SemRush - Use SEMRush for rank tracking
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Mikel - AgencyAnalytics Team
- Option to use SEMRush's rank tracker instead of ours.
- Update the SEMRush integration to support keyword ranking data
- SEMrush avg. position metric +1
- SEMrush Visibility metric +1
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Juan Vasquez
Thank you so much for this integration! It helps a lot!
I'm sure someone is already running into this issue, but I am unable to connect more than 5 targeted locations under the same SEMrush project. This client in specific has more more than 10 locations and we're tracking individual keywords in those locations.
Is there anyway to increase the limit per campaign?
Agency analytics calls them connected accounts, but SEMrush calls them "Targets".
David - AgencyAnalytics Team
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Semrush Keyword data is now available on AgencyAnalytics! Connect your new Semrush - Projects integration and start building your reports and dashboards!
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Alp Aydogdu
why would agency analytics prioritise or if at all implement the ability to pull in external rank tracking data when they are selling their own Rank Tracker as an expensive optional add on?
personally I really don't like the idea of needing to spend another almost 1k aud just to enable AA's rank tracking when I already have all of this in my semrush account.
my bet is most of AAs client base would need to report on keyword positions and too bad if they already pay to use another tool for this. AA wants to sting you to easily report on that too.
David - AgencyAnalytics Team
Alp Aydogdu:
Hi! We appreciate your feedback. Our goal at AgencyAnalytics is to offer a platform that caters to the diverse needs of digital agencies. While we provide our own Rank Tracker as a solution, we recognize that some users may have existing tools, such as SEMrush, that they are comfortable with and would like to continue using.
The decision to implement the ability to pull in external rank tracking data was to allow flexibility and user satisfaction. It's important for us to facilitate a smooth transition for users who choose to migrate from other tools, ensuring that historical data and trends are easily accessible within AgencyAnalytics.
Regarding cost, we acknowledge that budget considerations are crucial for our users. We constantly evaluate our pricing structure to ensure it aligns with the value we provide.
If there are any other features or improvements you would like to see, please feel free to share them with us.
Regards,
David
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Mark Hoffman
David - AgencyAnalytics Team: Hi David, just wanted follow up on what Alp said as I also use SEMRush. There are other tools like Databox and Dashthis that integrate with SEMRush and provide keyword ranking info so it seems the disregard for this long requested and much wanted feature is to try to upsell us your own tool.
This makes no sense to me at all. IMO Agency Analytics core competency is as a reporting tool that connects to other platforms. By creating your own rank tracker, task manager etc your getting away from what you do best and creating conflict of interests with yourself.
Why would AA ever create a proper integration with any SEO tool that does rank tracking now that you can upsell your own mediocre one? That's the conflict I'm talking about. You think you're making more money by forcing into an upsell to use your tool instead of building proper integrations with existing tools.
However I would argue the opposite is true. How many potential customers are turned away because they already pay for a tool like SEMRush or Ahrefs only to find that can't bring that info into Agency Analytics because they have they're own rank tracker.
IMO AA resources would be so much better spent improving integrations than developing your own tools. Your never going to have a better rank tracker than SEMRush or Ahrefs since that's what they do. Instead of competing with them you should complement them and focus on what you do, which is create a great reporting tool.
How many integrations are completely ignored because development time is going here? I find the SEMRush, Google Business Profile, Bright Local, Yelp etc integrations completely lacking for businesses that serve local clients. Yet nothing will ever be improved with these because you need another upsell.
I'm personally at the point where I will be switching to another tool but hopefully this feedback sheds light on why I think AA is headed in the wrong direction.
To anyone else that wants proper ranking data I would check out another tool as it is clear from this feature request alone we will never get that info in AA.
David - AgencyAnalytics Team
Mark Hoffman: Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. We appreciate your feedback on the Rank Tracker.
While we do offer our own rank tracking solution, we also recognize the diversity of tools in the market, including SEMRush. As mentioned in one of the comments in this thread, we provide the flexibility to import rank tracker data from multiple providers.
AgencyAnalytics was initially established as an SEO tool, with the Rank Tracker being a fundamental feature. We continually invest resources to enhance and compete in the market. We acknowledge that some of our users opt for alternative rank trackers, and we respect that choice. Many, however, choose our Rank Tracker for its accuracy and reliability, so it makes sense to continue to allocate resources to improve it.
Your feedback regarding building a SEMrush Rank Tracker integration is very valuable to us. We are aware that this is a popular request, so I will make sure to communicate your concerns to our Product team for consideration.
We appreciate your loyalty and the time you've taken to share your insights. If there are further developments or additions to our integrations that align with your needs, we'll be sure to keep you informed.
