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The world’s leading ad protection software to prevent click fraud and fake impressions on Google Ads, Facebook Ads and Microsoft Ads.
Very easy to integrate in the website, won't take more than 10 minutes to integrate. They give proper dataset so that one can ask for refund from adwords with proof.
If it’s for my display ads, the service wouldn’t pay for itself, because those have such a low CPC.
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You need this if you run PPC campaigns
Comments: Awesome, they answer live chat messages instantly. Customer support are particularly knowledgeable and they’re always happy to help with anything.
Pros:
Simply put, you need Clickcease if you run any kind of PPC campaign. We’ve used Clickcease for about 18 months to block the ever growing volume of invalid clicks from the search engines. Being able to block both individual IP addresses and also IP ranges has allowed us to keep PPC costs under control. We can see that around 30% of clicks from Adwords are invalid, and as Clickcease integrates directly with Adwords to block IP’s there’s very little work to be done at our end after the settings have been made on the Clickcease account. The most import part of Clickcease is that it gives factual and indisputable evidence when you need to have a war with the search engines to get a credit for invalid clicks. What I mean by this is that when you have IP addresses in your Adwords or Bing account that you’ve blocked, and you still get clicks from them and more importantly charged for the clicks (this does happen a lot) then you can take your Clickcease evidence and use that as the base for a credit. We’ve received credits of around $23,000 in the last 12 months from Adwords alone and we wouldn’t have gotten these were it not for the Clickcease evidence.
Cons:
There’s nothing not to like. It’s low cost, it’s reliable and it does what it says on the tin.
CHEQ Response
6 years ago
Thanks Alex, so happy you are seeing value!
The best way to stop Click Fraud!
Comments: Everything is already told in the pros part. It's a very user friendly, no BS tool. They do what the say they do.
Pros:
In my career of PPC I've seen a lot of account and talked to a lot of business owners. And one thing that's always haunting me is business owners who are scared to pay for clicks coming from competitors. The moment you start talking about click prices, this is one of the top topics. After doing some research I stumbled on ClickCease, and I'm glad I did. This piece of software does exactly what it says. Of course Google's and Microsoft's filters are good. But by preventing people from clicking the visibility of the PPC accounts went up on the full border. ClickCease completed the used tools in our agency. noteworthy: Besides the tool itself, the customer service is out of it's league. Other (bigger) companies could take an example to ClickCease's tech-savvy, fast and friendly customer service team.
Cons:
Installation can be a hassle, if you're not the owner of the website. But this is with everything that comes with code. Overall the tool is very user friendly!
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Thank you so much for your lovely words, Robin :) Glad that you are seeing value from our software!
I like the window into fraud, but it really doesn't work
Comments: It's OK. Google is the problem not ClickCease. Google is the mafia of online advertising. They leech onto your business and force wasted ad budget. 70% of all advertising traffic is a flush down the toilet. ClickCease has good intentions. Google isn't having it. Blocked IP's mean nothing to Google. I can block until I am blue in the face and the clicks keep getting registered through ClickCease.
Pros:
I like the reporting and the ease of use. Conceptually, I wish it worked. But it just simply does not.
Cons:
It does not stop Google. Nothing can. Google allows the clicks in the banned IP list to keep on coming. On top of that, Google caps you at 500 blocked IP's. With thousands of users per month. Probably 40,000+ users per month, 500 blocked is nothing. Regardless, Google doesn't even care. I have battled them and presented ClickCeaese data to them and they tell me it is inaccurate. Over and over. I watched my ad spend increase by 1K per month on average since I implemenetd ClickCease. I cannot stop the fraud. And when ClickCease sends in the refund claim, whcih should be many thousands of dollars, Google credits back like 25.00 total. I stil keep click cease because I do believe the data and I believe Google is pure fraud. Some day, I plan to get a legal team and sue Google for millions. For now, I am collecting data to prove my case!
CHEQ Response
3 years ago
Hi there, We appreciate your honest feedback. We understand your frustration as click fraud is a real issue and we are doing everything we can to mitigate the damage. The 500 IP limitation is something we get handle by having campaign level IP exclusion ( meaning we can block 500 IPs per campaign) as well as prioritizing and keeping the most relevant IPs in your exclusion list at a time so that you're always fully protected. Please feel free to contact [email protected] to book an account overview call to make sure your account is optimized for your business needs.
Do you want to save money? This is FUNDAMENTAL for any ads campaing
Comments: Amazing. I love the support because they are fast, you use the online chat and they answer very quickly! They send you a copy of the conversation at the email. So to me! I love the software.
