i'm shocked by plenty of fish!!!

by thair
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i submitted my first ad on plenty of fish yesterday it was a dating offer and after 24 hours my ads status went from pending approval to needs creatives i made some changes and ran it again same thing has happened again i changed that offer with another dating offer..within a minute after submitting the ad the ads status went from pending to running and within a minute i had 46617 imps and 24 clicks with zero conversion and burned $ 25 just like that does this usually happens or there is something went wrong with my ad? i still believe that my ad didn't run long enough to have that much impressions.
what are your thoughts guys on this?
#fish #plenty #shocked
  • Profile picture of the author mrfinnj
    people live on that site!
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  • Profile picture of the author thair
    mr finnj i know people live on that site that is why i'm advertising on it but what are you trying to say?
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    • Profile picture of the author speedylikesKJ
      well IMO reason was high bid , And To be honest i like to burn my testing budget as fast as i can so i can have initial data .... In your case i guess your creatives were not attractive enough to get good number of clicks ?
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      • Profile picture of the author thair
        Originally Posted by speedylikesKJ View Post

        well IMO reason was high bid , And To be honest i like to burn my testing budget as fast as i can so i can have initial data .... In your case i guess your creatives were not attractive enough to get good number of clicks ?
        yes my bid was a little bit higher but my creatives wasnt that bad i put on nice and hot picture with a good headline i'm not quite sure if the landing page is good enough though to get visitors put their emails in the box as i used direct linking.
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        • Profile picture of the author flamewave
          Originally Posted by thair View Post

          yes my bid was a little bit higher but my creatives wasnt that bad i put on nice and hot picture with a good headline i'm not quite sure if the landing page is good enough though to get visitors put their emails in the box as i used direct linking.
          Split Testing.

          You say your creatives where good, yet proof tells me and you otherwise, your CTR was terrible, thats not a landing page issue.

          CTR issue= Creative issue
          Conversion issues= Landing page issue

          Did you A/B testing on landing pages and creatives?

          My ad network automatically does all this, IF people spent the time and put more than 1 creative and 1 landing page. It automatically scores them them and slows the bad combos and speeds up the good ones.

          So, if your using an ad network that wont do that, then you need to do it yourself. Otherwise your wasting your time.

          Sorry to be blunt, I just don't like seeing people wasting their time.
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          • Profile picture of the author thair
            Originally Posted by flamewave View Post

            Split Testing.

            You say your creatives where good, yet proof tells me and you otherwise, your CTR was terrible, thats not a landing page issue.

            CTR issue= Creative issue
            Conversion issues= Landing page issue

            Did you A/B testing on landing pages and creatives?

            My ad network automatically does all this, IF people spent the time and put more than 1 creative and 1 landing page. It automatically scores them them and slows the bad combos and speeds up the good ones.

            So, if your using an ad network that wont do that, then you need to do it yourself. Otherwise your wasting your time.

            Sorry to be blunt, I just don't like seeing people wasting their time.
            the ad network that i used was POF and as many of you are familiar with it does allow split testing /different images,different headlines and even different body text and i did all of these and i split tested all of these i used 6 different images in one campaign yet my CTR was too low. one thing i suspected for my low CTR is that the images i used wasnt the type of images that attract many clicks and the reason is POF rejected most of the images that i hoped would attract more attention. images with cleavages buttocks, big breasts these images are the ones that attract many clickers if i'm not wrong unfortunately POF didn't allow me to use them ,,they only want face,s and fully dressed bodies and people see these all the time . pof reject body text that sounds more sexual and appealing to its costumers i don't know how you guys get pass through these barriers but i stuck in this .
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        • Profile picture of the author Xtronikz
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          Originally Posted by thair View Post

          yes my bid was a little bit higher but my creatives wasnt that bad i put on nice and hot picture with a good headline i'm not quite sure if the landing page is good enough though to get visitors put their emails in the box as i used direct linking.
          Well first off you said it yourself. Your bid was to high for testing.

          Secondly you said you had a good picture and headline. What seems good to you doesn't always mean it will convert remember that. I have had campaigns I thought would bring me thousands and end up making me negative. It looked good to me but what looks good to me doesn't mean other people will like it.

          Lastly 25 clicks or so isn't enough data to test. 100 - 1000 is a perfect range to start seeing your conversions.

