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*NSFW* My adult campaign follow along. [pics] (50)

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Hello everyone! This is my first post here and also first day. I have had very moderate success with affiliate marketing, typically just like an extra 300-600$ profit every month.

Anyways I have been dabbling with the adult niche recently and just started a campaign today so I decided I would post the specifics here for a follow along.

Warning: Some of these banners are crude and are definitely NSFW

I am promoting amateur match on ads4dough, rotating between 4 landers, 2 of them are double opt-in with a payout of 4$ and 2 of them are single opt-in with a 2$ payout. Amateurmatch is a hook up type dating site

Anyways, bought some cheap space for a 150x175 ad on JuicyAds.com directly on one of their porn sites, not on the network. The spot cost me about 30$ for the month and has an average of about 65-70 clicks a day. The cool thing about juicy ads is that they have feedback on all of the sites you can buy ad space on so you can get an idea if the traffic will convert or not

Anyways, these are the images I have tested so far for the banner site. (animated banners aren't aloud for this site)

http://www.juicyads.com/ads/ad9300-1306264613.jpg
Get Fucked Tonight

This gave me no conversions so far, (it's just been one day and about 40 clicks) with roughly ~.17 CTR (the average for the site is .32)


http://ads.juicyads.com/ads/ad9300-1306294080.jpg
Find Pussy Tonight

Just started this one today will let you know how it goes.

Also, and sorry for the TLDR after doing some research I decided to try out adxpansion.com If anybody is familiar with this ad network let me know if you have any tips. I am running my ads currently on the RON(run of the network) and not using any keywords.

I submitted 3 300x250 banners and one text ad.


Money spent on adxpansion: ~9.60
money earned from adxpansion: 4$

Money spent on Juicy ads: 30$
Money earned from Juicy ads: 0$

Will show my banners later g2g for now

Also, I know this isn't wickedfire so if it's not cool to post images like that just take them out

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Hahaha! Ok I tweaked your post a lot just for sensitive eyes.

I would try trafficjunky if I were you. They have got a tonne of high quality traffic.

I would really try to start brain storm with your creatives. At the moment they are very default (which is ok) but you need to test some out of the box tactics.

Also if you are sticking to juicy ads try and make your creatives look like the site that you are advertising on as much as possible. E.g using the same colors and fonts as the site.

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Good luck with your campaign and THANKS for sharing. I never tried MediaBuys especially not on xxx sites. Never heard of these advertiser networks so thanks for sharing

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... you had me at *NSFW* .... anyway, admire you for going 'straight in at the deep end' ..... Whoops! Better stop there with the double-entendre's!!!

Looking forward to you updates....

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I've been experimenting with adult traffic for (surprisingly) the first time lately and have found it easy to get profitable with the right landers because the traffic is do damn cheap.

Anyways, I created an account today at JuicyAds after reading this post to give it a try, and have to hold off for a bit because this type of ad buying will require more planning. Which leads me to my question for you, jamesruhles:

The traffic on these sites is very fragmented over different countries. Have you optimized your geo-targetting redirects to try and cover as many countries as possible?

The amateurmatch A4D offer seems to accept US/CA traffic, so you are probably throwing away over 1/2 of your clicks if you aren't finding other offers for the other dominant countries.

You might already have this covered, but figured I'd raise the question as it could be what is causing your campaign to fail.

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I have literally NO (zilch) experience with PPV, so dropping 1000$ into a traffic source that I am completely unfamiliar with scares the crap outta me. That's still the min deposit right?

Ya, I actually did have that covered, made that mistake awhile ago and lost some $$$. Definitely won't make that mistake again lol

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UPDATE!:

So the juicy ads spot that I bought, the 150x175 I am starting to realize wasn't that great of an idea. After some researching I have come to the conclusion that adult traffic converts at a pretty low %. With the limited amount of clicks I will be getting from that buy it is very hard to accurately test something. It's 30$ for a month, and the best performing ad for this spot has been 67 clicks/day. Not sure if I should keep switching out the images and just let this one go as a bad idea. Was pretty bummed when this ad had a TERRIBLE ctr, especially after using the "like" button.
http://ads.juicyads.com/ads/ad9300-1306309394.jpg <<<<*NSFW* image

Adxpansion is a really cool network so far. TONS of impressions. The only thing I don't like about it is that it spends your budget as soon as possible instead of making it last throughout the day. The text ad that I bought brought me a shitload of clicks really quick but no conversions so decided to delete it. The banners are all doing good in terms of CTR an only about .04-.06 CPC which gives me tons of room to test stuff out. Here are the stats for my banners:



This is where I am a little confused. As you can see banner 1 has 4 conversions and all the rest have 0. Banner 1, coupled with the highest converting a4d amateur match lander is ALMOST profitable. However, the other banners except for banner 2 have gotten almost no impressions/clicks compared to banner 1. Statistically, I know this is not relevant, and that by the book I should keep sending traffic to those other 2 banners right?

