I have put some thought into this too.

Trying to look at it from a moral perspective. I found a really good Plugin for Fire Fox that enables me to view all sorts of data on PPC marketers. I can determine keyword, ad ranks, time ad has been running, other ads, other keywords, other websites, landing page(s), etc. The plugin was $10, so in my mind way cheaper than many of these other tools and a little simpler to use.

On the surface it seems kinda shady to be going out, ‘spying’ on other marketers and profiting from their efforts. But if you think of it another way, it sounds better. Here is how I look at it.

The Internet Market is HUGE. You can move in right beside your competitor and make money too. In a sense they really aren’t a competitor, because the market is simply too large to ‘take’ their business. Rather the ‘Pool’ is HUGE and there is room for all of us. Now if you find a special fishing hole where the “big Ones” are, you might be inclined to keep it secret, because one can assume those “big ones” are in short supply and you want to keep catching the “big ones”. In a HOT market, the pool is so deep and full that even the best marketer, won’t be able to exhaust it.

So I say thank you for finding these markets and don’t mind me if I get in there and grab some of that money too. I don’t think it hurts them any, the people that are doing well that you can model. They’ll keep making money simply because they have figured out how.

Cheers!

Jeromy (AKA Hillbilly)

SpyFu never has results and keyword complete only finds 1 one or 2 keywords. keyword spy was the only decent one and now its gone.. does anyone else have other resources?

The Mad Ape

thanks.