Comments on: PPC Spying Tactics in 2009

By: jl

jl — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:10:32 +0000

So easy to block and fool these spy bots with htaccess.

Data is so freaking inaccurate to boot.

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:17:37 +0000

You mentioned that only 40% used a landing page? Does this mean that the remaining 60% were direct linking or that they just used adwords to drive traffic to another page on their site?

By: Niche Affiliate Marketing

Niche Affiliate Marketing — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:47:00 +0000

BTW, I use isponage.com as well. The tool is great and you get a lot of data out of it if you want to go into a new niche. But only useful if you’re an aggressive marketer who is continually setting up new campaigns in new niches.

If you a conservative affiliate or a part time affiliate, who is settled two or three niches on auto pilot, then you could be paying $100 every month and not using it. I haven’t used the tool for quite sometime and I’m paying for it. But a great tool otherwise.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:20:24 +0000

OK, well, it sounds like a great service. So, how you go about selecting the top 100-250 keywords to monitor?

By: jwexelbaum

jwexelbaum — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:52:15 +0000

Hey Doug..

Leon from iSpionage helped me structure this experiment and provided the additional keyword monitoring.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:05:26 +0000

Hey Josh, thanks for mentioning iSpionage, I’d never heard of them. Question, you mentioned monitoring thousands of keywords through them, but the Pro membership only let’s you monitor up to 250 keywords? Do you have the Agency level membership?

By: jwexelbaum

jwexelbaum — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:53:08 +0000

Should work now.

By: James

James — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:41:38 +0000

Josh,

The word frequency cvs’ are blank when I download and open. Not sure if it’s a user error on my part but I’d like to look at them. Cool post with some interesting findings.