Also, another REALLY cool thing about adXpansion is that you can add conversion tracking (although they don't track the payout they do track the cost per conversion) and you can also break down the conversions/clicks/impressions by country.

Guess what? Canada has a 400% roi for me haha It's only 1 conversion however but I difinitely am going to make another ad group just for Canada and will let you guys know how that goes.

Sorry for the WALL OF TEXT just wanted to keep you guys right here with me.

Also, I am working on what I think is a pretty creative intermediary landing page for this campaign that I really think will really boost conversions. Will let you know how it goes and if it goes well, I'll post the lander here. It's a pretty unique idea, atleast I haven't seen it anywhere.

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things I have learned from this campaign so far:

make sure your prosper202 keywords are organized. When I was trying to figure out which ad was which by the stupid names I gave them it was quite frustrating.

adult traffic is CHEAP but definitely doesn't convert as nicely. HOWEVER, makes it much easier to test stuff

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Hey James trafficjunky isn't ppv its like juicyads but a million times better. Try make your ad look like a video, it will heavily increase ctrs.

Good follow along campaign thread, great content!

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Haha ah I feel silly I had trafficjunky and trafficvance mixed up. Coincidently, I must have signed up with traffic junky a few months ago cause somehow I am already a member.

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JuicyAds tends to have a lot of banners below the fold.

You need to hone your message. its not just about getting clicks. You need to get the "right" people to click. I suggest you take your best banner and split 5 different headlines to see which one CONVERTS best - then start testing other parts of the banners.

Ditto on what Mr. Green says about TrafficJunky but bear in mind that the traffic has gotten a lot more expensive as affiliates are moving.

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TrafficJunky used to be CHEAP!! I ran stuff there very early on, there's other networks like trafficjunky too, but there hard'ish to get into and won't start with small budget, i think one of them wanted $10k from me min deposit, would have been worth it if i had a proven campaign but i was just testing.

Just one main tip when doing adult if you have no exp in it:
Remember people are searching for porn! Just always keep that in mind when your making ads, writing copy etc... Taking them away from their end goal isn't easy, so you have to combine that in with your promotions.

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Very true. Best time to catch porn seekers is on their way out. Exit pops and pop unders tend to work well.

As for other networks the biggest hassle is the fact that they need wire transfers and some are based in European countries.

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Hmmm we must of been competition...

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so looking at traffic junky, they only have like 10 sites to buy from? Am I seeing this right? Wouldn't that inventory get taken up pretty quickly?

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Yeah they don't have many sites, so you the competition is high. It's cheap to test, but you gotta have something special to play with the big boys and get the big volume. If you don't have a unique offer/deal/payout or copyrighted lander, I wouldn't bother. They will rip your stuff before you say wtf.

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I can confirm this. Your banners WILL get ripped off (usually just a copy > past) within 48 hours. I've complained to them about this before but they just have me the finger. Unless you have the copyright to the images used in your banner you don't have a leg to stand on.

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BIG UPDATE:

First things first, this forum is worth every penny, for the sheer reason that haven't wasted any time in the STS section of wickedfire since I joined up (I spent an unhealthy amount of time there), and because of this, I have started like 6 different campaigns that are all borderline profitable... except this one... and that's cause it IS profitable! hehe

This is what I have been up to: WARNING WALL OF TEXT COMING

I came up with a landing page-esque idea. Basically it's an intermediary page. I set it up on google website optimizer, with about 4 different headline variations, and 4 different versions of the offer page, all of them with their respective p202 keyword (Ex. lp1h1). So there is 16 variations in total. I am using GWO for the rotation only, so i turned off the automatic optimization feature. I feel like this is the easiest way to test landing pages because its 16 different landing pages on one site. Let me know if there is an easier way. (landing page: http://reviewden.com/test.html )

I have been testing a lot of traffic sources for my adult campaign and this is the breakdown of each one.

