Noobi need your help :)

by mosc
4 replies
Hello Warriors!

As the name of this thread says, i am new to CPA I got accepted in maxbounty and peerfly and i want to start promoting offers but i could really use your help

Email-list
Please correct me if i am wrong. The point of this is to collect emails adresses from people who might be interested so i can sent them manually the CPA/ref links? Isnt it "easier" that they just click on the cpa links on my website? Why do i need to collect the email list first?

As i said before i got accepted on maxbounty. So anyway i found a dating offer wich i want to start promoting. (Registration + Email Confirm $4.75/lead
)
So here comes the thing what i really dont understand!

Creatives - Banner, Email, Contextual
So, if i click on banners and get tracking code I get this <a href="http://www.mb38.com/lnk.asp?o=5241&c=59641&a=135731">
(i am not sure if i am allowed to post the whole code) which leads me on that page where i "won an iphone". So my question is, why there is a ref url which redirect me on some "fake i won an iphone" page and not to the page i want to promote?

Advenced tracking options - Sub-ID:, Callback Type:, Callback Code:
Can i leave it blank here? I am sure once you understand this its very easy but to be honest, i dont understand this

So i would be very thankful for your tips
Greetings
#noobi
  • Profile picture of the author JoeFerguson
    With an email list, you will guarantee that everyone on you send a message too will at least receive the email with the offer inside.

    It can be difficult to persuade all your visitors to come to the site at any given time to see the links/banners.
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  • Profile picture of the author Prosprio
    Email lists give you the opportunity for recurring income. With a user visiting your site, once they leave, they're done. With an email list, you can keep tapping it again and again with more offers and email blasts as long as they don't all unsubscribe.

    The redirect can mean that you're getting georestricted, some offers are like US or CA only, so if you're outside those areas, you get redirected. Preview or use a proxy to preview.

    The advanced tracking options are just that, they are advanced settings that you might not need. It's helpful to know what they are but if you're getting started, keep it simple and you won't need them.
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  • Profile picture of the author mosc
    Thank you guys, now i understood that

    Something i forgot to ask you was about Prosper202 and Tracking in general.
    Do i need Cpanel for installing Prosper202?
    I made some calculation:
    15-30$ for Host Server
    15-20$ for Cpanel or even more?
    Maybe i even forgot something what i need to spend monthly.

    So to be honest 50$ a month may sound not that much for many of you but for me as a noobi it does And as a noob i am currently creating a webpage with a blog on Weebly. I saw there that for 3$-6$ i can get a .com domain and they promise to get some stats about the traffic. And i was also thinking of using google analytics.

    Would it be also an option to start promoting some offers?
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  • Profile picture of the author CpvTrafficPro
    Email list - yes you are somewhat right here. An email list will allow you to send offers, but you do not want to do this all the time or you will be reported as spam pretty quickly. With an email list you want to offer them some sort of value.

    For example a dating email list email might be something like:

    Hey,
    So the other day you were looking for some singles in your area, while I'm not sure if you found what you were looking for I wanted to reach out and see if I could help any. Here's an article I just wrote about the 10 things to look for when signing up for a dating site.

    The link goes to your blog and then hopefully your article will lead them to the offer.

    So thats email
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    As far as the other stuff goes I would contact your affiliate manager to help teach you how to properly set up tracking (Prosper 2 is great just YouTube how to set it up + network)

    Not to sure how you are going about advertising the offer, but I would suggest not direct linking whatever you do. This means that you are going to need to create your own personal landing pages or hire someone to do it. Each keyword/pharse should have its own custom landing page so that it can relate as closely to the keywords as possible.

    For example: Keyword - date Russian woman
    Your landing page needs to obviously have something to do with dating Russian woman whether its pictures of half naked girls to get users to sign up. Remember to put yourself in the viewers shoes ( this is why so many people will tell you to market something you know about) If you were to randomly land on the page you created or promoting would you sign up for it or continue to look?

    This is definitely all a numbers game since you can't know 100% why the viewer landed on your page or what their intention was but the more you focus on having a dedicated page for the keyword you can make better judgement on whats working and what inst.

    That being said if you were to buy a domain name typically I would set it up like this for my offers:
    MYDOMAIN.com/LP-TEST1
    MYDOMAIN.com/LP-TEST2

    AND Finally - I know for a fact that the offer you are looking at paying $4.75 per lead is not to "win an Iphone" and the reason you see that page is because of where you are located and what country the traffic is actually allowed.

    So if your in the US, and the offer only accepts traffic from Germany you will need to hidemyass.com to set up a proxy in that country to be able to properly view your page.

    Sidenote: Everyone who browses the web know that "win an Iphone" is nothing more than an ad and is very hard to convert. Focus on something that offers a solution to something. I'm not really talking about weight loss bc there is so much competition but there was an offer on MaxBounty called Clarity I believe and it was a trial to "stop ringing ear"

    Have you ever heard of "ringing ear"? Ya me neither ... but a lot of people have it and want a cure!
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