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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Screaming Frog

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $149

    per year

    SE Ranking

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    An SEO toolset for agency and in-house pros.

    $65

    per month

    Pricing
    Screaming FrogSE Ranking
    Editions & Modules
    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
    Essential
    $65
    per month
    Pro
    $119
    per month
    Business
    $259
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Screaming FrogSE Ranking
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSE Ranking’s subscription plans are available at a 20% discount for annual pricing.
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    Screaming FrogSE Ranking
    Considered Both Products
    Screaming Frog
    Chose Screaming Frog
    When it comes to crawling a website nothing can beat Screaming Frog.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog seems to be the most thorough at crawling a website. Almost too thorough ;). But it is spreadsheet-like and so allows sorting and filtering in a simple way. But in general, with Screaming Frog I trust that it gets everything when it crawls a website.
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    SE Ranking
    Chose SE Ranking
    Backlink checker seems to be far less thorough than Ahrefs. It's also less thorough than Screaming Frog. But we got it for rank tracking and it does as a decent job at that.
    Incentivized
    Chose SE Ranking
    SE Ranking is way more budget-friendly and suitable for less demanded SEO projects.
    Incentivized
    Chose SE Ranking
    SE Ranking is better than Serpstat or MOZ or Ahrefs when it comes to tracking keyword rankings, but it lacks in every other SEO category, such as onsite and offsite SEO metrics, content analysis, etc...

    It's a good choice for agencies that are interested in tracking keywords for …
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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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
    96%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Screaming FrogSE Ranking
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and SE Ranking
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    8.7
    52 Ratings
    12% above category average
    SE Ranking
    7.9
    16 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Keyword analysis7.419 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Backlink management6.022 Ratings7.316 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking8.08 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Page grader10.021 Ratings7.611 Ratings
    Competitive analysis10.026 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics10.052 Ratings7.916 Ratings
    Site recommendations10.023 Ratings8.412 Ratings
    Task management8.08 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and SE Ranking
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    9.5
    36 Ratings
    22% above category average
    SE Ranking
    8.1
    14 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Local SEO8.116 Ratings8.111 Ratings
    Social SEO10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile SEO10.022 Ratings8.112 Ratings
    Global SEO10.028 Ratings8.213 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and SE Ranking
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    8.8
    41 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SE Ranking
    8.4
    14 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-domain support10.030 Ratings8.512 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools7.534 Ratings8.413 Ratings
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    Screaming FrogSE Ranking
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    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 FrogSE Ranking
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (54 ratings)
    8.0
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Screaming FrogSE Ranking
    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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    SE Ranking
    SE Ranking is a fantastic tool if you are a marketing agency or freelancer looking for a single tool for the majority of your SEO work. It also includes B2B tools like their lead generation widget and white label reports that can help you generate new leads for your business. It would get 10 stars if their database was larger to accommodate research for small geographic areas, but they are always expanding their database so it may just be a matter of time. Research SE Ranking has pricing plans available for every budget.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    SE Ranking
    • Rank racking. It’s really important for us that the ranks are tracked accurately.
    • Monitoring of changes made on the website. We’ve found this feature really useful.
    • Reports. This includes auto reports and manuals. We can easily and quickly create reports to check our SEO progress month by month.
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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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    SE Ranking
    • I really don't think SE Ranking has many flaws. They are also rolling out an app at the moment - SE Ranking Pro - need to test that one.
    • Some more video tutorials on the site on how to use some tools would be helpful.
    • More in-system popups would be more helpful too.
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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
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    SE Ranking
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    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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    SE Ranking
    They had a huge update recently and the platform is now even better. Although not all the tools are yet in the new design.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    SE Ranking
    The support is great but they don't have 24/7 support. And time zones can also be an issue sometimes. On the other hand there are plenty of guides and videos around to get yourself started. I never really needed support for "big" issues. And the help I got was good enough.
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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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    SE Ranking
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    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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    SE Ranking
    SE Ranking is better than Serpstat or MOZ or Ahrefs when it comes to tracking keyword rankings, but it lacks in every other SEO category, such as onsite and offsite SEO metrics, content analysis, etc... It's a good choice for agencies that are interested in tracking keywords for their clients, but other than that it underperforms in every other SEO category.
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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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    SE Ranking
    • The website "health" report has allowed us to fix things that Google might find strange or cause us to lose rankings, which has been very helpful.
    • It's given us more visibility into what exactly our SEO management company is doing and how they are performing, and if things are changing or not. It's very easy to see right from the dashboard.
    • Being able to see how our competitors stack up against us has helped us know where to improve, what to focus on, and how to be even better.
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