Linktree is an amazing platform to aggregate all your media links. It is simple, quick, easy to use, but limited. Don't get me wrong it is straight to the point use. Linktree uses simplicity to make sure your information is out there to whoever is interested in you or your brand.
If you are a brand, shouldn't you rep your brand? Sure, you have your image or logo on the page but is that it? The page should have some character to it no? I was looking at my page and I thought to myself that I needed to spruce it up. I have my own domain, I have a blog - why am I using a third party website to put up simple links?
Here is what my Linktree looks like before... simple and straight to the point.
Nothing interesting about it but it does give you all the information you may need about me. I have all my social icons on there and optin links. The problem is I couldn't control the theme, there is only so much you can do on the free account. I wasn't complaining because what is the point of distraction right?
Well, I then realize that I needed to just be me and fix it up more. I was already using OptimizePress to create optins on my blog so why not create a social link page? So I did
Here is what my social link looks like now... big difference right? Now, this will have my domain in it and I get to customize how I want to be viewed on the internet.
The best part is OptimizePress has a template that I just recreated to make it into a social link page. I was viewing their pre-made templates on how to mimic Linktree and saw a simple thank you page style and just easily converted into what you see now.
I was able to add a mini title, a brief description of me, and customize the colors!
OptimizePress has been in the landing page business for a very long time, I believe since 2010. They were the go-to platform for landing pages, squeeze pages, jump pages, etc. Even before Leadpages and even Clickfunnels came into the picture, they were the goto. I know, my affiliate links have changed several times due to their 10-year change.
Optimizepress now competes in a now-crowded market of pre-built landing pages, with new ones coming out every day. As you can see my social link page is far better than what Linktree provided me. Instead of a simplistic non-brandable page, I have me on a page!
With pre-built templates and sections, you can create easy opt-in pages and quick link pages for all your social profiles. I finally have made the jump to change my links because I am trying to keep branding consistent across all my channels. I probably would have had to pay someone to make a page like the one you see above some serious cash, but it was all done in just a couple hours.
They have a very clean backend, no need to understand what margins are or even know what spacing is. You just move your mouse and drag and drop. Optimizepress will determine the margins and spacing itself and you can even adjust it with your mouse.
In the end, I am glad I finally made the decisions to redo my social link section. It is straight to the point and it is definitely more attractive.
I've been working towards making myself busy despite being in quarantine. Two weeks ago I wrote about how to get started on RichPush ad traffic platform for push traffic. Today, I am going to talk to you about the ad campaign that I ran on Rich Ads Push recently. The offer was already doing quite well in other push ads platforms. So, I thought I should give it a shot at RichAds.
I simply just took my 5 creatives and moved them over to RichPush to see how it work out. If you ever want to run a RichAds Push campaign as well, know that you'll need to upload at least three to five good creative images.
So, after I moved my creatives to RichPush, I started to work on the following:
Just a bit of information on this, there's a character limit for the title and message. The title cannot be any more than 30 characters while the message is only limited to 45 characters. With that, it might take you a couple of minutes to a few hours to come up with something catchy. This is why I utilize an ad spy tool to help me with my ad copy and creatives.
While you don't have a lot to say, you are encouraged to only mention the things your prospects would be most interested in (which is basically a lesson all marketers learn) Some brainstorming is certainly needed to do this really well in a way that you'll witness high-quality returns.
Anyways, the icon pertains to the thumbnail that will represent your ad while the viewer hasn't clicked on it yet. Remember this is a push notification, an alert. Meanwhile, the main image is a featured photo (an image apart from the creatives) that will be posted on your main campaign.
So, here's the basic setup of my campaign:
It was my first time running an ad with RichPush so I decided to open it all up just to see which ones were actually effective and driving revenue. As you can see from the state below, it performed quite decently, not too shabby. And as it headed towards the end of the day, the results became a lot better.
My timing of the push ads definitely played a huge role in how the ads performed and converted. With that, I started cutting off some hours. I had to carefully review which times need to be left behind and which ones should be retained. I had to re-test some hours I came up with a final timing decision as you can see in the graphic below.
Now before anything else, let me tell you the main reason I decided to push my ads to RichPush - it was really because I wanted to utilize their CPA goal, which I set to .75 cents.
During this time I also started loading more creatives. When it comes to dating, you really need to keep the dating creatives fresh. You can not just keep one and hope it will work but what I did was upload new creatives every day while pausing old ones. For each creative that I publish, I disabled three old ones.
My initial push ads performance was okay as recently showed you earlier but things started to look a bit greener when I had the Rich Ads Support Team look at my campaigns. They told me that I needed to use a specific source IDs. I took their expertise alongside my backend optimization and I was pleased to see more optimal results.
I really optimized this campaign a lot that I even ran out of volume. I loosened my targeting a bit to get more impressions and everything still held out where it needed to be. I was impressed. If you take a look at the data below you'd be impressed as well.
One problem that I saw was that the bigger cities were not resulting in conversions and since I needed to add more traffic, I just decided to deploy my landing page.
