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    Outbrain

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AOutbrain, headquartered in New York with offices globally, is an internationally known native advertising platform for curating and publishing content across a variety of channels and media spaces, containing editorial controls, analytics for judging impact, and related features.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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    OutbrainYoast
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Premium
    $118.80
    per year
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    OutbrainYoast
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Outbrain
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    yoast.com
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    OutbrainYoast
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Outbrain and Yoast
    Feature
    Outbrain
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    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 Outbrain and Yoast
    Feature
    Outbrain
    -
    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 Outbrain and Yoast
    Feature
    Outbrain
    -
    Ratings
    Yoast
    8.7
    47 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings7.343 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
    Score5.5 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
    Score5.5 out of 10
    Advanced Web Ranking
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AdSense
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OutbrainYoast
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.5
    (17 ratings)
    10.0
    (60 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
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    Usability
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    7.7
    (19 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OutbrainYoast
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Outbrain
    If your client or organization is running a high volume awareness campaign, Outbrain would be a platform to diversify your mix with. Pretty low maintenance and easy to set up, you can get ads running in a few minutes. If your primary goal is conversions, there are probably better channels you can use where the targeting is a little more transparent and would likely see a higher avg conversion rate.
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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
    Outbrain
    • Website network: Outbrain provides high-quality websites in its network so that you can get a quality audience.
    • Affordable pricing: The CPC offered by Outbrain is relatively cheaper than other alternatives.
    • Content dashboard: The dashboard allows you to edit the content before publishing it on Outbrain's platform.
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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
    Outbrain
    • Customer Service - Speaking to a human is nearly impossible, there is no "chat" function, and no phone number immediately available. Ultimately, I've had to email a generic CS contact and wait several days before heading back.
    • High Number of Guidelines - The number of guidelines one must meet before using Outbrain is much higher than any other ad platform I've used. Most of them are highly specific and not necessarily items that a website would have out-of-the-box.
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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
    Outbrain
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Outbrain
    The use case is very obvious, brand awareness and low cost conversions because of its reach in billions. The platform is easy to use, well sorted and defined with good click optimized algorithms and brands can use it without hesitation. If monitored well and optimized accordingly, this can prove to be one of the best advertising channels.
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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
    Outbrain
    We had an account manager assigned to us, but they really didn't offer too much help outside of the financial side of things. We used the self-serve platform with mild suggestions every few weeks from our reps amounting to "spend a bit more here."
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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
    Outbrain
    Here at AdRizer my personal ad sources primarily revolve around Google Ads & Outbrain. Taboola is extremely similar to Outbrain minus the fact that strategies are dictated on the account level unlike by campaign with Outbrain
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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
    Outbrain
    • None. My perspective is that further testing is needed as well as additional tracking capabilities applied to be able to assess value. However, it's a CPC model and relatively inexpensive in regards to additional reach, especially if it's packaged in with an Earned media push into the marketplace.
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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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