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Choose SEO PowerSuite                     Choose SEMrush

Having spent lots of money in hiring the services of the best webpage designers and search engine optimization agencies, you have finally managed to push your website to the top of the search engine result pages for specific keywords and key phrases. However, you need to keep an eye on the rankings of your website on a regular basis.

Unknown to you your competitors are seeking the help of SEO professionals to determine your keyword/ keyphrase strategy and are using the same along with additions to forge ahead of you in the search results.

You can either leave the task of monitoring the ranking of your website to professionals and pay a huge annual sum for the same or do it yourself with the help of dedicated programs such as SEO PowerSuite and Semrush.

Before I delve into conducting an SEO PowerSuite vs Semrush review, I would like to state that these programs come into play after you have successfully completed the offline and online search engine optimization of your website.

 

A Glimpse At Both SEO Powersuite and SEMrush 2019

While going through this comparative review about Semrush vs SEO PowerSuite, you will discover that these powerful programs offer a wide range of modules that help you keep an eye on the performance of your website and inform you whenever there is a drop in its ranking.

They also allow you to spy on the key phrases and keywords strategy your competitors are employing to rank ahead of you for the same niche and find out the highly ranked sites from which they are creating backlinks to their site. You can easily use this data along with inputs provided by the two programs to push the rankings of your website ahead of that of your competitors.

 

Comparison Between SEMrush and SEO PowerSuite

Let us pit both SEO PowerSuite vs Semrush 2019 and find out which one is better and hence, more suitable for you. Let me be clear that I have briefly used both these programs before writing this Semrush vs SEO PowerSuite 2019 comparison. I will try to use simple language for this comparative review so that those who do not have any idea of technical mumbo jumbo can also understand it.

 

SEO PowerSuite

 

 

This bundle of tools has the ability to manage any SEO task you can imagine. It allows you to conduct a technical audit, discover millions of keywords plus monitor their rankings.

It helps to optimize your website's pages, develop quality backlinks and trace harmful backlinks so that you can remove them, as well as permit auto task scheduling and generate neat SEO reports.

The bundle consists of four different modules:
• Rank Tracker
• Website Auditor
• SEO SpyGlass
• Link Assistant

You can purchase the modules separately. However, I would suggest that you opt for the entire bundle.

I shall be briefly touching on all of these modules so that purchasers can decide whether they should purchase Semrush or SEO PowerSuite after reading through this entire review. By the way, you can download a free trial version of SEO Powersuite and evaluate it before purchasing the paid version.

 

#1 Website Auditor

 

 

The SEO PowerSuite Website Audit module takes care of two massive SEO tasks… page optimization and technical site audit.

 

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When you analyze your website with this tool, it crawls through all the resources of your site, including Flash, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc., and scans your website for technical problems.

The dashboard displays factors like encoding, redirecting, on-page errors, crawlability (necessary for the search engine spider to crawl and index your entire website), indexing, along with their status such as “correct,” “warning,”, and “error,” along with tips on actions you should take to fix the issues.

This tool also contains a Visualization too, which permits you to create interactive sitemaps that shows you your site's detailed and overall structures along with all of the connection types between your pages.

Once you have conducted a comprehensive site audit, you can proceed with the optimization of individual pages. This module offers clear-cut advice on the technical factors of the page along with the usage of keywords in on-page elements such as images, body, meta tags, and title.

You can edit the page from within the application itself to view how the alterations will appear on your site as well as on search engine result pages. This tool further spies on your top 10 ranking competitors against your target keywords to find out the topically relevant terms they are using.

 

#2 Rank Tracker

 

 

This tool helps cover two important and big SEO tasks such as finding new keywords as well as tracking their rankings. Once you use this tool to create a project for your website, it pulls seed keywords from your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts.

 

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After this, it provides you with 2 keyword research tools to select from for collecting new keyword ideas such as competitor's keywords, related searches, and queries, autocomplete, keyword suggestions and combinations. You can use this tool to find the most efficient keywords for your website.

This module also analyzes your keywords based on competition, number of searches, cost per click, expected visits, keyword difficulty, and much more. Simply select the winning ones and use them to begin their rank tracking.

You can select from an array of 750+ search engines as well as specify your target location, right down to the street address level.

Organic results tracking apart, this module permits you to monitor multiple search engine pages results such as local packs, image carousels, featured snippets along with 12 more Google result types.

