Lately, I have been more accustomed to use GeoSurf with my marketing needs. Recently they just upgraded their toolbar and I want to let you know there is a huge improvement on their platform. It isn’t just a proxy server anymore but it gives you stats!

There are 2 parts which I want to talk about and discuss. First is GeoSurf upgraded their toolbar and it is called GeoSurf Plus. The first part is the ability to get stats on the advertisers on a website or page. This push button tool is amazing because you literally just push a button and it provides you with amazing information about that page and its advertisers.

For example I went to weather.com push the GeoSurf Plus button and received information about their advertisers, screenshot below:

This tells me what is currently on this page. It just gives me good information about this particular weather.com page, stating there are 186 unique creatives, 39 campaigns, and just 30 advertisers. If I want to find out more about each advertiser and their creative, I simply click on More Insights.

Once I click on more insights I get more indepth data:

This section dives into some amazing data for example it will tell you who the main advertisers are and their share on the page as well as their creatives. Think of this like MixRank or WhatRunsWhere, a banner display tool.

Another aspect about GeoSurfs tool bar is it categorizes the campaigns it sees. So let say you want to do a dating on weather.com or tmz.com. GeoSurf Plus tells you the share percentage. This helps you determine if there is competition or if it is even worth it to advertise on such site.

Even knowing what he most popular category to advertise on these sites is priceless. It will also break down similar sites as well. You can find more places to advertise this way. There are a lot more functions this toolbar has, for example it even gets the creatives of the advertisers. I believe it only stores the last 7 days creatives as I can not change the date range. Even then it gives me a good idea of how to position my banner ads strategy.

The other feature I like is the Mediators, I assume these are the ad networks that are allowing publishers and advertisers to advertise. Though they are not by particular network it does have the referring url links or the redirected links. For certain, it does have Google Exchange network on there. Some of the links are a bit confusing and does not let me know the direct ad network but it is still interesting to see where these ads are coming from.

The other function I want to discuss is mobile. GeoSurf is a premium proxy toolbar. Right now this is the only toolbar that will allow you to view a website in its mobile form (if it has a mobile version) by simply just clicking on a drop down and choosing your tablet or mobile phone.

As you can see GeoSurf breaks this down into brand and models, making it easy for you to chose. In the background you can see the mobile version of weather.com and how it would look like on an iPhone 4S. The best part about this is you can find out if your landing pages are mobile friendly. A more better use for this is seeing if  your affiliate offer are also mobile friendly.

A lot of users are using their phone to check email and even clicking on ads. How does your offer look like when it is loaded in an iPhone or even yet an Android phone? This nifty toolbar makes it a bit easier to view how landing pages and offer pages will look like.

The best feature of the upgraded GeoSurf toolbar is the GeoSurf Plus for sure. Having the ability going to a website seeing a banner and then clicking a button to see if others advertised on this particular page is powerful. Display advertising spy tools are rapidly growing and this is one tool I really enjoy having.

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Adoori focuses on pop under traffic, they are soon going to be focusing on pop up traffic as well. If you do not know what PPV (pay per view) or CPV (cost per view) is, it is simply pop up traffic. You are paying for the impressions and not on a per click basis. You can relate this to banner buys where you are typically paying for impressions. With pop under traffic you are also paying for pops which happens underneath the main browser and not over.

With some or contextual popup traffic you are usually popping above the browser. This quickly breaks the users reaction to the main site they were visiting and forces them to view your landing page or offer. This is why Adoori had made their traffic specifically underneath the browser. It does not force the user to view your page, but eases them into to. Though they are going to be coming out with pop over traffic, their main platform is still focused on pop under.

If the user is done browsing the website, they see your ad after they have closed their main browser. This doesn’t annoy the end user or forces them to take action right away, it simply eases them into your ad.

