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What Is CHEQ Essentials?
Eliminate invalid activity from your paid marketing funnels, campaigns and audiences, and divert your ad budget to real paying customers only.
CHEQ Essentials automatically blocks invalid traffic and click fraud from harming your Google Ads, Meta Ads and Microsoft Ads, making sure no damage is done to your ad budget.
CHEQ is trusted by over 14,000 customers worldwide, ranging from marketing teams and medium businesses to the world's leading marketing organizations.
Who Uses CHEQ Essentials?
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Where can CHEQ Essentials be deployed?
About the vendor
- CHEQ
- Located in Holon, Israel
- Founded in 2014
CHEQ Essentials support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
CHEQ Essentials pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- No free version
CHEQ Essentials does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. CHEQ Essentials paid version starts at USD 99.00/month.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- CHEQ
- Located in Holon, Israel
- Founded in 2014
CHEQ Essentials support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
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Features of CHEQ Essentials
Reviews of CHEQ Essentials
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.