SurferSEO vs. UpCity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SurferSEO
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
SurferSEO, from Polish company Surfer, is presented as a modern tool for SEOs and marketers for efficient and comprehensive on-page SEO optimization.N/A
UpCity
Score 1.0 out of 10
N/A
UpCity is a search engine optimization software solution offered by UpCity.N/A
Pricing
SurferSEOUpCity
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SurferSEOUpCity
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
SurferSEOUpCity
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
SurferSEO
7.7
2 Ratings
1% below category average
UpCity
3.8
3 Ratings
69% below category average
Keyword analysis8.02 Ratings1.02 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking10.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Page grader8.02 Ratings5.12 Ratings
Competitive analysis7.02 Ratings4.62 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics10.01 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Task management3.01 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Backlink management00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Site recommendations00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
SurferSEO
7.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
UpCity
1.0
3 Ratings
154% below category average
Local SEO6.01 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Mobile SEO7.01 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Global SEO8.01 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Social SEO00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
SurferSEO
7.0
1 Ratings
19% below category average
UpCity
8.3
2 Ratings
2% below category average
Multi-domain support7.01 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
SurferSEOUpCity
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
1.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SurferSEOUpCity
Likelihood to Recommend
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
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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
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
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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
Surfer
  • 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
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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
Surfer
No answers on this topic
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
Surfer
No answers on this topic
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
Surfer
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.
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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
Surfer
  • 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.
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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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