Searchmetrics or Semrush or something else?

[TheWebMastercom]

Just could use some feed back on these products.  I am looking for something to help Identify competitors top performing keywords by traffic amount, as well as possibly suggesting related keywords.

It looks like searchmetrics might do what I want, but not sure.  Semrush I know is popular, but don't really know what is best for what I am trying to achieve.

I would appreciate your thoughts.

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi Jonathon

I really like SEMRush - the features and tools are outstanding and incredibly versatile - from the competition standpoint, you can learn a lot. They also have some cool stuff happening in beta right now along the lines of Projects and Display Advertising.

I would request a demo with them, as every time I have spoke with their team they have been extremely helpful and willing to sit on the phone with me. They also have a pretty comprehensive YouTube channel that has a great Reports and Features section.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[Alick300]

Hi Jonathan,

Semrush is a great tool to identify competitors top performing keywords (paid & non paid both) . I'm using it and it is very helpful to me . I would like to tell you one thing that many SEO's don't know how to use this tool properly to get most of the data.

There is an article published by Robbie Richards for how to use semrush tool.

http://www.robbierichards.com/review/competitor-research/

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[artdivision]

Brilliant question. Its a shame we only got two replies. We are at the same situation trying to decide which tool to go with.

We did a month with Searchmetrics (fully paid - no trial version or anything). When you purchase the basic account ($69) it is really basic which many features removed. The next level up is for $2000! (yes you read it right), so unless you are a large company its out of the question. If that's not enough, the Searchmetrics support sucks! and there is hardly any supporting videos and tutorials on the other hand, they have just lunched a "Mobile" position tracker which shows you Mobile SERP results alongside the Desktop results, this is something (and please correct me if i'm wrong) i haven't seen anywhere yet. That said, we were able to get some proper data about competitors and their viability and rankings.

SEMRUSH on the other hand seems to be much more engaging with their customers (paying  customers and the community). Their pricing start at $69.95, $149.95 and $549.95 and from data point view i cant really see any downside with the exception of the nice mobile SERP feature that Searchmetrics have.

I would love to see what other experienced companies has to say about those two competitors.

Dan.