4 Unleash SEO Power with Moz Alternatives: Free Trial

In our analysis of Moz alternatives, we delved into the world of SEO tools, focusing on those that offer more than just basic keyword research. We explored advanced options like SEMrush, SERPstat, Ahrefs, and Spyfu, each providing unique features for comprehensive SEO strategies. These tools excel in areas like competitor analysis, backlink assessment, and PPC campaign insights. Our guide serves as a thorough, unbiased comparison for businesses seeking effective SEO tools beyond Moz, helping them make informed decisions for their digital marketing needs.

Search engines have been around for more than a decade now. And, if you Google ‘history of search engines’ you’ll find out that it was in the 1990s that the first of its kind search engine ever got invented. However, it wasn’t until the commercial usage of search engines was realized that search engine optimization emerged into the picture.

As soon as businesses discovered that targeting certain keywords and manipulating search engine results could make them magically appear in top search results on a search engine, they started incorporating SEO in their content marketing strategies. In the beginning, nothing was strict. Black, white, or grey, SEO could help you get to the first or second page of a local search engine.

Soon, with competition growing and SEO became more organized and businesses were to follow the Penguins and Pandas to earn their legit ranking. Otherwise, Google would penalize. That’s when SEO tools came into the picture to help businesses optimize better and in accordance with standards.

Semrush, SERPstat, Ahrefs, Spyfu – the list of all-in-one seo tool available today is unending. I have earlier discussed in detail a number of these tools in my previous posts. However, for those who’ve happened upon this blog post purely by search and are reading my blog for the first time, I’ll briefly talk about them again here.

SEMRush: One of the most appreciated Moz alternatives, SEMrush, as the name suggests is one step ahead of just SEO. The focus of this tool on search engine marketing. That is why other than aiding in organic search and keyword research, SEMrush also focuses on competitor research, helps you get the best out of your PPC campaigns, and gives excellent insights into display ads, as well as product listing ads ( a must have for eComm websites).

To read about alternatives to SEMRush you can check out this post that I wrote as an early 2022 review.

Semrush Capterra Review

SERPStat: An all-in-one solution for you if you want to get intelligent insights about data related to your or your competitors’ web presence.

Every feature or capability in SERPstat enables you to dig deep into analytics to draw insights and learnings.

For example, the backlinking capability not only points out the domains from which you’ve got link backs but also shows link quality, top keywords to those backlinks, etc.

so that you can optimize for backlinks also. All this you can do just at a glance, from a backlink dashboard! Checkout their keyword variation tool:

Backlink Serpstat

Here’s what your business will need to regularly invest time, effort, and money into, to stay ahead in the game:

Keyword analysis: This is the secret to understanding your visitors’ search intent. By running a keyword analysis, you can discover those search phrases or words that a user types into his browser that make him land on your website.

To be able to know what queries qualified website visitors make to be able to look you up means marketers can customize their landing page content more appropriate to include those search queries, and subsequently win more traffic (and improve conversion rates).

Also, when you know the exact keywords being searched, you can improve keyword relevancy in your content, as well as reduce your keyword spend for paid campaigns.

All the Moz alternatives I’ve mentioned above do more than just keyword research. However, keyword research in itself is an extremely important part of search engine optimization. It is in fact, the foundation of your SEO ground. You can’t ignore it at any cost and will need it at every step.

Keyword tracking: This process goes one step beyond discovering keywords that make users land on your website. With keyword tracking, you can monitor the performance of your web pages with respect to specific keywords. So, if you have discovered that your users are looking up ‘how to start with email marketing’ and landing on your website, you can optimize your landing page content for that keyword.

However, doing only that much isn’t enough. You will need to track your performance on that keyword regularly to keep your content from dying out.

Keyword grouping: Logically, you never use just one keyword on the same page or different pages on your website. You always pick a group of related keywords that are relevant for your niche. That’s where keyword grouping comes into the picture.

