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The Search Monitor

Score8 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is The Search Monitor?

The Search Monitor from the company of the same name based in Orlando, Florida does, as the name suggests, as a search marketing intelligence tool based on constant monitoring of organic and paid search listings, as well as geo-targeted marketing and display ads. The Search Monitor monitors its own keywords, keeping a comprehensive library, and targets custom specified keywords as well. Inherent to the Search Monitor's capabilities is the ability to detect violations and protect one's trademarked material, allowing companies to punish abusers and scofflaws wherever they are found instantly, protecting the all important brand. Pricing is highly variable and depends on where and what is being monitored and reported, as well as the vastness of custom keywords a company wants monitored. The simplest Compliance level plan starts at $249 per month and includes SEO and SEM monitoring, SEM compliance monitoring, shopping & PLA monitoring, and geo-targeting. Pricier packages include this and more keywords. The Lighthouse service provides detailed click and spend details organized around verticals and can be added to plans for a price, along with more specific vertical tailoring. The Search Monitor boasts notable clients, and sizable ad agencies who use its services.

Categories & Use Cases

Product Demos

Top Performing Features

  • Backlink management

    The tool tracks existing backlinks, measures their impact on search rankings, alerts you of new backlinks, and helps surface backlink opportunities.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Keyword analysis

    The tool analyzes the content of your site to help discover the right keywords.

    Category average: 8.9

  • SERP ranking tracking

    The tool tracks your website’s position in search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords, over time.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Integration with web analytics tools

    The tool integrates with web analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics (SiteCatalyst).

    Category average: 8.8

  • Site recommendations

    The tool recommends site structure improvements and other tasks to help with SEO.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Social SEO

    The tool tracks social mentions and backlinks and their impact on SEO.

    Category average: 7.2

Who Buys & Uses The Search Monitor

Great for the price

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This really essentially keeps a business ahead of its competitors and detects up and coming competition. You can submit ad violations with ease if you were just doing it yourself. It also features hourly crawling which is invaluable in today's internet landscape for online businesses. This really helps a company get better paid search results.

Pros

  • Crawling
  • Cross-devices
  • alerts
  • Great user interface

Cons

  • Different types of alerts
  • iPad better integration

Most Important Features

  • Crawling
  • keyphrase/data on competition
  • violations submission

Return on Investment

  • Easier to target locally
  • Violations have been easy to submit taking less time away from the team
  • Was able to increase SEO

Alternatives Considered

Klue

Other Software Used

Slack, Ahrefs, Adobe After Effects, Corel VideoStudio Pro, DataForSEO, Adobe Analytics, Google Ad Manager, Google Authenticator

The Search Monitor Review

Pros

  • Competitors bidding against our keywords
  • Threat analysis
  • Automatially sending alerts if specific metrics change

Cons

  • The payment plan for a number of keywords is a bit restricting.

Return on Investment

  • Positive on the side of getting information for our clients
  • Restricted by the number of keywords. We ran out of the allowed volumes and couldn't use it for all clients we had.

Alternatives Considered

SEMRush