Apologies for the delay, it's been crazy in Texas the past week - I've had intermittent power and no running water for a while now, so wasn't able to get much done. I'd hop in to scan BHW for a bit but not for long enough to engage (or be productive in general). Looks like things are getting back to normal now, thankfully.
Quick update on this Ink app. After one day of registering I noticed that I have PRO status. Turns out there was a BETA running and everyone had PRO status, unfortunately, the beta is over now.
All in all, I quite like the app and enjoyed using it. Turns out having a separate writing app is not bad at all + you can copy-paste straight into WP and it will grab your title + headline accordingly.
I will keep using the tool on the free plan for writing as it's quite nice.
The PRO plan is a bit pricy I think at 20USD you get 10PRO article / month. Labrika can do pretty much the same and you can grab a lifetime deal on appsumo right now.
That's a bummer for how pricey it is, I'm finally going to mess with the free tier, and I'm leaning more and more towards buying Labrika as it seems promising and solid for the price.
Ok, as an update of what I did: Gone ahead and grabbed Frase from one seller on FB ($146 Including their fees), got 2 codes LTD for unlimited outputs (+1 for Frase here), I played with it in few articles, and the results are Amazing.. I was underestimating its topic coverage functionality, it does pretty the same as Market Muse, but with ease, everything is clear + you can create the content briefs (another +1), I will use it to make things easier for me and the writers.
I think I will return MM, It's not worth the $207 when you can not share the outputs for optimizations with anyone, and they say they will suspend your account (or cancel it) if you login from different IP!, and their credit system is not worth the $100.. I would rather pay the amount to someone for content creation.
I heard people saying that Frase is getting better every month, so I think will stick with it..Very promising software.
Nice! $150 for unlimited is a great deal, I'm more and more tempted to grab a license of Frase. However, as
@becks14 mentioned - I will probably not ditch MM as it's been incredible so far. Maybe Frase will change my mind, but I do believe MM can deliver incredible results. Worst case scenario is the after-market price for a triple-stack will probably be $400+ soon after the LTD is over, so I can probably flip it if necessary.
Then it makes sense to use Frase for content brief. I think I will still stick with MM for content optimization.
I recently picked out several aged articles to optimize in MM. Original score of each article is well below the average and target score suggested by MM. I optimized the articles so that the new score is at least the same as target score. I further analyzed the articles in Surfer which also showed significant improvement in content score and much higher than competitors.
Love it, this is probably exactly the approach I will take going forward - unless I try Frase and Postpace delivers better briefs.
Well, it's just not about content brief only, even research, questions, and content optimization, I did not see any major differences between those and Frase questions, Topic score, related etc..
Probably just in the niches I work on, but MM did not dig for something new IMO, all being the same keywords & topics Frase suggested, mostly "People also ask" or competitor headlines if they contain interrogation forms were picked as related questions, or from forums, Reddit, Quora, etc. same as Frase, maybe one or two times MM suggested one different keyword, but not something major I can notice.. Anyway as I said, maybe it's related to the two niches I am working on, at this time I compared 5 articles averaging 4500 words, I will continue comparing and testing in the next few days to come up with a final result.
I've seen several people on FB mention that for some niches Frase is better and MM for others, so it very well could be. I don't think anyone can go wrong with either tool.
Thanks for the share.
Do you guys got a positive ROI with all thoses expensive tools ?
For almost 10 years i have been doing all of this manualy and almost 80% of my posts are in the top 3.
Cheers
As
@becks14 said, these tools are newer to market - I've been refining my writing stack for quite a while now and a lot of these newcomers have changed the game. But I can already tell productivity/speed-wise it's well worth it, and I'm seeing articles ranking on first page for lower-competition keywords pretty quickly.
@Jr VIP or anyone - Do you know anywhere I may go to grab a copy of Keysearch lifetime license?
I don't believe it's available anymore, it was only an option during the very early days of the tool.
This is a great list, and I have to say, you have a fantastic system. However, I would add that you’re missing a tool or two if you want to dominate SERPs. I agree with others, but I’d also suggest you look into Semrush. It’s got some great features when it comes to tracking your competitors. It sends out warnings when your articles lose ranking, and it gives you a detailed report on why that happened as well as suggestions on how you can fix it. Plus, if you need any help with backlinking, Semrush has your back. Not to mention, it’s really user-friendly.
Thanks for the kind words! You're right, SEMrush is solid - MorningScore and Ubersuggest do a similar thing with articles losing ranking and each offer some tips. SEMrush is more comprehensive (though I believe MorningScore is rapidly gaining ground), but for the price I'm happy using US and MS lifetime plans to gather similar data. Thanks for the input, I appreciate it!
