Spying

Spying is a must in 2020 and beyond. If you don’t spy, you could very easily blow thousands of dollars of your hard earned money promoting an offer on the wrong traffic source that will NEVER convert no matter how awesome the offer, angle, or landing page is.

You usually need to eliminate the guess work and maximize your chances of success. Especially now, during these hard times we’re living in thanks to the Corona pandemic that has brought on a major change where millions of people are now out of work and seeking work at home job opportunities and exploring the idea of becoming internet marketers themselves.

If you want to stay ahead of the game, and actually make money in this affiliate space; you need to be very well informed. Spy tools make this possible for an affordable price; even though some might say OMG it’s so expensive $250 for a spy tool, that isn’t expensive, that’s an investment that will help you save $1000s of money; so you won’t lose it all doing stupid shit and taking uncalculated risks you don’t need.

This guide was written as the go to guide for newbies and advanced affiliates alike. It’s the ultimate WIKI you can give to new hires, new media buyers to get them up to speed; the 101 on how to spy and find stuff to base their own angles and creative ideas off of. The entire guide is featuring one of my favorite spy tools for Native, Push, Display, Mobile, and Ecom. AdPlexity. A Spy tool created by an awesome bunch of guys, who created the #1 biggest paid affiliate marketing forum on this planet named STM Forum. Join Here if you are not a member yet.

This guide features both advanced and simple spying techniques in no order; it’s quite random in fact because I am just dumping my knowledge here, hoping I don’t forget something, but if I do forget a way to spy that you’d like to know, please leave a comment and I’ll append it to this WIKI.

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Table of Contents

☑️How To Find Everything A Specific Affiliate Is Running On NATIVE Using Their Affid Footprint?
☑️How To Find Out Which Verticals/Offers/Niches Are The Most Popular On A Specific Traffic Source?
☑️How To Find Which Traffic Sources Work Best For My Offer? 3 Examples
☑️How To Find Landing Pages For An Offer That Work? What Kind Of Landing Pages To Use To Promote A CPA Offer?
☑️Which Ads Are Making The Most Money For An Affiliate? Spying Using Their RedTrack/Voluum Click Links And Find Out!
☑️Which Affiliate Offers Are Being Run On A Specific Publisher In PUSH?
☑️How Do I Find What Ads Are Being Promoted On A Specific Website URL Or Placement/Zone In Native?

How To Find Everything a Specific Affiliate Is Running on NATIVE Using their affid Footprint?

If you want to find all the ads, learn about which placements these ad show up for a specific affiliate, this is how it’s done.

Step #1) Find an affiliate worthy of spying. You do this by logging into native.adplexity.com and on the left toolbar select Last 7 Days, select the traffic source (RevContent in my case), then on the top right, sort it by received the most traffic. Now look for an ad in your vertical, in my vertical it’s LEAD GEN, so i naturally looked for ads that are for lead gen and found this ad:

Step #2) Click through on the campaign link, prelander, and find an aff ID in the URL bar on the offer page as follows:

Now that you have the AFFID, we need to go back to AdPlexity and on the top menu bar select “BY ADVERTISER” and from the SEARCH in dropdown select “All Of The Above” then type the aff=1561 into the enter the query box, and hit the search button.

And there you have it, now you can see all the ads that this affiliate used and which ones were the best and ran the longest. Ripping and running won’t make you easy money anymore in 2020 and beyond. You need to take the ads you found, get ideas, and make your own ads that are similar based on the best performers!

How to Find Out Which Verticals/Offers/Niches Are The Most Popular on a Specific Traffic Source?

Deciding which road you will take, and by road I mean traffic source can be a make it or break it process. Take it from me, I spent $35,000 testing over 30 traffic sources that were UNPROVEN only to lose $33,000 to find just 1 that showed some promise. That’s how COSTLY it is to test unproven traffic sources; and not for the faint hearted.

98% of affiliate marketers prefer to pick a traffic source, then run offers proven to convert on those sources. How do you find out what works on a traffic source the best? Which vertical kills it and which one to avoid? You SPY (because 9 out of 10 traffic sources, unless it’s ZeroPark will NOT tell you what offers to run or are doing well)

This is where AdPlexity comes in; and this is how you use it to find out which verticals/CPA Offers/Niches work best on a specific traffic source.

