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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Screaming Frog

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $149

    per year

    Surfer SEO

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASurferSEO, from Polish company Surfer, is presented as a modern tool for SEOs and marketers for efficient and comprehensive on-page SEO optimization.

    $119

    per month

    Pricing
    Screaming FrogSurfer SEO
    Editions & Modules
    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
    Standard
    $119
    per month
    Pro
    $219
    per month
    Peace of Mind
    $359
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Screaming FrogSurfer SEO
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Screaming FrogSurfer SEO
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    Screaming Frog
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    Surfer
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Features
    Screaming FrogSurfer SEO
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.6
    53 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Surfer SEO
    8.1
    3 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Keyword analysis7.020 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Backlink management5.023 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking7.09 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Page grader7.122 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Competitive analysis7.927 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics8.353 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Site recommendations7.924 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Task management3.09 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    7.0
    37 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Surfer SEO
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Local SEO5.017 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Social SEO7.112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile SEO7.923 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Global SEO7.929 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.1
    42 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Surfer SEO
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-domain support7.831 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools4.535 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Screaming FrogSurfer SEO
    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
    Screaming FrogSurfer SEO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (55 ratings)
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Screaming FrogSurfer SEO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Surfer
    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
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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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    Surfer
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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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    Surfer
    • Can improve their algorithm to serve better for technical articles
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Surfer
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    Because, I've been using this tool since many years and I haven't looked for any other tool when it comes to content optimization
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    Support Rating
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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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    Surfer
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Surfer
    Semrush's content and page optimisation tool is quite poor; it's not in the same bracket as Surfer. Frase is a good alternative from a cost perspective (if not paying the AI writing functions), it's cheaper, and Frase's keyword/topic heatmaps are quite unique. Sufer has a better UI and a shorter learning curve. It has an advantage in that it offers internal linking recommendations, which Frase lacks. Surfer also has limited competitor analysis (backlinks and page speed), which Frase does not. Both tools allow you to choose the number of competitors on the SERPS
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Surfer
    • SuferSEO has helped us rank in the top 10 for results that are over 1M in search volume
    • SurferSEO gives our team the ability to rank quicker than without the tool
    • SurferSEO helps us close prospects by showing them the depth of our analysis and knowledge.
    • SurferSEO makes our agency look and feel like a professional that knows what they are doing
    Incentivized
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