Spain Mobile Traffic and weird offers (17)
Hello guys.
I'm starting with Mobile traffic and want to run some tests to learn fast in January. Got some money to spend and have read the guides and case studies on this forum.
There's a pair of CPA networks I've used before with Facebook Fanpages (not to be confused with Facebook Ads) and it could potentially lead to 3-4 figures earnings per day. As you all know, FB is getting harder and harder so mobile is my next.
I've already signed up to some of the recommended mobile networks here (incrowd, mobfox, inmobi) and added some funds to test, and have the offers ready.
Most of them are for Spain/Mexico, so I'm going to start with that, but I could use some help here.
1 For mobile traffic, should I use a landing page or can I link directly the URL?
2 Many spanish campaigns already offer the ads and ad hosting (CDN), but most of them are awful or just confusing. I tried submitting one to incrowd and it got rejected due to misleading banner (even though I took it from the CPA campaign). Shall I create my own banners? I don't want to be banned or get all my campaigns rejected due to my lack of knowledge. I'm not trying to cheat anyone (even though Facebook worked really well with confusing campaigns)
3 For banners, do you prefer static (jpeg, png) or do you use flash (swf) format?
4 Most campaigns conversion works after PIN submit. Would you target anything special aside from the country? (i.e. wifi vs 3g, specific OS or something?)
Thanks in advance for your help 
EDIT: I'm already digging into the STM Mobile tracker. Hopefully have it installed and working in 1-2 weeks.
1:
Mostly depends on the offer. For example: buy-on-impulse offers can do well without an LP. You'll have to test anyway.
2:
Yes, create your own banners and have them approved on both ends.
3:
I like GIF animated banners. The animation can be subtle. However, some networks have certain rules when it comes to animations.
4:
Some offers only accept leads from certain carriers and/or certain OS's. Be sure to check that out. And test.
To further dig into #1
It will always change for every offer. Usually offers paying $1 or less you direct link (that's the best rule to give in a world of no rules)
Otherwise you want to test both direct linking and multiple landing pages.
#3 I would stick to static images in testing phase, they work just as well in most cases. Your time can be better spent than building animated banners.
Originally Posted by h0mp
Mostly depends on the offer. For example: buy-on-impulse offers can do well without an LP. You'll have to test anyway.
2:
Yes, create your own banners and have them approved on both ends.
3:
I like GIF animated banners. The animation can be subtle. However, some networks have certain rules when it comes to animations.
4:
Some offers only accept leads from certain carriers and/or certain OS's. Be sure to check that out. And test.
2. On the CPA networks i'm working most of their campaigns can be used without any banner you create. But i'll have an eye because i've seen some of them only allow their own banners.
3. Will check, but otherwise I'll start with static.
4. Will check. Thanks
Originally Posted by stackman
For Mexico, most offers i've seen are below or just above $1, so direct linking there.
I'll keep you updated!
Originally Posted by Mr Green
And my photoshop skills are really poor! I could have my GF help me with that, as i'm more into code and testing. but probably for a second/third phase.
1 quick question:
When you do landing pages, do you usually prepare them all in the same domain no matter what niche/campaign you're promoting? or do you try to use a domain name related to the campaign for each?
I'd rather have them all in a single domain.
Originally Posted by servandosilva
This way you won't have to register a thousand domains.
The animation can be really easy and small.. maybe just a button changing shape or colour. It's fairly easy to do.
Creating your own banners can give you an edge on anyone else using the supplied banners.. since they are often actually not all that great and probably over-used.
Don't misinterpret the $1 rule.
Because you can't compare payouts from different geos like Mexico and Spain with eachother.
The same type of offer can have a $0.80 payout in MX while payout in ES is $2.50.
Originally Posted by bbrock32
Originally Posted by h0mp
I just got my first Ad approved at incrowd and I've hit the play button but after 12 hours there are no statistics or anything appears to be moving around. Is there any obvious thing I could be missing? The date of start and finish was alright, even though I just moved it for tomorrow now because didn't see anything today.
Your bid was to low. Or, your running an ad format with minimal traffic. What are you bidding?
Originally Posted by Mr Green
I've checked the bid price and my CPM is higher than all the subcategories (wifi, canada, content site). Current bid = $0.57
I would highly recommend starting with 320x50.
The impression count is too small with 728x90. There are 3,000,000 total. You are cutting half of that with wifi only, and another half with sites only. As a test I would run your bid at $1.01 just out of curiosity. But if you want to get any kind of decent volume I would stick with 320x50.
My next test would be 320x50, but I wanted tablet traffic as much as possible.
Somehow it was the incrowd planner which was not working with my timezone. I just deleted the time settings (set to no limit) and it started working. The Bid is 0.56 and so far it has won (41%) of the bids with a CPM of 0.37.
I'm tracking the traffic and the numbers are almost the same as reported with incrowd.
I'll update you with the results next monday, since this is a private company affiliate program and they only update me with the results once per week.
Originally Posted by servandosilva
Originally Posted by godspeed
Because in some niches I have, they're converting really well, and the payment per lead is really good. I really like they service and even use it myself.
They used to run under an affiliate network which was so much easier to track in real time, but they went completely internal after a few months. There are 2 changes that kept me with them:
1. They doubled (from $50 to $100 per lead) their payment for their affiliates
2. They closed their affiliate application program, only keeping their best affiliates. That means almost no competition and/or saturation to test this campaigns.
But yeah, their internal tracking system sucks. They're working on something better for this year... hopefully...
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