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    RankWatch

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ARankWatch is the eponymous search engine optimization platform from the company based in India with personnel in the UK as well. RankWatch boasts a rather sizable host of users, marketing agencies in 100 countries, with its straightforward SEO tools offering of rank monitoring and keyword analysis with SERP data, site audit, competitor study, and backlink analysis, all visible from the "CEO/Agency" dashboard. Local SEO, alerts, and the requisite white label reporting are featured as well. A…N/A

    Screaming Frog

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $149

    per year

    Pricing
    RankWatchScreaming Frog
    Editions & Modules
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    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RankWatchScreaming Frog
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    RankWatch
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    Key User Insights
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    RankWatchScreaming Frog
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of RankWatch and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    RankWatch
    3.8
    2 Ratings
    68% below category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.6
    53 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Keyword analysis5.32 Ratings7.020 Ratings
    Backlink management1.52 Ratings5.023 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking5.32 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Page grader3.42 Ratings7.122 Ratings
    Competitive analysis6.32 Ratings7.827 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics2.52 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Site recommendations2.52 Ratings7.824 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings3.09 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of RankWatch and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    RankWatch
    2.9
    2 Ratings
    89% below category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    7.0
    37 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Local SEO8.12 Ratings5.017 Ratings
    Social SEO1.01 Ratings7.112 Ratings
    Mobile SEO1.01 Ratings7.823 Ratings
    Global SEO1.62 Ratings7.829 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of RankWatch and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    RankWatch
    6.2
    2 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.1
    42 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Multi-domain support8.02 Ratings7.831 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools4.32 Ratings4.435 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    RankWatchScreaming Frog
    Small Businesses
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    RankWatchScreaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.6
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RankWatchScreaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    RankWatch
    GOOD:
    • If you want to track 1000s of keywords and you would take action.
    • If you want to download keyword rank in Excel file.
    BAD:
    • Support.
    • Policies.
    • User interface.
    • Several bugs on the platform.
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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
    RankWatch
    • Creates nice pdf reports with all the important information.
    • It indexes the entered keywords from our site within minutes and separates out the text, images, videos, local, etc.
    • The competitor analysis is very detailed.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    RankWatch
    • Lacks powerful knowledge base
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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
    RankWatch
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    RankWatch
    No answers on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    The main problem of Screaming Frog SEO Spider is it being an offline software which limits itself to a single pc and that creates problem when multi user agents want to get involved or even work on it, it’s a difficult task to collaborate on it and do research for keywords at one place
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    Support Rating
    RankWatch
    They were not cooperative at all. They just said this is not in our policies, we will get back to you, etc. The mail that comes in is confusing. Should be a support panel or chat on the site instead.
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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
    RankWatch
    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
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    RankWatch
    - Viralstat is specifically used for YouTube ranking. RankWatch is focused on Google Ranking. - Google Ad Manager is too complicated to use. - RankWatch sends us weekly emails with compact information, with no need to do anything else.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    RankWatch
    • Improving employee efficiency and knowledge
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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.
    Incentivized
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