So I basically started playing around with landing pages and figured out a style landing page to test out. LP CTR was super solid too, you can read the 3 styles of dating landing pages here. Usually, I would have these landing pages already setup but waiting on translation is annoying.
One interesting part of this was there was one aspect of the ad creative that led to the efficacy of the campaign. It wasn't just the image but the text gave such a wonderful impact as well. This is most especially true for the heading of the text which was the one that received the most clicks.
At the end of the week, I got capped and the offer went into lead review. What this means is the offer is allowed X amount of leads a day and the advertiser is going to review the quality of the leads received. This is one annoyance of affiliate marketing but it happens and from the business side of things, I understand why they have to do it.
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I recently started advertising on RichPush Push platform. So far I am impressed with the traffic (Push) as I started converting on it already with just a small test, international traffic. This will be an introduction to how to set up a campaign on the RichPush platform.
RichPush has a unique backend and bidding platform as well. There are unique options that I feel some other ones that I have tested in the past do not have. Every push network has the typical campaign setup of creatives, country, impressions, device targeting, day parting, etc. RichPush has something called micro bidding which is very unique I think.
Micro bidding is increasing your bid base on several categories such as creative or device. I will go into that a bit later but let start by setting up a basic campaign with RichPush.
To get started make sure you sign up here. You then chose if you want to advertise on Push, Native, or Pop. Once signed up, you are introduced to a new dashboard actually. When I signed up, I got in while they were just transitioning their new interface. I do not know what the old interface looked like but this is a very clean interface.
First, you will enter the campaign link that you have generated through your affiliate tracker. If you are using Google Analytics, you can auto pass UTM tags. Since we are using an affiliate link tracker this isn't really necessary.
When creating the creatives, I always tend to start with 3-5 creatives first. Now, there are 2 parts to upload. An icon and a bigger image dimension that if pushed to a Windows PC, it will show a bigger picture. This is where the 3-5 creatives come into play. When you are tracking your creatives, you want to make sure you pass these creative IDs to your tracker.
This will allow you to see if an icon or an image of an offer is better. I found it to be almost be a split between icons and standard image creatives. So this is important to test.
Next, there is a section where you can add the networks postback to your tracker to send back. If you are going to use the CPA goal within the network, they will need the data to optimize the campaign. This is another feature not many push networks have, RichPush will auto adjust the base of your campaign off a CPA goal.
... since you need data to start, let's pick the country source and the device to target. RichPush also allows individual regions to be targeted as well. Not all push networks have the ability to do this, as most are all broad targeting.
You can choose what devices you want to target and even the version types. You can specifically choose the browser, device type, and OS versions. This is important because once you have the data you can start to pick and chose where to advertise on.
This is where RichPush micro-bidding can come in handy. You can increase bids to certain devices or OS and decrease others. This allows you to concentrate on what is working and then still get some volume to the others to make sure you are not missing out.
Dayparting is important!
This is all going to be base on your data. I usually advertise all day and slowly start to turn off hours or days that are not getting any clicks. Now, this is another section where RichPush gives you the option to advertise, you can spend your budget right away or evenly. I always chose even because I want the ads to be displayed throughout the day.
This allows you to see a bigger picture, instead of feeding your ad as fast as possible, RichPush feeds your ads or tries to throughout the day. The first day I set my budget to 100$ and it only spent 60$, but I got enough good data throughout the day to decide how it will work.
Some of the push networks just serve your ad as long as you are the winner in the bidding pool. Sometimes it isn't good because you might get an hour of inactive potential users.
Another important factor is black and white listing your campaigns. Doing this for mobile isn't as affective as blacklisting or whitelisting the publisher IDs as mobile devices refreshes their ip all the time. You can remove device properties and carriers. There is a section to block publisher ID which is more powerful especially if you are doing mobile.
Now, you will have to determine your rules on how you want to block certain publisher IDs. Whether it be LP CTR, AD CTR, EPC, etc. Your data will be the one to tell you the story. Once you have the data you can start even using the most unique feature of RichPus, micro bidding.
RichPush micro bidding allows you to make a custom bid for a segment and treat it differently within your campaign. There are 13 parameters which you have to combine to increase or decrease bids.
The structure is the following: parameter:value:operation with a bid.
