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lylaster said:
Can anyone help me out with this problem...

I have a dating ad that's killing it with .3 CTR and about 250% ROI. My AM told me the company's complaining because they're seeing affiliates not using the banners provided. Sorry but I can't get over .05 CTR with their shitty banners, esp competing against other ads with half naked women.

I'm wondering how could I run my runs, and hide it from the network and the company? Right now I'm using a subdomain, redirect from cpanel. I heard something about meta-refreshes. Anyone got any info?
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I don't see how any sort of redirect would help. Even if they see a direct link from your Facebook ad, they still need to log into a FB account of their own to see what your ad looks like. You are already using a subdomain, so you're already obscuring the URL someone sees initially. I would say you are doing all you can do in that respect...
 


I saw a Valtrex ad with a picture of a hot girl. I'm going to have nightmares for 2 weeks.

THANKS FUCKER.
 
Well its official, my network banned my use of the Bidz lead campaign due to "not enough traffic turning into buys". I was sending them tons of FB leads, perfect demographic imo, but I guess they weren't immediate buys.

Well duh, of course they may not buy immediately, but they likely will eventually now that they are getting bidz newsletters. It was a LEAD campaign not a sales campaign. I was a bidz member for months before I made a purchase, and it was a big one.

Kinda pisses me off but oh well.

Edit: I don't want to have a bad reputation, I'm not trying to game any network or vendor. Do you guys think it would be wise to try another network for the same campaign, or let it die?
 
What network were you running it on?

I've been running it on Neverblue and got the same warning from my AM. Bidz qualities your traffic after 4 days. Aka it allows 4 days for someone to make a purchase (which is slightly ridiculous). On top of that they expect that 10% of your leads actually buy something. All in all their requirements are pretty stupid, however it is in fact their money and they can "expect" whatever they want I guess.

My AM's supposed to contact me today or tomorrow with my quality score and whether I get to keep running it.
 
I have been told the opposite. I'm not sure what the current state of that offer is though but I'm sure I'll be hearing soon.
 
It was Neverblue. I talked with my AM last week and he told me the same thing. It normally would be fine by me but there is a second Bidz campaign that is SALES performance based that pays hella more. If I was interested in competing with the big boys in the diamond industry to get sales based keywords, don't you think I would use the higher paying sales campaign?

I did lead based to do exactly that.. take a lower payout but generate leads. Now its up to bidz to convert that lead to a sale. They send newsletters every other day to their leads. They will no doubt eventually get sales.

I don't want to shit on neverblue, I like them a lot. Just not happy with how this turned out. Here's the biggest killer.. the campaign was disabled, but I wasn't emailed about it. Good thing I checked... I could have lost a lot of ppc money.
 
I tried running that offer with NB but my CTR was complete shit.

There are other networks that have it. Advaliant has it I believe.
 
Rasher said:
Out of curiosity, how many leads per day were either of you doing? :P
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anywhere from 20 - 60. A handful were through YSM.

And yes the CTR was dying because everyone and their grandmother's were promoting the hell out of that ad. I was going to move it to YSM/google full time but got the ban-wagon before I could.

As for using it on another network... my AM at NVB told me that bidz was going to ban me. But I'm assuming it was actually NVB that did the blacklisting. I dont want to ruin reputation with another network, so I'm not sure if I should try again or call it a loss. I still had a few more bucks left in that campaign, and I planned on expanding it :(
 
Well even though that is a lead offer it does stress that payout is performance based and the advertiser watches it closely.

As for how many leads per day - a shit ton...well not really but hundreds.
 
goddfadda said:
Here's the biggest killer.. the campaign was disabled, but I wasn't emailed about it. Good thing I checked... I could have lost a lot of ppc money.
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The fact that they thought your quality didn't meet their standards is common with lead gens, especially when you deliver volume. The bigger issue is that they didn't tell you about disabling your campaign. There is no excuse for that and I would talk with your AM about that right away.
 
maximus said:
The fact that they thought your quality didn't meet their standards is common with lead gens, especially when you deliver volume. The bigger issue is that they didn't tell you about disabling your campaign. There is no excuse for that and I would talk with your AM about that right away.
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Thanks. Makes sense to me, they have to make money. I would have just opted for the sales then. Its payout was 5+ times higher than the lead.

FYI to you other FB guys, my sales were at 3% and 10% was the threshold. I was only running for about 5 days though, so I'm sure that number will increase over time even though its too late :mad:
 
what kind of cost per click are you guys seeing with Facebook ads?

The best CPC I can get now a days is 6 cents but thats rare. Average is 10 cents on my good ads.

On my shitty ads I pay up to 25 cents a click.

AM I getting a good deal, what are you guys paying?
 
darbsllim said:
what kind of cost per click are you guys seeing with Facebook ads?

The best CPC I can get now a days is 6 cents but thats rare. Average is 10 cents on my good ads.

On my shitty ads I pay up to 25 cents a click.

AM I getting a good deal, what are you guys paying?
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3-4 cents was my best.
Nowadays I'm wayyy up to 18 due to tightening restrictions. I could go lower, but I wouldnt max out my 1k budget with less.
 
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