Reviews, tied to the job they were written for

Content briefs that cite their sources

Every recommendation links the pages it learned from, which means I can argue with it. Crawler is fast on a two hundred thousand URL site.

CI integration caught a noindex before release

Our staging build shipped a global noindex. Northstar failed the pipeline. That single catch paid for the year.

Better than what we left

The templates saved us more time than I expected. Small thing, big effect.

Support is the differentiator

Fine for what we need. Not the most powerful option but the least annoying.

Support is the differentiator

Would recommend for a small team. Larger orgs will want the higher tier.

Fine, not flashy

We evaluated four options and picked this one on support responsiveness. No regrets.

Good fit for a small team

Replaced two tools with this one. Setup took an afternoon and the team stopped asking questions.

Rank tracking is accurate, UI is busy

Numbers reconcile with our own sampling. The interface tries to show everything at once; saved views help.

Fine, not flashy

Stable and predictable. I have stopped thinking about it, which is the compliment.

Better than what we left

Would recommend for a small team. Larger orgs will want the higher tier.

Sensible defaults

Not perfect, but every problem we have raised got an answer and most got fixed.

Straightforward and fast

Does what it says. The onboarding was better than I expected for the price.

Solid, with a couple of rough edges

Six months in and it still does the job. Nothing surprising, which is the point.

Straightforward and fast

We had one billing mix-up which was corrected the same week without argument.

Good fit for a small team

Good product held back slightly by thin documentation on the advanced features.

Fine, not flashy

We had one billing mix-up which was corrected the same week without argument.

Solid, with a couple of rough edges

Replaced two tools with this one. Setup took an afternoon and the team stopped asking questions.

Great at scale, poor at answering tickets

Fifty thousand keywords across nine locales, no complaints on the data. Support took nine days to respond to a billing question, and the answer was wrong.

Reliable day to day

We evaluated four options and picked this one on support responsiveness. No regrets.

Good fit for a small team

Fast, and it stays fast as our volume grows. That is rarer than it should be.

Solid, with a couple of rough edges

Support answered within a few hours both times I needed them.

Support is the differentiator

Fine for what we need. Not the most powerful option but the least annoying.

Straightforward and fast

Fine for what we need. Not the most powerful option but the least annoying.

Sensible defaults

Does what it says. The onboarding was better than I expected for the price.