Likelihood to Recommend SE Ranking is a fantastic tool if you are a marketing agency or freelancer looking for a single tool for the majority of your SEO work. It also includes B2B tools like their lead generation widget and white label reports that can help you generate new leads for your business. It would get 10 stars if their database was larger to accommodate research for small geographic areas, but they are always expanding their database so it may just be a matter of time. Research SE Ranking has pricing plans available for every budget.
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 Rank racking. It’s really important for us that the ranks are tracked accurately. Monitoring of changes made on the website. We’ve found this feature really useful. Reports. This includes auto reports and manuals. We can easily and quickly create reports to check our SEO progress month by month. 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 I really don't think SE Ranking has many flaws. They are also rolling out an app at the moment - SE Ranking Pro - need to test that one. Some more video tutorials on the site on how to use some tools would be helpful. More in-system popups would be more helpful too. 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 Usability They had a huge update recently and the platform is now even better. Although not all the tools are yet in the new design.
Read full review Support Rating The support is great but they don't have 24/7 support. And time zones can also be an issue sometimes. On the other hand there are plenty of guides and videos around to get yourself started. I never really needed support for "big" issues. And the help I got was good enough.
Read full review Alternatives Considered SE Ranking is better than
Serpstat or MOZ or
Ahrefs when it comes to tracking keyword rankings, but it lacks in every other SEO category, such as onsite and offsite SEO metrics, content analysis, etc... It's a good choice for agencies that are interested in tracking keywords for their clients, but other than that it underperforms in every other SEO category.
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 The website "health" report has allowed us to fix things that Google might find strange or cause us to lose rankings, which has been very helpful. It's given us more visibility into what exactly our SEO management company is doing and how they are performing, and if things are changing or not. It's very easy to see right from the dashboard. Being able to see how our competitors stack up against us has helped us know where to improve, what to focus on, and how to be even better. 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