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Case Study: Using POF Conversion Tracking to make a Profitable Campaign – Phase 2

Posted by Riley | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Case Studies, CPM, Plenty of Fish | Posted on July 23rd, 2010

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I spent $550 and tried to split the amount between the male and female campaigns for Singlesnet.  I’ve included a copy of ad copy split testing results and the conversion breakdowns for both, males and females. For the campaign targeting males I spent a total of $300.89 for 26 conversions at $4.00, resulting in a loss of $196.89. When it came to females I spent $254.43 for 21 conversions at $4.00, which also resulted in a loss to the tune of $170.43. These kinds of losses can be expected when you do really broad targeting to a really broad dating offer. My goal here was to try and find certain target criteria that converted better than others and I did just that, which I’ll talk about shortly.

Here you will see the ad copy split testing results and conversion breakdown for criteria with more than 5 conversions for the male gender.

Ad Copy Clicks Conversion Rate
Single Available Women 173 2.89%
Single Women 140 2.86%
Want a Girlfriend? 271 6.27%
Factor Conversions Conversion Rate
Education – Bachelors Degree 7 7.61%
Body Type – Average 11 5.56%
Income – 35,001 to 50,000 7 5.22%
Age 18-30 20 4.66%
Drinking – Socially 19 4.58%
Relationship – Long Term 6 4.35%
Body Type – Athletic 10 4.31%
Country – USA 21 4.19%
Education – High School 6 4.11%
Car – Yes 17 3.95%
Relationship – Dating 10 3.94%
Smoke – No 15 3.79%
Marital Status – Single 17 3.68%
Intent – Putting in serious effort to find someone 8 3.43%

As you can see from these results, I will be using the, “Want a Girlfriend?” ad copy, paired with a number of images that did well for me on this campaign. I will also be targeting men who have a bachelor’s degree, average body type, income from $35,001 – $50,000, drink socially and are looking for a long term relationship.  I will build out separate campaigns for each of these 5 criteria.  The rest of the targeting will be exactly like it was in Phase 1, except that I will only be targeting 25-29 year olds and leaving out the 30-32 year olds. They didn’t convert nearly as well as the 25-29 year olds.

And below you will find the ad copy split testing results and conversion breakdown for criteria with more than 5 conversions for the female gender.

Ad Copy Clicks Conversion Rate
Single Available Men 174 2.30%
Single Men 64 4.69%
Want a Boyfriend? 266 5.26%
Factor Conversions Conversion Rate
Relationship – Dating 6 4.41%
Marital Status – Single 14 4.32%
Smoke – No 12 4.17%
Car – Yes 12 4.03%
Country – USA 14 3.83%
Female – Age 18-30 13 3.82%
Body Type – Average 6 3.53%
Drinking – Socially 9 3.05%

Again, we see that the ad copy that performed the best was, “Want a Boyfriend?”. There were no obvious criteria that performed better than the others, so I’m going to leave the female campaign alone and focus solely on the male campaigns since it had more useful data.

I will be building the aforementioned campaigns tonight. Once they blow through the $500 in the coming week, I will make a follow up post with the results.

Please note that I didn’t pause any ad copy on purpose. I only checked the stats once a day and any images with .09 %CTR or lower was paused. So that is probably what contributed to the large discrepancy in the number of clicks each ad copy received.

Related posts:

  1. Case Study: Using POF Conversion Tracking to make a Profitable Campaign – Phase 1
  2. Case Study: Using POF Conversion Tracking to make a Profitable Campaign – Results
  3. Case Study: Using POF Conversion Tracking to weed out non-converters – Phase 2
  4. Case Study: Using POF Conversion Tracking to weed out non-converters – Results
  5. Case Study: Using POF Conversion Tracking to weed out non-converters.

Comments (14)

What type of profit did you make with this campaign, seems like it broke even?

Epic fail. I’ll be revising this post shortly.

Clarification. It was an epic fail for me not posting those numbers.

Case Study: Using POF Conversion Tracking to make a Profitable ……

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog :)

Ah, lol. It’s all about the profit right? HAHA.

[...] Riley Pool Buzz: I spent $500 and split the amount between the male and female Campaigns for Singlesnet. I’ve included a copy of ad copy split testing results and the. [...]

So now are you going to go back and only target those types this time? Switch up some images and bank from there maybe.

Yes, I’m making 5 unique campaigns. They will target the specific education, body type, income, drinking behavior and kind of relationship they’re looking for.

it was very interesting to read rileypool.com
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?

What network was this on? My aff manager tells me he can’t place the Pof pixel because it’s unsecured…

Convert 2 Media. This could vary by network. It’s definitely something that should be brought to the attention of Ben and Markus.

Yeah, I’ve sent an email to Ben, no reply yet. I’ve also tried to place it myself on C2M and it didn’t work. The aff manager should be able to place it though. Thanks :)

Hi

Really good blog post (thank you!)

I’ve been thinking of running a POF Campaign for one or more Clickbank Products (as I don’t really see the logic of promoting other Dating Services on a Site that’s obviously attracting folk who have chosen to go with POF’s ‘Free’ Dating Service).
However, ‘Dating’ is a new niche for me, so I’m not the best judge of this.

I’m annoyed by the fact that – unless I register with POF as someone looking to ‘date’ – it seems like (as a registered POF Advertiser) I can’t view the site in the same way as as the ‘dating community’ using it to look for (lets say) ‘love’. Have you found a way to see other advertiser’s ads on POF without signing-up as though you wanted to look for ‘romance’?

Also, do you have an opinion as to whether ads for ‘Dating Related’ Clickbank Offers would be as cost effective and profitable as (say) placing the same ads on Google’s / Yahoo’s Content Network?

Finally, do you know if anyone has produced an independent guide / course to POF? The POF ‘PDF’ for advertisers is OK, but could benefit from more info (such as detailed case studies). Perhaps you ought to write a POF Course and sell it!

Best Wishes from the UK
Martin

Hi Riley,
Just wondering, can you create a PDF that has this whole case study(basically cut and paste each blog entry into a PDF).

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