Critique My New Aff/Arbi Page.

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Looks better. I think removing the low paying stuff is a good idea.

I used to do site graphics for clients so for what it's worth...
I'm not sure if those anime/manga pictures at top and bottom speaks "movies" in a general sense. A web surfer doing a quick glance might think it only caters to anime. Perhaps get rid of the character and have a web 2.0 like gradient background and the box shots over it.

On the bottom you can make a custom banner with box shots of the latest hot movie rentals like. "Have hot movies like these delivered right to your door! Try it now!" If Blockbuster allows you to make your own creative.

I also find people like to click on images even if they are product shots. I had a web store where I added links to all the product shots even ones on the product page itself and my logs indicated people would click on them.

Unless you think it will affect your quality score I would test putting affiliate links on all the images.

How about putting more text link offers within the text body?
 


znine said:
Anyone else notice that the sign up page for that MaxBounty Blockbuster offer sucks and that you can get a 1 month free going direct to blockbuster.com instead of $9.99 going through this offer?
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Strange I didn't notice that before haha.

dekalog6 said:
Looks better. I think removing the low paying stuff is a good idea.

I used to do site graphics for clients so for what it's worth...
I'm not sure if those anime/manga pictures at top and bottom speaks "movies" in a general sense. A web surfer doing a quick glance might think it only caters to anime. Perhaps get rid of the character and have a web 2.0 like gradient background and the box shots over it.

On the bottom you can make a custom banner with box shots of the latest hot movie rentals like. "Have hot movies like these delivered right to your door! Try it now!" If Blockbuster allows you to make your own creative.

I also find people like to click on images even if they are product shots. I had a web store where I added links to all the product shots even ones on the product page itself and my logs indicated people would click on them.

Unless you think it will affect your quality score I would test putting affiliate links on all the images.

How about putting more text link offers within the text body?
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As for making the images more affiliate links, I was thinking of doing that but I wanted to focus more on getting the sale through the blockbuster offer so I removed all the other affiliate links.

For the bottom image, it is a screen shot of the DVD Final Fantasy 7, probably could play around with more images to get more of a general DVD feature thing like you were talking about but I don't think its that much of a deal, the images on the sidebar inform the viewer that there are many titles and categories to choose from.

The Hot movies section at the bottom sounds like a good idea, I might end up playing around with something like that.

As for now I'm more in the mood to take this thing live rather then spend much more time on the design and changing little things here and there, I'm just wasting time not testing, so until I get some solid tests down I think I'm going to leave it pretty much just how it is now, maybe play with the fonts a bit but that might be about it.

If the tests come back shitty then I'll continue tweaking things here and there.
 
By affiliate links on the images I mean linking to the Blockbuster offer from those current images not to other offers. That's also what I mean by text link offers. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Good luck with the site.
 
dekalog6 said:
By affiliate links on the images I mean linking to the Blockbuster offer from those current images not to other offers. That's also what I mean by text link offers. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Good luck with the site.
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haha ok yeah that makes much more sense to do it that way, I think I will do that and thanks hopefully this campaign will bring in some ok money.
 
Some comments....

1) First half of the ad text left me with "Yeah right" in the back of my mind. Yes, there are people like that, but it wasnt believable to me. I think you need to either make it "more" unbelievable (as in, "I cant believe this, I must continue reading...") or more mainstream stats to keep the reader.

2) Second half of the ad text was great, and I never realized that I could just drop them off back at the store and get new ones. Jeez, maybe I'll join. HA!

3) The last pic at the bottom seems random to me. Is it from some new movie? It's nice, but I dont get what the purpose of it is. At least put an affill. link on it of some sort in case I click it. :-) I'd also put an affil link on the top pic.

Good job though, I'd be interested to see how it goes - the payouts are great if you can drive the traffic to it.

S.
 
Scrabbler said:
1) First half of the ad text left me with "Yeah right" in the back of my mind. Yes, there are people like that, but it wasnt believable to me. I think you need to either make it "more" unbelievable (as in, "I cant believe this, I must continue reading...") or more mainstream stats to keep the reader.

2) Second half of the ad text was great, and I never realized that I could just drop them off back at the store and get new ones. Jeez, maybe I'll join. HA!

3) The last pic at the bottom seems random to me. Is it from some new movie? It's nice, but I dont get what the purpose of it is. At least put an affill. link on it of some sort in case I click it. :-) I'd also put an affil link on the top pic.
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I've took some of your comments to heart and decided to tweak a few things on it, plus I'm board as fuck right now so it gave me something to do.

1) I changed around the first half of the story a bit and tweaked the rest to flow nicely with the changes, I think now I've got a good story down, one that will keep the reader interested and one that is more belivable then unbelevable.