For example, if you sell fashion accessories, your keyword group should contain ‘trending fashion accessories,’ ‘latest fashion jewelry,’ ‘Celesto accessories’, etc. You can create sub-groups for each keyword group.

The group ‘latest fashion jewelry’ could contain sub-groups such as ‘latest fashion earrings,’ ‘latest fashion rings’ and so on. Similarly, group ‘Celesto accessories’ could contain sub-groups like ‘Celesto party accessories,’ ‘Celesto accessories on sale’, ‘Celesto designer accessories,’ etc. All this sounds much easier than done. And, to accomplish this repeatedly for every campaign that you run can be unimaginable unless you are using a good SEO tool.

Moz has been widely used by marketers in the industry to equip themselves with keyword research, analysis, tracking, grouping, etc. for both organic and paid campaigns.

Other Moz alternatives like SEMrush, SERPstat, Mangools and Seranking are available to digital marketers for research and competitor analysis.

Let’s take these alternatives up, one by one. I’ve touched upon two of these alternatives above in this post; however, from there is a lot more that can be talked about.

  1. SEMrush: Managing all aspects of your digital business is a breeze with a full-stack tool like SEMrush. Let’s just quickly run through some of the most useful and intelligent capabilities that SEMrush boasts of.

Competitor Monitoring: I’ve already covered in detail how you can unfold your competitor strategy with SEMrush. One feature in this aspect that I’d particularly want to talk about is the SEMrush competitive analytics.

Semrush Competitor Analysis

Using this map, you can instantly compare where you rank as compared to your competitors. You can carry out this direct comparison in a matter of minutes and find out whether at all you rank and where do you stand in the list of the top 20 in Google’s or Bing’s search results.

Display advertising: SEMrush was created with the focus on helping you win at social marketing – paid, display, or whichever other forms of advertising you choose.

The idea was to be able to equip marketers with insights other than organic. If you are keen on running display ads, SEMrush will help you find out where you should be placing your ads based on user behavior. The tool will also allow you to view your ad.

Product listing advertisements:  With SEM competitor report you can identify your competitors on Google shopping, identify your competitors’ product listing keywords, find out those keywords that get your competitors visibility on paid search, and do a lot more.  This is a plus point that SEMrush offers to eComm businesses.

Backlink analysis: You get simply unmatched backlink analysis and research in SEMrush. The link builder tool helps you to research new backlink sources and send out personalised messages that get results.

You can easily filter worthy from spam backlinks, identity backlinks driving traffic to your website, check do-follows and no-follows, find out backlinks pointing to your competitor websites, discover new referral traffic sources, and so on.

Use their Effective Backlink checker to check on the quality of incoming links, their authority, location, and to compare it to competitors’ domains.

Semrush Capterra Review 2
Parameters Moz vsSemrush
What do we like?Powerful Keyword explorer Site audit
Competition analysis
What we don’t like? Can be pricey
Technical SEO is quite limited
 Not good for Backlink analysis
Best forGood for SMB’sBig businesses
Pricing$99/moPaid plan @ $129/mo
  1. SERPstat: If your objective is to track website performance, SERPstat should be your go-to tool. It helps you run insightful analysis on the web presence of a domain – be it is your own or your competitor’s. Some of the capabilities that this tool offers are mentioned as follows:

Backlink analysis: SERPstats is brilliant at backlink analysis. I could without a doubt say even better than SEMrush’s because of the ‘metrics’ that have been clearly defined to measure backlink quality and performance on -referring domains, referring pages, anchors, top pages, and competitors.

The best thing – you can track your backlink performance on all these metrics from an in-built dashboard. That’s ease of use tied with excellent performance measurement and tracking abilities.

Competitor analysis: Enter a website’s URL on the homepage search functionality on Serpstat, and you’ll be redirected to a page that shows data and insights for that URL.

