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This is a user’s guide aimed at introducing you to the AdSpy Pro Software.

What AdSpy Pro IS NOT

AdSpy Pro IS NOT a keyword tool. What does this mean? It means AdSpy Pro IS NOT a tool that you simply load up with hundreds or thousands of keywords and then turn it on hoping for some kind of miracle report that will turn your income into some overnight success! AdSpy Pro is a "Profitable Ad" locating tool. And the higher quality information you give it at first to work with the higher quality results you can expect from it. Have you ever heard of the term "Garbage In, Garbage Out"? Well that term defintely fits this tool!

If you just randomly select a list of hundreds or thosands of keywords (Garbage) and load them into AdSpy Pro then garbage is exactly what you will get from an AdSpy Pro report. Save yourself a lot of time and headache and just don't do that!

What AdSpy Pro IS

As stated above AdSpy Pro is a "Profitable Ad" locating tool. Now just stop and think about that statement for a moment. What would be or what is a "profitable ad"? Well common sense would tell us that for any ad to be profitable it would first of all require one major thing...TRAFFIC. In other words if you have nobody viewing your ad then there really is no way for that ad to become profitable is there? And if this tool is designed to reveal to you "profitable ads" then it only makes sense that there is one thing it requires MOST OF ALL in order to give you quality results. What would that be? Well of course it would be a list of keywords that you ALREADY KNOW are "high traffic" or "highly searched on" keywords or keyword phrases. And THAT AdSpy Pro cannot tell you and is NOT designed to show you.

For quality results you MUST BEGIN with a list of keywords or keyword phrases that you already know are high traffic or highly searched on keywords or terms. And for that to happen you have to use a "Keyword Tool" such as the free keyword tool at WordTracker. You have to use your own judgement as to what is a "highly searched on" term however if a term is not receiving at least 30 searches per day I would doubt that it would be worth persuing.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are using AdSpy Pro on a "shared" or standard web hosting account then you should never load more than 250 to 300 keywords total over all campaigns into the system!

Benefit Of AdSpy Pro

It tracks Affiliate PPC Campaigns within a given period of time for any keyword given. This will allow you the user to identify not only which ads are “profitable”, but also which keywords are “profitable” for those advertisers using them. ADSPY PRO removes all the guess work, testing, and all the trial and error methods out of the equation allowing you the user to simply reproduce only the “profitable ads” and ppc campaigns which you locate.

To make it simple it’s a Competitive Intelligence Tool using “spy” methods. Its main use is for affiliate ads “cloning” although it can be used to identify profitable markets, products, affiliate programs, lead generation programs and more.

 Brief Overview: How it works

-         User creates a campaign using "highly searched on" keywords he wants to track in order to locate related profitable ads

-         ADSPY PRO will then collect PPC ads, and identify the affiliate ads against the non affiliate ads

-         An affiliate ad can be

o       A Redirect affiliate ad which uses an affiliate link to link from the ad to the affiliate program

o       A Landing Page affiliate ad where the ad first redirects to a “landing page” which belongs to the affiliate. This landing page then in turn is used to promote an affiliate program, and thus links back to the affiliate program promoted

-         Then all the ads are tracked during whatever period of time the user has defined when creating the campaign

-         Reports are created and the user can, at any time:

o       See the profitable campaigns at a glance with a “profit signal” which reveals if “unchanged” ads have been found inside a given campaign, and qualify the “unchanged” rate

o       See the ads which belong to a given keyword

o       See the number of times each ad has been found unchanged during the tracking period

o       Click on any URL (where the ad redirects) and see all the ads which are redirecting to this URL (ad variations)

o       Click on an affiliate ID and see all the keywords this affiliate uses to promote the program

o       See all the other affiliates promoting any given program

o       See the most profitable ads /affiliate ads in the system thus quickly locating the most “profitable” (unchanged) campaign out of all the campaigns.

Overview Of Admin Home Page Screen

This table will show a quick overview of what is inside the system. At a quick glance you can see:

-- how many campaigns are in the system currently
-- how many campaigns are active
-- how many campaigns have been completed
-- how many campaigns are currently paused
-- the total keywords that are currently in the system
-- the total keywords that are currently active
-- the total amount of active proxies

You can quickly view details of each of the above by either clicking on any active number link, ie., 12 or by clicking on the [View] links.

Quick Start Guide

Step 1: Use a keyword tool such as WordTracker to identify a list of "highly searched on" terms for your niche or topic.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are using AdSpy Pro on a "shared" or standard web hosting account then you should never load more than 250 to 300 keywords total over all campaigns into the system!

Step 1: Click on the "My Campaign" link, then click on the "Create New Campaign".


Step 2: Give the campaign a Title. Then insert the Keyword or Keywords you want to begin to track. (1 per line) Next fill in the Duration time. (number of days for campaign to last or track) Then select the Network you wish to use. (at this time the software only supports Google) And finally select the Data Center using the drop down menu.


Step 3: Click on the "Save" button.

Step 4: Decide if you want to use Proxies or not. If so then to the "My Settings" and select the "Administrative Settings" link.


Then put a check mark inside the box next to "Use Proxy". Next fill out the rest of the boxes. Optimal settings are in the image below however you may choose to experiment a bit. When done click on the "Update" button.



Step 5: The last thing that you will need to do is to setup cron tasks for the software to be able to operate hands free. AdSpy Pro will not operate without the use of these crons!

Each and every web hosting account have different configurations and so there is no way of knowing exactly what cron command will work for your particular hosting. You will need to contact your web hosting support and ask them for the cron command that will run a php script on your web hosting account. The below cron command is "only" a sample and should not be construed as the one that will work for your install.

You will need to use your web hosting control panel to setup the cron tasks to run. If using proxies you will need to setup both of these, if not using proxies then you will only need to setup the first cron below:

**cron command** /home/**username**/public_html/**adspyfolder**/getads.php
**cron command** /home/**username**/public_html/**adspyfolder**/proxychecker.php

In the above you will need to replace **cron command** the command that your hosting support gives to you. Next you will need to replace **username** with the username of your web hosting account and finally you will need to replace **adspyfolder** with the name of the folder that you have installed AdSpy Pro into.

Finally you should not set the cron commands to run any more often than every six hours and once per day would be better.

NOTE: As stated above each web hosting account will be different so there is just no way for us to give you any more help with matters of cron. You will need to contact your web hosting support about this issue and not the AdSpy Pro support team.

 

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