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How To View Your Website From The Perspective Of Another State Or Country
Nicola Deiana
Jul 12, 2011
I've been around affiliate marketing for quite a while and I have to admit that anyone trying to making money from this method must know about the importance of having a global perspective of your business.
A little trouble comes when people surfing on your site from different country. Often, search results not display a site at the same manner. Sometimes they don't even load fully.
Checking out how the website looks in one country or in another one is quite crucial to understand how to move in the affiliate market.
So, when it comes to get a worldwide viewpoint, there's a plugin available that once installed on your web browser can you easily help you choose which country you want to view the website in! If you did not heard about it or using it yet, then continue reading this post and I will tell you more about a new service came to my radar.
GeoSurf is a useful tool that enables you to surf around 80 different countries and check up how your site may be viewed by people that surf from these countries. What you have to do is just download a plug and play toolbar, and Geosurf do the rest of job for you.
If you are a plublishers, advertisers or better a company no matter from what country your site is hosted, through this toolbar you can improve your business, enhance traffic acquisition capabilities and strengthener your position globally.
Geosurf in particular simplify your job by:
See who is competing on your traffic sources in high value countries.
Ensure compliance across your network and properties.
Ensure proper deployment of geo targeted content and ads.
And much much more...
All these sounds good but the question now is: Why doesn't use free prox service over Geosurf?
As Geoserf, even a free proxy service can help you view your website from the perspective of another stat or country. The only problem is that often free service have all the same kind of problems: They are slow, unreliable and buggy. I even think there's no any proxy or VPN service which has so many countries. So, is more convenient and fast try this plugin.
How Do It Works
Geo Surf has four key positive aspect that make their tool unique and surely worth a try. The advantages are:
Reliability
Privacy
Credibility
Transparency
You can choose to download and install Geosurf toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer web browser. The entire installation process is very fast and take you just a few second before to be completed and you're able to testing out different Geo locations for quite a few affiliate offers. E.g, you can test how the landing pages looks for these offers.
Also, if you're think to make money on Facebook you can even target international markets. Through this tool you can easily create an international account, for example Germany, and spy on Germany ads.
Another interesting features is that it let you search Google for your niches and keywords that you want to rank for and see what the results are. Ever wondered how your site ranked in Russia or France for your main keywords? This tool let you do this.
There are a new version of GeoSurf™ Toolbar out, and this is one of the best updates in a quite while. Now, here's the new goodness:
New Settings Selections. When you select the Settings button, you display the new settings options. The General tab allows you to check the following options when switching locations: Clear cookies cache, Clear browser cache, change browser language.
Next, if you go on the the layout tab you can display the "Recent Locations" on the toolbar. You can select a number max of 10 locations. Then, the Recent Locations flags can be clicked on to quickly bounce between frequently used locations.
Proxy: The proxy tab allows advanced proxy settings for companies with complex configurations.
According to GeoSurf guide:
"Using GeoSurf™ with a Transparent Proxy or a Direct Proxy Relay: GeoSurf™ can use either port 80 or 3128. If your internal transparent proxy or direct proxy relay is set to port 80, please contact us so we can change your account settings to route through port 3128. Please remember to verify that port 3128 is open on your firewall as well. Once enabled, you will need to log out of your toolbar and log in again for the change to take effect."
GeoSurf Toolbar(for Firefox only) even includes a Mobile Emulator which let you to view any website as seen on the selected device. Once selected the mobile device from the listing, you can view geo-targeted ads for any website. The mobile emulator (WAP) is included in all of their packages.
What Does It Cost To Use The Service?
Even GeoSurf isn't free like a proxy route, it offers lots of benefit that could beat its competitors, so it surely worth pay a little fee for use it.
The pricing scheme is reasonably competitive too.
Plans goes from $29 a month and if you're a company you could share this single account with multiple employees. The monthly bandwidth is 100MB.
If you want to to preview sites through a simulated WAP browser, then you should pay $59/month for the Pro plan. The bandwidth is 300MB.
Make Money With GeoSurf Affiliate Program
Affiliate marketing are one of the best ways to generate a strong revenue stream. GeoSurf provides an interesting affiliate program that allows you to recoup some of these costs for register to their tool. You earn a lucrative commission of 50% per each paying customer lifetime, not bad right?. All you have to do is to sign up on Clickbank and grab the text link to put on your site.
The best thing is that it is a lifetime commission for however long your referral subscribes to the GeoSurf service. You can test the free five-day trial on any package size, but you will need to provide your credit card information to get the free trial.