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With over 9 years of historic ranking and AdWords data, all corroborated with cached copies of search result pages, SpyFu aims to assist users in improving their SEO (search engine optimization) and advertising strategies by exposing their competitors’ tactics. Unlimited domain, keyword and backlink searches, backlink results, and data exports allow users access to extensive data available on their competitors, and also their own sites.
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Jennie Z.
Marketing Manager
Internet, 11-50 employees
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Speaker 1: Hey, my name is Jenny, and I am the Director of Marketing. I would give SpyFu a four out of...
James R.
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Marketing and Advertising, self-employed
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James R.: My name is James. I'm a digital marketing manager. I'd rate SpyFu five out of five. For more...
Jake N.
Online Media, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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SpyFu is an excellent SEO tool that should definitely be added to your existing kit of software.
SpyFu enables keyword research and planning by essentially spying on your competitors. The entire process with SpyFu is painless and simple considering a perfectly fluid website and user experience. We particularly benefit from the PPC/CPC metrics that help us target particular keywords in paid search. Site monitoring is a top feature of SpyFu, as well. Essentially, you can log in and see what your biggest competitors are doing on a daily basis. It's incredible and it helps narrow the gap.
I find the data to be unreliable at times. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing, considering that it *seems* accurate for the most part. But it is an estimation service. Some of the metrics can also be a little confusing, but with practice it becomes a better experience.
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Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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SpyFu provides you with tons of data about any website you enter. It all comes down to how you use that information to improve your website's ranking and SERPs. The tool itself is great.
I have been using SpyFu for years now. It is one of the best competitor analysis tools out there. I mainly use it to see for what keywords my competitors rank for and where they get their backlinks from. This is, however, just the basics. You can do a lot more with SpyFu. 1. Find keywords for PPC. See what keywords your competitor is targeting in a PPC campaign and what it is paying for those keywords. 2.AdWords analysis will give you an overview of any website's AdWords campaign and how it is going for them. 3. SERP analysis is another great area where SpyFu will help you identify keywords and SERP position of your competitors.
1. Most often, the data that SpyFu pulls is outdated. This is one area where they need to work. 2. You get to see PPC details of AdWords only. No Facebook, Bing, or other PPC networks.
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Gambling & Casinos, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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I think SpyFu should be an essential part of your standard SEO Tool Set
I can easily gauge what my competitors are focusing on in terms of Keywords for their website, but also at the same time finding new ideas and potential niche's for your site. I am also a fan of the custom branding reports which allow you to offer SEO Rerporting as part of your service.
At times I found the UI to be a little bit overwhelming, due to the large number of information that is displayed to the end user.
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E-Learning, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Personally I think a tool like SpyFu is a must have to for PPC and SEO. Its unique advantage is that it allows you to compare how you're doing to competitors. This is something we check rather often to make sure that we're doing what we can to stand out.
Great tool for competitive research and keyword research. It lets us know how we're doing in comparison to our competitors. Also, when we're planning for new keywords, we always plug them in here to help determine the search volume and relevance. The tool is also rather inexpensive and provides us with a lot of value. We also got to see competitor ad copy, which helped us remain competitive.
The interface took some getting used to in the beginning. There was a rather steep learning curve when we first started using the platform so make sure to do your research to ensure you're using it correctly!
Thank you for sharing your experience using SpyFu! It sounds like you covered a lot of ground with many different features. Also we have added on-page help (tutorials, glossary, videos, tours) to help users get up to speed across the site. I hope that helps for future tools.
Erin E.
Real Estate, 51-200 employees
Used other for 2+ years
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Overall, I think is a greta tool for the value!
Really reasonably priced. Much of the digital marketing realm is aimed to mid and large companies, which prices smaller companies out their products. SpyFu helps fill this void.
You get what they give and the customization for what you want is limited. I would love to create my own custom keyword lists and track custom competitors over time. There are SERP competitors/results that I am not interested in and think it would a stronger tool, if you could bring down the keywords and competitors you care about.