I've got 500 clicks, but 0 sales)) What is the problem?

**germess** · 09-30-2009, 10:16 AM

I've registered with CJ two weeks ago, i'm using social networks to promote advertisers. Now I have about 500 clicks in my statistic, but still 0 sales. May be smb knows what is the problem? Thanks.

**Scotland** · 09-30-2009, 10:18 AM

Wow, with that many clicks you should have at least one conversion, then again it depends what your selling/offering and the people your offering/selling to.

What offer is it??

**just84** · 09-30-2009, 10:31 AM

i tried Facebook ppc with tons of clicks the same result 0 sale and 0 lead social networks traffic didn`t convert any sale

**germess** · 10-01-2009, 05:54 AM

Originally Posted by Scotland

Wow, with that many clicks you should have at least one conversion, then again it depends what your selling/offering and the people your offering/selling to.

What offer is it??

Pay per lead - eMusic, MobileFunster Pay per sale - Acronis (software) , Pugster (jewelry)Terapeak (eBay research) , Spotmau (software)

**TermsB** · 10-01-2009, 06:03 AM

They are not real prospects you are targeting. You're just targeting random people for a specific thing, of course that's not going to work well.

**~@-kanye-west-@~** · 10-01-2009, 06:07 AM

yes thats right.. best thing to promote on social networks are dating..

**germess** · 10-01-2009, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by TermsB

They are not real prospects you are targeting. You're just targeting random people for a specific thing, of course that's not going to work well.

Originally Posted by ~@-kanye-west-@~

yes thats right.. best thing to promote on social networks are dating..

Thanks for answers! I'll try dating.

**jfly09** · 10-01-2009, 06:28 AM

I was averaging $40-$50 daily with a cj merchant, but past few days $0 in sales. Same thing happened last month at least for my merchant, tracking was down for a week.

**talkmeow** · 10-01-2009, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by jfly09

I was averaging $40-$50 daily with a cj merchant, but past few days $0 in sales. Same thing happened last month at least for my merchant, tracking was down for a week.

how were you promoting the product?

**keith6andco** · 10-01-2009, 07:06 AM

laser target your campaigns - dont go loose - go tight - go long tail keyword, low volume = targeted - think buyer phrases - like"cheapest blue widget" - not just blue widgets etc

**penaakul** · 10-01-2009, 08:28 AM

search engine traffic is the best. that's why i don't bother to promote my properties using social network to much. you need to understand the buyer intention. just ask urself. if u using myspace/facebook and one advertisement catch ur eyes, what's the probability that u will buy that?
in another situation, u want to buy something but u want to get more information about that product. where do u go? google right.

i'm not a fan of social traffic at the past neither now. search engine traffic is what you need. i still making money from my articles which rank in page ones.

**keith6andco** · 10-02-2009, 12:42 AM

absolutely spot on - i think search engine traffic is highest converting of all

**jfly09** · 10-02-2009, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by talkmeow

how were you promoting the product?

I created a WH blog. Got my keyword as the domain and am getting good traffic from google.

**nahor** · 10-02-2009, 04:25 AM

Idk something is up. I'm am usually getting like 300-400 clicks a day and I make 15-20 sales a day. for the past two days I see 250-300 clicks for the day and made one sale yesterday, 3 today.

Now I know the traffic I have been driving hasnt changed, I feel like they are shaving all of a sudden... I go from $400 or so a day to $20-60 for the past two days? All that I look, nothing has changed on my end...

**germess** · 10-03-2009, 06:30 AM

Thank you all for answers!

**xbada** · 10-10-2009, 05:15 AM

I have had campaigns that would not start converting for weeks, and then would continue to convert long after I stopped sending traffic their way due to free trials running out and the sort.

**barca** · 10-10-2009, 07:36 AM

Originally Posted by nahor

Idk something is up. I'm am usually getting like 300-400 clicks a day and I make 15-20 sales a day. for the past two days I see 250-300 clicks for the day and made one sale yesterday, 3 today.

Now I know the traffic I have been driving hasnt changed, I feel like they are shaving all of a sudden... I go from $400 or so a day to $20-60 for the past two days? All that I look, nothing has changed on my end...

That happened to me a while back but not on nearly such a large scale.

I emailed one of the merchants who admitted their tracking had been off for a few days.
She said it was their fault and not CJs...

Damned annoying.

**barca** · 10-10-2009, 07:42 AM

Sorry Double Posted.

**krish22** · 10-10-2009, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by just84

i tried Facebook ppc with tons of clicks the same result 0 sale and 0 lead social networks traffic didn`t convert any sale

yes. social networks traffic conversion is very-2 poor.almost 0%.