| Parameter | Value | Example |
| sub_list_id | enter an Subscribers List ID, e.g. 1197 | sub_list_id:1197:-0.2 |
| publisher_id | enter a publisher ID, e.g. 48965 | publisher_id:48965:+1 |
| site_id | enter a site ID, e.g. 41563 | site_id:41563:/0.5 |
| carrier | enter a carrier, e.g. SFR | carrier:SFR:+0.4 |
| device | mobile, computer, tablet, other | device:mobile:*0.4 |
| connection_type | enter a connection type: wifi, cellular, ethernet | connection_type:wifi:-0.1 |
| ISP | enter an Internet provider, e.g. Orange | isp:orange:+0.1 |
| OS | enter an operating system, e.g. android 6 | os:android 6:-0.9 |
| weekday | MO, TU, WE, TH, FR, SA, SU | weekday:fr:*0.4 |
| hour | put the number from 0 to 23 | hour:15:-0.3 |
| ip | enter an IP, e.g. 151.101.65.121 | ip:151.101.65.121:-0.7 |
| region / city / zip | region / city / zip | region:ca:+0.1 city:Chicago:-0.5 zip:90009:*0.2 |
| creative_id | enter a creative id, e.g. 38746 | creative_id:38746:+0.7 |
Here is an example they posted on their website describing their micro bidding feature:
Example 1
Let’s say your target CPA is $2.5. Android 8 is the most converting OS, but the overall CPA is $2.9. Typically people think about blacklisting, but blacklisting Android 8 will cut 78% of traffic. Reducing CPC just for Android 8 i.e. by 20% would be a much better solution.
I am currently testing this and will see the results if I see a big difference. I think this will be very helpful if it does what it is intended too.
So it was just under a year before I decided to move away from FlyWheel. Flywheel is a dedicated hosting platform for WordPress bloggers. I moved over to them because they did a lot of things that I didn't want to manage such as security, updating, backups, etc.
I was really happy with them as they had amazing support and definitely helped me with some issues son my blog. They were easy to deal with and they did everything on my blog to make sure it was always up and running. I didn't have to think if my blog was down. I had my trust in their platform.
... FYI this is going to be a one-directional comparison because I needed a feature or access that FlyWheel couldn't allow.
Then I wanted to use certain plugins and themes and this is when I ran into issues. After working with the support of the plugin and theme I wanted to use, there were security issues that FlyWheel will not allow. I understand they want to make sure my blog is well protected and I applaud them for that.
I am concerned when I want to do something on the backend, I will not be able to. So it took me to realize that I had to move away from FlyWheel. I decided to go with SiteGround. I was already hosting with them anyways on some small sites, so I decided to use their managed side for WordPress.
The transfer was simple, as you get 1 free domain transfer when you sign up with SiteGround, it took less than 2 hours for them to fully transfer my blog over. After doing some cleaning and updating, I did a speed test to see where my blog was at.
Here is the result from the original post on FlyWheel, which I did improve prior.
Here is the speed test when I fully switched to SiteGround. Now there is a slight speed change, but also the page size also decreased with the new theme I have implemented as well. So there isn't as much request to the server or heavy page size, still, the load speed time is very similar.
So the speed is matchable? A tad bit slower even with lower requests and smaller page size, but I think it is fine. SiteGround does have a limit on space and visits. It is 10,000 visits and 10gigs of stored data. I suggest you get the GrowBig plan since you can host as many domains as you want.
I do like that you get access to your cPanel. I didn't think I needed it as I would just throw a ticket to FlyWheel and they would handle everything and I appreciated it. Sometimes I just want to get things done instead of waiting, yes I am impatient, and I just want access to my backend.
Personally, I didn't realize that I enjoy working on the backend of my site sometimes.
In any case, FlyWheel does not give you backend access, just standard FTP. They are very big on security and want to make sure that there is no easy access for a person to gain access to your website. Security is definitely there.
FlyWheel even suggests not to use security plugins like Wordfence or any Optimizer plugin because they cache and have their own firewalls to protect your websites.
At the end of the switch, I had to move over to SiteGround, just because I am used to having a backend and I wanted a server that is still accessible but still secured. I wanted access to cPanel because I am somewhat a nerd.
I wanted to create my own plugins and put them on the blog. I wanted security without exchanging access is what I was trying to say.
Overall, I have no hate for FlyWheel, they did a great job hosting my blog for almost a year. I just had to move to another hosting provider just because there are some things a marketing nerd needs.
Even looking at the backend interface, FlyWheel is super simple. Straight to the point on what sites you have and access to your backups. SiteGround does look more technical but gives you access to a lot of tools for your blog. It really depends on what you want.
These are just a quick list of why I think you need these web host providers. I am very one-directional here just because of the issue I ran into. I didn't go in-depth of all the other features but overall, if you just want to forget your blog and just write content, FlyWheel is the move.
If you want to create and operate your website then SiteGround is the move for you. It just gives you more freedom of owning a website.
Even though a lot of events were getting canceled, I was invited to go speak at TrafficStation's local meetup. It was being held in Saint Petersburgh, Russia. I was very hesitant at first to go as there were a lot of concerns because of this COVID-19 that has been happening around the world.
In the end, I decided to go on very short notice. Propeller Ads were the ones that took care of me during this short notice and were able to even get the preparations in order from their government to get me in. Since I was doing a visa run from Vietnam and landed in the Philippines, I had to rush to the local Russian embassy to pick up my actual visa. It was definitely the last minute where when I picked up my visa I had to get on a flight right away.
In the end, it worked out. Natalia, the event coordinator helped me through this tight schedule and I was able to fly into Russia with no problem. I landed and just threw out a bat call saying I am in Saint Petersburgh, Russia and I met up with my network peers.
