Can anyone suggest a AHREF's alternative?
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Hello Everyone,
Now that AHref's has killed their keyword analysis I am on the search for a substitute.I just can't see paying $80 per month for their link analysis only even-though I do find their link index to be much much much more updated then any other company even SeoMoz (sorry Rand and company).Does anyone have any suggestions? SemRush is the only one I have seen to come close.
Thank you!
Pete
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I did some correlation testing of the "SEMRush Rank" metric and across 12,000 keywords I couldn't find any correlation between their metric and SERP positions. I've quizzed them on what the metric actually is and I get very little information from them. They say it's based on Adwords competition which would then mean it's not related to organic positions but then I couldn't find any correlation between the metric and paid ad positions either. So in my opinion, SEMRush can't help you there however their suite of tools is awesome.
The SEOmoz metric, "keyword difficulty" is the best I've found. It sucks that you can only enter one keyword at a time (there's no API access for that metric either) and it's fairly slow in returning results. So if you have hundreds of keywords you'd like some kind of "difficulty" or "competition" metric on, then as far as I know there's very few.
LongTail Pro have added a "difficulty" metric to their downloadable software though I'm not a fan of the price / feature ratio and I haven't tested how well it performs, or wether it's an absolute metric or a relative (to your list of keywords) metric.
Sean mentioned Raven Tools. They have plenty of great tools, pulling data mostly from SEOmoz and Majestic SEO. From my memory they don't have a "difficulty" or "competition" metric, though I could be wrong.
I ended up writing my own software to get "difficulty" metrics across an entire set of keywords. I don't sell it, or advertise it, but I am looking for people to help me improve on it through testing / feedback. The benefit is of course, you can use it. Shoot me a message if you're interested.
Adam
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Hey Pete, the moz keyword difficulty tool will give you a score on a scale of 1 - 100 how difficult the term is - not many other tools will you give levels of competition for organic search results. However, SEOMoz no longer has search volume data, due to Adwords API issues.
It doesn't look like many companies out there will both be able to scrape Google search results and provide info using the adwords api. So you'll have to pick your poison - do your keyword research right in the adwords interface, or with other tools, and rely on tools like SEOMoz which scrape Google for organic difficulty scores.
Mark
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