SheerSEO Review: Save 800Year vs SEMrush? Full 2025 Tutorial

ByJake Van
SheerSEO Review Save 800Year vs SEMrush Full 2025 Tutorial

Summary

Hey folks! There's a new video out from LearnWire, and it's a must-watch if you're into SEO tools. They dive into SheerSEO, a tool that’s catching attention in the space of keyword research and rank tracking. If you're juggling SEO tools like Ahrefs or SEMrush, and you’re on the hunt for a more cost-effective alternative, this might be worth your time. SheerSEO stands out for staying power and affordability, making it a nice fit for solopreneurs or small businesses looking to streamline their toolset without sacrificing functionality.

This video from LearnWire breaks down features and pricing in a very detailed way. The creator shares personal experiences about ditching more expensive software in favor of SheerSEO, which offers robust functionalities such as keyword tracking and domain management—all without the monthly subscription fees that other tools require. You can check out their content if you're considering switching up your SEO tools bag without spending a fortune.

I think the insights in this video are super valuable because they explore practical applications and the potential savings you can achieve. It's great for those managing multiple domains who need efficient, cost-effective tracking without the overhead of ongoing subscriptions. The video could also be handy for anyone curious about emerging tools that effectively do what big-name tools offer.

Key Takeaways:

  • SheerSEO is a competitive option for SEO keyword research and rank tracking.
  • The tool has been around for over four years, maintaining functionality and reliability.
  • Plans start at $49, and you can increase with more codes based on your needs.
  • Video creator saved over $800 per year by switching to this tool.
  • Offers capabilities to manage up to nine domains, providing great value.
  • Keyword tracking limit is up to 450 keywords, especially useful for solopreneurs.
  • The tool can replace monthly keyword tracking subscriptions and generate site audits.
  • Not all advanced features (like competitors' URL ranks) are included in the lifetime deal.
  • Overall, it covers all basic SEO needs and unique lifetime pricing makes it attractive.
  • A great fit for those not heavily reliant on Google traffic or running full-fledged SEO agencies.

Video

How To Take Action

I would suggest implementing cost-effective SEO tools like SheerSEO to save money while maintaining functionality. For solopreneurs and small businesses juggling expensive SEO tools, a switch to SheerSEO could be strategic. You can track up to 450 keywords, manage up to 9 domains, and perform site audits—all without paying monthly fees like with other tools.

A good way of doing this is to first evaluate your current SEO tools' costs and benefits. Identify what specific functionalities you need and compare them with what SheerSEO offers. This tool has been successful in saving some users over $800 per year, proving its value.

I'd also recommend familiarizing yourself with SheerSEO’s dashboard and features like competitor analysis, keyword research, and backlink tracking. Start by connecting your domains and setting up keyword tracking to monitor your website's performance efficiently.

Consider spending a couple of hours getting accustomed to the keyword tracking and site auditing features. Since SEO is vital for visibility, using a tool like SheerSEO can streamline these processes affordably. The improved cost management and reliable SEO tracking will allow your resources to focus on growth and other business areas without an ongoing subscription burden.

If you're handling multiple domains or looking for non-Google dependent traffic tools, integrating SheerSEO into your daily routine could optimize your current toolset and free up operational budget.

Quotes by Learnwire

"This is one of the best SEO keyword research type softwares that I have seen over the last four years"

– Learnwire

"I'm not going to be paying $50 per month anymore to SE Ranking"

– Learnwire

"450 keywords is great for me for a solopreneur managing a few websites"

– Learnwire

"One of the big reasons to pick up the tool as well"

– Learnwire

"This gets a nice clean grade from me probably about a 3.8"

