I tried doing a 28-Day Challenge in February and ended up being banned from Facebook in the middle of the month and I said I would try it again, so here it is…

Let’s say I’ve been really slacking the last two months and I haven’t had any motivation to work.  I’m trying to hold myself accountable by stating I would throw up 30 campaigns in 30 days and see what I can make happen.

My main traffic sources this time around will be PlentyofFish, SiteScout and TrafficVance.  I will mainly be doing direct linking, but I’ll have a few campaigns with landers.  I’ll try to keep you all updated weekly and let you know what transpires.

I know I did this last time and I had seen great success with a few campaigns and I’m hoping that’ll happen again this time.

If you have any offer suggestions, let me know in the comments below  If you do suggest an offer, I’ll provide detailed feedback on how I setup the campaign in my weekly updates.

Bevo Media is already well-known in the affiliate industry for creating some stiff competition for the Tracking202 team when they released their own PPC tracking platform.  Earlier this week, the Bevo Media team officially launched PPVSpy and it has been deemed an industry changing product.  That last sentence is especially true for advertisers heavily involved with this kind of traffic.

The release of PPVSpy coincidentally comes right about the time I wanna tackle this kind of traffic.  I’ve had some success from one campaign in the past, but it was luck if you ask me.  I’m hoping PPVSpy can help me diversify my income stream.

What I wanna do for my fellow affiliates is break this tool down, let you know exactly what PPVSpy does, give my thoughts about it and let you make your own opinion.

Search – this feature allows for you to search through the countless number of landers, offers and niches that PPVSpy has found

1. Popups – this appears to be a collection of the landers that PPVSpy suggests is being used.  You can then dig further to find out what other landers are being used and what domains are being targeted
2. Offers – do you wanna know what other affiliates are using as landers on a particular offer or what their targets are?   I just found out.
3. Niches – are you wanting to break into another niche? Find out what landers are being used and what domains are being targeted right now!

View Pops – any time your mouse scrolls over a lander a menu will pop up with three links under the view pops section.  The links available are below.

1. Campaign – do you want to know specifically what landers are being used on this particular campaign? Click here.
2. Niche – PPVSpy will show you every lander being used in this niche.
3. Offer – every lander being used on this offer will be at the click of your mouse

View Targets – my favorite part, let’s see what everybody is targeting to make monies!  PPVSpy even gives you targets in domain.com format!

1. Campaign – want a list of every domain that is begin targeted in this campaign?  You got it.
2. Niche – do you want an even larger list of domains being targeted within this entire niche?  You’ve got that too.
3. Offer – again, every domain that is being targeted by this offer is made available to you, instantly.

As someone who has only briefly dabbled in PPV and wants to jump back into the game full force I find that this tool is excellent for launching new campaigns.  You can use the targets for each campaign and offer and add those immediately to your PPV campaign.  Matter of fact, one of the campaigns I’m starting with the help of this tool is going to be a PPV case study which I will be posting about in the near future.  If you really want to go all out you can take those targets it gave you and plug them into your favorite keyword tool and see what keywords you can also throw into your targets.

I can already tell you right now that PPVSpy has already saved me a ton of time by allowing me to setup campaigns and enter targets very quickly.  I like to setup generic campaigns, get some traffic, see how they perform, optimize and scale accordingly.  Normally, I would have to break out a scraper and scrape thousands of URL’s and then dig through that data to determine if it the site had relevant information.  Instead I have 500 targets that I was able to scan and see that these domains matched what I want to target within a matter of just a couple minutes.  I’m already sold on this tool, just because it’s taken out the biggest headache for me already, setting the initial targets.

If PPVSpy and its features look enticing to you, I definitely suggest giving it a try.  Some of you newer affiliates, be warned, the pricing for PPV Spy is $385/month or a $999 lifetime membership fee.  PPVSpy won’t be available indefinitely, as there are only 1000 licenses available.  So if you miss out and change your mind later, you’ll be out of luck.  If you’re on the fence, at least check it out for a month to determine if you wanna purchase a lifetime membership.

I do see some room for expansion for those of you that get in it now.  As far as I could tell nothing more than domain.com was used in letting you know what was being targeted and no keyword targeting information is available.  I’m not sure how either would be implemented, but I’m not good with that kinda stuff.  I did notice that some pops and targets for a campaign seemed to match the same pops and targets for an offer.  This may just be because they’re still gather more data or, maybe only one person is running that particular offer.

