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    ObservePoint

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AObservePoint is a web governance and automated auditing platform for digital analytics, privacy, accessibility, and marketing operations teams. It scans websites, landing pages, staging environments, and configured user journeys to identify analytics implementation errors, privacy risks, accessibility issues, broken links, and other website defects.

    $598

    per month

    SpyFu

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASpyFu is the eponymous SEO and PPC research platform from the company in Scottsdale, Arizona focused on "spying" on competitors, or basically using their behaviors to refine your own through keyword and content analysis, and backlink poaching. This positional search engine optimization and paid listings management platform touts the ability to lower costs and raise rankings via a Kombat-oriented approach... basically a cute way of saying "it makes comparisons" of how well your site does in niche…

    $39

    per month

    Pricing
    ObservePointSpyFu
    Editions & Modules
    Essentials
    $599
    per month up to 4,000 page scans /month
    Professional
    $2,400
    per month up to 20,000 page scans /month
    Enterprise
    Custom ($0.0325 - $0.11 / page)
    Starting at 20,000+ page scans /month
    Basic
    $39
    per month
    Professional
    $79
    per month
    Team
    $299
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ObservePointSpyFu
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    ObservePointSpyFu
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    ObservePoint
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    Key User Insights
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    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ObservePointSpyFu
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of ObservePoint and SpyFu
    Feature
    ObservePoint
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    Ratings
    SpyFu
    6.6
    52 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings6.040 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings6.044 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings7.829 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings7.232 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings6.031 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings6.120 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of ObservePoint and SpyFu
    Feature
    ObservePoint
    -
    Ratings
    SpyFu
    5.8
    39 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings5.033 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings5.028 Ratings
    Mobile SEO00 Ratings8.029 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings5.035 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of ObservePoint and SpyFu
    Feature
    ObservePoint
    -
    Ratings
    SpyFu
    7.2
    28 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings6.028 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings8.518 Ratings
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    ObservePointSpyFu
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    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Data Services
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ObservePointSpyFu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (62 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Configurability
    9.1
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    ObservePointSpyFu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ObservePoint
    ObservePoint is a great tool for automating page testing and standardizing campaigns to observe accurate customer insights. You can identify customer mapping journey. They also help in data protection and insights which are very important and essential these days. They should work more on easy interface designs. Overall, it is the best.
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    SpyFu
    If you have a Google ads PPC campaign and then I would say this is more or less essential if you want to know what your competitors are doing. You can get very useful data out of it even if you subscribe for one month. And the pricing is very reasonable. Even if you don't use Google ads, I would say this is still useful for your SEO/SMO team since it gives you a great idea of what keywords and traffic your competitors are working on.
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    Pros
    ObservePoint
    • The UI for ObservePoint is intuitive and robust. This makes training new engineers and using the product easy and productive.
    • All Audit exports are formatted as tab delimited text files making the data easy to analyze and manipulate in a Spreadsheet or database.
    • The list of tag vendors that are discoverable is comprehensive making it easy to interrogate most any tagging implementation.
    • Standard reporting within the UI is robust and easy to consume.
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    SpyFu
    • Keeping a tab on competitors organic and inorganic activities
    • Helps identify where the competitor is getting the backlinks from.
    • Identify competitors top content and the keywords that's bringing them traffic
    • Get proper information of their current and past ADS run on Google.
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    Cons
    ObservePoint
    • Page details, although interesting, are not very useful as the data is too granular and not possible to integrate with other analytics data for insights.
    • Some of the custom tagging may be a little complicated, so sometimes we need an engineer or an ObservePoint tech to help us out.
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    SpyFu
    • As with any database, their keyword database has limits, so the data returned is relative to their database, not necessarily the full picture.
    • When SpyFu database or scoring chances, the data provided can spike, thus causing confusion among stakeholders, we're reporting to.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ObservePoint
    ObservePoint has a robust solution that is well supported and is continually innovating to meet new business and technology needs.
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    SpyFu
    Love this tool but would like insights from all 3 major search engines not just Google. I would also like deeper understanding of the placement for local businesses on Google Places/Maps. Insight into mobile search rankings and best landing pages per industry would also help :) Overall, SpyFu is a necessity for serious search marketers.
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    Usability
    ObservePoint
    It's easy to navigate and learn. The reporting and output are intuitive and robust features for finding and identifying actionable insight.
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    SpyFu
    SpyFu is an easy to use tool, and has a self -explanatroy dashborad to generate the data needed to provide insights into any B2B SEO and PPC campaign. It is not comprehensive, but it certainly provides good enough insight to make it a valuable part of any agency tool stack
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    Reliability and Availability
    ObservePoint
    I've only experienced one system availability issue in the 3 years we've been using it.
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    SpyFu
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    ObservePoint
    Sometimes it can get a bit slow when auditing particularly huge sites but recent upgrades in infrastructure have done a lot to mitigate this behavior.
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    SpyFu
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    ObservePoint
    Support is very strong indeed and has been consistent over the last 4 years. They are also friendly and tag nerds like me!
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    SpyFu
    SpyFu comes with a link to tutorial videos. I recommend you watch them. The software is capable of so much you really need to watch the videos and learn how to get the most out of it. When I have a question 90% of the time it's there. When it isn't, and I reach out to them, support is always quick and concise.
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    In-Person Training
    ObservePoint
    Instructor was knowledgeable and delivered the content well.
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    SpyFu
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    ObservePoint
    It's easy to find the information you need when you need it and it is easy to consume.
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    SpyFu
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    ObservePoint
    Start with small audits until you have determined what you might want to filter out.
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    SpyFu
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    ObservePoint
    I have not used any other product other than ObservePoint for my requirements. there are a number of features for which it has proved helpful. Technology Governance ensures our data collection tools and processes are executing as planned, so our organization can make better decisions based on better data and so on
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    SpyFu
    I was surprised to find I preferred Semrush when it comes to keyword research. SpyFu is great (and less expensive than Semrush), but I felt the data Semrush provided was vaster than SpyFu. I was able to get more competitors spending insights in Semrush than SpyFu. Overall, I liked the ability to use both in our keyword research for both paid and organic marketing.
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    Scalability
    ObservePoint
    I have not reached an unreasonable product limitation as of yet.
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    SpyFu
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    ObservePoint
    • ObservePoint has helped us quickly (within minutes) catch when a process or pathing on the website breaks, which allows us to fix it quickly. Whether technical/dev or analytics issues, without ObservePoint, they could have been undetected for weeks.
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    SpyFu
    • Helping us track our ranking.
    • It helps solve the problem of ambiguity when it comes to Google Ads. It makes the strategy more clear.
    • You can sift through lots of different online analytics to find the information, but it takes way too long. SpyFu has it all in one place!
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