Google Nemesis – Money well spent or down the drain?
Monday, July 14th, 2008I’m sure you’ve been hit by numerous promotion mails giving glowing testimony to the newest kid on the block, Google Nemesis. I’ve received far too many to keep track of, and I’ve also tested the service, because that’s basically what it is. A subscription based landing page service. A very limited one at that too, I might add.
What you get, besides the service itself (at a whopping bargain-price of $67/month) is two videos explaining how to use the service, two reports (How To Spot The Shadow Elite – about finding successful AdWords campaigns to copy – and Creating The Perfect Review Page – since the landing pages are in the form of review pages) and a free copy of Google Wealth Wizard, if you’re not familiar with AdWords.
There’s an upgrade available too, at an extra $47/month, giving you access to “DJK Blueprints” reports, which I’m guessing is a monthly service.
Google Nemesis is basically a service letting you create AdWords landing pages promoting ClickBank-products in the form of review-pages. That’s the first minus. Not only are you limited to ClickBank, you’re also limited by a worthless search engine for ClickBank products. Once you’ve created your landing page, there’s no way to go back and change products. You’re also limited in that your landing pages can only be for two- and three-product review pages.
There are only two templates available, in red or blue. Hopefully more templates will be made available, but you have no chance to set up your own templates.
All review pages by members are spread around on several different domains, but using your own domain for your landing pages is not an option. The only way to do that would be to use the redirect- or cloak-option from your registrar or webhost.
Imagine two hundred pages on one domain using the same template and footprints… It’s already a recipe for disaster, but if the two hundred pages are promoting similar products and bidding on similar keywords in AdWords, a whole bunch of them are going to suffer from the display URL limitation. Google only displays ONE ad from a given URL. So if you’re bidding on a similar keywords as another Nemesis customer, only ONE of you are going to get displayed, the one with the highest bid. If you were on different URLs, you could still be displayed if your bid was lower.
The editor used to edit the templates and fill in your text is very limited. You’re far better of using something else and then just copy&paste your review-texts.
I’m not really comfortable with giving out login information for ClickBank to anyone, and especially not to a script hosted by someone else. You need to do this in order for the statistics in the Google Nemesis dashboard to get more accurate numbers. The dashboard lets you see stuff like where your visitors come from, what keywords they clicked to arrive on your page, and the number of sales that can be connected to each keyword.
Google Nemesis is only hype. It doesn’t help you in any way with creating your review pages, in fact it takes me longer to create them in GN than doing it manually. For the statistics, if you use ClickBanks tracking id’s together with Google Analytics, you get statistics that are just as accurate as the ones you get from GN.
Now, if you don’t know how to create landing pages and track visitors, but you’re a master at writing compelling reviews and AdWords campaigns, you might actually find this service quite useful.
If you’re not a master at writing reviews and creating AdWords campaigns, it’s not for you. In fact, I believe you’re better off without it either way, but hey – it’s your decision. As far as I’m concerned, Google Nemesis is just a waste of time and money, but your mileage may vary 
Parts of this review was added after reading another review that made some good points I didn’t even think of at first.
