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    Moz Link Explorer

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ALink Explorer from Moz is a link building utility, replacing the former Open Site Explorer. Moz describes Link Explorer as a highly accurate link tool that lets users check the backlink profile and Domain Authority of any site. Moz was acquired by iContact in June, 2021.

    $99

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    Moz Pro

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AMozPro , from Moz in Seattle, Washington, is an SEO platforms for tracking the performance of all inbound marketing efforts comprehensively. It reveals how content is being shared through social channels and how that drives traffic to a website, and features a broad toolset for search engine optimization: rank tracking, link opportunites, site audit via Moz Analytics, prospective keyword analysis and content grading, as well as a crawl test to find broken or poorly designed site elements. Moz…

    $99

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    Pricing
    Moz Link ExplorerMoz Pro
    Editions & Modules
    Moz Pro
    $99
    per month
    Moz Link Explorer
    Free
    Standard
    $99
    per month
    Medium
    $179
    per month
    Large
    $299
    per month
    Premium
    $599
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Moz Link ExplorerMoz Pro
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Moz Link ExplorerMoz Pro
    Considered Both Products
    iContact
    Chose Moz Link Explorer
    When it still existed, Open Site Explorer was one of, if not the, best freemium SEO tools. Not only did its free-tier offer amazing insights and data for SEO strategy, but its paid program offered additional resources for SEO. I think it worked better than Screaming Frog
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Link Explorer
    Yahoo! Site Explorer is no longer available outside of a Bing Webmaster Tools account. While there are plenty of fee-based link evaluation tools, Moz's Open Site Explorer provides a robust set of features and metrics in its free version that no other site can match. Moz also …
    iContact
    Chose Moz Pro
    I've recently noticed we're using SEM Rush a whole lot more nowadays for rank tracking. In fact, it's the first time we've gone to the highest package across multiple client accounts due to the ability to plot rankings amongst competitors in a cool visual way, the ability to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    These products do different things and compliment each other if used correctly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    I prefer Ahrefs Site Explorer to Moz's Open Site Explorer. It has much more data on current and historical backlinks, as well as useful charts. The UI is easy to navigate and there are options for exporting the data, which I find useful as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Moz Pro
    Moz is the one stop source for information, tools and networking which is what makes the monthly fee quite reasonable. The other tools are good too, however each serves a specific purpose. You are not a true SEO unless you subscribe to Moz. These guys do great work! Thank you!
    Chose Moz Pro
    We chose Moz because it's credibility and trust from the industry, ease of use and intuitive integration of Moz products.
    Chose Moz Pro
    We do continue to use several of these tools alongside Moz, for various purposes (including validating findings with Moz's tools). But the Moz tool set is simply more comprehensive in its functionality. Moz also offers some basic pieces that these competitors have not been able …
    Chose Moz Pro
    Raven works really well, but the mozinars and supporting community is what makes Moz so important to your digital strategy.
    Chose Moz Pro
    Moz is the better choice for small business website insight. BrightEdge is the better choice for enterprise-level websites.
    Chose Moz Pro
    I consider Moz the most accurate service in terms of rankings, links, and authority metrics. More often than not, Moz's information reflects what we see on the search engines while other products have a much larger margin of error.
    Chose Moz Pro
    My favorite tool is SEMrush. I selected Moz to help with link-based research because SEMrush is more focused on keyword data. For the link-based data, Ahrefs is probably the biggest threat to Moz. It has an amazing amount of data, and from the chatter I hear the data is more …
    Chose Moz Pro
    We actually use a lot of different SEO tools all at the same time. Each tool has it's own strengths and not one to rule them all.
    Chose Moz Pro
    We use Raven Tools and Moz. Raven Tools aggregates Moz data through their partnership, so if you only have $100 a month to spend, consider Raven Tools.
    SEOmoz vs Majestic SEO - Moz has more more user friendly tools and interfaces but Majestic is more powerful. Majestic has …
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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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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Moz Link ExplorerMoz Pro
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Moz Link Explorer and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Moz Link Explorer
    8.1
    8 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Moz Pro
    7.3
    41 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Keyword analysis8.35 Ratings8.041 Ratings
    Backlink management9.07 Ratings7.036 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking8.36 Ratings7.141 Ratings