Track the rankings of your competitors' sites along with yours by adding the former to your dashboard. You can also use your setup preferences to monitor your website's rankings for an unlimited number of key phrases and keywords.

The SEO PowerSuite keyword research in Rank Tracker provides you with an easy method to find more keywords. After you have created your project, continue with the research to get a comprehensive list of budding keywords to target.

 

#3 SEO SpyGlass

 

 

Backlinks from link farms and dubious sites decrease the ranking of your website. The SpyGlass tool assists you in finding all of your backlinks as well as audit them to run down the ones that are harmful to your website.

 

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As the main software integrates Google Search Console and Analytics, you can pull backlinks as well from those tools for an extraordinary as well as comprehensive profile.

It also allows you to:

• Gain access to your overall backlinks analytics. This allows you to view the core weak and strong points of your backlink profile plus gain access to the total analytics of your backlinks such as top anchor texts, backlink countries, stats of your profile growth, nofollow versus dofollow, and linking domains versus total domains.

• Get the freshest and biggest backlink index in the world. Without mincing words, this is the world's fastest crawler at present. This means that you can find all the backlinks to any website or your own website as soon as these sites are linked to. This is good for finding both lost and found links to your website as soon as those links are lost or found (immediacy).

• Detect and deal with dangerous links (links that Google penalizes). The tool also provides you with the webmaster's contact details so that you can get in touch with them and request them to take down the links. By the way, you can also use this tool to disavow spammy links from within SpyGlass.

 

#4 Link Assistant

 

 

Use this tool to search for link prospects with help from any of the available 12 methods such as competitors' backlinks, blogs, reviews, guest postings, and much more.

 

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You can also evaluate the quality of prospective links through quality metrics such as social share, age of domain, Alexa rank, domain/page authority), which permits you to pinpoint the highest quality links. It also helps you to check your link profile, as well as check your link's status, if they have the right anchor texts, and much more.

This program allows you to generate and print the SEO records so that you can compare them with new reports when you next run this tool.

 

Different Versions

You can use the free version of SEO PowerSuite to get a feeling of its powerful capabilities. Once satisfied, you have two versions to choose from.

The SEO PowerSuite Professional version costs $299 and is ideal for individuals who are promoting their own website or for in-house SEO professionals working to promote the website of the company they are working for.

The SEO PowerSuite Enterprise costs $699. It is ideal for website marketing professionals or people working for a company that specializes in promoting websites.

 

On-Time Payment

Considering the huge range of modules both these versions provide, one should not complain about the pricing, since it is a one-time payment. If you are searching for SEO PowerSuite alternatives, then your best option would be to try SEMrush.

 

Review of SEMrush

 

 

SEMrush too is a powerful tool. It is an integral part of professionals trying to boost the rankings of their website to gain the upper edge over their competitor's site.

However, I felt slightly sad when analyzing and auditing two different sites with both SEO PowerSuite and SEMrush, as the latter did not give as good results as the other when it became time for me to do website on-page audit. But when it became time for competitor analysis, finding profitable keywords for SEO and PPC and more, SEMrush was, and still is, a force to be reckoned with.

Another plus point is that the company conducts weekly webinars on SMM, PRC, SEM, and SEO issues, and provides tutorials as well.

 

Wider Range of Compatibility with Operating Systems & Devices

SEMrush is ahead of its competitor as it works on a wide range of operating systems such as Windows, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, and has a web-based version too, whereas SEO Powersuite works only on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Brownie points to the SEMrush on this aspect.

 

No Free Version for SEMrush (7-day Free Trial Available)

Unfortunately, there is no free version of SEMrush, but you can try the program before purchasing it.

They have three variants available:

• Pro version that costs $99.95 per month
• Guru version that costs $199.95 per month
• A business version that costs $399.95 per month

This means that users will have to shell out nearly $1200 per year for the Pro version, which is roughly equivalent for a lifetime license of the Enterprise version of their competitor's software.

 

When it Comes to Reports for Clients

As a professional, I don't want my clients to know that I am using a specific program for analyzing and auditing their website as well as boosting its SERP. I felt disappointed with SEMrush, as it includes its name on the generated report, which is not the case with SEO PowerSuite.

 

When it Comes to Socials

This tool fails when it comes to analyzing Linkedin and Facebook ads. The Rank Tracker module of the SEO Powersuite displays details about “social signals”, which is an aggregate number of social media shares for the page on Google+ and Facebook.

