GoogleAmbush.com - What a Ripoff!

For many months I had been seeing Google Ambush being plugged by various internet marketing gurus in their email (spam) updates. As incredibly outrageous as their sales page claims for huge (and fast) incomes possible to amass with it were, I was still curious. But being a subscription service that charges $77 per month to continue using it, I was always put off by the price. However, when they finally came out with the $4.95 for a 7 day full access trial, I finally decided it was risk-free enough to give it a good look and find out for myself if it was really worthwhile. So I tried it.

Was it worthwhile? I hate to have to be the one to bust your bubble of hope for incredible overnight internet marketing success...but no, I did not find it to be worthwhile in any way at all.

The first thing I hated about it was that immediately after my order was placed they hit me up for the ever-more popular "up-sell" offer...in this case for a set of instructional videos that would supposedly give you the "edge" over all the poor members who chose to pass on ordering them. I figured that there's a money-back guarantee anyway, so I might as well not chance missing out on the details on how to get the most use out of Google Ambush. I had decided to give it my all, trying it for 7 days anyway...so I sprung for the additional $77.00 for those. Come to find out, those videos should be included in the regular price anyway, because all they are is a set of video instructions on how to use the site. Nothing special at all.

The software itself is basically a 5 step system to design ad campaigns to promote ClickBank products. The five sections are:

1. Product Finder
2. Keyword Research
3. Campaign Loader
4. Landing Page Generator
5. Tracker

Product Finder allows you to search for ClickBank products to sell, using changes in ClickBank's "gravity" ratings, showing the amount of change in the last day, week and month. Plus it shows that information in chart form to make it easy to see at a glance. However, this is nothing you can't find for free by using CBEngine.com. (In fact, even CBEngine's "Pro Membership" costs less for a whole year than Google Ambush charges each month.)

Keyword Research is a fairly crude keyword suggestion tool which seems to be less advanced than even free keyword suggestion tool sites like http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com
and Google's own https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal (For $77/month I would really like to see something more elaborate than what can be easily found elsewhere for free.)

Campaign Loader is a tool to help you create and place your Google AdWords ads right there without having to sign out and go into the AdWords site yourself, supposedly making it easier. But once again, this is nothing you can't do pretty easily on your own for free.

Landing Page Generator is the module that I was most excited to see in action, since it's supposed to automatically create landing pages for each of your keywords to promote the products you selected with the "Product Finder" in step one. But I was really disappointed to see that it just created fairly crude little "review" pages, which are designed to list comparisons between similar ClickBank products you choose to promote. The big feature is that you can give each product a so many star rating and supposedly let the reader decide which to order. It's not a bad idea, but it's certainly nothing fancy that you couldn't do easily yourself with any simple web page designing software. But there's hardly anything "automatic" about it - you still have to write all of your own description text, etc. So how is it supposed to enable you to do this whole process in just a few minutes, like the sales page promises? What happened to the claim of "Generate Your Landing Pages Automatically!"?

Tracker is Google Ambush's tracking screen which is supposed to allow you to track your sales all in one easy step. But it doesn't even do this on it's own...you need to download your ClickBank account details first. So it's only using the information provided by your (free) ClickBank reporting. Once again, nothing that isn't available to you for free already anyway.

So there you have it. That's all there is to Google Ambush...it's just a big build up for not much of anything worthwhile. And to make matters worse, their customer service (for me anyway) was absolutely non-existent. There's a "Contact Us" link right on the top of the site, but I left them three different messages over that week and not one was responded to. The first day I tried it the Product Finder list was not working correctly and not showing what the different gravity rating changes were for each of the 3 time frames. Several weeks later it was apparently noticed and corrected, but there was never anything mentioned to me about it.

And yes, I do still have access to the site several weeks later as of this writing, since they don't seem to be willing to cancel my subscription. I was immediatly billed for the first FULL month of service for $77.00 (which was also supposed to be at a special rate of only $67.00 but wasn't) precisely at midnight of my 7th day. This still being after I requested online the day before that they cancel my subscription. So far, I've been refunded for the first $77.00 (for the videos), but not for the second. I figure I'll probably just have to claim a dispute for that charge with my credit card to be able to be refunded. They don't seem to be accessible at all, either by writing to them on the site itself or by email, and no phone number was ever provided.

About the only good thing I can say about Google Ambush is that it at least teaches you the correct steps to follow in order to find and promote good ClickBank products. But this is certainly nothing you need to spend $77.00 per month on when you can follow all of the same steps for free using other sources.

Oh well...so much for "ambushing" Google by "reverse engineering" already successful campaigns, using "laser targeted" precision, with "push button" ease. What an incredible load of hype! Trust me on this one and save your money!