Running a more in-depth analysis can help you figure out everything that your competitor is up to, where it is winning, and hence visualize what you should be doing to rank higher and do better than competition.

Find out which blog posts are top performing on search engines, run a keyword analysis on them, and use a similar strategy to rank your content better than your competition. This is just one example. You could use competitor analysis for paid campaigns as well.

Keyword Research: Using Serpstat’s keyword research tool, you can dig out all keyword related data. Just enter the keywords for which you need to find out related data for in their Keyword research tool.

You’ll get data such as keyword difficulty, search volume on that keyword (organic and on paid ads), keyword combination used for ads, etc. You get the entire keyword history in a matter of minutes!

Keyword Analysis

Rank Tracker: This feature displays the top 100 results for a monitored keyword. With rank tracking at your service, you have complete access to the data collected by other webmasters for a certain keyword that you are tracking.

Member perks: For their members, Serpstat offers a number of sweet perks and benefits. They surely know how to keep their users happy and loyal.

For example, they offer a significant discount on a feature called Ringostat call tracking that can be used to analyze and study web traffic sources that can draw in more calls.

Similarly, they offer Reply feature as a perk enabling members to automate sending the personalized emails to customers.

Parameters Moz vsSerpstat
What do we like?Powerful Keyword explorer Good Site audit
Backlink analysis
PPC analysis
What we don’t like? Can be pricey
Technical SEO is quite limited
No content marketing tools
Competitor analysis
Best forGood for SMB’sBig businesses
Pricing$99/moPaid plan @ $59/mo
  1. Seranking: Along with SEO capabilities, competition monitoring, and paid campaign analysis, Seranking also provides you with the ability to manage your social media. Even better, right? Another great thing about Seranking is that businesses can use it for projects and campaigns of all budgets – low or high. Some of the features that Seranking offers are as follows:

For SEO

Keyword rank tracking: This functionality can be used to discover keyword ranks for a certain keyword for all major search engines, locations, and devices.

Website audit: Track and analyze the performance of your website for over 70 parameters or key performance indicators. The site SEO audit helps you to understand where you are doing well and what metrics you need to optimize for.

On-page SEO: Fetch detailed reports for a particular page say the homepage of your website. Find out how well it is optimized and fix SEO issues that have been pointed out.

Backlink checker and monitoring: Evaluate your backlinks on 15 parameters, automatically import backlinks, and do your budget planning using this tool.

Seranking also comes with a keyword checker as well as page-monitoring capabilities for your SEO campaigns.

For competitor analysis

Identify keywords and ads that your competitor URL/ Domain is ranking for. Discover new competitors based on keywords that you are trying to optimize for. Identify keywords, keyword groups, and similar meaning key phrases that competitors are using and ranking for.

For social media management

Auto-post your updates on social media, keep track of how your social media campaigns are performing and optimize for improved results on key metrics. Use social media to promote best performing content and win more visits, and ultimately more conversions.

Parameters Moz vsSeRanking
What do we like?Powerful Keyword explorer Affordable tool
Social media management tools
What we don’t like? Can be pricey
Technical SEO is quite limited
Competitor comparison only 5 results
Best forGood for SMB’sBig businesses
Pricing$99/moPaid plan @ $55/mo
  1. Mangools: Spelled almost like mangoes, Mangools market’s itself as ‘Juicy SEO tool you’ll just love.’ So, basically, this is not just one SEO software tool but single point access to a number of tools that you can use for search engine optimization, competitor research, etc. The main tools that it bundles include:

KWFinder: Cull out accurate keyword difficulty score on your keywords. Use this keyword difficulty level to target the most beneficial keywords you can actually optimize and rank for. which makes it simple to find profitable keywords you can really rank for.

The keyword finder dashboard gives you the trend on keywords, their search volume, the PPC estimate, and CPC.

KWFinder Keyword Search

SERPchecker: Compare how your website is fairing as compared to your competitors and how SERP features are impacting organic search results.