SEO PowerSuite integrates with Google Analytics, Google Adwords, and WebMeUp backlinking, whereas the website of SEMrush does not provide any such information.

 

How About Support?

SEMrush forges ahead of its competitors in the support section as it offers help via phone, ticket, and live support, whereas the other program only offers support via ticket.

 

 

This would be advantageous if I needed help immediately and would not have to wait for my query to come on the queue before I received a solution to my problem. These factors play an important role when I have to compare SEO PowerSuite and SEMrush.

 

SEO PowerSuite or SEMrush

I would suggest individuals searching for a SEMrush alternative to opt for SEO Powersuite. I would give the same reply to those asking me which is better of the two.

Pricing apart, the SEMrush SEO on-page Audit tool is not as powerful as that of the SEO Powersuite, as it does not provide adequate information. However, when it comes to finding profitable keywords, seeing competitors' Budget and Ad strategies or anything PPC (Pay Per Click), SEMrush should be considered.

For Rank Tracking of keywords, I may leave that to you to decide on which of them you want to use as both programs have powerful rank tracking modules.

 

My Verdict

Therefore my verdict for those who have requested me to compare SEO PowerSuite and SEMrush, and to state which is better, is that it actually depends on what your needs and goals are. What exactly do you want to achieve?

 

What, really, is the difference between SEO PowerSuite and SEMrush?

In a nutshell, you may go for SEO PowerSuite for the following reasons:

• You aim to do a comprehensive on-page audit of your website. It can help to make sure that you have a website that is penguin or panda-proof. It also ensures that your website is free of all on-site and technical errors.
• It is very good for rank tracking and Geo-specific ranking.
• Great for monitoring all backlinks to your website with the biggest and freshest backlink index on the planet. Thanks to the SEO SpyGlass module. This will help you to see any lost or found link almost in real-time.
• SEO Powersuite can also help you to find link-building opportunities for your website through their link-assistant module.

 

On the other hand, you should consider SEMrush if:

• You want to know your competitors' budget or Ad Strategy.
• You are more into PPC
• You want to see your competitors' actual Ad copies.
• You want to quickly begin your Ad Campaign.
• You want to do backlinks research.
• You want to spy on the best keywords your competitors are using for both SEO and PPC.
• You need to get long-tail keywords.
• You want to rank track keywords.

I would say that both SEO Powersuite and SEMrush are powerful tools that can even complement each other because neither of them has it all.

Choose SEO PowerSuite                     Choose SEMrush

Choose SpyFu                     Choose SEMrush

Ranking higher on the search engine results page seems to be getting tougher by the day, as SEO professionals are discovering new ways to find keywords that help the website of their clients rank higher on search engine results.

Using well researched LSI and long tail keywords used to be the norm a couple of years ago, but the scenario has changed drastically. During those days, SEO gurus would have to spend lots of time determining the keywords used by somebody else, who was perpetually ranking higher for specific goods and services and include the same in the website of their client to boost its SERP.

Your website might have been appearing on the top of the search results for several months or even years, but its relevance seems to have dropped drastically in the recent past.

 

Why You Need A Tool Like SEMrush or SpyFu

You might not be aware, but your competitors are using keyword spying tools to spy on your carefully researched keywords and are using them in conjunction with the keywords being used by other websites appearing at the top of the search results for specific goods, to boost the ranking of their website.

You need the help of those tools to ensure that you stay a step ahead of your competitors. In this articles, we shall be discussing SpyFu vs SEMrush, which are unarguably the best two programs used to spy on your competitor's keyword strategy and use them to rank your online store ahead of them.

 

Find ‘the' Profitable Keywords

BOTH*

Let me be frank and tell you that optimizing your site for search engines alone is not going to help you boost the ranking of your website. You have to use a combination of AdWords and PPC (pay per click) to find the most profitable keywords for your niche and use them to boost your website's ranking.

 

 

SEO, Adwords Advisor and PPC Spy Tool

BOTH*

I would like to point out during this Spyfu vs SEMrush review, that both of them use some common strategies as well as unique ones. For example, both of them have a PPC keyword analysis tool.

 

SEMrush

 

SpyFu

 

Let me start off by explaining the SEMrush vs SpyFu PPC tools and how they help you analyze the PPC keywords your competitors are using, and whether you have already purchased them or not.

