SpyFuReviews of spyfu.com

I had been a subscriber for a number of years on and off. One of the biggest bug bears was being in the UK and every page reload took me to the US data so I would constantly be having to change the drop down to UK. I was also given a discounted rate on returning and then somehow that membership was cancelled on an active payment method (not by me) and I was then only able to buy a much higher priced subscription. The site was sometimes problematic to use, but overall I believe the company have good ethics and try their best but I felt it wasn't enough and I found a better solution to my needs.

Don't like that there is no option to upload all keywords data. Not from PPC campaigns, but like from google keyword tool.

I have ben a subscriber for nearly 6 months now. I had been able to get invaluable competitor keyword information and Adword ads from spyfu in that time. I will continue to subscribe and would give 5 stars but for these issues: 1. I was not able to export keyword lists from spy into Google Adwords on the couple of occasions that I have tried - Adwords basically says that spyfu's CSV file is not in the right format. A spyfu adviser later said that there was a technical problem with spyfu systems on those days (just my luck!). 2. On some keyword lists, I can't go beyond the second page of keywords, that is I can only see the top 50 - 100. This probably disappointed me the most. 3. I have been doing Google Adwords for a client for the last 6 weeks. We have had reasonable success with the campaign with around 1500 click through sessions from a thousand visitors to the website. Yet I can't find any data about the retailer on spyfu, so we cannot benefit from any of spy's insights to improve the campaign. This is really disappointing. Apart from these, the potential of spyfu for my digital marketing business is trully huge.

On a whole..i think the site is very ambitious, and when working right, offers so many great tools and features for anyone tracking paid and organic search and keeping tabs on the competition as well. it's feature reach and relatively inexpensive. All of that said, I run into constant bugs with the features where I'm continuously going to SpyFu's live help to report them...and they seemingly don't know about most of them until I report them. They often take a while to correct as well. One other gripe is that some of the data doesn't always add up to making sense(estimated CPC or # of clicks, etc0..and when I ask SpyFu about it...they don't always have great answers for why the data doesn't make much sense..other than "we're just grabbing what the search engines give us" or something along those lines. In theory the service is terrific...but to reach that height I'd like to see the site not only big-free...but consistently bug-free. I think there is room for improvement in QA and testing. Does the subscription help me? Undoubtedly. Have I run into issues with bugs many times where it limits how much time and strategy I can put into SpyFu? Absolutely. I keep the subscription because I figure sooner or later they will perfect all they're trying to accomplish. I just wish it wasn't on my dime sometimes.

The platform itself is easy to use and we appreciate the ability to automate monthly reports. However, it's frustrating to only be able to pull a monthly report on a specific date. When client meetings fall on or before this date, we are unable to pull the reports with sufficient time to prepare for the meeting. The insights provided are helpful, though it would be nice to see a bit more information on the graphs. We often pull the third page to show clients, and there isn't much information for them to grasp on their own. At the beginning of this month (March 2015), we were unable to pull reports for any of our clients. It took about two weeks for the issue to be resolved. This makes us look unprepared.

The program was a good program. When I would run my companies website the ppc advertising didn't even register.

When gathering and analyzing competitive keywords via tools such as Kombat, SpuFu is one of the best tools on the market. But my team has struggled getting baseline monthly search volume when trying to identify new keywords opportunities. We work in a niche sector so while this is not surprising, we found other tools that met these needs better.