Archive for June, 2011

Pre-Pop PeerFly Offers

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We have had the ability to pre-pop our offers at PeerFly for awhile and we have had pre-poppable offers before, but we have recently struck up a deal with some of our major e-mail submit advertisers to allow us to pre-pop all of their offers and keep the same payouts! This is great news for our PeerFly publishers!

What is a “PRE-POP” offer?

Pre-pop is short for pre-populate. An offer that allows pre-pop allows you to pre-populate a field on the landing page. With our offers at PeerFly you can pre-pop the e-mail address on some of our e-mail submits. I have included a list of our pre-pop offers below so you can see which ones allow it.

Why pre-pop?

Recently I have been talking about PPV a lot. With PPV, you are typically going to want to create your own landing page that is optimized for the PPV pop up window. Well, if the offer you are promoting can be pre-popped then you can include a form on your landing page to collect the users e-mail and then redirect them to the actual offer landing page with their e-mail pre-populated in the form. This will typically increase your conversion rate, which is always great.

How to pre-pop

With PeerFly it is very easy to pre-pop your offer. All of our offers that you can pre-pop have the tag [Allows Pre-Pop]. When you go to the offer page for one of those offers you’ll see the email= variable has been added to the URL string for your Long Link.

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Simply pass the users e-mail after that variable (ex: email=bob@example.com) and it’ll be automatically entered into the e-mail form on the offer landing page.

What offers can you pre-pop?

We will be adding more and more offers you can pre-pop, but you can find a complete list at anytime on PeerFlyOffers.com at our pre-pop list. You can find a similar list on PeerFly here. As I mentioned, they all have the tag [Allows Pre-Pop].

There are many advantages to pre-popping offers on PeerFly. If you have any questions about how to pre-pop our offers or if you need help finding offers please let me know!

Top PPV Networks

Top PPV Networks

I have been pushing PPV hard to my PeerFly publishers. We have been seeing great results from all the top PPV networks to our offers and I keep hearing great things from my publishers so of course, I push it to anyone who asks me for a good traffic source. But, what are the top PPV networks? I have discussed LeadImpact before, but what are the others?

Media Traffic

Media Traffic1 Top PPV Networks

Media Traffic is a very well liked PPV network by most PPV affiliate marketers. Their approvals process is a little bit of a pain. You have to print out, complete, sign, and send back your application. You also have to scan a copy of your ID (sound familiar?) and a front and back copy of your credit card.

However, once you’re approved you’ll find that the interface at Media Traffic is pretty good and easy to use. They require a $200 initial deposit and at least $100 on each refill.

The traffic quality is okay and they have quite a bit of it. One of the advantages to using Media Traffic over LeadImpact is that the pop up window size you get to work with is 1024×720, which is bigger than LeadImpact (775×400). Personally, I like LeadImpact more than I like Media Traffic, but I’ve had publishers do really well with Media Traffic and had campaigns absolutely tank on LeadImpact. As a beginner, I would suggest applying to either Media Traffic or LeadImpact and then as you get used to how the traffic works and getting your campaigns profitable move to both networks.

DirectCPV

DirectCPV Top PPV Networks

DirectCPV is the PPV network I typically suggest for PPV noobies. There are several reasons for it:

  • The minimum deposit on DirectCPV is only $100 and they typically have a promotion going where you can get some bonus money on your deposit. So, you might get a $25 bonus on your first $100 deposit.
  • They have less traffic, which means you are less likely to blow through your budget without generating any leads. It gives you more opportunity to work on your keywords and target URLs to ensure you’re getting the best results possible.
  • They use interstitial ads that display when the user goes to a page in their browser instead of pop ups like every other PPV network. The ads are full screen, which means you do not have to create your own landing page to optimize for the size of the window.

I believe all of the things I mentioned above are what makes DirectCPV the most noob friendly PPV network. If you’re just getting your feet wet with PPV or are interested in trying it out, I definitely suggest you sign up for DirectCPV and either Media Traffic or LeadImpact.

AdOn Network

AdOn Network Top PPV Networks

I do not personally have a lot of experience with AdOn Network, which is why it’s the most least likely network I would recommend to anyone pushing PPV traffic. I have heard good things about them, but primarily it seems publishers like the other networks more. I do have some information on them though:

  • They have a $200 minimum deposit.
  • The window size is the same as LeadImpact at 775×400.
  • They have a decent amount of traffic (similar to LeadImpact and Media Traffic, but more than DirectCPV).

Like I said, I recommend the other three networks I mentioned over AdOn, but if you have a profitable campaign working on the others it might be worth a try to see if you can get it working on AdOn.

