After working through Luke’s beginners guide, I set up a campaign driving PropellerAds traffic to Egypt smartlinks in Monetizer. The offers were taken from a top offers report and my traffic was targeted to the criteria laid out be the offers. Despite this, I couldn’t get the campaign profitable.
I put a post on the forum and Luke commented that the problem with “top offers” was that you didn’t know where the traffic was coming from or whether a landing page was being used.
For this campaign, I decided to just pick a country at random (as long as it was outside Tier 1). I don’t think I’d take this approach again because, once I’ve factored in the qualifying criteria in the offer, there’s not a great deal of traffic. So that’s the first lesson I’ve learnt from this campaign – check the traffic volumes first!
Selecting Offers
Once I’d chosen a country, I looked at the offers available. I copied them into an Excel spreadsheet, removed those that hadn’t earnt a great deal of income and the copied the qualifying criteria into the spreadsheet. I split them into two groups, cellular and wifi. There was only
I put a post on the forum and Luke commented that the problem with “top offers” was that you didn’t know where the traffic was coming from or whether a landing page was being used.
For this campaign, I decided to just pick a country at random (as long as it was outside Tier 1). I don’t think I’d take this approach again because, once I’ve factored in the qualifying criteria in the offer, there’s not a great deal of traffic. So that’s the first lesson I’ve learnt from this campaign – check the traffic volumes first!
Selecting Offers
Once I’d chosen a country, I looked at the offers available. I copied them into an Excel spreadsheet, removed those that hadn’t earnt a great deal of income and the copied the qualifying criteria into the spreadsheet. I split them into two groups, cellular and wifi. There was only
