Weird Traffic Stats and PPV Campaign Questions (6)
Started a new PPV campaign today and had some interesting stats. First off, my lander started receiving traffic before I even launched the campaign. I'm running this with TrafficVance, and it was denied yesterday so I had to make some changes to get it approved.
I didn't finish up until today, but when I checked my stats I already had traffic and a conversion. All the traffic was from blank, and there was one click through from an a target that was an affiliate link for some jersey shore quiz mobile offer.
I was like....wtf?
These were the stats at the end of the day. As you can see, the mystery blank target got the most views, CTR, and conversions.
So I guess this means someone jacked my landers and forgot to switch out a link? Not sure what to think here. I have like 20 different landing pages, so maybe they took all of them and just forgot one link or something.
It's weird because this is a brand new campaign I just build in the last 48 hours and no one saw anything except for the reviewers at TV.....and the people who migrated my server at LiquidWeb from a regular VPS to a smart VPS.
So ya, not really sure what's going on, but at least if someone stole it they were dumb enough to leave my link in and send me some free traffic. I'm wondering if there's other ways I can take advantage of this.
Finally, I just had a question about ramping up the volume on trafficvance. I feel like I have some pretty big targets - I mean.....they are big. I was expecting a ton of traffic, but got about 1k views for the day. I was ranked #1 for pretty all of my keywords - about 500 of them. Wondering what I need to do to pull in more than that.
Aright any suggestions and tips are greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.
Yeah looks like most probably someone jacked your lander and forgot to remove the javascript code.
It might have been also a bug in TV's system , but I doubt it.
What alexa rank do these targets have? Lately I've noticed much less traffic from Trafficvance...
I took 5 random ones and there alexa ranks were this:
80,000
3,000
11,100
72,000
20,000
Hmm , that's strange , especially for the target with a 3k rank.
Can you see if someone is bidding on a shorter variation? Ex , if domain is geico.com see if someone is bidding higher than you on just geico.
Other that that I dont see what else it might be.
Right that's kind of what I was thinking. My original plan was to just bid on the main domain and identify the good targets and then expand the targets like that.
Now I think I'm going to try the opposite and identify a smaller number of targets and then bid on all variations of the domain name.
A site with an Alexa of 80,000 or even 50,000 isn't really that high in the grand scheme of things. Also keep in mind that only users with the adware installed will see it, which is just a tiny fraction of the traffic that the website gets. For really high volume, you want to look at sites with an Alexa ranking of less than 1,000. That's not to say you won't be profitable on smaller sites, but just at a lower volume.
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