Just what is Google Shadow and is it the right for you? These are the questions that many people are asking as all the hype builds surrounding the February 10th launch of the product.
Google Shadow is a well designed membership site that helps struggling internet marketing affiliates with Pay Per Click (PPC), notably Adwords. So, if you’re trying to make some decent money online with Adwords, then this is the product for you.
The Google Shadow program is comprised of two parts:
1. Exclusive affiliate marketing training material that is simplified and developed to get you understanding the PPC game fast.
2. An automated software system that takes the guess work out of building Adword campaigns.
The product received its name from an underground affiliate name Tim Houston. Tim was discovered by Chris X, a well known internet marketer himself who is best known for Day Job Killer and Affiliate Project X. Chris’ products have impacted over 38,000 on-line internet marketing users. His product launches are huge because he always delivers quality material.
In terms of Tim’s credentials, I have learned that he is indeed a big affiliate marketing player. His biggest one-day campaign brought him in over $21,000. His best week, saw him with a $44,000 take. He has even averaged over $100k/month. Take a look at this screen shot from one of Tim’s ClickBank accounts:

Now that Chris X has teamed up with Tim it looks like he is going to deliver again. Google Shadow is a simple yet powerful Adwords crushing system. The techniques in the program can be implemented the same day with very little effort. One of the techniques they use is ‘direct linking’ which allows internet marketing affiliates to directly link an Adwords campaign to a pitch page. This is powerful stuff that allows you to quickly test keywords.
Having reviewed the program, I can safely sum up the following:
• Ease of Use – the material is easy to understand and follow; the software is auto-pilot
• Proven Techniques – the programs actually work and get you up and running fast!
• Inexpensive – a very inexpensive program when compared against other on the market

Google Shadow For You?
Since Google Shadow focuses on PPC affiliate marketing, then its safe to assume that if you don’t like PPC, then this product probably isn’t for you.
However, if you new at the PPC game or havn’t had any luck, then I’d suggest you seriously consider this product. The program is very straight forward and allows you to get the key concepts in a very short period. Best of all, you don’t need any fancy web pages or design skills to get started.
The guide contains a host of incredible tips and amazing tricks that the newbie can comprehend quickly.
The software is designed to put all of you Adword campaigns on auto-pilot. You’ll be pretty impressed with the way the software works and how it can automate your keyword tracking.
Overall, it is easy enough for ANYONE.
Final Verdict: In our view, Google Shadow is an easy, flexible, “pick up and play” plan with little or no flaws; literally anyone can do it. A Top Pick.

No doubt you have seen all the buzz in the IM forums lately surrounding Michael Jones’ The Adwords Code. No doubt, this video by Michael is causing a huge amount of interest and controversy.

You see, it seems that a lot of people are stuck in old patterns of internet marketing and adwords, and they are starving.

According to Michael Jones, it’s not about having a bunch of keywords anymore and longtail words. If your still operating like that your business is going to go under…and Michael will show you why.

If you value the future and learning from the best to put your online business profitable, watching this video is the first piece of the puzzle.

In Cracking The Adwords Code, you’ll learn….

How to use the true power of Adwords to shut down any competition and build a colossal six-figures-a-month monster income
The secret to why long tailed search terms are no longer the way to big profits with Adwords – if you’ve been thinking it’s all about the long tail and you’re still turning a profit, you’ve been nothing but lucky…
Landing page magic-how to make Google fall in love with your landing page so much that they practically give you the clicks for free…
Why you are throwing exactly half your profit in the garbage when using Dynamic Keyword Insertion, unless you know 3 specific secrets…And no, they aren’t what you imagine.
How to slice your lists of hundreds of keywords down to just a handful that make you the fat profits…this will cause your profits to expand like you wouldn’t believe, while your quality score erupts-but you can’t do it unless you know this specific trick…
The 4 keyword research tools that are a MUST for anyone who actually wants to make some money with Adwords…if you don’t know about these, your competitors are stealing your profits right now…
Secret research techniques that reveal the glaring mistakes in your competitors’ business…and how you can kick the doors wide open and suck all their profit up for yourself.
Find out exactly why the “Google Slap” is nothing a serious Adwords user will ever have to worry about
The one word that must never appear on your landing page…
Learn the real secret to Ad grouping that guarantees you a maximum quality score so you get the biggest possible bang for every buck you spend…this alone could alter your Adwords fortunes right now, this minute
The big secret to fitting _____ into ____ ______ -this will give you an automatic advantage over 99% of other advertisers…and that’s before you count your super quality score
And Much, Much, More…

