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CPA WARNING

by winebuddy
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Just a heads up to fellow warriors....

There have been quite a few CPA WSOs lately that encourage the use of incentivized ads and sending people to them with "soft" incentives (other than cash).

While these methods may work for a short amount of time, many of them will end up getting you banned from the CPA network.

These networks WATCH and MONITOR your traffic and your conversion percentages and they KNOW that a conversion rate of 70% to 100% is impossible.

So if you are going down that path, I have a suggestion that could well keep you from getting banned...

Join a few banner networks so that you get EXTRA traffic to your CPA offers. Put their banner on the bottom of your "offer sites" so that you get banner credits.

That will lower your conversion percentage quite a bit, mix in some extra traffic from other IP addresses, and get you off of the CPA networks "radar".

Hope this helps,
Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author Lou Diamond
    Hello,
    if you are doing something wrong and then you attempt to hide what you are doing wrong by sending traffic to it, does that make it right?
    If it is wrong from the beginning it is still wrong at the end.
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    • Profile picture of the author winebuddy
      Originally Posted by Lou Diamond View Post

      Hello,
      if you are doing something wrong and then you attempt to hide what you are doing wrong by sending traffic to it, does that make it right?
      If it is wrong from the beginning it is still wrong at the end.
      Lou - it's not really "wrong" in the eyes of the CPA networks because you are allowed to use incentives. It's just that conversion rates that high are not normal and they watch those things. If your conversions start high and stay high, that'll raise a red flag and even if you are well within the boundaries, it can still get you banned.

      So if you dilute the traffic just a little, it fits better into their "framework" of acceptable percentages.
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      • Profile picture of the author LB
        Originally Posted by winebuddy View Post

        Lou - it's not really "wrong" in the eyes of the CPA networks because you are allowed to use incentives. It's just that conversion rates that high are not normal and they watch those things. If your conversions start high and stay high, that'll raise a red flag and even if you are well within the boundaries, it can still get you banned.

        So if you dilute the traffic just a little, it fits better into their "framework" of acceptable percentages.
        If the CPA network allows incentives they will have no issues with you even if your conversion rate is 100% as long as you talk to them about it.

        Every CPA network has a rep assigned that you can speak to about something if in doubt, if they are cool with your incentive- no issues.

        If you send them banner traffic that ends up primarily as foreign traffic or something then that is a lot more of a problem for most...

        Talk to your rep, show them what you're doing and get the "OK" then go to town.
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