cambric

Just an update:

Support has gotten tons better! I was 'double' charged and Scott got involved and I got my 2nd charge refunded already; I've asked for a full refund and I've received a personal email telling me it has been processed and expect it within 3-5 business days!

Whew...was scared after reading so many horror stories.

I do hope for the best on those staying; maybe a lot will make a ton of money, good for them...but my experience, from what my expectations were, wasn't good and I'm happy to get my refunds and be done with it.

Good luck to all those that stayed!!

checkmuldoon

Tvidhe lateral thinking only works in US, they forget to tell you that!!!!

understandyourniche

Metronicity,

Don't wait for their forum to come back. If you want to discuss GCD -- both positive and negative, no frickin censorship -- come to

Index :: Google Cash Detective Independent Forum

and let it all out. This is not associated with GCD in any way, so you basically express your opinion, as long as you don't violate their ToS.

sharp11

Hi all.

Since the launch, we have experienced similar issues as some folks in this thread, such as: the URL search is not functioning (we have done many wildcard searches for affiliate and cpa networks with 0 results returned); the keyword search doesn't seem as robust as when Chris was showing it in his videos (pre-launch); session is expiring quickly-many times from one search to the next; whenever we use the back button, it ends the session; the forum has been offline for much too long, etc...

Chris has asked members to submit all comments below the online GCD training videos, which i did a few days ago. As of this writing, my comments have not been posted, while others (dated after mine) have been posted. This led me to check out other comments below other training videos and that is when i noticed that GCD appears to be posting only positive comments. It seemed odd to me that no one was posting about any possible issues or concerns. Well, when i found this thread, i was shocked to find just how many issues members are in fact experiencing. Could this be partly why the GCD forum is down? In this age of transparency, shouldn't Chris and company be honest with us about what is happening?

At this point, we are still cautiously optimistic about using the Detective tool but also growing more uncertain as the time passes without solutions to many of these issues.

One other thought; the training is surprisingly weak, given that the initial training videos (pre-launch) from Chris and Jonathan were quite good. This should have been a major priority and included for all members immediately; ie: some short videos and PDF's about the separate functions (search, URL, ads, landing pages), more in-depth and advanced training from Chris and Jonathan etc. The Mastermind Pro video training is not acceptable, especially when one considers the cost involved. Just look at PPC Classroom to see how well organized it should really be, rather than this mess. GCD, hurry up and remedy this asap please!

In summary, we are aware of the potential of this tool but also very surprised about the problems and lack of communication. I hope that this works out... we'll see.

understandyourniche

I have to admit I'm pretty surprised that nothing is happening. The forum is *not* back, and some things are not yet working properly, and no new training materials have been put up on the site.

In the meantime we can share information on my own forum, here:

Index :: Google Cash Detective Independent Forum

Oh well, I seriously hope things will get better. The software itself mostly works and is very useful, but a lot of stuff *around* it is not working satisfactorily.

I'll consider it learning money if I have to decide to cancel out, after my 30 days run out if there's not significant progress.

Incidentally, if you go on the gcdetective front page, you can sign up for the waiting list, presumably they'll open up again once they know how many slots are vacated by cancellations.

Metronicity

Yes I noticed they weren't posting any negative comments. In fact the humourless bastards didn't post a long (mostly positive) comment of mine where I labelled the tool "the Dick" (slang for Detective) instead of "Detective". Got sick of typing GoogleCashDetective.
I find the tool mostly works OK. There are a few glitches but you get that with any tool don't you? But some strange results do show up. Some Clickbank products and URLs are simply not showing even though I know they are being advertised on Adwords. Bit strange. And I've found some bizarre results in the keyword searches. Such as "Brisbane (Australia) auctions" and "Scottish auctions" results for a search on a keyword list for the most popular "u.s. government auctions site" - supposedly these keywords having profitabilty indexes of 12,000 or something. And that has me scratching my head. Is the keyword in the list and people are clicking on it in curiosity? Why would you click on an ad for "US Government auctions" if you're searching for "Brisbane auctions" or "Scottish auctions". And why would the ad be (supposedly) targeting Australia or the U.K.? Bizarre.
I've heard back from GCD Support with a short and rather rude reply. To wit: "What do you mean the blog is missing. It is up with the comments on the videos up. Also what hyperlink is not working for the Contact Us?
I'm responding to your response of a support ticket, so we are answering questions.Thanks."
This guy obviously needs some people skills and Customer Service training. Maybe he's the cleaner who was just thrown in to help out? Poor sap thinks a "blog" is just a static web page with no comments and no links. And he makes it sound like he's doing me a huge favour by even replying.
I agree with your comments on the Mastermind Pro stuff. I find them rather childish and annoying. Jonathon Paul does a much better job. The other - Frank Terranova or whatever and the girl whose name I can't remember are condescending and waffling. Much better to supply PDFs with it.
You would have thought they'd worked all this out before launching. especially since this is isn't the first time they've done this. So I've now got the form I need to fill out to get a refund before the end of the 30 days (does that include the weeks free billing he offered I wonder?). My finger is paused. I would like to think they'll get it together but I dunno. Not a good start.

WhosMaverick

Anybosy know if they are going to organize the training videos *correctly*?

I find it extremely unproductive seeing a video with a date as a title...

The tool itself is a BEAST if you know the ins and outs of its function... but for that we need correct education on how to really squeeze the juice out of it.

When is the forum back up? Anybody?

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checkmuldoon

Montroicity, Your experience with the search results is similar to mine, i dunno whether it had something to do with me being in the UK however it made me doubt the data, when i questioned support about this the had no clue!!! I had such high hopes but just could not trust the data. I typed in around ten urls of campaigns i knew to be doing well on adwords and no data returned!!

thomashoi

I think many of us are drawn to google cash detective probably because of it's quick way to make fast money. You can literally find the exact keywords that is profitable, so you can simply setup a campaign and plug in the same keywords.... all done in mins.

Put it on autopilot and make a few thousands dollars very month like clock work. Is it really that simple? I think for sure, all of us are making google very rich.

The fact is that cpc for that particular keyword will shoot up and soon not profitable anymore. Are we seeing something here?

many such ppc products will be launched regularly because most of us want to make a quick buck but don't want to spend time to do the necessary market research.

Internet marketing is like a business and you need to invest time to make it work. If you have not been making money for many years, I think it's time for you to go back to the basics and start to do real market research:

1. Find a hungry market/niche
2. Find out what they REALLY want
3. Give it to them

The keywords you derive after research can bring you 1000% roi

Give it a thought.

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checkmuldoon

I agree but the point of GGC is your supposed to be able to find profitable keywords and campaigns, i understand its simply a tool and hard work is involved however, it just didn't work like was advertised as all the data is from google.com (US) they should be more clear on that.......

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Yusuf

LOL he's using the survey technique.. guess he was on Howie's call last night.

Funniest part is if you do go to buy Google Cash... you see this:


Woops!

Metronicity

Yep. I'm entering data on long-term existing Adwords campaigns (friends & clients of mine) and nothing is showing up. They're Australian campaigns so maybe they are not tracking them. But they should be - I notice quite a few Aussies commenting.
As for the lack of Support/Comments/dead links etc - could it be CC has gone surfing and left the patients in charge of the madhouse? Surely not. Servers keep timing out on Firefox too. But maybe that's a Firefox issue. Doesn't seem to happen on Safari. I'm on a brand new 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with H.S. Broadband too. In Paris.
Check out the data on Jamorama.com (as an URL search and a keyword search under "learn guitar") it shows only 7 campaigns. That doesn't seem right at all. I would have expected quite a bit more. Especially as JP uses that product as an example in his vids. I scratch my head. Think I'll give them a few more days to see if there's a radical improvement before pulling the pin. Bit worried about the refund now.

Purplemagic

metronicity,

Further back in this thread they mentioned that GCD only tracks US DAta and that later on they will look at UK and OZ. That's why you can't find the OZ campaigns.

checkmuldoon

I actually pulled the pin before it was launched, i got in on the Beta testing stage, i paid $197 then it would have been $97 per month to be honest if i would have paid anymore i would have been boiling my head!!! Anyway as for the training that Frank fellow and the women they have the most annoying voices ever, talk about waffle i reckon they just like the sound of their own voices, to be fair i though Johnathan's training vids were pretty good, i reckon they should custard pie the other two tho... Its a pity the software would have been cool for cats if it did what it said on the tin, i must admit i'm glad i got out when i did, however i'm sure some people will drop lucky and make some cash!!!!!!!

Metronicity

Just got a reply from Support - pretty quick too - about an hour. "The forum should be up by today and tomorrow morning at the very latest."

What's the bet it crashes again (Pessimistic b. aren't I?)

Yusuf

If the launched version has incomplete features, very little training, no support, unfinished bonuses, etc.... then what was the beta version like??

papeter

I haven't bought GCD and I am reading a lot of mixed reviews here with more negatives than positives. Glad I didn't jump in. So what's the alternative? PPC Bully? I looked at that and whilst it doesn't have the instant reporting that GCD has it has just lowered it's monthly price to $49 with no mad upfront fee. PPC Kahuna seems favourite as nobody has a bad word to say about that.

Jay Rhome

Reading all the comments here I didn't even bother with customer support, the forum and all that, so you might say my expectations were low... except for the software itself.

Well, to date, I have found ZERO campaigns to copy! Mind you, I did find some profitable ones but they were all done by big companies for their own purposes, not by affiliates whose profit margins will obviously be more lower, and thus way harder to make a profit.

That's what bugs me the most. It seems almost no one is making a profit with adwords anymore. GCD allows me to see that, but that was not the point now was it.

The training videos are 40+ minutes longs at time, unstructured, and drive me nuts. Give me some short ones to master this tool NOW, not 40 days later.


I'm still giving it a run but yeah, at $2600 a year, this is not what I expected to say the least. Of course, IF I do find good campaign AND actually make money I'll be happy. But up to now, I've wasted hours with nothing to show for it.

checkmuldoon

I know that Now but there was no mention of it during the launch or the crappy training, also when i asked support why the url's/ campaigns were not showing, they had no clue dispite them knowing i'm in the UK!!!!!

thomashoi

I begged to differ. There are still tons of opportunities to make money from adwords, only if you have done enough research to find the keywords that is used by people in the late buying cycle.

why not start with article marketing to capture the organic keywords and use it in your ppc campaign?

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jcaviani

The truth of the matter is some of you folks would complain that you might get hit in the head by falling one thousands dollars bills if you left the porch to get one.

You have the most intelligence I've seen in one place in my 5 years online and all you can do is find ways to NOT make it work for you? Apparently, you have no idea what value this intelligence has. Btw, if all you want to do is income chase with moronic direct linking affiliate campaigns you are even stupider than you sound.

I can't do a direct linking campaign - whine, sniffle snort. Hey McFly, then why don't you get an idea what you have to do to beat the guy who is direct linking? Oh, but you might have to get off your ass and think a bit - say it isn't so. Why don't you compile some intelligence reports. Oh, but you might have to get off your ass and think a bit again. Pcik and indsutry and help buisness get more leads and profits. Oh, but you might have to get off your ass and think... There are so many things you could be doing, but you chose to whine instead.

You are not in grade school any more where you get admonished for not learning the assigned lessons and everyone has to feel good about themselves. If your grasp of PPC is weak, then find some resources and learn it. If your tech skills are weak, ditto. Don't expect any one else to give two ****s about you making money because we don't.

I get the feeling some of you expect those who have done their homework to sit around the camp fire with you roasting marsh mellows singing Kumbaya and sharing all they know for free. This is business and I have no problem making you fresh road kill. GCD is a tool that fits into many different contexts. Pick a few and learn them.

I have had it with you lazy whiners. Complain away and please get the hell out of GCD. After the recession is over, there will be Dilbert Cubes all over the country with your names on them. Please take your rightful places. We need people like you.

Sure, there have been glitches. Can any of you whiners tell me anything about the system you berate? Servers, APIs, databases, load balancing, etc. Keeping track of 2 million keywords is no small feat. Add in hundreds of users and queries and it gets even more complex.

Where are the positive responses? Get a clue will you? We are too busy making money to come here and be dragged down by a bunch of whiners here on their lunch hour dreaming about succeeding.

No one is going to make your money making environment perfect for you so stop looking and get busy.

Vito

checkmuldoon

Watch who you call lazy you prick, i spent ten year down a coal mine!!!! and i don't have thousands to waste. Fine it don't work with direct linking so why they say it does??

WhosMaverick

LOL!! Thats funny

Tis for testing. But anybody out there *serious* about building a business will need to go further and build the whole nine yards. Or else their in a hell uva ride competing with a gazillion DL´ers...

“It’s only after you’ve lost everything, that you’re free to do anything.”

jcaviani

I'm not saying it does or doesn't work with direct linking, but you would be very foolish to use it only in that way. There are so many other options. And what does your coal mine prowess have to do with Google Cash Detective and affiliate marketing?

Face the music here folks. Affiliate marketing as it is practiced by many is nothing more than income chasing. You should be collecting leads and building a business instead. If not, you are building someone else's business. Sure you can make a good chunk of change being an income chaser and many people like it, but just know your longevity is limited.

Btw, dish out all the names you can think of. I really don't care. I took some time here to try and help. I hope you can view it that way in the long run. I know most people aren't bad people, some just need a kick in the ass now and then.

You should be jumping up and down saying wow, there are still so many direct linkers. How much do I have to do to compete with them? In many cases, not much!

Threads like these and many others are why I generally dislike free forums. You really have no idea who is commenting and with what intent. It doesn't take a genius to know many people will say and do just about anything to make money and keep their money - look at the US economy.

Be careful and test things for yourself. There is much disinformation floating around about what and what doesn't work. Direct linking was supposed to be dead a long time ago right? Do you think there were people who profited by getting everyone else to believe that rubbish?

Mind games are many times more effective than reality. Google does it all the time. Are the GCD naysayers actually people profiting wildly who are trying to throw you off the path? Or, am I trying to throw you a curve? The only way for you to know for sure is to know your subject matter, which brings me full circle.

YOU control your success, not some tool or profit hungry narcissist. If you don't know something no one else cares. Stop thinking like you're in grade school and everyone is supposd to feel good about themselves. It didn't work there and it certainly doesn't work in business.

Metronicity

Yes BUT Mister Smartmouth...the whole idea of GCD was to teach newbies AND people who knew something about affiliate marketing to GET AN EDGE - to get an edge by Direct Linking which they had us believe you could do easily by CLONING successful campaigns.Well that's obviously Not the case is it? There are other factors in play - how much money you're going to throw at Google, your history with Google Adwords, your CTR history etc.

If we'd paid $97 or something we might be philosophical. But we haven't. We've paid a Grand upfront and $97 a month Plus. Or 67% of us will have paid $2600 AT LEAST over the coming year. That aint chickenfeed and for that sort of scratch I expect something to run a lot smoother than this.

I like using the tool. But its not infallible. But I have a very good idea how I can make money using it. I just want the rest of the **** that was promised. And BTW sport you definitely CAN make money Direct Linking - but you need to lower your spend dramatically and target your keywords. JP talks about a program that helps with that. Maybe you didn't get that far but that program and that method is KILLER.

Go back and listen to what CC says in one of his vids. He wants it to be a "tight-knit community" where we all help each other. While we're learning. That's what this is - a LEARNING PROGRAM. And we all make some money. I share that ethic. Seems you're too intent upon being a Total Ahole to join that little club.

Have a nice day you hear.

p.s. if you want to get into the techie side of things, how come they didn't host the servers with Peer1 or someone? They wouldn't have had this B/S would they.

