probizlink

I have been a member of GCD since Jan 30th and did not have any problems until launch.
There were fewer videos then..but when I submitted a question it was always answered
promptly and once personally by Chris. I really do feel they will address all concerns in
the near future. I am usually the first to point out things that are not working.

GCD was working great the first month.

Coderjeff

Is there an email address to submit them to?

Coderjeff

My experience was about the the same. I too joined in January and GCD was working fine until the launch.

The Google Cash 4 training videos weren't coming as fast as promised, but there was usually a quick reply to any questions about GCD and new features were being added regularly. I haven't used GCA so I can't say anything about it.

My opinion is that there should have been more training in place before the launch and it happened too soon. What's done is done and they appear to be working to address those issues. Most likely their actions during this week will reveal what can be expected in the future.

Unfortunately, I believe that too many inexperienced members all jumped into the same niches based upon the examples in the sales material or training that was available and were competing with each other and paying too much per click without understanding how the system could be used profitably. My impression was that the beta testers who had PPC and affiliate experience were able to use GCD profitably, but the tool may have been too powerful for those without experience and more training at very basic levels will be necessary to use it successfully.

The lack of service and support was a major problem and I hope will be addressed. The system is good if you know how to use it. I would also like to see Google Cash 4 completed soon. Putting the tool ahead of training that explained the reasons rather than the nut and bolts of using the tool was a mistake.

It's unfortunate they chose to launch and add more members prematurely and they are really going to have to prove themselves. I wouldn't blame anyone who has already decided to get a refund, and I was having huge doubts myself for a time, but I suggest that anyone who is on the fence hang in there and take advantage of the opportunity to learn what you can - even if you eventually decide on a refund. Just seeing how and if they turn things around could be a valuable experience and may provide a good (or bad) example of how to handle problems in your own business.

bidmarket

Steve Scott or New Questions,
Could you provide a general outline of things you would study and in the order you would study them?
thank you

Hadrian

I'm neither a proper nor an improper customer, just a prospective customer (until midnight tonight) doing 'due diligence'.

I don't think that my customer status invalidates my opinions, although it probably does reduce my chances of getting the offered refund.

Shevd

I really hope things improve for the gcd team and the people that brought it as it was a very high ticket product.

colbyarmstrong

Is anyone else who has gcd try to do a search and it comes out zero results every time? This has been going on with me for the last 3 days and I just want to make sure its just not me.

NewQuestions

This happens if the keyword is not inside the GCD database. I just checked
and the database is running fine. I did five keyword queries on random ideas
and they all returned thousands of results.

Also - please note - if you do a keyword search with the word "Google",
the results are often not shown. This relates to how Google structures the
requirements of its APIs.

Could you let me know the type of search (perhaps via private message)
and I will try and replicate your situation?

Thanks

NetMediaGeek

It happened to me soooooo many times, plus i searched for loads of urls which it never returned anything

NewQuestions

I am interested to know more. Please private message me with your URLs.
The software is running very well, and is returning hundreds of thousands
of queries every day now. I am here to help

Thanks

Yusuf

Any idea at all about when the GCD forums will be back up?

NewQuestions

Yes - I discussed this with Steve, and when we stop taking orders (tonight),
then the forum can be connected again. Basically, we need to wait until we
shut down tonight, and then we can import the final customer database into
the new forums. This auto-creates everyone's accounts and connects all
support requests, forum posts, mailing details, membership details and lots
of other data together.

The programming team have done an amazing job, and the forums will be
online really soon. I can't give you an exact time, but the forums are the
number one priority as soon as the order system is shut down tonight.

Thanks

Yusuf

In that case I'd suggest you tell them to add that to the message that is currently displayed when we try to go to the forums. One last question and not sure if it's too late but can you please suggest to them to use VBulletin or at least phpBB? SMF seems very clunky especially if the forums are to be used for an active community.

NewQuestions

Good points! Thanks for that. I have sent these ideas straight to the coders.

NetMediaGeek

i can't PM you, i went through all this with your support they could not find anything on them either. The ad i wanted to do research on appears everytime for make money online in the top three positions, so i know they are using adwords, your support however said it did not show up when they searched.. basically they reckoned it was because he was a UK advertiser it was not showing up for them. Now the thing is the UK is were i am based and a lot of my competitors are also UK based and GCD didn't have any data for around ten urls i searched for whether this is because they are UK based or not i dunno, FACT is it did not work, if UK is not supported you should say so from the start..........