Pros:
It is very easy to use, and very very funcional. You only insert your domain, your own rules to filter the users, and "Walla!" its done and working. At the same time, this software let you block long ip ranges for Google Adwords. Important if you discover that they are using bots.
Cons:
To say something "bad", maybe the report each two months with the invalid click in Google Ads it is too late if you have a budget with 2000 euros, but this "law" it is defined by Google not by ClickCease. Anyway, they send ythe report automatic, so it is perfect.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
This is amazing! Thank you so much for your positive feedback, Narciso. It is our pleasure to help
Being a clicker is actually a profession in Russia.....
Pros:
My name is Alona Meiler Yamin and I am the CEO of an agency specializing in advertising in Russian(Russian Advertising Agency). As part of our leading projects, we are building campaigns targeting Russian audiences in Russia and the former Soviet Union. As you know this geographic area is notoriously known for click frauds. Being a clicker is actually a profession there and there are sites where you can register and receive such clicks from service owners. I always recommend our clients to install software that prevents invalid clicks. This software saves at least 10-20 percent of your advertising budget.
Cons:
Actualy Agency plan is too expensive for us
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hi Alona! Thank you so much for writing this amazing review! It really means a lot :) We're always happy to be of help.
Solid Additional Safeguard against Click Fraud
Comments: I really enjoy using ClickCease as a backup to Google's internal fraud protection. Google obviously wants to have a fraud free platform, but click fraud is far from their top priority. I've been using ClickCease for almost two years and enjoy the additional level of protection it provides me and my clients - who are small business owners.
Pros:
The customer support is fantastic - the support people are technical and responsive.
Cons:
Initially I wasn't a big fan of the interface, but it has definitely improved over the last year and a half.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hi Frank, we are so happy to hear that you are enjoying our service! We're so glad to get such lovely feedback :)
Easy of use, best value against competitors, just use it carefully
Comments: The support is fenomenal. Quick answers and always proactive. I see no too much false clicks on our account, but I'm sure in the past we have a lot of problems with competitors clicking a lot in our ads. GoogleAds assures us they are working on that, but I have no way to check until I found ClickCease.
Pros:
The easy of use. I can setup the account in less than 20 minutes. I see results same day.
Cons:
After one week of use, I check some of the blocked IPs. There is a very useful feature (recorded actions). But I see the IP with most clicks been blocked. When I check the recordings, I see at least half of clicks to be legitimate, from people who choose to talk and ask us questions on chat. So it is possible to ClickCease to block some IP range due suspect behavior, and then lose some legitimate prospects from same IP range/address.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hey Francisco! Thanks for the lovely feedback! We're constantly trying to improve our fraud detection and will definitely keep your feedback in mind!
I Run PPC campaigns in very competitive markets, unfortunately not all the competitors playing fair
Comments: Great software, if your budget is running out with no conversions and high CTR just try it and save tons of $
Pros:
Allow me to ignore the competitor clicks and run high bids, and saves me time looking at the IP recordings manually. In some industries it's a matter of losing or winning
Cons:
Interface design is a bit old and hard to find, but the support is super fast and helpful
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hi Uri! Thank you so much for your review. We are happy to hear that you've seen a change in your bills since using ClickCease! :)
Great software
Pros:
The service is easy to implement and catches fraud. I don't have to log in much.
Cons:
There's not much I don't like about the software.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hi Jeevan! Thank you so much for this amazing feedback! We are so happy to be of help :)
Good service, but not so much useful for small markets
Comments: Amazing software with amazing functions. I hope that the service will develop and in the near future, we will have also a possibility use competitors tracking in Eastern Europe as well as use full functionality of the service.
Pros:
All features are easy to use, you see only needed information. Automatic fraud clicks sending to Google Ads reduces the amount of time you spend to review and fraud clicks check.
Cons:
If you are working in small markets, especially Eastern Europe, where the price of one click on Google Ads is low, the amount of savings will be almost the same or even smaller than the price you pay for the ClickCease. There is a problem also in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, where a lot of people use VPN service to browse forbidden websites, use some messengers and secure them from different authorities. ClickCease usually blocks such users, because think that it could be fraud clicks on your ad.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Thank you so much for writing this great review, Pavel! We are continuously looking at ways to improve and your feedback will be remembered :)
An Absolute Necessity
Comments: We had a competitor in a PPC ad space who was trying to use every shady tactic in the book to eliminate the presence of any competition who were using the same keywords as them. With about 40 visitors per hour on a normal day, I was absolutely terrified to see that we had hundreds of visitors on the site at the moment I was looking at our analytics app. This just happened all of a sudden and we were immediately eating tons of fraudulent clicks. While the PPC platform (not to name names, but they control about 90% of web search traffic) caught a little more than half of these, this situation would have put us out of business if it had continued. After setting up ClickCease to work with our website and PPC campaign, about 95% of the fraudulent clicks were eliminated with the out-of-box settings and it took only a couple of days for me to gather the data necessary to make tweaks that had us running ads in normal fashion again. ClickCease saved our business. This is no exaggeration. On top of that, the tremendous weight that was caused by the fear of losing my business to fraud has been lifted from my shoulders. That allows me to use my time and energy to improve our processes. I will never run a PPC campaign without ClickCease!
