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    Majestic SEO

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMajestic surveys and maps the Internet and has created a large commercial Link Intelligence database. This Internet map is used by SEOs, New Media Specialists, Affiliate Managers and online Marketing experts for a variety of uses surrounding online prominence including Link Building, Reputation Management, Website Traffic development, Competitor analysis and News Monitoring.

    $49.99

    per month

    SpyFu

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASpyFu is the eponymous SEO and PPC research platform from the company in Scottsdale, Arizona focused on "spying" on competitors, or basically using their behaviors to refine your own through keyword and content analysis, and backlink poaching. This positional search engine optimization and paid listings management platform touts the ability to lower costs and raise rankings via a Kombat-oriented approach... basically a cute way of saying "it makes comparisons" of how well your site does in niche…

    $39

    per month

    Pricing
    Majestic SEOSpyFu
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $49.99
    per month
    Pro
    $99.99
    per month
    Full API
    $399.99
    per month
    Basic
    $39
    per month
    Professional
    $79
    per month
    Team
    $299
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Majestic SEOSpyFu
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Majestic SEOSpyFu
    Considered Both Products
    Majestic SEO
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    SpyFu
    Chose SpyFu
    I would say that the above tools each offer their own unique skillset to be able to enhance what we find with SpyFu. For competitive analysis at a low cost point SpyFu really follows through on the promise of delivering actionable competitive insights with additional tools that …
    Incentivized
    Chose SpyFu
    It's a key element to my Digital Marketing surveying efforts. Often it proves to have been more accurate, once I have access to Analytics tools such GA or SiteCatalyst, in comparison to its own competitor-set.
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    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    Majestic SEOSpyFu
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Majestic SEO and SpyFu
    Feature
    Majestic SEO
    8.5
    20 Ratings
    9% above category average
    SpyFu
    6.6
    52 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Keyword analysis9.016 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Backlink management9.020 Ratings6.040 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking9.011 Ratings6.044 Ratings
    Page grader8.014 Ratings7.829 Ratings
    Competitive analysis8.019 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics9.015 Ratings7.232 Ratings
    Site recommendations7.015 Ratings6.031 Ratings
    Task management9.08 Ratings6.120 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Majestic SEO and SpyFu
    Feature
    Majestic SEO
    8.5
    16 Ratings
    11% above category average
    SpyFu
    5.8
    39 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Local SEO8.012 Ratings5.033 Ratings
    Social SEO8.59 Ratings5.028 Ratings
    Mobile SEO8.511 Ratings8.029 Ratings
    Global SEO9.015 Ratings5.035 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Majestic SEO and SpyFu
    Feature
    Majestic SEO
    9.5
    17 Ratings
    12% above category average
    SpyFu
    7.2
    28 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Multi-domain support9.017 Ratings6.028 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools10.014 Ratings8.518 Ratings
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    Majestic SEOSpyFu
    Small Businesses
    Nozzle
    Score10 out of 10
    Nozzle
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Advanced Web Ranking
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Advanced Web Ranking
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Search Console
    Score9 out of 10
    Google Search Console
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Majestic SEOSpyFu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (23 ratings)
    7.0
    (62 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Majestic SEOSpyFu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Majestic SEO
    Majestic is a really great tool if your company is spending considerable resources on ongoing SEO efforts. In general, Majestic isn't for beginner SEO users, but a more advanced tool to get into deep SEO tactics. I would recommend this for agencies that have a significant investment in SEO. If you're a small team or a small business looking to improve SEO for yourself or company, there are platforms that offer a variety of tools for new to moderate expertise.
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    SpyFu
    If you have a Google ads PPC campaign and then I would say this is more or less essential if you want to know what your competitors are doing. You can get very useful data out of it even if you subscribe for one month. And the pricing is very reasonable. Even if you don't use Google ads, I would say this is still useful for your SEO/SMO team since it gives you a great idea of what keywords and traffic your competitors are working on.
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    Pros
    Majestic SEO
