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Raven Tools

Took a look at Raven SEO tools today. Really, not all that impressed. They have a good price but it mostly looks like you’re just hooking up other services to be managed in one location. That’s valuable in and of itself, but not really what we’re looking for with SEO management software. We’ve gone back and forth with several options over the years. We don’t want something that does the work for us, we just want to manage everything in one place. At first glance Raven look promising, but upon the free trial, we’ve decided to move on. We want the best for our clients, we won’t settle for “okay” SEO management software. Manual SEO management seems to be the order of the day, for now.

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