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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

    Yoast

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AYoast offers a set of tools developed by Joost de Valk and team, founder of yoast.com and Wordpress enthusiast. These tools are designed to help content rank higher and are subsumed under the Yoast Complete pack, which includes Video SEO for rank climbing with embedded videos in a Wordpress site, WooCommerce SEO for the WP ecommerce plugin, News SEO for rank climbing in Google news, Local SEO for (as the name implies) climbing in local listings with more complete information so can be located…

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    Pricing
    Microsoft AdvertisingYoast
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Premium
    $118.80
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft AdvertisingYoast
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft AdvertisingYoast
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    yoast.com
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    68%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    70%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    65%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 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
    30 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft AdvertisingYoast
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Microsoft Advertising and Yoast
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.5
    6 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Yoast
    -
    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 Yoast
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.6
    8 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Yoast
    -
    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 Yoast
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Yoast
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Microsoft Advertising and Yoast
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    -
    Ratings
    Yoast
    7.4
    60 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings10.050 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings6.019 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings4.024 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings8.041 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings10.043 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings2.022 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Microsoft Advertising and Yoast
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    -
    Ratings
    Yoast
    5.0
    51 Ratings
    41% below category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings1.940 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings6.041 Ratings
    Mobile SEO00 Ratings6.041 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings6.034 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Microsoft Advertising and Yoast
    Feature
    Microsoft Advertising
    -
    Ratings
    Yoast
    8.7
    47 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings7.343 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Microsoft AdvertisingYoast
    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Advanced Web Ranking
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft AdvertisingYoast
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (70 ratings)
    10.0
    (60 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    7.7
    (19 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Microsoft AdvertisingYoast
    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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    yoast.com
    Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins is really great for any application - home pages, blogs, etc. It saves a lot of time researching keywords, but it is time-consuming crafting content, which I think is a necessary evil. I wasn't really seeing the immediate results I had hoped for, but there could be a variety of reasons for that (cookies, caches, etc.). Overall, if you have the time to dedicate and utilize the tool, it's awesome!
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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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    yoast.com
    • Evaluate the SEO score of any given page's content.
    • Makes it simple to manage the title and description for a page (what shows up on Google search results).
    • Boils down complicated topics such as canonical URLs for non-technical users.
    • Easy explanations for any and all options, including why to use or not use an option.
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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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    yoast.com
    • Density: Because even the free, basic Yoast SEO tool has SO MANY FEATURES, if you're brand new to SEO as a concept/practice, you might feel a little overwhelmed at first. Just go watch the training videos!
    • Bulk Title Editing: I'm sure this tool can be useful, but I've never found it to be particularly intuitive or helpful.
    • Limitations: I'm grasping at straws here, but it would be nice if some of the premium (paid) features- specifically the social media previews- were available in the free version. Like I said, grasping.
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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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    yoast.com
    I see no reason to discontinue using Yoast as it has been very beneficial for my website and my business.
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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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    yoast.com
    It's super easy to use. Really, it requires little-to-know tutorials or walkthroughs at all — it explains everything you need to know in the description and tooltips built straight into the tool. I've never had to google a how-to or tutorial to use Yoast — it just works, and it works well
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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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    yoast.com
    There are plenty of amazing articles published on their site, however, I don't rate their actual support team as being particularly helpful. I made multiple points of contact regarding the internal link counter not working and even though they began troubleshooting I think when it became too hard it was just forgotten about and so is still unresolved.
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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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    yoast.com
    This is my go-to plugin for SEO. It is easy, and I trust Yoast will give me solid results. In a short time period, our website has seen measurable results in organic search traffic. Our previous website didn't use page level SEO tools to this extent. We are systematically updating each page using the Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin. We are pleased with the results
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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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    yoast.com
    • Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin along with other SEO investments we have made with our new website has extremely paid off on new business opportunity creation. Since August 2018 we have added over $100K of new business opps solely sourced from SEO searches on pages and posts that Yoast has helped us optimize.
    • Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin saves our marketing team a lot of time. Since the plugin lives in WordPress and provides live tips we can make to the page or post, our team doesn't have to guess on what keyword, or meta-tag, or how many internal and external links a page or post should have using an additional platform. It is just conveniently there for us to use regularly.
    • Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugin cannot be the only piece of software your website relies on to obtain SEO optimization with search engines. It is a piece of the puzzle, and you can only maximize its' value by making sure your website is scam free, the code under the hood is healthy, and the load time and page weight is light.
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