When I landed I met up with my buddy Roman, I did the intensive interview with him in Spain. I took like a good hour rest before I met up with him and we just discussed the stated of the industry. We drank and chatted about Saint Petersburgh and our businesses. Solid night, one thing it was super cold. Thanks, Roman for letting me borrow your jacket!
The next day was just a day of recovery before the Traffic Station meetup and I met up with Stan from Zorbas Media. They toured me around the office and we smoked shisha while everyone was working. I also want to thank them for this super high-quality sweater.
They have a solid team and great to have met them. I also found out there are several ad networks and traffic sources out in Russia. I wanted to tour Propeller Ads but I found out later they were based in Saint Petersburg.
Now on to the meetup! It was a great meetup and very well organized. This was an interesting event because it wasn't a meetup per se not was it a conference. It was something in the middle. The reason for this is because everything was set up as if it was a conference but small enough to be a meetup. They had over 300 sign-ups. Not only were there speakers to talk about the industry but food, games, prizes, etc.
It was a networking event that was fun to be at but good enough to network as well. This event happened on the 13th of March, 2020 and it was perfect timing before there was a constraint on how many people you can have in a building.
I kind of felt out of place because of the language barrier but I met some media buyers that spoke some English but Natalia made me feel super comfortable. There was an hour of networking before the first set of speakers spoke. I was the second speaker to speak and I think it did well.
I had a translator (Thanks Lera!), so prior to the event, we did a dry run to make sure we had a set pace for her to translate what I was saying. It was good that we did because I wanted certain messages to be more spoken than others.
After my time on stage, there were affiliates after that came and were more open to discuss their situations with me even with the lack of understanding, we understood traffic.
After about another hour of hanging around, I decided to head back to the hotel. I think I was still jet-lagged and needed a nap. I woke up and got ready to go to the after-party. Natalia and Stan from Zorbas Media came and got me from the hotel.
We then went to a brewery place and it was all reserved for the attendees of TrafficStation. It was a really nice place to be at and after a while, more and more affiliates wanted to network. Alcohol is an affiliate best friend.
There was a live band, blackjack tables, poker tables, and shisha! The best part was just everyone was having fun, networking and being themselves.
After all the fun and networking. I took the next day to explore Saint Petersburg. It was freezing but I managed through. I had a tour guide that showed me and educated me on the history of the city.
The city itself is amazing because the architect is just beautiful very European and no building over towers another. The churches in Saint Petersburg are HUGE! I thought those churches were government buildings of some sort.
We did a little more walking and certain areas another historic story was told. It was then time for lunch. We went to a restaurant that was I think Alexander Pushkin house or resembled his house.
I had traditional Russian Beet soup, which tastes just like a beef stew. I thought it would taste more like beets or something vegetable flavor but tasted like beef stew. I learned how Saint Petersburg went through years of famine. I learned the wars they went through, it was a lot of really good history.
After a bit, I got too cold and decided to get coffee and then head back to the hotel. I took a trolly back and it was a solid day of just hanging out in the city. Later that night I met up with Natalia and others for dinner and a clean night of shisha.
With that said I want to thank Propeller Ads for inviting me to speak on short notice. Most importantly, I want to thank Natalia for setting everything up. This girl works super hard and has the same attitude as me. Very well chaotic organized but get things done!
Thanks again Natalia for the invite and the hospitality.
If the answer is yes, then you are in need of an incredible ad spy tool. We have exactly that in store for you today. The best part is it is for a major social media platform, can you guess it?
PowerAdSpy offers incredible features, which makes it a remarkable ad spying tool. It gives you instant insights into your competitions' behavior, which you can then analyze. PowerAdSpy specializes in one social network that everyone wants to spy on, it is Facebook.
As a result, it is able to provide its users with a marvelous experience in spying activities of your competitors. This is just better than utilizing Facebook's own 'Show Ad Library Button', which can be hard to find sometimes. PowerAdSpy does everything in one simple dashboard.
Before we start with the review I want to show you that I have an account and that I am not just writing this. I actually use this spy tool to advertise on Facebook and Instagram.
PowerAdSpy is made for anyone who is looking for insights on a specific niche, maybe specific product, or even specific ad copy. It has a vast database that offers compelling analytics to media buyers, publishers, advertisers, and others.
Remember this tool was birth out of the need for affiliates from an actual affiliate.
As a result, you are better able to understand why your ads are not doing the best. You get to spy on your competitor’s ad set and see what techniques or marketing strategies they are using.
Some strategies you might find is the length of the ads being seen. The engagement the ads are getting, what type of ads they are (eCommerce vs services), etc. Others range from the style of the creative to the ad angles. You will see what ad copy they use and how long they have been advertising!
You get access to the actual ad and how it is categorized.