Pros:
The fraud detection feature is amazing. Easy setup. Great reporting.
Cons:
There is nothing I would change about this product.
Must have for Adwords - Bing
Comments:
Excellent service to monitor your click companies on google, bing.
They give you detailed reports, block click fraud and they report you can use to protect your ads and money. I would highly suggest this service if you are advertising on Google, Bing
Pros:
Excellent service to monitor your click companies on google, bing. They give you detailed reports, block click fraud and they report you can use to protect your ads and money. I would highly suggest this service if you are advertising on Google, Bing
Cons:
No issues at all using the service. I really don't have any cons. The only thing I don't like is that only let you keep and customize up to 3 months.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hey Mike, thank you so much for this amazing feedback! We appreciate your kind words :) We're happy to be of help.
Most reliable option Click Fraud wise
Comments: Customer service is at the top, you have a follow-up since the first step that it really helps to develop the "skills" of this tool, dashboard, and reports are friendly enough for any level, all this comes with a price so you need to verify if the ROI regarding the fraudulent cliks it worth your time, it offer a free trial so you can easily verify the advantages of the tool
Pros:
Custome service support, since the free trial option you have a constant support from the agents, you find webminars tutorials with all the "how to" in order to use the tool, you can generate automatically reports in order to report Google
Cons:
At first sight is an expensive tool, obviously is a money that you can get refund is you apply to it...after this point it depends on Google, if you are able to recover 20% of all the fraudulent clicks you will cover the expenses
Been Great To Us!
Comments: The best thing I can say about ClickCease is their support is bar none, ALWAYS responds very quickly and JUMPS to help resolve any issues. While they've built a very good platform for monitoring fraudulent clicks for PPC, this technology is ever changing and problems are expected to surface from time to time so support is of the utmost concern with a service like this and ClickCease crushes it in this department!
Pros:
Automatic, requires very little if any maintenance or attention after initial configured.
Cons:
Honestly can't think of any at the moment.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hey Jim! Thank you so much for this lovely feedback :) It is our pleasure to be of help!
Clickcease got our Google account permanently suspended
Pros:
Easy to install. But that meant that our account could get canceled sooner
Cons:
Day 4 of using the software, Google notified that they had suspended our account for a recent violation. The cause was using cloaking software or similar that would show or restrict the ad content to some users based on location, IP address etc. We had not made any other changes to our ad account that week. We had used that ad account for 5 years for various ads for our companies and spent north of $1MM on the account. Do NOT use this software if keeping your ad account is important to you. You might be lucky and avert google’s attention but why take the risk.
CHEQ Response
3 years ago
Hello, We're very sorry to hear that your account got suspended. I would like to state that our software does not mask or hide anything, quite the opposite. ClickCease makes every click count and knows its origin by increasing transparency. ClickCease is certified by Google's Ads API and we block clicks in your Google Ads account by adding IPs to the restricted IP list, which is a feature that is supported within Google Ads. If you would like any further information please feel free to reach out to our 24/7 support. Thank you
A great Tool for Fraud Clicks on your Google/Bing Ads advertising
Comments:
I started using ClickCease after some unusual activity on my Brand campaigns,
Since i use the tool it seems that click frauds are happening less and less with time.
Pros:
Easy to use, customer service helped a lot with the onboarding, On Google, the excluded IP's are done automatically, saves a lot of time, a great dashboard to see the click prevention activity
Cons:
You need to upload the bing excluded IP's manually, Also, you need to really set everything to the small details since the tool likes to exclude almost everything, So make sure to have a clickcease rep going over your settings with you.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Thank you so much for the awesome feedback, Yonatan! Our customer support is always happy to be of help! We're glad that you are enjoying your experience.
ClickCease review
Comments:
It is easy to use, transparent, and there is a lot of manual control. Customer service is great and they are more than willing to explain everything and find the best way to solve the problem. Our Account manager, [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is great and very dedicated. He made constant efforts to realize what are the client's needs, and how to improve the way ClickCease works for us.