Find out how featured snippets, answer boxes, carousels, etc. affect organic search. For me, the best thing about Mangools is that it allows going local with GoogleSERP for both desktop and mobile. You don’t even need to use a location specific IP for this.

SERPwatcher: The dominance index allows you to track your SERP health. To do so, the SERPwatcher dominance index tracks your keyword positions and estimated visits.

SERP Watcher

You can get a bird’s eye view on estimated visits, Dominance index, and ranking distribution charts, and daily rankings, on a single screen. Saves time and effort!

Linkminer: Mangool’s backlink analysis tool, Linkminer evaluates backlinks on some extremely valid (and fresh) metrics – Citation Flow, Trust Flow, Do follow vs. No follow links, etc. It also allows you to identify URLs that have solid backlinking potential.

I love the fact that I can save these URLs and go back to them whenever I need to start building quality backlinks.

KWFinder Linkminer

SiteProfiler: Gives you a complete health check on what content is working for your website and what isn’t. For example, which content is generating good traffic, identifying spammy backlinks, and checking the authority of your site. The tool also helps analyze your competitors’ websites based on their authority and popularity.

Parameters Moz vsMangools
What do we like?Powerful Keyword explorer Value for money for tools
Interactive UI
What we don’t like? Can be pricey
Technical SEO is quite limited
Very limited features
Not for extensive SEO requirements
Best forGood for SMB’sSmall to medium-sized businesses
Pricing$99/moPaid plan @ $29.90/mo

Other SEO Tools

Other SEO Tools That Are Quite Popular

For many MOZ is the easiest SEO tool to work with. Just install the MOZ bar and get started with tracking details like DA and PA, right on your screen.

It’s simply super handy and truly mobile. Some of the features that MOZ offers its users include Keyword research, rank tracking, link profile, site crawler, and on page optimization.

However, there are a number of alternatives beyond MOZ waiting to be discovered, used, and appreciated for the kind of extensive work they do to help you win at SEO and other aspects of digital marketing. Above I’ve discussed a few, and three more I will be talking about briefly next.

Spyfu: This SEO software tool is one of the most appreciated Moz alternatives because of a very user-friendly interface that makes the whole experience of working on it seem welcoming.

Right on the home page, by just entering the URL of a website, you can cull out loads of data that gives deep insights into website performance.

Running your PPC campaigns using Spyfu is a great experience just because of the refreshingly clean interface that the tool offers. So, if you like easy on the eye interface, Spyfu is an excellent option to consider.

Spyfu Dashboard

Ahrefs: It’s amazing how people have started trusting nothing but Ahrefs results. Every time a guest blogger contacts me, he has one thing to state – my Ahrefs organic traffic is awesome. He won’t consider Google analytics but trust the numbers that Ahrefs shows.

The Moz alternative- Ahrefs comes with a range of power-packed capabilities like Site

Explorer, Content Explorer, Rank Tracker, etc. With Ahrefs to your rescue, you get to delve deep into competitor secrets such as their top performing website pages, their high traffic pages, backlink analysis of a competitor’s page, etc.

So, if a specific page has fewer backlinks and more organic traffic, you can go back and run keyword research to find out what keywords is it targeting to rank on the search engine. If you are using Ahrefs and need to read about alternatives that you can try out, check this post out.

Ashref keyword research

SEO Powersuite: This SEO software promises great results combined with ease of use. That’s a powerful combination that every digital marketer and marketing agencies are always on the lookout for.

The tool’s capabilities include accurate rank monitoring. You can compare ten competitors at a time, unlimited keywords, get geo-specific rankings, and schedule rank checks on autopilot.

Using their link analysis, you can conduct a backlink analysis based on Google’s latest guidelines, identify new link building opportunities, find competitor backlinks that are fetching amazing traffic and do some clever reverse engineering.

Apart from this, with SEO Powersuite you can run a site-wide audit, optimize website pages, analyze keywords and competitor websites.

