# SEOmonitor — SEO

SEOmonitor by SEOmonitor holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-11-04. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: SEOmonitor (https://seomonitor.com)
- Category: [SEO](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/seomonitor
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/seomonitor/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/seomonitor/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-04 · evaluated 2026-11-04 · oldest source captured 2026-11-03

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: SEOmonitor
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026

## The panel's verdict

SEOmonitor's captured help pages document a rank-tracking, keyword-research and SERP-feature tool. Its strongest area is rank and index data, scored 6 to 8: the pages publish daily dynamic-depth collection on the primary device, a weekly top-100 collection each Saturday, and fail-safe rules that hold a suspicious drop — ten or more positions from positions one to five — for up to two further crawls before recording it. Reporting and API, plus data portability, each scored 6 to 7, built on a documented API at version 3.0 with limits of 10,000 requests a day, ten per second and 1,000 rows per request, Looker Studio connectors, and CSV export without extra costs. Technical audit scored 0 with no higher score recorded: every crawl documented is of Google's results, not the customer's site. Keyword and content sits at 4 to 5, with no public information on difficulty scores or content briefs. No sovereignty attributes are on record, and the captured pages give no public information on hosting location or the contracting entity; no price figures appear either.

**Speaks for it:**
- Rank-collection methodology published in detail — daily dynamic-depth collection on the primary device, a weekly top-100 collection on Saturdays, and stated drop-verification rules with up to two held crawls.
- Documented API at version 3.0 that reads any data in the account and adds keywords, with limits published at 10,000 requests a day, ten per second and 1,000 rows per request.
- CSV export of all daily ranks, competitor ranks and daily Visibility Scores on demand, without extra costs and with current filters respected.
- Vendor-maintained Looker Studio connectors for Campaign, Competition, Forecast and Organic Traffic, plus a newer unified connector with AI Overview and AI Search data, a Google Sheets add-on and a SERP Discrepancy Checker Chrome extension.
- Four-category keyword intent classification built from analysis of the top ten landing pages per keyword, refreshed daily, with per-keyword and per-group breakdowns.

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on a crawler or technical audit of the customer's own site — the documented crawling collects Google's results pages.
- The vendor states that exporting historical ranking URLs or landing pages is currently not available.
- We found no public information on a backlink database, city-level rank tracking, keyword difficulty scores, or content briefs and a writing assistant.
- We found no public information on white-label client reporting, multi-client management, or Search Console and Google Analytics connections.
- API export requires an active subscription, and we found no public information on retention or a grace period after cancellation.

**Best for:**
- You need rank data you can defend internally, with published collection schedules and drop-verification rules to set against Search Console.
- You want to move SEO data through a documented API with published limits into your own scripts, Looker Studio dashboards or Google Sheets.
- Your work leans on keyword intent and SERP-feature depth, including a dedicated AI Overview snapshot view on both desktop and mobile.
- You research keywords at volume and want Research and Keyword Vault unlimited and included in every plan at no additional cost.

**Avoid if:**
- You need site crawls, technical audits or Core Web Vitals diagnostics in the same platform — the documented crawling collects Google's results, not your own site.
- You depend on bulk export of historical ranking URLs or landing pages, which the vendor states is currently not available.
- You rebill client reporting and need white-label reports or client-facing access — the documented reporting runs through the API, the Looker Studio connectors, the Sheets add-on and CSV export.
- Your procurement requires a documented hosting location, contracting entity or data processing agreement — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v2). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The In-House SEO Lead | The Agency Owner | The Technical SEO | The Content Strategist | The Data Analyst | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crawling & technical audit | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | n/r |
| Keyword research & content guidance | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Rank tracking & index quality | 4/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Reporting, integrations & API | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Data portability & exit | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** |

### The judges

- **The In-House SEO Lead** (v1.0): Owns organic traffic for one large German site and reports on it monthly. Wants German-language keyword data that is not an afterthought, rankings she can defend when they disagree with Search Console, and audit findings specific enough to become a developer ticket.
- **The Agency Owner** (v1.0): Runs forty client sites and rebills the licence. Wants multi-client management, white-label reports a client can receive unedited, and per-seat costs that do not punish a growing team. Reads "contact us" on a pricing page as a margin problem.
- **The Technical SEO** (v1.0): Lives in crawl data and log files. Wants JavaScript rendering, crawl budget analysed, indexation diagnosed rather than listed, and regressions caught between crawls. Treats an issue list sorted by count rather than by traffic impact as busywork.
- **The Content Strategist** (v1.0): Decides what gets written and can only commission so much. Wants topic clusters, honest opportunity sizing, cannibalisation caught before it happens, and briefs scored against what actually ranks rather than against keyword density.
- **The Data Analyst** (v1.0): Wants the numbers in the warehouse, not in a PDF. Cares about a documented API with published credit costs, bulk historical export, and whether three years of ranking history leaves with the customer or dies with the subscription.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Knows every vendor claims the largest index and the most accurate rankings, and that no buyer can check either. Reads instead for what can be held to: refresh frequency, stated limits, credit costs per endpoint, and what the invoice does when the team adds a seat.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

No sovereignty finding yet.

