Below we analyze Rank Tracker according to its performance, ease of use, and value for money.1. PerformanceThe main purpose of Rank Tracker is to check your rankings and help you conduct keyword research.In terms of tracking your rankings, the tool does an exceptional job. It’s honestly one of the best rank tracker tools we’ve used. There’s a few reasons why we think so:The rankings are accurateWithout accurate rankings, the tool would be useless.
We double checked the ranking offered by Rank Tracker and found the results are pretty accurate.Quick example:Rank Tracker tells us our post ranks number 1 on Google for the keyword ‘amazon affiliate websites'. FlexibilityYou can track rankings from virtually every search engine. From local search engines to even sites like YouTube, Rank Tracker solves all your ranking needs.You can even add custom parameters to personalize SERP results as seen by users browsing Google with a specific location, language and other customization settings.For example, if you want to check your US ranking, go to Preferences Preferred Search Engines Hover next to Google and click on Add Custom.Then use the settings below. Lets you see which pages are rankingBy entering your keywords, you get a clear indication of which pages are ranking (and which ones aren’t). This lets you know where you should devote your attention.Track SERP FeaturesRank Tracker lets you track various SERP features. This is becoming more and more important these days because gone are the days where you only had to focus on the top 10 results of a search engine.Nowadays there’s additional SERP features that if you can rank on, you can reach more users and ultimately generate more traffic and sales.
With this tool, you can collect data on these SERP features and see how your site is performing.Below are the 15 Google SERP features it provides data on. No keyword limitsUnlike other cloud-based rank tracking tools, you can insert an endless amount of keywords. Keep in mind, the more keywords you enter, the longer it’ll take for Rank Tracker to pull up the data.Historical trackingWhenever you enter your keywords to check your rankings, you can see your past history. Did your rankings go up or down? Will be able to tell you.
I love this feature because it’s a great way for measuring the true results of your SEO efforts.In addition, Rack Tracker also keeps a SERP history so if significant ranking fluctuation happens you can quickly see who the winners and losers are.This will help you gain valuable insights on which is working at the moment. If you’re looking for a reliable, proven tool for measuring your rankings, you can’t go wrong with. It’s perfect for one person, but if you have multiple people in your team, you will need to buy additional licenses.Doing so will still be more affordable than most cloud-based tools because lets you track unlimited keywords and all team members can use the software on the same cloud project.As a result, we highly recommend it for keeping tabs on how well you’re ranking for your respective keywords.In terms of conducting keyword research itself, you’d probably be better served using.
And then plugging those keywords into Rank Tracker to measure their rankings. PerformanceIn terms of auditing your site’s on-page SEO, Website Auditor does an amazing job. Here’s why we love it:Provides a very comprehensive SEO audit of your siteit takes into account every on-page aspect of SEO and provides a full, comprehensive report on how your site stacks up.Huge time saverIf you have a site with a lot of pages and information, it would take WEEKS on end for you to conduct a complete SEO audit by yourself. In fact, it would be quite stressful and frustrating.The great thing about Website Auditor is it does all this work for you. And presents the results to you, quickly and easily.Gives you clear & actionable recommendationsThis is a huge help, especially for newbies.
It breaks down what’s wrong with your website, why it’s important you fix it, and actually shows you how to do it.Optimize every page on your website with Content AnalysisIt’s the one feature we use the most. Reason being is you can add any page to this feature and see how well it’s doing in terms of on-page SEO in comparison to key benchmarks.Here’s how it works:Click Content Analysis. Lastly, the TF-IDF is super good. If you’re not familiar with TF-IDF, it’s basically a tool that measures the prominence of your respective keyword on your competitor’s pages.It gives you a MIN, MAX, and AVG indication of your keyword count within your content. As a result, you can see how you shape up to your competitors - and determine whether or not you should use more or less keywords in your content.For example, if your TF-IDF score is less than your competitors, you’ll know you should use more keywords. And vice versa.Ideally, you want to use this tool to make sure your most important keywords are within the recommended levels.By following Website Auditor’s recommendations, your content will be more topically optimized for chosen search queries and have a much higher chance of ranking high in the SERPs. Areas of Improvement:Very long load timeI’m not sure if it was just my computer, but took a VERY LONG TIME to present the results to me.Now, this is understandable, considering it goes through your entire site and provides a comprehensive audit.
