SEOForge vs Outrank

In the next ten minutes or so, I'll, I'll review Outrank for you. I'll actually go ahead and pay so you don't have to. And I'll show you step by step how the platform works, what it does for you, what's working well, what's not working well. So you can make the best decision before purchasing this platform. So let's get started and try Outrank. I'm gonna go ahead and sign up. Once you sign in, you'll notice that Outrank just has a hard pay wall. You can't actually use the platform unless you pay. But for you guys, I'm gonna go ahead, sign up, pay for this thing, and then just test it out.

So I just paid for Outrank. They take $1 to verify your card, they claim, and then they charge you $99 per month after a three day trial, which is quite short. But I'll go ahead and type in my website right now. Let's see what happens. Took about two, three minutes. But now they actually did give me a description of my website. So we'll go to the next step.

Target audiences, competitors. The target audiences is actually spot on, but the competitors I think could use a little bit of improving. anyways, we'll move forward with this for now and then I have my blog and then top article. I'll actually not include this and not connect. Google Search console either. Enter a valid URL. Yeah, so they want the HTTPs before.

And then I'll go ahead and continue. And then for the article style, I like it professional. Three links per article. That sounds about right. Brand, color. They didn't actually fetch this automatically. Brand and text. I like watercolor and then sketch watercolor as well. Table of contents, YouTube video, call to action, infographics.

No emojis. Mention similar products and tools. Wouldn't that be competitors? Okay, interesting. That's not what I was expecting. First person writing. Yeah, that's fine. Okay. And then I'm on the same page. there was a little glitch. Okay. I'm not gonna set up an integration yet, but they seem to have 10 integrations.

Notion, WordPress, WordPress.com, Webflow, Framer, Ghost. I'll just keep this for now. And yeah, I mean this is the dashboard they have. So it seems like they'll take the next four to five minutes to create a content strategy for you. I'll be right back once this content strategy is ready to show it to you guys. Five minutes later and I'm still waiting. It's been 10 minutes now. So I did, you know, I'm a techie, so I did the techie thing and I decided to actually inspect and see what's happening. And I see a bunch of failed requests, meaning that probably something went wrong on their end.

And yeah, because of that, I mean it's been 10 minutes and I'm still waiting for the content plan. And see what happens in the next 10 minutes as well. So it did take like 16 minutes, 17 minutes but we finally have one month of content strategies ready. Okay, let's go. So the first article is still being generated. but I see here we have keywords for the next month. So they're pretty good.

Some of them are really good, like medical coding, AI, that's really good. Scribes in hospitals, really good. We don't actually do this. Yeah, those two are really good. Data mining for healthcare. Not really fit. But I would say most of them they look pretty much on point more or less. And I see they have guide explainer educational content that breaks down complex topics, topics, concepts or processes. So it's like a how to guide, a list of resources, most of them are guides.

And then a list around up curated collection of tips, recommendation strategies or advice organized around a common theme. Okay, so I'm going to let this work and then we'll see the actual article quality and then let's check out the rest of the platform. So yeah, obviously there's no content history. The article settings that we just saw, the integration, integrations and then we have linking configuration pages we link to. So I'm assuming they're gonna actually look at what other pages they can link the content to.

Yeah, that's really good. And then backlink exchange. So this is quite important because what Outrank does from their landing page is they actually exchange backlinks between the different websites that are using Outrank. So this can be really useful for someone, you know, who's just starting out and then getting getting backlinks. and if you don't know what backlinks are there, you can think of them as trust signals.

So the more quality and contextual backlinks you have from other websites, the more Google and other search engines, both traditional and AI search engines like ChatGPT believe that you're an established, trusted source of information. So if you have, let's say if I'm running, I don't know, an AI medical scribe, right, and I get a backlink from someone who's doing healthcare automations and they also have lots of good backlinks, then yes, that's really, really good. Because Google will think, okay, since there's a backlink from this highly established source, then now I'm also starting to be seen as a highly established source and high trust, the high trustworthy source.

But if you get backlinks that are not contextual or if they come from spammy websites, well, you're done for. You can actually be seen as spam yourself. And Google will hit you very bad in one of its helpful content updates or spam updates. And you can literally lose all your traffic. There's horror stories of founders companies just having to buy a new domain because SEO would never work for them again. So this is what they have here and I see they have 100 credits and one credit is one domain rating.

Don't know how that translates exactly. The number of backlinks or the quality of the backlinks that I'm getting. And then minimum domain rating. Now domain rating 5, that's actually not too good. It's quite low because if you, let's say if you're just getting started and you get a few backlinks from websites with, with domain rating 5, that's okay. But if it has domain rating 20, 30 and more, that's way better. So yeah, 100 backlink credits as well. And then they have a free tools builder. So that's an upsell here I see where they are just creating free tools for websites.

