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Affiliate Network Rarely Allows Landing Pages!

by PPCDan
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Hello Everyone,

I am not very technical and I just started direct linking CPA offers on a PPV network since February 2015. I spent about $1,500 dollars so far, and made a couple hundred back. That is not the point of this though. My tests have shown that direct linking does not always work best, and that I need to make my own landing pages.

I am not very technical at all so I asked my affiliate manager and he explained what host and post is, which was cool. However, he said that they rarely allow or approve landing pages. He said most affiliates like myself in their network are direct linking.

1. Why would an affiliate network not allow or rarely approve of new landing pages? Wouldn't that just improve the conversion rate and give them more money?

2. Which networks are open to letting their affiliates make their own landing pages?

Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author pietjeplukt
    simply build a squeezepage and build a list, send subscriber to your CPA offer as the thank you page after sign up, and use other methods of getting traffic, this way you make profit from your CPA offers + you get to market other products and cpa offers to these same people over and over again without having to do any advertising, recycling your traffic, thats the big advantage of listbuilding

    paying more for your advertising than you are making back on the traffic does not seem like a very good strategy...

    good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author writeaway
      Switch to a squeeze page with a serious freebie. Look for CPA networks. You pay per lead.
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      • Profile picture of the author PPCDan
        Originally Posted by writeaway View Post

        Switch to a squeeze page with a serious freebie. Look for CPA networks. You pay per lead.
        I will look into this. I am promoting dating websites currently. So I am guessing a good idea would be to get their email and in return make some kind of article or ebook with the top dating tips. Does that sound about right?

        What is the key difference between a squeeze page and presale page. The squeeze page is looking to get an email address right? and a presale is just an intro to the offer without getting some thing for it?

        Does that sound right?
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        • Profile picture of the author Path Theory
          Originally Posted by PPCDan View Post

          I will look into this. I am promoting dating websites currently. So I am guessing a good idea would be to get their email and in return make some kind of article or ebook with the top dating tips. Does that sound about right?

          What is the key difference between a squeeze page and presale page. The squeeze page is looking to get an email address right? and a presale is just an intro to the offer without getting some thing for it?

          Does that sound right?
          Your terminology is correct as far as those go, but not in the original post. The difference between a presale and a squeeze page is the email capture form. Both of those are considered landing pages.

          What you're talking about in the first post, is the offer page. Yes, A lot of places wouldn't allow you to change that, and there really isn't a reason to. If it's a legit product, you can believe they've tested it extensively and know what converts well and what doesn't. Optimize your presale and don't worry about their offer page.
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          • Profile picture of the author PPCDan
            Originally Posted by Path Theory View Post

            Your terminology is correct as far as those go, but not in the original post. The difference between a presale and a squeeze page is the email capture form. Both of those are considered landing pages.

            What you're talking about in the first post, is the offer page. Yes, A lot of places wouldn't allow you to change that, and there really isn't a reason to. If it's a legit product, you can believe they've tested it extensively and know what converts well and what doesn't. Optimize your presale and don't worry about their offer page.
            Thank you very much. You have been helpful. I will start working on presale pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author PPCDan
      Originally Posted by pietjeplukt View Post

      simply build a squeezepage and build a list, send subscriber to your CPA offer as the thank you page after sign up, and use other methods of getting traffic, this way you make profit from your CPA offers + you get to market other products and cpa offers to these same people over and over again without having to do any advertising, recycling your traffic, thats the big advantage of listbuilding

      paying more for your advertising than you are making back on the traffic does not seem like a very good strategy...

      good luck!
      Is the squeezepage the same thing like a presell page?
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    • Profile picture of the author Rory Singh
      paying more for your advertising than you are making back on the traffic does not seem like a very good strategy...
      Really?

      That's how I learned. It takes money to 'experiment' and learn. I don't know one successful marketer who hasn't lost money finding ways to build traffic to their offers.

      Sometimes you get lucky and find methods that work and sometimes you lose money finding others that don't.

      But the keys to successful marketing is to 'discard' what doesn't work and scale up on the one's that do.
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      • Profile picture of the author professorrosado
        Well how are people going to click on a link?
        Wherever your link lives on the internet is, essentially, a landing page - is it not the point of embarkation for any visitor to the CPA offer?