– Learnwire

Full Transcript

all right so as promised let's actually review and do a tutorial on sheer SEO this will be my updated review the last time I did a review I believe it was like 2022 when this first launched on appsumo so they are available they're back I don't know how long they're going to be available on appsumo but this is one of the best SEO keyword research type softwares that I have seen over the last four years there's been a couple other ones there was one that was called seod or Cod there was um a lot of other keyword research tools and we've already seen them they did not uh stand the test of time they were a lot of them were gone before we knew it and so this one definitely at least lives up to the longevity because it's been around for years and so I can at least we at least we have that to go off of I've already gone over in my last video if you want an in-depth kind of analysis on the founders and the information and kind of My overall opinion on sheer SEO and the stability of it go watch that other video that I came out with on January 2nd it was the first video I launched this year in 2020 go watch that one I go over in details on that one in this case we're going to jump right in to just looking at sheer SEO and what it can do for us this is an SEO uh software like ah refs semrush and SE ranking I am committed to because I'm not relying on Google traffic I'm committed to a tool like this right now I'm not going to be paying $50 per month anymore to se ranking which I have for about 2 years now and so they've taken $1,200 from me at least and I'm looking at because I'm not relying on Google traffic so these tools mean a little bit less to me now but I still like to always have one on hand and that's really the use case of why I'm getting share SEO they have different plans starting at $49 for one code and you can go and it's based on how many domains you can hook up to it and how many keywords you will be able to track which is also a really big feature that you get with CR SEO it's solving two I'm actually being able to ditch two tools my search search traffic tool or ranking tracking tool called s Ser robot I pay $15 a month or almost $200 a year for that tool and then like I said my other SEO tool so I'm going to be able to save about $800 per year I came in at the six codes for 294 bucks is what I decided to land on and then you can go all the way up to nine codes for $441 so this is what the dashboard looks like it's going to show you what your sites are and you have a ton of different options over here I'm going to just use it kind of how you would normally start using a tool like this you're going to want to go in and you're going to want to manage domains we already have learn wire hooked up you can see down here we're going to get a a polling frequency so it's going to send us a report every week about what traffic is traffic up or down all that kind of good stuff right so what we're going to do is we're going to add another account so we're going to add another domain so let's go and add one of my latest domains right here which is called keto Crush so we'll go and we'll grab that and we'll come back over here we'll paste that in right there locations United States like I said I'm kind of interested I wish that they would just do Global but in this case they just want you to actually Define where you're at so United States and you can even be more specific if you want to and I'm going to push start oh it wants it without the slashes maybe that's what that is right there okay so that's what it wants right there now it's going to I don't know why it has these suggested terms right over here these have nothing to do with my website we can monitor different Search terms right here I'm going to go ahead and is there a skip feature submit to finish sign up I'm just going to go submit you must select at least a keyword okay okay just come back over here we'll grab a keyword right here and throw that in submit to finish sign up so you have to submit at least one keyword we're hooking up a domain a fresh domain right here into the keyword tool and you can see right here it's going to literally give you what if you're ranking for that keyword or not immediately right there which is really really cool so you can pull it now it's going to go and refresh everything you can go with actions right here you can select a keyword right here and then go up to actions you can add tags specific tags remove keywords you can add keywords easily by clicking over here and add keywords boom super easy and this is one of the high value reasons why I picked this tool up as well instead of having to pay $15 a month for this tool right over here that I've been using for years and I've paid them hundreds of dollars I love this tool over here it's great obviously you can change it to a white background I've always used it on dark as well let's go into this uh site over here learn wire right here you can see it's tracking all my keywords right over here nicely has nice graphs and everything so I have nothing U bad to say about Ser robot it's great and it's actually affordable there's no affiliate program or anything so I'm not pushing the I've never pushed the product out or or anything like that I just think that this is a good product and if you want a lowcost rank tracker this is a great one but you will be paying at least $5 a month to start and then you can scale to as many keywords as you want like I said one of the big things that now I can do is I can hook up and the plan that I got and I did that on purpose is 450 keywords is about what I'm getting for $15 per month over here so I'm paying $180 a year just to track my keywords in Google whereas this tool over here share SEO is going to now have that built in for me 450 keywords is great for me for a solopreneur managing a few websites so I'm happy about that so that's the ranking area the dashboard let's go back on the dashboard now it should show both websites or up here you're going to be able to click uh back and forth between your websites I believe I have six uh websites or eight websites that I can manage which is super cool it's going to give you your information citation flow all that kind of stuff I don't even know why I have a citation flow of 19 this is a brand new website shouldn't have anything the only grait going to it is actually from Pinterest but now we're going to scroll down we're just going to keep moving our way down the software on what we would use right so competitors right so there's a bunch of different things we can do current competitors let's click on that real quick so track your competitor's keywords compared to yours upgrade to Pro so let's see right here track their rankings so this particular one right here is not available it sounds like you have to upgrade from your lifetime deal so I'd have to upgrade this and this is something that is not is not not part of the lifetime deal so that that's