Joe K.
JK
Joe K.
Digital Camapign Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great Detail Rich Competitor Research Tool"
5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

I love the amount of details SpyFu offers as an insight into your specific competitors, including whether or not they are using Google Ads down to what specific keywords they are bidding on and images of the specific ads they are using, when available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

This platform typically can't give you full data and insights for everything you're looking for, so as the insights it does give is helpful, sometimes it isn't as helpful as it appears once you realize the information is limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jess C.
JC
Jess C.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Marketing Experts Honest Feedback"
5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

The best thing about SpyFu is the Recon Report! The data that you can capture and use to set you up for success is outside the scope of other platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

There really isn’t a downfall that I have found with SpyFu. The information is so accurate that it allows us to suggest that our clients audit our work monthly using the free version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sidra Condron of SpyFu

We really appreciate your amazing review. Thank you, Jess! It's exciting to hear how much you're getting from the tool.

Verified User in Human Resources
UH
Verified User in Human Resources
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"great tool to understand your competitors"
5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

competitive advantage is very high, this team has developed a great product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

we did enjoy it a lot so nothing in particular that we disliked Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mitchell H.
MH
Mitchell H.
O
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great for PPC & SEO"
5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

I love the PPC Kombat and the competitor information. In addition, I absolutely love the way they do the templates for PPC. It saves so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

It is harder than some to track projects although I could be doing it wrong. I add all the information but it does not seem to work. It is much easier with longtail, ubersearch, etc etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A Must Have In Your Toolset"
4.5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

SpyFu is easy to use and is a great way to help find base level info about potential clients and competitors on both the PPC and SEO front. We frequently use SpyFu to determine Organic keywords that we may be missing out on, what type of content needs to be created and any potential keywords to target on Google Ads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

Sometimes I feel that the data is somewhat skewed especially the Costs on the PPC side. There are times that the monthly cost is much lower or higher than what a current client is spending therefore trying to determine the competitor's advertising dollar landscape is questionable. Also, the interface, although easy to use, has its moments when tables or ad examples are cut off making it difficult to read data or see full context. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicole W.
NW
Nicole W.
Web Marketing Communications Specialist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good website that offers an advantage"
4.5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

- comparison to competitors

- easily seeing competitors ads

- seeing keyword groupings

- being able to easily research competitor search ads

Seeing competitors copy for all their ads was incredibly helpful to get inspiration for our ads. The rankings allowed me to see where we needed improvement. The reports were very clear and helped to gather more ideas to shape new copy variants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

- high CPC on suggested keywords

- CPC discrepancies between Google keyword & SpyFu with SpyFu often showing keywords as more expensive than Google

I often had to plug all of the suggested keywords into the keyword planner which was frustrating because the words it recommended had such high CPC values listed on SpyFu. Often these values were a bit off or unreliable in comparison. Also matched with current campaigns they were unreliable.

The good buy/great buy system seemed a bit weird as a result because great buys seemed to have oddly high cost per click average bids. The keyword list was a bit difficult to use as well with adding and incporotating into Google. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services
AL
Verified User in Legal Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One of the best.. Help me close clients every week.."
5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

I love how easy to use it is and the information it provides. We use it to close perspective clients. It is great to be able to say we can basically download your competitors playbook for Pay Per click ads. It also helps us determine the amount a client should spend in a give market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

I can't day there is really anything that we dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luis R.
LR
Luis R.
Founder
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I love using Spyfu because it helps my google campaigns perform much better!"
5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

Kombat and PPC Keywords tab are the things I like the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

I haven't found something I dislike yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sidra Condron of SpyFu

We're so happy to hear this, Luis! Thanks for sharing your experience. It's great to see you getting different benefits out of the tool.

Manabu T.
MT
Manabu T.
Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Essential tool that Helped us a lot in understanding our SEO shortfalls."
5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

I can research the types of keywords others selling similar mobile clinical apps. It can also track my own SEO progress after understanding our keyword strengths and weaknesses. We usually address those by improving page headers and adding or updated content addressing search queries. In a short week, our average positions have improved by 100s and some are now in page 0 and page 1 of the search results. For us SEO seems to work the best and better than Ads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

SpyFu does a lot of computations to look at all our keywords and competitors' too, so understandably it can take many days to gather that data. But I hope they up the speed so that instead of several weeks, it will be down to a few days. Then this would be a perfect tool for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sidra Condron of SpyFu

We are excited to see you getting tremendous, measurable results and are humbled to be a part of it. Thank you for sharing this as well as your constructive feedback about our reports. I am happy to say that we are working on speed improvements across the site and hope to focus on improving our reports in the near future.

Simon W.
SW
Simon W.
Co Founder
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Spyfu for SEO and PPC"
4.5/5
What do you like best about SpyFu?

We use Spyfu for competitor Intelligence for both SEO and PPC. It does a really good job for PPC Intelligence and a decent job for SEO. We have other tools for SEO spying that have some additional benefits but on the whole Spyfu is one of our must have tools for our Local SEO and PPC marketing agency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpyFu?

I am not sure there is anything I really dislike, the tool has improved a lot of the last few years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.