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07-22-2019 02:50 AM #1 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Nice!

Keep in mind though that tracker costs can REALLY cut into your profits - especially ones that charge per impressions/events (such as Voluum).

The extremely-low payouts makes tracker costs especially noticeable. You may find that a million impressions may only be making you xx-1xx in revenue (where only a fraction of that are profits), but tracker overage charges may reduce your profits to zero or negative.

Voluum for example: The entry plan only offers 1 million events, and overage is 0.065 per 1000 events. So if you run 2 million impressions, that would cost $120+ in tracker fees already.

A smarter way would be to just register more Mobipium accounts, and use one account per traffic source. It's not against Mobipium's TOS - just let your AM know the emails you've registered your new accounts under, so they'd know they're yours.

Amy

07-22-2019 03:23 AM #2 maelstrom (Member)

Thanks,

As for tracker I use self hosted Funnel Flux. And with it analyzing results become so much easier. Plus at this moment I am not running for profits, more for experience and list of publishers for white list in future.
Plus today gonna test single opt-in offer, maybe it will move my profits higher.

07-22-2019 06:59 PM #3 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Originally Posted by maelstrom

A tracker can definitely make your life easier and it's a very important tool in the life of an affiliate. Amy was just trying to warn you about the possible costs of the tracker, which can really shoot up quickly when it comes to POP traffic. Many new affiliates do not realize this, and then wonder where the high bill came from

In case you are serious about AM and want to explore it more in depth, then yes, tracker is a must pretty much. And since you already have a solid one at your disposal, you're all set for full force testing

07-26-2019 02:14 PM #4 maelstrom (Member)

Heh. Played around with this a little bit more and decided to expand my ad networks before moving to 40-ty day guide. Joined PopAds. But got a strange problem. They didn't allow me to advertise on tier 1-2 geos until I will spent 5k. Is this only mine problem?

07-27-2019 12:36 PM #5 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Originally Posted by maelstrom

That is REALLY strange - I've never heard of anyone reporting that before.

Could you please ask PopAds support why this is the case?

Let them know you already have experience advertising on other networks, and tell them you're an STM member who is following an STM guide. Hopefully that will help a bit.

Amy

07-27-2019 08:18 PM #6 maelstrom (Member)

Originally Posted by vortex

It's OK - PopAds doesn't really have traffic volume. It's a fantastic source for testing for cheap though!

But for that you also have PropellerAds, which has good quality traffic as well, and more volume.

There are tons of other pop sources as well, so not being able to buy from one source won't be a big issue.

Amy

Well, yeah...But still as I know guys who made mackeeper buy traffic there, so still a little disappointing.

07-27-2019 10:12 PM #7 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Originally Posted by maelstrom

Well, yeah...But still as I know guys who made mackeeper buy traffic there, so still a little disappointing.

In this business, we learn to identify open doors and charge through them, or figure out how to open closed doors we think would be worth our efforts...

...while totally ignoring doors we either know for sure can't be opened, or ones we know probably won't be worth our effort to open.

Opportunities abound. Learn to look for those. As I've mentioned, PopAds is just one source, and there are many, MANY others.

Amy

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