Surfing Locally Without Being Local. GeoSurf Review
Melvin
Jul 27, 2011
The internet has been there for quite a while now and its hard to talk about it without really touching on how it opened lots of opportunities for us, online entrepreneurs. Its amazing to imagine that by having an internet business, we're not really limiting ourselves to a specific demographic but rather catering to a global one. Also, it allows us to just stay and work where we want to and not really move on to different places.
Geosurf came up to me and asked me I could test out their service and write this review. For those who don't know, Geosurf is a service that allows you to browse the internet with different locations. Basically you will have to download and install their toolbar before you can do those things.
Now bare in mind that prior to Geosurf, there are different ways to browse the internet using a different geographical location. One of them is using those third-party websites that allow you to do it. The downside of using that is its annoying with popups and different bunch of ads. To add, those sites usually have security issues and are long believed to be unreliable. But that's what many people are still using right now.
The other one that I used is the Tor Project (used to be tor.eff.org). Its a free and awesome solution back then but for some reason the service started crapping out and basically lots of people shied away from using it anymore.
You might be asking where can you use it? Surfing in different locations has a lot of uses but for me personally I can use it when doing affiliate marketing and internet business.
Some of you may know me as a hardcore affiliate marketer back in the day and the problem usually is that when you're promoting a certain product, you cannot really see how it looks and who your competitors are. You wouldn't be able to see other things as well such as your position in an ad, how your ad looks like in different places and things like that. I would normally use a proxy to get to do that but its very very annoying to do so because of a).advertisements b).slow and unreliable connection. I know some people are using proxies differently but in an internet business that is how its mostly used.
This is where Geosurf comes in
What Made GeoSurf Different?