CPA Arbitrage Review

I recently got started into a CPC campaign. I’m new to IM so I decided to start setting my daily budget as low as possible ($2). Well, after letting the campaign run I ended up losing $0.20, I think I should track this campaign and remove the keywords that are making me lose money.

I know I’m not talking about millions but I’m new so I decided to start with small amounts instead of throwing all my capital away, that could be pretty risky. I personally made a challenge to start making at least $5/ day.

In the WSO I’m ready I was told to always track and improve my campaigns, so I decided to install Prosper202 at my web hosting account. Now, I’m getting some troubles to get it working.

I’m using Google Adwords and MaxBounty. I would contact my AM about it, but she won’t get back until monday. I just paused the campaign until I can get Prosper202 to work.

Any guide or video on how to use this software? :S

Regards,
Angel

doesn’t prosper has a good support forum?

here’s few links

Tracking Wordpress Landing Pages With Prosper202 | NickyCakes.com

Prosper202 Complete Install Package – Hostgator Fix - Web Development Blog - BlueLayerMedia

Install Prosper202 on a HostGator account | Jonathan Lint

Prosper202 Do I Really Need a Dedicated Server?

Install Prosper202 « HostGator.com Support Portal

The Top 5 Prosper202 Hacks & Mods — Inside Affiliate

Roger

I am new to affiliate marketing, but have spent days and days researching before diving in.

I’ve have signed up with a couple of CPA networks, have a few Ad network accounts, i’m using Tracking202 and split testing using 2 text ads and a banner ad for the same offer and sub ids through Tracking202.

I am promoting what I was told is a hot offer, so put $50 into it using InMobi.

Inmobi - 600 clicks
Tracking202 - 500 clicks
CPA Network - 32 clicks

Conversions - 2.

I’m happy with the 6.25% conversion rate, but I paid for 600 clicks and would have expected 37.5 conversions.

I emailed my affiliate manager, and 3 days on have not had a response. I’ve asked them to explain the discrepancy. This happened to me before when I was not using Tracking202 so had no visiblity of the issue, but as InMobi and Tracking202’s clicks agree to an extent, I am left wondering why the affiliate network did not regsiter the clicks.

I’m using direct linking (to the networks LP) and I’ve checked my targetting, that I’m respecting the offer restrictions and my urls to Tracking202 and then the offer. I’m quite sure its not something I have done, I’ve triple checked everything. If it is me, it would be easy to fix!

Something I did notice is that the redirect url in Tracking202’s stats show a different LP, for a different offer. This is the best reason I have that my conversion rate was soo low, and leads me to believe the affiliate network is screwey. I’d rather not say who they are at this moment, but judging from their website compared to the likes of CJ or Sponsormob, it looks a bit shoddy.

Any advice on these two issues and what i can / should do? I am keen to try another offer on another network. I dont think the issue is Inmobi, I had the same issue with Admob and the same affiliate network.

Thanks

Shawn

I am going to chase up my ticket with the affiliate network. If they cannot give me a satisfactory offer, I am going to promote other network’s offers, but am interested to know if this is commonplace or if something is up. Do your ad network, tracking software and affiilate network click stats usually tie up?

Shawn

If it was the ad network then you would think the tracking program would not pick up that many clicks

I don’t know much about mobile advertising or mobile CPA, but was the offer mobile compliant? I’ve heard of people having trouble with offers being mobile compliant or compliant with mobile ad networks.

I checked that the offer was compliant and it is a mobile only offer. My initial thought was that my clicks had been discredited for this reason, but not so.

The text ad click through is a tracking software url, it then redirects to the actual splash page. So all clicks should go through Tracker202 before it goes to the af network.

I also made sure my affID was in the url that redirects the user to the offer page so they would know it was me that drove that click.

I am suspecting that the offer landing page being from a totally different offer to the one I advertised is the cause of my issues. Anyone experienced this?

William

William brought up a good point. It’s always important to target the countries accepted by the offer in the ad platform you are using (if possible).

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I got the idea for this product because I used to suffer from RLS, and I only found one competing product in the CB Marketplace, which quite frankly, sucked. So I created my own.

The product is called "Restless Leg Help".
Sales page: http://www.restlessleghelp.com/
Affiliate materials: http://www.restlessleghelp.com/affiliates.htm
Hoplink: http://xxxxx.rlshelp.hop.clickbank.net

(Replace xxxxx with your ClickBank ID)

There is no information on the affiliate page, except for what I’ve already posted above. I can create any affiliate materials that you guys need though - just let me know.

The site just went live on Clickbank, so I do not currently have conversion rates.