
Getting found is only half of search work, and most agencies buy the two halves from different companies. There is the plugin that writes the titles. There is the subscription that produces the report proving the titles worked. The second one is where the money goes.
The optimization half
Darkside SEO Tools is $49 a year. Titles, meta descriptions, share image and title separator. Structured data is driven by a business type. LocalBusiness schema carries the logo, telephone, full address, Google Maps listing and per day opening hours, closed days included. There is FAQ and article schema, breadcrumbs, canonicals, robots controls, XML sitemaps, Open Graph and Twitter cards, and an llms.txt file for AI search.
The standout is the internal links panel in the post editor, which shows outbound broken links and incoming links to the page you are writing. Of five competitors, SEOPress does outbound only and its author has confirmed on the support forum that there is no incoming view. Squirrly does incoming only and caps it. None does both while you write.
Outbound broken links and incoming links to the page being written, in the editor
One small behavior worth naming: an unreachable link is reported as unreachable rather than broken. On staging and password protected sites that distinction saves hours of chasing links that were never wrong. No competitor documents it.
The proving half
Darkside Rank is $99 a year and runs a fifteen section audit. It covers content, Google preview, indexing, mobile, structured data, security, performance, accessibility, branding, social profiles, domain, content analysis, AI search, technology and links. Scores are kept per run with the change against the previous score. Keyword positions are tracked over time, and Google OAuth connects Search Console and Analytics.
The competitors tab does not just score rivals. It names the checks they pass that your site fails, which is the difference between a chart and a to do list.
The checks a competitor passes that this site does not
Then the part that normally costs the most. White label reporting, your logo and your name on the PDF and on the email carrying it, is included. Priced elsewhere, that single capability costs $351 a year at SEOptimer and $1,599 a year at WooRank, and cannot be bought at all from Screaming Frog.
Keeping the audience
Darkside Marketing is $49 a year. Campaigns with opens, clicks, unsubscribes and bounces. A block newsletter designer, lists, segments, tags, double opt in, a subscriber portal, archives and SMTP with a send queue. Automation pulls in new posts and products, and skips when nothing was published. The list lives in your database, so there is no per contact pricing and no external account.
Automation that gathers new posts and products, and skips a send when nothing was published
Darkside Social, $49 and in pre-order, schedules to the platforms from the post editor with per platform text and images rather than one message flattened across all of them.
Four products, $246 a year, one renewal date.