Consequently, you can implement better techniques and strategies than your competitors and drive all the audience towards your business. The best part is that the tool lets you filter ads so you can find the ones which will help you the most. These filters include:
Demographic and Location-based
You can put up filters to look up ads based on demography and location. As a result, you can look for ads that are doing the best in a specific region that you may be targeting. For example, you can search for ads in just Germany and only targeting women.
This is a highly targeted ad and you can see what advertisers are targeting women in Germany.
Keyword-based
If you are unsure about what sort of ads to look for but know the keywords, then you can do searches based on the keywords. You are searching the text in the ad copy itself For example if you want to search gardening, then you simply type in "gardening" and any ads that have that text will show up.
To make it even more precise on what verticals competitors are advertising you might want to search call to action text such as "do this at" and the ads with a call to action saying do this will show up. Now you can find the exact niche people are doing and even products.
Advertiser
You can also filter the ads by the advertisers. Advertiser meaning the name of the Facebook Fan Page. For instance, if you want to get an idea about the marketing strategy of a specific advertiser, like a company like Geico, you can put the name in the filter and the results will show what ads they are pushing.
Date Ranges
Time is a key factor when it comes to online shopping. Most people tend to shop during peak times, such as a holiday or festival season or on weekends. PowerAdSpy tool allows you to look at your competitor’s strategies based on the dates.
This is very powerful when it comes to a holiday for example. Let say you are targeting Valentine's Day, you can backdate and see what ads were being advertised at that time. What offers were being promoted and see if you can replicate their ad strategies.
This is one way to view your competition with PowerAdSpy. Allowing you the versatility to find ads whenever or however you think it is being advertised.
Engagement in terms of likes, comments, and shares
PowerAdSpy also lets you see the ads which have the maximum level of engagement in terms of likes, comments, and shares. In this way, you will get information regarding whether what sort of media is most engaging. Maybe for a particular ad, it is memes that engage the most audience, and for other ads, it is videos that increase engagement.
The insights into trending ads provided by the PowerAdSpy tool can greatly increase your ROI on your ad sepnd. It gives you support services throughout the submission of your project. If you look around, all the big companies base their marketing strategies by keeping an eye on their competitor’s strategy.
Therefore, PowerAdSpy becomes the best medium to help you base your marketing strategies in relation to your competitors.
This tool also helps you to download these videos. Then you can create types of video ads to attract attention.
The same thing can also happen with graphics displays. This software is also compatible with the CTA-based classification as these CTAs are very important to the success of an advertising campaign and this tool is useful for identifying the CTAs which are required.
If you use PowerAdspy, you will be able to see the segments of the particular target market for each ad that interests you. Ad reach, social engagement statistics, and specific weekly trends on the same page.
Not Just for Facebook
One super-powerful part of PowerAdSpy is the fact that they are improving their tool. Not only does it spy on Facebook but Instagram as well. Instagram is part of Facebook and usually, Facebook will ask you to advertise on Instagram, which naturally you should.
But there are marketers that just advertise on Instagram and that is why you need to also look at IG ads as another part of your marketing strategy.
Besides those 2 powerful social media platforms, you have now Google and Youtube ad spy! Others include Native and soon Quora and Reddit ads! This is the only spy tool that is forever always upgrading and making sure it is keeping up with the ad inventory space.
Three are just way too many features to break it down. I suggest to check out the full feature list here. I want to mention the best filters so you get an understanding of how powerful this spy tool is.
PowerAdSpy covers all major social media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, and YouTube., plus they are always adding other sources to spy on.
You have the option to select the plan that works best for you according to the social media platform you need to spy on.
The best part is that it has a testing plan which is free. It allows you to have a limit of 20 searches. You can use these to test on all of the four social media platforms and see what works best for you. Once you are familiar with the features and performance, you can choose from the following paid plans:
The basic plan is the most economical of the lot. It costs you. However, this plan is only limited to Facebook ads, which you are probably looking for. It offers features such as sorting ads by likes, shares, and comments, keyword searches bookmarks, etc.
The other plans have their perks for example if you get the Platinum plan you get all the spy tools you may need and future upgrades to other spy tools. Standard and Premium have upgraded with additional spy tools added as well. I would specifically choose what you need, here is a break down of their pricing models.
Now it depends on what you are focusing on. For example, if you only work with Facebook then the basic plan is really all you need, it is probably what most marketers chose right now. If you advertise everywhere or create an advertising ecosystem then Premium or even Advanced might be the best bet.
Make sure you understand how you want to advertise do not jump in buying the best when you only need the goods of one advertising platform.
Sorry, I haven't been blogging lately, I have been working on my new idea and venture, ADvengers Online. It is a slack group chat about online marketing and more specifically about media buying. Every business needs traffic and this community is meant to discuss just that.
The chat isn't just for affiliate marketing but for media buyers and business owners that are buying traffic to their lead gen or website. It is a way to openly discuss and ask questions about their campaigns and see if there is a better way to promote it.
I started realizing that I am being bombarded by a ton of alerts from Telegram Groups, Affiliate Forums, Facebook groups, Skype Groups, WhatsApp Messages, etc. Each of these groups is also focused on just Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Native, etc.