          What I would do from where you are now is the following:

          I would lower my bid to start and change the headline slightly. Not to much but make sure its noticable. Make sure your headline entices people to click. The way I see it is, if people just saw my headline... Would they click?

          Next if you don't get conversions from that in the first 100 clicks change the picture and keep testing.

          One last big advice to give you!

          The networks you wortth with have more then 1 dating offer. Use 3-5 offers in a rotator and see which ones convert. This works and your ROI will be a lot bigger if you test all this!

          Good luck and keep us posted.
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          • Profile picture of the author mudfishsoftware
            Originally Posted by Xtronikz View Post

            Well first off you said it yourself. Your bid was to high for testing.

            Secondly you said you had a good picture and headline. What seems good to you doesn't always mean it will convert remember that. I have had campaigns I thought would bring me thousands and end up making me negative. It looked good to me but what looks good to me doesn't mean other people will like it.

            Lastly 25 clicks or so isn't enough data to test. 100 - 1000 is a perfect range to start seeing your conversions.

            What I would do from where you are now is the following:

            I would lower my bid to start and change the headline slightly. Not to much but make sure its noticable. Make sure your headline entices people to click. The way I see it is, if people just saw my headline... Would they click?

            Next if you don't get conversions from that in the first 100 clicks change the picture and keep testing.

            One last big advice to give you!

            The networks you wortth with have more then 1 dating offer. Use 3-5 offers in a rotator and see which ones convert. This works and your ROI will be a lot bigger if you test all this!

            Good luck and keep us posted.
            Don't go just on clicks..

            Because it also depends on what the conversion payout is.

            Go up to 2x the conversion price when testing or $xx dollars.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Sounds like you had a high bid and very little targeting, maybe try to tighten your targeting
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by ChrisBa View Post

      Sounds like you had a high bid and very little targeting, maybe try to tighten your targeting
      crisba the suggested bid was .40 to .80 and i chose 50 was that a bad decision? how much bid do you usually start with? plus my targeting was way higher than usually i targeted 3 countries at the same time lol silly me .but is okay i have learnt a good lesson and gain confidence along the way.
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    • Profile picture of the author chmae73
      Originally Posted by ChrisBa View Post

      Sounds like you had a high bid and very little targeting, maybe try to tighten your targeting
      I guess you are right brother
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  • Profile picture of the author agha
    seems you have bad ctr. try to review your landing page and targeted keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author Quickhelper
    Does PoF only offer PPV? Or do they also have a PPC model? Also, is there a minimum deposit/budget I must invest to try with them? Thanks guys.
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    • Profile picture of the author RobertoM
      Originally Posted by Quickhelper View Post

      Does PoF only offer PPV? Or do they also have a PPC model? Also, is there a minimum deposit/budget I must invest to try with them? Thanks guys.
      The last time I visited PoF they requested a $1,000 upfront deposit so I ran away. Don't know if this changed.

      My question for this Forum is: did somebody made a good ROI in PoF?
      If so, can you roughly inform the figures?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ashwin83
      Originally Posted by Quickhelper View Post

      Does PoF only offer PPV? Or do they also have a PPC model? Also, is there a minimum deposit/budget I must invest to try with them? Thanks guys.
      Does anyone know if there is a minimum?
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  • Profile picture of the author wackiin
    cheaper ways to use PoF lol good luck with the ppc
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  • Profile picture of the author Trevor
    You must have set your ad for instant distribution. Had you set it to "evenly", it wouldn't have happened.
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by Trevor View Post

      You must have set your ad for instant distribution. Had you set it to "evenly", it wouldn't have happened.
      no trevor i set for distribute evenly. the problem was i targeted to large audience.
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      • Profile picture of the author spurge0n
        You said you targeted a large audience. Why didn't you target people who are likely to convert?
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  • Profile picture of the author coronaborcalis
    My suggestion is rise your bid at your next testing, I find better CTR with bidding higher but again if your ad copy not perform well then you will burn money faster
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by coronaborcalis View Post

      My suggestion is rise your bid at your next testing, I find better CTR with bidding higher but again if your ad copy not perform well then you will burn money faster
      my bid was .50 ten cents more than the suggested bid are you saying i should rise more? plus pof is very much restrictive than i expected they don't approve ads with revealing pictures they give way too much lame excuses to reject your ad sometimes they go like "your ad text is sexual and 100% percent free" has this ever happened to one of your ads? and what kind of images do you use for your ad?
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        • Profile picture of the author thair
          Originally Posted by coronaborcalis View Post

          If you interested you can register on my private forum and send PM for quick approval. I will give an insight how my campaign running on POF and some ideas for creating landing pages.

