Documenting My Test with Max Bounty and DirectCPV

I am a relative newbie but fascinated by all things IM, so I am now testing PPV traffic and affiliate CPA offers. I am starting this thread to document what happens both to help others out, and selfishly so I can have a place to go back to that will help me remember what I did.

First step - Read Josh Todd's PPV 101 which talks about setting up campaigns using DirectCPV. Why them? They were the cheapest to setup with only $100 deposit, plus score a $25 bonus.

Note - I didn't follow Josh's steps exactly, because I didn't want to spend anymore money.

Josh talks about using Prosper202, which others here recommend. I used Tracking202, which is their hosted version. Took no time to get an account and didn't have to worry about setting it up on my site. It is free!

So I setup my Tracking202 account and picked a Max Bounty offer. When setting up your Tracking202 stuff, they talk about SubIDs. This was the hardest part for me to grasp. Luckily, I found a post on their forum that explained the nuances for each Affiliate program's links.

After walking through the steps in Josh's guide, I got to the last step where you add the tracking pixel. Again, not sure what this was all about, but when you are in Tracking202 and see the tracking pixel code, just grab the URL out of it and paste it back in your Max Bounty page for that offer and save it.

Then I went into DirectCPV and created the Keyword campaign. I went with keyword so I wouldn't have to scrape URLs, but I will probably get more specific in future tests. I added keywords I grabbed from the GKT and submitted it. I took Josh's advice and added the { { VURL } } at the end of the link from Tracking202.

I went back and I am the number 1 bid on my 7 keywords with the minimum .015 bid. Now I have to wait for approval.

Josh's guide is a great Step-by-Step. Combined with the forum post showing the various ways to plugin your SubIDs, I am fairly confident I did it right. I just did a $10 buy at first. At .015 per view, that is 667 views. If I convert .05%, I will make 10x my investment. How sweet would that be?