Another nice feature of PPVSpy that I haven’t mentioned yet is if you want to know specifically what is being popped on a URL you can suggest it be checked by PPVSpy and they’ll do the rest of the work for you.

What are you waiting for?  Get PPVSpy today!

Dislcaimer: Since posting this, I’ve heard nothing good about Clicksor’s traffic quality, so proceed with caution!

So I’m just getting around today and was reading a couple posts on AffBuzz and came across this post, Spend $400 With Clicksor, Get $800! | StackThatMoney. I’ve never used Clicksor, but I figured this is as good a time as any to try it out. The deal works like this, if you spend $400 on a new CPV full page ad campaign, they will credit you $400 more to test that same campaign.

CPV Full Page Ad $400 Bonus Offer

Please note that this promotion ends November 12th, 2010 so jump on it if you’re interested!

Disclaimer: This is a crucial and often overlooked part of our business that I want to bring to other affiliates attention.  I also want to state that I do not believe that any foul play is being done by TrafficVance.

I recently started advertising with TrafficVance again.  I noticed you needed a new account to advertise internationally so upon signing up for a new account I took the time to read through TrafficVance’s Terms and Conditions for the first time.  If you haven’t read them, please take 5 minutes out of your day and read them, specifically Section 2.4.  I’ve included it below for your convenience.

2.4  License. Advertiser hereby grants to Trafficvance a non-exclusive, license fee-free and royalty-free, worldwide license to use, store, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display and digitally perform all of Advertiser’s Advertisements (including all Content) for purposes of performing its obligations under this Agreement and for related promotional and business purposes.

As I stated previously, I don’t believe that TrafficVance is doing anything shady in relation to this or there would have been numerous complaints and accusations by affiliates already.  I just felt like this was the perfect example to bring to light why we, as affiliates, should read the Terms and Conditions at any place we agree to do business with.  This especially includes, but isn’t limited to ad networks and affiliate networks.

Just so everybody knows, PPV isn’t the easiest thing in the world to master.  I recently read a thread on WickedFire that made me realize something.  If you bid on anything on TrafficVance your minimum bid is $10 CPM.  This is because the minimum bid is $0.01 x 1000 = $10.

I also tested out a number of campaigns and failed miserably and lost hundreds of dollars.  So if you’re worried about losign a few hundred testing, this is not something you should try.

What I’m giving away here was my first profitable campaign on PPV.  I’m going to let everybody know just how I did it.

First thing I did was sign up on TrafficVance.  When you first sign up you will need at least $1,000 to get started.  So if you’re not able to blow some money, don’t try out PPV.

Next, you will want to go and download Laser URL.  If you don’t know how to use this program go here for Laser URL Tutorial Videos.  You will want to search a very closely related term to your offer using Laser URL.  I always let it search 10 pages deep on all three search engines.  This gives me a number of URL’s to prune and use for testing purposes.  Once you get these URLs, export them to a spreadsheet and then I suggest researching each URL to see if they even relate to your offer.  If they relate, it’ll be one of your targets.

I ran the Mobile IQ Quiz – QuizYou over at EWA.  I used Laser URL to search for the term iq quiz.  I of course pruned my targets and threw the list into TrafficVance.

My first time through I made sure I was the highest bidder on all the URL’s I targetted because I wanted some good test data.  I let it run for a couple days and came back to optimize it.  Make sure you’re tracking where your traffic comes from using the %%$KEYWORD%% variable that TrafficVance uses.  This way you can see which targets are converting and what the EPC for that target is so you can adjust your bids according.

After some time I was able to drop all the low traffic and non-converting targets down to about 10 targets.  The only bad thing about this was that I had to monitor these things day and night because I would get into daily bidding wars on URL’s, especially my best converting URL.  This got tiresome, I finally just got fed up with it and was okay with being in the 3rd spot.  I noticed more and more competition coming in on my targets and I was eventually being out bid on all my target URL’s.  The headache to keep up with these bids eventually became so much that I quit running the offer because of the increased competition and higher bids led to a dismal ROI that was no longer worthy of my time.

I came back a couple months later and noticed all the bids were much lower than they once were so I turned the campaign on and let it run for a couple days.  For whatever reason the offer was no longer converting on these URL’s so I paused the offer and haven’t ran it since.

My gross revenue for this offer was $7,144.00 and my total spend for this campaign was $4,867.27.  That equates to a $2,277 profit and a 46.7% ROI.

P.S. – If you’re going to run a PPV campaign, I suggest that your Prosper202 install be on a dedicated server.  I always suggest LiquidWeb for any server you may need.