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Are you a Content Creator, Small Business, Affiliate marketer or anyone who wants to create Online Presence in this digital world? If yes, then it is the perfect place for you as in this article we are going to review SEMRUSH SEM tool. During this review, we are going through Its features, appliance, and alternatives in this article.

How to do SEO research for your website?

The basic method for SEO optimization of your website is spying on your competitor’s domain or strategy. During your website’s SEO optimization, You have to go through the following steps for your SEO research with semrush:

1. Find your Niche
2. Find the Biggest bull or Player in that Niche
3. Signup For a SEM or MArketing tool as like SEmrush
4. Get the Whole bunch of Keywords in which your competitor website
5. Get all of the backlinks through which your competitor get backlinks or simply do-follow backlinks.
6. Spy on the competitor’s Strategy
7. Get a look at the content idea on which you want to market.

What is Semrush?

Semrush is an SEM tool that can help you to optimize your website for various Search Engines like Yahoo, Bing, Google or any other search engine that is available around the world. Though semrush has been founded by Oleg Shchegolev and Dmitry Melnikov in 2008. Now a day, it has more than 6 million userbases with a database of 20 Billion keywords, 810 million Domains in around 140 GEO databases (Countries).

The data we get from the SEMRUSH SEO tool can help a lot for us to increase our search traffic from Search Engines around every GEO. we can do the following works through this tool.

• Domain analysis
• Keyword research
• Rank SERPs tracking
• Backlink analysis
• Link building tools
• Site auditing

Plans Offered by Semrush:

Currently, Semrush offers 3 Plans which is Free plan, Guru Plan, Pro Plan and Business plan. The free plan comes with 10 daily queries on daily basis.

You can get Backlink Profiles, Site Audit (Broken Link, SEO Audit, and Keyword Research), Competitor Research, and more. You can try semrush by Signup for 14-day trial. All features of Semrush will be Discussed later in this article.

How is Dashboard of Semrush?

Currently, Semrush offer two types of Dashboard namely Dashboard 1 which is old and Dashboard 2 is a new Dashboard. Let’s get a look at both dashboard one by one:

Competitive Research:

In this sub-section of article, we are going Domain overview, traffic Analytics, Organic Research, Keyword Gap and Backlink Gap. During my semrush review, we find this section as the best part of my Semrush SEM SEO tool review. Lets discuss these important parts one by one and let us understand how will it help you a lot for your Brand marketing.

Domain Overview:

In this section, you will get a lot of knowledge for your website as well as your competitor’s website as like Authority Score (Domain Authority in Moz, competitive Score in Alexa, Domain Rating in Ahref and so on), Total Organic Traffic from Google, Paid Search Traffic, Backlinks, Display advertising in different GEOs and traffic trend for Keyword trend of the domain since 2012 with SERPs featured URLs.

In this section of Semrush dashboard, you can get a look of Top Keywords of website, Rank in the Google SERPs, Main organic keyword, Organic keyword Positioning Map, Brand Traffic Trend, Comparison between Organic Brand Traffic and Organic Nor-Branded Traffic, Advertising Research, Paid Position competitors in this webpage as you can look above.

Traffic Analytics:

In this section of article, we can find Traffic analytics of any Domain or any Domian Keyphrase. For Example, we checked semrush.com. We find it get 7.9 million visites, 3.1 million unique Visitors, 3.9 Pages per visits, 12:28 average visit Duration and 39.22% bounce rate. We can get these idea since 2012.

In this same section, we will get a look into Traffic Share, Sub-domain Traffic Share and other types of traffic share. For example, in this page, we get a look of semrush.com, the website gets 83% traffic from the desktop while 17% traffic from mobile, how much it gets traffic onto its different sub-domain, How it get traffic as like Referal, organic, social search and other methods.

Organic Research With Semrush:

Hey guys, In this section we are going to review and try to find How easily we can do organic research with the help of SEMRUSH SEM optimization tool. For this test, we have selected Mentorsedu.com (Institute for JEE and Medical Preparation) for the organic search traffic and the value of traffic acquired by Search Engine.

