GeoSurf Intro / What is GeoSurf?

GeoSurf is a combination proxy/VPN service/marketing tool for those people who have a need to target specific areas or regions for advertising campaigns, or geotargeting. The company motto is "Surf locally without being local", and with the promises of their service you should be able to accomplish just that. Using their GeoSurf client you will be able to see your websites or advertising campaigns as if you were sitting in a home in the region you placed the website or ad in.

The client also serves as a very good VPN service to protect your anonymity further, and has a host of other functions and features designed with the internet marketer in mind. The client has a built in emulator to let you see how the campaigns look from a mobile device, and depending on your level of service you can have 80 or more cities available to you for your research.

GeoSurf Speed Test

Using their toolbar in Firefox, we found that switching from one country to another happens fast. And the same can be said of just switching rom one region to another. The connections didn't suffer too much from the proxy connection as far as speed went, and we were able to find available servers without any problems. With as many servers as these guys have you will surely be able to find a decent connection, no matter your location or desired location. We haven't tried out the VPN service as of yet, though they have received excellent comments on it.

GeoSurf Pricing Plans/Coupons

They have 4 levels of service available for light users all the way up to corporate advertising usage licenses, so you will be able to find a package to suit the needs you have. Here they are:

The Starter account will put you out $29 per month, and if you pay by the year you will save $48. 100 MB of access is allowed, and 1 VIP support request per month. This package has the standard features, and adds in GeoSurf plus.
The Basic account costs $59 per month, but will allow 300 MB of access on 3 global server locations. You will get 2 VIP support requests, and if you pay annually you can save as much as $107.
The Advanced package will allow you up to 500 MB of access, and 2 VIP support tickets. You will have access to 5 global servers and can save as much as $214 when you pay annually. This package costs $89 per month.
Their Enterprise plans are customizable plans and rates can vary according to how you plan to use it. You can have access to all 80 servers,unlimited bandwidth, the VPN is available, as is mobile and Direct API access. These plans allow any number of users, and VIP support requests.
They accept all major forms of electronic payment, and have a 5 day free trial so you can see what your customers are looking at excluding the Enterprise package. It is possible to receive the free trial without a credit card number, by contacting their support team.

Their standard package includes: Select your preferred location from over 80 global locations, 1 user per account for all excepting their Enterprise package, allowed bandwidth, Toolbar for Explorer or Firefox, Geoview, mobile emulator software, and Geosurf Plus.

You will only have access to their VPN network, unlimited bandwidth, smartphone access, more than 1 user, and unlimited support by purchasing their Enterprise account.

Geosurf Plus is a feature that will allow you to check out other ad campaigns, or your own, and their stats. It can show you all the ad campaigns on a site, the respective owners of the advertising, and eve the mediators involved with selling the digital real estate. The requested site will then be added to their database and monitored, if possible. You will be given a list of campaigns with their categories, landing pages, formats, and even if there is downloadable creatives commons artwork.

GeoSurf Setup / How To Use GeoSurf

There are several different varieties of GeoSurf for their customers to use. The program consists of a toolbar add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer, a VPN client, an API connection, and a smart phone connection. Toolbar add-ons aren't presently supported in other browsers, but the VPN client is well suited for these browsers. Once registered, the client is easily downloaded and installed. We used our Windows XP SP/3 machine for our installation and had no problems. There are client toolbars for both Mac and PC, and don't forget the mobile uses we mentioned earlier.

GeoSurf Client Details

With all we had to tell you about what you would be getting for your hard-earned money, we really gave away all of the best features of the client. The toolbar worked great within Firefox, and switching from out home on the East coast of the U.S. to inspecting our sites from a Frankfurt perspective took almost no time. All the controls you will use most are on the toolbar, along with the Geosurf Plus button...here's how that works.

While surfing the internet, to find out if a site is already being monitored by Geosurf, click the geosurf Plus button, if the site is being monitored, (and a lot are,) you will receive a report with all the information we mentioned earlier. If not, you will have the option to submit the site for monitoring, The GeoSurf team will then check and see if the site can be monitored, and if so it will be added and you will be notified of the contribution.

When used in the correct way, GeoSurf can provide internet marketers with a whole host of information, and tools, that can potentially increase an ad campaigns ROI by 200% or 300%.

GeoSurf Server Locations

We couldn't believe our eyes when we looked a the list of proxies they had available for us to use. There were 64 gateways available and 25 available in major U.S. markets including Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and St Louis. Some of the countries they cover are: Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, and the U.K. Therre are a whole host of other locations you can "surf from," we only listed a few. Sites are also provided by the city in different regions if it applies.

GeoSurf Protocols Supported

As we didn't purchase their Enterprise package, we can't say for certain as to which protocols will be available to you using their VPN service. They haven't disclosed anything on their website about this feature except that they do enter into a binding contract of privacy with their customers.

GeoSurf vs. The Competition

If all yo need is a Proxy service, there are cheaper services, bot not very any that provide as many gateways as these guys can. They limit you on the number of gateways you can use based on the monthly premium, a feature we didn't like, as we like to switch "locations" often. For an internet marketer, I do not know of any tools that can compare to this service and software package, there just isn't any. To get the information that Geosurf provides would take days of research for a marketer, and this has been reduced to almost no time at all.

Our Conclusion On GeoSurf

For an internet marketer, GeoSurf can be a very useful of a tool toyou have in your arsenal. Anyone can surf from another location using proxies, many do it every day. But the software provided and the information the software will give the internet marketer will be invaluable to advertising campaigns.

If you are a marketer, you need to look close, and check this service out. If their pricing is a bit too expensive then you could alternatively try the service HideMyAss which will give you about 90% or the functionality at 33% of the price and while not as Internet Marketer oriented as Geosurf , HideMyAss nonetheless can help you choose an endpoint in various countries to help you emulate various geographical locations.

Whichever way you choose GeoSurf appears to be a good tool and a good choice.