[probably because —- were charging me for updates every month and crippling the software if you don’t take some huge unnecessary package – just to get basic features]

and WebPosition doesn’t even deserve mentioning.

Do not Buy the WebCEO.

Pros:

1.- Awesome tool 2.- Nice Smooth analysis, reports, etc. 3.- Amazing Rank Checker (accurate)

Cons:

1.- Kinda expensive program, compared to other ones 2.- Must buy the Professional (almost $500.00) to be able to place your logo in the reports, or buying Acrobat Pro to edit em… (pointless) 3.- AND MOST IMPORTANT… a $130.00 Anual fee… so your WebCeo keep up the Accuracy…

In conclusion:

I wouldnt Recomend it as long as they keep that high fee, a $49.99 anually would be WAY better.

Cya Soon

• Estoy Aburrido

You’re right – checking one’s competitors backlinks is an essential step. Whether you use the backlinker checker in WebCEO or SEOelite or SEO Spyglass, you have to use one regularly. All three of the above do a good job. Something which I like about SEO Spyglass which sets it a bit apart from SEO Elite WebCEO iss that it is cross-platform so I can run it on my Mac as well. But for Windows use, the WebCEO backlink checker is one of the best and very fast.

Cheers, Alec

Firstly I do believe the concept to use such a service is great. Finding out what my competitors are doing is really a good idea. Unfortunately the way KeywordSpy go about it just doesn’t cut it for me.

Firstly what made me signup was the fact that I could see all the keywords my competitors were using. This is great in theory, but after I signed up I found that most of the keywords many of my competitors were using were rubbish. It seems that all my competitors were using keywords that were not working for them. After I signed up I found that over 2/3 of the keywords I received from my competitors were useless.

Secondly I decided to signup was to find the keywords with little competition.
Sure they supply these but out of the few that were actually related to my industry, the analysis was way out of date. All the keywords that Keywordspy said only had 1 competitor really had at least four.

And the final reason for never touching Keywordspy, is they recurring charges. As a merchant I feel it is the customer’s choice weather to stay, this does not apply for Keywordspy. I only wanted to test it for the first month, so three weeks later I logged on to cancel my account. THERE IS NOT AUTOMATED WAY TO DO THIS!

Here is the email I received..

Dear xxxxxx,

We regret to hear that you want to cancel your account with us.

To cancel your subscription, please click the link below and follow the KeywordSpy Subscription Cancellation procedures:

We will process your cancellation upon receipt of the Subscription Cancellation Form. Please note that cancellation request cycle normally takes 3-5 working days to complete.

We wish to join you again in the near future as we continue to include and integrate more features in our system.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.

Sincerely,

KeywordSpy Support

I have to fax them a copy of a form which is available on their website. The issue with this, it has to be faxed and can take 2-5 working days. Even if I was to fax my application across I would run out of time and be billed for next month. I am unsure of the law on this but shouldn’t the consumer have the right to email KeywordSpy and ask to have their billing authority revoked?

After all this I declined to fax the form and contacted my bank. They told me to send an email to KeywordSpy stating that they no longer have any authority to bill my card. If they bill me again my bank will create an investigation causing a chargeback to Keywordspy,

I am very disappointed with this and believe that the consumer has the right to choose, not to be forced into a silly scheme intended to cost even more.

I must be honest I don’t care what things cost, everyone is in business to make money and if that is what they think their service is worth than so be it.

I am looking for benefits for my clients, enough value were they are happy to pay us for the services that we offer.

Currently I was looking at purchasing, AWR Server, and now I am interested in WEB CEO.

With software it is not the monies to purchase its the learning of the new software, training staff and ensuring that they use the softwares tools correctly, countless hours of staff’s time is worth thousands of dollars.

As I type this post I have more then 10 tabs open waiting to go and try out all the different tools that you have recommended on this post.

If I chose to have the best selection of software, no matter the cost, of all the software on the market, which covers all aspect of web marketing, SEO, PPC, SEM etc what would you tell me to do. Taken that this is my first time here, I hold you in high regard with Aaron Wall, SEOMoz, Marketing Pilgrim, Matt Cutts and the other sites that I visit regularly.

Thank you again, a new devoted reader of your site.

Have an exseollent 2008

Goran

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Arupa that’s not a comment that’s an ad. After a quick visit tool doesn’t make any particular sense to me and it costs $89.95/month.