BOUGHT A LINK ON A WEBSITE: There is this website that I have always loved going to, an adult humor website with porno sprinkled through out. They update 3 times a week with a list of links to funny/interesting/hot girls. Recently I started buying links from there, The link is 50$ and you can choose the anchor text, I will usually get about 5k-10k hits from this website. The link went live yesterday and i have profited about 50$ so far today, and will prolly stay around 30$ profit a day for the next week. (from this link buy) Also, my intermediary landing page had twice the CR of the offer without the LP. note: tried the same landing page for a facebook dating offer and didn't work well

adxpansion.com: Seriously, this is a really great traffic source, that I think very few people are using. After a bunch of testing the amateurmatch offers on their entire network I was still losing money. I decided to try out a niche adult offer. sugarbbw.com (UK only offer) was the winner, after targeting bbw type keywords, changing geo to UK and throwing together some banners, i now have a consistent 180% roi campaign. Profited about 60$ so far today, makes me at about 110$ profit total today.

Now my only problem is Volume, I can't seem to spend more than 35$ on BBW UK traffic on adxpansion. i need more bbw keywords I am trying to find more UK BBW traffic sources but no luck so far. I tried to start a campaign on trafficjunky, but couldn't figure out how to add keywords for my BBW offer. Probably going to try and figure that out now. I e-mailed a rep at JuicyAds and he said he would get back to me with some good sites to buy from

note: browsing bbw galleries for pictures is not fun.

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Good work turning it into profit! In terms of trafficjunky you can add keywords, I'd definitely recommend you check it out.

Haha bet it was fun checking out all the big big ladies all day.

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Wait till you try gay dating and male enhancement.

All jokes aside, congrats on the success man. Totally agree with you about WF, that place has really gone downhill in recent years. I think most of the older members have found success and moved on to bigger and better things. It's just one big time sink now but still great a place to hire cheap labor and find some quality titties when you're bored.

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Awesome getting in the green.

BBW's don't need to be obese so browsing pictures can be fun. Girls with huge tits or are "thick" get the message across but still look smoking hot. Reason guys sign up for BBW is they assume girls are easy (and are probably correct) keep that in mind when marketing that angle.

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You can target keywords FOR SURE on TrafficJunky. Don;t hold your breath for a rep to get back to you. You can call them on (514) 359-3545 but just look closely. Its usually the last step of the campaign set up process. Its very obvious - they give you the top keywords for the particular site you've chosen.

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Create a campaign then try add the keywords. This is what happens when I open an existing campaign and click on the keywords option.

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alright, after talking to support, turns out something was wrong on their end. Anybody know where I can research some good bbw keywords? I have about 5 for trafficjunky but they don't seem to incorporate long tail keywords into their keyword targeting just one words keywords like "fat" and "bbw"

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Take the path of least resistance. Ask your TJ rep what keywords are available.

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Go lateral. Think popular BBW pornstars, include misspellings/typos.

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^^ sweat idea lol

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does the maxmind geo script work with the UK too automatically?

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I believe it does. You can test it here: http://proxy.org/proxies_sorted.shtml

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am I reading this right?



for UK/bbw traffic people are bidding .94$?

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i tried adxpansion with the 300x250 banners bidding .05 and i cant get a single impression,what am i doing wrong? have had the ad running for 24hrs now.

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Raise your bids. Once you are in the kill zone, you'll see a *ton* of traffic.

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make sure you're banners got approved, they sometimes take awhile for approvals. Are you running Run of network or using keywords?

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Yep, that looks right.

Oh and pay attention to their daily budgets. There is a reason why they are all $20,000. If you have a lower daily budget then you won't get priority, having a higher budget than $20,000 won't effect anything either. You won't end up spending $20,000 its just how their platform is rigged, you have to have a 20k daily budget to play ball.

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One quick thing I'd add is that there are quite a few verticals that do really well on adult networks with some optimization. Dating, porn and dick pills are fun and all but amazingly the tens of millions of men (and yes women) who browse these sites respond to a lot of other shit to and I actually see some way better CTR's on other niches probably because it's a momentum shift from the rest of the page being covered in tits and dick.

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all of my banners were approved over 12hrs ago and still no impressions,i am using pretty broad keywords

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So if I am understanding you correctly, I can put my campaign on a 20k daily budget but it will not actually spend 20k? So I am just saying im on a 20k budget to fool the system? haha... cause I definitely can't afford a 20k budget! The most I can afford to spend right now is about 50$ a day :-( is trafficjunky something I should stay away from until I get more cashflow?

That's actually what I was thinking of trying next, ive seen a lot of supplement/workout ads and even a few browser game ads, I can imagine it would work quite well jsut cause the clicks are so dirt cheap.

