Advanced Web Ranking vs. Searchmetrics Suite

Advanced Web Ranking is helpful to companies that require higher website ranking, where there is keyword management through ranking and tracking. More so, to acquire a comprehensive report concerning the opponents, Advanced Web Ranking is readily resourceful. The content creation and management have been fostered by Advanced Web Ranking also.

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Searchmetrics does a great job when doing optimization of your content and keywords. It is less appropriate when doing off page optimization like backlinks.

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• Advanced Web Ranking is a low-cost solution for SEO reporting, suitable for medium-sized businesses that can't afford more expensive solutions of this type.
• It's also very scalable in some respects, particularly the availability of unlimited keyword tracking, which is preferable to certain solutions that charge by the keyword.
• There are also a number of other features in the product not directly related to the reporting of performance which some users will find useful.

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• Content optimization, give one or more keywords to Searchmetrics and the webpage you want to rank for those keywords. Searchmetrics will check your page and compare it with other web pages that rank for your given keywords.
• Competitor research, find out what keywords your competitors are ranking for.
• Keyword research, what keywords are you using and which keywords could be new opportunities for your project.

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• Updating reports when adding new keywords can be slow, taking a day or so to update.
• Large keyword projects can be slow to update.
• If you have a large number of keywords to track, the costs escalate quickly.

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• A lot of competitor SEO research sites offer suggestions on how to improve SEO ranking or changes that could be made to page title or descriptions, but Searchmetrics is a research only product and does not offer suggestions.
• Not sure if all of their contracts have an auto-renew, but ours did and we missed the 30-day notice to opt out and are now stuck in a new full year contract...
• Adding mobile tracking requires a new contract and is an additional add-on

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We are currently using an agency and do not need Searchmetrics services at this time. If we do need research metrics in the future, we will probably go with them. The only deterrent is that we got suckered into an additional year with them because we were a few days late on opting out of the auto-renew. Although I was very upset about getting stuck an extra year paying for services I do not need, that is probably the only issue I have with the company, so if you can avoid that, it's a pretty good product.

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We switched our rank tracking software from Raven Tools when they dropped rank tracking several years ago. We moved to AWR and realized how inaccurate Raven Tools was when it came to keyword rank tracking. Even when raven Tools added rank tracking back, we never switched back, AWR is more accurate and reliable as a keyword rank tracking tool.

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We originally selected Searchmetrics because we got more bang for our buck. On the research end, we could do unlimited searches without the cost of the service going up. As for the historical data, we could store more trending data and do deeper research than we could with the competitor. The monthly fee was almost half (if i remember correctly, but it's been a few years) of what what we were paying before with a competitor.

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• It stayed within our client's allotted budget (which drives more business our way down the road!)
• Updated information in real-time assures our clients that they get the most accurate information possible, as quickly as possible.
• It's been only slightly detrimental to my workflow (which is one little drawback of the program) sometimes I have to enlist the help of a keyword generator (because i find the one with the program a bit lacking)

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• It had a positive impact on the ROI. As the websites rank better the revenue raised.
• Searchmetrics Suite is an expensive product, it is too expensive for small websites.

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