I have two secrets to share with you and an observation.
The observation is that the sites with the best deals on traffic and advertising in terms of price tend to have the lowest quality traffic and will require more total visitors to achieve similar results to good advertising. Never buy traffic or advertising from a site with an Alexa rank over 300,000 as these sites can't even generate substantial quality traffic for themselves. A 300K Alexa rank is a site getting over 200K monthly visitors in most cases which means they are more likely to be on the up and up.
The other rank in my observation is Google SERPS not Pagerank which was discontinued over a year ago. If you have a tool like Jaxy you can look for potential places to buy advertising in popular low competition search terms. Look for sites with a QSR of 300 or lower so you are not in a bidding war for placements that will drive your cost up.
Now for my secrets:
Secret One is to look at the other ads on a advertising site like USFreeAds or CraigsList and see how many similar programs are advertised there. Also look to see if there are already several SFI Affiliates targeting your local listings because the more SFI Ads in one place the greater chance that these prospects will find SFI through one of them first and you'll just help finalize recruiting someone else's PSA. If there is a lot of local competition recruiting for SFI you can still list a few products for sale at TripleClicks if they have commercial product listings. You can also increase your odds of being the competitng affiliate who wins more referrals by writing better adcopy or paying for featured listings and bold headlines etc..
Secret Two is that a lot of competition is bad but a fair amount is beneficial. If you are the only person showing people SFI they may question if SFI is so great with so few promoting it. My first Traffic Exchange took forever to get off the ground because instead of running a JV or Launch and inviting others to help promote the site and setting targeted places for our team to advertise it was just me surfing a couple hours a day in a dozen exchanges. Most people I talked to said they didn't join because they only saw one guy promoting it. My second exchange I had a big launch week party with team surfs and JV referral contest and we were flooded with members because a lot of people were promoting this new exchange.
Likewise if there are a lot of people advertising SFI then the popularity of the program shines through but you have to find a balance because secret one can come back and bite you too. If too many are promoting it there will seem to be too much competition to succeed, the market will be flooded, and all prospects will have hear or read it all before.
Over 2 BILLION people are on the Internet, you are sure to find many places where SFI has never been heard of, if you come in strong and maybe share the recruiting ground with a handful of your top PSA you should do well, but go big and make sure you are in the game to win the game instead of just throwing up ads and leaving.
Use Tracking Codes, when possible opt for the paid listing, if it's a free traffic exchange instead of earning 100 credits and getting 100 views of SFI a day, earn 100 credits a day for a week and spend them all on Tuesday so your ads dominate the market when they run.
Have more ads at the best times in the best places and BAM your business will grow.
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I have two secrets to share with you and an observation.
The observation is that the sites with the best deals on traffic and advertising in terms of price tend to have the lowest quality traffic and will require more total visitors to achieve similar results to good advertising. Never buy traffic or advertising from a site with an Alexa rank over 300,000 as these sites can't even generate substantial quality traffic for themselves. A 300K Alexa rank is a site getting over 200K monthly
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