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Facebook Christian Dating Campaign!

Posted by Riley | Posted in Facebook, PPC | Posted on December 18th, 2009

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Here’s a golden ticket for all you noobs that haven’t made any money online.

Have you always wanted to break into a profitable niche on Facebook?  Want to break into a really competitive niche that you can run forever and make some money?  There are guys that have been running dating campaigns for 2, 3 and 4 years and probably even longer than that.

You need a few things to get you started.

First, go signup at Neverblue under my referral link.  If you do this and are having problems with this campaign, IM me and I’ll help you personally.  You’ll want to run Christian Mingle as I’ve converted this exact offer between 18-20% over a months time using ad copy very similar to what I’m about to give away.

Next, go download the 700+ Facebook dating images Justin Dupre has provided.  There are some GEMS inside here.  You’ll have to figure out which ones by split testing.

Below are exact copies of my ad copy and stats for this one ad.  This was run awhile back while I was split testing True Christian Singles.  I actually recommend split testing these two offers to see which one performs best for you.  You can see I was running CPC here as it was before I because a huge advocate of only running CPM.  I suggest you run CPM only.  I’m working on a post for this that you should be expecting soon.

The key for targeted traffic here is keywords!  For this particular ad I was targeting the following keywords: christian, church, god, jesus or jesus christ.  You can expand on these keywords by targeting christian music, gospel music, christian books, christian artists, etc.  Don’t forget to use the suggested keywords.  If you don’t know what one of the names are that is suggested, Google it!  If it’s related to Christianity, include it!  At one point my keyword list was approaching 100 keywords.

Personally, I like to setup separate campaigns in Prosper for all the demo’s I split test by, including age and gender.  I also setup separate campaigns in Facebook so it’s easier to track my profit/loss by campaign and either pause or adjust my budget accordingly.

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What else do you want from me?  Go make some monies!

Control your Destination URL

Posted by Riley | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Facebook, Myspace Ads, PPC | Posted on December 9th, 2009

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Sorry to steal some of your thunder AdHustler, but this cannot be talked about enough.  You absolutely must control your destination URL.  Since I do most of my advetising on social media I’ve figured out a way to always control my destination URL.

You can do this by cloaking Facebook the right way as I talked about in my previous post.  If one of your offers ever goes down you can just switch out your tracking link to a new tracking link point to a different offer or the same offer on a different network.  This will help tremendously if you want to use establish ads with a good CTR to test out a new offer.

I’ve also done a little customization to the Facebook cloaking script to use it on MyAds and POF so that I can always control where my user ends up.

How to Cloak Facebook Ad Reviewers (the right way!)

Posted by Riley | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Facebook, PPC, Recommendations | Posted on December 4th, 2009

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Do you have a need to cloak the Facebook Ad Reviewers?  I know I need to often, especially when I advertise internationally.

To do this is pretty simple. I use this method and it works like a charm.  Download the Facebook Cloaking Script over at Affiliate Plex.  He has a pretty thorough how to from installation to utilization.

To get around the GeoIP redirects send the reviewers to Singlesnet, your landing page or domain that your offer is on.

[UPDATE]: To bypass any of the tracking that you or the merchant does and any GeoIP redirects that the reviewer may come across, cloak them to the url of the actual merchant lander.  This is especially helpful on Neverblue as any person’s IP that doesn’t come from the country that your offer is good for, goes directly to WebFetti.

I’m sure you can figure out ways to use this for a different purpose, but I neither condone these actions or use this script for that purpose.

Facebook checking up on me?

Posted by Riley | Posted in Facebook | Posted on March 18th, 2009

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I think Facebook is trying to find out if I’m up to no good.

For all you affiliates pushing any kind of offer you should always control your destination url.  In addition to that I also have to cloak my offers when I run foreign traffic and I run all my cloaking thru one domain.  When checking my referers this past week it made me wonder if Facebook is looking into my ads.  Has anybody seen these referrers before?

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Facebook Campaign Case Study

Posted by Riley | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Facebook, PPC | Posted on January 28th, 2009

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I made a post about this on WickedFire, here.  Anybody who thinks they can use the suggestions in the thread and apply it accordingly, feel free to do so.

Here’s an example of one of my campaigns on Facebook. This particular campaign wasn’t profitable, but I believed it had potential. This is also a recurring niche for those of you who are familiar with big sporting events and can take advantage.

Alright, I’ve blown through a decent amount of my $250 in Facebook coupons in my account. I have yet to get a SINGLE conversion using Facebook.

I wanted to get some insight on what I’m doing wrong in a particular campaign. Sorry if I’m outing anybody’s niche right here. I tried this as and I knew I would get some conversions for it because people feel strongly about their college football team.

I didn’t get the opportunity to split test because I only threw this offer up the Tuesday before the game.

Here’s my ad:

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It is direct linking to the offer which is here: Sportsviews – Sports Social Network

I was targeting males between 16 and 24 years old in Florida and Oklahoma. I had a CTR of 0.07% and was paying and average of $0.28 per click. The payout was $3 per signup and I sent them 66 clicks and didn’t see a single conversion.

I know my targeting could’ve been better using keywords such as Florida Gators and/or Oklahoma Sooners. But I was in a hurry to launch this campaign.