    • I like Majestic's own metrics Trust and Citation flow, that are very representative of the real value of the website and it's potential effect on the rankings of the website it's linking to.
    • Also, theme (topic) of the website is very useful in the backlink report. This allows to easily identify backlinks relevant to your business.
    • The index of number of backlinks that is provided by Majestic is usually a lot bigger than the indexes of their competitors.
    • Lost link tracker is very useful for tracking dropped links of your projects (you can verify and track multiple domains). This allows to keep track on how many of your ads and articles stay live and sometimes we contact publishers to tell them that their changes on the website (i.e. updates) caused our article or link to go down.
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    SpyFu
    • Keeping a tab on competitors organic and inorganic activities
    • Helps identify where the competitor is getting the backlinks from.
    • Identify competitors top content and the keywords that's bringing them traffic
    • Get proper information of their current and past ADS run on Google.
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    Cons
    Majestic SEO
    • Its API for developers and big companies sometime don't give the actual data.
    • Rank tracker is not 100% accurate, but you can create a rough estimate by the report.
    • Backlink history is also missing some links, but I found them mostly.
    • Sometimes site explorer does not give the actual report, so you should check manually too.
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    SpyFu
    • As with any database, their keyword database has limits, so the data returned is relative to their database, not necessarily the full picture.
    • When SpyFu database or scoring chances, the data provided can spike, thus causing confusion among stakeholders, we're reporting to.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Majestic SEO
    Once you've grown accustomed to the depth and accuracy of Majestic's crawl, it's hard to consider paying for anything else (or settling for free options). SEMRush and MOZ can get you somewhere, but in the right hands, a tool as powerful as Majestic can do a lot for a business's link building strategy.
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    SpyFu
    Love this tool but would like insights from all 3 major search engines not just Google. I would also like deeper understanding of the placement for local businesses on Google Places/Maps. Insight into mobile search rankings and best landing pages per industry would also help :) Overall, SpyFu is a necessity for serious search marketers.
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    Usability
    Majestic SEO
    No answers on this topic
    SpyFu
    SpyFu is an easy to use tool, and has a self -explanatroy dashborad to generate the data needed to provide insights into any B2B SEO and PPC campaign. It is not comprehensive, but it certainly provides good enough insight to make it a valuable part of any agency tool stack
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    Support Rating
    Majestic SEO
    In started when our team started to use this tool, we had trouble understanding many of its features, so its customer support team was our teacher to understand all its complicated features and also how they are used to get better results. Nowadays we are working very efficiently without any help.
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    SpyFu
    SpyFu comes with a link to tutorial videos. I recommend you watch them. The software is capable of so much you really need to watch the videos and learn how to get the most out of it. When I have a question 90% of the time it's there. When it isn't, and I reach out to them, support is always quick and concise.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Majestic SEO
    Majestic has features that most of their competitors don't. The backlink index is better than SEMRush in my opinion which also lacks being able to look at links from a range of dates. Their metrics are harder to fool when compared to Moz and I would say that AHREF's is a good competitor but each company keeps their own index of links so its good to use more than one tool
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    SpyFu
    I was surprised to find I preferred Semrush when it comes to keyword research. SpyFu is great (and less expensive than Semrush), but I felt the data Semrush provided was vaster than SpyFu. I was able to get more competitors spending insights in Semrush than SpyFu. Overall, I liked the ability to use both in our keyword research for both paid and organic marketing.
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    Return on Investment
    Majestic SEO
    • ROI is difficult to ascertain in healthcare marketing, mostly due to privacy laws. Although, Majestic has improved our insight into our digital content, giving us data to work with on the primary site, which has led to an overall increase in organic search.
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    SpyFu
    • Helping us track our ranking.
    • It helps solve the problem of ambiguity when it comes to Google Ads. It makes the strategy more clear.
    • You can sift through lots of different online analytics to find the information, but it takes way too long. SpyFu has it all in one place!
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