John Jonas has released a review entitled “An Honest Review of Google Cash Detective”. [Article Reprint]


John Jonas has released a review entitled “An Honest Review of Google Cash Detective”.

An Honest Review of Google Cash Detective

I haven’t used it yet, but it looks really good based on the videos. It looks like it will be really helpful to all affiliates out there.

I mean, why wouldn’t it be really good, Chris had two really, really good examples of software to model it after in UnderCoverProfits and ClickFlipping.

In fact, I think the concepts Chris used to build his stuff are going to become vitally important to anyone who wants to be successful as an affiliate online. If you don’t have software to do these things for you, you’re basically dead.

It has become so tedious and time consuming finding profitable affiliate programs that I believe only affiliates with softwares like this will survive in the future.

Having said that, and, in the spirit of WhatsCrapAndWhatsNot.com I want to warn you of some problems you might encounter after buying GCD (Google Cash Detective) or any software that tells you it identifies which affiliate programs are profitable:

1. Installing and maintaining a server GCD runs on your own server that you have to pay for. After 7 years of building web systems, I have come to realize that softwares like this are not small, simple programs to install/maintain/run. Be sure you’re prepared to maintain your server and the problems that might arise from running software like this.

2. Getting Banned From Google If you search google too many times from a single IP address too quickly, Google will ban you from searching ever again. If software is server based (on your own server, or desktop based, you need to know google’s limits and be careful to not get banned. If you get your server banned, your software is basically worthless.

3. Google Changing Code Google changes their html code on their search results pages from time to time. When they do, software that is dependant on Google’s code (like GCD) is very likely to break on your server because it’s code will need to be updated to match Googles changes (remember “Good Keywords” and how it broke when Overture changed the code in it’s results?) When this happens, your software could be down for weeks while you wait for your programmer to fix the code and for you to download and re-install the software.

***(I know this is the case because over the course of 3 months Google has changed their code 2 times and we’ve had to fix it at UCP. Fortunately for us and our customers, it only takes us a few minutes to fix the code and everyone is automatically updated. No Down Time.)***

4. Hidden Monthly Costs If the software is gathering click data or cost per click (cpc) data, beware of the costs to gather that data. CPC data comes from the Google Adwords API, which takes weeks to get access to (if google will give it to you) and then costs you each time you look something up.

Just be sure to do your research before relying on data like this. I’ve seen data like this (from google) cost as much as $0.25 per keyword. If you were to look up 500 keywords per month, it could cost you $125/month to do that.

Also, just yesterday Google changed their API again breaking many pieces of software that relied on their data.

5. Software Becoming Obsolete Anytime you buy a piece of software, if it’s not updated, it becomes obsolete. This is especially true with internet based software. If someone doesn’t have an incentive to update their software, they let it sit and it becomes obsolete (remember Traffic Equalizer???). When someone sells a one-time fee software, they don’t have an incentive to improve the software. This is a huge risk to a consumer, especially when the software is very expensive up front.

You might also want to see if software you’re buying will look at MSN and Yahoo, as well as Google. MSN and Yahoo are almost always less competitive and easier for you to make money.

Also, see if it’s going to look at international markets for you. Remember what Chris said in DayJobKiller about how profitable international markets are?

Just trying to keep you informed.

Now, UCP does do msn/yahoo tracking and international tracking, and is constantly updated. Sales to UCP are currently closed, but we are working through our waiting list so if you are still interested, you might be able to purchase UCP soon.

Remember, right now none of these programs are publicly available. I haven’t used them. Do your research before you buy and make sure you know what you’re getting. As they become available, I’ll buy them and try to use them and let you know what they do well and what their problems are so you can make a better informed buying decision.

John
http://www.UnderCoverProfits.com

*IMNewswatch would like to thank John Jonas for granting permission to reprint the latest article.

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