kind of a bummer but it's okay that one is a not a lifetime deal as well but we can get into the back links Explorer for example let's just go in with actually it would be very interesting to see if keto Crush actually has any back Links at all since I've done nothing to the site whatsoever and it would be kind of interesting to see if it has any back links being picked up it does have some back links being picked up right over here looks like that's why we have some trust flow going on so about six back bling that we have here with a very only Pinterest related site and Pinterest specific intentional site which is actually pretty cool show domain rank we can actually turn that on and then it will did it is that is that the column that goes away domain info yeah domain info so then you can push the refresh button so that's kind of that's under the competitors and then there's a backlinks Explorer section but there's also a backlinks section over here here that we can go and look at site backlinks I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time over here but let's just go and see site backlinks we may as well we have keto Crush right here and it does pick up the six backlinks right over there so you can kind of get to the same kind of information depending on what uh parent category you are under right over here so some of it's kind of repeated but that's okay let's go back up to cuz competitors in research is where I would spend the most time most likely let's go with competitors's keywords right so I found a website over here and it's getting about 19,000 visits per month so it's perfect right it's a site that's just taken off just getting some traffic which is super cool we got a low bounce rate so pretty cool stuff right so let's go and see what's going on with this website by just going and clicking this over here and coming back inserting the website and then we're going to Search keywords and look how fast that pops up guys I really do like that looks like we're getting some traffic right over here I do think that they have a very low estimate on traffic so I wouldn't really use this tool to measure accurate traffic like I said a lot of times you're going to go over you're going to say ah refs traffic Checker you can also go like this I know that this is also not accurate either and this is the best seo seo tool on the planet they're saying 3.7 th000 so almost 4,000 search volume right here simir web's usually a little high and so I would say that it's usually maybe twice what ah refs is saying is a good kind of measurement but it doesn't work like that for every website a lot of times when you think that you have like a formula down where you can figure out uh website traffic then something just lets you down and you're like oh it's like way off when you finally get them access to the metrics or something like that so the tools are all going to be all over the place just know that but the fact like the way that I would look at this is I would just kind of start seeing that like oh sites that have around 800 or a th000 are are probably getting around 10,000 visitors per month is kind of the way that I would assess this because there's no way that 79 for search volume right here I just want to so total traffic calculated from the data Google search console if integrated or from estimation based on your rankings so it's kind of based on rankings we don't really have well I guess here's some of the rankings we're going to go and take a look at what their site is ranking for it's going to just basically make an estimation right it's it's an algorithm but the fact that like this is way over like kind of almost like an inflated right there's no way that this 800 volume to a website is $500 right it's just it's just not so those are some numbers that I would just completely take with a grain of salt but even when you're using the highest paid of tools you still have to take information with a grain of salt as well so you just have to know that all right so we come down here looking top three rankings they've got 10 first page rankings they've got 68 so this is a great way to come in here and get keywords from a new site that is ranking for these keywords and then we can go up here and just start looking I'm going to sort it by what are they ranking for and what the search volume is look are soybean soybeans keto they're ranked number one so let's go and copy this and go and open up a new tab and just go and see if they are ranking let's see right over here boom they're not ranking number well actually hold on no that looks like an organic result right there that's an organic so there's three four skip those so they're about uh number six right there so they're ranked number six they're not really ranked number one but they are ranked on page one right there so that's pretty good so you can go in here and see what they're actually ranking for and what you might be able because this is a brand new site that has no Authority and they're they're getting organic traffic so these are some keywords that we could kind of go and take take a look at what they're actually ranking for and we could reverse engineer this like what is the article title is soy keto the surprising truth right there so they're actually not fully optimized for that key word is soybean keto is soybean keto is the keyword that we have right here right so a lot of good things that we could do with this information there's 800 uh keywords that we're getting from this I really really like that so we have organic research right over here this is going to return for this website over here we don't have enough information for that keyword Gap super cool so you're going to say keto Crush versus let's put in our competitor right here and push search and you can put up to three competitors which is super cool oops I put the wrong information we need to put the the website in so I'm going to go over here go with a copy right there come back put that in right here and we're going to search the gaps right there so we have 800 entries and that makes sense because when we were over here on the competitor keywords there was 800 and something there we we're not really ranking for for anything on our site right and so all the keywords that they're ranking for is going to be a gap so it just makes complete sense this is just great for reverse engineering I love the keyword Gap uh feature right there backlink to Explorer current competitors remember these two right over here for whatever reason are premium upgrades monthly upgrades they're not allowing us to have those even on the lifetime deal now you go into keyword research right so you have your organic keyword research the and then your keyword Gap research these look like they're just kind of the keyword Gap and organic research are just kind of repetitive of the competitors over here from a just a UI and usability standpoint I would I would remove them and only put them in one