    Page grader7.55 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    Competitive analysis9.08 Ratings8.040 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics8.56 Ratings7.039 Ratings
    Site recommendations8.05 Ratings7.037 Ratings
    Task management5.96 Ratings6.022 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Moz Link Explorer and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Moz Link Explorer
    7.4
    7 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Moz Pro
    5.9
    32 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Local SEO8.36 Ratings5.327 Ratings
    Social SEO7.55 Ratings5.323 Ratings
    Mobile SEO7.55 Ratings6.225 Ratings
    Global SEO6.54 Ratings6.827 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Moz Link Explorer and Moz Pro
    Feature
    Moz Link Explorer
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Moz Pro
    7.0
    33 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Multi-domain support5.45 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools9.04 Ratings7.130 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Moz Link ExplorerMoz Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (78 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Moz Link ExplorerMoz Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    iContact
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    iContact
    • It finds relevant keywords and lets you know your chance of ranking with them.
    • It helps you find content that needs work to rank better.
    • It helps you improve any technical issues with your web pages.
    • It helps you audit your current site for any technical issues.
    • It helps you keep track of your most important keywords.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    iContact
    • Some of the auto-gen visual tables aren't all that useful for smaller companies. For instance on the Search Visibility tab, many of my clients have a tiny % of keywords in the top-10, so the table shows basically 4 overlaid flat lines. I wish we had some options to customize this table or expand the range or something.
    • I wish there were some more tools relating to the technical aspects of the site/pages. The whole tool is very keyword-oriented, which is fine, but I feel like over time this has become and will continue to be less important than technical aspects, site speed, voice search, etc.
    • There's an Anchor Text tab, but it only looks at Inbound links—I wish this feature was for on-site anchor text—this could be a much better optimization tool. Because there's nothing you can do about inbound link text.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    iContact
    No renewal is necessary with the free version!
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    iContact
    We've been paying monthly for Moz for at least four years. We rely heavily on it for our daily work, and would need to re-engineer many of our processes if we were to cancel our subscription. I suspect we'll continue to use Moz as long as we are in business (assuming they maintain their quality).
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    Usability
    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    iContact
    Every time I've ever needed it, it's been there.
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    Support Rating
    iContact
    I put a middling score here because of the difference in support between the free and premium uses. The Free tool was a great service, but there wasn't much support. It was tool that was intended to have a skilled SEO utilize it and save time. The Premium version has great support, but also offered more information so that skilled SEOs and novices alike could benefit from the tool.
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    iContact
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    iContact
    Ahrefs is much more comprehensive than Open Site Explorer. If you are in need of a deep backlink analysis there are better options out there for your money. If you need a quick look at the state of a client's backlink profile than OSE is for you. It will give you the top metrics you are looking for and then some. I find OSE to be more user-friendly than competitors
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    iContact
    Moz emerged as an industry leader with a great reputation for driving optimal SEO performance and ROI for customers. Moz' thought leadership on all things SEO gave us a lot of confidence to invest and partner with them. The wide array of product features was also something that was important to us relative to Moz' competitors. In the end, we felt there wasn't anything we couldn't do with Moz. We were also impressed with the on demand platform training and tools provided from day 1. Lastly, Moz was one of the more expensive platforms, but it wasn't the most expensive, so we felt we received great value for the overall price.
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    Return on Investment
    iContact
    • This has allowed me to bring more traffic to our website.
    • This has increased our clients.
    • This has increased our Domain Authority over 10.
    Incentivized
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    iContact
    • Here I can easily find competitor's ranking keywords and their backlinks. It also gives you another exciting feature where you can compare two domains at the same time.
    • The thing that I don't like about this software is, that sometimes your page can take too much time for crawling.
    Incentivized
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