Opposition Rising Against AdSpyPro, GCD and Others
And the more I read about these programs, the more I don’t like what they do and come to believe they’re as bad as Blog Spam programs.
Referencing This Warrior Forum Thread
Consider this: “I was wondering if any of the veteran users could approach this issue within AdSpy Pro: A lot of the affiliate landing pages are not being picked up from the software because most of the links are cloaked or redirected, so the software cannot pick them up. Now you can go ahead and manually find the landing page on AdSpy and change it to “affiliate landing page”, but then you have to go through all your keywords that the landing page may be on and change them as well, which is a long and tedious task. Anyone found any solutions to this problem?”
Regarding GCD, I found this an interesting thought: “Your advantage is in danger of being cancelled out by all the others using it. And in the worst case scenario, the only winners are Chris (who sells it) and google when we all get caught in bidding wars.”
I’ve noticed a similar comment to this – “One thing for sure, PPC is going to get real expensive in a whole lot of popular areas” – on a number of forums.
This caught my eye at Digital Point;
“Your objective with these spying tools is to first spy on your niche and identify keywords, ad texts and landing page formats which seem to work for others in the niche. Then, your goal is to better the campaign, not copy it completely. After setting up your campaign, start getting rid of dud keywords using a keyword conversion tracking tool, like XRay Domination or XConversions. If the campaign you copied didn’t have an opt-in, add one to your campaign and start collecting e-mails. If the bonuses presented by your competitor are lame, add better bonuses worth hundreds of dollars more. Don’t copy campaigns; better them.”
Which raises a question for me to you – do you feel your ethics being challenged by this? Or, does it excite you to think you’re some kind of “spy” and are getting over…
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This is a bit like the East-West arms race years ago where both sides were trying to steal a march on everyone else but ultimately everything settled down to parity. It is best to keep your top-secret weapons to yourself because once they become mainstream they are no longer effective.
I have no doubt this is what the real gurus are doing and only release tools such as this when they have a new and better version in their business armoury.
They will always be one step ahead in the internet wars.
I’ve seen the videos put out by the carpenter group. Looks like a brilliant piece of coding.
but I agree with Terence that the winners are the people who sell the systems.
How long will Google, so concerned with “content” let this go on?If these spy products were so good, why not keep it to yourself? these folks took a lot of time and expense to come up with software they could sell to wannabes.
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Well that’s how McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, Microsoft, Apple General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and a host of others do so what’s the difference?
That is the world we live in. I think it goes like this
“Its a dog eat dog world”. It won’t ever stop so get used to it!