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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Ads

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.

    $500

    in Ads credit in the first 60 days

    SEOTesting.com

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASEOTesting.com is an online SEO research tool used to grow search traffic through testing & experimentation.

    $50

    per month

    Pricing
    Google AdsSEOTesting.com
    Editions & Modules
    Offer A
    $500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer B
    $1500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer C
    $3000
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Single Website
    $50
    per month
    Medium (5 Websites)
    $125
    per month
    Large (20 Websites)
    $375
    per month
    Enterprise
    price on request
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google AdsSEOTesting.com
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google AdsSEOTesting.com
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Google AdsSEOTesting.com
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Google Ads and SEOTesting.com
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% above category average
    SEOTesting.com
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Google Ads and SEOTesting.com
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    SEOTesting.com
    -
    Ratings
    Ad dashboards7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization6.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Google Ads and SEOTesting.com
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SEOTesting.com
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Google Ads and SEOTesting.com
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    SEOTesting.com
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Google Ads and SEOTesting.com
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    SEOTesting.com
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile SEO00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Google Ads and SEOTesting.com
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    SEOTesting.com
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google AdsSEOTesting.com
    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google AdsSEOTesting.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google AdsSEOTesting.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google Ads is a useful advertising tool to build brand exposure and generate lead volumes for your chosen product. Whilst it can be costly at times due to competitor bidding strategies and requires constant monitoring to ensure campaigns perform as expected, it typically provides the desired quality and quantity of leads for custom budgets.
    Incentivized
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    SEOTesting.com is great in monitoring the results of implemented SEO optimisations. SEOTesting.com also has extensive content analysis reports that make it really easy to find long hanging fruits for content optimisation. However, I would not recommend SEOTesting.com for rank tracking and it has no tools for technical SEO. But if you pair SEOTesting.com with some other SEO tools of your preference, you get a really valuable toolset with decent pricing.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Automated targeting via Smart Shopping campaign. It's one of the best campaign types in Google Ads. In the beginning, you may see lower revenue and ROAS, but once you give some meaningful time to your campaign, it is most likely to perform well.
    • Smart bidding strategies: Google Ads has developed some really great bidding strategies such as maximizing conversion and maximizing conversion with ROAS settings. Based on one's requirement and their goal with revenue and target ROAS, they can choose the appropriate bidding strategy.
    • Reporting: A business owner and advertising must know about their audiences, how their campaigns have been performing, what's working and what's not, and for that reason, powerful, effective reporting is needed, and Google Ads provides rich details reporting that covers almost every aspect of a business.
    Incentivized
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    • Visualization of data
    • Tracking changes to website over time
    • Provides p-values for change impacts, helping you to sort out whether your "result" is just random noise
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    Cons
    Google
    • If you don't know what you're doing, it will be a costly mistake. You need to target ads, and it is difficult the first time to do that.
    • There isn't a feature to run an add for a couple set date spans, just hours you want to run them or a single date span.
    Incentivized
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    • SEOTesting.com is NOT all-in-one SEO tool. But what it does, it does really well.
    • Rank Tracking requires to fill landing page per keyword. That doesn't make sense as the desired landing page is not always the best ranking landing page for each keyword.
    • Dashboards timelines should have some options to select only the desired timeframe. Then it would be sometimes easier to look at only the last two months for example.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I think Google Ads is good for getting your company out there and becoming more visible to potential customers in general. However, for specific product launches, social media advertising might be a better fit. Also, our user base is younger so social media is a better channel for our target audience.
    Incentivized
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    This is more of a subjective rating, because I think it can be increased with how much our ad spend is. The more of an ad spend, the more visibility we can get, and therefore all features can climb. With an overall larger presence the usability is that where we can get messages out quick, and that's the main thing we try to do with our campaigns.
    Incentivized
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    The account person is quick to respond, though issues reported required support of other teams with no SLA. The data is easily comprehensible and the platform is incredibly versatile. Sometimes scanning problems take weeks to diagnose and fix. The learning curve for SEOTesting.com is minimal
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    Support Rating
    Google
    We have not yet had an account rep who hasn't tried to bully me or other employees to raise our budgets. At the same time, several years ago, one attempted to help refine our ads and ended up changing the ads to be something we were not affiliated with
    Incentivized
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Our agency invests heavily in Google Ads (particularly paid search advertising) on behalf of our clients relative to competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo because Google is the top search engine in the world. Google collects the most search data which enables the company to improve its AI to drive better performance for agencies and brands. As such, our paid search and app install campaigns always start with Google. If a client has a large budget, we will allocate media dollars to other search engines, but in some cases, the entire search budget goes to Google because we see the best returns.
    Incentivized
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    SEOTesting.com is a very specific, focused too. It's not "better than" the other tools. It does something they don't do well: gets data from your SEO results out into an easily-read, easily-reported format so you can 1. learn from what's working and what's not 2. show your team what success & failure look like 3. demonstrate to your boss/client the short-run benefits of investing in SEO Search Console has all the data in it. In fact, SEOTesting.com gets its data from Search Console. But you are going to waste your time and your colleagues time if you try to monitor granular, week-by-week progress for different pages in Search Console. SEOTesting is awesome at that. Use Ahrefs and/or Semrush to get ideas on how to improve your website's content and tech SEO. Then make the changes. Then use SEOTesting.com to find out if it worked!
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Google Ads is often one of our highest ROI channels, especially when you factor in branded ads.
    • Depending on the stage your business is in, search ads can be really powerful from an ROI perspective, providing an investment with a very high spend cap.
    • If you do not manage the campaigns well though, you can quickly spend a lot of money on nothing. So make sure someone is keeping an eye on your account.
    Incentivized
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    Sanitycheck.io Limited (SEOTesting.com)
    • I get more results
    • I get results faster
    • I get data to present the results to client
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