Trafficvance

Trafficvance Top PPV Networks

Anyone who knows anything about PPV traffic knows that Trafficvance is the king network of PPV. They are the top network with the most traffic and the highest quality traffic. Of course, that comes with a price. The minimum deposit is $1,000 and you are required to be referred by someone in the network who is spending at least $50/day with them to join.

Once you are in you will find that Trafficvance has the best customer service and user interface than any other PPV network. Basically, it is the PPV network to be a part of. The main issue is the high minimum deposit and the referral. However, if you are running PPV traffic and are interested in joining Traffivance please do not hesitate to contact me. I am more than willing to be any of my PeerFly publisher’s referral if they have a proven PPV history with us.

Oh, and the window size for Trafficvance is 775×435.

Top 5 PPV Networks

Here is how I would rate which networks you should join based on my experiences, the experiences of my publishers, and what I’ve read on PPV forums and popular affiliate blogs.

  1. Trafficvance
  2. LeadImpact
  3. Media Traffic
  4. DirectCPV
  5. AdOn Network

This is the order in which I would suggest joining them:

  1. DirectCPV (great for beginners, low minimum deposit, low traffic)
  2. LeadImpact and/or Media Traffic (good quality, higher traffic, $200 deposit)
  3. Trafficvance (most traffic, $1,000 deposit)

Please feel free to post your opinions on the networks mentioned or other PPV networks in the comments below! I would love to hear about your PPV experiences.

 

PeerFly Stats Chrome Extension

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Update

Our Google Chrome extension has been officially released and is now available on the Chrome Web Store!

 

The other day I posted about our PeerFly Stats Firefox Add-on and today I want to tell you about our new (yet to be officially launched) Chrome extension.

Our Firefox add-on has been downloaded over 3,300 times and is used by hundreds of people every single day. After I released the Firefox add-on I immediately started to get requests from our publishers for a Chrome version. I started doing some research on Chrome extension development and it turns out it’s not that hard. Basically all it takes is a little HTML and JavaScript (I used jQuery). After a few days of coding and recoding, I had put together this:

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The extension is very easy to use. Click the link below to download and install. Once installed the PeerFly icon will show at the top right of your browser (as shown above). Click that icon and you will be prompted to enter your API authentication key. You can find that on our XML/RSS feed page.

Once your API key is entered you will be shown your stats for the past week along with:

I have been using Google Chrome for about six months now and I LOVE it. I have been using the extension for about a month now myself and have found it a very useful tool for quickly checking my referral count.

Please feel free to install it using the link below. I welcome your feedback and would appreciate it if you commented below with any questions or suggestions.

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Banking off of Recent Arrivals on Empire Avenue

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I recently wrote about my newest addiction and incredible time waster, Empire Avenue. Well, I have been placing Empire Avenue for about two weeks now and I have seen many of my readers sign up and start playing as well so I thought I’d a post about how you can effectively build up your net worth and dominate the empire.

Over the past two weeks I have been able to increase my net worth up to 271,663,516e.

empire avenue net worth Banking off of Recent Arrivals on Empire Avenue

I have primarily done that through building up my portfolio buying shares of recent arrivals and then banking off them once their share price increases from their new connections being analyzed. Here is a brief rundown of how it works.

Finding Recent Arrivals

There are new players joining Empire Avenue every minute. For the most part, their share prices all start at around 10e. You can find a list of recent arrivals by going to Search and then Recent Arrivals.

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Find Recent Arrivals with Connections

Okay, now here is the important part. These new arrivals have not had their connections analyzed or they may not have added their connections yet. Some of the people listed have joined within the past minute of you loading that page. So, you want to open up each user’s profile so you can see if they have any connections added yet. I open each user’s profile in a new tab using the small icon under their avatar on the right (profile icon Banking off of Recent Arrivals on Empire Avenue).

At the top right corner of the user’s profile you will be able to see their connections. The more connections the user has the better.

Empire Avenue connections Banking off of Recent Arrivals on Empire Avenue

Something like the image above would be ideal. This user has many connections that have not been analyzed by Empire Avenue yet. Once they are analyzed his/her share price should spike up.

Buy shares before it’s too late!

It’s important that you buy shares of this user before their connections are analyzed and their share price shoots up. I do not typically buy recent arrivals if their price is over 12-13e. The maximum shares you can buy of a recent arrival is 200 shares. I almost always buy all 200 or as close as I can get (depending on my capital).

You can monitor your portfolio by going to Profile and then clicking on My Portfolio & Lists. I usually sort by Purchase Time and watch my recent arrival purchases soar :)

profit on Empire Avenue Banking off of Recent Arrivals on Empire Avenue

You’re welcome to try this method and let me know how it goes for you. If you have not joined Empire Avenue yet I highly suggest you do, but only if you have some spare time on your hands :)

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