Vincent van Scherpenseel

ContentKing for Conductor - Real-time SEO Auditing & Monitoring Platform

Ensure customers find your most valuable digital content with 24/7 website monitoring from ContentKing, now part of the #1 enterprise organic marketing platform from Conductor.

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Evan Roberts

I've been using this for some time now. I recommend all my clients get setup on it and it has saved the day in a lot of situations. It picks up changes faster than a human or running your standard crawl software in intervals and that alone is a great value to companies. Having crawl data of your site that is always up to date provides more value than you know, it is one of those things that you don't know you need it until you have it.

Pros:

Great product. Glad to see folks pushing the boundaries of what SEO software can be. The change tracking, saved my bacon several times <3.

Cons:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ haven't found anything yet. I'd love an agency account but I think they are working on that.

Steven van Vessum
Thanks for your kind words Evan! As a matter of fact, we have specific accounts designed for agencies. They need more flexibility than regular customers, you'll find more info on https://www.contentkingapp.com/l.... Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you want to do a quick call to help you on your way!

When I signed up to CK, I thought it was a Deep Crawl killer. I was wrong. They're different products, marketed at doing different things.

Deep Crawl is more of a deep, sophisticated analysis that's "on demand", whereas CK is proactive and alerts you to changes before any potential damage is done.

I feel like you still need both products to succeed at on-site SEO. CK is a must-have for large sites where new pages/posts are added daily, and changes are frequently made. It's important to keep track of editors - to ensure no mistakes happen. In addition, Deep Crawl is needed as it does dig a bit further and catch things that CK would miss, or doesn't crawl for.

IMO, get CK and get the daily updates and constant monitoring. Use deep crawl for an audit every 2-4 weeks.

Pros:

Affordable, effective, handles scaling well

Cons:

Can seem quite "weak" compared to Deep Crawl on some points

Vincent van Scherpenseel
Thank you very much for your nice words Mary :) Regarding our auditing suite: although we have the most important things covered (enough for most people) it's true that there are some specific tests lacking at the moment. We're working very hard on extending the coverage of our auditing suite at this very moment and expect to launch an array of new tests soon. Please drop me an email at vincent@contentkingapp.com to let me know which tests you would look to see added first.
Ryan Maake

Onsite SEO has always been inherently problematic in that it's almost entirely reactive. You don't typically notice issues until they're already affecting your site.

ContentKing tackles that issue, IMO, quite effectively: It monitors your site for changes in real time and alerts you as soon as anything bad happens.

For example, we had a mixup while pushing a site update and an entire directory of content ended up blocked by our robots.txt. Normally it would've taken days or even weeks for us to realize that search engines weren't crawling the pages in that directory, but ContentKing notified us within literal minutes of the change and saved us a huge amount of potential missed traffic.

Every SEO I know has experienced a situation where one small (usually inadvertent) change resulted in serious site issues. The accompanying panic and scramble to diagnose/fix aren't fun. And that's why I like ContentKing so much - it takes care of the little things so I don't have to, and frees up my time to focus on the bigger picture.

Pros:

The most helpful hands-off SEO tool I've ever used - you set it up and it lets you know the second your site has an issue.

Cons:

None to mention - development is ongoing and timely, so lots of new features on the horizon to look forward to.

Vincent van Scherpenseel
Hey Ryan, that's an amazing review! Thank you so much 😻
Sam McRoberts
Awesome, always down to check out a new SEO tool!
Steven van Vessum
@sams_antics Great to hear Sam! Let us know if you have any questions, happy to help!
Nivas Ravichandran
Hey Vincent, Congratulations on the launch and being featured on Product Hunt. Does this also take care of ahrefs alert does?
Vincent van Scherpenseel
@nivasravi Thanks Nivas! ContentKing monitors your website 24/7 and alerts you whenever something unexpectedly breaks or changes.
Joe Robison
I've only been using it for a few days but I'm loving it. The killer feature is definitely the change tracking and alerts - no one else is doing it!
Steven van Vessum
@josephrobison Thanks for your kind words Joe, glad to hear you like it! :)
Oren Todoros
Absolutely love the onboarding process. Still discovering more about the service, but so far, it's fantastic .
Steven van Vessum
@orentodoros Thanks for the kind words Oren!
Steve Mills

I really like this software. The real time data insights it gives you are invaluable, but when managing multiple clients is where it comes into its own.

ContentKing enables me to more productive with my current clients, and provides an extra layer of "SEO Security" that I had been looking for. IE: Now I feel way more informed, even with my minor clients.

Ever had a client change URL structure and not tell you mid week? It happens. CK will tell you instantly, and keep an entire change history of your URLs = no more losing data/disasters as long as their site is set up in ContentKing!

Pros:

Real time, Unique insights & Data.

Cons:

UI was clunky, its improving all the time, and I currently have no complaints with i

Steven van Vessum
Hi Steve, thanks for the kind words! Should you have any suggestions, be it UI or feature related - feel free to drop me a line at steven@contentkingapp.com. We're aiming for the sky, so any feedback is much appreciated!
Tomasz Karwatka

This is helping us every day to increase visibility of our professional services website. Thanks Guys!

Pros:

Easy to use, Super fast

Cons:

No freemium version :(

Vincent van Scherpenseel
Many thanks for the kind words Tom, great to hear :)
Roman Szubryt

Very nice tool for observing changes on their own pages, that is what developers changed at the last deploy and competition in reverse engineering what they do.

Pros:

- very useful to keep keep big websites healthy according to G seo guide

- easy to use and understand

Cons:

- missing keywords positions reports

Vincent van Scherpenseel
Thank you very much Roman! :)