ClickCease saved us a lot of money by now and eliminated our competitors' efforts to harm our budget. Would recommend to anyone in e-commerce business.
Pros:
Easy to use, transparent, lots of manual settings, amazing customer service and account manager.
Cons:
Some of the reports weren't correct, but the problem is being solved now.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hi Ana! Thanks a bunch for writing this amazing review :) We are so pleased to hear that you are enjoying your experience!
Protects you from craudent Ad klicks
Comments: Google does not help you when single useres kilck your ads 10 or more tmes per minute. Clickease use the google ip blocking to keep thes useres, or ex employee or competitors out.
Pros:
Helpes us when an Ex Employee kept clicking out google ads.
Cons:
No problems so far. This is fuly automated
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hey Christian! What an amazing review, thank you so much :) We're happy we could help you out with your click fraud issue!
We beat click fraud!
Comments: We suspected our competitor was clicking on our ads repeatedly and we didn't know how we could block him. Once we started using ClickCease we were able to see this was in fact the case, and the automated blocking feature ClickCease offers we were able to literally save our campaign from click fraud. Highly advised for anyone advertising on Adwords!
Pros:
We were able to easily monitor and block all the fraudulent IP's that were clicking on our Adwords campaign. Support is awesome!
Cons:
Would like to have this developed for Facebook fraud as well.
CHEQ Response
8 years ago
Thanks so much Rob, we are happy you are enjoying ClickCease!
Thanks Rafa!
Comments:
I Know, this software is called ClickCease, not Rafa, but in his workteam they have a guy called Rafa.
Rafa is a really nice guy, he convince me to buy the Standard edition of ClickCease and I have to say tha this really save my ass. I work in Colombia in plastic surgery and the levels of click fraud are amazing, the software do all that they said, I know that you can find cheapper softwares, but the customer support is awesome with clickcease and the software really works, so do it. Thanks Rafa :)
(Soory for the bad english)
Pros:
-Excelent analytics -Excelent customer suport -Good Price -Easy installation and configuration -God Dashbord
Cons:
At the moment works perfectly for me
CHEQ Response
8 years ago
Thanks Oscar! We will tell Rafa about how happy you are with him and the software :)
Great Product
Pros:
Super easy to deploy. You'll see benefits quickly and be able to track ROI
Cons:
No issues with this product. A simple addition to help maximize our ad spend.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Super happy to read your kind words, Chris! Thank you for the feedback :)
simple using and valuable
Comments: The software its very simple in using and very valuable for us.
Pros:
All the features are great especially IP Block and Funds claim also a great reporting and analytics data
Cons:
The product limitation clicks for Pro plan and domain limitation for standard plan
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
Hey Iyes! Glad that you are seeing value from our software :) We continuously work on improving our services for our customers and will keep this in mind.
Awesome tool to help automate IP banning and save money
Comments: I love the tool. It's just not realistic to look up all the IP's that click on your ads and this helped eliminate my manual process of counting IP's and banning multi-clickers with no conversions. Real time and money saver. It's also great because I only have to maintain one banned IP list instead of going into each campaign. I requested a feature add, and they took care of it within a week, which blew my mind. I've never seen software improved upon that quick, so their team rocks- very responsive.
Pros:
-ability to manage only 1 IP ban list for all campaigns -auto-detection rules -own IP ban list
Cons:
-'Click Fraud Threshold' has a max of 100 days. As a low volume campaign I'd like the ability to set this to up to 360 days if possible. -'Block IPs for a certain period' has a max of 90 days. Again, as a low volume campaign I'd like the ability to set this to up to 180 days if possible.
CHEQ Response
4 years ago
We are so happy to read your lovely review! We appreciate your feedback and we're always looking for ways to improve our software! We will keep this in mind :)
Very good software
Comments: I have been using the software for over 1 year, I have set up campaigns for over 10 clients. The benefits are that customers spend less on paid advertising.
Pros:
I like automation, you don't have to deal with it all the time, you adjust and then just follow the statistics from time to time
Cons:
Pricing of PRO plan can be better - limits are easily reached and exceeded
ClickCease is an irreplaceable resource for digital advertising
Pros:
ClickCease includes easy set-up instructions for Google ads and Facebook pixel integration. It helps us save money for our clients and provide value for their advertising. Best of all, their support team is very responsive and helpful. They even offer free webinars and training to optimize usage of ClickCease settings!
Cons:
I occasionally have difficulty connecting a Google Ads ID to their portal, but usually refreshing and a quick chat with support clears it up