Benefits of Pop Under:

• Not Intrusive, Less Annoyance
• Not scrambling to close the popup
• Continuous view of your offer or LP

With pop unders there are some great benefits over pop overs. With Adoori they make it even easier with their backend user interface. When I first created my campaign with them, it was literally very easy to use. I created a campaign, entered my link, chose my target, submit for approval. That was it. The backend is very simple to use and there are no distractions other than what you really need from reports to creating campaigns.

The only downside to their traffic is their targeting, you can target by area and not dig any deeper. If I have a home insurance offer landing page it may pop under a gain muscle website. The targeting only works with countries and categories.

My suggestion is to keep your offers broad. One trick I learned from my own experience is to make sure you have a really good tracking platform. I say this because you can actually know where the traffic is coming from and what sites they pop under. Understanding this will give you a better understanding of the demographics.

One other aspect I enjoyed about their platform is they have a default frequency cap of 24 hours. This means your campaign will not be shown to the same user more than once. There are times where you want to show it more than 1 and sometimes you want  your ad to be targeted to that one person just once. Their are some ppv traffic sources out there where they do not have a frequency cap, Facebook Ads…. and some you will probably forget to set it up and your campaign will popup over a site or category more than 10 times. Which is bad.

I used Adoori in the past and it is a simple system and ad platform which can be used correctly. There are some verticals that do much better than others and some verticals, in my experience that do horrible. It is about finding that balance with any niche or traffic source.

Adoori is an upcoming contextual ad platform, check them out as they almost usually have monthly deals on traffic prices.

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I have been talking to Tyson about his product and they have been very busy making sure his product is a go to for LP creations. After talking to him about his product, I decided to go ahead and try it out. I took something I already was converting, my affiliate guide.

My affiliate guide is a download with a form on it and a Facebook connect button. I made one with just the facebook connect button with InstaPage. I create a simple landing page with the traditional template which is provided. Everything you need to start a landing page quickly is within their main editor, you pick and chose pre loaded templates and then replace the filler texts.

I simply added new boxes, text boxes, and image boxes to create my landing page capture below. This took me about 10 minutes to make. (I already had text for this optin page)

It was simple to create this landing page because I already have the content for this optin page. Ofcourse you can create anything you want from dating to insurance lead forms. If you can imagine it you can make it with Instapage. Besides just creating a landing page editor for marketers, they have incorporated some tools within their landing page system. As I said they made this platform with marketing in mind.

For example, it has a multi-variant rotation engine. Split Testing is important for any marketer and in any niche, you need to test. Instapage has this setup in their system. If you want to test headlines, text, images, optin forms, or anything you can think of you can do it with their platform. The best part is it will auto adjust your landing page to the best performing variant. So you do not have to do much on your side, let Instapage do your marketing for you once you have created your mini-site or landing page.

Another aspect which I like is they have their own conversion tracking platform when adding an optin form. It will let you know how your landing page is performing and let you know how many conversions or leads performed on your landing page design. Pretty smart if you tell me. No additional analytic to install, InstaPage has the marketing tools which is important for a marketer – all built in.

I definitely found this tool to be very helpful, with so many landing page templates out there – why not just have a service that has the tools incorporated with your landing pages. Just stop the hassle of finding designers, coders, theme designs, and expenses. Utilizing Instapage will provide you with all what you need when it comes to optimizing and creating your landing page.

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I was introduced to a new platform back at Affiliate Summit West 2011 this year by a good friend I met back at Affiliate Summit Boston in 2008, (this is why you should attend affiliate summit). Anyways my buddy, we shall call him Slightly Shady Seo introduce me to his new banner spy tool at a club. I was pretty amazed at the platform and I was even thinking of doing a spy tool for the direct/media buy space . The reason is because there are so many spy tools for PPC and PPC, but nothing for direct banner buys.

Besides being a bit tipsy and pretty intrigue about his new platform, I wanted to see how it would work and run. Later on in the year they launched and i caught up with another friend I met at past Affiliate Summit, Max. At this past affiliate summit, he introduce me to a newer interface of their platform. Their banner spy tool is called, What Runs Where – great domain by the way.