NewQuestions

Actually - Chris does say this in one of the launch videos. This is why
you're receiving zero results. Only US Adwords monitoring is in place now.

However, I know for 100% fact, that the UK and AU localisation is being
tested behind the scenes, and the local versions are being added soon.

I do understand your point though, and I will tell the copywriters that the
US local restriction should be stated more clearly. That's an excellent point.

NetMediaGeek

maybe you should advise your support to so they can answer queries better !!! Well once the UK is included it would interest me as i had a business model which would be cool if it worked !!!! I must say the way you have handled the topic on here is first rate!

Collegepro

I'm having the same problem - I cannot get any url search results - I just get messages like - [2] URLs search: Your search session expired. Please search again

Is this a known problem at the moment?

NewQuestions

The GCD software is working well. I just checked, and we have had no
major issues for 48 hours now. Usually when your search query expires,
it's because you have not done a search for quite a while - or perhaps
if you change your membership details, password etc.

Try logging back into the software, and performing the search again.

Also, be aware - that if the keyword/advertiser is not in the database,
then it will return 0 results. Also, if the keyword/advertiser is not using
Google Adwords in the United States, the results will appear as zero.

I have checked the software a LOT this morning. (I mean hours worth
of activity, and I can't see any issues.)

There are times when zero results are returned. This is not a fault of the
software. It just means the keyword has not been "watched" - either
because no one entered it into the database (through the add keywords
tool), and because there is no one advertising specifically in the US for
this particular keyword/advertisement combination.

Hopefully that helps. Please private message me the details if you like.
I can try and help out more

Cheers,
Jonathan

Nick Sean

New Questions,

When is the Google Cash Detective close?

Is the system stable now?

If I where to share with others to join buy, can it be assessibled and use by 3 different computers at the same time from different locations?

What is the different of GCD from AdsSpyPro and PPC Kahuna?

colbyarmstrong

This happens every time i try to do ANY kind of search. It just flashes and then doesn't bring back any results. Whether I do a KW or URL search. Even for searches that I have gotten results before.

This has been happening every since Friday night. I really need this taken care of ASAP

Thank You

Yusuf

Midnight tonight.

cderenberger

For a less advanced product, you can try AdSpyPro.. it's a script you will need to install on your server, works fairly well.. never tried GD though.. Looks like a great product but it's out of my price range..kinda like spending $50 on a burger in my opinion.

vstar650

Hey Guys

Once again , I'm here to tell you that this FREAKIN' software works

This morning I through a bunch of keywords at it and I came upon a Piece of equipment ( sorry, but I can't divulge what it is... I'm being Greedy) that is getting over 60,000 searches per month

I did a little more research and found an affiliate program through commission junction that is paying 10& commission on the product which has an average cost of $1,500.00 ( that's 150.00 commission on average)


I put together a direct linking campaign in about 10 minutes and now it is only 6 hours later and I have landed 1 sale already, with a total adspend of only 8.73 and a $137.63 commission... that's a $128.90 profit

I'm telling you Guys/Girls... GCD is fu**ing amazing

For all of you who had a rough time in the beginning, I don't blame you for being Skeptical... Hell, I was too, but my Gut Instincts told me to stick it out, and am I ever Glad I did!

With all the Bugs (and Yes, lack of initial Support), Quite Honestly... GCD FREAKIN, ROCKS!!!

Cio
Gotta throw in some more Keywords

Unexpected Error

I have experienced this. Just click the button again and the results should come up.

Guru

Well done!

I started one campaign yesterday with $1.00 a click now I am paying about $.32 a click and my CTR is 8.07% not made much money from this campaign so far but this is not bad!

NewQuestions

Establishing a high click-through rate is easy with GCD.

The software allows you to look back over the last 5 months,
to identify the longest running advertisements - and these often
have advertisements that attract a super high click-through rate.

Cloning the actual Adwords advertisements is extremely effective,
and it leads to more clicks, at lower costs with better Quality Scores.

