SEO by Daniel vs Report Garden

Report Garden is a budget reporting tool. It takes the metrics you already collect, drops them into multi-channel dashboards, and presents them through white-label client portals. SEO by Daniel is the opposite end of the pipe. It crawls a site, scores it out of 100, and writes the audit. Report Garden shows data you have. SEO by Daniel creates data you did not have. That is the difference, and it is a layer apart.

Where Report Garden wins

• Low cost. Budget multi-channel dashboards for agencies watching the monthly spend.
• White-label client portals. Present the data you already have under your own brand.
• Aggregation. Connects the sources you use and puts their numbers in one place.
• A thin layer, in a good way. It does not force you to replace the tools you already trust.
• Fast to set up for a simple reporting need.
• Familiar tooling. Because it sits on top of sources you already use, there is no new data set to reconcile or migrate.

Where SEO by Daniel wins

• It produces the audit. Its own crawler and scoring engine. No source, no report. Report Garden has no crawler to feed it from.
• Instant and no account. Drop a domain, get a 0-100 homepage score in about two seconds.
• Sitemap auto-discovery. Robots.txt, nested sitemap indexes and gzipped sitemaps, so the crawl covers the whole site.
• A scored report you can resell. 0-100 grade, executive summary, issues grouped by severity, CSV export.
• Clear entry price. €19/month to start (€190 yearly), 14-day trial, no card. Report Garden does not publish pricing; check their current plans.
• No integrations to maintain. You point it at a domain. There is no OAuth connection to break when a source platform changes its API.

A real example

A one-person agency runs lean. He already pays for GA4, Search Console and a rank tracker. Report Garden wraps those into a branded portal for each client, which is cheaper than building his own.

The gap shows up on the first call with a new client. The portal has traffic and positions, but the client asks what is actually wrong with the site. Nothing he has connected answers that, because none of those tools crawl and score the site.

He adds SEO by Daniel to the intake. New client domain, free scan, then a full audit. The homepage scores 63. He exports the CSV and drops the scored summary into the Report Garden portal as the SEO section, beside the traffic and rank data. The client now gets a health score and a fix list in the same branded report. Report Garden kept the reporting cheap. SEO by Daniel supplied the audit that made the report worth reading.

The audit flagged nine pages with titles over the length limit and a stale redirect on the old services page. That gave him a to-do list before the kickoff call, and a reason to charge for the audit line, because the scored summary is clearly work rather than a repackaged dashboard.

The verdict

| | Report Garden | SEO by Daniel | |---|---|---| | Layer | Reporting over connected sources | Crawling, scoring, audit report | | Own SEO crawler | No | Yes | | Free scan, no account | No | Yes, about two seconds | | Client-ready 0-100 report | No, dashboards of existing data | Generated, with executive summary and CSV | | Sitemap auto-discovery | No | Automatic | | White-label portals | Yes | Not the focus | | Entry price | Not published | €19/mo |

When to pick which

Pick Report Garden if you already collect the data elsewhere and only need a cheap, branded layer to present it to clients. It keeps reporting costs down and stays out of the way. The cheap layer stays cheap only if the data already exists.

Pick SEO by Daniel if the data itself is the missing piece. It crawls and scores the site, and the resulting report can sit inside whatever portal you already use.

FAQ

Does Report Garden audit websites? No. It reports on data from sources you connect. It does not crawl or score a site on its own.

Can the two work together? Yes. Run SEO by Daniel for the audit, export the CSV or scored report, and present it in Report Garden alongside your other channels there.

Is SEO by Daniel a replacement for Report Garden? No. It produces one kind of data and does not host multi-channel client portals. If you need the portal, keep Report Garden.

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