**krish22** · 10-10-2009, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by penaakul

search engine traffic is the best. that's why i don't bother to promote my properties using social network to much. you need to understand the buyer intention. just ask urself. if u using myspace/facebook and one advertisement catch ur eyes, what's the probability that u will buy that?
in another situation, u want to buy something but u want to get more information about that product. where do u go? google right.

i'm not a fan of social traffic at the past neither now. search engine traffic is what you need. i still making money from my articles which rank in page ones.

yes buddy our good old article marketing goes on and on and on....

**kypter05** · 10-10-2009, 08:42 AM

Yeah social networks might be get heaps of traffic but if it is not targetted then it not going help other then pump up your stat counter

Im a born sceptic but it makes you think how much legit earnings affiliates would lose if the companies they are promoting just happen to hit "problems with thier tracking software system" every so often - so they dont get logged and credited properly. Those periods could add to substanial money if they they targetted the higher earning affiliates?

Could this be the new way of shaving so affiliate companies limit how much they payout but still earn income themselves

**shapsp** · 10-10-2009, 09:19 AM

facebook ppc just dont get you any sales.
just waste of money and time.
it is quite proven that social network traffic dont convert.
maybe for your fan page and etc yes.
but a big NO for sales.
dont waste your money the way i did.

**pokermakemoney** · 10-11-2009, 01:37 PM

facebook ppc best?

**Versus** · 10-14-2009, 05:10 AM

Originally Posted by pokermakemoney

facebook ppc best?

I wouldn't say so. I too have had no luck with social media. I was promoting a hairloss product for males, with 0 conversions for a free trial.

If you're promoting something on social media, it really needs to be heavily targeted... and more than likely free.

**lexmark** · 10-14-2009, 03:08 PM

There are plenty of grat CPA networks out there, WHY use CJ? they are scammers they took cash out of my acct after I sold several products priced over 2k usd each.. the excuse was "contact the merchant for payment"

CJ dancing!

Affiliate crying:

Mark.

**JCP21** · 10-17-2009, 08:24 PM

I had exactly the same problem as you do 1000 clicks no sales, you have to look at it in there perspective to understand why you arent selling. When you get that first sale, thats best feeling!

**sdtopensied** · 10-18-2009, 02:09 AM

I tried PPC on facebook for a while and found it to be a complete waste of time as well.

To the OP - were you doing PPC on Facebook (actually paying them to post your creatives)?

If you're doing PPC, I think you'll have better luck going with Bing or Google. I personally like Microsoft AdCenter (Bing) because of the lower cost. There is significantly less traffic, but I've found my conversion to be higher.

-SDT

Originally Posted by just84

i tried Facebook ppc with tons of clicks the same result 0 sale and 0 lead social networks traffic didn`t convert any sale

**blackma** · 10-18-2009, 02:15 AM

'What is the problem?'

You have a shit conversion rate!

Publishing through social media stinks. When people are on social media like facebook and twitter they are not in 'buying mode' and will more than likely just be clicking on your link just outta curiosity, I presume.
Nothing beats Google Adwords tbh (thy own 90% of worlds search traffic). Test some advertising campaigns on Adwords first and pick the onesthat are performing well and transfer these directly to yahoo or microsoft advertising for lower CPC. As sdtopensied said your conversions will be better. Google won't be long telling you that you are not getting conversions, believe me. When you are getting some conversions switch to yahoo/msn. Also track which keywords are working. I use tracking 202.

If all the above aint working you may just have a shit landing page.

**noob411** · 10-25-2009, 01:28 AM

I don't think you are targeting well enough. using outlets like twitter and facebook suck....to many bots to many advertisers its gone to hell......do it old fashioned and put some sweat equity in your shit...

**Bradm** · 10-28-2009, 10:22 PM

I have to admit that twitter has not been as good as I thought it would be, although I have sold a few computers from there, you need the followers and lets not forget that google will now be involved with searching the timeline, also I am just now promoting my RSS feeds. Ill let you know how it goes.

**small_town_boy** · 10-30-2009, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by lexmark

There are plenty of grat CPA networks out there, WHY use CJ? they are scammers they took cash out of my acct after I sold several products priced over 2k usd each.. the excuse was "contact the merchant for payment"

CJ dancing!

Affiliate crying:

Mark.

If we look at it that way, then every network is a scammer. Seriously, CB is a scam, CPA is scam, CJ is scam...common. Of course all of them are shaving and scrubbing and trying to keep money, but which normal network, isn't?