I was gone all day doing an errand of mercy (transporting some cute pet rats for a rat rescue group so that they could be neutered in a different state, cheaply, and hopefully adopted).

When I tried to find out more data on the person I was emulating, I couldn’t do a single search in the Google Cash Detective tool. Any search I tried to do kicked me out! I was back to the login page.

The thing that makes me really nervous about this tool is there is absolutely no customer support. There’s no support phone number OR email. If you open a support ticket (which I did), it just sits there with no reply.

And now the forum is closed too. The message says that they discovered a logic flaw with the forum that affected the performance of their main tool, so they’re working to fix it. It also says they’re looking for a forum moderator.

Hmm…this product has been in beta test for how long?? I’ll tell you: since last year!! And you went live with a forum without having someone to be the moderator?

These problems should NOT be happening to someone who shelled out $2,000 and is in the 30-day trial period.

But my criteria still holds true: If I can use the tool to make at least 166.44 per month, I’ll keep it.

But so far it does not look promising.

I also noticed my credit card was charged 547.00 instead of 499.25 (the total price of 1997.00/4 installments).

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Well the product I tried yesterday was a flop. So it’s back to the drawing board.

I browsed through the Clickbank marketplace again. This time I found a sports-related webpage that guarantees to increase your vertical jump.

It was a very compelling web page. It has a video of a 5’5″ guy dunking and attributing it to this product. And the author has taught professional dunkers and Olympic athletes.

Hey, I don’t shoot hoops but I was ready to buy it! And it has a lot of content so I don’t think I’ll have the same problem I had with the product I was promoting yesterday (Google told me the landing page wasn’t relavant enough to my keywords/ads).

So I set up a campaign with lots of good keywords. Within a few minutes I had impressions and clicks. A few hours later I eagerly logged into Clickbank.

You know how many sales I had?

zero.

Well, come to think of it, Clickbank’s gravity rating on this product was only in the 30s. And again I didn’t exactly use the Google Cash Detective tool. I just went with a landing page that appealed to me.

Ok, after 2 failed attempts at finding profitable products, I’m going to use the tool. I did after all spend $1997.00 for it (well, not yet. I signed up for the installment plan).

So using the tool, I found a different product for exactly the same niche. I spyed on an affiliate who had a good profitability index (that’s the Cash Detective’s rating system) so I know he’s making money at it.

The best thing is that I can use the same keywords from yesterday’s product and just change the urls.

So I made the changes and waited. Then checked my Clickbank account.

Sales? 1!! Yippee! My first sale!

But I got $16 in commissions and I spent $25.00 on Adwords to get it.

Ok, that’s not going to let me quit my job!

Then I remembered something Chris Carpenter said in his training video. He never goes after any product that pays less than $25 in commissions for a sale.

Ok, maybe there’s something to that.

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Well now that I have access to the Cash Detective, it is time to try to apply it.

I started out by watching the training video that gives instructions on how to find a Clickbank eBook to promote. I didn’t follow all the steps (choosing 20 and then running them through criteria to narrow it down to 5 or 6 to try), but instead I tried the first one I found that matched some of Chris’s tips.

The landing page was very compelling (I wanted to buy it myself when I finished reading it), it had a good score in Clickbank which means they see it as a successful product, it had really good affiliate support.

So I set up a Google Adwords campaign for it.

Now keep in mind that I really didn’t use the Cash Detective on it. In other words, I didn’t see who else was promoting it and didn’t look at the Detective’s ‘profitability index.’

So I filled my campaign with keywords that were relevant and let it run for a few hours. When I checked on it, all of my keywords had this next to them, ‘Ads rarely show due to low quality score.’

When I dug deeper into Google, it told me that the landing page wasn’t relevant.

Not relevant! Whaddya mean?

But then I looked at the landing page from a bot’s point of view. Hmmm, sure enough, there were very little occurrences of the actual keyword phrase I was promoting. Now as a human, I knew that my keywords were relevant, but I can see as a bot how it might be hard to make that deducation based on the content of the landing page.

So I guess you could call this a failure, but…to me it points out why the actual Detective is needed. I didn’t actually use the Detective to see how many other affiliates were promoting it using Google Adwords. If I had, I would have seen that there aren’t that many.

So now I know the reason why there aren’t that many.

Next time I’m going to follow all the steps in the training video and only try a product that has a high profitability index.

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