Advanced Web Ranking vs. UpCity

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.

Incentivized

UpCity is well suited for agencies or freelancers that want a defined process to help market for clients or small companies wanting to be found online. It's especially helpful for someone not that knowledgeable on SEO. As long as they follow the checklist, their site has a great chance at increased traffic. I find it's not as useful for companies and agencies that already has a process in place and a set criteria for marketing. If you've been in the business for a while and already know what you're doing, the checklist may not be as valuable.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• The UpCity platform is easy to use and simple to understand.
• UpCity helps our agency by providing high quality copywriting for blogs and websites, as well as detailed research and analysis using their software.
• The UpCity SEO report card tool is a helpful sales tool for generating leads.

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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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• Pricing seemed far to high for small agencies just starting.
• I know UpCity has many more features than just a checklist, but I didn't find them as useful as the checklist and relied on other tools for citations and reporting.

Incentivized

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.

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.

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• 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)

Incentivized

• Complete waste of money.
• No return on value
• Spent majority of marketing budget on 5 clicks to my site!