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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

    SurferSEO

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ASurferSEO, from Polish company Surfer, is presented as a modern tool for SEOs and marketers for efficient and comprehensive on-page SEO optimization.N/A
    Pricing
    Majestic SEOSurferSEO
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $49.99
    per month
    Pro
    $99.99
    per month
    Full API
    $399.99
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Majestic SEOSurferSEO
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Majestic SEOSurferSEO
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Majestic SEO and SurferSEO
    Feature
    Majestic SEO
    8.5
    20 Ratings
    9% above category average
    SurferSEO
    7.7
    2 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Keyword analysis9.016 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Backlink management9.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking9.011 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Page grader8.014 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Competitive analysis8.019 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics9.015 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Site recommendations7.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task management9.08 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Majestic SEO and SurferSEO
    Feature
    Majestic SEO
    8.5
    16 Ratings
    11% above category average
    SurferSEO
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Local SEO8.012 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Social SEO8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile SEO8.511 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Global SEO9.015 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Majestic SEO and SurferSEO
    Feature
    Majestic SEO
    9.5
    17 Ratings
    12% above category average
    SurferSEO
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Multi-domain support9.017 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools10.014 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Majestic SEOSurferSEO
    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 SEOSurferSEO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Majestic SEOSurferSEO
    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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    Surfer
    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
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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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    Surfer
    • 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
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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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    Surfer
    • Can improve their algorithm to serve better for technical articles
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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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    Surfer
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    Usability
    Majestic SEO
    No answers on this topic
    Surfer
    Because, I've been using this tool since many years and I haven't looked for any other tool when it comes to content optimization
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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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    Surfer
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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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    Surfer
    Semrush's content and page optimisation tool is quite poor; it's not in the same bracket as Surfer. Frase is a good alternative from a cost perspective (if not paying the AI writing functions), it's cheaper, and Frase's keyword/topic heatmaps are quite unique. Sufer has a better UI and a shorter learning curve. It has an advantage in that it offers internal linking recommendations, which Frase lacks. Surfer also has limited competitor analysis (backlinks and page speed), which Frase does not. Both tools allow you to choose the number of competitors on the SERPS
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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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    Surfer
    • SuferSEO has helped us rank in the top 10 for results that are over 1M in search volume
    • SurferSEO gives our team the ability to rank quicker than without the tool
    • SurferSEO helps us close prospects by showing them the depth of our analysis and knowledge.
    • SurferSEO makes our agency look and feel like a professional that knows what they are doing
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