Microsoft Advertising vs. Moz Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Advertising
Score 3.5 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) is Microsoft's search engine marketing and advertising campaign management alternative to the popular Adwords, that, similar to its competitor, provides analytics and a management dashboard for running a pay per click (PPC) paid listing campaign. Microsoft Advertising features the ability to delimit advertising to particular responsive demographics and to intermittent times and days of the week. It also supports offline updates that sync later.N/A
Moz Pro
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
MozPro , 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…
$99
per month
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
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Community Pulse
Microsoft AdvertisingMoz Pro
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Advertising
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 …
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.
Moz Pro

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Microsoft AdvertisingMoz Pro
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Advertising
1.0
2 Ratings
90% below category average
Moz Pro
-
Ratings
Ad campaign creation1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad deployment1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Display advertising1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Sequence targeting1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Contextual advertising1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Social advertising1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Advertising
1.0
3 Ratings
86% below category average
Moz Pro
-
Ratings
Ad dashboards1.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad performance reports1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Auctions
Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Advertising
1.0
2 Ratings
0% above category average
Moz Pro
-
Ratings
Ad bidding1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Advertising
-
Ratings
Moz Pro
8.4
40 Ratings
8% above category average
Keyword analysis00 Ratings9.940 Ratings
Backlink management00 Ratings7.035 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings9.940 Ratings
Page grader00 Ratings9.939 Ratings
Competitive analysis00 Ratings8.039 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings8.938 Ratings
Site recommendations00 Ratings7.936 Ratings
Task management00 Ratings5.221 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
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 Ratings6.325 Ratings
Global SEO00 Ratings6.827 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Advertising
-
Ratings
Moz Pro
8.9
32 Ratings
5% above category average
Multi-domain support00 Ratings7.927 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings9.929 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft AdvertisingMoz Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
1.2
(65 ratings)
9.9
(77 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(37 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(2 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)
-
(0 ratings)
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".
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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
Usability itself is all right, I just wish it looked better.
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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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