I have asked several Affilaites and cannot get anyone to confirm they can make it work. Any success stories?
Yes, I've had many VERY good campaigns on SiteScout
There is a LOT of traffic though and you need to be very systematic in your testing. Once you get traction you can start scaling more comfortably but the spend can get out of control very quickly.
Start with a shit-hot offer that's been tested and proven to work on self serve ad networks. Then come to SiteScout to scale with proven creatives and proven landing pages
Sorry to be "that guy", but can you give some hints about the niches you've had success with
There's been a few threads on this and what I can tell you why most people don't succeed on SS...they go there with rebills and Flogs and wonder why its "not working".
There's a HUGE amount of inventory and unless you have a way of chunking things down you stand no chance. Its kinda like saying "does Google Adwords work?" You don't have the same targeting options but display advertising requires a lot of testing regardless of where you buy. SS offers lots of ways to drill down and you should use all the MACROS and tracking they offer to help you find exact placements.
Look for evergreen verticals that are "clean". Here are some ideas but anything can work. Its never really about what you run but how you run it.
- Dating: look for INT offers that have high payouts. Also, don't go to SS with banners that looks like it was made on MS Paint and with slutty 36DDD girls. Think "eHarmony" - not "Fckbuddy.com".
- Tax Offers
- Credit Reports
- Browser games/MMO type games
- Penny Auctions (yes, they work without Flogs) - lead gens in EU but its died down now
- Skin and Diet: much tougher due to restrictions but again, look beyond crappy offers. Think Jenny Craig and Proactive. There are offers for recognized brands in some networks and you will have a much better chance of running these.
- Daily Deals: kinda crashed now but was big 2 years ago
Look beyond your standard affiliate networks that all carry the same old offers. I've been in CPA for quite a few years and am with dozens of networks. Some (of the older networks) have really unique offers that can work well. One example is Vistaprint which paid $12 for free business cards.
Testing cold on SS is super expensive. Ideally you need to take successful campaigns there to scale.
Yep, I spend about 1k/day on 2 different offers, one rebill, one straight sale, and they both back out. It has its own nuances you gotta be able to roll with just like adwords or any ad network, experience is key.
Which categories of sites are you running rebills on? I tried a few in various niches, but not much success..