1. Login to AdPlexity Native for this one (although the process is the same for every traffic type spy tool they offer)
2. Select the date range of the last 30 days in the Left Menu.
3. Scroll down until you see Traffic Source, and select the one you want to run on.
4. I’ve selected EvaDav and waited a few seconds for ads to load, sorting them by received the most traffic.
5. Next, I started observing what do I see? TIP: Hit the Translate ad descriptions into English to make it easier to understand wtf the ads are for.
6. I saw Weight Loss Ads for MEN, Crypto Ads, More Weight Loss For Men and lots of Adsense Arbitrage ads with those viral top 10 style articles that are super interesting.

So there you have it, we’ve learned that Weight Loss ads for Men are a good fit for EvaDav, Crypto Lead Gen, and Arbitrage is quite popular on there. You can rinse n repeat this process for other Traffic Sources and then take notes on what you see the way I did. Then pick your niche, and start testing.

How to Find which traffic sources Work best for my offer? 3 Examples

Example #1 – You have the final offer URL

Inside AdPlexity Native (or any), click on ADVERTISER up top menu. Next on top, but on the left side click on SEARCH IN > ALL OF THE ABOVE

The offer I am going to be looking up is https://proketorx.com/

Now here’s where the magic happens. Based on the last 30 days data, this KETO offer ran on RevContent (80) and Content.ad (17). Since it was seen so many times on RevContent it’d make sense to start testing KETO offers on that traffic source. Maybe not this one, and definitely not with the same stolen angles, but your own variations and angles.

Example #2 – You Have the Offer Name

You have the offer name but not the offer domain (this might happen, especially if the AM is sleeping and you don’t want to wait 6-8 hours until they wake up, but you want to get a head start on competitive intelligence)

In our case, we’re going to be looking for this offer: Keto Pro Ex

We head into our trusty Adplexity spy tool, and we click on BY KEYWORD on the top. By default, it should have the search box set to “on the landing page”. We just paste the name of our offer in “Keto Pro Ex” and hit that trusty magnifying glass to begin our hunt.

And BAM! Just like that, we get 100s of ads for the offer and quickly learn a ton of key stuff.

This Keto Offer is most popular on iPhones & Desktop Windows; MGID & Content.ad is the best place to run this offer. It’s done well in UK, CZ, USA, FR and DE. Oasis has this offer and so does Viking Clicks – if you want to get on with Oasis, tell Darren I said Hey and he’ll help get you approved!

Example #3 – Using a Broad Keyword (Not my favorite, but it works)

Let’s say we want to promote Financial Lead gen from Media500. You know those awesome bitcoin offers. We have NO IDEA what traffic source to run it on; so what do we do? We fire up our awesome spy tool – AdPlexity and type in some BROAD keywords. Here are some ideas: bitcoin, crypto, investment

This is just ONE keyword I used, what I want to learn is WHICH TRAFFIC SOURCE to test on. So again, I look in the left sidebar and observe what instances occurred the most times.

As you can see on the screenshot below, Desktop is a clear winner here. Followed by iPhone.

RevContent, Mgid are the kings when it comes to where this type of vertical is being promoted.

UK, DE, BR, NL, PH are the top 5 most popular geos for this type of offers.

If you want to try your luck with promoting financial lead gen, be sure to visit Media500 here. They are great people who always pay their affiliates.

How to find landing pages for an offer that work? What kind of landing pages to use to promote a CPA offer?

If you don’t know what type of landing pages to use for a vertical/niche, this is one of the best areas a spy tool like AdPlexity can help you.

In this example, we’re going to find PUSH Dating landing pages. We want to run on ZeroPark, a PUSH traffic source, so we are going to spy and see what kind of landers people are running in the Geo our CPA Network rep told us they have a high converting dating offer in.

1. As Usual, we login to our AdPlexity Push account.
2. We set the date for last 7 days, and sort it by received the most traffic (this is done in the left, and top menu bars)

Next up, on the left menu bar we need to our GEO (Portugal) and then scan through the ads, and open the ones that are DATING ads (obviously) like so:

Which ads are making the most money for an affiliate? Spying using their RedTrack/Voluum click links and find out!

We’re using AdPlexity Push for this, as I want to find out for an affiliate that’s always on the first page of results when I sort by received most traffic; which campaigns/ads are doing the most volume for them (thus earning them the most money)

1. The URL I am spying on is the Red Track Click Link placed on the pre-lander in their campaign, in this case “https://revttmobile.com/click.php”

2. Inside AdPlexity PUSH, i click on BY ADVERTISER on the top menu, on the left select the period (This year so January 1-today), then I paste their click link which is revttmobile.com/click.php with the https part removed.

