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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Screaming Frog

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $149

    per year

    UpCity

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AUpCity is a search engine optimization software solution offered by UpCity.N/A
    Pricing
    Screaming FrogUpCity
    Editions & Modules
    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Screaming FrogUpCity
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Screaming FrogUpCity
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    Screaming Frog
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    UpCity
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
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    Features
    Screaming FrogUpCity
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and UpCity
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    8.7
    52 Ratings
    12% above category average
    UpCity
    3.8
    3 Ratings
    68% below category average
    Keyword analysis7.419 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Backlink management6.022 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking8.08 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Page grader10.021 Ratings5.12 Ratings
    Competitive analysis10.026 Ratings4.62 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics10.052 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Site recommendations10.023 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Task management8.08 Ratings8.42 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and UpCity
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    9.5
    36 Ratings
    22% above category average
    UpCity
    1.0
    3 Ratings
    154% below category average
    Local SEO8.116 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Social SEO10.011 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Mobile SEO10.022 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Global SEO10.028 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and UpCity
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    8.8
    41 Ratings
    4% above category average
    UpCity
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Multi-domain support10.030 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools7.534 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    Screaming FrogUpCity
    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
    Screaming FrogUpCity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (54 ratings)
    1.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Screaming FrogUpCity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is well suited to auditing brand new websites, when you need a quick, holistic view of the websites technical issues. Its great for providing a top line view of a websites architecture, perhaps for a new business approach where you need to assess the scale of work to maintain a website. Its also a useful tool in situations where you might need to see whether a large scale change in the website has taken place, you can see word counts, pages and their https response codes. Screaming Frog may be less useful if you need an idea of the customer experience on a website, it doesn't really provide information that helps assess how fast a website loads, what issues might come up when trying to convert or faults with the payment process. Screaming Frog is largely a technical SEO focused tool, it also can't assess the quality of a websites, layout or the quality of the content used on the website. As mentioned, its niche, but very useful within that niche.
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    UpCity
    For our purposes, UpCity is well suited to our small business clients that are looking to improve their SEO. We have had a good partnership with UpCity to provide consulting and copywriting services for local search, social media and reputation management for our clients, and their software and reporting helps us show ROI to our clients.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Screaming Frog
    • Crawling client sites of up to thousands of pages. Gives you almost every tool that you need to do a proper SEO audit.
    • Custom extractions using CSSpath, Xpath, or Regex. I'm not even a techy, but their support section here is a huge help with the provided examples.
    • Customer service and support - Dan is ALWAYS very prompt to respond with helpful answers on Twitter if needed.
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    UpCity
    • Customized marketing checklist is incredible!
    • The way UpCity verifies items in your marketing checklist (like whether you have social accounts, you're on Google, etc,) helps my business, and others, save precious time having to manually verify them yourself.
    • I love the impact scores and estimated time shown on each task to give us a feel of how much we are doing each month and what value that time spent is.
    • The "about" and "how to" section on tasks makes it very clear how to accomplish each task.
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    Cons
    Screaming Frog
    • Requires Java. This isn't a huge deal as many computers already have it installed, but it's yet another 3rd party component.
    • The free version has a crawl limit of 500 pages per site. This is fine for smaller sites, but if you're running a big e-commerce site then you'll need to pay for Pro version.
    • The user interface isn't very pretty. This is an analytics tool so it doesn't really have to be, but it might be helpful for improving the overall user experience.
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    UpCity
    • Unwillingness to help dissatisfied customers
    • Unwillingness to address issues
    • False advertising regarding the number of click throughs and leads
    • Rude customer service reps that don’t help with your issues
    • Expensive service
    • Little value for money
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Screaming Frog
    The tool has become integrated into our teams daily workings and I have yet to find a tool other than scremaing frog to replicate all of our use cases for it. It's a great tool and we're sticking with it
    Incentivized
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    UpCity
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Screaming Frog
    The main problem of Screaming Frog SEO Spider is it being an offline software which limits itself to a single pc and that creates problem when multi user agents want to get involved or even work on it, it’s a difficult task to collaborate on it and do research for keywords at one place
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    UpCity
    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.
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    Support Rating
    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is a relatively primitive system, and doesn't need to be supported by devs or other software. Screaming Frog does interface directly with some programs that are most needed (Google Analytics, Search Console, Page Speed Insights), so that's convenient. It isn't widely supported by other programs, but it also doesn't need to be.
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    UpCity
    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.
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    Implementation Rating
    Screaming Frog
    If the software was a little easier to use for beginners, there really wouldn't be an issue
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    UpCity
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO health of any website, Screaming Frog is the best
    Incentivized
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    UpCity
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Screaming Frog
    • Increased employee efficiency - We spend many less hours tracking down and reporting simple meta tags.
    • Better Client Servicing - We are able to ensure we have a total look at a client's site before we recommend anything.
    • True Pricing Structure - We are able to more accurately predict how much help a client may need based on factors such as size of site, number of redirects, proper use of meta tags, etc.
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    UpCity
    • UpCity was costly for us because we were small. If we were a 10 person agency, the price would be right in line with what we need.
    • UpCity has taught us many processes we needed to continue helping our clients be successful.
    Incentivized
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