Earlier this year I posted this question to the Local Marketing Freethinkers Facebook group:
“Who has the best SEO client dashboard?”
There were a lot of recommendations and some strong opinions from quite a few folks. I’ll run through some of them here.
1. Agency Analytics
Agency Analytics offers a robust, white-label friendly dashboard that’s a straightforward setup. Having a competitive dashboard is particularly important if you are offering white-label SEO solutions.
The free trial is easy enough to sign up for. No credit card is necessary. Just an e-mail and you’re off to the races.
Adding your campaign is quick. One reason is it gives a lot of your most important keywords to you automatically. They must be scraping an API for this because it was spot on.
Even though this article is primarily about SEO dashboards, I think it’s worth mentioning that Agency Analytics also covers PPC, E-Mail, Analytics, Social, and Call Tracking. So, for any SEOs that also offer ancillary services like paid marketing, it is convenient having this all in one dashboard.
The GMB reporting from Agency Analytics is a lot more robust than the native Google dash. Again, a competitive dashboard is also particularly important if you are offering white label GMB services.
One thing the native GMB dashboard currently lacks is historical data that you can compare, so it’s difficult to tell clients that they’ve improved month over month unless you’re using something like Agency Analytics that will actually give you the %.
The simplicity, ease of use, and nice aesthetic make Agency Analytics a top contender. If you’re looking for a solid, client-facing SEO dashboard, this solution will probably be the baseline you compare everything else.
Plans for AA start at $49/mo for 5 campaigns, which I believe would end up being about $10 per dashboard.
2. Dashclicks
At first glance, DashClicks feels like a re-skinned, lackluster version of Agency Analytics.
However, DashClicks features a Listings Manager while Agency Analytics does not.
On the DashClicks website it says “Control and manage all your directories from one place.” – I counted around 70 sites it supports, which is less than a 1/3rd of the citation ecosystem but they’re many of the big ones and this could be a nice feature, especially if you deal with structured and unstructured citations a lot. I don’t really see a way of putting in my own listing data or making good use of this feature, however. Maybe it works on sign-up? Who knows.
Like Agency Analytics, DashClicks also features a white label option where clients can log in and view their stats, you can learn more about their white label version here.
I can’t find any prices for using their dashboard solution. I think this dashboard may exist secondary to their service sales. Overall, I’m not too impressed.
3. DashThis
DashThis starts at $33 for 3 dashboards and touts a ton of useful integrations. Ahrefs, SEMrush, and Moz all in one place? Sign me up.
The overall function of DashThis reminds me a lot of Cyfe. But it is definitely more oriented towards SEOs, with integrations like Ahrefs and SEMrush which aren’t found on Cyfe.
Surprisingly, they might have dropped the ball on the GMB integration, which Cyfe has.
Without a GMB integration, I can’t see myself paying beyond the $10/dash Agency Analytics price for this.
4. Cyfe
Even though Cyfe is missing some important integrations from the likes of Ahrefs, you can still hook it up to Moz. But one place Cyfe shines exceptionally well is their GMB integration.
With over 15 different widgets, you can get granular data from GMB like:
- photo views
- local post views
- customer actions
- customer search
- etc.
You can build out an entire dashboard just off of GMB data. And in the photo below, I actually did just that.
Geckoboard is another one similar to Cyfe but Geckoboard has no real SEO integrations that I could use, no GMB integrations, and a Google Analytics integration in beta. With pricing at a bank-busting $25 per dashboard, I just skipped them.
One thing Cyfe really has going for it is their $29/mo pricing. You can build out unlimited dashboards which is a steal of a deal. However, if you want to white label, it’s $20 per client.
If you’re looking to white label for clients, it might not make sense to pay double the price compared to other SEO dashboards.
5. RankRanger
RankRanger offers integrations with GMB, Ahrefs, Yext, Google Analytics, Search Console, and more. Everything that you would need to make a pretty robust SEO dashboard.
While the internal dashboard looks cool, I couldn’t for the life of me get the client-facing dashboard going. The interface is difficult to work with and from a UI perspective needs a lot of work, but perhaps the simplicity of Cyfe spoiled me a bit.
RankRanger, both a report builder and the promise of a white label dashboard deserves a second look via their free trial.
At $69/mo for 10 campaigns, I am assuming it would end up around $6.90 per client dashboard (if you can get them to work). So price-wise, that’s not too shabby at all.
A promising option with some kinks to work out.
6. Megalytic.com
A lot of what I was recommended wasn’t truly a “dashboard” solution, but more of a report building solution. Here’s one – megalytic.com.
Although the homepage advertises the ability to build dashboards through this, it didn’t seem incredibly apparent to me when I tried it out. I hooked up a Google Analytics account and it had a stellar report builder, however, for those that like doing reports.
Three recommends not checked:
