In a new series of articles comprising interviews, product reviews and actual progress reports based on his own efforts and experiences trying to generate a real virtual income, Blogcritics writer Christopher Rose starts to explore the true potential, the good guys, the liars and the charlatans of the online moneymaking webiverse.
From affiliate marketing to making and selling your own digital or physical products, Christopher is going to put his life and his own personal future on the line to tell the truth and report on the best and the worst online marketing people and products out there.
The following is Part 2 of an interview with one of the more interesting people out there, one Chris Carpenter, a young American who has gone from working as a waiter in Salt Lake City to living his fantasy beach bum freestyle life in Mexico through his clever take on using Google Adwords.
His first product was the highly respected and reasonably priced Google Cash e-book, which came out about four years ago and his latest product is the rather more expensive and just a little bit controversial Google Cash Detective, which draws upon the work of his e-book and makes the whole process easier to implement.
I understand you've now brought out something new, the Google Cash Detective. What does this do and how is it different to Google Cash?
The Google Cash Detective is software that monitors keywords and identifies profitable Adwords campaigns. It’s completely automated! All you do is enter the keywords into the software, and it monitors them for you.
The Google Cash Detective shows you the Adwords ad, the Display URL and the Destination URL for every keyword you enter. It queries Google daily or hourly (depending on what you choose) and will show you the range of daily clicks, the range of CPC for these clicks, the number of variations of the ad copy, the status of the ad and much more!
You enter a niche keyword list into the software, and it starts monitoring. Then a few days later you can see which keywords are consistently displaying ads for certain merchants. The longer you monitor your niche with the Google Cash Detective, the more certainty you will have as to which ads are profitable and which ads are not. The Google Cash Detective works continuously to monitor campaigns placed for your keywords.
At a glance you can see what ads have been running everyday for several days – those ads are likely to be the profitable ones. On the other hand, when you see keyword/merchant/ad copy combinations that have run for only a few days out of the last month - those ads are likely to be the unprofitable ones. These ads were run, lost money and then disappeared.
Article comments
1 - Steve Walters
I too will one day be as successful as Chris Carpenter. His story and words are inspirational. The parts about beliefs were especially telling. Thank you for this insightful interview.
2 - Thierry
Dont, buy Google cash detective. I never work properly, they change the rules to charge you more once you already have pay, the support is the worst I have ever see (no answer to the email and when they answer they don't reply to the question) and I have request seven times to get my moneyback and don't even receive an answer.