section I wouldn't want these to be repeated in multiple sections I think it kind of bogs down the menu area and it just offers a level of confusion we do we can look at our index pages right over here by hovering over and see that we have six indexed pages so far right now which is super cool but what you're really going to spend your time in is the keyword research um area right over here and you're going to go into keyword ideas right here and let's say we go with keto diet and we have all these different ways that we can search so contains the phrase I'm going to hover over this you can pause the video but basically we have different things this one's really cool they add in the Keyword Planner suggestions so let's watch and see what happens so keto diet is going to pull in up to 10,000 keywords the tool will not pull in more than 10,000 keywords I have reached out to the software creator they do have over a billion keywords in their database and if they didn't have at least a billion keywords then I probably would would not have gone six codes deep into this software because at least a billion keywords gives us enough for almost every niche you would want to go into it means they have a giant database of keywords so this is enough to get you started right so this what I like is that if you built out a category on your website or something that is keto diet related every keyword right here is going to be keto diet has the keyword diet the has that keyword in it in an exact phrase way which is super cool you can do contains right and what do contains means results contain any combination of the words including all of them so it's going to be more of a variety so let's see what that looks like there's going to be 10,000 keywords guarantee it and yes there is 10,000 keywords right here you can see so we have Foods on keto diet what is keto diet so it's going to be it can be in different even there still kind of coming a keto diet one after the other I'm going to go maybe five pages deep and see if it starts changing but there's just so many key words for that keto diet that I'm not seeing a whole lot of difference between using those two tools right there contains words and contains phrase also ranks for what does that mean so also ranks for we take the first 10 results from Google search results when they type that keyword in and they check those websites to see what other keywords they rank for that could be super powerful so let's try that so it found almost 4,000 entries and these are keywords that are appearing and ranking that many times keyword difficulty you can also apply a filter so you up here and I would like to see a little bit more filter options but they do have my favorite ones which is search volume the amount of words and the keyword difficulty those are three and then they have the include and exclude those are really all you really need and so come in here to search volume let's say we go 50 to 500 these generally would be easy to rank for keywords then I'm going to go over here and say Hey I want four to 12 right here so I don't want to look at any keywords like this keto and diet I don't want that I want it to be at least four keywords deep maybe we even go right here and say five and then keyword difficulty level I want it to be a Max of 30 and then we'll go and apply these filters right here and it's going to come back with some really good keywords for us fast food nutrition guide PDF what is a Splenda sweetener 140 search volume cost per click is really high the keyword difficulty is only at 29 and appearance is two so it's going to give you those keywords and stuff like that as well as well and then last but not least let's go with planner suggestions and we're going to clear our filter I'm going to leave the filter on and just see if we switch to planner suggestions if it keeps your filter it does not keep your filter when you switch the category up here of type of keyword research you're doing you would have to reset your your filters over here I found 877 entries for us and you can come down here and look at all these different keywords right here as well one thing that is that I would like them to add and hopefully they are going to be watching my video is that they need to add one more over here that where it's really specifically finding questions that people have right very longtail questions that people are having from like a tool like people also ask uh type tools and some of those tools that only specifically focus on questions I I really like to focus on really longtail keywords and I'm not seeing a whole lot of six plus word word phrases so I would love for them to and I'm probably going to reach out to them and ask them hey can you guys add in some type of integration where we can focus on only questions related to that keyword that people are having around the keto diet so that's your keyword research then you have your competitor we already kind of went through that your keyword Gap and so forth so you can get keyword research done in here you can get your competitor analysis done you have your backlinks section right here we can look at what backlinks your competitor has on page SEO you you can do a site audit a page optimization a keyword density so let's go and do a site audit audit overview and here is your we've crawled 30 pages a page pages with issues and we can come down and start looking at some different stats and so forth of what's going on with the site and when we crawled it so today the first day we've crawled 30 pages right here now we can go in here pages with issues I'm going to go ahead and click right here and it's saying that there's some there's critical issues let's see I I would love to see what those are but I'm going to go click in here and see what happens so issue no description so we have a category keto dinner recipes it's saying that we have no description so uh what does this mean no meta description found tag found or empty so those are a lot of the C category Pages we did not do that but for technical SEO it is recognizing that and it is a factor so pretty good at saying that that's a critical issue I don't know if that's I would I would say that that's probably a medium issue but hey if you're trying to rank you probably do need your meta tag in there for every page but like I said most of those are for category pages and so forth we'll go back over here we can actually print a view full screen we can print this chart for clients and so forth we can download the PNG and you can create your own reports and so forth PDF document pretty cool stuff right there now I want to get back to the regular page so I'm just going to click on audit issues right there all right so we got URL issues we can click on that and it will tell us the different urls that we can go and fix as well so it does look like you have some pretty good information title Too Short we have missing age1 right over here we can go and look what that means no