Google Cash Detective Defective
One of the most compelling videos I’ve ever had the pleasure
to watch, were the pre-launch videos by Chris Carpenter of
Google Cash fame.
The videos were for his newest project Google Cash Detective.
In the videos Chris gives us a glimpse of the lifestyle all us
internet marketers WISH we had…
The jet-set lifestyle of flying all over the world to go skiing or
surfing, the gorgeous house on the beach, the time freedom
to work only a couple hours a day (when you feel like it) and
the $30,000.00+ per month income we all wish we could make.
In the videos Chris shows us exactly how he makes this income
and how easy it has become for him because he uses this special
software (Google Cash Detective aka GCD) that only he has.
I can remember salivating at the mouth when he announced
that for a limited time he was going to sell the software to the
lucky first few who would be able to purchase it.
The GCD software allows you to spy on successful affiliate marketer’s
campaigns, getting access to their moneymaking keywords,
landing pages and complete Google Adword ads so that we
can copy and clone the moneymaking results.
Chris showed us step-by-step how he builds his Adword campaigns
and starts making sales ($$$) cha-ching just a couple hours later.
If his pre-launch videos were a baseball game, they would be a
grand slam home run.His launch sold out in just 3 or 4 days (at $1,997.00)
probably making over a million bucks in sales in less than a week.
I remember how disappointed I was when I went to purchase
the software, credit card in hand, only to meet the CLOSED -
sold out sign.
Well good news! The Google Cash Detective is now reopened.
Did I say good news? Maybe NOT!
Once again I was stoked, credit card in hand, ready to buy my
copy of GCD when I decided to check in the forums to read
what the lucky owners of GCD had to say.
Whooooeeeee… did I ever read an earful.
Going back to the baseball analogy, if the pre-launch videos were
a grand slam home run, the actual product was a double play.
This one post sums it up perfectly…
… “90% of the posts I read in these forums or on the membership
forums are coming from COMPLETE NEWBIES that are asking questions
that make me shake my head and think why the heck did you just drop
2k on a piece of software that you will barely even use 1% of?
Unless you’re rolling out 10 to 20 campaigns a WEEK and testing
thousands of keywords, how many people are honestly cloning and
running enough campaigns for that to even matter?
I test 2 or 3 campaigns a week at the MOST and I have no problem
with gathering data and market intelligence slowly
- I’m not an Amit or Amish or Anik or Aymen…
(wait a sec, to be uber successful in PPC, maybe you have to have
a name that starts with A… no wonder!)
Anyway, the norm with IM launches these days is quite frankly saddening
- so many “newbies” are so desperate, they are shelling out 1k or 2k for
a “course” and training when they could get the basic training by just
reading a $20 book picked up at Chapters (ie, Perry’s Definitive Guide)
and ease their way in.
Not slagging some of the courses out there as I have many and
they are great, but my expectation and experience going INTO the
course is waaaaay different. I’m not asking questions like -
“I’ve just lost my job, I have no money, I am a complete newbie,
but will this $997 tool or $1997 course help me ‘turn the corner’ and
be successful online??!?!”…
how many times have you read that in those launch blogs?
My PPC experience has been, even if you DO find a profitable campaign,
you still have to spend at least $300 to $400 minimum just to get
a reasonable amount of REAL data to make a statistically significant
decision as to what keywords to continue with and which to dump
- more if you really want to get enough data from split testing your
landing pages - because you ARE split testing your landing pages
aren’t you?
With CPV (cost per view) to CPA offers, more like about $1,000
because the impressions and traffic can be massive and you need
to test a LOT of keywords).
There’s no arguing that GCD is great for uncovering campaigns that
have been running for a long time quickly - but big friggen deal!
- it DOESN’T reveal the HISTORY behind those particular successful ads
which is what allows them to run for that long in those positions and
are likely running at 1/5th the displayed CPC.
If you go and clone any of the ads in there (which most of you probably tried)
using basically the same or the EXACT same ad, EXACT same directly linked
landing page, EXACT same keyword,
You probably failed miserably…
because you were paying close to the actual displayed click cost and
you would have been running it AT A LOSS and wondering
how they could be successful
- then pulled the plug after you exhausted your campaign budget
of $50…. or $100… or whatever…
The guys that you were cloning have been running it for that long
have already established a high CTR history so it is IMPOSSIBLE to
beat them and outrank them
- and if it has been successful for them do you think they’re going
to let some newbie come in and try and displace them?
Nevermind the fact that the top guys are also geo-targeting,
and ad scheduling as well - ever consider that?
While you enter the market and bid $1.50 a click and kill your daily
campaign budget within 3 hours at the beginning of the day, they can
simply wait till you’re gone and turn on their ad for the rest of the day
and get the rest of the clicks at half the price
- I’ve done it and it’s fun to watch.
Does anyone in the GCD training even mention the little fact that some
of those campaigns could very well be targetting ONE city or ONE postal code?
GCD doesn’t reveal any of that info either.
Sure, they can bid $5.00 a click and run for 120 days straight because
they are only appearing for a specific location. I could have bid on a ton
of super expensive keywords, but only set my campaign to appear in
ONLY my own postal code - guess what…
- GCD will see my ad is indeed running at 100% for 120 days
(albeit with very limited traffic and clickthru’s which cost me very little)
but Joe newbie comes along, looks at the ad and thinks
- hey, this ad has been running for 120 days and it’s an expensive keyword,
so BINGO! I’m going to clone it and run it across Canada, US, UK, & Australia
(or heaven forbit, all territories)… and ends up losing his/her shirt… d’oh….
Think about it - how can you possibly outrank and go “head to head”
with an advertiser who has been running their ad for 120 days solid at 100%
appearance on a keyword which shows a $1.50+ Avg. CPC and simply COPY
their Ad and direct link to the merchant and expect to beat them?
The person you’re cloning has been running the ad for 4 months and
probably has a great CTR (although their quality score sucks since almost
every direct linked campaign I analyzed with google goggles came up
with poor quality scores even using a 10% CTR)
so with Joe Newbie coming onto the scene and being “taught” to clone
and copy their ad and direct link - with ZERO ad history, setting an ad
budget of $30 a day AND paying full price on the CPC
- it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to determine they are likely doomed to failure.”
…Sorry for the long post, but I hope this makes all of us really stop
and think before purchasing the next “shiny widget”.
END OF POST
After reading about 50 other post, mostly from people who bought GCD,
made no money, LOST MONEY on their campaigns and are asking for a refund,
(which is the reason they re-opened - to offset the refunds)…
I decided to put my credit card back into my wallet where it belongs.
So my advice, BEWARE - Don’t buy Google Trash Detective.
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