          Bisnisonlinez Private Forum • Index page
          i just made registration on your forum and sent you pm with my user name.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nubitol
    I'm not an expert in POF but do have some experience. My guess is you have too broad target audience and too high bid. Why don't you try lowering your bid? The last time I placed a bid there, I set it at $0.20 with very narrow target (country, gender, age, marital status, number of login, etc).

    From my understanding, as you request more targeted audience, you would pay higher bid. Oh, and my above bid give me 6-10 clicks for only $1.5 though my creatives (yes, it's plural) are quite plain.


    Originally Posted by thair View Post

    i submitted my first ad on plenty of fish yesterday it was a dating offer and after 24 hours my ads status went from pending approval to needs creatives i made some changes and ran it again same thing has happened again i changed that offer with another dating offer..within a minute after submitting the ad the ads status went from pending to running and within a minute i had 46617 imps and 24 clicks with zero conversion and burned $ 25 just like that does this usually happens or there is something went wrong with my ad? i still believe that my ad didn't run long enough to have that much impressions.
    what are your thoughts guys on this?
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    • Profile picture of the author RobertoM
      Originally Posted by Nubitol View Post

      I'm not an expert in POF but do have some experience. My guess is you have too broad target audience and too high bid. Why don't you try lowering your bid? The last time I placed a bid there, I set it at $0.20 with very narrow target (country, gender, age, marital status, number of login, etc).

      From my understanding, as you request more targeted audience, you would pay higher bid. Oh, and my above bid give me 6-10 clicks for only $1.5 though my creatives (yes, it's plural) are quite plain.
      Hi Nubitol, I guess that by now you got some more clicks over there.
      Are you promoting more than one product in PoF?
      Did you reach some sales conversions so far?
      Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author NewAge29
    @Thair - What kind of offers are you promoting?
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by NewAge29 View Post

      @Thair - What kind of offers are you promoting?
      dating offers
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  • Profile picture of the author aminur
    dont worry it happens when it get things going for the first time. if you bid high and also go braod, you will burn budget lot quicker. you need to target your audience properly. Try to digg in as much as possible. Start bidding low, if no impression then slowly increase your bid,

    Try multiple creatives with images, adcopy and description. kills those ads quickly which get no to less clicks. give them few thousand impression if not no good then its time to kill.
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by aminur View Post

      dont worry it happens when it get things going for the first time. if you bid high and also go braod, you will burn budget lot quicker. you need to target your audience properly. Try to digg in as much as possible. Start bidding low, if no impression then slowly increase your bid,

      Try multiple creatives with images, adcopy and description. kills those ads quickly which get no to less clicks. give them few thousand impression if not no good then its time to kill.
      thanks aminur biding high and targeting much higher audience was the mistake i made luckily i didn't pay too much price for it $25 is nothing compared to what i have learned.
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  • Profile picture of the author badboy_Nick
    Erhm ... this is how advertising works. You try a traffic source, blow some money, see if it converts. If not, you can either tweak and see if things improve (on your website or on your PPC campaign) ... or go to another traffic source alltogether. But $25 is nothing, try going through $1-2k a DAY via PPC, then we're talking serious money

    Any questions just let me know,
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    • Profile picture of the author RobertoM
      Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

      Erhm ... this is how advertising works. You try a traffic source, blow some money, see if it converts. If not, you can either tweak and see if things improve (on your website or on your PPC campaign) ... or go to another traffic source alltogether. But $25 is nothing, try going through $1-2k a DAY via PPC, then we're talking serious money

      Any questions just let me know,
      Nick
      Hey Nick, you mean budgeting $1.000/$2,000 a day just for testing your ads?
      Obvioulsy it may work better but you must have very deep pockets man
      What if you go with $1K and for whatever reason you fail? You'll surely stop that campaign but the $1k blew away.
      I think that getting some 300/400 clicks on ad and a std conversion rate with $50 in a good network it can be enough to roughly estimate the ROI of the campaign. If you fail, then you can either make some changes to your ad and/or LP and repeat with similar budget or switch to another network (not G. Adwords I would say).
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    • Profile picture of the author BILLSBILLION
      Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

