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My thread documenting my digital marketing journey. (3)

10-24-2019 08:57 PM #1 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Hello, I noticed that you were running directlinked campaigns, it's ok to quickly test some offers this way to find some that converts at least a bit, but to reach decent performance you simple have to use landers and quite aggressive ones.

So focus on this now, get some LPs, then run more traffic.

Short answer I know, but really, it's not possible to profit with POPs without LPs, not in waste majority of cases. You found a converting offer via directlinking, now up the game a bit and start working with LPs, the results should improve a lot.

10-28-2019 12:04 PM #2 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

This is gonna be a postback problem, are you sure you've set it up properly? Your network AM should be able to help you with this, they need to tell you what token to use to pass the clickid to them and then they need to setup the postback on their end. Thats the only way to make it work.

10-31-2019 08:27 PM #3 vortex (Senior Moderator)

@paolo_francis Hi and sorry for my late arrival!

I feel that both your head and heart are in the right place. You'll go far with your attitude.

Having said that - here are some suggestions!

1)All that testing you're doing is great! But like @matuloo suggested, please use landing pages - and from the VERY start! Don't think "I'll just direct-link to see which offer converts better first". I'm ALL for working efficiently, but in this particular case, you'll end up losing a lot more money than you need to. (Because often, an offer that doesn't convert at all by direct-linking can convert well with a good lander!)

2)Are you split-testing multiple landers and offers, or one offer and/or lander at a time? *Hint: Split-testing multiple landers and offers from the start is way better!*

3)Not saying you are because I can't tell from your stats, but want to warn you against a classic newbie "mistake": Try to focus more on TESTING and less on OPTIMIZATION when it comes to pop. In other words, test more offers and landers to find a good combination FIRST, and THEN optimize. Doing more testing will likely find combinations that will make MORE of the traffic profitable, so that when you optimize by cutting unprofitable traffic, you'll be left with enough profits. Don't fall into the trap of taking any old offer that seems to be getting you decent ROI and spend a ton of time and money optimizing that - plus chances are you'll be left with less traffic volume to profit from after you cut to green.


Quote Originally Posted by paolo_francis View Post
So I've ran these campaigns for 24 hours or slightly longer but something is not right because my affiliate network registered conversions but the tracker and ad network doesn't really reflect that. Which makes my life harder now because I don't know which campaign converted better.
Let's fix your postback!

Can you please show me the following:

1)Your original affiliate link you got from the aff network (you can change some of the numbers in the link to protect your privacy).

2)The modified affiliate link you put into the tracker (when adding a new offer).

3)The original postback link you got from the tracker.

4)The modified postback link you saved into the aff network.

And please let me know which aff network it is so I could look up the corresponding tokens.




Amy

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