WOW - Affiliates really get no love!
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Most dating advertisers specifically ban or dont pay on reddit traffic, they find that their female subscriber base plummets when they keep hitting profiles from guys that look like this:
Most dating advertisers specifically ban or dont pay on reddit traffic, they find that their female subscriber base plummets when they keep hitting profiles from guys that look like this:
lol, +rep
i always like how google makes all of their money displaying scraped content surrounded by ads but if you do this on your site you're out (of the index or adsense or whatever else they control).
This thread is so full of fail...
First of all, dating leads probably won't have longevity on Reddit - the audience seems a bit smarter than your average web user, and there was a front page post the other day calling out the "free" catch of an affiliate dating ad there. Odds are that the paid signups off of that traffic will be close to nothing.
Wait, did I just say affiliate dating ad on Reddit?
They do exist, you know... You just have to be creative and/or sneaky.
I don't think you're being all that sneaky.
I get a bunch of traffic (spikes to 5000 visitors/daily) from reddit and it has yet to turn a damn dollar. Or even a not-damn dollar.
I'm sick of people saying this because it is not at all true.
Let's say in 10 years I own an arcade website and want to advertise GameVance arcade offers. Are networks going to say, "no we aren't going to aren't going to let you promote our CPA offer because we only do it internally"?
Heh, that's actually not me - The only advertising I've done on reddit was directly for a friend's site (not an affiliate offer), but I was running it through my own tracking system so I had to be creative to get it up while maintaining my tracking system. The offer that I saw running a few times on Reddit recently followed the same concepts that I used months ago, so I guess it still worksI don't think you're being all that sneaky.
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There are a ton of places that don't allow affiliates, I know it feels like a hit in the gut but it's been like that for a looong time.
Lesson #1 in buying media. Don't say "I'm and affiliate". Refer to yourself as a "media buyer" for clients. Hell call yourself and agency if you want, make a little site up. Sound official they'll bite.
Lesson #2 if they don't allow affiliate offers get a unique jump link from you network that doesn't say a4dtracker or cpaclicks. We have all kinds of other redirect domains you can use. Then just say, you own tracking systems for all your media buys or it's part of your ad server.
Lesson #3 if you know they don't allow affiliate offers don't go try and run singlesnet, true, match, gamevance, zwinky's or any of the other shit they'll know you obviously don't own. Pick offers that look like you could own them.
Lesson #4 come with confidence. Act like you buy media all the time even if you don't.
"Hi we're a boutique agency that is an AOR for a handful of merchants. We buy all their media and are always looking for more distribution for our partners. Please contact me asap, because we have a budget allocation of X to spend on new media this month. Thank you very much, now suck my balls mr. garrison."
We do this with a number of sources that don't allow affiliates or affiliate offers they never even ask.
Remember it's all about perception. Perception = reality.
Just my 3 cents.
Lesson #2 if they don't allow affiliate offers get a unique jump link from you network that doesn't say a4dtracker or cpaclicks. We have all kinds of other redirect domains you can use. Then just say, you own tracking systems for all your media buys or it's part of your ad server.
Lesson #3 if you know they don't allow affiliate offers don't go try and run singlesnet, true, match, gamevance, zwinky's or any of the other shit they'll know you obviously don't own. Pick offers that look like you could own them.
Lesson #4 come with confidence. Act like you buy media all the time even if you don't.
"Hi we're a boutique agency that is an AOR for a handful of merchants. We buy all their media and are always looking for more distribution for our partners. Please contact me asap, because we have a budget allocation of X to spend on new media this month. Thank you very much, now suck my balls mr. garrison."
We do this with a number of sources that don't allow affiliates or affiliate offers they never even ask.
Remember it's all about perception. Perception = reality.
Just my 3 cents.
Funny thing is, right after I posted my last post in this thread, I saw an ad on Reddit placed by the agency I used to work for, using their tracking domain. Just say you're an agency an things go through (if it's believable).