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01-21-2018 02:10 AM #1 jeanmonline (Member)
AdPlexity Landers Not getting approved by affiliate network

Hey guys!

I just started working with landers. I'm using Amy's 40 day tutorial (pretty good btw).

I decided to start with sweeps. I download and fixed 3 landers from adplexity to start.

When I submitted them for approval the network said they can't submit them to the advertise for the following reasons:




Now that's fine and all, but these are all the top landers that are showing on adplexity for sweeps and some of them are showing up under their network. I feel like if I go and make all these changes then my landers are useless then.

So my question is are guys doing special stuff to get around this or is this network just really strict? I feel like I'm sensing some big secret that no one likes to talk about in the AM world.

01-21-2018 07:36 PM #2 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by jeanmonline View Post
So my question is are guys doing special stuff to get around this or is this network just really strict? I feel like I'm sensing some big secret that no one likes to talk about in the AM world.
It's not a secret actually. What you've encountered is called "cloaking", the affiliate is showing one LP to the approval teams and when it's approved, they switch to another one that is no longer compliant. There special tools (cloakers) used for this. If yuo decide to go this route, keep in mind it's risky and can get you banned and you might not get paid.

I feel like if I go and make all these changes then my landers are useless then.
This is true to some extent, unfortunately. Once you "tone" the angles down, they will most likely perform less. But, in many cases, it's possible to "meet in the middle" and come up with angles that are both acceptable by the networks and still showing solid performance. it's all about testing a lot of them.

01-21-2018 07:46 PM #3 jeanmonline (Member)

Thanks for the reply Matuloo. I'll try different angles first. Cloaking sounds like something I don't need on my plate right now as a newbie.

01-22-2018 07:52 PM #4 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by jeanmonline View Post
Thanks for the reply Matuloo. I'll try different angles first. Cloaking sounds like something I don't need on my plate right now as a newbie.
I personally don't cloak at all, but then again, I know people who make mad money thanks to cloaking. One thing to keep in mind here, it's a never ending cat & mouse game, since both affiliate networks and traffic sources BAN cloakers when they catch them.

01-22-2018 09:58 PM #5 vortex (Senior Moderator)

You have 3 options here:

1)Ask your AMs for sweeps offers that ALLOW aggressive promotion.

2)Run aggressive against the rules (cloak or not).

3)Try to make the landers JUST barely compliant.

Coincidentally, I wrote about that in another post earlier today:

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...l=1#post335116

Mrbraun gave some tips on how to make landers compliant:

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...on-pop-traffic

This is just one of the many issues you'll face as an affiliate - we just need to try to balance potential risk and potential rewards.



Amy

01-23-2018 06:52 AM #6 platinum (Veteran Member)

At first it is best to play with ‘soft’ angles and have your landers free of copyrighted elements like Google or Amazon logos.

Once you mastered the basics and are ready to scale to higher budgets and higher volumes a close relation with your AM can help get over such constraints. Not everyone using aggressive landers is necessarily cloaking.

Besides that, cloaking is an expensive service that by the end of the day will increase your operations costs.

01-26-2018 03:20 AM #7 jeanmonline (Member)

Thanks for all the good information guys. I've submitted some cleaner landers and waiting for them to be approved. Hopefully I can get some traction going.

01-26-2018 04:16 PM #8 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Nice! Will keep my fingers crossed for you!

Actually, I forgot to mention a 4th option (in addition to the 3 listed in my previous post):

4)Submit compliant landers to the advertiser / aff network, but run aggressive landers. Cloaked or not.

I'm NOT suggesting that anyone do this, because obviously by going this route you risk losing commissions or even your aff network account, not to mention damaged relationships. But this is how a lot of affiliates are doing it, so I want to put it out there.

Also - it doesn't mean compliant landers won't work. I remember when MacKeeper first came out, I designed a lander from scratch, with the aim of making it both effective and compliant. It went through several revisions and several back-and-forths with the advertiser, but even the final approved version was converting pretty nicely - was able to make lots of geos profitable on multiple traffic networks. Them good 'ol days...

Of course, with all the spy tools around now, the same lander would be ripped in 2 minutes. But you could probably still take ripped landers now and make variations to see how aggressive you can get and STILL get approved by the advertiser. If you start by submitting something aggressive and just let them tell you explicitly what to change, and just change one thing at a time and resubmit, you'd stand a better chance at finding out what their tolerance level is - compared to just taking the initiative to make everything 100% truthful to make sure you get approved.



Amy

01-30-2018 02:03 AM #9 jeanmonline (Member)

Thanks for all the replies everyone. This community is so helpful. I went back and modified them to be compliant. Got them approved already. My next question is on this post:

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...no-conversions

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