In the above Picture, we can find The facts and figure for organic traffic attend by Mentors. In the above report, we can find Organic traffic trend of semrush since 2012, top Organic keyword working for it and Historical as well as live matrix of keyword change of the website.

With the help of this same page of semrush, we can also find what are the best page working for that domain (Which Page gain more Traffic), what are its main competitor in the search engine, you can also get look on best working sub-domain of that domain and last you can in this page of semrush SEO tool is Competetive Positioning Map.

Find Keyword Gap with your Competitor through Semrush:

In this section, any webmaster can compare its website with competitor’s website and get loop of missing keyword available in competitor website but not yours. You can compare almost 5 website through semrush in this page.

To test keyword Gap, I have used my two websites namely newsbuddy.in and bodhivriksh.org. We find a lot of data like Top keyword opportunity form your competitors’ website and all paid and organic keyword details from your competitors website.

Find Backlink Gap with your Competitor through Semrush:

To test the Domain backlink gap tool through Semrush. We have tested approximately five domains wpbeginner.com, shoutmeloud.com, smartblogger.com, coschedule.com, and quicksprout.com.

Through the test, we get the marvellous result from this test that clarifies my upcoming strategy for my domain’s DA improvement.

Keyword Research Through Semrush: Semrush Review

There are three tools available in SEMRUSH platform for keyword research. These tools are Keyword Overview, Keyword Magic Tool, Keyword Manager and keyword Traffic Insight. Let us start a discussion of these tools one by one.

Keyword Overview by Semrush:

As we are going to test Keyword overview Tool of Semrush. Therefore, We have tested this tool with a tool popularly Known as “White Hat SEO in Hindi”.

During our test, we find Keyword Volume, Global Volume, Result on SERPs, Trend of the Keyword,Keyword Variations and Questions. Although during keyword research tool of Semrush review, we find it Good but not Best. The Best tool For Keyword Research is Alexa.

Keyword Magic Tool Overview by Semrush:

During our review of Keyword magic tool of semrush, we find that this tool is best for cluster research of any domain. Through this tool, we can find supported keywords to enhace the Quality of that page and gain trust of your viewers.

Keyword Manager Overview through Semrush Review:

During our Keyword Manager Overview, we find it is the best tool to gather the perfect keyword tool for your PPC keyword research for paid traffic. As this tool can help you to save lot of money or Ad budget and to get more traffic. Value for Money in ads can be increased through this Keyword tool.

Keyword Traffic Insight Overview by Semrush:

To Start with keyword Traffic Insight, we must have to connect Semrush with Google Analytics and Google Search Console. After connecting all three Platforms, Semrush will give you a platform in the form of keyword Traffic Insight. The main fuction of this tool is to get insights of your Domain and for future planning.

Link Building Through Semrush Review:

Hey guys, In this section, we are going to review Link Building tool of Semrush. Under the Umbrella of link Building, we are going to review Backlink Analytics, Backlink Audit, Link Building Tool, and Bulk analysis. Let’s start the analysis of these tools:

Backlink Analytics With Semrush:

Through the backlinks analytics tools provided by semrush will give you access to all historical and live backlinks from 2012 till now. In this tool, we get authority score, Refering Domain, Backlinks, Monthly Visits, and keywords in the form of maps. These maps will start from 2012. You will get insight of refering anchor, Categories of Referring Domains, and many more.

Backlink Audit with Semrush:

Backlink audit with semrush is a must to have tool for Every Blogger or Content Marketer. Through this tool, we can audit our backlinks on the benchmark “relevancy of Backlink, Targeted Countries, Domain Category and Brand Setting”. This tool can help you to optimize your traffic. As you can check from which country, you are getting Traffic.

Link Building Tool with Semrush:

This link Building is also a must to have tool for Every webmaster. Link building tool from semrush can help you to gain lot of backlinks for any of the keyword as this tool will scrap a lot of data that has potential to give do-follow backlinks to you.