3. Next, I sort the results by received the most traffic to see which one was their best performing ad/campaign.

Which affiliate offers are being run on a specific publisher in PUSH?

Let’s say you ran some traffic, and now you got a list of awesome placements but you want to learn more. What are others running on these placements? Maybe you are missing something that they aren’t so they are more profitable?

Questions, questions.. how do we get answers… well AdPlexity search by publisher function of course. This is how it’s done..

1 – Grab the publisher name from your traffic source, we’ve selected ” 4shared.com”
2 – Inside AdPlexity push, click on BY PUBLISHER in the top menu and paste the publisher name in the what ads run on box… in our case we paste “4shared.com” and press search. And that’s it, now you can get placement specific ideas on what work there and try and see how you can make money from verticals proven on that placement.

How Do I Find What Ads Are Being Promoted on a Specific Website URL or Placement/Zone in Native?

This is quite similar to looking things up on PUSH, the only thing that’s different is here you can check by website URL (aka Publisher) or by Zone/Source/Site/Widget ID, as many native traffic sources hide the actual website URLs.

Let’s say we want to check what’s running in mirror.co.uk website, because we know they have native ads on them.

Login to your AdPlexity native account, and select BY PUBLISHER on the top menu, paste the domain name – in our example: mirror.co.uk and wait for it to populate. It will show the results soon, then sort by received the most traffic.

Here’s another example, let’s say we ran traffic and we see potential coming from a placement ID 680530, we want to find out what other affiliates are promoting on this site – maybe we can get some ideas on how to improve our own campaigns on there?

Again, back to trusty AdPlexity Native, on top menu we select “BY PLACEMENT” and we enter the widget/placement ID in the search box (in this example we enter 680530) and sort by received the most traffic.

Hope you find this detailed overview of how to use AdPlexity spy tool useful. Spying is crucial in affiliate marketing success; you can save a lot of time and money knowing what works and where. There are other great spy tools out there like MagicAdz for Facebook as well; AdPlexity.com does a great job on Native, Push, Ecom and Display. They also offer you carrier spying by providing VPN’s you can use to manually spy and see what kind of ads show up if you access different placements/websites through carrier IPs. A lot of affiliate offers only target carrier specific, as that’s the only way they can convert.

I highly encourage you check out STM forum if you are a newbie to affiliate marketing, or iAmAffiliate premium if you have the basics down and look for methods that work right now. On iAmAffiliate, I can personally help you with spying using AdPlexity, MagicAdz, Adspy or Anstrex. If you have any questions, please leave it in the comments below. Thank you for reading!

iAmAttila

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If you’ve been following me and my blog, and receive emails You know I’ve been loving push for a while now. It’s the only place where you don’t have to worry about getting banned or not being able to spend money to scale.

PUSH can be a little tricky, as it’s interruption marketing and you need to craft a message that hits home quickly so people click on your push notification ad and then take action, converting on your landing page. That’s why just like with everything, SPYING is key to success.

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If you are one of those that need facts and stats to make a decision, here’s why AdPlexity PUSH is bad ass.

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* Check detailed campaign insights (ad trends, GEO, full redirect chain, top publishers and more)
* Find affiliate ads from ~100 CPA networks with a single click
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         We all want our business to be a successful one. And we all want to be rockstars, with money, Lambos, Bottle Service and Romance! It can be easy if you play smart! Sometimes, we see that our competitors are doing much better than us and we are asking ourselves how they do it! What do they use? How did they succeed and we didn’t? Well … I’ve done some research and I discovered the right answer for you. Want to know what your competitors are up to and how they make it happen? Well, I’ll tell you their secret. What would you say if I would tell you that I found the 5 best competitive intelligence tools to spy on your rivals? 5 ways to see what your competitors use and run … and how they do it so well to be so successful. I’ll tell you how to discover your counterpart’s Facebook ad strategy. Knowing that it will help you use their success on your Facebook campaign.

         The easiest way is to use these Ads Spy Tools. Down below I will write down for you the 5 best of the best tools. You can find new ideas, you can know about the audience and so forth and so on. Calculating every move that they do, it makes it more easy to be one step ahead from them.