There was not a home for all of these and I thought why not just have a home for them. I wanted one place where I can just chat about online marketing and give my feedback to user questions. We live in a loud internet now. There is just so much access to information that we all become lost.
I thought why isn't there a Slack group or channel for all these media buy stuff? Where is the community? I see a ton of Facebook groups, but there isn't an interaction of users that exchange information.
I get asked this a lot and I do not know just yet. I started this idea and I wanted to see where it goes. I already have been brought opportunity about what to do and I am going in that direction.
For example, ADvengers are participating in a live case study where the members interact with campaign setup and optimization and I do the setup and ad spend. This way users who are new to affiliate marketing can see what it takes to set one up.
Members can see the type of ad copy, the creative, the campaign setup, etc. The most important part is the actual optimization part and sees how the members will interact and see how and why they chose what they chose.
Then I will be there to set it up and explain their decisions. I think this is a first of its kind and I want to see what the community thinks. Will they interact with each other and help each other out base on their input? Will they battle it out? Veterans vs Rookie battle?
I do not know. Every time I create a business I have the overall goal in mind but then it takes a sharp 180 turn and goes in a different direction. This is what happened with my software OfferSnitch and AdRoots. I think this is the model but my users tell me otherwise. So this time I am putting the concept out there and letting the group tell me.
This might be a horrible way to start a new project but having faith in the group is better than forcing it down them later on. Plus I want to see where this idea goes as there are opportunities in setting a community for information.
I want to be able to also communicate with everyone about issues I am having when I buy media and about online marketing in general. I also want to give back, I have 15 years plus in this affiliate game and I just need to let go of some information I have.
The biggest thing as well is that information in our space is forever changing and that is why I think a chat threaded system is useful. Searching in forums is great, but sometimes the information can be old and probably does not work anymore.
With Slack old information just gets removed and new information when ask is very useful. Of course, there shouldn't be any basic questions but interactive campaign strategy questions. This is what I want out of ADvengers.
Soon this chat will be closed as well as I want to maintain a high profile of users first. I want to make sure there is going to be enough conversation to go around and to discuss. I also do not want to spread myself too thin as I will be doing case studies and helping users out as well.
Soon into Q2 there are going to be other changes into our community and I hope it grows into something bigger for years to come.
Here is a video about it as well and an intro into the live case study we will be doing.
Happy Valentine's day, I hope you have setup your ads the right way for this one day holiday.
My friend, Oliver Kenyon, started an exciting new venture called internet marketing deals. With the tremendous value of money you can save on internet marketing tools from this website, I am sure it is going to blow up in 2020.
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I am a huge fan of Porsche. I even correct people on the pronunciation of the car brand when it is spoken out of tone. Back in 2017, Adcombo did a car giveaway, that car was a Ferrari California and now they are giving away another top sport car brand.
This year AdCombo is delivering you a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S in black or Porsche 718 Boxster S in space grey! Definitely epic cars.
Their affiliate network supports over 75 countries and are the number one go to with COD. I have pushed their COD in South East Asia and an pleased with the results.
Before I get in all the details I owned a Porsche Cayman S, let me show off a bit. Here are some pictures I posted on IG about my Porsche...
It is an amazing car honestly. This is the reason why AdCombo wants you to have one. They are running a contest from February 1st to September 1, 2020. The rules are pretty simple generate the most revenue through your AdCombo affiliate links.
Rules and Conditions of the contest. Can read them here as well.
1. All the affiliates of the AdCombo affiliate network are the participants.
2. Traffic should be managed to all the offers of AdCombo, CTR.ru, and Ecombo Junior for all GEOs.
3. Porsche points are the contest currency. Points are gained per every 10.000 USD that are made and available for payout within account. One cannot get porsche points for unapproved or rejected leads as well as for the held funds.
4. There are special rates for the conversion of funds into porsche points for some types of offers: (funds earned) x (offer rate).
5. The affiliates entered TOP- 50 by the end of the contest are eligible to take part in the prize draw at the party. The presence at the party is obligatory!
6. Each participant of the prize drawing is able to win 1 additional prize and 1 grand prize (one of the two Porsche sports cars).
NB: The AdCombo affiliate network reserves the right to impose restrictions toward incoming traffic or suspend it temporarily due to the technical need of the traffic processing system. Moreover, AdCombo is able to set caps on offers or place a limit on the number of leads.
If you missed out on a Ferrari from AdCombo then this is the opportunity for you to get a Porsche for 2020. There will also be a huge party to announce the winners of the 2 Porsche as well, similar to the announcements of the Ferrari California giveaway.
AdCombo will even provide accommodations for the top 50 participants during the announcement party. If you do not win the Porsche, no problem they will be giving out other outstanding prizes, like a Rolex Submariner and a Jet Surfer!
So you will not just have the opportunity to win a Porsche but other several prizes as well. AdCombo is making this a fun way to participate in their network and win prizes at the same time, always rewarding their affiliates.