2) The last pic did seem kind of random so I tossed up a heading which says "Featured New Release" and put up a more relevant picture which I linked to the offer.

Now I just need to finish up a few keyword building things, get my campaign's organized, toss some money into them so I can start testing this bugger, however I might not get to it until the end of next week, yeah thats kind of long but I've got no choice.
 
Ok, couple more comments on the rewrite...

1) I like how you toned down the amount of movies to a more mainstream level. However, I think you should still discuss the numbers some - show how you end up at $120/month. People are lazy and probably dont even realize they are spending that much. If you lay it out, they might even say "Damn, I do even more than that!".

2) You need some SERIOUS help in the sentence structure. Punctuation problems and run-on sentences galore. If you turned this in for an English class assignment, you "might" get a D. That being said, it might make the ad more believable to some people and I have heard it said (Diorex?) that misspellings can actually help. So it's your call on this one.

S.
 
I scrapped a campaign with this a few days ago. I'm sort of a newbie, but I've had some mild success with other offers.

I let this run for 100+ clicks, and decided to drop it. I was getting a lot of clicks to the offer, but no conversions. I have a feeling that people might get freaked out giving there CC info out to a company claiming to be Blockbuster, but the form isn't on Blockbuster.com.

It's a small sample, and I don't claim to be a pro at this shit, so take it for what it's worth, and good luck.
 
Scrabbler said:
Ok, couple more comments on the rewrite...

1) I like how you toned down the amount of movies to a more mainstream level. However, I think you should still discuss the numbers some - show how you end up at $120/month. People are lazy and probably dont even realize they are spending that much. If you lay it out, they might even say "Damn, I do even more than that!".

2) You need some SERIOUS help in the sentence structure. Punctuation problems and run-on sentences galore. If you turned this in for an English class assignment, you "might" get a D. That being said, it might make the ad more believable to some people and I have heard it said (Diorex?) that misspellings can actually help. So it's your call on this one.

S.
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Well I don't want to make the story much longer then what it is but there is a chance that I'll tweak it some more once I get some tests done on it, as for the punctuation and run-on sentences, yeah I'm fucking horrible for that, never seemed to fix it when I was writing, just look at this little block of text lol.

scottspfd82 said:
I scrapped a campaign with this a few days ago. I'm sort of a newbie, but I've had some mild success with other offers.

I let this run for 100+ clicks, and decided to drop it. I was getting a lot of clicks to the offer, but no conversions. I have a feeling that people might get freaked out giving there CC info out to a company claiming to be Blockbuster, but the form isn't on Blockbuster.com.

It's a small sample, and I don't claim to be a pro at this shit, so take it for what it's worth, and good luck.
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Are you saying that the offer I'm doing now is not on a blockbuster.com site?, well your wrong and your right.

Your wrong because it is on a blockbuster.com site and your right if you live outside of the USA.

You see this offer is for USA residents only so if you live outside the USA you'll get re-directed to a different page, when I do my PPC campaign I'll be targeting individuals that live in the USA, as well I'll do some research on which age group to target, and which demographics work the best, its about knowing your audince.

You said you were a newbie, do you ever think about what kind of people your targeting, which age, which sex, which location, how much do they make per year, all these things can help make your conversions go up, but they can also waste you a lot of time, it all depends on which offer your going after. This particular one will call for a bit of demographic research to bring in more conversions, I'll have to target my audince with more then just keywords.
 
Hmm,

Well, I'm in the USA and I get

https://secure.trade-interactive.com/cgi-bin/blockbuster/......

for the display URL. Not sure if it matters, just saying it might.

To answer your other question, I put a decent amount of effort into my landing page, keywords, ad copy, ect, but no, I didn't put as much research into the demographics as I could have. At this point in the game I'm just testing out offers and keeping the ones that work. This one didn't work, so I scrapped it for the time being.

So, not saying you can't make it work, but it didn't work for me over the small amount of clicks I sent through.
 
scottspfd82 said:
Hmm,

Well, I'm in the USA and I get

https://secure.trade-interactive.com/cgi-bin/blockbuster/......

for the display URL. Not sure if it matters, just saying it might.

To answer your other question, I put a decent amount of effort into my landing page, keywords, ad copy, ect, but no, I didn't put as much research into the demographics as I could have. At this point in the game I'm just testing out offers and keeping the ones that work. This one didn't work, so I scrapped it for the time being.

So, not saying you can't make it work, but it didn't work for me over the small amount of clicks I sent through.
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Yeah not exactly sure whaz up with that URL, I'm in canada so I cannot click through to test it, I can only view the landing page for blockbuster through the affiliate network.

Well you've got a good thing going, testing and testing some more is the way to go, if something isn't converting right now focus on what is and you can always come back to a previous product is how I look at it.
 
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