7search, $20 burned, $2 back!?

Need more data if you want help bud.

What exact offer?
What countries you targetting?
What times you running the ad's at?
Whats the text of your ad?
What channel are you using?

Saying what youve said doesnt really give any clue where the issue could be tbh

By the time you set your negative keywords and apply all other filterings there will hardly be any traffic left unless one uses more expensive keywords in which case it defies the whole idea of using a cheap network.

I'm not an advocate of letting clicks run up to 100's just for testing purposes - that would be a mug's game and it's a myth everyone has been recommending blindly!

If a keyword doesn't get a conversion after 10 clicks, there's definitely something wrong and I would not carry on with that keyword personally unless I'm using a stolen credit card or forged bank notes!

Email submit offers get scrubbed a lot, so...

You can't expect more ROI in email submit offers. The CPA networks shave a lot on email submit offers.

So which offers convert the best in 7 search?

Just to confirm, are you tracking your keywords too? Have you tried rotating your back end offer?

Number 1. Stop running email submits. As others point out they scrub and shave and in general don't convert unless the quality of your traffic is actually buying into the backend, which they hardly ever do. They make money on the few suckers out there, then have to shave the rest.

2. Start using landing pages. It's better to start now than later. Every once in a while I'll direct link just to test out an offer, but I never expect to make a profit with it. A landing page is meant to be an extension of your ad. With the ad space given, you'll be unlikely to ever actually give a full pre-sell to the end user.

3. As far as what works and what doesn't, that'll be up to you to test. Search traffic can work well for a ton of different niches. Look up some niches/offers you are interested in and look at what competitors in that niche are doing. If you find a lot of ads, more likely than not that niche is doing well. No one is going to straight up give you their campaigns/offers.

You could also talk to your affiliate manager for more information on what is doing well for specific traffic sources.

I know affiliates who have been buying from 7Search for years. You can definitely find profit with their traffic, but like Justin eluded to, the common campaigns might be a little competitive. Think outside the box, use a lander to pre-sell... and test, test, test. Earning $2 from $20 isn't much, but try to narrow your buy as much as possible so you only spend $1 to earn that same $2. Then grow your buy slowly for profit.

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