PPV URL targeting help

No, you should bid on a specific PAGE. The homepage is most likely going to get alot more untargeted traffic than an inner page (order link for example). Guess your question really depends on which network you're using... but as a rule of thumb, if you bid on the homepage, thats where your pops are gonna come from. If you bid on the orderform.php, thats where your pops are coming from.

I'm not all that familiar with MediaTraffic, but just contact them. I'm sure they have some sort of documentation. Worst case, delete the homepage bid... and just bid on the order form URL. Theres competition there because people are MAKING MONEY there

It does not always show up when you input it, the bidding rate, that is. When you go to check it later it will show you whereas it will not show you always at first. I do not know why this is but that is what I have noticed as well.

BobDolemite,

The fact that somebody is bidding on the general target "orderform" and didn't specify a domain, means that they are also showing up for the people who land on domainx.com/orderform which is your preferred target, as well as any other website that has "orderform" in the url.

Unfortunately because that competitor and others were lazy, this means you would have to beat that bid of $0.03 on the target "domainx.com/orderform" in order to show to those users instead of the other guy with loose targeting showing to them.

Basically what that guy did is broad match his general term to your specific term so now you have to bid higher on your specific term to show for it. I know, it sucks .

But do NOT bid on "orderform" however as this too general and will get you views from other websites unrelated to what you are selling...leading to your account being depleted very rapidly.

And does the homepage also show up as an affecting url for your domainx.com/orderform target?

If it does you would have to raise your bid for your domainx.com/orderform target to show for it, otherwise the guy who bid on the homepage might show for it.

I hope that helps.

In a few days I will be posting my results from some testing I am doing on mediatraffic that might shed some light into what is going on, but in short, just like the PPC engines have their click fraud, there is a certain amount of PPV fraud going on as well, which account managers and company reps are loathe to admit to, so you have to do your own investigation. Of course these networks will often blame your landing page or your offer, etc. but in reality if you are not testing and tracking and looking at the referring url's and investigating those to see if they are legit traffic sources, you won't even know that you're being hoodwinked. My first clue was that the majority of my visitors weren't even showing up in my third party stat tracking, but they were showing in my sever logs. When you notice something like that, watch out.

If possible, look at your server logs, look at the referrers. And do you notice any patterns? When I bid on targets at mediatraffic, the "visitors" from that network just about never load the favicon...and it's hit or miss for them loading image files or javascript files (although the users' browsers do NOT have javascript disabled)....but legit, non-fraudulent traffic from other engines (ppc or organic), always do load these things...perhaps this is a marker for suspect activity?

You could try to bid only on the detailed page. But if you are bidding only on "domainx.com" the popup will also display when the user reaches the orderform (unless the ad frequency is capped when the user first enters at the domain level).

But has anyone here infos about the URL matching on TrafficVance? Is their behaviour in url targeting like Mediatraffic?

Since when did the warrior forum become a place where people openly discuss BH topics?

If you target urls and that too inner pages, will you get sufficient amount of traffic? I know the traffic is cheap and targeted and all that, but what about the volume of traffic you will receive?