      Erhm ... this is how advertising works. You try a traffic source, blow some money, see if it converts. If not, you can either tweak and see if things improve (on your website or on your PPC campaign) ... or go to another traffic source alltogether. But $25 is nothing, try going through $1-2k a DAY via PPC, then we're talking serious money

      Any questions just let me know,
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

      Erhm ... this is how advertising works. You try a traffic source, blow some money, see if it converts. If not, you can either tweak and see if things improve (on your website or on your PPC campaign) ... or go to another traffic source alltogether. But $25 is nothing, try going through $1-2k a DAY via PPC, then we're talking serious money

      Any questions just let me know,
      Nick
      $1-2k for testing alone? man, you must have rockets of money in your pocket.
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  • Profile picture of the author DNAWRealm
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    Use more targeting. You need to specifically target a smaller audience.
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  • Profile picture of the author wAvision
    What CTR % do you desire in order to keep an ad running? What CPC do you like for POF?

    how many impressions before you kill an ad?
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by wAvision View Post

      What CTR % do you desire in order to keep an ad running? What CPC do you like for POF?

      how many impressions before you kill an ad?
      0.15%CTR and above. i use cpm .and as for the impressions i kill the offer if it gets 3k impressions without a click.
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      • Profile picture of the author theultimate1
        Originally Posted by thair View Post

        0.15%CTR and above. i use cpm .and as for the impressions i kill the offer if it gets 3k impressions without a click.
        Maybe that's something you should avoid too. On social networks and forums, people are pretty blind to ads. 3,000 impressions is nothing. Is it from Unique IPs? Even then, 3,000 impressions is very less to assess the campaign.

        If you still think it's the best way out there, then you could probably test 4-5 different campaigns. If the result is similar all across, then you know you'll need to change the threshold to a much higher number.
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  • Profile picture of the author wrs6
    You need to specifically target
    you can google : Plenty of Fish Advertising Platforms VIDEO Case Study- NOOB friendly
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by wrs6 View Post

      You need to specifically target
      you can google : Plenty of Fish Advertising Platforms VIDEO Case Study- NOOB friendly
      thanks buddy am definitely going to check that out.
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      • Profile picture of the author Brant
        At PoF, you simply fund the minimum $25, then set the maximum for one ad at $5 total. Choose 10 cents per click.

        What's important is stipulating prospective viewers precisely. And, having quality appropriate affiliate products to market there.
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        • Profile picture of the author thair
          [QUOTE=Brant;6779449]At PoF, you simply fund the minimum $25, then set the maximum for one ad at $5 total. Choose 10 cents per click.

          What's important is stipulating prospective viewers precisely. And, having quality appropriate affiliate products to market there.[/QUOTE you mean set $5 for each ad in same campaign cuze at pof the minimum daily budget for a campaign is $15 .
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        • Profile picture of the author wizbiz
          Originally Posted by Brant View Post

          At PoF, you simply fund the minimum $25, then set the maximum for one ad at $5 total. Choose 10 cents per click.

          What's important is stipulating prospective viewers precisely. And, having quality appropriate affiliate products to market there.
          Where is it? Per Click? All I see is CPI Per Impressions only.

          I'm reading some WSO about POF and even there inside the document

          Author ADS showing 0.039% - 0.18% CTR, and IMHO it's disaster..

          I burn my first $25 in few hours as well, but now I found out that I didn't set too

          many criteria's.. Good Idea to Target by Browser Forefox/IE only cause

          Safari used by APPLE dummy devises and Chrome used by Google Androids

          Basically you want to stay away from Mobil traffic as far as possible..

          And me, even after reading that good .pdf. for now I'll stay away from POF,

          50 cent clicks it's too expensive for Display traffic, cause search traffic much

          higher quality. Me too have ZERO conversions on POF.
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  • Profile picture of the author clgo
    If I remember correctly, POF has a minimum of $25 or possibly $50 dollars.

    Is your offer that broad? I mean, is it for use in 30 countries like you listed? Try to limit your target, by age, sex, status (single), and maybe try one country? USA?
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by clgo View Post

      If I remember correctly, POF has a minimum of $25 or possibly $50 dollars.