        It could be a blog post, facebook post, pinterest pic, email sig, newsletter or solo ad link, etc. The end result is traffic to their offer.

        What they don't want you to do is try to pre-sell the offer which in certain niches involves legal issues - so stay away from putting yourself and the advertiser in trouble. (Is it really worth it?)

        You're paying for advertising, so they can't really tell you what to do with your costly traffic - get their emails as suggested earlier. Make sure the interstitial is closely related to the CPA offer or use the other technique of marketing your email list builder funnel (landing page with free ebook, video course, etc.) and add the CPA offer to the tail end or as a content locker - some networks now offer adwalls.

        Whichever way, it should make progressive sense to the visitor or even play on their motives for engaging your funnel in the first place.
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  • Profile picture of the author Path Theory
    I've never heard of a network not allowing landing pages. I would switch if they told me that.

    The only reason I can think of why they would be strict with their approval, is if people were using shady methods and false promises on their presale pages. Thus leading to a higher percentage of chargebacks and cancels. - But to out right tell you they hardly ever allow it, seems amateur and unprofessional, but I don't know the whole story.
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    • Profile picture of the author PPCDan
      Originally Posted by Path Theory View Post

      I've never heard of a network not allowing landing pages. I would switch if they told me that.

      The only reason I can think of why they would be strict with their approval, is if people were using shady methods and false promises on their presale pages. Thus leading to a higher percentage of chargebacks and cancels. - But to out right tell you they hardly ever allow it, seems amateur and unprofessional, but I don't know the whole story.
      I just started out and that is what they said. So I will look into other networks. They did not have any issues with creating squeeze pages or presale pages, but to actually change the landing page of the offer they rarely allow it.
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    Originally Posted by PPCDan View Post


    1. Why would an affiliate network not allow or rarely approve of new landing pages? Wouldn't that just improve the conversion rate and give them more money?

    Thank you
    Because the company that created the ad and is paying the fees probably spent a lot of money and time testing to come up with the highest converting landing page.

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      • Profile picture of the author discrat
        Landing Page (sq.Page) or Sales Page ? Of course you can have your own Landing Page instead of direct linking.
        Thats ridicolus for anyone to say you can't.

        Now producing your own Sales Page and getting Authorization from the vendor to do that instead of using the current one is another matter


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  • Profile picture of the author James Foster
    You're using a really crappy affiliate network then. Go to some of the big ones, they all expect you to use landing pages, they help your conversations significantly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    Oh hell. Take the advice above. Never purchase traffic without re-marketing in mind. Squeeze page!

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  • Profile picture of the author hbeladiya
    Why networks are not allowing landing pages because sometimes they received bot traffic from landing pages. As per my experience once we had faced it before. May be that's the reason for that.
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    • Profile picture of the author PPCDan
      Originally Posted by professorrosado View Post

      Well how are people going to click on a link?
      Wherever your link lives on the internet is, essentially, a landing page - is it not the point of embarkation for any visitor to the CPA offer?

      It could be a blog post, facebook post, pinterest pic, email sig, newsletter or solo ad link, etc. The end result is traffic to their offer.

      What they don't want you to do is try to pre-sell the offer which in certain niches involves legal issues - so stay away from putting yourself and the advertiser in trouble. (Is it really worth it?)

      You're paying for advertising, so they can't really tell you what to do with your costly traffic - get their emails as suggested earlier. Make sure the interstitial is closely related to the CPA offer or use the other technique of marketing your email list builder funnel (landing page with free ebook, video course, etc.) and add the CPA offer to the tail end or as a content locker - some networks now offer adwalls.

      Whichever way, it should make progressive sense to the visitor or even play on their motives for engaging your funnel in the first place.
      Thank you.

      Originally Posted by Tom Addams View Post

      Oh hell. Take the advice above. Never purchase traffic without re-marketing in mind. Squeeze page!

      Tom
      I will look into it. Thank you.

      Originally Posted by hbeladiya View Post

      Why networks are not allowing landing pages because sometimes they received bot traffic from landing pages. As per my experience once we had faced it before. May be that's the reason for that.
      Thank you for that. It makes sense too.
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