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Best way to spy on competition? (15)

02-06-2015 08:24 PM #1 jordan200 (Member)
Best way to spy on competition?

I am looking for any help in finding some kind of spy tool or method for finding my competitions creatives and landing /bridge pages (diet).
I tried a few of the recommendations but the ads/LP's seem to be outdated or not enough info.

Is it possible to a reverse lookup so i can figure out what LP/presale page is linking to a particular offer page?

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

02-06-2015 09:56 PM #2 bimoca (Member)

It depends on the traffic source you're using. If you could tell us which traffic source you're using we could point you in the right direction...

02-06-2015 11:53 PM #3 ppcindo (Member)

what tools or services have you used? please be clear so we can suggest something better or something you haven't tried

02-07-2015 09:18 AM #4 bbrock32 (Administrator)

Diet can be run on many traffic source.

Media Buys - WRW or Adbeat
Facebook - SocialAdNinja
PPV - Boxofads

and so on

02-09-2015 05:10 PM #5 jordan200 (Member)

Currently using SiteScout.
I have used WRW and adbeats.

02-10-2015 02:57 PM #6 rko360 (Member)

How to spy on mobile and adult?

Should you use wrw/adbeat or something else?

02-10-2015 04:30 PM #7 dlegia (Member)

It is better to do it manually - in this case you will be up to date with most used lp and offers
Just buy some VPN service with good list of Geo locations install user agent switcher on Firefox and start spying

02-10-2015 05:58 PM #8 jordan200 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by dlegia View Post
It is better to do it manually - in this case you will be up to date with most used lp and offers
Just buy some VPN service with good list of Geo locations install user agent switcher on Firefox and start spying
Where would i even start looking?

02-11-2015 05:29 AM #9 dlegia (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by jordan200 View Post
Where would i even start looking?
Biggest and popular websites in spying category (just search in google), most popular mobile applications
Spy - banners, popups, in-text link advertisements.

Other popular method is to open ad. network with categorized websites and look for premium ad. spots in your category.

02-11-2015 06:26 PM #10 jordan200 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by dlegia View Post
Biggest and popular websites in spying category (just search in google), most popular mobile applications
Spy - banners, popups, in-text link advertisements.

Other popular method is to open ad. network with categorized websites and look for premium ad. spots in your category.
OK, so just search for the most popular SPY tools on Google?

Can you tell me more about the ad networks?
I looked into Site Scout, but it's hard to find ... I found a few that way though.

02-12-2015 05:54 AM #11 dlegia (Member)

Spying manually doesn't mean searching for sky tool in Google and using it
Remember that everyone is doing it that way (because it is easier).
Search Google for biggest websites in the industry you are interested and then spy them.

Quote Originally Posted by jordan200 View Post
OK, so just search for the most popular SPY tools on Google?

Can you tell me more about the ad networks?
I looked into Site Scout, but it's hard to find ... I found a few that way though.

02-12-2015 12:27 PM #12 stephen (Member)

Is it just me or is the data a little old on WRW? I've run some of my campaigns for months and I cant find it on the system.

02-12-2015 02:57 PM #13 jordan200 (Member)

I found that also to be the case.
I tried adbeat which is not so bad but still, you can tell that it's not 100% up to date.
Maybe the advertisers are hiding their tracks better?

02-12-2015 03:02 PM #14 jordan200 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by dlegia View Post
Spying manually doesn't mean searching for sky tool in Google and using it
Remember that everyone is doing it that way (because it is easier).
Search Google for biggest websites in the industry you are interested and then spy them.
The problem with that is that i have the Offer page in hand but i can't figure out how to link it back to their AD and LP.
I tried to use google, alexa, quant cast and even the spy tools out there but there is no trace of which LP is linking to the offer page.
Probably because they are using a tracking URL?

I would imagine that if i can figure a way to get a hold of the external linking from the LP to the offer that would be the way to figure this out, but the problem is if they are using a tracking URL for the offer on the LP then this would be basically impossible to track down.

Any thoughts?

02-13-2015 05:09 AM #15 dlegia (Member)

Try similarweb.com website reports they have information about referring websites.

Quote Originally Posted by jordan200 View Post
The problem with that is that i have the Offer page in hand but i can't figure out how to link it back to their AD and LP.
I tried to use google, alexa, quant cast and even the spy tools out there but there is no trace of which LP is linking to the offer page.
Probably because they are using a tracking URL?

I would imagine that if i can figure a way to get a hold of the external linking from the LP to the offer that would be the way to figure this out, but the problem is if they are using a tracking URL for the offer on the LP then this would be basically impossible to track down.

Any thoughts?

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