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:-/ I'm not sure, I know the min bid for the bbw keywords was .10 or something, and the min bid for just run of the network was like .05, so I'm guessing keywords make things more expensive. Try raising your bid? .05 is a pretty low bid, especially if you haven't seen any impressions yet

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Since I'm not running them anymore I'll tell you that I made a fortune running male muscle the last couple years on adult sites. To be fair, the biggest profits were when I was running (insertguyname)getsripped.com flogs which I personally wouldn't do anymore but I did run a direct offer about 4 months ago and it did really well with an advertorial presell (not that those are any better now)

Merchant lost his processing and I never cared to pursue a new offer since I was focusing on other shit but I hear there are a few decent male muscle offers around so you should check it out.

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I'm seeing alot of fake blogs advertised on pornhub etc..talking about how easy it is to get laid by joining true.com etc...are cpa networks really happy with that kind of traffic if it's not a casual dating offer?

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Quick Update:

started advertising on trafficjunky, was really slow with giving me impressions off the bat, but once I established a constant CTR with my banners I started getting a ton of impressions. Did some spying on my competitors using this proxy tool, (http://proxy.org/proxies_sorted.shtml) which jsut enables you to look at sites as if you were in whatever country you want to be in. Stole my competitors ads and realized that they suck balls and my banners perform much better, eventually my competitor dropped out cause I was able to bid so high and was stealing all of his traffic.

until today. FUCK I was so depressed earlier, I thought this was it, that this was the campaign I had worked so hard for. And than out of nowhere BAM my conversions just completely stopped, but my ad spend definitely didnt. Before I knew it in one day I had nearly lost all of my profits, FOR LITERALLY NO REASON. My conversions just dropped drastically and I have no idea why.

Anyways, once I shook off the initial depression, I decided to approach the campaign a little bit differently. Start off with all new banners that I will design 100% by myself. (confession: I had pretty much stolen exact banners and replaced certain words/pictures to better match my niche )

Things I have learned from advertising in the adult niche so far:

1. Keep banners very fresh
2. Unless you've got a killer unique offer, or an awesome landing page, the easiest path to take is niche offers with adult traffic.
3. I can't say for sure that this will help, because I am currently testing these new banners out, but heuristics will hopefully really benefit my campaigns. (http://insight.io/blog/2011/05/black...to-get-clicks/ )

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If you drive a lot of traffic you will get pulled in HOURS - not days. Networks can see exactly where your traffic is coming from.

Don't take my words for it - try True.com on Neverblue and run some adult traffic. You will quickly see that Neverblue DOES indeed work over weekend

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Be careful with any Facebook graphics in your ads. I had entire campaigns retroactively disapproved for having a "Facebook Like" image on my creatives. I've been told that you are not even allowed to mention the word Facebook, MySpace or Google in your creative. They are shit scared of legal repercussions - yet F**KBOOK is advertised all over the internet - lol

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Forgive the ignorance, but isn't that what referrer hiding is for? I've done some really shisty stuff in the past if I thought it will work and I never got caught. Obviously I'm a good boy now, well apart from the google cloaking ;-)

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Maybe, but I'm sure there are ways that they can tell. The point is that if the quality is crap they will want to know where it comes from. Some networks will just boot you off the offer very quickly. I've had Clickbooth kick me from an offer after just 10 leads - wtf!

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Update! Sorry it's been a while but I didnt want to update til I had some cool things to share
I hit my first 1k week on a4d! Which is the minimum for a wire transfer for them. I know a lot of companies have weeklies on any amount of money but I really like ads4dough and my AM is awesome. Plus, the 1k in a week gave me a goal to try and get to.

Now that I haev my first profitable campaign in a long time I want to move out of the adult niche and into something a little less scummy. Sure, the traffic is cheap, but is it worth having to fib to my family and friends about how I'm making money. "I advertise on porn sites and get people to sign up for adult dating sites" probably won't go over too well lol.

anyways, in the next few days im gunna make a quick video on how I doubled my landing page CTR with google website optimizer which is basically what turned my campaign from break even to 100% roi. I know a lot of you already know how to use it so this would be for people that are newbies like me :-)

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why would you tell someone else your business even if it was most legit in the world.

I say you have a great thing going on, keep on it.

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I enjoy sharing my success with my friends and family and they obviously ask how I do it. As far as keeping it going, I definitely will, but I don't want the adult niche to be my ace in the hole. It's time to get a winning PPV or Social campaign going!

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Nice thread. Have you guys tried AdEngage? They were shut for some time but are back in business now. I have got good results with AdEngage and adult dating.

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Has anyone tried adbucks?

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