Why do people pay monthly for SEO tools?

Are you sure you can find FREE good alternatives for these ones?

All the free ones (except Google) are just a tease to buy their premium versions, and Google gives little info on what you mentioned.

Mainly we use 2 SEO tools Aherfs for doing competition research and Serprobot for keyword tracking.

I have no idea wtf this is.

There is no free tool that does this well, especially at scale and especially for local results.

Depends at what scale you have to do this at. If you have one site with 10 pages, not a big deal. If you are managing 25 sites that all have between 25-500 pages with new pages being added regularly, that is much different.

Again, I don't know wtf this is.

There is no free tool that does this well either.

Nope. None of this stuff is the kind of thing I would include in reports to clients. They could not possibly care less about most of this stuff. They want to see results.

Of course, there are free tools you will get on Google search but you must go a noth higher than what most people are doing. Goingg premium adds value to what you do.

Nothing wrong with paying a monthly membership to something that can help your business grow.

Regardless of what anyone thinks.

Depend individual seo service providers. Some is kinda crappy, whereas some is good even provide contents , in conjunction with backlinks service.

I actually quite agree with monthly subscriptions for SEO tools, even though I haven't done that at all.

Because it can provide unlimited research assistance when compared to free tools on various websites.

But if you still want to use a free platform, maybe Ahref and MOZ can be said to be enough.

If you have business which future depends on it success
specifically how good it's doing online, there is nothing wrong
with spending a few dollars per day to make thousands in return.

The question you should be puzzled about is - how good these tools are?



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You can really beat your head against the wall with this stuff. When I used to do seo work for clients, I would sign up for semrush for 3 or 4 months to diagnose the structural problems. I never did find any substitute (paid or free) that could get to such a granular level. Then after all the problems were fixed, I would switch to a less costly monitoring tool. For me, it was purely a time saver to use monthly paid serp systems.

You have to use many free tools to get the report you want.

The paid tools are customised to fulfil the needs of the user. So it is worthy to get premium tools.

First of all, search console never provides the complete data.

Secondly, paid tools save you a ton of time and the entire report can be exported in a single click.

Time is money and everyone wants to do more in the smallest amount of time and these tools really make your life easier.

Like how you are supposed to accurate rankings on mobile for California? A tool makes it done in no time.

Keyword research? Just enter a primary keyword and boom! you have thousands of related queries in front of you. Export them.

View top 100 results? tools help you find the SERPs in any location you want. No need to fill captchas anymore.

On-Page analysis? Would you really go and see the source code of every competitor to see what is written in <title>,<meta>, <strong>, <h1> to <h6>?

These tools are made when there is demand and people want to pay for it.

You are correct that all the above SEO functionalities can be done with free tools. But, have you noticed that free tools provide limited data generation.
When, we are analyzing the website in deep, these free tools don't work.
Ex. - To check plagiarism for the whole website or some specific full pages, free tools turns limited.
So, some people take monthly paid subscription according to their SEO Analysis requirements.
Thank you.

This is a very common question which eats up the minds of many bloggers and website owners.

These SEO tools contain lots of value and responsibility of collecting data and generating reports. Free tools on other hand are very very cheap quality. It will harm your website a lot rather than adding any value to it.

SEO cannot be done using one or 2 tools. We need a top mixture of 5 to 6 best tools which all together can create a campaign and sends a positive signal to Google. SEO experts have to pay hundreds of dollars each month for these premium tools and that's the reason it makes SEO service so expensive.

Hope I have cleared some points of your question. Correct me if I am wrong.

Yes, for doing menial research, you can use free tools but otherwise you need get hold of premium ones.

Yes, there are a lot of free tools available in the market. But nothing gives you the perfect solution as paid. You should have gone through the features of it.

Its coz all the tools which you are using will not give full potential result for your niche or page. Once you go for premium versions you can easily observe the difference

yes there are tools available to do above work. But if you know about actual SEO you have to cross check all the details that generated by tools. So it is better to take help of tool and pay to person/s, agencies and try to minimize the errors and increase the ranking

"ALL of these functions can be found in FREE tools or with a simple Google search."

No. No, they cannot.

You obviously haven't been doing any decent level SEO work.

I've been online since I was 10 years old, all the technical sh$t is TIME CONSUMING

Also all of those services that are paid for is because it goes to pay the tech support, programmers, overhead, etc. SEM ruush charges $6,000 dollars per year, that is not a lot of money if you save yourself about 30-100 days of manual research per keyword and going to do it manually. I am super grateful that there are services like this online .

especially for a business owner who has nothing to do with the internet like restaurants, people aren't eating chips/hardware (yet,lol, but seriously)

Also, when very intelligent seo agencies get involved and brings results, the business owner will want to know how and why and where, it is like literally winning the lottery for them. Just last month I built a website for a client and then I started to do the adversting, when I told him I got him 2,000 visitors for .03 cents per click on the internet (for forum readers, it was using google combined with mobile and desktop ads), the client was completely shocked. The client is okay with spending $1-3k before lunch on the stock market in the OCTmarkets even on a whime.

Business owners KNOW (the ones who advertise or market) how much it costs to get things online or offline (remember yellowpages, people were like paying $5000 to $12000 year just get into yellowpages, crazy to me think it really was like that, but it was)

Also, the end customer will want to know these things but the customer DOES SEE OTHER insane great results page online (sales page) people want to know.

If you look at sales page and they have proven results, people want to know.

There are some client that could care less because they have their time full family, kids, friends, bills, exercise, food, dinner, etc,etc,etc.....then of course it would be pointless. but if their lifestyle completely changed bc of an seo agency, then the end customer will want to know "this stuff"

The short answer is: SEO and Research and Online Success is a science and software services makes things and life a lot less stressful and time consuming.

try find tool like ahref for free....
Paid stuff are usually so much better