Spent $19 at plenty of fish not 1 click

Try using the search button and looking up CPA guides or case studies or even look around the WSO's and see one that meets the criteria you are after.

It will save you a lot more time than waiting here for people to re-type the same things they do every time a new member asks the exact same question.

Best of Luck!

Hi - look for William who is a regular poster here, He has an excellent WSO on POF.

Target canada dating offers as there is cheap traffic from canada available on pof, usa traffic has much higher bids, you need to bid like 0.50+ to get good amount of usa impressions.

First, $19 bucks worth of ads is not a good test data. Then again, maybe your ads are not compelling enough for them to take action.

Use juicy ads - you can get 1000 banner clicks for less than $10.00. They are purely for clicks not for views. So this will be better for your dating offer promotions. But see the TOS of the offer about promotion methods.

Am I going mad here - PlentyOfFish do Pay Per Click right?

As another member said above, $19 is not enough for a good test. However, if you didn't get a single click after spending all this amount of money there is no doubt that there is something very wrong with your campaign.

I don't know how you're split-testing ads, but here is the normal process:

1. Get 15 - 25 images

2. Write 2 ad copies

3. Create as much combinations between ads and images as possible and start testing them

It should give you at least 4 or 5 ads with a CTR close to 0.1%, which is decent on PoF.

You can also spy on your competitors (create fake accounts with the demographics you're targeting) and get some ideas.

Also, don't forget that only using tags and making ads custom can be not enough. You need to be provocative, make people curious and offer them exactly what they want.

Here is an example of one of my campaigns:

{age:30+} and in {state:US}?
We have 6,125 men who might be interested in you. Join Matchmaker for free and meet them today!

This one didn't work for women above 30, but then I targeted only women looking to marry soon and used this ad:

Looking For A Husband?
Let us help you find a husband in {state:US} - Join "my offer" for Free!

(Where it says "my offer" I obviously put the name of the site I was promoting)

Do you see the difference? I offered them exactly what they wanted. You need to make your ads "irresistible" so that people will stop doing what they are doing to see what you have to show them.


William

Thanks guys really appreciate the feed back.

Im learning

Is it just me or does marketing dating to a consumer who is already on one of the largest dating networks seem sort of silly?

I completely agree. I would instinctively say anything BUT dating if its targeted properly. From what Jeffrey says, it is a misconception though.

I would try that soon enough once I have enough funds on my pocket. CPA Flash 1 and 2 are very potential, but needs a little investment. I'm looking forward for POF.

Makes sense, thanks.

Whats up

In total yesterday I spent $20 got 16 clicks no conversions

even though no conversions still feel pretty good because im starting to understand the process of testing pic, headlines and ad text.

I had a picture get clicked 9 times and a headline that did the same

I divided it into 2 campaigns 12 different ads in each and the difference was the age groups. Later on today i am going to fix the targeting a bit and use the ads that got the most of the clicks and rotate different offers.

Try to find that winning "ULTRA COMBO!!!" had to add a little Killer Instinct

I have $10 bucks left I know it is probably not enough but i want to see if i can get the same amount of clicks with half the money and hopefully get a conversion or 2

I have been direct linking to the offer i am not to comfortable with making my own landing pages.

Hey guys thanks a lot for all the advice i am learning a lot from this thread and the forum in general.

Good advice william ... to get a good CTR at POF is really all about the getting the right combo of images and ad copy … and a lot of split testing your ads. Ads and offers also go stale quick … u have to mix things up.
Lately, I’ve found the quality of traffic has been steadily decreasing. A LOT of new advertisers coming into the space along with scraper and other bot traffic.

You guys can always contact me: ben@ pof.com and I'll be able to give you some personalize attention. I'll literally log-into your account and give it a quick analysis and offer constructive feedback on how you can improve on your performance.

POf works good if you use catchy images. If it was ****ty and useless guys wouldnt talk about this much!

It works!

Now, why would you just leave you campaign to spend more than $10 without a single click?

PPC need that unless you're sure it works, you keep an eye on it by the minute! Otherwise you'll lose money and hate and blame the system.

Good luck with your POF PPC campaigns!

I only managed a few conversions myself. it's a dating site, so the products you can sell are limited...even weight loss or health products did not do well for me....I assume people are already secure with how they look or they look for people of similar physique.

Just curious, how did you target and what was your CTR?

I think you should change you promoting methods. try something new

I think POF users have seen all kinds of dating ads ever conceived

guess you really need to offer something they never seen before

or best yet, try different niches

Use content locking cpa networks like Blamads and Leadbolt . Dont do with Cpalead they are scamer

My am is going to freaking be upset but I have to share what I know about POF that has helped me out a lot int he past.

1. Use at least 50-100 images of hot girls breast get massive ctr, latino, asian, and indian girls are hot right now use a lot of bikini shots OUTDOORS.

2. Make at least 5 ad copies using strong words and al ways ask a question in the title.

3. this is the biggest tip start targeting using the log in count after a while user will get used to seeing the ads so they stop clicking on them.If you target newer user who have not yet had a chance to see most of the ads you get better ctr.

I hope that helped someone out as much as it helps me I really didnt want to share this but Im an info junkie who believes in good karma.

Thanks for all the informations, i keep searching for this 2 days for another traffic source, so far, i just use FB...

for Google, Miva my account have not been approved, so i don't have the exact data.

Maybe i should try POF for other source...

I guess you are living in bubble that CPA is very easy. Anyway understand it completely before putting your money in it otherwise you will end up loosing more than just 19$. Just browse through this forum, there is lot of good info here. Also do the Google search and you will find a lot of free info on CPA enough for you to get started right way.

Your ad was not good. Make sure you ad is good

There are a lots of way but i think is it best for you as bellow.

1. Market research
2. Finding Offer
3. Proper keyword research

Promote offer You can compare the CPA offers from various networks on sites like offervault,affspy etc.

Here's some advice. Start on Facebook where you can use the CPC platform and learn how to create good CTR ads. Then transfer over to PoF and use more revealing pictures and targeted ad copy because they will let you.