         With Facebook Spy Tools you will know what Facebook Ads your competition is using – if it’s based on geography, demographics or on interests, what they offer, who’s the audience, know if they usually post deals and to know their targets. You will also be able to see what kind of content they are sharing – images, videos, blogs. Learn all of this, improve your Facebook audience and in the end, it may get you more potential clients.

            A piece of advice – even if Facebook Ads Tools give you all this useful information, don’t stop the hard work. Only your effort that you put into your business will make you step up. You should take a look and get an idea, but don’t copy them. Be creative on your Facebook Ads Strategy. There are no rules saying that if you copy, it will be a successful one for you, too. Try to be creative and always come up with something new and different. Surprise your audience with your new ideas and new strategy campaigns. Always keep an eye on your audience to see what they ask for and find the right way to offer them that.

           So, let’s have a look at those tools I told you I discovered. After reading this article, you will be able to choose the best one for you, in order to use it in your business.

How does Facebook Ad Spy work?

They let you check the profitable data from competitor’s campaigns by filtering keywords. You can use these tools to create your own ad and see how effective it will be for your business.

1. MagicAdz.co the #1 Facebook Spy Tool in 2019 [Click here to sign up now]

             This is the number 1 Facebook ad spy tool that will give you the opportunity to see exactly what other affiliates are using, what is working for them and even see the landing pages of adds that they use.

            MagicAdz is available in over 49 countries with an immense database. What is making it worth is that you can download the direct domain pages you find on any Facebook ad. This tool has a simple home page design, making it very easy to be used and to get your results in no time. With only one click, you can search through thousands of affiliated ads, in order to get the best money maker pages that will fit your searching. You can do your search filtered by ads, comments, redirect path, even including HTML code. This tool can be used on your mobile device, too. It’s giving you the flexibility to make your business prosper wherever you are and whenever you can.

       Wanna be the best on the market? Don’t waste your time with other unsuccessful tools and create your own account on MagicAdz.co right now!

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2. AdSector.com

            This is another tool to use if you want to see what Facebook Ads your competitors are using. You can discover the best ads on the network, why they are working and also, will let you create a personal strategy, to make your own ads and messages. Yes, it is good for attracting new clients! For searching the right ads you can use filters like Affiliate Networks, by any interest, keywords or by what’s going on. You can even create your own ads collection. The AdSector tool is giving you the convenience of knowing the exact place where you need to fight with your opponents, in order to be more successful then they are – don’t want them to be the rockstars, don’t you?

            AdSector gives you the opportunity to use many features. Let’s see them on a closer look, shall we?

               Advanced Search and Filtering –  by Affiliate Networks, by interests and even by what’s happening on a page. With this feature, you can find pages using the same trackers, e-commerce platforms and targets.

               Find Images that Resonate – find thousands of images from ads and choose the one that will attract your customers. You can save and store the images that you like and track them, to use it later.

               Bookmark and Organize Ads – make a database with all the ads or images that will help you send the right message to your customers. It will be easier for you to get exactly what you need for your campaign.

               Detailed Analytics – Do you want a complete analysis? Need to know something about an ad on a page? AdSector is the best you can use and it’s also very easy to know who to target and when.

               Cutting Edge Cross-Filtering Features –  you can filter pages by name, affiliate network or by the tracking system. You will also get lots of possibilities if you use keywords, advertisers or popular interests.

                Download Complete Landing Pages – AdSector saves links to the most famous landing pages from the Internet. Learn all you need to know!

  Want my opinion? This is the best thing you can use to make your business grow fast!

3. OnlineAdSpy

            OnlineAdSpy is one of the best tools for social advertising. You can see the ads that your opponents are using on Facebook and you can create your own, by following theirs.

            OnlineAdSpy contains one of the biggest indexes of ads on the market – over 9.000.000 Ads – from many countries. With this tool, you can search the most important ads filtered by keywords or by what’s on the main page. When you operate with OnlineAdspy, you will see the express target’s market for each ad you use.

            The tool will let you discover new audiences and it will help you gain more inspiration from your competitors. This software is very easy to be used, even if you are a beginner. It will do something else for you – build a strong social ads campaign by using all the data you can find in your research. Let’s not forget that it will provide targeting location data!

4. AdPlexity – The #1 native/mobile spy tool on the market in 2019

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                Let’s talk about AdPlexity. Everyone I asked told me that AdPlexity is one of the best spy tools that can be used. AdPlexity can be translated into:

1.) AdPlexity Mobile: get all the most important data on successful mobile campaigns, in a matter of seconds.