So that's really interesting and I think that can be useful. however, I also believe that if they're not really on your website, probably they'll be driving traffic that won't really convert. I'm not sure about this one. It depends on the execution. And they've sold 10 spots and now they have 20 more spots here. Given that Outrank has 2500 websites within their network and no one really bought those, probably means that is not performing too well.

And they have a human curated service. So another upsell one 4k to have human powered, offer so an actual human, do this and then they're just selling you on a package to get more backlinks. There are so many people offering those and with mixed results. Like you know, not every directory is good to get a backlink from. If it's not contextual to your business, it won't really, really work. And there's no guaranteed domain authority increase.

So it really depends on whether it's going to work or not. So I see the article is still being generated. I'm going to be waiting for this and I'm going to show you guys the quality of it. So after about 30 minutes of waiting, the article is ready. Let's check it out together. Revenue cycle management best practices for 2026. The that's a nice cover image. The target keyword listicle and then we have status slug meta description.

What is the Meta title, that's actually very important. I'm assuming it's that one at the top. But the H1 and the Meta title can be slightly different. That's very interesting. I would say. Nice table of contents, nice AI generated image. they don't always add a lot of value bullet points.

A quote that's not actually quoted to someone, it can be completely made up then. So other websites, okay, a lot of text, a YouTube video, that's quite nice. Power BI dashboard, that's not really contextual table.

That's a very long article. And there's no sources, no FAQs, nothing. So this is not really optimized for SEO and geo either. FAQs source is very important to drive trust signals because when you think about it, the things that Google really cares the most about, it cares about one thing. It's all on the Google website. It's E-E-A-T. So this is the standard that Google uses in order to assess whether a piece of content is truly valuable or not.

And what does it stand for? The first thing is experience. Does the content creator have first hand real life experience with the subject? So what you have to do is highlight creator experience, share personal stories, photos or data, proving hands on experience. The problem with Outrank and any other AI generation tool out there is that they just reword the same exact content. They just go on to other websites, grab their content, grab content from the LLMs memory and they give you the same exact content over and over again. Now the second thing that Google cares about and other search engines do is expertise.

Does the author possess the necessary knowledge, skills or credentials? So this is things such as adding an author to each article, making sure that you know, you, you have a bio for the author. Does your website look legit? Is it spam? do people spend, you know, a good amount of time on the website because they believe in what they're reading? So that's something that you know, it's not necessarily up to Outrank. That's something that you'll have to do personally as well. And then authority. So is the website or author recognized? Or go to source for the topic?

So this is about the backlinks and this is where Outrank really helps. And then there's trustworthiness. Is the page accurate, safe, honest and legitimate? This is the most crucial component. So if you share the same information as a hundred other websites, then in most cases search engines will assume that that's true information so you're trustworthy. But given that even AI and how many people are publishing blogs right now. If you say the same exact information and the same exact information is across a hundred websites, you're not really going to stand out from the crowd.

And that's a problem because with an article like the one that, Outrank made, the information is good, but there's no real, like, nothing interesting, nothing insightful, no real data. It's just text, text, text, text. And I mean, that's fine. This would have worked amazing a few years ago when there was no AI. But realistically, you need to have good data, good data, insights, unique insights as well. That's very important. And what Outrank doesn't do is it doesn't actually collect any of that data.

There's data sitting in different databases, data repositories. There's research papers that present unique data that no one's reading nowadays because the LLMs don't look at the research paper, then no one actually writes, information about that. Right? So that's very, very important. So I would say from this point of view, I think this can be genuinely improved. And now one of the next big things is, is the content seen as AI generated. Now, having AI generated content is absolutely fine, but it's way easier for Google to just go and say, okay, this is just, you know, content that we'll see across 100 pages.

It's AI generated, it's not high quality. And this content, despite Outrank promising that this is not AI generated, seen as 90% AI generated. And this is just the article that Outrank made. So this is really not good. And I think it shows because I've been running Outrank myself on one of my, websites. And the results after about three months are 38 clicks. I mean, 38 clicks. And I've paid, well, $99 times three, so we can assume $300.

So I'm paying roughly, $8 per click. But I'm running ads, right? And I'm getting, I mean, my CPC is around $1.50 to $2. So this is actually proving to be, you know, way less efficient than just running ads. And when you look at the chart, there's no upward path to growth. There were a lot of impressions and then that went down. So this is really, let's say way, way below my expectation, from what I really thought Outrank would do in terms of SEO and geo traffic.