It should take long (so maybe I’m just super impatient). But it took approximately 20-30 minutes to gather the data.Free version doesn’t provide a lot of dataThat’s understandable. You get a rough overview of your site audit, but in order to see the specifics you’ll have to upgrade.2. Ease of UseThe usability is very similar to the other applications.
All of the tools in the PowerSuite have pretty much the same user interface, making things quick and easy to set up.To get Website Auditor working, all you have to do is. What I love about is it’s actually a great tool for BOTH SEO newbies and seasoned vets. Usually tools that are great for professionals, aren’t really useful for newbies. And vice versa.But this application is an exception. I highly recommend it if you have a well-established site and you’re looking to improve your on-page SEO (you’ll save a BUNCH of time).Now with that said, if you’re just starting out and you hardly have any content on your website, you can do without this tool. Sure, it’s helpful. But there’s not much of an audit to conduct for you.Instead, you’ll be better served just learning up on the basics of SEO and making sure you nail them while you get your site up and ready.Once you have a well-established site, I definitely recommend using to review and improve your SEO scores.
Is the third tool of SEO PowerSuite; it focuses on researching links and gathering intelligence on your competitors.If you’ve been a reader of Cloud Living for awhile now, you know the importance of building links.In short, every link that points to your site is helping build your authority and ultimately your rankings.Therefore, the question a lot of folks have is “how can you build links that’ll generate the biggest results and help you rank?”One answer is you can research your competition and see where they’re getting their links from. By doing so, you can conduct outreach and hopefully start generating links from similar sources as well, so you too can start ranking high for your respective keywords.This process of researching your competition and finding their backlinks is best performed via a tool.And that’s what promises to do for you. As you can see, Webmeup came in 2nd place and found about 80% of the backlinks that did. This isn’t bad. They claim to use the public formula that Google uses to calculate the old Pagerank.However, you should keep in mind that unlike Ahrefs, doesn’t have any public data on how effective (and reliable) these metrics are so you shouldn’t take the results at face value.When I asked support more about their metrics, they also provided very generic answers. So there’s really no way to currently verify how accurate these metrics truly are.Compare backlink profilesYou can also compare backlink profiles with up to 5 other sites.To do so, click on ‘Domain Comparisons’ and ‘Add Domains’. PerformanceLinkAssistant’s job is to live up to its name and help you manage every aspect of your outreach link building campaign.
How well does it do? A pretty good job. Here’s why:Super fast & easy for prospectingOne thing I’m always looking for is how easy is a tool to use for a complete newbie.In this case, LinkAssistant is one of the most user-friendly tools out there (that can be said for SEO PowerSuite as a whole).They really do a great job at presenting a clean user interface, and make things super easy.Here’s how to find prospects:Once you’ve entered your site, you need to click on “Look for Prospects” or “Add” to add manually. For the purpose of this test, I entered just one keyword ‘SEO’ because I wanted to see how quick the tool is.After clicking finish, I had to wait 4 minutes and 12 seconds before LinkAssistant finished gathering a list of prospects.This was surprisingly pretty fast - I thought it would take much longer (keep in mind, I only used one keyword. The more keywords you use, the longer it will take).I was presented with a total list of 146 prospects.This was a pretty healthy list of prospects, with a mix of larger sites and smaller ones. It’s a huge time saver.Plus, they also provide a collection of really good comprehensive videos that teach you how to use each tool.
You can find the videos.In addition to the above resources, the team over at SEO PowerSuite also does a pretty solid job with their support.They offer support free to all users, and it’s available 7 days a week.We personally had an issue with making the Rank Tracker work and we jumped on a call with their support staff and he was able to log into my computer using Teamview and make changes to the settings and make the software work.The support was very friendly and did a great job at helping us kick start the tool. This lets you try out each and every tool for as long as you want, only downside is you don’t get access to certain features and won’t be able to save your projects. Professional License ($299) - If you’re a one-man army or you have a small team, this is probably your best option. It lets you work with unlimited websites. Enterprise License ($699) - If you manage clients, you’re going to want to go with this option. Reason being it gives you all the perks of a professional license, but also grants you access to branded reports and lets you export stats. If you don’t want all 4 tools, SEO PowerSuite also gives you the ability to purchase each tool separately.Individually, each tool costs $124.75 for the professional version and $299.75 for the enterprise.
If you do the math, it makes sense to purchase the tools individually if you only want 2 or less. If you want more, then you’ll save money by purchasing the bundle.Also, it’s important to note that you can activate your license on multiple devices but only one can run the software at the same time.So if you want to share access with your team, there are 3 possible options.