Likelihood to Recommend If you have a business with more than 20 locally serving locations you know how important local searches are. RIO SEO will help syndicate your information and their robust toolkit will help those types of businesses be successful online. Their all in one dashboard lets the user control every location without having to log in to multiple dashboards to make a change in Google, then Bing, then Yelp, etc.
Read full review Surfer is well suited for:
Creating (and resisting) articles and web pages to increase their SEO relevancy for a keyword. To identify NLP terms and the frequency of terms to be added to the page To find internal linking opportunities To plan pillar pages/topic clusters Surfer is not a tool for
Technical SEO Crawl Audits Serp / Keyword Tracking Project Management Read full review Pros Their software is really amazing and does the job well and in a routine manner. Their support staff is beyond amazing, hands down the best support I've gotten from any company in any industry. The proactively find issues and bring them to our attention so we can work with our clients on getting results. The renewal process is painless and they help us with reporting to build a case for renewal and retaining the client. Read full review Analysis for on-page ranking factors Competition analytics NLP Analysis for webpage content Content SEO scoring Content editor with details about what to rank for Plugin that helps with search data on Google Read full review Cons The dashboard could be a bit more user-friendly. It takes some training to get used to. Keys/legends in the sidebar and in exports to help explain what different sections are for the "laymen" that aren't in this industry 24/7. Having a "suggested changes" like what Moz.com/local has in their backend for photos/additional categories. Something that can help the user be more proactive rather than "here's where you're at" a "here's what you can do to improve" would help. Read full review AI Writing: This is a new feature, and in comparison to alternatives it's poor both from a pricing and result perspective Monthly Pricing: Surfer used to a clear value for money solution, it's somewhat pricing out solo-operators with the current pricing model Backlinks: Surfer does have a backlink crawler, but it's quite limited Read full review Alternatives Considered RIO SEO is heads, shoulders, the entire body, ahead of Local Market Launch. We used Local Market Launch before RIO and it was one of the worst years of my life. The support was non-existent, their syndication was lackluster and they messed up our contracts enough times to frustrate us and the clients. I cannot express in enough words my disdain for that service and how much of a refreshing change it was to work with a company like RIO that cared as much about our client success as we did.
Read full review Frase gives a lot of content to use, but it doesn't give you the factors you need to rank. This is ultimately why we use SurferSEO over any other editor tool that is out there. The analytics are number one to the entire space.
Read full review Return on Investment They have helped us retain several big clients over the years which in turn has helped bring in several other clients. Their tools allow us, a small boutique agency, to operate like a big agency. Our local listing clients have been much happier with our switch to RIO which has allowed us to focus on other areas for them instead of just the syndication. Read full review Surfer has been a key tool in the past to help us rank many clients We've been able to help clients reduce word count on pages that were stuffed or vice versa using Surfer The results from using surfer on an article were easily seen within 3 months on average. Read full review ScreenShots