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UpCity

by HangTenSEO
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Hey guys/gals. Just started using Upcity for tracking my clients and doing SEO stuff. It will run you $150, $300 a month and on up depending on how many clients you have.

What I love about it is it is a fantastic way to keep tabs on clients all in one place and make managing them much much easier. You basically setup campaigns. Each campaign has all sorts of SEO related tasks that you check off as you work with the clients websites, social, certifications and so on.

The other aspect I like is the ability to assign tasks to others. If you have Personal Assistants, you could farm out some of the work.

Thus far this is the best client management system geared towards SEO that I have seen.

You will still need something like Moz or SEMRush for deep keyword analysis and Ahrefs for backlinks.

You will also probably want to use Brightlocal, Synup, Yext or Moz Local for citations.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    $150 to track 100 keywords? Lol.

    Its other features better be amazing for what they are charging.
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  • Profile picture of the author HangTenSEO
    It isn't just about keywords.

    It looks at a clients social (Twitter, Facebook, Analytics), google analytics. It does some interesting SEO reporting at the page level analyzing each page's potential issues. Things that Screaming frog doesn't look at.

    A big component of it has to do with tasks and tracking status of the tasks. It makes it super easy to see what has been performed and what is still left to be tweaked.

    I am finding it super useful at the moment, because for the clients I have loaded on it, I just need to log into one portal to talk with them about what doing with respect to SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by HangTenSEO View Post

      It isn't just about keywords.

      It looks at a clients social (Twitter, Facebook, Analytics), google analytics. It does some interesting SEO reporting at the page level analyzing each page's potential issues. Things that Screaming frog doesn't look at.

      A big component of it has to do with tasks and tracking status of the tasks. It makes it super easy to see what has been performed and what is still left to be tweaked.

      I am finding it super useful at the moment, because for the clients I have loaded on it, I just need to log into one portal to talk with them about what doing with respect to SEO.
      What does it look at that Screaming Frog doesn't?

      $150 is overpriced for task management. There are plenty of good options at $30-40/month.

      Social analytics have nothing to do with SEO. If you can manage posting, that makes it a little more convenient.

      At $150 for 5 campaigns, it still seems horribly overpriced for the features listed on their website.

      Looking at the "SEO Report Card" it does, RankWatch pretty much does all of that, but lets you track a hell of a lot more keywords and doesn't limit how many projects you can have.
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  • Profile picture of the author HangTenSEO
    The page evaluation stuff is things like below.

    Errors
    Thin Pages -- All pages with less than 3,072 bytes of content.
    Max Fetch Time -- All URLs exceeding a maximum fetch time of 2 seconds.

    Warnings
    Min Content/HTML Ratio -- All pages with less than a minimum content/HTML ratio of 10%.

    Notices
    No valid Twitter Cards -- Unique pages without valid Twitter Card tags.

    Each page is analyzed for stuff like this and then you can assign each item to a task.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by HangTenSEO View Post

      Warnings
      Min Content/HTML Ratio -- All pages with less than a minimum content/HTML ratio of 10%.


      That alone would tell me it's junk.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by HangTenSEO View Post

      The page evaluation stuff is things like below.

      Errors
      Thin Pages -- All pages with less than 3,072 bytes of content.
      Max Fetch Time -- All URLs exceeding a maximum fetch time of 2 seconds.

      Warnings
      Min Content/HTML Ratio -- All pages with less than a minimum content/HTML ratio of 10%.

      Notices
      No valid Twitter Cards -- Unique pages without valid Twitter Card tags.

      Each page is analyzed for stuff like this and then you can assign each item to a task.

      "Thin" pages are not an SEO problem. That is silly.

      I would be curious what it is using to examine the fetch time because that can be hugely inaccurate if they are doing it with their own bot. The slowdown could be on their end.

      Content/HTML ratio, also is not an SEO problem. I can only shake my head at that.

      Twitter cards are fine if you are interested in your content being shared. Not really any SEO value there, but okay, that could be worthwhile to some users.

      It seems like $150/month for a brick. If you find it useful, hey great. From what I'm seeing it looks like an enormous waste of money.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr los3
    What was your inspiration to spend a ton of time to develop this software? Who are your top competitors? Do you have any super fans?

    Also if the top lurkers of this section of the forum are kind enough to criticize your work.. you're lucky.
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    • Profile picture of the author HangTenSEO
      Originally Posted by Dr los3 View Post

      What was your inspiration to spend a ton of time to develop this software? Who are your top competitors? Do you have any super fans?

      Also if the top lurkers of this section of the forum are kind enough to criticize your work.. you're lucky.
      This isn't my software, it's software I am using to mange a few campaigns I am running. For my workflow I have found it very useful and thought other people might be interested. There is a 7 day free trial, which is how I first gave it a go.

      What I really like is the fact that I can view all my campaigns with a single login and do a lot of different things with each. You can integrate Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin accounts post and read directly from within the application.
      • post to social
      • look at analytics
      • look at backlinks
      • view current work tasks
      • view top 20 keywords
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