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  1. mstef

    Search Strategies for Email Submits

    Hey, I feel like running some campaigns for email submits - mostly the free gift card ones. Maybe mobile PIN submits too because they pay higher. I'm a bit confused though when it comes to PPC - how the best way to target people is. Barely anyone searches 'free whatever gift card', and bidding...
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    What the Hell is Allowed on Facebook?

    Hey, Got $125 in free coupons ($100 from the visa app deal) so I thought I'd test out some offers. I ignored the guidelines like everyone does and direct-linked to a diet product. That was denied in about 3 hours. So I read through the rules and posted three new ads that I thought might work on...
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    International (Non-US) Traffic - Campaigns, LPs, and Conversions

    Hey, I'm on day 3 of my first real campaign and am doing nothing but constant testing. The offer I'm running is accepted in 4 countries other than the US. Initially, I treated all of the traffic the same - same campaign, keywords, landing page(s), etc. I noticed after the first test run of 100...
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    Keyword Bidding War - Now What?

    Hey, Running my first 'real' adwords campaign since yesterday (2 conversions - 2.5x ROI so far so I'm a bit content with things). Anyway, for a majority of the adgroups containing keyword of the product itself, the first page bids have been going up every few hours like clockwork. I'm assuming...
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    Adwords Keyword Tool Inaccuracies

    Hey, Just trying to understand this.. More times than not, I'll search for a keyword (broad, phrase, or exact) and I'll see some impressive search numbers, zero advertiser competition, and a 5 cent estimated CPC for position 1-3. Sure I'll try it. I search google for the term and there are...
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    Networks that Allow Offline Marketing

    Hey, I had quite a brilliant, effective, and cost-efficient way to promote various offers offline so I contacted my Affiliate Manager and Neverblue and he said they don't allow any offline marketing. Does anyone know any good networks that allow it? Thanks
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    When to Use Broad Matching?

    I'm putting together a campaign on Adwords. I know almost everyone says to stay away from broad matching, but what if phrase & exact have such small search traffic? Could you recommend broad matching as long as a atleast 3-4 targeted keywords are used?
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    Ever Get on the Other Side of AM?

    Hey, I keep thinking about how easy it seems for these companies that take advantage of affiliate marketers time and skills. If they are willing to pay us $X they must be making $XX from each sale. Has anyone ever tried to be on the other side of affiliate marketing (have affiliate sell shit...
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    RSS Feed for Affiliate Marketing Section Down

    Feed points to: feed://http//www.wickedfire.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=2 Obviously incorrectly formatted + even after removing the feed:// it still doesn't work.
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    Ever Outsource Affiliate Work?

    I've been thinking of non-traditional ways (at least in my mind) to expand on affiliate marketing as much and as fast as possible. I was wondering if any of you ever outsourced affiliate work to people who aren't, say, techies. I know a lot of people and have a lot of friends (surprisingly) who...
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    Financial Accounting Software of Choice

    Hey, Just curious and looking for suggestions on software to use to keep track of overall expenses & income for each site, domain, whatever. I'm using GnuCash now cause it's open source and runs on Linux - but it's a bit annoying and ugly. Desktop or web-based is fine. Thanks
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    How Full of $#%@ Can we Be?

    Hey, Getting ready to build this site around an offer that everyone but the people who search for this crap knows is complete BS. That's a given. I was just wondering if there are any guidelines, or lines to be drawn, when promoting this stuff on your site? Can I just be as full of shit as...
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    Looking for Thread with List of Directories/Social Submission Sites?

    Sorry to be annoying but I remember finding a great, huge list of free directories, social submission sites, and more that was great for link building and traffic. I've looked and searched all over here..can't find it...(not the SEO sticky thread in the traffic section)... Anyone know what I'm...
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    Preference: Sales % Commission or Fixed Per Lead?

    Hey, I've been testing out all different types of promotions, offers, commission structures, networks, etc, just to sort of dive in the affiliate industry. I've made my way to Commission Junction simply because I was impressed with not only the selection but the legitimacy of their products and...
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    Average Clickbank Customer Return Rates to Expect?

    Obviously this is highly varied and there is no way to accurately predict what will come, but I was curious, for those who have marketed clickbank products in the past, what sort of customer return rates did you see? I found a nice looking niche will low PPC costs - the products seem desirable -...
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    How to Track Adwords Conversions

    Hey, I understand the extreme importance of tracking every possible metric out there. I'm just not exactly sure how specific Adwords clicks to conversions are tracked though. My site is running Drupal. Drupal has some low-level statistics built in, plus I'm using Google Analytics, and tracked...
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    Clickbank Products Have No Creatives?

    Found some offers on Clickbank I want to promote - but cannot find any creatives/banners for any of them. Is this just how it is or am I missing something? Should I contact the product providers directly?
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    Streetread.com - Innovative Financial News Webapp

    WHAT IS IT? Streetread.com is an innovative financial news aggregation web-application, launched in June of 2008, aimed to make it extremely simple and fast for investors and others interested in Wall Street and the economy to track all of the news around the web. Streetread aggregates the...
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    Adwords: How does QS drop overnight?

    I just started using adwords and am having some trouble and confusion. I have two full content sites, PR 4 and 2, that I'm running small test campaigns for. I loaded up a billion keywords for each and set the appropriate bids, etc. Everything is fine, until the next day. The QS drops from 7-8 to...
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    No network acceptance b/c of no site - no site b/c of no acceptance?

    Well if I haven't made it obvious enough by now, I'm just getting into the affiliate industry. I'm a professional web developer & designer looking to take a different approach with my skills. I have some affiliate experience with online casino referrals and have always been intrigued by the...