SEMrush has started providing Free accounts to their users. Which means user can now use this SEO tool for free(Ofcourse with some limitations). In this blog post, we are going to talk about how to get the most out of SEMrush free account. Keep reading
Note: We are not affilaited to SEMrush, but we use this tool for keyword research, competetion analysis, website audit and link building etc. So we will try to give you our honest opinion about this tool.
SEMrush Free Vs Pro
Before we dig deeper into the free account overview, its important to know the limitaions of the free account and how it is different from their Pro version.
Keyword Research: The Pro version of SEMrush provides 10,000 searches everyday. But the Free plan will only allow you to perform 10 keyword research everyday. Although there are many free keyword research tools available in the internet that you can use to meet your daily requiremnets.
Website Audit: The free plan of SEMrush allows you to crawl only 100 pages per month. On the contrary, the pro plan will crawl 100,000 pages per month. This is 1000 times more than the free plan.
Position Tracking: With SEMrush free plan, you can track the positions of 10 Keywords every single month. However, the pro plan allows you to track 500 keywords every single month.
To keep it short, SEMrush free plan only let you perform 10 to 100 activities, whether it’s keyword research, website audit or domain analytics, competition audit or wherver.
Is SEMrush Free account worth it?
To be honest, we don’t think it is worth it. Becaue there is a very big gap in comparison to the free and paid plan. So, In order to get the best out of this tool, you will need to go with any paid plan.
Although we recommend that you should give this tool a try. Afterall, its free to use. Infact, if you have a very small website(or if you are just starting out) the free plan will make a lot of sense to you.
Personally we recommend using multiple SEO tools for any website. Even we use multiple SEO tools for our website.
Also Read: How to find trends before they get viral
How to Get SEMrush Free Account?
Now, if you have decided to use SEMrush free account, then here is the step by step guide for you.
First, you need to signup for SEMrush free account. Make sure to use the same email that you’re using on your website. It will help you connect your google analytics with SEMrush easily.
After the signup process is complete, you will get to this SEMrush dashboard. On the left hand side, you’ll see many options.
Simply go to the project section and add your website there.
Then you can add your competitor domain as well. Next, use the site audit option to fully analyse your website. After careful analysis, SEMrush will detect all your site errors and suggest improvement.
Once you add your competetors to SEMrush, it will also suggest you link building opportunities and much more. We personally use SEMrush because of its link building features. It tell us about the possible link building opportunites, after that we can simply use email outreach to get backlinks.
To learn more about SEMrush, we recommend you to watch this video. This is a complete SEMrush tutorial, which will help you understand the user interface of SEMrush and also help you to use this tool effectively.
What is a Good SEMrush Alternative?
A good alternative to SEMrush can be Ahrefs. This tool will also help you in keyword research, link building, website audit and much more. Ahrefs is a Premium tool, However Ahref’s webmaster is a free tool which will give you free site audit and backlink data every week for free.
Ahrefs also has a chrome extention which will help you in Keyword research. We persoanlly Ahref’s Webmaster tool for our site audit and backlink checks.
Some FREE Alternatives to SEMrush are
- Ubersuggest
- Sitechecker
- Answer the Public
- Google Keyword Planner
These tools provide free website audit, and other features that are provided by SEMrush and Ahrefs. But to be honest, these tools aren’t as effective as SEMrush & Ahrefs.
How to Get SEMrush Premium features for Free?
SEMrush provides a 7 day free trial for those who wants to try the premium features and plans. Whenever you feel like you should try the premium features, you can click on start free trial, then select the plan you want to try.
Next, add you billing information and you trial will be activated. You won’t get charged until your free trial ends. If you decide to cancel the trial within 7 days, you won;t be charged a single penny.