As you can see from the screenshot above I am looking for some sort of ringtone creatives and offers being promoted, even sites. This tool is very simple you either already have an idea of what you are promoting and want to see where others are placing their banners or you want to find new ideas on how others are creating their creatives. This tool is like any other spy tool, it is how you take in the data and use it.

For example, I would want to see the top ad placements that has been stable for a specific creative because it tells me that LP and that banner creative are performing better than the others. You can learn a lot from what these guys are gathering, the amount of data that is being gathered is amazing. Again it is all about deciphering the data and how you look at it.

Also, you can see from the screenshot below, you can take a look at multiple aspects from finding new traffic sources. You can literally spy and see where the banners have been advertising on. Specifically the top performing banner because a performing banner means it gets the attention of the user and it gets the clicks. You can check out how long a banner has been advertising on a specific site. Giving you the opportunity to advertise on that site or even contacting the webmaster to do a direct banner buy.

You can break everything down to the LPs being used. Now you can see what the advertiser has been testing! You will also notice some offers have international versions as well, so they have their set of URLs as well. Breaking each link, campaign down to its minuscule details. You can find out about everything about the advertiser or a Flog, Fnews or landing page. Having this information will help you with your next media buy or direct banner buy.

Some Negatives:

• Slow load time on some information I wanted to gather, for example their search is pretty slow.
• Labels not properly named or named at all, some graphs I see I don’t understand because there isn’t any proper labels

Those are the only 2 negatives, I also know they are working on some fixes and working to fix and optimize their backend. I have seen this site when they first launched to where it is now and it is definitely improving.

What Runs Where is definitely a spy tool that leverages other peoples work and providing that work to you in forms of numbers and graphs. Since this is a tool, don’t expect to bank tomorrow. It is a tool, if you hit your thumb with a hammer instead of the nail – whose fault is it really?

Like any other spy tool, it is what you do with the data which can help you advance your campaign. The days of Google Adword spy such as PPC Bully and Keyword spy is now moving towards other traffic sources, such as a PPV Spy Tool and now banner buy tools. It is how you interpret and analyze the data and everyone looks at one aspect more than another. Numbers and data is a very important part of affiliate marketing. The more you can do without really doing is a huge benefit to you as a marketer.

If you are doing Google Content Network or any type of banner buys, definitely check out this banner spy tool. It has a lot of information you can utilize right away. Just finding new traffic sources is an essential part of your marketing campaign!

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I think in Affiliate Summit West 09, there was a private affiliate meetup with a lot of affiliates and guest speakers talking about online affiliate marketing. My speech was taking dating offers and asking the affiliate network or advertiser to white label the offer. I talked about how it can give the publisher more control and provide even more quality leads to the advertiser.

I then found this site, Anastasia Affiliate Program which offers white label dating campaigns.

I decided to look at Asian Beauties because for some reason our industry likes Asian girls. So I looked at the backend to see how fully whitelabel this platform and offer truly is. Once I signed up the setup process is very simple and straight forward. You are asked to start naming your site and chose a subdomain for your dating campaign.

One great attribute is you can point your new site to a domain, branding your domain. This makes your offer unique as it can help with branding and ofcourse recognition n the internet. With this you can also upload a new logo than the traditional Asian Beauties logo, making it truly white label. You customize the slogan and the most interesting part which will be upgraded soon is the language.

You are allowed to currently chose English, but once they implement the language feature you can chose from German to French. If you have done any dating international offer, it is important to create landing pages with the proper language of the international traffic you are targeting. It just brings in better leads.

Once some basic information is provided about your new white label Asian dating offer, you then pick from 1 of 4 templates. Each templates has a lot of Asian women on the home page. The best part is you can chose what type of Asian women you can place on the home page vs the gallery page, Thailand girls, Chinese girls, or Filipino girls.