The goal is to generate revenue through your affiliate link. Don't worry your AdCombo affiliate manager is there to help you as well just in case you need a some information on the offers you are running.
Just in case... here is the video of the Ferrari California back in 2017. Come join the party in 2020 and get your Porsche!
As I stated in my AffLift post that Native and Push advertising will rise in 2020. As I continue to test Push traffic sources to see what is good and what is ok. Recently I tested AdOperator and the first $100 deposit I used and it gave some positive potential.
AdOperator is very young I think in the Push advertising space. There are somethings that are needed to do to get their network going strong. I even showed you how to properly blacklist on AdOperator, which is very important.
One thing again with AdOperator is you need to test several creatives. Like any push network, you need to test at least 3 creatives or more. The only thing is that you need to create a campaign per creative.
One adjustment you really need to do is set the IP restriction to 1 per creative. This is very important because each campaign is technically unique and the default is set to 3.
For example, if you have 3 creatives to test, that means you have 3 campaigns with a default of 3 clicks per IP. In essence, you can be generating 9 clicks per IP which aren't ideal.
Here is a screenshot of my list of campaigns I have been testing and waiting for one to be approved. The best part is their approval process is very fast and I can get a campaign to run within 2 hours. I also have a dedicated rep that I can contact on skype if any issues rise.
As you can see above there is a lot of campaigns made just to test creatives. It can be a pain at times, I hope they will upgrade the backend to allow multiple creatives a campaign.
Other than the minor issue, traffic can also be limited in certain countries. I ran out of impressions or clicks in one country because I was blacklisting a whole lot. Which they are constantly growing their push database.
Yes, they have their own push database. So every click is not actually brokered but from their own lists of websites that they partnered with or own. I think this is important because you can ask for specific data points when it comes to pushing advertising. For example the fresh rate of the data.
The traffic is ok, I have gotten some conversions but also it takes a really big list of blacklisting. One thing that you should do is postback the conversions back to AdOperator, this way they can help you target which category IDs to target specifically.
I sometimes hate pushing back my conversions to the traffic network but I needed to get feedback from AdOperator so I decided to send them my conversions. They then gave me the feedback I needed to help speed up my optimization.
You can blacklist the category IDs yourself as well, but I found it easier for AdOperator to just let me know which ones to target. You have to utilize a tracking platform like Binom which will fire back the conversions to the traffic source, AdOperator.
The CPC is fairly decent, some Asian countries are at just a penny. While some other ones are fairly expensive. I also notice that if you bid the lowest, it is the really old data. With Push you do not want the old data, those users are just tired of seeing alerts.
So to get the fresh data you have to bid a bit higher. I try to start double then slowly increase from there. AdOperator has a rate card per country they serve to see what the avg CPC is. The rate card includes how much subscribers and the clicks they get on avg from that country.
So they are open to show you what their traffic is via the rate card. I was targeting mostly Tier 2 and Tier 3 countries and it worked enough. You have to make sure to blacklist or just get a solid whitelist from AdOperator.
If you want to start to learn with a small budget, AdOperator might be just for you as you can start running traffic with just $50! This will help you understand the traffic and how to run push traffic. If you need help they are very open to helping you get started.
Brand new to affiliate marketing and do not know what affiliate networks to join? There are a lot out there and it is important to join the ones that have your back and have great support. These networks consist of CPA and CPS. I think it is important to have a good mix since CPS is def a long term style for affiliate marketing.
These networks are in no particular order but these networks I have worked with in the past and still work with today.
Share a Sale has branded product and payout on a CPS (cost per sale) model. Also, payout terms are also slower than traditional CPA networks. The benefit is they already have brands that are being searched for. All you have to do is get the product in front of the right audience and they will mostly purchase.
The payouts are definitely less but that is being made up in the brands these programs already have. Unlike other offers, you have to generate trust, while offers on ShareaSale are already established.
One of my favorite networks just because they truly take care of their affiliates and they are always interested to chat with you. AdCombo has a variety of offers all around the world. When it comes to COD, they are my go-to when I want to promote in a country that no one would think of advertising.
The team at AdCombo is one of a kind and treats their affiliates as if they are family. They even through a Ferrari party for their affiliates. Not only does Adcombo throw amazing parties for their affiliates but they treat them like their own.
Clickbank is the old school affiliate network. Probably one of the higher payouts in the industry but also there is no real customer support. You have to contact the product owner for support and sometimes they do not even know what they are talking about. So if you do not need support, this is a good place to just get offers.
I still push a little bit of Clickbank offers because the vendors are mostly copywriters and have really strong sales pages. A lot also is also branded by an actual person, so there is some benefit there.
Another digital portal for offers, MaxWeb is a great place to get VSL (video sales letter) style offers. There are a lot of micro-niches in the network which can help with conversions. One aspect I like is the owner reaches out and asks all the time if I need anything.
There is a touch of personality with that and I appreciate it. MaxWeb also has really good support. I forgot about some commissions and they were able to fix the situation in 24 hours. So they are making sure their affiliates are getting paid.
