Before you get your knickers in a twist, I am not posting any affiliate links. I just signed up to an affiliate program so I would know when the next sale was coming up.
Don't hate on the deal, or on me for posting it please just because you haven't been laid in a while.
I am not an expert at SEO but I have read lots of articles about the various tools such as Raventools, Moz and SEM Rush as my budget is limited.
You can read a comprehensive 2016 comparison report here: http://www.targetinternet.com/seo-tools-comparison-raven-seo…
The thing that keeps drawing me back to consider purchasing SEO Powersuite is that it is a one-time only purchase, not a monthly fee like the other big tools.
Usually with affiliate links the Pro is over US$250 or around US$299 so this is a real sale for both products.
Deal starts about 5pm on Wednesday by my calculations.
Desktop tools like SEO Powersuite and Advanced Web Ranking do tend to work out more economical than hosted tools like Raven and Moz with their recurring subscriptions and Powersuite is particularly attractive price wise as there is no ongoing support agreement cost like you have with AWR, so you get free upgrades for life as part of the cost of the software.
Conclusion
SEO Powersuite is a powerful and comprehensive set of tools which provides most of the features a light to middle-weight SEO analyst would need on a daily basis. There are areas where more specialist tools will certainly trump it, for example Link Research Tools is a better tool for highly detailed link research, BuzzStream is better for Link Management and AWR is slightly better for Rank Tracking. However as an everything-under-one-roof solution for common SEO tasks at a very reasonable price it comes highly recommended, although I’d personally rather have a single application to cover all my SEO tasks rather than the 4 separate pieces of software which make up SEO Powersuite. Serious link builders should swerve the Spyglass and Link Assist tools in favour of more robust alternatives but for onpage analysis the Auditor tool is top notch and the Rank Tracker does what it says on the tin and does it well, although I’ll be sticking with Advanced Web Ranking as my rank checking tool of choice.
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