The point to highlight here, however, is that SEO Powersuite offers something very interesting called the white-label SEO report, which gives a complete report on every SEO aspect.

You can save this report for re-use, in HTML and PDF formats. I’d love to use this feature at some time and see how helpful these white label reports turn out to be.

Drawing direct comparisons

Drawing direct comparisons with MOZ

There are two alternatives that I’ve picked up for a direct comparison with Moz. The idea is to help you understand whether at all should you be making a switch to other SEO tools if you are already using Moz.

MOZ vs SEMRUSH

Both Moz and Semrush offer free and paid versions. The free versions of both these tools have their own set of limitations and benefits.

For example, in the SEMrush14-day free trial, you can only get five searches and ten search results per day. However, the paid version of SEMrush is clearly a winner of Moz paid version.

I recommend that if you want to grow your business or blogging career, you must consider SEMrush as it does almost all SEO tasks that you will need to carry out.

They give you excellent training material to understand how to start with SEO. You get guides to help you understand data and reports. They also have an excellent support team always ready to help you out when stuck.

On the other hand, I believe that Moz is a bit expensive for the capabilities that it offers. Not to say that you are doing the wrong thing by picking Moz as your SEO go-to tool.

Maybe, you really are comfortable with its interface and also want to use it for content marketing (Moz content and FollowerWonk). However, purely from an SEO point of view, Semrush is far better, at a much reasonable cost.

Moz vs ahrefs

No second thoughts here. Ahrefs is a clear winner. Moz simply doesn’t show enough data even for effective backlink analysis. Ahrefs is also better at snooping on competitor data, though not specially designed for this task.

Using the Positions Explorer, you get data on top 10 competitors which you can use for checking each and every keyword that your competitors are ranking on the search engine for.

If you know you have a competitor with lower domain authority, you can use Positions Explorer to find out which keywords they’re on the front page for.  Moz can’t track SERP against URLs and keywords at all.

Having improved their keyword explorer drastically, Ahrefs wins on this point again against Moz. Five years before, Moz would have fared better on keyword research.

Even for generating content ideas, Ahrefs gives better results than Moz, at a cheaper cost. Seems like Moz is expensive and not all that useful.

You have to pay for Moz Content separately because it is an altogether different product to Moz Pro, and unless you pay for it you will only be able to use it partially.

I’ll undoubtedly vote for Ahrefs as the better one when compared to Moz. Below is another Quora answer that seals my claim.

An Overview

An overview of all the Moz alternatives discussed in this guide

Moz AlternativesPricingFeatures Summary
SemrushThe Paid plan starts at $129/mo billed monthly.What is good?
Site audit and competition analysis are great.

Semrush sensor feature to track immediate rank changes.

 All in one tool that offers SEO, SEM, PPC, and backlink analysis

User friendly

What is not good?
Backlink analysis is not that good.

It is an expensive tool.
SerpStatThe paid plan starts at $69/mo billed monthlyWhat is good?
 Good SEO site audit, backlink analysis and PPC analysis

What is not good?
 Competitor analysis is not good.

 Lacks content marketing tools.
SeRankingThe paid plan starts at $55/mo for 10 websitesWhat is good?
 Affordable tool

 Social media management tools

What is not good?
 Competitor comparison is limited to only 5 results
MangoolsThe paid plan starts at $29.90/mo
What is good?

 Value for money and a budget tool

 The UI is easy to understand

 Some very helpful SEO features

What is not good?
 Mangools has a limited feature set

 Not a tool for extensive SEO requirements
AhrefsThe starter plan is priced at $99/moWhat is good?
The dashboard is awesome

The data curation of Ahrefs is solid

What is not good?
 Limited PPC features.

 Keyword suggestions are not very useful.
Moz alternatives table
Best SEO tools G2 competitive grid

Our Experience

Our Experience-Who’s the winner

I’ve talked about too many tools in this particular post, and definitely, I can’t say that only one out of all is the best. However, stacking them against Moz, I see that there are enough Moz alternatives for you to try before taking a final call.

