Make sure to triple check your LPs

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So I was looking over one of my LPs wondering why after I sent all of this expensive traffic I only got a few conversions, and why my QS was shit. Well for one I found a link that wasn't cloaked, so that probably affected my QS. And for two, my main call to action wasn't linked, just an <a href="#">. These are all stupid ass mistakes and I have no idea how I made them.

Anybody lose a lot of money over a stupid ass mistake? I know some of you guys fuck up in Adwords putting the decimal for CPC in the wrong place.
 


JamesH said:
So I was looking over one of my LPs wondering why after I sent all of this expensive traffic I only got a few conversions, and why my QS was shit. Well for one I found a link that wasn't cloaked, so that probably affected my QS. And for two, my main call to action wasn't linked, just an <a href="#">. These are all stupid ass mistakes and I have no idea how I made them.

Anybody lose a lot of money over a stupid ass mistake? I know some of you guys fuck up in Adwords putting the decimal for CPC in the wrong place.
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not really

i usually make sure my main call-to-action button works correctly before firing a few thousand clicks at the lp

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JamesH said:
Anybody lose a lot of money over a stupid ass mistake? I know some of you guys fuck up in Adwords putting the decimal for CPC in the wrong place.
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Yeah I've got one. I had a new LP that I could use easily for multiple offers I was promoting, and I had a feeling it was going to do really well.
I checked it on different resolutions, firefox, internet explorer, and all was well. So I modded it and substituted it into what was at the time 3 of my biggest campaigns. Now after doing this I added the prosper202 javascript.

Well, apparently Internet Explorer flips it's shit if an external javascript is in a certain location under a few conditions. Completely bombs out. It shows the page for a fraction of a second, then an alert box pops up, and it closes itself. This is where I somehow put my JS on all 3 campaigns.

Needless to say, conversions were a bit lackluster that day.
 
xmcp123 said:
Well, apparently Internet Explorer flips it's shit if an external javascript is in a certain location under a few conditions. Completely bombs out. It shows the page for a fraction of a second, then an alert box pops up, and it closes itself. This is where I somehow put my JS on all 3 campaigns.

Needless to say, conversions were a bit lackluster that day.
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EXACTLY!!! That's really one thing I hate about prosper202. You need to have your html validated or else it'll not work in IE.
 
JamesH said:
So I was looking over one of my LPs wondering why after I sent all of this expensive traffic I only got a few conversions, and why my QS was shit. Well for one I found a link that wasn't cloaked, so that probably affected my QS. And for two, my main call to action wasn't linked, just an <a href="#">. These are all stupid ass mistakes and I have no idea how I made them.

Anybody lose a lot of money over a stupid ass mistake? I know some of you guys fuck up in Adwords putting the decimal for CPC in the wrong place.
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This kind of shit happens to everyone dude. If you know anyone that's not in the biz / you trust, ask them to go over the page for you. They might notice something that you don't.

Also, it's amazing what you can learn if you watch a 'computer illiterate' (ie, average user) interact with your LP / site / whatever.
 
My stupid mistake a while back.

I had a US only campaign I launched in Yahoo, well Yahoo has US/Canada on by default so I wasted a lot of $ before I figured out why my conversions were so low.
 
Dr_Ngo said:
My stupid mistake a while back.

I had a US only campaign I launched in Yahoo, well Yahoo has US/Canada on by default so I wasted a lot of $ before I figured out why my conversions were so low.
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space tab space tab space tab space ... wish Yahoo would just fix that shit already and add a US only option.
 
I re-vamped a site that I sent traffic from 2 different languages...well, I was so caught up with English, I forgot to upload the sub directory where I was sending the second language traffic to. After a few hours, my numbers were way low and no conversions from the second language page. Lost monies for sure!

I guess you have to do something dumb like that to teach you a lesson...I go over all new sites with a microscope now...kinda hassle, but worth it.
 
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