UPDATE: I’ve done an review update with lots more examples and strategies here. Probably best to read this after this original review post so you can see the context of the second post.
You might have heard about Google Cash Detective. Lots of people are talking about it.
The old version was a bit of a disaster so I was a bit unsure how this one would shape up.
I was looking to launch a new campaign of my own today, so I thought I’d try it out within my usual work flow.
After spending a few hours with it, I’ve come to the conclusion that this thing is going to be a bit of a game changer for PPC affiliate marketing. It’s that powerful.
To try and show off its power, I created a video for you, however I ran into a few problems. So instead, I’ll show you “old skool” with screenshots.
Here’s how it all played out.
THE CASE STUDY
Firstly, I looked for a profitable looking niche in Clickbank using our own proprietary in-house Clickbank software. This software is cool in its own right. Unfortunately, it’s not publicly available (I can give some of you access – see below).
This is what it looks like.

We use a variety of measurements and filters to drill down into good Clickbank offers.
Shown are some of the filters we use including gravity parameters, commission and payout rate. The filtering power is very useful as it helps you drill down quickly and easily into offers that meet our parameters. We aim for offers with decent gravity, 75% commission and a payout of over $20.
We figure, most sites convert on average at 1-2%, so if we can buy traffic for less than 50 cents we can break even. We then improve from there.
The really cool thing about this software is we’re tracking trends as well. We like to see products that are increasing in both gravity and popularity. Check out the product below and how it’s gaining momentum nicely. This is a positive sign.
Here’s a screenshot of it nicely filtered.

Based on our drilling down, we’ve selected the GOVTRECORDS Clickbank publisher to work with.
So now we’ve got what we would consider to be our golden niche using our in-house software, I want to try out Google Cash Detective to see what sort of goodness it can reveal for me.
USING GOOGLE CASH DETECTIVE
I firstly want to know whether anyone is making money from this offer in the first place. We can tell this by finding affiliates who’ve been paying for traffic to this offer over a long period of time. We can assume that if they’ve been running it for a long time, it’s either profitable or they have more money than sense.
So I jumped into Google Cash Detective and used the wildcard feature and looked up EVERYONE who is promoting our selected Clickbank publisher.

I clicked through and found a couple of people who had only been advertising a few days. This doesn’t instill much trust that those keywords and ads work.
However, it didn’t take me long to find some profitable campaigns. Man… I found some doozies!
You’ll notice in the screenshot below, there is a ratio (e.g. 55/57). This means that they’ve been advertising 55 out of the last 57 days which is a great sign.

Check out this person who’s been advertising for months with the keyword “us army”. This keyword gets 1.2 million searches a month! You could safely say that this person is making a heap of money from this keyword alone.

All I then did was simply go through each affiliate showing signs of profitability and record the keywords that are working for them.
I reckon out of 100 keywords I try, only 10 of them make me any money. The rest lose money. So, using this method, we can find out what keywords work without spending any of our own dough in the process. We can learn from other people’s mistakes for free. :)
While we are at it, we want to find out what ads are working for them. Often times, it’s the ad copy that makes all the difference. After all, if you can double your click through rate, you halve your costs.
It can take months to find good ad copy for a particular market. We’ve again had these folks do the hard work for us again. Saving us both an incredible amount of time and money.
THE GAME CHANGER
Now… here’s the real game changer that GCD does that I’ve yet to see any other software successfully achieve. Read this carefully and ponder for a moment. This is big.
Once you’ve found an affiliate that is already successful (using those strategies above), you can then find ALL their other direct linking campaigns in ALL their different markets.
This is staggering (and worrying if you’re that affiliate).
I discovered that one of the successful affiliates promoting this product also had success on acne products and spyware related products as well. Brilliant stuff!
(I blurred the affiliate ID for privacy)

If you want a fast track to affiliate success, this is certainly the way to get it!
SO HOW MUCH TO GET A PIECE OF THIS ACTION?
The good and bad thing about GCD is the price. It’s not cheap. In my books, that’s a good thing as the power will hopefully stay in the hands of just a few people, not the entire affiliate community. From what I’ve heard there will be limited spaces as well which should help things.
As you can probably tell, I’m really excited about this and if you can afford it, I recommend you make GCD part of your marketing arsenal.
Now remember GCD is not going to suddenly make you ultra successful without work. However, I’m a strong advocate for investing in things that allow you to leverage your time to the max. That’s exactly the reason why I created SpeedPPC.
Your time is your most valuable asset, and if you can leverage it further, you’ll make way more money.
THE ULTIMATE COMPLEMENTARY BONUS PACK
In line with this, I’ve put together what I consider to be truly the best bonus pack if you decide to buy through my affiliate link. This isn’t just a list of off-the-cuff, over valued teleseminars. This is real world value.
Check this out. Here’s what you’ll get if you order using our affiliate link:
BONUS 1: 12 months access to the in-house Clickbank Mining tool I demonstrated above. I guess if you price this at $99 a month, that’s around $1200 value. Not to mention the competitive advantage you’ll have because it’s not a public tool.
BONUS 2: A free SpeedPPC Affiliate Pro license to leverage your time further in creating perfectly structured PPC campaigns that will allow you to beat pretty much anyone at their direct linking game. This is $497 worth of real value.
BONUS 3: I’ll teach you a technique that we’re exploiting right now using SpeedPPC, the affiliate datafeed software included with SpeedPPC and direct linking. No-one is talking about this stuff. It’s cutting edge and I’ll share it with you. I don’t know what price to put on this. This information could be worth tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in the right hands.
All you need to do is clear your cookies, and then click the link below immediately before purchasing. Then just forward me your receipt to jay@speedppc.com to claim these bonuses.
CLICK HERE TO ORDER GCD AND OBTAIN ACCESS TO THESE BONUSES
If you have any questions, hit me in the comments below or via the email address above.
UPDATE: I’ve written an updated blog post with some cool new examples, especially if you’re into CPA affiliate marketing. I’ve also detailed two new bonuses.
UPDATE 2: Given the somewhat off-topic nature of some of the comments below (I don’t mind, it’s just they probably don’t interest everyone reading), I’ve closed comments on this post. You can make any further GCD related comments on my new post here.









Yes, I’ve got the same problem!
Been trying to contact Chris and his support team.
To my surprise, there’s no contact for support.
I searched forums, googled it. But no clues as to how to make contact with Chris other than his welcome email!
I tried that – but got no replies.
Then I found this forum. So, other people have been having the same problem as well.
So it’s confirmed. The site is down – can’t handle members’ simultaneous accesses. And Chris is probably busy trying to fix it – and no time to respond to emails.
I have lost much precious time, instead of already launching campaigns to make money.
Hope the site is fixed soon!
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Given the somewhat off-topic nature of some of the comments above (I don’t mind, it’s just they probably don’t interest everyone reading), I’ve closed comments on this post. You can make any further GCD related comments on my new post here.
Cheers
Jay