      Is your offer that broad? I mean, is it for use in 30 countries like you listed? Try to limit your target, by age, sex, status (single), and maybe try one country? USA?
      yes the minimum deposit is still $25. you right i barely targeted more than 3 countries in that offer and the amount of impressions it received in matter of seconds was like i targeted the whole world i didn't know pof had such a huge members which is a good thing for me because i realized the half of the entire world of daters live in that site and if i target small piece of them rather than all of them i will have my hands full of money in no time
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Get an account on Plenty of Fish and look at other people's ads see what they are doing. Come up with ways to make things better.

    Nothing is going to convert on your first try. Keep testing.

    1. Find a good offer.
    2. Build a good landing page.
    3. Find a good image for the ad.
    4. Test the hell out of it.

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  • Profile picture of the author thekencook
    Thanks for all the chatter on this. I think we all make mistakes with new services when we use them the first time. OP is right though - his $25 education is invaluable in the long run and now that he has shared his experience we've learned on his dime too. Question, though, with 24 clicks and 0 conversions were you linking directly to a sale page or did you at least collect their contact information for dripping through your system?
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by thekencook View Post

      Thanks for all the chatter on this. I think we all make mistakes with new services when we use them the first time. OP is right though - his $25 education is invaluable in the long run and now that he has shared his experience we've learned on his dime too. Question, though, with 24 clicks and 0 conversions were you linking directly to a sale page or did you at least collect their contact information for dripping through your system?
      yes i linked directly to the offer page and i think this is the main reason they didn't sign up most of the dating sites have long form to fill and people don't like that .
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Shaw
    Try being super targeted in your ad copy also. ie:

    {gender:default}
    {age:default}
    {state:default}

    By using these tags you can include the user’s gender, age, or the state they live in on your ad title or description. Here is an example:

    Title: Low Insurance Rates in {state:the US}!
    Description: We have the lowest rates for {gender:people} {age:25+}.

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    • Profile picture of the author MrMillennium
      OK ::Insert Noob Comment now:: I have been trying out the whole POF campain with a Dating CPA. I basically wanted to know how to create more than one account after being banned, without a VPN or Private proxies. Is this possible. Like i said i am total noob so please speak to me like i am 2. I did rather well with the 1 profile i made and got over $240 in earnings so the profile i made and landing page are both great. For a test.
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      • Profile picture of the author thair
        Originally Posted by MrMillennium View Post

        OK ::Insert Noob Comment now:: I have been trying out the whole POF campain with a Dating CPA. I basically wanted to know how to create more than one account after being banned, without a VPN or Private proxies. Is this possible. Like i said i am total noob so please speak to me like i am 2. I did rather well with the 1 profile i made and got over $240 in earnings so the profile i made and landing page are both great. For a test.
        what did you do to get banned in the first place?
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    • Profile picture of the author thair
      Originally Posted by Danny Shaw View Post

      Try being super targeted in your ad copy also. ie:

      {gender:default}
      {age:default}
      {state:default}

      By using these tags you can include the user's gender, age, or the state they live in on your ad title or description. Here is an example:

      Title: Low Insurance Rates in {state:the US}!
      Description: We have the lowest rates for {gender:people} {age:25+}.

      This was from some dudes blog, but I keep a copy just to remind me.
      thanks danny i will definitely use these tags in my next campaign
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    • Profile picture of the author cpa9426
      Originally Posted by Danny Shaw View Post

      Try being super targeted in your ad copy also. ie:

      {gender:default}
      {age:default}
      {state:default}

      By using these tags you can include the user's gender, age, or the state they live in on your ad title or description. Here is an example:

      Title: Low Insurance Rates in {state:the US}!
      Description: We have the lowest rates for {gender:people} {age:25+}.

      This was from some dudes blog, but I keep a copy just to remind me.
      Great info Danny!
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  • Profile picture of the author bsbear
    That's crazy, probably super high CPC.
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  • Profile picture of the author flamewave
    His CTR was what .36?

    If his targeting is OK and the traffic is decent, the he needs to adjust the creative.

    You cant say a creative is working if your CTR is .36% Your traffic must like your creative to work. So your traffic is either poor or your creative is not suited to the traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeMorgan
    Originally Posted by thair View Post

    within a minute i had 46617 imps and 24 clicks with zero conversion and burned $ 25
    You have to use all targeting options suitable for the offer that you are promoting . I also want to advice that you promote an offer which is targgted to a certain demogapohics . It is how to you exploit the power of POF ad .
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Cpm is always about demographics if you have that option. I am very picky on cpm.
    POF used to be excellent, now customer service seems to be really bad, I wait for well over
    24 hours for an ad to go live sometimes.