These variables, and a proven product can allow affiliates to make a
serious income selling other people's products. Google Cash Detective
is truly one of a kind. It simply cannot be compared fairly to its other
competitors. Doors close in less than 7 hours.

Believe me ... the doors are closing. I'm actually sitting here right now,
designing the page that will replace our front-end. If you have any doubts,
then I suggest you take Chris up on the 30 day guarantee period.

(This is being extended as well, to accommodate our early launch delays)

Good luck everyone, and thanks for the participation and readership in
this discussion thread. I will jump back in a few days and update this
thread. I am super busy right now with the final count-down so please
direct all support queries to the GCD help desk.

Thanks again

affdollars

I like it!

chips peas and gravy

There is a tool out there that does what gcd does and it only costs $29.99

If you believe this guy has spent $350,000 on this then you will believe anything.

Nick.A

What tool are you referring to?

NewQuestions

Actually, if you believe a $29.99 tool can do "what gcd does"
- then it sounds very much like you will "believe anything" ...

Your first post at the Warrior Forum?

Quick Question - Are you real GCD customer or not?

I disagree with your statement, and you have blatantly called
Chris Carpenter a liar, without providing any proof to your claims ...

Would you care to name this $29.99 piece of software so I can publicly
rip it to threads - exposing all of its weaknesses and pointing out why
it's inferior in dozens of different ways to Google Cash Detective?

I sure would love a copy - if it really does what you claim it does ...



Hmm. Only a few hours left everyone

I just got a load of messages, and yes - the doors are really closing.
I will update this thread once GCD has closed.

malcasid

What is this $29.99 tool called? Development costs not to mention hosting the software does not come cheap.

Guru

THis guy must be talking about Ad spy Pro which you can get for $29 to $47 but there is big difference between that tool and GCD! You can't compare that $29 tool with GCD!

Nick.A

I have just visited https://launch.gcdetective.com/_new_gcdorder.html and it states that there is over 1 day left to order. So, has the closing date been extended again? Please clarify.

Thanks.


Edit: Sorry, I have just realised the figures are negative (implying that the offer has expired). To avoid confusion, I would suggest you either remove the counter altogether or reset it.

mido

AdSpyPro from JP is $27, you host it on your VPS or dedicated server and build your database. One time fee.

PPC Bully from Israel and PPCShadow from Brad - more simillar to GCD, but you have to build your own database and have limited number to keywords. To add more keywords, you have have to pay more money - monthly.

PPC WebSpy from Brad - very good to spy Adwords keywords, free and paid versions, one time fee.

GCD2 - does it all and has large database already built-in. Does not compare to the above.
They don't answer my support ticket and emails for few days - that's another issue.

jgand

Good to see that people have experience with this and this is something to keep an eye on.

It seems like the whole program is subject to abuse and easily taken advantage of. Sounds as if there are a lot of problems. Thanks for the info.

AndreVas

Respectfully disagree.

GCD script can easily be sold for $29 one-time for self-hosted version. It's too simple to program. Just stores data in MySQL DB. Everything else is AdSpyPro identical.

Only advantage GCD2 has over AdSpyPro is it already has existing data to look at. With ASP, you gotta manually input the keywords and set for how long you want to monitor it. That's the ***ONLY*** difference.

malcasid

I think GCD2 offers the highest value per dollar. You have the most capability. I'm not saying you can't make money with the other tools but its good to have the most powerful tools you can have especially when it comes to PPC.

Nick.A

No, it's ***NOT*** the only difference. Does AdSpyPro provide you with a landing page slide-show? How about training? And how much would you need to host it? All the good hosting companies have banned scripts like AdSpyPro from their shared hosting accounts, so you would have to host the script on a dedicated server or VPS.

Thomas Belknap

The money you paid for GCD would pay for a really nice server.

Nick.A

That is true but at least let us not pretend that you could achieve the same functionality as GCD by paying just $29 for AdSpyPro!

Thomas Belknap

I haven't used either so I don't know. I already own Adspy and will be using that shortly. I am sure it will do what I need it to do.

I really don't know if GCD was just overhype or this thing actually works. It is hard to tell with all the affiliates running around trying to make a quick buck.

