Follow allong Newbie PPV campaign (16)
OK so I started my campaign for the newbie follow along competition yesterday.
Heres how it looks so far:
Traffic source: Lead Impact
Budget: $200
Offer: currently testing 3 Ipad offers (all on Neverblue)
Spend/day: $20
Landingpage: http://vote-to-win.info?t202id=6348&t202kw=Forum-test
URL's:
accesshollywood.com
accesshollywood.com/freshbuzz/first-look-patrick-dempsey-in-flypaper_videotab_1334619
americansuperstarmag.com/?page=1331
answers.com/topic/kanye-west
anythinghollywood.com/2011/06/latest-hollywood-gossip-weekly-roundup-jun-12-18-2011
appspot.yahoo.com
askmen.com/celebs/men/entertainment_200/214_robert_downey_jr_.html
bostonherald.com/track/celebrity
celebpulp.com
celebrity.aol.co.uk
celebrity.cruisesonly.com
celebritygossip.com
celebrity-gossip.net
celebrity-gossip.net/michelle-obama/michelle-obama-joining-forces-hollywood-514070
celebrity-gossip.net/miranda-kerr/miranda-kerr-yoga-does-body-good-513203
celebritywonder.ugo.com
celebtv.com
damnimcute.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kanye_west
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/my_beautiful_dark_twisted_fantasy
eonline.com/index.jsp
eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_truth/b248278_poll_robert_pattinsons_still_in_jeff.html
fansshare.com
foxnews.com/entertainment/gossip/index.html
freshlikedougie.com
gawker.com
gossip.com
gossipcenter.com
gossipnews.com
gossiponthis.com/category/news
hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.15636/title.d-dot-lashes-out-at-kanye-west-for-slandering-his-name
hollywoodbackwash.com
hollywoodgo.com
hollywoodgossips.net
hollywoodrag.com
hollywoodzgossip.com
hotmommagossip.com/2011/06/19/amy-winehouse-booed-off-stage-in-belgrade
huffingtonpost.com/entertainment
huffingtonpost.com/w-hunter-roberts/public-exposure-and-priva_b_880682.html
idolator.com/5902052/kanye-west-jay-z-watch-the-throne-summer-preview
idontlikeyouinthatway.com
imdb.com/name/nm1577190
imdb.com/news/celebrity?date=2011-06-19
imnotobsessed.com
kanyetothe.com
kanyewest.com
ladybomb.com
last.fm/music/kanye+west
latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/06/kanye-west-deeply-disappointed-over-mamas-boy-leak.html
mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/06/19/on-the-grapevine-this-week-s-celebrity-gossip-115875-23210524
movies.msn.com
mrpaparazzi.com
msnbc.msn.com/id/9409919
mtv.com/music/artist/west_kanye/artist.jhtml
mtv.com/news
mtv.com/news/articles/1665706/kanye-west-mamas-boyfriend.jhtml
mtv.com/news/latest/celebrity.jhtml
music.yahoo.com/ar-304131---kanye-west
mydailymoment.com
myspace.com/hollywoodgossipband
myspace.com/kanyewest
nationalenquirer.com/celebrity
news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment
news.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity
nydailynews.com/gossip/index.html
nydailynews.com/index.html
nypost.com/p/pagesix/item_gaz3qfwpemkjp6bwh6w79m
okmagazine.com
ontheredcarpet.com/blake-lively-talks-about-her-villainous-future-in-green-lantern/8200129
people.com
people.com/people
perezhilton.com
popeater.com
popsugar.com
rollingstone.com/music/news/kanye-west-says-mamas-boy-leak-is-a-fake-20110616
sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/833999/celebrity-pals-react-to-ryan-dunns-death
spinner.com/tag/kanyewest
thefablife.com
thehollywoodgossip.com
thesuperficial.com
tmz.com/news
twitter.com/kanyewest
usmagazine.com/news
wonderwall.msn.com
x17online.com
So far however, not to great, Yesterday spent $13.77 made $1.35
Impressions: 918
Clicks in the Neverblue: 20 (SHIT)
click to conversion: 4% (SHIT)
Overall conversion: 0.11%
Any thoughts? can this be saved? or is there something specifically wrong?should I just cut my losses and try something else?
* do I need better targeted URLs
* could I improve on the landing page
* also how do I know what specific URL ctr is
A bit disheartened was hoping for some better stats 
No thoughts anyone?
hi lewis,
You NEED to install the nerdy affiliate LP CTR mod (http://nerdyaffiliate.com/pay-per-cl...or-1-5-x-1-6-x). This will give you a good overview of which urls are getting clicks and which are not.