    One more hint, always do your bidding at like .40 cents per thousand, and only put in about 3 dollars a day, this is easier to track and keeps you out of trouble, plus you can lower or raise you bid or change your demographics, I will also run about four ads at once for the same offer and different demographics, then tweak and combine as it goes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dunhill
    So many similar date ads on PoF. You really need to know lot about it and test a lot to fit in. I also burned $100 on PoF and never touched again lol. I needed to know more about it before testing which was my mistake
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  • Profile picture of the author tylerjaysen
    yeah dude POF rocks! You have to even out your impressions though...to 24 hours evenly. And then you must focus in on your audience...and really utilize their targeting feature...that is the key. And of course track. Once you find out the winning combination of targeting and which ads converts....blam....you can scale up and make some serious cash!
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  • Profile picture of the author mudfishsoftware
    Make sure and change your min bid to something like .22 cpm (since your testing I'd start low and slowly raise it 0.01 every 3 days) until you get enough traffic to meet your budget

    Set your budget to distribute evenly throughout the day.

    Set your frequency to 3x limit per day (not visit!).


    Test multiple creatives, find ones that are 0.2+ ctr.
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  • Profile picture of the author Meesta
    Exact same thing happened to me, but with FaceBook. Try to target more accurately, eventually you will get it!
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  • Profile picture of the author craigslist
    to be honest if you use POF for advertising, try something DIFFERENT then a dating affiliate,,I have used them before and did quite well, especially with a travel related affiliate. I've also used a clickbank aff site--based on weight loss, just trying to help
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    I know people are applauding pof, but I have used them from day one, it's not the same as the past man. They take so long to get back to you and if you change anything in your ad you have to wait to get approved again. I don't blame you.

    If you want immediate results then use trafficvance or one of the other ppv networks. Won't be as cheap.

    Even Facebook is easier to get started on cpm than pof is.
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  • Profile picture of the author RobertoM
    Originally Posted by thair View Post

    i submitted my first ad on plenty of fish yesterday it was a dating offer and after 24 hours my ads status went from pending approval to needs creatives i made some changes and ran it again same thing has happened again i changed that offer with another dating offer..within a minute after submitting the ad the ads status went from pending to running and within a minute i had 46617 imps and 24 clicks with zero conversion and burned $ 25 just like that does this usually happens or there is something went wrong with my ad? i still believe that my ad didn't run long enough to have that much impressions.
    what are your thoughts guys on this?
    Bots perhaps?
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  • Profile picture of the author Cash37
    Originally Posted by thair View Post

    i submitted my first ad on plenty of fish yesterday it was a dating offer and after 24 hours my ads status went from pending approval to needs creatives i made some changes and ran it again same thing has happened again i changed that offer with another dating offer..within a minute after submitting the ad the ads status went from pending to running and within a minute i had 46617 imps and 24 clicks with zero conversion and burned $ 25 just like that does this usually happens or there is something went wrong with my ad? i still believe that my ad didn't run long enough to have that much impressions.
    what are your thoughts guys on this?
    Target smaller demographics. Use more targeting options.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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    Actually I have also heard these things about POF. But never seen these in my eyes.
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  • Profile picture of the author richbabe
    I agree with hustlinsmoke try trafficvance , personaly POF is not as good as it used to be in the past. but htis is just my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author martworld
    Whats the minimum deposit to get started in POF?
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  • Profile picture of the author seregap
    $25 minimum
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  • Profile picture of the author Glynn Kosky
    Need a better offer on the back end
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacomara
    You can lose a lot of money very quickly there. Target more tightly.
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  • Profile picture of the author kuntal622
    Originally Posted by thair View Post

    i submitted my first ad on plenty of fish yesterday it was a dating offer and after 24 hours my ads status went from pending approval to needs creatives i made some changes and ran it again same thing has happened again i changed that offer with another dating offer..within a minute after submitting the ad the ads status went from pending to running and within a minute i had 46617 imps and 24 clicks with zero conversion and burned $ 25 just like that does this usually happens or there is something went wrong with my ad? i still believe that my ad didn't run long enough to have that much impressions.
    what are your thoughts guys on this?
    May be your ad is not interesting or you cannot target your audience so it happen I think,
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  • Profile picture of the author davidweeb
    You must use a good landing pages + Banners advertising attractive
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