You can also display specific girls base on your targeting. For example you can also just show girls for a specific zodiac sign, smoking, eye color, drinking, ages, etc – you can control what type of girl shows up on the homepage or galleries. This is great especially if you are targeting a fixed demographic of males that are only interested in girls that are of specific height and for a specific zodiac sign. Very powerful.

You also can decide how many girls thumbnails can be view able from 50 images to more than 200! This gives you full control of how your dating campaign can look like. Even though 4 templates is pretty low, you still have control over the content and the galleries.

I believe they will have more templates soon.

With your white label site almost done, you also control the content and what you want to say across to your traffic. Below is a screenshot of the multiple parts of your white label site you can control, literally almost every part. You can use their default text, customize it, or just rewrite the whole content yourself, this is your site you can control.

This pat is important as copy in itself is important, you need to captivate the end user enough to show interests and then enough interests to turn them into  lead. Having control and testing your own copy can result in some great commissions for your own dating offer.

Other than just creating your own white label dating offer, they have a set of tools you can start pushing to help get your offer out. They have pre made banners, advertising tools, and ofcourse high commissions.

I always try to get a whitelabel offer, since it gives me the opportunity to test their LP vs what I thunk would convert better base on my own past experiences. Especially since dating is a saturated market but still profitable, having your own offer/campaign can help you increase your earnings. You can grow a brand which can be powerful in itself.

Take a look at Anastasia Affiliate Program and see their other white label dating offers, Asian Beauties is just one of other dating campaigns which you can white label and control. Having this ability literally gives you a better advantage over other affiliates.

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A while back I wrote about how useless Kajabi is, nothing against Andy Jenkins – just thought there are better ways to control your launch and membership sites. Anyways, I got OptimizePress to help with my latest launch and its an amazing platform. It is a bit confusing at first but after playing with it for a couple days you get the hang of it. You will find yourself reading their detailed help doc quite a bit, as I found myself doing it several times.

Once you overcome the learning curve it is a great plugin and theme set for product launches and squeeze pages. Some pointers I want to point about it that has helped me tremendously with my product launch.

Setting up a Squeeze Page is SUPER EASY.

OtimizePress comes with preset templates that you can chose from, especially for squeeze pages. I chose a specific template which it did fairly well. It was big and bold and straight to your face. Again this has a ton of customizable options such as text format, background color, heading, sub headline, etc.

You can literally control every aspect of a squeeze page, no need to edit the post – just answer each field and you are basically done. Since there is a lot of fields to enter it does get confusing just a bit, but again its a learning curve and I would rather have control of all aspects of a page than just some.

This systems auto populates share buttons and have several share buttons you can chose from. This system gives you options which is great, nothing is fixed it has several options or themes of buttons and designs to chose from. Again, you have control of what you want to do.

Protecting your Pre Launch Series

You can even cookie users making sure all of your other content is protected. This means you can make sure you are capturing leads before they get to see the content. This makes for a great simple and easy autoresponder series and also protecting your content. Now you can rest assure your pages and videos are not just being watched by non optins. This allows you to quickly increase your optins fairly quickly.

The cookie gateway system is a very simple system, you basically set the cookie when the end user optins. You can set the cookie either on the submit form or when they confirm their email with aweber or other email platforms.

There are ton of other features on here that makes this a versatile system. I use to just combine a bunch of scripts together and make my launch series a success and it can be done. With OptimizePress it definitely is a all in one system for doing a product launch with an pre launch or if you want to just use it as a squeeze page template that can work too.

Some downsides:

1. Each field box you can not use PHP. In this essence you can not test headlines if you wanted too. Luckily I have my own a/b testing software which allows javascript and that worked perfectly with OptimizePress.
2. Gateway is not deactivated when admin is signed in. When I used the cookie gateway they have, I couldn’t preview my changes or go to my page right away because it would redirect to the main squeeze page. I had to set the cookie first and then view or I had to attach a setuser id at the end of the link to view the page, so that got kinda of annoying.

