Traffic, Understanding Targets
I know that if I was to post the exact profitable targets I’m seeing on the exact most profitable relevant offers, dozens of members here would rush to insert the campaign into their CPV accounts and end up fighting each other out of the market, including me, so that doesn’t help anyone.
What I will do is help you understand more about profitable CPV campaigns by exposing certain kinds of targets matched with certain types of offers based on my own personal campaigns which if you apply, you’d be hard pressed not to earn a nice ROI.
For the first example in this series, I’m going to introduce you to a very successful category of targets I’m currently seeing great results from.
One type of offer that’s always done pretty well for me over the last few years is the offer that’s aimed at the college student. Loans, loan consolidation, earn your degree online, student friendly credit cards, etc. Even cash advance loans continue to do very well for me to that audience.
Naturally I had to ask myself where would be a great place to snipe the traffic of both prospective and current college students? Official college websites make sense, doesn’t take a rocket scientist.
That of course led me to do a search hoping to find an online listing of every US college in operation today. Two seconds later I found http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/alpha/
Well that was easy.
From there I scraped every URL into a text file and loaded them right up into my CPV accounts to begin rotating in relevant and even loosely relevant offers.
Let’s just say that a number of the targets on this list perform extremely well and a number of others while not generating a fortune, are still profitable and continue to spit more back at me than my spend every month.
As with anything, you must track your performing targets, so place your CPV networks pixel(s) with the offer or use the Pixel Cloak tool, you must also rotate offers, not just different offers, but the same type of offer, not just the same type of offer but if available the EXACT same offer on different networks.
That is CPA 101 stuff that I’ve said 1000 times and will say thousands more times because there’s always a handful of people that do it all fucked up and start whining they didn’t make any money.
If 3 networks have the exact same offer I can guaran-fucking-tee you that one will always convert higher than the other two, I won’t repeat myself and explain all the reasons why that is, what’s important is that if the offer is performing for you and is available on multiple networks, test as many of those as you can to see if there are conversion differences.
Half the time, the network that’s paying a little bit less on the offer will convert far better resulting in more commissions overall, and the network paying higher will convert shitty.
Rotate Rotate Rotate, then ROTATE some more. This is where most people fail with CPV advertising and just advertising in general, most traffic does not just suck like many like to say when they haven’t turned a profit.
A lot of times it’s the offer that sucks, or the way the offer is presented that sucks, or you that sucks. CPV’s greatness lies in it’s low costs and self serve atmosphere to fit any budget.
Just about everyone can afford to run thousands and thousands of impressions with it, do not waste them driving them to just one or two offers and refreshing the screen like a moron hoping for a conversion to come as your budget continues to spend down to zero.
I’m keeping this stuff short and sweet, it does not take a novel to explain effective strategies to make a lot of profit each day.
Let’s recap. I have told you in a nutshell that I’m seeing great profit running CPV traffic from multiple networks targeting thousands of US college websites. I have told you the types of offers that I am rotating to this traffic to find the best converters. If you look below, I have also provided you every URL so that you can just copy and paste it into your campaigns and start doing some tests.
What else can I do to help short of handing you my exact campaigns which aint gonna happen? Well if you are going to run this, I’ll pull whatever offers you need and host them on Elite ROI with a weekly payment option to help you scale up when you find some good targets, aka I’ll front the cash out of my own pocket so you can keep buying traffic.