2.) AdPlexity Desktop: pull comprehensive data on the latest successful desktop campaigns from a huge range of different desktop traffic sources.

3.) AdPlexity Native: it will let you pull up comprehensive data on the most successful native advertising campaigns in seconds.

                 They have a massive database with thousands of ads! Can you imagine this number? It gives you access to the best campaigns, from over 75 countries! Look for ads from over 100 different affiliate networks …

                 AdPlexity Mobile has a feature that will show you the hidden campaigns from mobile carrier traffic (120+ carriers supported). You can also do your search by keywords, advertiser and publisher URLs, affiliate networks and so on. Also, if you want, you can make your own database by downloading every landing page that you can find interesting for your future success.

                 AdPlexity Desktop offers you a complete report about desktop campaigns. It gets data from over 75 countries and finds ads promoting affiliate offers from over 100 affiliate networks. Using this tool, you can discover successful campaigns running on desktop pop-up traffic sources and save the landing pages (including images, javascript, etc.) for making your own ads and campaigns.

                 AdPlexity Native offers you the best features, if you want to do successful research for your business. You will have many filters that will let you look for the specific results that you need for your campaign. Your search can be filtered by keywords (for target searches), by images (this is a tool that you will not find in any other place) and by advertiser (for landing page URLs, LP redirect chain, LP outgoing URLs ). With this platform, you will have access to the most successful campaigns on 7 best native ads traffic sources, from over 32 countries. It helps you discover the best ads promoting affiliate offers from more than 100 affiliate networks with just one click. You can find campaigns on all popular devices, like Windows PC, Mac, iPhone / iPad, Android phones / tablets.

                 Conclusion: if you want to take your game beyond your competitor’s limits and you are serious about affiliate marketing, this is the perfect tool for you.

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5. SpyPush – The best PUSH traffic spy tool in 2019! – Click here to get your account now!

            For sure, one of the best affiliate marketing sources of traffic, these days, is the push notification. The first world service on monitoring the push notification is SpyPush.This tool was created by professional media buyers specifically for media buyers! If you don’t believe, see their platform and you will get the exact same words as stated above. This team, in 2017, was the first one that initiated the monetization of push notifications. SpyPush is used to push traffic, exclusively.

            SpyPush has an inventory of over 500,000 ads from more than 140 countries. They update the platform 24/7, adding the latest push notification ads and updating the old ones. All of this for a small amount number of dollars per month. Its database is built from an inventory of ads – six push notification ads providers: MegaPush, PropellerAds Push, MGID, DatsPush, Adsterra and Evadav. Some others will be added soon. The push ads can be filtered based on the traffic network, making you understand what kind of push notifications the traffic allows.

               You can search for the best ads, by using keywords, even if they are in different languages. 140 countries – you can search for specific ads in a specific country, by using the geo filter. The cool thing on SpyPush is that you can display your ads in any language that is available on the platform, based on the country you have chosen in the geo filter. The results shown will be displayed for both desktop and mobile. You will be able to decide which one to show.

                  The ads that you have found in your research, can be arranged based on when the ad was first launched or which is running the longest, giving you an idea about the success of the commercial. Activity filter will give you the chance to see what push notification ads are active, profitable or inactive. Popularity filter will provide search results arranged by the most popular ads first, so you will have an idea about what kind of push notifications will be the best to be used.

                 There are some more special magic tricks hidden somewhere on this magnificent tool. You don’t have to be a guru of these fancy technics, since the 8th wonder of the world will explain to you what would be the better road to approach, by showing how your competitors are making their fortunes and what ads they use for their prosper businesses. You are worried because you have to spend money to test the market? Forget about that! Your rivals did that already. With SpyPush, you can copy the marketing niche. Start creating your own out-of-this-world campaigns and make beautiful money!

The advantages of using Ads Spy tools:

                 By using these tools, you will bring a big plus to your business development, by attracting more customers. No other kinky words to describe, since we are talking about a very simple thing. These are the benefits that will follow you if you will use the FIVE teams that you can see above in the article:

• Successful strategies for ad campaigns and achievements;

• Getting new ideas from your rivals for making your own profitable ads;

• Internal analysis;

• Improvement of your ads, by understanding much better what your clients are looking for and what attracts them;

I personally use MagicAdz & Adplexity to do all our spying. No matter which one you do, having a spy tool is a must if you want to be successful in affiliate marketing in 2019!