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Mark Hoffman
David - AgencyAnalytics Team: Hey David, just to clarify, you said "we provide the flexibility to import rank tracker data from multiple providers". What providers are you talking about specifically?
As far as I can tell there isn't a single one. Unless you mean import the data manually (google sheets etc), in which case that sounds more like a sick joke than a real solution.
David - AgencyAnalytics Team
Mark Hoffman: Hi, you can currently import historical ranking data from 16 providers. Please find the complete list here:
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Mark Hoffman
David - AgencyAnalytics Team: Hey David, this is exactly my point, here's a line out of the article you posted "This means you can keep your entire ranking history, and use our Rank Tracker to track your keywords after you've imported the data." this means I would still have to pay for my SEO tool and then be upsold on the AA rank tracker.
So to be clear for anyone reading this, Agency Analytics does not natively integrate with a single other rank tracker. Data must be manually imported and then you must pay for their rank tracker if you want any type of ranking data (even if you plan to keep using any best in class SEO tool).
To anyone else tired of this situation I'll be migrating to Databox which has a real SEMRush integration that pulls ranking data, site audit data and so much more. It's clear as day AA will never properly integrate with another SEO software when they offer a competing service that can be upsold.
This feature request is 2.5 years old, is currently the fourth most requested feature of all and has zero chance of ever getting done. /smh
David - AgencyAnalytics Team
Mark Hoffman: We're sorry for any confusion caused by the mention of the SEMrush integration, and we want to clarify that it currently focuses on backlinks reporting, as mentioned on our website:
We understand the importance of keyword tracking. After bringing this up to the Product team, they confirmed that it is in the early planning stages to add keyword data to the SEMrush integration. While it's a work in progress, we anticipate making it available, however, only on our high-tier plans.
We value your input, and if you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to our Support Team.
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Mark Hoffman
David - AgencyAnalytics Team: David, thank you for your continued responses to me, I appreciate you taking the time to get back to me. However this message even further confirms my conflict of interest point.
So AA will finally do what other reporting platforms have done with SEMRush and integrate ranking data. However because you have a conflicting product in your own rank tracker the only way you can properly use the SEMRush one is by paying more?
AA is essentially creating an artificial paywall because of their own conflicts of interest with competing products. How about if you want access to the SEMRush site audit data? How much more will that cost?
I believe AA has completely lost sight of what they do best, creating an awesome reporting dashboard for clients and is instead trying to be a jack of all trades and master at none (with content locking, upsells, paywalls etc in the meantime).
I was great while it lasted but I will no longer be a customer once I make the switch to databox.
Thank you for your time and responses to my comments.
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Alp Aydogdu
Mark Hoffman: hey Mark! Thank you for your recommendation on databox! I hadn't heard of them before. Seeing they have the integration were looking for with semrush I'm going to sign up with them instead of Agency Analytics. This is the only reason why I haven't setup all my clients on agency analytics yet. It's a shame.
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Mark Hoffman
Alp Aydogdu: Hey! Glad I could help, I'm finishing my migration over to them this weekend. If you want to use my referral it helps me a bit (if you find the tool useful) https://databox.com?fp_ref=mark36
Good luck with! Maybe will switch back to AA if they ever do SEMRush integration but so far happy with DB.
David - AgencyAnalytics Team
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Integrate to show rank tracking directly from SEMRUSH
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Marcus Clayton
The benefit of Agency Analytics is to bring reporting from other sources into one platform with the click of the button.
The only thing you cant do is bring in rank tracking from other tools. I am guessing this is a revenue decision and/or a holdover from what Agency Analytics originally did.
I already use other tools for rank tracking. I dont want to go and put the work in to track the rankings in Agency Analytics too. I would be fine paying something to be able to integrate with another rank tracking tool instead of having to use AA.
Agency Analytics could provide value by showing other tools rank tracking in a more simple way (SEMRUSH, BrightLocal, ehrefs, etc).
David - AgencyAnalytics Team
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Direct Integration With SEMRush
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Mark Hoffman
Databox has a direct integration with SEMRush that allows them to pull a ton of info that isn't available in AA. Would be great to have a real SEMRush integration in AA. Currently, if you're an SEMRush customer the AA integration is pretty much worthless as you can't pull in any project information at all. It would be great if you could look at the Databox integration to see how it works and do something similar. Because I use SEMRush for site auditing and rank tracking it's quite bad that I can't pull any of that info into AA. It's forcing a consideration of switching to databox since some of my most important metrics are not available in what is supposed to be my reporting tool in AA.
David - AgencyAnalytics Team
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Ability to pull organic keyword reports
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Austin Lewis
Use the SEMrush integration to view organic keywords, and a relative bar graph.
The current SEMrush integration you offer doesn't add much value. Most clients aren't nearly as interested in backlink metrics as they are organic keywords.
