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- Free with no card: Google Search Console, Hacker News and Reddit.
| Field | Moz Promoz.com | Google Search Consolesearch.google.com | Hacker News and Redditnews.ycombinator.com |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Moz Pro covers rank tracking, site crawls, link research and keyword research, and originated Domain Authority and Page Authority — the 0-100 scores the industry still quotes in outreach emails. Its free tools allow limited monthly queries against the Moz link index. | Search Console reports how a site performs in Google: queries, impressions, clicks and average position, plus index coverage, sitemap submission, Core Web Vitals and manual action notices. Data spans 16 months and can be exported by API or streamed into BigQuery. | Hacker News ranks links by upvotes with a steep time decay, and Show HN is the convention for launching your own work. Reddit distributes through topical subreddits, each governed by its own self-promotion rules and volunteer moderators. |
| Category | SEO, growth & newsletter | SEO, growth & newsletter | SEO, growth & newsletter |
| Cost tier | mixed | free | free |
| Pricing | Free tools (Link Explorer, Keyword Explorer, MozBar, Domain Analysis) with small monthly query caps. Moz Pro runs about $49/mo Starter, $99/mo Standard, $179/mo Medium and $299/mo Large, around 20% off annual, after a 30-day free trial. | Free forever, no paid tier and no seat limits. Performance data covers 16 months. API, Looker Studio connector and BigQuery bulk export all included at no cost. | Free. Hacker News sells no placement at all. Reddit sells ads separately, but organic posts in any subreddit cost nothing. |
| Why builders pick it | Domain Authority is the number sponsors, PR contacts and link partners recognise, so it is worth having on hand even if you audit elsewhere. MozBar overlays metrics directly on the search results page. | The only source of real query data — every other tool estimates. It shows which articles Google already ranks and which queries you nearly rank for, which is where the cheapest traffic lives. | A front-page HN post moves thousands of technically-minded readers in an afternoon and reliably produces backlinks. One well-matched subreddit can outperform every paid channel for a niche publication. |
| Watch out for | The Moz link index is smaller than Ahrefs's, and DA is Moz's own metric, not a Google signal — do not optimise for it. Free tool quotas are a handful of queries per month. | The Performance UI caps at 1,000 rows per query and samples heavily; use the API or BigQuery export for full data. Its numbers will never match your analytics tool. | Both punish marketing tone: HN buries promotional titles and Reddit mods ban accounts with no comment history. Spikes are single-day events, and an HN front page can take down under-provisioned hosting. |
| How to wire it up | not logged | Verify via DNS TXT record or your host's one-click integration. | Post as Show HN with a plain descriptive title and no adjectives. |
| Editor's pick | No | No | No |
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# Tool comparison — Moz Pro vs Google Search Console vs Hacker News and Reddit Source: Kbaise, a directory of tools that work with Lovable projects. Pick one and tell me why before writing any integration code. ## Moz Pro (moz-pro) - URL: https://moz.com/products/pro - Category: SEO, growth & newsletter - Cost: mixed — Free tools (Link Explorer, Keyword Explorer, MozBar, Domain Analysis) with small monthly query caps. Moz Pro runs about $49/mo Starter, $99/mo Standard, $179/mo Medium and $299/mo Large, around 20% off annual, after a 30-day free trial. - What it is: Moz Pro covers rank tracking, site crawls, link research and keyword research, and originated Domain Authority and Page Authority — the 0-100 scores the industry still quotes in outreach emails. Its free tools allow limited monthly queries against the Moz link index. - Why builders pick it: Domain Authority is the number sponsors, PR contacts and link partners recognise, so it is worth having on hand even if you audit elsewhere. MozBar overlays metrics directly on the search results page. - Trap: The Moz link index is smaller than Ahrefs's, and DA is Moz's own metric, not a Google signal — do not optimise for it. Free tool quotas are a handful of queries per month. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/moz-pro ## Google Search Console (google-search-console) - URL: https://search.google.com/search-console - Category: SEO, growth & newsletter - Cost: free — Free forever, no paid tier and no seat limits. Performance data covers 16 months. API, Looker Studio connector and BigQuery bulk export all included at no cost. - What it is: Search Console reports how a site performs in Google: queries, impressions, clicks and average position, plus index coverage, sitemap submission, Core Web Vitals and manual action notices. Data spans 16 months and can be exported by API or streamed into BigQuery. - Why builders pick it: The only source of real query data — every other tool estimates. It shows which articles Google already ranks and which queries you nearly rank for, which is where the cheapest traffic lives. - Trap: The Performance UI caps at 1,000 rows per query and samples heavily; use the API or BigQuery export for full data. Its numbers will never match your analytics tool. - Wiring: Verify via DNS TXT record or your host's one-click integration. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/google-search-console ## Hacker News and Reddit (hacker-news-and-reddit) - URL: https://news.ycombinator.com - Category: SEO, growth & newsletter - Cost: free — Free. Hacker News sells no placement at all. Reddit sells ads separately, but organic posts in any subreddit cost nothing. - What it is: Hacker News ranks links by upvotes with a steep time decay, and Show HN is the convention for launching your own work. Reddit distributes through topical subreddits, each governed by its own self-promotion rules and volunteer moderators. - Why builders pick it: A front-page HN post moves thousands of technically-minded readers in an afternoon and reliably produces backlinks. One well-matched subreddit can outperform every paid channel for a niche publication. - Trap: Both punish marketing tone: HN buries promotional titles and Reddit mods ban accounts with no comment history. Spikes are single-day events, and an HN front page can take down under-provisioned hosting. - Wiring: Post as Show HN with a plain descriptive title and no adjectives. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/hacker-news-and-reddit ## Quick read - Free with no card: Google Search Console, Hacker News and Reddit. ## Rules 1. Prefer the free tier when no budget was stated, and say what the ceiling is. 2. Read the full dossier before integrating. 3. Fetch /api/public/models before writing any AI model ID.
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