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02-20-2011 07:32 AM #1 nick (Member)
Network want to see my referrers. Should I oblige?

I was running a very low volume email submit offer at A4D. I noticed that I hadn't had any conversions for the past two days, even though my lander was still getting a CTR of like 15%, which equated to 50+ clicks. I thought I should have had at least one conversions...

Anyway - I logged into my A4D account, only to find the offer had been pulled from me! Without any notice!

I flagged this to my AM (Jamie) and she came back with:

We heard back from your advertiser about your traffic and they weren't happy. If Im going to allow you to run this offer again, I need you to show all your refers and make them transparent. I need to see exactly where they're coming from.

I've written back, saying that I'm not doing any shady on this, and just popping a very basic lander over some related targets. The lander is just a Photoshop job of their offer page (replacing the email submit box with a 'CLICK HERE' button), and I even left the 'participation required' text on my lander, right near the top of the page!

I'm loathe to share my targets with A4D, but should I just change my CPV Lab settings to remove the double meta refresh so they can see where the traffic is coming from?

02-20-2011 07:37 AM #2 loxllxol (Member)

Maybe you should rethink promoting submits...

02-20-2011 07:50 AM #3 nick (Member)

Let's say the offer is for a "FREE $500 Best Buy Gift Card". All I'm doing is popping a lander over the main URL and derivatives (bestbuy.com, etc...)

Isn't that what people do with submits?

02-20-2011 08:29 AM #4 tijn (Moderator)

Couple of things:

1) never share your referrers in my opinion - however good the offer
2) if your run your campaigns through a tracking solution, then the referrer to the aff network will be your tracking solution - therefore this does not help them anyway
3) PPV Applications blank the referrer anyway - ie - the referrer tag wont show the exact URL the user requested when it popped your ad

02-20-2011 09:23 AM #5 nick (Member)

Thanks guys. I think I'll just stop running traffic to that offer on A4D. It was only making around ten bucks a day, so hardly worth the hassle.

02-20-2011 10:07 AM #6 netspace (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by loxllxol View Post
Maybe you should rethink promoting submits...
Gee that's a great piece of advice - how long did you think about that before posting - y waste the space.

Looking forward to more gems of wisdom from your good self ..... not !!

02-20-2011 09:13 PM #7 stackman (Administrator)

2 options.

1. Run a similar offer at another network.
2. Show them your referrers because they 100% won't steal your campaign. (It's A4D, they're legit)

02-21-2011 05:51 AM #8 loxllxol (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by netspace View Post
Gee that's a great piece of advice - how long did you think about that before posting - y waste the space.

Looking forward to more gems of wisdom from your good self ..... not !!
You're right...the OP should continue trying to scale submit offers and deal with perpetual srubbing.

02-21-2011 06:12 AM #9 jroes57 (Member)

What about in the case that a submit offer is all one can convert at the given time?

02-21-2011 12:35 PM #10 Gamekeeper (Member)

^^^

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