Bulk analysis with Semrush:

With the help of Bulk Backlink Analysis tool, we can explore backlinks of more than 200 urls or 200 Domains. You can even also compare these domains each others in a loop.

Rank Traking with Semrush:

Hey guys, In this section, we are going to review Rank Tracking tool of Semrush. Under the Umbrella of Rank Tracking, we are going to review Position Tracking, Sensor, and Ranks. Through these three tools, anyone can easily track the URLs with Keyword while Senor can help you to find the volatility of your website as this volatility helps to predict Search Engine algorithm update or change.

On-Page and Tech SEO Through Semrush:

During my semrush review, I find this tool is the best tool offered by Semrush for anyone who created content on the Internet. This tool can help you to gain a lot of traffic from search engines. This tool can help you to check page insight or On-page SEO or your Google Listing. As we all known these tool are must to have tool and the insight we get from these tools will help you to Improve your SERPs.

Advertising through Semrush: Semrush Review

Hey Guys, During our Semrush review, we find that tools under this section is made up for Advertisers. This section is broadly classified into 3 parts as Market Analysis, Keyword Research, Advertising Service, and Tracking and Social Media ad. In this section of article, we are going to explore every possible aspect of these advertiser’s tool. Although these are must to have tool for advertiser.

Market Analysis for Advertiser through Semrush:

Under the Umbrella of Market Analysis, Semrush provides us Domain Overview, Advertising Research, Display Advertising, PLA research and CPC maps. In this section, we are going to explore all these tools one by one.

Domain Overview For Advertiser By Semrush:

In this section, you will get a lot of knowledge for your website as well as your competitor’s website as like Authority Score (Domain Authority in Moz, competitive Score in Alexa, Domain Rating in Ahref and so on), Total Organic Traffic from Google, Paid Search Traffic, Backlinks, Display advertising in different GEOs and traffic trend for Keyword trend of the domain since 2012 with SERPs featured URLs.

You can get a look of Top Keywords of website, Rank in the Google SERPs, Main organic keyword, Organic keyword Positioning Map, Brand Traffic Trend, Comparison between Organic Brand Traffic and Organic Nor-Branded Traffic, Advertising Research, Paid Position competitors in this webpage as you can look above.

Advertising Research through Semrush:

Advertising research by Semrush is nothing but API access Google’s Adword (Advertising Platform). Actually, through this tool you can get access to all google advertiser’s platform. You can track any domain’s advertising strategy through this platform. You will get a lot of idea from your competitor strategy as Budget, Traffic, Traffic Cost, Keywords and many other solutions.

Display Advertising tool by Semrush:

Through Display advertising for the advertiser tool by Semrush, you can do an SEO audit to get SEO ideas to get better-paid search results. Through this content marketing toolkit, you can get a great experience while your Digital Marketing journey. In this toolkit, you will get an overview of Audience Targeting, Top Audience Interests, Sample ads and many more.

PLA Research Through Semrush:

PLA research toolkit is a toolkit Paid Keywords Ranking Tracking offered by Semrush. This real-time tool which can also help to track your paid competitor and keyword difficulty. Competitors paid analysis can also help you to save your money while improving your search ranking.

CPC Maps through Semrush:

CPC maps are nothing but the outer outlook of CPC of keywords within any GEOs. As an Advertiser or Publisher, you can track or consider the best place for any campaign.

Keyword Research tools with Semrush:

Hey guys, in this section of semrush Review, we are going to review the Keyword Research tool which is a must to have research tool for Advertiser. This major Tool is a combination of four Major Tool namely Keyword Gap tool, Keyword Magic Tool, Keyword Manager tool, PPC keyword Tool, and Keyword History. Let’s start Discussion of these tool one by one:

Keyword gap Tool by Semrush:

In qthis (Keyword Gap) tool, we can compare our competitors to get the Gap of the Keywords between you and your Competitors. This tool can help you to increase your revenue or sales into X times.

