After having received so many positive comments about my review for the Rich Jerk's latest, hyped-up product, I felt I also needed to write today's review about Undercover Profits. It's the alternative product I've continously been mentioning as the better software. Well, that was until I read the salesletter just yesterday. The doors had opened for some special partners as an "early bird" special. (If you're on Scott Boulch's list, you should have received that announcement too).
Now that I have read the salesletter, I am not convinced anymore that you should get it. It's still better than the Rich Jerk's "X-Ray Affiliate Domination" script but… and this but is BIG…. Here are the main drawbacks in detail:
1.) Having seen the preview videos, I was of the opinion that the software would come with a pre-loaded database of keywords and campaigns that have been continously tracked over months by John and his staff. The salesletter is stating something different, though:
"First, grab some keywords and copy and paste them into your Undercover Profits account. Name the list so you remember what niche it’s for….
Keep inserting more keywords until you are now monitoring hundreds, to thousands of keywords…
Then, just set it and forget it… for a short while anyway. Undercover Profits does the rest…
It monitors what affiliate programs are being consistently advertised on any given keyword. Take a look at a sample of some real data, never seen before."
Basically, the script is tracking keywords YOU have to insert yourself and then wait 15-30 days to get reliable data.
2.) Like the Rich Jerk's product, this one comes with a hefty price tag, too. And it's not just a one time fee but a monthly fee. The price will be $291 per MONTH. Meaning, in 3 months you would have paid the same price the Rich Jerk is asking for his product and you will continue to do so until you cancel your membership. That's more than $3000 per year! You need to have big pockets for this.
3.) You only get a guarantee time of 7 days. In other words, you won't even be able to track a campaign in detail for one month and THEN after you have the results from your tracking decide if it's for you.
4.) There's a desktop tool available that does all what Undercover Profits does at a fraction of the price: Keyword Elite by Brad Callen. If you visit Brad's salesletter, you can view several videos there about what Keyword Elite does. I want you to pay special attention to Project no. 5 and watch the video where the headline says: "Steal Your Competitors Profitable Adwords Keywords By Discovering Exactly Which Keywords Are Making Them Money!".
You'll see that I am right: Keyword Elite tracks profitable Keywords, it also stores the Adword ads being used and the URLs, meaning you get to see which affiliates are consistently advertising there.
On the positive side: With Undercover Profits, you won't have to spend your own money before starting a campaign. That's exactly what was promised so what the videos said was true. But it does not do more. Keyword Elite gives you all of that too and MUCH, MUCH MORE (just the keyword list feature or being able to see the Adwords click prices -CPC- for each keyword is highly profitable in itself)! And at a one time fee which is much lower than just 1 month of being a member of Undercover Profits…
So even though I am quite disappointed about my recommendation myself ( I would have become a member of Undercover Profits if it were worth it ), I can only say:
Don't become a member of Undercover Profits (unless you have some spare money you want to get rid of) - get Keyword Elite instead if you want to be able to track your keywords in the PPC search engines.
Moreover, Keyword Elite allows you to track the costs across several different PPCs so you're not just dependent on Google Adwords. And, as an added bonus, it will show you what the high CPC prices are for any keyword on Google Adwords. Meaning, you can even use it for creating your Adsense pages and create pages based on the highest paying keywords.
Now I am asking you: Am I really the only one who can see what's going on here???
Keyword Elite is the cheaper alternative, it's a desktop tool and does all Undercover Profits does and much, much more (hey, creating huge keyword lists anyone…?)!! In my opinion, these 2 pieces of software, the Rich Jerk's and Undercover Profits have just ripped off Brad Callen's idea and created server side versions instead. I can see nothing really innovative here.
Keyword Elite is also perfect for doing Adsense Arbitrage campaigns (paying low prices on certain keywords and directing the traffic to high paying Adsense pages).

If you decide that Keyword Elite is for you, then I want to make this decision even easier for you: You'll get FREE ACCESS to both membership sites which I mentioned in earlier campaigns already if you get it from my link: Saving your time AND Learning to earn online
Just click on any instance of the hyperlinked "Keyword Elite" on this page (which is my affiliate link) and after your purchase you just paste your Clickbank receipt (or just the order number) into my HelpDesk:
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I'll send you the signup links as soon as I have verified your order (do not forget to clear your cookies if you've been on the Keyword Elite page before!).
That's it. I hope, my review has been helpful to you. Let me know what you think and add your comments (click the "Comments" link at the top of this post)…
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