If you, like me, have been in the “affiliate marketing business” for quite some time, you may have seen products such as The Google Cash Detective and services of that sort. AdSpy Pro is a lighter version of many of those. And at $27 it is much cheaper than most.
What does it do? Well it looks up ads displayed on Google for certain keywords that you choose and takes note whenever an affiliate product is promoted for any of those search keywords. It does so for a chosen period of time (like a couple of weeks) and whenever an ad is spotted a large percentage of the time chances are that ad is being profitable which leaves the field open to basically copy that “winning ad” and make some money for yourself promoting the same product.
I’m not going to write in length about this. If you know how to promote affiliate stuff you do, if you don’t the net is full of guides and do’s and dont’s about it. Adspy Pro is certainly no get rich quick scheme, but in contrast to many other clickbank products it isn’t really promoted as such so that can’t be held against it. I’m going to put it short in a few bullet points for and against.
- It really does much of what it promises. And as such it can be a valuable tool to see which markets and offers are currently hot.
- The price is way below much of the competition. Also and importantly, Adspy Pro is not a subscription service like most of its competitors.
- Adspy Pro is a server php script that needs to be installed in a pretty manual fashion on a server that you have access to. The server also needs to be able to do “cron jobs” that is the script needs to be able to automatically execute every 6 hours or so, so it’s a good idea to look that up before settling for a server.
- The script misses a lot of affiliate links being promoted. Not only does it only track certain networks, but it only detects some sites that are promoting the offers via a “splash” landing page.
- When other services claim to track millions of keywords readily researched in a database, with Adspy Pro you are limited to a few hundred at max (or you risk being slapped by google) that you track yourself. I guess this is one of the effects of the low price tag. Another downside of not having access to already tracked keywords is of course that even if you can spot the affiliate ads the same day you start scanning, you have to give it a few weeks to have any confidence that an ad has stayed long enough to be profitable.
- The admin page can be painfully slow. This of course partly comes down to the speed of the server where the script is being hosted, but the script itself seems pretty slow. Though not as bad that it can’t be used.
The conclusion is that if you’re not running any similar type of program, AdSpy Pro really can do some good in that it can give pointers as to which offers and keywords are likely to convert. Sure you can use a free app like PPC Web Spy, but with that one you can’t scan for many keywords at a time, and see which ones stays online over time. Adspy does indeed have some drawbacks as stated above but all in all it is a decent alternative for the task. As many of you may know these days the use of an app like this is somewhat limited by the fact that Google doesn’t like several advertisers marketing the same offers for a keyword, so simply copying and pasting a successful ad campaign isn’t that straight forward anymore. There are ways around it though like custom landing pages and such and bottom line as a research tool I think Adspy Pro does do a decent job.
My rating: 3/5
Tags: Adspy Pro, Clickbank Review
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