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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SE Ranking

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    An SEO toolset for agency and in-house pros.

    $65

    per month

    UpCity

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AUpCity is a search engine optimization software solution offered by UpCity.N/A
    Pricing
    SE RankingUpCity
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $65
    per month
    Pro
    $119
    per month
    Business
    $259
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SE RankingUpCity
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSE Ranking’s subscription plans are available at a 20% discount for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    SE RankingUpCity
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    SE Ranking
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    UpCity
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    SE RankingUpCity
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of SE Ranking and UpCity
    Feature
    SE Ranking
    7.9
    16 Ratings
    3% above category average
    UpCity
    3.8
    3 Ratings
    68% below category average
    Keyword analysis7.99 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Backlink management7.316 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking7.915 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Page grader7.611 Ratings5.12 Ratings
    Competitive analysis7.915 Ratings4.62 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics7.916 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Site recommendations8.412 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Task management7.910 Ratings8.42 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of SE Ranking and UpCity
    Feature
    SE Ranking
    8.1
    14 Ratings
    6% above category average
    UpCity
    1.0
    3 Ratings
    153% below category average
    Local SEO8.111 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Mobile SEO8.112 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Global SEO8.213 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of SE Ranking and UpCity
    Feature
    SE Ranking
    8.4
    14 Ratings
    0% below category average
    UpCity
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-domain support8.512 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools8.413 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    SE RankingUpCity
    Small Businesses
    Serpstat
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score9.9 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
    SE RankingUpCity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (16 ratings)
    1.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SE RankingUpCity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SE Ranking
    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.
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    UpCity
    For our purposes, UpCity is well suited to our small business clients that are looking to improve their SEO. We have had a good partnership with UpCity to provide consulting and copywriting services for local search, social media and reputation management for our clients, and their software and reporting helps us show ROI to our clients.
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    Pros
    SE Ranking
    • 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.
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    UpCity
    • Customized marketing checklist is incredible!
    • The way UpCity verifies items in your marketing checklist (like whether you have social accounts, you're on Google, etc,) helps my business, and others, save precious time having to manually verify them yourself.
    • I love the impact scores and estimated time shown on each task to give us a feel of how much we are doing each month and what value that time spent is.
    • The "about" and "how to" section on tasks makes it very clear how to accomplish each task.
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    Cons
    SE Ranking
    • 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.
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    UpCity
    • Unwillingness to help dissatisfied customers
    • Unwillingness to address issues
    • False advertising regarding the number of click throughs and leads
    • Rude customer service reps that don’t help with your issues
    • Expensive service
    • Little value for money
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    Usability
    SE Ranking
    They had a huge update recently and the platform is now even better. Although not all the tools are yet in the new design.
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    UpCity
    Usability is mediocre: They have a dashboard to track things but they have some antiquated system of ranking companies and don’t tell you what the logic is behind it. You also have no way to combat negative ratings or respond and try to correct them.
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    Support Rating
    SE Ranking
    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.
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    UpCity
    I received little help from customer service rep, Sarah. She told me I should speak to a manager to “reset my expectations”. Apparently, all the sales promises of more traffic and increase SEO were an issue with my expectations, and not the company failing to deliver.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SE Ranking
    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.
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    UpCity
    We selected UpCity primarily because of the ongoing services they provide. The UpCity software is a simple platform that enables us to easily show progress and ROI to our clients.
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    Return on Investment
    SE Ranking
    • 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.
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    UpCity
    • UpCity was costly for us because we were small. If we were a 10 person agency, the price would be right in line with what we need.
    • UpCity has taught us many processes we needed to continue helping our clients be successful.
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    Screenshot of SE Ranking main dashboardScreenshot of SE Ranking keyword researchScreenshot of SE Ranking website auditScreenshot of SERP CompetitorsScreenshot of Organic SERP HistoryScreenshot of Content tool