation Rating
Majestic SEO
No answers on this topic
Screaming Frog
If the software was a little easier to use for beginners, there really wouldn't be an issue
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Alternatives Considered
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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Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO health of any website, Screaming Frog is the best
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Return on Investment
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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Screaming Frog
  • Increased employee efficiency - We spend many less hours tracking down and reporting simple meta tags.
  • Better Client Servicing - We are able to ensure we have a total look at a client's site before we recommend anything.
  • True Pricing Structure - We are able to more accurately predict how much help a client may need based on factors such as size of site, number of redirects, proper use of meta tags, etc.
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