The Calamitous (Noob) Journal (13)
Intro:
Not much to say, I'm a university student from Sweden, tho I currently study in Poland.
I have paid my bills and tuition by running a couple of websites, but thanks to my studies I have had very limited time to manage them, and the rankings have dropped, so I have been selling them off one by one.
I plan to get back into SEO eventually, but with enough money to outsource more or less everything, except for the research bit I guess.
Also, while dicking around with scrapebox, web 2.0 spammers and xrumer might have worked for me on low-mid competition niches it's not a business model I enjoy at all. So next time I delve into SEO it will be more serious and run as a business, not as a weekend project.
So here I am trying my hand at PPV. It's the first paid traffic source I have touched ever, and I chose it mostly because I like to dick around in Photoshop but hate writing, so I hope it will suit me.
I guess the most important thing for my success will be consistency and morale. So every update I will write about HOW I FEEL 
. I'm from a socialist country so I'm allowed.
Goals:
Monetary short term goals is to get profitable in 30 days when school starts. Longer term goal is to cover my tuition, rent and expenses which means around $100 daily.
Personal goals:
Stopping being indecisive, a damned perfectionist and pro worrier. Also, focus my time better and prioritize important tasks.
I predict that I will spend about 10 hours trying to decide a niche, 10 hours on my first landing page to get every detail just right, and then I won't be able to sleep because its not instantly all in the green.
What I did today:
I setup CPV lab and a domain. Or rather, I spent the whole day trying to get linux right because its my first server without cpanel, until I finally gave up and had the guys from beyondhosting do it in 10 minutes.
Ahem, priorities.
Also, applied to or dug out old passwords to a bunch of networks.
In a uncharacteristic boost of productivity I also put together 3 landing pages for 2 campaigns I want to try out. Sneaked around in the LI interface trying to get in for maximum cheapness. Lets see if they get approved.
Today's morale:
Excited to try something new. Happy that I worked all day. Even if trying random Linux commands hardly quantifies as work.
Also did a stress test for the biggest lander. Is this any good or should I try to shave stuff to make it faster?
thats a pretty slow load....try to keep it under 1 sec if possible
also awesome thread....
Beyonghosting offer top notch service, you can focus more towards your marketing make your earning rains
Hmm just uploaded my first report from LI. Do you guys know if CPV lab is smart enough to know which date is which in LI?
I mean, report timezone in LI is -7 and my CPVLab time is +2, would that screw up reports?
Also if %KEYWORD% pops up in cpv lab, did I fuck something up or are that just normal glitches?
hey calamity what stress test site did you use for testing your lp?
You will most likely see a couple of %KEYWORD% when you submit the campaign because that is LI approval team checking out ur lander.
Originally Posted by mattmatt483
WTF I have been trying to improve my loading times all morning but getting really inconsistent results. Loading times from 600ms to almost 4 seconds on the same page. BrowserMob sometimes show 1000ms to first byte! Ill email beyondhosting and see what they have to say.
Edit: Got a real quick reply, and bow my load times are down to around 400-500ms. 
Anyway only 1 campaign got approved before the weekend and so far its CTR has been around 8% but only a few actually filled out the offer. I think I might taken a bad angle with the lander and visitors expect something else.
Upped the best offer so it gets 80% of traffic and the other 2 10% each. Now Ill try some different landers...
Awesome thread man!
8% CTR is pretty good for PPV, try rotating more offers on the backend to see if it's the offer or angle.
Keep us updated.
Created 4 campaigns today and around 15 landing pages. Must start working faster because that like 3 hours per campaign.
Anyway some interesting insights today, like bidding on americas largest news site according to quantcast gave me a huge 3 visits/hour.
Made a pretty good landing page for a zip submit that got a 15% CTR. Surprisingly enough, the version without pops and sound had the best CTR. Sadly stuff was not converting. I got a little suspicious so I wanted to see the advertisers path and filled out the offer myself, and guess what, it didn't register as a conversion. Instead it lead to a short form. If a offer is labeled "Zip submit" worth $1.70 it should convert on the zip submit, shouldn't it?
Ah well time to sleep.
It will get faster but even if it doesn't your building your own landers. Something many people don't or cant do on their own.
Originally Posted by calamity
Also your zip submit should convert on the zip. I would talk to your AM about it.
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