I had an AM suggest their top 5 offers of the week and for the first time instead of seeing zips, and free stuff, low paying I saw 2 $50 loan sign up offers. I am just curious what kind of traffic source is targeted enough and how an affiliate on a normal network can do well enough to get that into top offers.
I ask this because obviously these aren't in pops or anything like that. And I used to be big in Adwords and the costs of those keywords are so skyrocketed or your bidding against big companies who have high standing. Short of SEO and that's long term I'm just curious what kind of traffic can actually be worked on and matched up to allow an affiliate to cause it to be a winner for a period of time on a network. Yes I realize the network could just be pumping them up but knowing the same I do I don't know why they would. These easily seem like the hardest offers and belong with a big financial site with good CEO game or PPC (and even then you'd need the site for adwords to even consider you).
Any ideas?
Classically you'd convert search traffic on these offers - either organic search or PPC on a search engine.
Adwords is obviously the big dog for these offers but other search engine traffic (Bing) can work too.
Facebook traffic can work as well but the targeting can be tricky.
Email traffic from related newsletters could work well too.
I also heard about people who leverage print media, especially local classifieds-style weekly newspapers (those that get delivered to peoples mailboxes for free), to get traffic to their leadgen websites and up-selling these offers to them ... not sure how well it can work now though.
And obviously agree with all that Caurmen already posted above.