description and so forth four issues found on this page you can go and you can actually look at all of your pages so let's just go and look at like a blog post for example and when you look at that let's see I don't know if I need to recrawl or just push this button over here it's going to take us to that page oh those are categor Pages we have a lot of categories on the site and then now we would just go in and look at a actual page so it says one issue and we have no description you can go and start fixing this stuff so it actually identifies so for we're we're not putting in our meta description correctly on the site which is good because we only have 29 posts on the site so it's still really really small this can be an easy fix in my process and and then we'll be able to fix all this stuff going forward page optimization we can actually go in here and put in let's just do this for fun let's say we are going for keto halap Peno poppers as our keyword so we come back over here we're going to put that in that's what we want to optimize for and then let's go and grab our URL come back over here and place that in right here as well and then say analyze it's going to go and analyze it's going to say page optimization score is an 82 which I think is good optimization issues four and it's going to do all these check marks right over here we can fix the description and made a tag right there there's no description it's going to point out the things that we need to do right over here but overall it does have a pretty good page optimization score content Benchmark ideas right there we can click on that and it's going to give us all these keywords and all kinds of good stuff this is actually can be gold you can actually take all these keywords right over here and go and and and and help you write your article even more they have guides and instructions all along the way up here I just noticed as well so very very robust for onpage type stuff Technical and even onpage optim ation with keyword densities and so forth pretty cool stuff they even have a keyword density tool over here so you can see right over here for keto Crush number of occurrences we have all these different keywords right over here and keto is used 70 times keto Crush right there look at all these different charts a relative weight within page a lot of good SEO stuff right here that we we're digging into I love the charts and so forth super super cool looks like they have a directory uh submission tool over here with all these different direct no Prov defined for this account yet please create a profile in the directory submissions profile screen before submitting they have instructions over here but you could go and submit your site right there here's where you would submit your profile right there and then you have your blog reviews section over here nothing's really happening on blog reviews I don't know if what that tool is but there's nothing really seeming to happen on that tool the only thing that I'm not seeing in the tool as well that I'd really love and that it's it's literally like the only thing that major that it's missing is I'm I just went through all of the tools over here and I'm not seeing a section where you can look at the URLs of a of like a particular website right for example if I go into SE ranking and I go into competitors and if you paste in a a competitor URL right here you'd be able to go in and look at where is it at okay so it's right here under organic traffic research and you'd come be able to come over here and you'd be able to look at page is right and this is where you're looking at only the pages that are actually created it tells you that they have 2,800 pages right over here and it's going to automatically tell you which ones how many keywords they're ranking for for that one article and how much traffic brings in what pages are basically getting the most traffic right so you can actually it tells you a lot of information right here and you can go and look up any websites sitap and get this information as well but having a tool do this for us is pretty nice I'm not seeing this feature a available it's not a fe it's a feature that if you're a true SEO and you're probably going to need this feature but it is something that looks like it's missing unless I'm completely missing it I did go through the whole tool I didn't see the ability to look at pages of our competitors it should be under here somewhere and I'm just not seeing that but other than that this tool looks like it will be getting the job done for me for basic SEO if I do need a tool like this I'm glad that I fully paid for it I don't have to pay monthly for it anymore what do you guys think I did ditch the big tools Heavy Hitters this one's $50 a month on the lowest plan I've been paying for SE ranking for a couple years I just ditched that and canceled my plan today because I want to start looking at uh my tool set on a monthly basis I'm probably pending spending way too much over $2,000 per month on softwares and tools and funnel tools and website tools and hosting and all that stuff I don't even want to know it might even be $3,000 a month and I need to start looking at places where I can actually kind of trade in and and and and maybe I don't need the Mercedes-Benz of SEO am I do I have SEO clients no is this Google and Google traffic making me money no and so those are those are who I people like myself those are people that I think can benefit from a tool like share SEO to still do some keyword research to get that Niche site help up and running but you don't really need the bells and whistles of all those heavy hitting tools unless you're an actual SEO company and you're actually getting someone's paying you to do SEO then absolutely stick with those tools what did you guys think of Shear SEO I think it that it definitely passes the test it's missing a couple different features that I'd love to have I'll probably reach out to them and and and let them know hey these are some big things that I think you should add to the tool but overall this gets a nice clean uh grade from me probably about a 3.8 and I'm happy with that for the time being I think it's going to get the job done and actually you know what I got to be honest that the the rank tracking is very impressive with sheer SEO and that's one of the big reasons to to pick up the tool as well so that would almost lead me to kind of give that push into a 4.0 they do have all your Essentials and they're really good with the website audits from what I saw in the technical SEO on page optimization pretty good keyword research and really good with rank tracking so overall I'll give it a 4.0 what do you guys think link will be below sheer SEO go pick it up if you need an SEO tool on Lifetime deal this is probably one of the most solid deals that you're going to get out there right now going into 2020 see you in the next video but

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