Likelihood to Recommend 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 I honestly can't think of a scenario where WebTextTool (TextMetrics) would not be valuable for anyone writing content intended for publishing either online or in print media. If the intent is for print media, then even if you completely ignore the SEO section of the analysis, all of the other analysis tools intended for content are incredibly insightful and helpful. These days, even print media almost always ends up online in some form or another on the publisher's website or in a digital format of the publication. So the SEO tools can still give a little boost in reworking or rewording some parts to make sure they will be effective not only in print but online as well.
Read full review Pros 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 Tracks the exact page ranking Optimizes SEO on-page in detail and with a number of measures, including a readability metric. Tracking website content with a website ranking system Read full review Cons 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 WebTextTool (TextMetrics) assumes that each uploaded or typed in the article is intended for online publishing, mostly in a blog type environment. While this is a perfectly understandable assumption in this day and age, it shouldn't be so difficult to ask the question of whether the content is intended for online or print media. The "Credibility" section tends to be a little too harsh for my taste. Depending on the style of writing and the type of content, "too many adjectives" is too subjective a metric to apply to all writing ( still, I do get why they try to do it). This is a little nitpicky, but I'd prefer to see how many projects and credits I have left to use on the dashboard page as opposed to having to click over to my account. A dashboard should show everything that a user needs to see in one shot. Read full review Support Rating I only had to reach out to TexMetrics once when initially getting my account setup after signing up. The response was swift, and they addressed my question completely. I've had no other issues since I began using TextMetrics, so based on that one interaction, I have to give them a great score. I assume that it is still the same as when I reached out that one time (at least I hope it is!).
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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 WebTextTool plugin works like a charm, but it should better integrate with Yoast, as it would create a huge benefit.
Read full review Return on Investment 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 My organic traffic has improved 11% every month Read full review ScreenShots