Besides these 2 setbacks this is an amazing plugin and theme system for launching a product, membership site, website, etc. It is very similar to Kajabi which is by Andy Jenkins and I think this is a far better platform. I will probably start using OptimizePress for my future optin pages and product launches because its such a versatile platform.

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They also have their own datacenter, meaning all the data are hosted by them and they can easily analyze the traffic and campaigns. This way it helps them target their ads much faster. The backend interface is fairly easy to use and very straight forward, you ca easily create a campaign pretty fast.

Clicksor’s pop traffic is all pop-under traffic. They also display full page pop under traffic. So anyways, I am using CPVLabs to track my stats and rotate 3 different types of offers. The offers I was pushing was a first page submit, ranged from 1-3 fields. I figured it would be an easy way to determine Clicksor’s traffic by rotating 3 offers.

Here are my results for 3 days, according to Clicksor:

I received 2,585 views to my landing page and spent less than $40 for the 3 days. After 3 days of not noticing any LP to Offer clicks or any type of conversions. I decided to look at my tracking and here are my results from CPVLab. Don’t think it is matching up the way it should be.

Nothing really matched up except for the 1 view on site visitors. I contacted Clicksor and they are going to respond back to me about the issue. Even though this cost less than $40, the traffic doesn’t seem to match up. I would imagine a slight discrepancy as with any traffic but again this is too big. It can also be that I advertised both on Clicksors publisher network and partnered sites, maybe I should have done each separate. But I wanted to get a good overview of the traffic a as a whole.

Kinda sucks, but I am going to wait their response and see what they can do for me. There are some features I definitely want to use such as the re-targeting for popups as I have not seen that before. There are a ton of ways to advertise within Clicksor from banners to contextual, but I didn’t get o test everything just yet until I get my traffic discussed.

So far their support has been great and they have been great to me so far, especially when asking them about the traffic quality and the current issue I am currently having. I am pretty sure it might be an advertiser on their side because it definitely can’t be me as I am pretty sure my reporting is on point.

I also want to test out their display network, as their interface is pretty much straight forward. You navigate your way through everything on the right hand side, nothing really to complicated. I dove in and got my campaign up. The only thing it it took 2 days to get t approved – that is because I emailed them about the wait and they approved it pretty fast after that.

Right now they are the cheapest CPV network out there because of their Summer promo they are doing. Make sure you separate your campaigns and don’t do a full network like I did. Just treat it as an individual.

Also, I will update everyone on the results of the traffic.

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I just downloaded this keyword research app for my iPhone and I thought I would do a review and share it. It is a pretty straight forward app and it provided some very good results, like really good results. Keyword research is important, if you are on the go this is a great app for just traditional online marketers. It is a very simplistic app but it provides you with amazing results.

Above, I did a video review of the app because I thought it needed t be reviewed from a user point of view. Apparently, the video didn’t come out with its best quality – so this post is born with some screenshots from my iphone. Here are some screenshots of the keyword “lose weight”.

The first shot is the traditional keyword report. The report shows you the keyword searched, the CPC, competition factor, results, and visual bars. It is a quick overview of the keyword.

The next screenshot is the related keyword report. Keywords that are related to your original or seed keyword. The results it pulls is amazing. It doesn’t pull 50 results or 100. It looks like it is pulling about 1000 keywords. Will have to ask Corey to confirm but it def pulls in a lot of keywords. Also the results that it pulls is amazing, some really amazing long tail keywords.

I believe the 12 month trend starts at January to December, I have to confirm with Corey as well but looking at this specific keyword “lose weight” December – February is a very popular month for users to try to lose weight. So I def believe the 12 month trend starts from January and ends at December.

Just like the seed/original keyword, each keyword has volume data, the CPC, competition, and search results.

The other part that i like especially if you are on the go is you can email yourself some of these keywords to your personal email or to anyone you want to. For example, since I do travel, I can email specific keywords to my VAs and tell them to target these targeted keywords etc. Which is I think crucial especially if you are on the go.