Keyword Magic Tool by Semrush:

During our review of Keyword magic tool of semrush, we find that this tool is best for cluster research of any domain. Through this tool, we can find supported keywords to enhace the Quality of that page and gain trust of your viewers.

Keyword Manager by Semrush:

Through Keyword Manager tool by Semrush, Any Advertiser can effectively and efficiently manage its ad and can gain a lot of insight. This tool can also help you to save a great chunk from a budget.

PPC keyword Tool By Semrush:

PPC Keyword tool is Keyword management tool in which you are going to advertise. These Keyword are chunked by you with different sources. These source can be added by Manually, Semrush or any External Service.

Ad History by Semrush:

Ad History tool by Semrush is a tool that can illustrate the historical ads on any Keyword or Domain. You can explore these ads on any Keyword to Get idea and to save the earning.

TrafficJet: Semrush Review

TrafficJet is a SSP ad network powered by semrush. Through TrafficJet tool you can easily advertise your content by the different ad network. The best alternative to Adroll is TrafficJet which offers almost the same feature as adroll.

TrafficJet offers 100s of Traffic sources like Adsense, Wordads and many other ad networks. You have to pay the exact amount that has been confirmed by Google Analytics.

Social Media Dashboard:

Social Media Toolkit or Dashboard is the one-stop solution for brands to manage their social media or one-stop solution for every type of Social media Content marketer to enhance their campaigns for creating a post for the social media. You can even manage or schedule these campaigns from the dashboard of Semrush.

Content Marketing Dashboard by Semrush:

An SEM or SEO tool without a Content Marketing dashboard is a waste of money or time. Semrush offers 6 tools that can skyrocket your Content Marketing or content Creation strategy. These 6 tools are TOPIC Research, SEO Content Template, SEO writing Assistant, Brand Monitoring, Post Tacking, and Content Audit. We are going to discuss these tools one by one:

TOPIC Research through Semrush:

When we do topic Research through Semrush, we will find that Semrush offers Content ideas through cards, Explorer and a Mind which makes me a Great fan of the Content Marketing tool offered by semrush. This is a great alternative to the BUZZSUMO content marketing tool.

SEO Content Template by Semrush:

Semrush will create a template by analyzing the top 10 ranked content available on the Google Search Engine. This tool will Provide Semantically related words, Backlinks, Readability, and Text Length. You can analyze these factors and create a great content that can rank rank in Top 5 in the SERPs.

SEO Writing Assistance by SEMRUSH:

SEO writing Assistance is nothing but writing assistance offered by Semrush. Through this tool, Semrush will explore your article on four Benchmarks namely SEO, Readability, Originality, and Tone of Voice. As we all Know these Benchmarks are mostly considered in writing any content For the internet.

For WordPress, Semrush offers a plugin known as Semrush Writing Assistance whereas for another platform like Drupal, Wix or any other CMS platform they do not offer any type of Plugins.

Brand Monitoring by Semrush:

Brand Monitoring has one other nickname called Mentions. Almost every Content marketing tool found in the internet has been Power-packed with this tool. This tool will help you create or help you to check your brand value onto the Internet. This tool will crawl the internet and try to find out the mentioned name or Domain in all over the internet.

Content Analyzer by Semrush:

Content Analyzer will Audit your website and can help you to audit your content and can enable you to track the URLs of any Specifics page.

Conclusion: Semrush Review

During My semrush review, we find Semrush is a very efficient tool for every type SEM work as like content Creation, SEO Research, Competitors research, Brand Exploration, Advertising and many other things. We can also say that Semrush offers a very all in one pack that any of its competitors can even match in any term.

But There is a great problem with this tool. First problem is its very Keyword Collection. Alexa backed by amazon offers have biggest keyword collection. Although the keyword offered by semrush is also can’t even match by its competitors.

If we look into its whole package or money is to the product then we must say Semrush offers Value for money Product. You should use this product as this is the most overall perfect product in this market.

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