If you are looking for dating offers, then Advidi is the place. I tested a lot of their offers and chilled out with them at Affiliate World Barcelona. Advidi also has a private group email to their top affiliates on converting dating offers. They will also open new offers to that group before it even touches the network.
With that Advidi also provides daily stat emails on their network offers which I also appreciate. Advidi has a large number of dating offers and a lot are also very sub-niche related.
I think other networks to join are...
These are some of the networks I work with. A lot of networks are going out of business and are just closing down. So far these are the networks that I have worked with and had no issues in the past couple years.
Remember these affiliate networks are your partners, they will help you as long as you treat them as if they are your partners in your affiliate business. I know a lot of affiliates that treat their affiliate managers like shit and that now how it should be done.
Relationships are very important in this industry especially how small it is.
With affiliate marketing growing and a majority of tools out there to help you get started one important tool you need is a tracking platform to record all your performing traffic sources and offers. I have used several tracking platforms in the past and today I want to talk about Binom.
Binom is a self-hosted tracking platform that you set up on a server and you own all the data. This is an important factor since hosted solutions are with the company themselves and sometimes that information can be an issue or create anxiety for the affiliates.
Binom's tracking platform is fast and as a very clean interface to understand what you are looking at and what you need to understand about your affiliate campaigns. Before we get into some of the details check out the installation video I did.
Out of the box once installed, it has a very direct user interface. You may be overwhelmed because it will look empty but the top bars are what can help you get started. By simply clicking on each tab at the top you will be introduced to add your affiliate network, offers, traffic sources, etc.
There are also smaller features as well such as adding notes on a campaign, marking in reporting, Telegram alerts, and custom filters. Binom tracking platform also introduces new acronyms such as...
With a very clean and direct interface, you should not get lost with how to create your first campaign.
After you familiarize yourself with Binom's interface, there are a lot of features that I will break down in this post which I think are pretty important to discuss. Here is a list of the categories I will discuss in this blog post.
As you can see with the installation of the tracker, it will automatically install an SSL for you. This is critical nowadays. Binom tracker will make sure you are set up for success by default to install an SSL on your server.
While most tracking platforms you have to get your own SSL certificate and install it your self, Binom auto-installation process does it for you with ease. Even if you decide to add another domain or multiple domains, Binom will protect and secure all the domains with a free SSL integration.
This is an easy concept, it protects your creative landing page from prying eyes. Especially if someone knows your domain and the link it has gathered.
In Binom you basically copy a line of code and add it to the start of your landing page before the HTML starts. The tracker then passes a special token key that validates the click. It does this by checking the IP, user agent, and the time it was last visited against the key, if there is a match it will display the landing page.
It isn't 100% going to protect your page as spy tools like Anstrex will grab your landing page and follow the campaign link. At that moment the spy tool will screengrab the landing page anyways.
This feature is pretty cool, as it will help you out with your COD affiliate offers specifically. I run offers with Adcombo internationally and it allows me to see what has been held, rejected, and converted.
By looking at the full funnel from rejected leads to holds to the final conversions you have an extra set of data points that you can start optimizing base on these 'tags' or labels.
You have to turn this on in the setting section of Binom.
How this works is if a HOLD action changes to LEAD then the previous conversion (HOLD status) changes its status to LEAD and that’s it, Binom takes care of the change as there isn't a need for another transaction to happen.
Now I am pretty sure this will work for eCommerce guys that want to track their full-funnel transactions as well. With this feature, a marketer running their eCommerce store can set labels when an upsell has been purchased within their funnel.
Not only is this tracking platform good for affiliates but as some affiliates evolve into eCommerce, it becomes useful to them as well. Link tracking is just that, tracking the link and actions. Binom has done a great job adapting to the evolution of the online industry.
I started to talk about this in the video a bit but due to the length, I figure it be best to write about it. I wanted the video to focus on installation and setup.
Smart Rotations basically tags the user and interesting enough with Push Traffic you can limit the clicks per IP. For example, if you are testing 3 different landing pages and you limit the click per IP to 3, each click will see 1 of the 3 landing pages.
This allows a true distribution of the landing page to the end-user. You can now see which landing page is more attractive to the end-user by evenly testing each landing page.
Side note on this that some traffic networks do not like the changes that happen on the original link, so this has to be used with letting the traffic source know all 3 landing pages you want to test.
Now how much will all this cost and even more features and support?
When you go to the Binom homepage they have a 14-day trial, no credit card is required. When you sign up with my link you can get access to 30 days without a credit card. I am intrigued by how much Binom as a tracker has adopted the industry.
The price starts at $99/month with a monthly plan or $69/month if you choose their yearly plan. Additional licenses per domain would come with a price of $49 extra.
If you are still hesitant you can access there live demo and have a browse yourself to see if it will be a fit for your campaigns. Every affiliate needs a tracking platform that will grow with the industry and especially the affiliate themselves.