XGoogleX

if some thing too good to be true is not.

drnet

I can not tell you how much money I have already made with this tool... HE HE

For those of you doubting, give it 30 days. I know there were some issues around the luanch, but hey that is the net. Spend enough time online and you will find that technical issues happen everywhere.

I am one of the original 30 for beta testing and it ran flawlessly.

It helped me make $17K in 30 days in my consulting business, and I am about to bring in MUCH more than that

Keep it coming Chris

NewQuestions

Incorrect. Fail.
Are you even a GCD customer?

Incorrect. Fail.

Incorrect. Fail again man ...
Are you even a GCD customer?

Let me ask you a set of questions that I hope you have time to answer.
(After all, you have just publicly made some big statements which I hope
you can backup here in a public forum)

Can AdSpyPro offer 6 months worth of data on 2.5 million keywords
(and counting?) or just the ones you enter manually yourself?

Oh yeah ... and upon entering them yourself ... you have to wait a
while right? What - like 5 months to get comparable data? Too funny ...

Does AdSpyPro allow you to dive deep into people's landing pages to
find out what products they are promoting? Yes, landing page searches
using an unbelievably complex parsing routine that stores millions of
actual landing page sites into the GCD system ...

Or how about the built-in "GC Automator" system that dynamically
adjusts your bid prices by interfacing with Google Adwords to actively
adapt your campaign over time, to produce the most profit at the
lowest cost per click - while maintaining position. Does AdSpyPro
- a $29.99 piece of software do that?

Hmmm ... not quite. lol

Does AdSpyPro continue working when Google changes their rules,
their rankings, their programming rituals and so on? Will the author
keep on supporting you months from now, years from now? Does
this mean your hard researched data is worthless without constant
updates? Does that mean your data is rubbish and inaccurate?

Does this mean you need to update AdSpyPro every time Google
decides to change things around? (This happens almost daily now).

Do you need to constantly fight to keep up with the latest changes?

What sort of internet connection do you need to monitor over 4.5
million keywords every DAY. Oh - that's right ... it's twice daily.
Silly me ...

I guess AdSpyPro doesn't really do that right?

Actually, I could spend an entire night outlining differences, but I just
wanted to set the record straight, because your opinion is completely
incorrect. These types of ill-informed opinions have defined this thread,
but have helped it become the most popular discussion thread in Warrior
Forum history (at least within this category).

Final question. Are you even a GCD customer?

I kind of get sick and tired of asking this question.

Virtual Banker

Well one thing you can say for sure is that had a GREAT launch formula swiped directly from MC2.0

IF you can get any value out of it - swipe their launch.
As for the product it just depends how much you want to pay and how much hand holding you need.

businessmentor

+1.

Before buying, decide what you really NEED. Then calculate and compare the costs.

davez

I'll give it a month and there will be a 29.95 product out there that mimics GCD. It's the nature of the Net. Seen it happen way too many times over the years.

For the record PPC affiliate is OK.
PPC_Kahuna is the best IMO.
GCD only can go by the vids, but if it works as shown helluva piece of software, but a bit pricey.

The Old Fashioned Way roll up your sleeves and get to WORK!
Numero UNO.

Now put your CC away get a nights sleep and wake up in the AM go over to PPC Kahuna and get to work. Learn how to fish.
You won't have to scramble when that flashy piece of software doesn't want to work right for whatever reason.
Just a prediction, but again seen it happen many times before.

Hope a neutral opinion can shed a ray of Common Sense on a thread that used be locked tighter than a drum at this point.

Night All,
Dave

AndreVas

NewQuestions,

Yes. Gladly a GCD2 customer. With a full $1997. Also a long AdSpyPro customer.

As for fail... wrong.

PASSED EVERYONE. 10/10. Flying colors. Couldn't have said it better.

GCD2 script can be programmed in 5 days. Infact wouldn't be suprised if someone did, and decided to sell it for $97. Then by 2012, you'll have GCD scripts (self-hosted) for $5 on eBay.

PASSED. lol.

Thomas Belknap

I really don't know anyone who has been praising GCD in this thread. I do know and have worked with Andre. I trust what he says. He is a very successful and very knowledgeable person when it comes to this stuff.

He is also not selling either one.