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Data**
- Competitor exports: Competitors' ranks export available [S8]
- Competitor visibility export: Daily Visibility Scores export for own and competitors [S8]
- CSV export: yes [S6]
- CSV export applies filters: yes [S8]
- CSV export default timeframe: 30 [S8]
- CSV export processing: email_download_link · yes [S8]
- CSV export unrestricted: no · yes [S8]
- Exports section: CSV exports collected in Exports section [S8]
- Forecast exports: Forecast Scenario and Objective data exportable as CSV [S8]
- Groups exports: Groups data and groups structure exports available [S8]
- Keywords structure export: Keywords structure export includes group/folder names [S8]
- Landing pages limitation: no [S8]
- Monthly search volume export: Monthly search volume export at keyword level [S8]
- Rank tracker export options: Current view metrics, top 20 ranking pages, all daily ranks, landing pages with latest ranks [S8]
- Traffic exports: Organic Traffic table and chart exports available [S8]
- Trend exports: YoY search trend export at group or keyword level [S8]
- Visibility export: Visibility data export per group and timeframe [S8]

**Integrations**
- API daily slots: weekly secondary-device rank copied into daily slots between checks [S4]
- API export: yes · yes [S8]
- API rate limits: 10000 · 10 · 1000 · yes [S6]
- API read any data: yes [S6]
- API token: Settings → Profile · yes [S6]
- API token generation: API token generated via Edit Profile screen [S7]
- API top100 endpoint: primary device weekly full coverage; secondary weekly top 100 (current) or top 20 (grandfathered) [S4]
- API write: 3.0 · yes · add keywords to campaign groups [S6]
- Chrome extension: yes [S6]
- Data studio connector: yes [S6]
- Looker studio: yes [S8]
- Looker studio auth: Connectors authenticate with an API token generated from Edit Profile [S7]
- Looker studio campaign connector: Campaign [S7]
- Looker studio competition connector: Competition [S7]
- Looker studio connector: yes [S6]
- Looker studio connectors: Looker Studio connectors to bring campaign data into Looker Studio [S7]
- Looker studio forecast connector: Forecast [S7]
- Looker studio limitation: Daily Visibility endpoint incompatible with time series charts [S7]
- Looker studio organic traffic connector: Organic Traffic [S7]
- Looker studio pagination: Large datasets (over 100 groups or thousands of keywords) manageable via pagination [S7]
- Looker studio templates: Forecast · Organic Traffic [S7]
- Looker studio unified connector: New unified connector including % Clicks, AI Overview (AIO) and AI Search data [S7]
- Sheets addon: yes [S8]

