The Search Monitor is a paid web and API platform for search advertising monitoring, competitive insights, brand protection, and affiliate compliance. Brand Protection finds unauthorized brand use in paid search ads and automates trademark takedown complaints. Affiliate Compliance checks ads and landing pages for URL hijacking, brand bidding, ad-copy abuse, restricted ranks, and coupon-code misuse. SEM Insights covers paid text ads, SEO listings, product listing ads, hotel ads, shopping engines, listing services ads, and vehicle listing ads. Ad Armor creates negative keyword lists and recommends pausing or unpausing ads using configurable rules. SmartCrawler coverage is listed across 244 countries, 810 regions, and 26,539 cities. SEM Insights data can be delivered by email, Excel, FTP, or API. Setup can use an API or user interface, with support guidance. Packages start at 100 keywords monthly, while plans describe unlimited logins and keywords. Listed plans start at 500.00 USD per month for Affiliate Compliance and 800.00 USD per month for SEM Insights or Brand Protection.
Who it is for
It suits brands, agencies, affiliate managers, networks, and OPMs that need search, competitor, brand, or affiliate monitoring. Its multi-market coverage is relevant to organizations tracking many locations.
What is good
- Monitors listings across 244 countries
- Automated trademark complaint workflow
- Affiliate violation monitoring
- Exports through email, Excel, FTP, or API
- Web and API access
What to know first
- No free plan
- No free trial
- Pricing includes crawling fees
- Packages start at 100 keywords monthly
Verdict
The Search Monitor brings search advertising, brand protection, affiliate compliance, and competitive reporting into one paid service. Buyers should request pricing and assess keyword and crawling requirements before choosing a plan.
The Search Monitor plans and pricing
All plansCompared on SEO analytics software
- Free plan
- No
- Rank tracking
- Yes
- Competitor analysis
- Yes
- Search engine coverage
- multiple
