!Update! - ???
Hey everyone! I know it's been over a week since I posted an update. I just wanted to let you know that I'm making some major overhauls to my loans campaign. Basically, I'm gutting it and rearranging a lot of things. Why? Here were some of my concerns...
Problems
Bing...
Yep, you called it. So thanks guys. I really appreciate it. Really. I have some thoughts rolling around in my head...
Let's talk
S.T.R.A.T.E.G.Y
The offer I'm currently promoting has a $44.00 payout per lead. All things being equal from the last update, if I opt to run with a $70+ ppl...
!Update! - 8
Yesterday's Stats - 4/13/17
Today's Stats - 4/14/17
Today marks the first day my campaign went green (judging by today's revenue minus today's spend).
I made a NET PROFIT of $57.28. For a detailed report of my overall campaign from a birds eye perspective, peep the stats...
I was 301 redirecting the tracking link using a built in shortener (.Php document from cpvlab) so it was a clean link. ;)
Like I said, this was what I originally did. Using the tracking template now.
Right? Unfortunately, when I was direct linking early on, this was something that stopped my campaign. The URL mismatch.
Then again, come to think of it...I wasn't using the tracking template back then. Instead I had my tracking link in the final URL. :eek:
Careful with direct linking. You're putting your account at risk. It's not a question of "if" they'll catch you. It's a question of "when".
Granted I don't have any experience with the dating vertical, judging by your keywords and match type, I think you're setting yourself up to bid on the...
Thanks bro! But I only spent $206. I made $132 in revenue, which leaves me with a net loss of $74. Giant improvement for sure but I still spent waaay too much! I gotta bring my CPC down. ;)
!Update! - 7
Made a major change to my campaign yesterday. Feel like an idiot for not thinking of doing it sooner. Anyway, microcommitments are definitely the way to go if the offer payout involves your traffic giving up seriously personal information. Thing is, I KNEW this...my training had...
If you've been following my journey, you know I switched to ClickMagick. The only bad thing I can honestly say about ClickMagick is that it doesn't allow you to track lander CTR. This is something you have to do the math on manually. To save myself some time, I created an excel document that...
I believe you.
I haven't asked you a question directly. My opinion, brazen as it may be, was ascertained by viewing threads within this forum. Granted, I know you guys are a small staff and there are, as you said, 70K members here, my opinion is that of my own, - and subject to change. I...
!Update! - 6
A lot has changed in these last two weeks. So let’s jump in, shall we?
99 Problems
Bing Nearly Killed My Loans Campaign – Due to a policy change in the financial vertical 2/27/17, my campaign was nearly killed. I went from 9/10 quality score keywords to 1/10 scores overnight...
Possible and also, advised.
Let me be more specific. Your display URL and landing page URL must match. This gets tricky depending on what tracking solution you're using. I jump shipped from CPVLabs -> Clickmagick (and couldn't be happier). I'll talk about this in my soon to come update...
With Bing, you have to make a squeeze/landing page before directing traffic to your offer. Direct linking violates their policies.
As long as your squeeze page falls within their advertising codes of conduct, you should be fine.
P.S. Be sure to add footer links on each of your pages with...
There has been! A lot of changes have happened too. A lot of fighting with Bing, valuable relationships with people made etc.
I'll update on Thursday or Friday. So stay tuned!!
Definitely agree. A wise man learns from his mistakes but a wiser man learns from others. Charles Ngo taught me (from his mistakes) that when you blow up as an affiliate...keep your fucking head down. Otherwise, you'll attract a lot of unwanted attention and people may even find ways into...
Absolutely. This is also why going to conferences is so important. Aside from the awesome experiences of being among your volume pushing brothers and sisters, you can also learn a lot of "behind closed doors intel" from other affiliates there. Especially at the parties. From what I've read...
Realistically, for a payout of $44.00, you'd probably need a testing budget of 3 - 5 times the payout, - so roughly around $200 - 300 (conservative figure). Ask guys like @badboy_nick and he'll tell you to go for 3 - 10x the offer payout when testing an offer. Consider my original post though...
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