Yusuf

I don't know about the roasting marsh mellows singing Kumbaya part... but the top JVs did get a 7 day trip to a yoga retreat surf camp on the beaches of Mexico.

jcaviani

Metronicity,

I hope the time you have wasted to write your novellas of discontent have been worthwhile.

GCD is just a tool. It can be used productively in many ways. Generally the people who succeed in business have put themselves in that position. They learn everything they can in the hopes that their preparation will meet opportunity. They don't wait for everything to be perfect. There are no guarantees and they know they have to make hay while the sun shines.

This is the part of the equation government seems to pay no deference to when deciding to arbitrarily redistribute wealth. Many people who make great money also take great risks. Where is the government when they don't succeed? I'm tired of the half truths that fuel this class warfare. People want jobs and yet the people who can actually create them are chastised and evil. Is it really prudent to throw money we don't have at a blackhole of need?

Could the GCD launch have been smoother? Perhaps...but stop acting like it's similar to a drum and bugle core performance that has been rehearsed for a year before going live. This is real time baby and nothing tests a system like a few hundred people hammering it. Adjustments have to be made.

Everything will be okay. Good luck to you.

WhosMaverick

Amen brother

“It’s only after you’ve lost everything, that you’re free to do anything.”

Metronicity

Well there you go - "They learn everything they can in the hopes that their preparation will meet opportunity." Exackery. "They learn everything they can". Sometimes the fastest and easiest way to learn is to pay someone to teach you. That's what we were hoping for here. Go back and read the comments. Are they happy with the training and the teaching? "They don't wait for everything to be perfect" - no but they expect to get what they paid for. Can't you see that? What are you there for? Just for the tool? Yeah right. Or did you cough up your dough hoping to pick up some good techniques/tips/resources/contacts - stuff you didn't know? Huh?
Don't follow the rest of your ramble about "half truths that feed this class warfare". Way off topic there. "Is it really prudent to throw money we don't have at a blackhole of need?" - you on crack or what? We're talking about a classic case of what lawyers call "misrepresentation" - An assertion or manifestation by words or conduct that is not in accord with the facts.

cms418

Is there anyway around not competing with someone for a bid who is already direct linking to a campaign? What did Chris do with his display URL and how can I do that?

Metronicity

PM me and I'll show you how. I guarantee it will light up your lightbulb. Don't go telling Mister Know-It-all up top though. Or I'll have to kill you.

Metronicity

I found the Jamorama affiliates by doing a wildcard search - all 875 of them.

jcaviani

Metronicity,

I am done wasting my time with you or anyone else who can't see beyond their own anxiety. You are free to request a refund and leave at any time and yet you seem to require help getting out the door too?

Purplemagic

jcaviani,
Whoa! Hold on there pal....this is not a debate about "Mine is bigger than your's" To me its about getting what we paid for...simple. And that is not happening in Spades!

Metronicity

Exackery Mister Craw...Exackery. If Whatsisface re-read my posts he'd see that I quite like Jonathon Paul's vids (even though he sounds half-cut ) and I have fun using the tool - especially the wildcard function but we just want what we paid for....when do we want it...NOW!
Guess what - they still haven't sorted it. The Forum's still MIA.

JohnDow

What program? Hint?

Metronicity

You'll find it on my site. It involves Redirecting & Masking your affiliate link to make your Display URL & Destination URL the same. Then you can direct link without having to do battle with all the other schmucks paying too much per click. Very easily done. But keep it to yourself.

Metronicity

Just found the door, thanks. It was off its hinges but I managed to get out alive.

sandhill

That's smart, jrise. I can't help but think GCD is going to create its own firestorm of competing quick-buck product searches that becomes self defeating, particularly with the fact that Google can verify the quality of longer-running campaigns by a whole raft of things like their account set-ups and usage and history, which GCD can't tell you.

davesh

i have been a member of ppc classroom from there i got a reference link for gcd.
i watch all the videos of gcd from google towel to all the graphicals of online success i tried running one test adword campaign for reversephone lookup which drastically failed the campaign i ran was for 25 bucks with high converting keywords but it miserrably failed after 32 clicks 1.34% CTR and NO SALES i saved my skin getting ripped off for $1997 !!!