And now let me show you one website that's actually running SEOForge.ai. Disclaimer. I'm the founder of SEOForge.ai and I've been doing SEO for a pretty, pretty long time across all my projects that I've scaled to over 200,000 users and over 1500 businesses. And this is one result. He's actually been running, SEOForge just for the past, two months. But you can see compared to Outrank, he's already got nine times more clicks, ten times more impressions, and his average position is in the top 10 compared to 75, for Outrank.

And the, the trend is upward. So he's going to keep growing, he's going to get more clicks. And he was actually telling me that he's very happy because some of those clicks converted into leads And that's very important because his niche is super, super competitive. He's building, you know, a way to orchestrate and have agents, AI agents work together. That's super competitive. There's so many platforms out there. So he's super happy with the platform. And you can see the results speak for themselves. So now let me show you what SEOForge actually has to offer.

The core idea is the same. You also get a content plan. But the difference in the content plan we generate for you is that we don't just find random keywords and then we start generating articles, because that will work in SEO up to a point, but after a certain point, your SEO will start going down and you'll lose most of your traffic. And that happens a lot with a lot of clients from different AI SEO platforms. So what we do is we actually build topic clusters. So within each topic cluster, we find keywords that are highly relevant to your business.

We create article ideas, and we know we are going to interlink those articles so we can show as much topical depth and expertise as as possible. So once we generate the content plan for you, which takes about 10 minutes, by the way, even less so, way less compared than, to Outrank, then we actually, you can actually go ahead and create those articles, or you can just say on autopilot and it will start generating articles. And then we have, integrations where you can start publishing those articles to your website automatically.

So let's say I want to actually go and see one of the articles. So I'm just going to go ahead and press, visit article. And then this is the article here that I've generated, from the content plan. So you see, it comes with, stock images, which is way better than AI generated stock images because they're real, they're realistic. And then it comes with full meta title and meta description. This is optimized based on the other results for this specific keyword in Google.

So you can actually see we can actually increase the click through rate from people who are searching for those things. And it's not just stock images, you can actually also generate diagrams. So we have a button right here, you can generate any diagram. You can copy text, let's say from the article and then start generating a bunch of different diagrams. This is exactly how this diagram fully on brand was generated. So this is not just you know, top of the funnel generic fluff.

This is actually something that would be genuinely interesting to a human reader. And then every article that we do has a table of contents similar to Outrank, but we also have key takeaways. And this is so important because all the studies we've done and all the research that the most famous SEOs in the world have done shows that when you include stats, unique stats, unique data at the top, top of the articles you write on your blog or on your website, that's where AI pulls most of its citations from.

So if you dig your data, your unique facts, deep down into an article, you won't actually get cited. So you're missing on a huge opportunity you add those key takeaways. First of all that's amazing for a human reader because a human reader will come and within the first 10 seconds they'll decide whether they want to stay on this page or not. So if they see key takeaways that resonate with them, they'll continue reading because they want to understand more about those key takeaways. Otherwise they'll just go somewhere else. And then we also create graphs.

So it's very important that you know, for example this, this section is about revenue. It's important that you actually help people visualize this data. And this helps a lot with Google, images too. So this image, because it has the correct alt text, assigned to it, it will actually show up in Google Image search. So people can actually come across your images. You're not just getting traffic from Google Search, you're getting traffic from Google Image search too. And while stock images don't really perform there, the charts really do.

And then you'll notice we have pro tips, we have key benchmarks. So we try to make every single piece of the article super interesting to humans, and to AI chatbots too. And the really other interesting thing is we have an FAQ section. I mean this is super valuable to get cited in ChatGPT, Claude and increase your traffic from those sources, which is way higher converting than just traffic from Google. And then we also have a list of sources we want to show that, hey, this content, you know, is actually deeply rooted into research.

It's not just some sort of fluff that we just created with ChatGPT. And then you have an AI chat, so unlike Outrank, you actually have an AI chat. You can ask a question, you can ask it to reword certain paragraphs, add new paragraphs and so on. You can add stock images, you can add charts, or you can create your own visuals and then you can either export it or directly publish it to your website. So this is super easy. It's really made to make this as easy for you to use as possible.

And I mean the results really, they speak for themselves. There's people who've been using it just for two months and already getting over three hundred clicks, almost 30,000 impressions. And those clicks converting to leads. And the beautiful thing about it is that Outrank offers a three day free trial. We offer a seven day free trial and the money back guarantee. You don't like us even like a few days after your trial ends. We're all human here. We're a small team. We want to provide genuine value to you so you can anytime reach out to us. There's really no risk in, in checking SEOForge out.

So if you're serious about getting more traffic from SEO, from AI Search and growing your business, I think we're the platform you should be checking out. Well guys, thank you so much for your attention and I'll see you soon.