Ask Me Anything About Affiliate Marketing v2

I feel like I've used an old version of advertise, but I can't be certain. Currently, I don't use this traffic source. They certainly look professionally done. Reviews are up and down, but I'd give them a shot if you are looking for a G/Y/B alternative to search traffic as it looks like that is what they're best at.

Free trials as in continuity/rebill offers? These are really sketchy. Depending on your location, you will want to have a lawyer look at your landing page if you start doing any volume. Then you have the approval team at Adcenter to deal with. I'm not sure if they'll allow rebills or not these days. I used to do quite well with them there before all the govt. lawsuits and what not, but that was a few years ago.

You def. want to split test landing pages and offers no matter what you do. The key to a successful campaign is constant split testing.

Number 1, get your targeting right. Set a low login count and bid higher.

If you have broad targeting, and plan to keep it that way, they only real way you're going to get clicks is by testing thousands of different ads. Try testing 100 new images a day, then take your highest CTR images and test with 10 different ad copies. It'll be expensive, but that's the kind of game it is these days.

Finally, you can always run tightly targetted large banner ads. This requires $1000 charged to your account, but these are really where some of the bigger spenders make their money.

Every traffic source I run on, I usually have to use a landing page of some sort to maximize my conversions. There is no best way. Just make sure the message between your ad and landing page stays fairly consistent. If you are using two very different ad copies or angles, make sure you are using different landing pages for each ad copy.

For single digit CPCs, you'll need a CTR of around .5 - .8+. I know I can get clicks for less than a cent in most countries with a CTR of 1%+, but that is more or less of a fluke than a well thought out ad. It isn't very common that that will happen. You'll test out thousands of ads before you get a handful of good ads, so just stick with it.

Again, this is getting into free traffic which I said I would not be able to answer because I have very little experience with it.

The only time I've kind of went viral was because I had a Thai celebrity friend of mine share one of my videos where I was speaking Thai, so if you have any friends in high places, that is an instant score. You could possibly offer to pay them if you aren't friends with them.

But like I said, I won't be covering free traffic because I just don't do it.

Over 100 images? 101 images? I test around 50+ new images per day, and I usually only pick up a few good images that do well each week. You aren't testing enough.

Have you done some research into what 40+ year olds are doing on a dating site? Look into psychology of a 40 year old single male getting into online dating. Google is your friend.

Images aren't the only important thing. Have you split test 20+ different ad copies yet?

Test, test, test. You're not gonna make a quick buck with $100 and 100 ads, unfortunately. This is why I recommend most people to have $2000+ just to test as a new affiliate.

Bids are too low. You're going to be pinging the same leftover traffic over and over again. Set login count lower and session depth lower. Increase your bids.

I can't really comment on anything else there, but CTRs on PoF do tend to drop quick for anyone. Having a fair amount of ads to rotate through every other day or so solves this problem.

With higher bids, you'll get higher quality traffic. It'll be older traffic, where conversions are better for the advertisers backend. As an example, when I set up a broad US campaign with no age targeting, most of my clicks are from 18 - 25 year olds when I bid at 20 cents. With lower bids you're only bidding for clicks that no one else really wants, and doesn't want because it just doesn't work out in the long run. I usually see increased CTRs with higher bids as well.

Where do you find your images to use for dating ads?

Bidding will change on a day to day basis, even hour to hour (at night, many competitors might pause their campaigns so you can lower bids and still keep impressions up).

Testing and tracking is what its all about. Take notes on how changing your bid changes things like CTR and impressions.

I tend to bid around 50 cents to $1 when testing. Note all demographics will have a different sweet spot. Full banner ads require 2-3 times higher bids to compete over the small ads.

See the above for bidding info.

And yes, plenty of success in other niches. Anything you can target demographically will work. Biz op, gaming, health, etc.


Flikr is an okay place to start. I won't post details on my secret image collection sources, though. It's not too hard to google for gallery sites with tons of images.

At least 8 hours, sometimes up to 36-48 hours on the off chance that I want to catch up and really burn out a campaign or I get hooked on something. I enjoy this though, so I look at it more as a hobby than "work" or a job. A good day I'll do an average of 12 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less. This allows me to take off time when I need it, though. So if I ever have to fly out or have an emergency or need to meet friends in the middle of the day, I can do it knowing that I am still way ahead of my work curve.

That's a very basic targeting method and a sure fire way to find tons of competition. Think demographically. Who would need that gift card and what sites could you find them at?

Thank you for all the information and enthusiasm, your encouragement and winning attitude are more inspirational that any six figures.


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