I would also test 2 different landing pages that use a different angles/are relatively different so you can get an idea of which is working better.
Lastly, I don't know if maybe I tried at a bad time, but the redirect (carlstracking) was incredibly slow for me, in fact the 2nd time I tried I got a prosper202 'can't connect to database error'>
Mind you, I'm also a n00b, so hopefully this isn't a case of the blind leading the blind (or what's that saying in english? 
)
If you are running on leadimpact did you make sure your page looks proper in the popup?
Also, once someone clicks the window isn't maximizing so the offer page is just showing up in a small box.
Originally Posted by Daksneezian
yes you need to make the link maximize the window since after the click it will still be in that same small leadimpact box
http://stmforum.com/forum/showthread...ight=maxwindow
Thanks that is useful to know think I may want to review my landing page and targets as the real issue is my CTR I think.
Your question doesn't really pull the viewer the way it's phrased. The term "item" isn't strong enough. You need a more tantalizing question. Maybe something like...
Do you believe the reports that Mary Kate and Kanye hooked up?
Is Kanye secretly dating Mary Kate?
Should Kanye be dating Mary Kate?
And if you care about compliance, you might want to change it to "chance to win" rather than "win"
Good luck.
Originally Posted by jdrmar
You NEED to install the nerdy affiliate LP CTR mod (http://nerdyaffiliate.com/pay-per-cl...or-1-5-x-1-6-x). This will give you a good overview of which urls are getting clicks and which are not.
I would also test 2 different landing pages that use a different angles/are relatively different so you can get an idea of which is working better.
Lastly, I don't know if maybe I tried at a bad time, but the redirect (carlstracking) was incredibly slow for me, in fact the 2nd time I tried I got a prosper202 'can't connect to database error'>
Mind you, I'm also a n00b, so hopefully this isn't a case of the blind leading the blind (or what's that saying in english?
)however have to say Im a little worried about my tracking.
Could this be a result of shared hosting, I have to addmit it was acting a little wierd yesterday saying there were database errors when I tried to log in, not done alot with my own landing pages, done a lot of direct linking previously and not worked with PPV at all, is it likley that the traffic is to much for my shared hosting on hostgator only sent about 1000 views?
Don't you think its a pretty big deal that you are giving away a brand new iPad 2? I think the title should be bigger there it's kind of hard to read.
You should also test different girls. E.g Beyonce (Is Beyonce & Kanye having an affair?) or Taylor Swift (haha).
I've said this to a lot of entries, I advise you start with tight targets e.g just Kanye. Once you get those to work then move on. Some of your targets are huge and will destroy your budget before "kanye" targets have a chance.
Haha yep it's a pretty big deal.
cheers for the advice guys, Im just in the process of moving to a VPS and am gonna look at changing some stuff here and try getting it to work, its only spent $20 so not the end of the world, currently had 2 conversions so down just over 17 bucks down
Gonna throw another Idea into the mix too (a new campaign something thats really trending now) its not been mentioned around the forum so hopefully no one else has thought of it but its pretty big right now and found a tonne of super tight targets that have good volume also demo is male 15-30 just the sort of people who would be into a free Ipad plus the subject is something I'm quite interested in my self.
Wish me luck, I will be back with some stats soon.
Good luck dude, hopefully you found a little gold mine!
Don't be thrown off too quick too, looking forward to seeing some lander experimentation!
BOOOOOM!!! new campaign is off to a great start guys scrapped my first effort and just thought I would run with this new idea.
My URL's got approved some time last night and on checking this morning in prosper have 85 views 1 conversion "f***ing get in there my son" albeit I spent $1.23 to make $1.40 but thats a 14% ROI right off the bat with the URL that converted coming in at 287% ROI.
Thats not even the best bit, 85 views in prosper and 22 clicks in my netwok now 2-3 of these were me testing my landing page so we will say 19 thats a 22% LP CTR.
Have a good feeling about this will keep you guys posted.
P.S if anyone is having long waits getting campaigns approved with LI email them both my campaigns have been approved the same day just with a simple email.
Edit: just to add, regarding the whole email thing, just to show how much this helps I launched the campaign about 11.30pm last night and I have an approval email in my inbox for 12.20am so 50 minutes approval, I did mention that this was a trending topic and that it would be a short lived campaign and it was important to launch ASAP so dont know if this helped 
That's great news man! Keep us posted.
Hey man , any update about this?
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