iSpionage Review
By Chris | FEB 17, 2009
Today, we are going to look at iSpionage which is another keyword research and competitive intelligence site. It offers several nice features that will help anyone jump start their pay per click campaigns. Using iSpionage, you can track competitors in your niche and see whether or not it will be a profitable for you to enter as well. Then, when you decide to start your own campaign, you can leverage your competitors experience in the area by accessing their ad copy and landing pages and using the good things you see in your own campaigns. In this way, iSpionage will save you the time and money that’s usually reserved for starting up a PPC Campaign.
What do you get with iSpionage?
• It tracks and monitors keyword from all 3 major pay per click engines: Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and MSN Adcenter.
• iSpionage reveals competitors a/b split test results.
• It offers competitor alerts to notify you when new advertisers enter your niche.
• Their data is updated daily.
• If they don’t have results for searches you’re looking for, you can submit a request and get their research team to manually research the results for you.
iSpionage Usage
iSpionage works around the concept of projects. For a new PPC campaign you would first create a project, with a couple of main keywords you want to monitor. You can then use iSpionage to come up with a list of related keywords that can be easily added to your project. Once you drill down into a project, you can see your keywords and look at essential information like how many clicks per day each keyword gets, and what’s its average CPC. You’ll also see the number of ads running for each keyword on all 3 major pay per click engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN. This is really useful information as it allows you see how competitive the market is, and whether there are spots for you to enter. The other column to notice is the Days Monitored. For more popular keywords, you will see that iSpionage has been monitoring them for more than a couple of weeks, while some of the more niche keywords haven’t been monitored at all. For these niche keywords, you’ll have to show some patience and wait a few days for iSpionage to gather some relevant results.

Once iSpionage has gathered adequate data for your keywords, you can drill down into the most promising ones and take a look at what particular competitors are advertising for each keyword. Here you can see who the most dominant competitors are and figure out what sorts of ads they are running. Drill down further, and you can see which ppc engines they are running their ads on, where they rank for a particular keyword, and if they are not cloaking their links you can see if they are actually the Merchant or an Affiliate.

Performing keyword research with iSpionage
iSpionage contains two modes for performing keyword research. The first is the relevant keywords generator. What it does is take your existing keywords and finds other keywords related to them. This is a great way to find long-tail keywords for your niche. iSpionage claims that unlike other keyword generators, it will filter out the junk keywords and only return you a list of relevant keywords. This is quite useful as creating successful campaigns relies on the ability to create tightly focused ad groups.

iSpionage Competitive Keyword Finder
The second keyword research option is iSpionage’s competitive keyword finder. To use it, you first search for a keyword which will bring up a list of advertisers. Or if you have a url in mind you can use that as well. This gives you a quick snapshot of all the competitors in your space. One great use of this is to see if which advertisers are using all 3 networks. This usually means that an advertisers has at least one profitable campaign on a network, and has expanded to the other 2.
Other iSpionage Features
One thing that sets iSpionage apart is its free custom keyword research ability. If for some reason, iSpionage does not contain results for a search, you can submit a custom search request. This will get iSpionage’s team of research specialists to manually start looking at the keywords in this specific niche. After they have completed their research, which usually takes 2-4 days, they will send you an email telling you to re-do your search. This is a free part of your membership and quite unique to iSpionage.
One other nice feature of iSpionage is the competitive alerts feature. After you set it up, iSpionage will alert you when new advertisers using the keywords from your project appear on any of the 3 search engines. If you have a trademark on certain keywords for example, this feature is a nice way to find out if people are using it inappropriately, and take action against them if necessary. The alert feature is also quite useful just to see when you have a new competitor to deal with so you can plan any actions.
Final Thoughts
All in all, iSpionage is a worthy product in the competitive intelligence and keyword research space. It offers quite a few unique features that differentiate it from the many other keyword research tools. I really like the fact that it tracks more than Google Adwords, and actually has data from Yahoo and MSN as well. For those who want to get up to speed quickly with iSpionage, they have some excellent video tutorials on their site. Just spend an hour with them, and you’ll be up and running in no time. iSpionage offers a couple of flexible subscription plans. Their iSpy Ranger plan goes for $59 a month. With this plan, you’ll miss a few features like the competitive alerts. With their iSpy Pro package, you’ll basically get the whole feature set for $79 a month. If you want to test out the iSpionage service, make sure to try their free trial. The free trial limits the number of keywords you can track, but should give you a good flavor of how iSpionage works. So give iSpionage a shot, and see if it can’t help you with your PPC campaigns.