The app is very simple and straight forward. It just produced amazing keywords which is great. I can go from this app to my domain app and register a keyword domain all on my iPhone. Love technology.

Want to download this app, Scan the QR code below and get the app on your iPhone right now. I use the Red Laser app to scan barcode, but you can literally use any bar code scanner on your phone. It should be able to decipher the code and then forward you the the link to download this amazing app.

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This works by looking at the geo ip of the ed user and redirecting that traffic to a more relevant offer. For example if someone in Australia clicks on a US link or offer I am promoting, that offer will be redirected to an Australian offer or even offer wall.

In the past I have been using Worldproxy202, but they just do not have a lot of countries for me to test. I started asking around what the best proxy servers are so I can build my own system, while doing this I stumbled on GeoSurf.

GeoSurf is basically what it sounds like, surf the internet globally. From an affiliate’s standpoint this is very helpful when determining the offer page of the advertiser, especially international offers. For example if you want to run ‘Russian Dating’ and want to see how it would look like with the surrounding countries, you first activate GeoSurf and then insert the affiliate link in your URL bar to see if it will redirect or not.

This is important because you want to make sure you are targeting countries in which the advertiser is allowing. GeoSurf makes this very easy by letting you install a toolbar, which works with IE and FireFox. This toolbar allows you to switch between around 59 countries, so there is a lot of options here.

It is a very simple tool to use, activate it with your login credentials and just click on apply. Another great function for GeoSurf for online marketers, especially affiliates is spying. Though GeoSurf does not have a spy tool, as affiliates we want to look at international ads.

By browsing the internet with banner ads utilizing Google Content Network or International Ad Network, you can see what type of banners are being displayed. Are these banners using in country language text in their ad, what colors are being utilized more, are they using people of culture, etc. So by simply browsing popular sites you can see how international ads are being populated.

The easiest way to surf without really thinking too hard on what is the most popular international searched website is by just going to Google with Geosurf turned on. It will turn Google.com into an international search engine base on the country you chose. Type in a search term related to your affiliate offer and boom, you have sites relevant to your offer which you can start browsing.

You can use WorldProxy202, but it isn’t as powerful as GeoSurf and plus GeoSurf has a ton more countries, 59 to be exact and a multitude of US geographics as well, just in case an advertiser decides to filter out a state.

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As you know I have a new blog design for 2011. I had it designed by a graphics company outside the US and I had the internal coding done by someone local here in NJ. The problem is they said they knew how to work with the Genesis Framework but they didn’t. After such frustration, I hit up a friend of mine to see if he can code and fix my problem.

Adverse.Co is a new company that specifically does custom design sites and coding. I know one of the owners and we have worked in the past before on a project, so when I needed help with my Genesis issue – I hit him up. I specifically asked if he worked with Genesis Framework – it seems there isn’t a lot of programmers that worked with this framework before.

In any case, he looked at the coding and yes it was a train wrecked and asked if he can fix it and make the blog work with the new design. After talk and expectations they worked with me on the coding and the implementation of the new theme design. I am happy and the blog is flowing smoothly.

It is always hard to find good programmers and designers on the web, especially for big projects such as a blog redesign and programming. Adverse.Co is about custom sites and programming, they specialize in the program aspects and range their services from WordPress coding to HTML5 Mobile coding.

One thing they wanted to introduce to my backend of WordPress is a custom admin panel for other parts of the blog such as custom fields, font styles, logo uploads, and a new WordPress user interface for customization. I just needed a fix-up of my current coding on my theme and needed some custom work done as well, especially the video posts parts of my blog.

They were very professional when I came to them asking for help. They quoted me, started the tasks, provided me feedback and even suggested some new changes for the better. It was a good thing that I contacted my buddy, as I personally know he is an amazing programmer.

Adverse.Co did some great work and got my blog to where I wanted it to be. If you are looking to get a website designed and coded, mention IanFernando.com and you get a 15% discount when you are quoted on your project.

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