Metronicity

Hey check this out! http://www.chriscarpenterblog.com/go...e-the-phoenix/ Incredible! He's having the same problems as this launch of 18 months ago. Looks like he hasn't learnt anything from his past fiasco eh?

vic1

Hi All,

I haven't been around this thread for awhile and I see nothing has changed. LOL

I'm not a GCD customer but I do have a question for newbies who have recently opened an ad words account with Google.

I am showing a few people how to do PPC. They all opened brand new accounts just last week.

To help them, I used similar campaigns that I run now, all successful.
They used their own landing pages and domains.

Every one had a 1 quality score and a slap of $10 but Google were showing landing page and relevance ok.

These are campaigns that almost, but not quite copy my successful campaigns.

Has anyone using or not using GCD run into this?

On another note. Before I put up a landing page, I'll direct link for a couple of days and see how the merchant's page sells. I've been doing this for over 8 months. Google has not approved my ad maybe 3 times in 8 months.

This past week, they have not approved EVERY direct link campaign I have tried. About 10 of them. Never has this happened.

My account is old. Avg. CTR for 19 ad groups and 4 campaigns is pushing 4.5 with QS of at least 7 on up for everything.

Anyone else notice this the past week or two?

I'll post this on the other thread too.

Thanks,
Vic

Yusuf

There was a thread about this on GCD forums about how people aren't able to get a campaign up with direct linking, not even for testing purposes.

Metronicity

Hang on...direct linking with redirect & cloaking or just direct linking? "Quality Score of 1" - I'd shoot myself - it means Google think you seriously suck. You sure you know what you're doing?

Metronicity

Probably means they have no history/no credibility/and Google doesn't like the **** they're promoting. And talking about GCD - they have no credibility. That guy should take his surfboard and just paddle off into the sunset. He just adds to the general perception that affiliate marketing is a scam.

vic1

Would have been a lot easier for me if you would have read the post.

I have them coping a campaign that I have that does about 1500 per week.

My QS scores are 7 and above. My CTR is 4.5.

With landing pages and the same keywords using a new ad word account they have a QS of 1 even though Google is showing ok for landing page and relevance.

That was the first part.

My direct linking are with domains that I use to re-direct.
I've been doing it for 8 months. All of a sudden they are stopping me.
I know it's against their TOS, but they have never checked until the past couple of weeks.

4morereferrals

This was an issue with the GCD I was a bit leary of ... a business model that is knowingly in violation of Googles rules, AND a business model that is pretty dependent on the "assumption" that someone running an adwords campaign for x number of days - must be making $$$.

Could it be the product OWNERs campaign? Or the pdt owners own affiliate campaign? It may be their MOST profitable but NOT even profitable :-)

I was thinking to myself - Self ... what if google has people from their adwords team as members here in Warrior Forum and they get wind of a program like GCD? Hi google - we've been stealing millions of your revenues for months under the radar, and now we;re going to show 1,000's of others how to do the same thing next week ... Things that make you go hrmmmm.

Rather odd no that they are starting to crack down hard, and publish an article on it mere days after the GCD launch? What did Chris Carpenter know and when di he know it?

Sounds like a great time to be a product creator ....

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Metronicity

You're right. Google are not stupid. And I'm not sure what algorithms GCD is basing its "Profitability" on. But as I've said before - there's more to the equation than that. There's your History with Google Adwords for starters. Things like - Are you consistently getting good CTR?. Have you been around for awhile? Are you paying your bills on time.? Do they like the sites you're promoting? - all that. I'm highly suspicious of these types who claim to have a surefire system of milking Adwords. Bottom line - if its that good how come they're sharing it? And then we have the fact that Carpenter also runs a surf-camp plus yoga school in beautiful downtown Mexico. Something fishy there.
I notice his sidekick Jonathan Paul has gone quiet on this Forum.

checkmuldoon

He's prob busy on their forum arguing with pissed off customers