 

What is SpyFu and How Does it Help You?

SpyFu is more than a keyword analysis tool. It allows you to download the most profitable keywords and ads for both organic and paid search. It also helps you to check the backlinks of your competitor along with those backlinks that allow them to rank ahead of you for specific keywords so that you can use those sites for creating backlinks to your website.

It offers a lot more as you will soon find out. The best way to evaluate a program is by using it. Take advantage of the SpyFu free trial to understand how it works. Visit their website and type in the name of a domain on the search field and click on the search button.

 

 

See the Keywords Your Competitors Buy and Rank For

You will soon be presented with numbers about the site's estimated monthly SEO clicks along with the click value, the organic keywords being used by them, the top keywords their competitors also rank for plus the site's ranking history since their initial search results on Google.

 

See Your Competitor's Adwords Budget for these Profitable Keywords

Added to these, you will see the number of paid keywords they are employing, the estimated “PPC” clicks, and their monthly AdWords budget plus history since they started using AdWords. It also displays AdWords their leading competitors are purchasing.

 

 

Do not be surprised if you find no results in the “AdWords field,” as this implies that they have not been using it for promoting their website.

 

 

 

Kombat Module (to See Common Keywords Shared Between Your Competitors)

I strongly suggest people using the free or paid version of this program to use the “Kombat” too, which is the first thing they should do when starting a brand new campaign.

 

 

It allows users to see how their website ranks vis a vis competitor websites. It also lets you see keywords targeted and shared by two or more competitors. I was chuckling when checking out the most valuable backlinks of my competitors. You can rest assured that I shall be using it too to boost my website's ranking.

 

Even More Magic

SpyFu is an excellent tool for those who want to know what their competitor is up to as well as for those who are planning AdWords or PPC campaign. Be prepared for a surprise as you find out details of competitors you never knew existed.

The tool also provides you with hints regarding keywords that are worth bidding for. This is awesome, as it prevents you from wasting money on useless keywords, and helps develop your PPC campaigns.

 

 

You will be surprised by the rate of conversion of your PPC campaign once you start using SpyFu, as it helps you to target the right customers.

 

A High Level of Accuracy

I strongly suggest that you try the free version of this tool in case you are wondering “how accurate is SpyFu?”. I have tested SpyFu comprehensively and can say with certainty that its keyword data is spot on. If this tool shows that a specific site appeared while searching for “crunchy munchies” you can say for sure that it did.

However, this tool will not help you if a local paint supplier sets his ads to appear only in New York City. In simple terms, you can enter any domain on this keyword spy tool, and it will show you every place it has shown up on Google, every ad variation, every organic rank, and all the keywords purchased by the owner of that domain for the past 12 years.

 

You can use this tool to:

• Track the rankings of your keywords
• Increase the traffic of your website
• Make better connections

 

This tool consists of modules such as:

• Adwords Advisor
• Find competitors' keywords that you have not yet purchased
• Monitoring PPC competitors
• Search and download PPC keywords of your competitors
• Research SEO keywords of competitors
• Keyword group analysis tools
• Track the SEO strategy of your competitors
• Comprehensive keyword ranking strategy
• Check backlinks of competitors by keywords
• Keep a track of your SEO keyword rankings

This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as you will find out when you use the paid version of this tool. Using this tool is quite simple, and if you face any problems, you can view the video tutorials on the website of the vendor.

Visit the “glossary” section of the vendor's website if you do not have any idea about keyword rankings and the value of data provided by SpyFu.

I strongly recommend that you go for the paid version of Spyfu, as it boasts of a host of features that the free version does not. Here are the details about the different SpyFu pricing along with some of the benefits they provide:

 

SpyFu Pricing

• The basic version costs $39 per month for a single month or $33 per month for a year's subscription
• Professional version costs $39 for the first month and $78 per month thereafter or $58 per month when subscribing for one year
• Team version costs $299 per month for one month or $199 per month for one year's subscription

 

All of the SpyFu plans offer:

• Limitless search results
• Limitless data export
• Limitless domain overview (provided in .pdf format)

The basic version offers 250 domain contacts and sales leads, 5000 keyword rankings tracked per week and 10,000 top list results.

The “professional” version offers 500 domain contacts & sales leads, 15,000 weekly tracked keyword rankings and 50,000 top list results.

