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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Advertising

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) contains Microsoft's advertising solutions. Advertising formats include search (Microsoft Search ads), Display and Native ads, Retail Media, and Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads. Services include Performance Max, the company's conversion optimization AI assistant and guide.N/A

    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…

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    Pricing
    Microsoft AdvertisingMoz Pro
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $99
    per month
    Medium
    $179
    per month
    Large
    $299
    per month
    Premium
    $599
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft AdvertisingMoz 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
    Microsoft AdvertisingMoz Pro
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Advertising
    The other big PPC platform is Google Adwords. Google Adwords beats Bing Ads in almost every way. The only advantage Bing Ads has is the lower cost per click. What I recommend though is trying both. They are not directly competing because using both will put your company on both …
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    Chose Microsoft Advertising
    We used Bing Ads in addition to AdWords. Bing Ads doesn't drive as much volume or as many qualified leads for our highly tech savvy audience.
    Incentivized
    iContact
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    68%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    70%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    65%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    59%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft AdvertisingMoz Pro
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Microsoft Advertising and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.5
    6 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Moz Pro
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    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting5.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising5.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising4.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Microsoft Advertising and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.6
    8 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Moz Pro
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    Ratings
    Ad dashboards6.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports6.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking7.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization5.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Microsoft Advertising and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Moz Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Microsoft Advertising and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    -
    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 Microsoft Advertising and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    -
    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 Microsoft Advertising and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    Microsoft AdvertisingMoz 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
    Microsoft AdvertisingMoz Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (70 ratings)
    8.0
    (78 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Microsoft AdvertisingMoz Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Despite using our account for advertising with every other social media company, Microsoft flagged ours as fraudulent. After dealing with them for weeks, we finally got to a manager, who said that they didn’t know anything, couldn’t provide any information, and was unable to do anything about it. It seems odd, but it would flagger account every time we try to upload the campaigns from Google directly into their ad manager. I would suggest if you try and use their platform, don’t tell them you’re using Google cause they seem to have a thing against it. Once your account is flagged, they have no reasonable way of resolving it, nor they are able to offer any support. You’re better off to just try a different way. Ultimately, just don’t use Microsoft advertising if you can possibly avoid it. Hopefully soon DuckDuckGo will have their own advertising platform and we can eliminate Microsoft given the terrible time we have working with this one of many, social media platforms.
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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
    Microsoft
    • Familiar interface, offers editor for bulk changes, adding negative keywords is much easier than in Google Ads
    • Nice reporting tools within the interface, detailed reports can be made fairly easily
    • Had very nice tools to help import/export ads directly from Google Ads, which saves a ton of time
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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
    Microsoft
    • Bing's ad platform could definitely use some improvements - it hasn't been updated in a long time, and it feels very outdated.
    • We feel that the optimization algorithms don't always perform as well for Bing Ads as they do in Google Ads (optimize for conversions, etc.).
    • It would be great to have even more integrations with LinkedIn audience targeting offered - right now, you can just make some bid optimizations in a couple of areas; we'd really like to get more robust options there, and maybe even things like cross-platform tracking.
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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
    Microsoft
    We have had good success with it over all of our clients. We continually recommend bing to reach "the rest of the searchers".
    Incentivized
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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
    Microsoft
    It's very easy to use overall. It has an import from Google Ads to make things simpler. Overall, I would say you can get up and running very quickly. It's similar to other platforms, so if you have used them, it's intuitive.
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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
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    iContact
    Every time I've ever needed it, it's been there.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Our Bing Ads reps are very good and attentive. They've offered good recommendations and are quick to resolve unexpected issues and problems. Occasionally they have roped in technical support folks that have been friendly and helpful too. The general helpline for Bing Ads is also very good, especially when compared to Google's customer support.
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Obviously Google is a huge competitor. Typically Google is top of the game for many advertising solutions including search. Microsoft ads has a lower scale and reach compared to Google. However, Microsoft ads audience does not overlap much with Googles, providing incremental reach. Although Microsoft ads lags a bit behind in adapting the new updates that Google comes out with, their customer service is very good and they are likely to go out of their way to adapt their platform to your needs whereas their competitor does not
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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
    Microsoft
    • We've had a very hard time spending our budgets on Bing which has caused us a lot of extra work on our end. We've essentially had to move that money back to Google or other platforms.
    • It does have an easy import from Google so you're not doubling efforts.
    • The CPCs tend to be less expensive than Google - which is always good for business owners.
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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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