**Product**
- AI overview snapshot: yes [S3]
- API docs: yes · any programming language [S6]
- API feature scope: Feature might be available only for Tracked Campaigns [S6]
- API free unrestricted: yes · yes [S6]
- Apps mobile only: yes [S3]
- Article date: Article last updated date [S2]
- Campaign limitation: some features [S3]
- Competitor intent: Competitor landing page main intent shown in Competition tab [S2]
- Completeness check: fewer than half expected results · keywords usually returning at least 20 results · yes [S5]
- Ddc all accounts: yes · yes [S1]
- Ddc daily primary: yes · yes [S5]
- Ddc definition: DDC searches up to site position depth on primary device instead of fixed top 20 [S4]
- Ddc safeguards: checks for incomplete responses and large drops; earlier data may be reused for deeper results or held suspicious updates [S4]
- Ddc schedule: daily DDC plus weekly top 100 · weekly top 100 · weekly top 20 [S4]
- Ddc weekly scope: first ten results pages · Saturday [S1]
- Domain explorer retention: historical keywords beyond top 20 displayed as 20+ [S4]
- Draft campaigns availability: Pro and above · 0 [S4]
- Draft campaigns coverage: top 20 · user-selected [S4]
- Drop check scope: yes [S5]
- Drop full depth confirmation: yes [S5]
- Drop verification held crawls: 2 · recorded after two held crawls [S5]
- Failed page retry: limited number of times · yes [S5]
- Flights hotels recipes algorithm: Flights · Hotels · Recipes · yes [S3]
- Forecast draft limit: draft forecasts beyond position 20 use available data with depth-limitation note [S4]
- Group intent breakdown: Group-level intent breakdown by keyword count and search volume percentages [S2]
- Group visibility metric: yes [S3]
- Html download: yes [S3]
- Incompleteness checks: automatic checks for incomplete results and unusually large rank drops [S1]
- Intent categories: Keyword Intent classifies keywords into four intent categories [S2]
- Intent filter: Keyword filter by primary search intent [S2]
- Intent method: Intent classification based on top 10 landing pages analysis [S2]
- Jobs update note: yes [S3]
- Keyword intent breakdown: Per-keyword intent percentage breakdown in keyword sidebar [S2]
- Keyword table icons: Keyword table icons show primary intent, updated daily [S2]
- Local pack filter: yes [S3]
- Navigational source: Navigational intent derived from brand identification [S2]
- Primary device selection: highest search volume · yes · yes [S4]
- Product grid organic: yes [S3]
- Questions content: questions content shown for People Also Ask [S3]
- Recrawl limit: Recrawl only available for today [S4]
- Rejected attempt discarding: yes [S5]
- Research depth limit: keywords ranked 21-100 may not appear in new Research results until top 20 [S4]
- Research included: yes · 0 · yes [S4]
- Research update: top 20 · desktop · monthly [S4]
- Secondary device collection: weekly top 100 · weekly top 20 [S5]
- Secondary device coverage: top 100 weekly · top 20 weekly · weekly [S1]
- Secondary device schedule: top 100 · weekly [S4]
- Serp feature elements count: ads · top stories · questions · images [S3]
- Serp feature impact: yes [S3]
- Serp feature position: for some features [S3]
- Serp features daily: yes [S3]
- Serp features desktop mobile: desktop · mobile [S3]
- Serp viewer download: Download SERP · Recrawl · SERP Viewer [S4]
- Serp viewer download: SERP Viewer via Performance > Primary card · Download SERP button per tab [S1]
- Serp viewer tabs: Today / Dynamic · dated Weekly · dated, last Saturday collection [S1]
- Short results check: yes [S5]
- Suspicious drop handling: yes · yes [S5]
- Suspicious drop rules: drop of 10+ positions · drop of 20+ positions or not found · drop of more than 40 positions · not protected by this rule [S5]
- Top100 depth definition: Top 100 = up to ten Google results pages; fewer pages possible [S1]
- Top10 listings count: yes [S3]
- Top depth definitions: first two pages · first ten pages [S4]
- Trend explainer: yes [S3]
- Weekly collection day: Saturday [S4]

**Support**
- Channels: in-app chat · email [S7]
- In app chat: in-app chat [S4]
- Status page: Status Page for maintenance and incidents [S1]

## Questions

### Is SEOmonitor European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where SEOmonitor is based.

### Where does SEOmonitor store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

### Does SEOmonitor have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to SEOmonitor?

As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates [SE Ranking (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/se-ranking), [SISTRIX (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/sistrix) and [Semrush (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/semrush) highest among the other 37 SEO products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [SISTRIX](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/sistrix) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [SEOmonitor alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/seomonitor/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We found no public information on pricing on the pages we read (help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5595610-dynamic-depth-crawling-ddc-daily-ranks-and-weekly-serp-coverage, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/9557648-keyword-search-intent, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5612207-serp-feature-detection-tracking, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/14361231-faq-rank-tracking-daily-ddc-weekly-serps-and-device-coverage, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/6337532-fail-safe-rank-tracking-system, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5972792-unrestricted-free-api-access and 2 more). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- We found no public information on compliance on the pages we read (help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5595610-dynamic-depth-crawling-ddc-daily-ranks-and-weekly-serp-coverage, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/9557648-keyword-search-intent, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5612207-serp-feature-detection-tracking, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/14361231-faq-rank-tracking-daily-ddc-weekly-serps-and-device-coverage, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/6337532-fail-safe-rank-tracking-system, help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5972792-unrestricted-free-api-access and 2 more). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- 8 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.

## Sources

- [S1] Crawling & technical audit — found from sitemap: http://help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5595610-dynamic-depth-crawling-ddc-daily-ranks-and-weekly-serp-coverage (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S2] Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap: http://help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/9557648-keyword-search-intent (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S3] Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap: http://help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5612207-serp-feature-detection-tracking (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S4] Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap: http://help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/14361231-faq-rank-tracking-daily-ddc-weekly-serps-and-device-coverage (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S5] Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap: http://help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/6337532-fail-safe-rank-tracking-system (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S6] Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap: http://help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/5972792-unrestricted-free-api-access (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S7] Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap: http://help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/4062369-how-to-use-our-looker-studio-connectors (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S8] Data portability & exit — found from sitemap: http://help.seomonitor.com/en/articles/6128048-full-csv-export-capabilities (checked 2026-11-03)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "SEOmonitor — SEO", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-04. https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/seomonitor

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