Ahrefs is a must consider option. However, if you feel that it has too broad a scope and you might not be using all its functionalities go for something simpler like Semrush or Spyfu. As per my judgement ( and having tried them out), two tools stand out as excellent alternatives to Moz. These are SERPstat and Mangools. SERPStat has stolen my heart because of the in-depth backlink analysis that it can run in no time. I also appreciate their effort towards customer loyalty, which is quite visible in their member perks.

Mangools is great because it focuses on SEO more than anything else. So, if you aren’t too keen on using a tool that goes beyond SEO but provides the best of SEO capabilities in a single suite, Mangools is for you. What this means is that you stay focused on SEO results and as a beginner can quickly understand the tool, run deep SEO analysis, and improve on all those metrics that need you to win on organic search.

Mangools is more direct a comparison to Moz as the main focus of Moz is also on SEO. However, Moz isn’t as well equipped on a number of parameters as Mangools is. I’ve already pointed out how SERP can’t be tracked in Moz at all.

In Mangools there is a SERP tracker and a SERP watcher! Of course, then, it is wise to opt for Mangools isn’t it?

FAQs

Questions related to selecting Moz alternatives

What are the best Moz alternatives?

Some good Moz alternatives are SemRush, Ahrefs and SerpStat.

How much does Moz cost?

Moz is available in 4 plans:
Standard: $99
Medium: $179
Large: $249
Premium: $599

What are the best SEO tools in 2024?

The best SEO tools are SerpStat, SemRush and Ahrefs.

What are the cheap alternatives to Moz?

Some good alternatives to Moz are SerpStat and SemRush. They won’t be cheap but they are still worth a try.

Which is the best tool amongst SEMrush, Moz and Ahrefs?

The best tool amongst these three has to be SemRush.

Is Moz better than Semrush?

SemRush has an upper hand when it comes to performance and other SEO related searches.

What can you do with Moz tool?

Moz allows you to perform site audits, rank tracking, keyword research, and backlink analysis.

Is Moz free?

Moz doesn’t offer a free plan but it gives you a free trial and access to its medium plan.

How good is Moz when compared to other tools?

Moz is a good tool that helps with site audit, rank tracking, and offers some good content marketing resources. All features you get at competitive pricing.

Which is a good option between Moz and Ahrefs?

Moz is an affordable option that serves the needs of individuals and small businesses but for advanced SEO features, Ahrefs will be a better option.

Who acquired Moz and where it is based?

Moz was acquired by iContact marketing corp in June 2021. It is based in Seattle, WA, and portland.

4 Unleash SEO Power with Moz Alternatives: Free Trial
4 Unleash SEO Power with Moz Alternatives: Free Trial

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I am Sreeram, a results-driven SEO specialist with over 4 years of experience empowering businesses to grow through digital marketing. As a freelancer for leading SaaS companies and agencies, I am passionate about implementing data-backed SEO strategies that deliver exponential organic growth. I have successfully executed link building campaigns that generated an 800% increase in organic traffic for a B2B SaaS and a 400% rise in backlinks for a SaaS website. I offer deep expertise in on-page SEO, link building, SEO tools, and project management. With a bachelor's degree in computer science and certifications from Semrush and Google, I stay up-to-date on the latest trends and techniques. When not optimizing campaigns, I enjoy building new websites from the ground up. I am wholly devoted to the world of SEO and thrive on helping businesses attract and engage with customers online. My analytical, results-driven approach ensures that clients achieve their growth objectives through sustainable SEO success.

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  1. SERPstat is a great tool when it comes to something that offers everything ranging from backlink analysis to competitor analysis to keyword research and everything else in between. It is all in all a full proof SEO tool that will cover all of your SEO related needs.

  2. Thanks for sharing this tool

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