The figures for “Team” version are 2,000 (sales leads & domain contacts), 40,000 (weekly keyword rankings tracked), and 75,000 (top list results) respectively.

The professional and the team versions further provide 10,000 API rows returned, and customized branded report.

The sole difference between the professional and team version is that the latter permits five user logins simultaneously. All of the plans include unlimited UK data.

The SpyFu cost is negligible, especially when one considers the powerful capability of the SpyFu keyword research tool.

If you still have any doubts about this site after going through this basic SpyFu review (check their website for in-depth details and for a host of other important features that this online tool offers) and want to check other sites like SpyFu before deciding which one to use, check out Semrush, also considered as one of the best PPC keyword tool.

You can also check PPC Spy, but I will not stress on it too much, as it hardly has the power offered by SpyFu and Semrush.

Find below a brief SEMRush review. Comparing its features with that of SpyFu will help you decide which one of them is the best PPC keyword research tool.

 

Advantages of SEMRush

This too is unarguably one of the leading tools for generating the best keyword list for your pay per click campaign or SEO.

 

 

Generate Reports

This nifty tool offers users a detailed as well as advanced SEO and digital marketing metrics. It generates reports of your keyword research campaign in .pdf format that you can directly send to your client.

 

Impress Your Clients with these Reports

Unlike many other competitor keyword checker tools, it generates search engine optimization reports that are perfect for individual digital marketers, clients, large organizations, as well as marketing agencies.

 

Great Customer Support (If Needed)

This company also boasts of outstanding customer support, ready to help users if they face problems with the tool. If this is not enough, the developers are continuously enhancing their tool by incorporating additional features to improve its performance.

 

Very Accurate Data

Instead of thinking about “how accurate is SEMRush?”, I would recommend that you try it for free. You can use it for free for 10 searches after which you have to purchase the paid version.

 

Provides Data for Both Mobile and Desktop

I was astonished to find that SEMRush provides separate details for searches for keywords by desktop and through mobile. This is extremely important since more than 75% of individuals nowadays use their smartphone to search the net while on the move.

 

 

Unlike most other tools of the same category, which provide analysis about search results originating from the United Kingdom and the United States of America, this SpyFu alternative allows you to select a specific country from a drop-down menu.

 

Select Any Country to See Data

This allows you to get a far more comprehensive result if you are a resident of a country apart from U.K. and U.S.A and want to analyze the keywords, backlink strategies, and PPC methods of your competitor.

 

 

SEMrush or SpyFu – My Opinion

No doubt, SpyFu has a lot of positive points and is my tool of choice when I need a SEMRush alternative, I found the SEMRush keyword research tool slightly better than that of SpyFu.

 

Here are some of the principal benefits that SEMRush provides:

• Position tracking
• Technical SEO audit
• Competitive intelligence
• Backlinks analytics and audit
• Provides ideas on gaining additional organic traffic
• Semantic core collection

I was slightly dismayed when I tried to use the free version of SEMRush, because of the popup window that requires an individual to sign up with their site before they can see the results. SpyFu is much more transparent in this regard.

 

Like some other tools, this one too offers the following features:

• Find out the advertisement budget and strategies of your competitors
• Analyze the ad copies and keywords of your online rivals
• Find out new competitors in Bing Ads and AdWords
• Localize your advertisement campaigns
• View the best keywords of your competitors
• Discover new organic competitors
• Spot positional changes of domains

I am slightly perplexed after testing both the SEMRush keyword research tool and the SpyFu keyword research tool. Both of them have their positive points. As such, I would suggest that you use the SEMRush free trial as well as the free version of SpyFu, and test them on a specific domain to find the results they provide.

Obviously, if you are looking for websites like SEMRush, I would suggest that you try SpyFu if you have not already done so.

A quick online search for the term tools like SEMRush will provide you with many results including PPC Spy. However, none of them are as professional as SEMRush and SpyFu, and will not provide you with very accurate results.

 

SEMrush Pricing

Regarding prices, SEMRush pricing is much more costly as even its cheapest module, the pro version costs $99.95 per month, which is much more than SpyFu, whose pro version costs only $58 per month.

 

So, Should You Choose SEMrush or SpyFu?

I leave it to you to determine which of these two online tools best meets your requirements after going through this SpyFu vs SEMRush 2019 review.

Choose SpyFu                     Choose SEMrush