And They Said ****** Traffic is Worthless...

[PatJustPat]

It all depends on geo and offer. Found my sweet spot. URL shortener traffic... gotta love it.

Cost of traffic: 15 USD + VAT
Earnings: 46 Euro
ROI: Bloody massive.

My first dollars made using paid traffic. Thanks to my very friendly affiliate manager.

Let's dance and get a beer.

 

[wisdomkid]

Now Pat, that calls for a celebration. Congrats to making your first dollar.

 

[TomTheCat]

ROI: Bloody massive.

284.03%

 

[InstagramDude]

284.03%

you forgot to include vat

 

[PatJustPat]

Too early to tell. It has varied wildly from 20% - 284% if you calculated that correctly. I hope that after just over 6000 clicks the stats reflect the true ROI now... but this is kinda sketchy traffic.

Hope it holds!

 

[draco02]

It all depends on geo and offer. Found my sweet spot. URL shortener traffic... gotta love it.

Cost of traffic: 15 USD + VAT
Earnings: 46 Euro
ROI: Bloody massive.

My first dollars made using paid traffic. Thanks to my very friendly affiliate manager.

Let's dance and get a beer.

VAT?
And what do u mean by url shortener traffic?
Do u mean it like you monetized the traffic with url shorteners like adfly?
Or do u mean it like u bought traffic which comes from url shortened links and redirected it to affiliate offers?

 

[TomTheCat]

you forgot to include vat

I have added 19% VAT and EURUSD $1.10. I still don't know the timespan in which OP did that amount.

 

[PatJustPat]

The last one. Original thread title included the name of the URL shortener but it seems to be a banned term.

Today, in a few hours.

 

[TomTheCat]

Today, in a few hours.

Then, is very good! If you can scale it is perfect!

 

[PatJustPat]

Hah! I wish! For this GEO there is a ton more traffic, but people are bidding as high as 10 USD or more I believe, instead of the original 2.5 USD per thousand klicks.

Let's see how long this holds before the competition gets hold of it...

Btw, that much I can tell: For German traffic you could get a profit too, IF VAT wasn't at 19% in Germany. Hint hint for someone who is in a country with low-low taxes? ;-)

 

[TomTheCat]

Hint hint for someone who is in a country with low-low taxes?

Canary Islands

 

[rafark]

Now scale it up!!

 

[PatJustPat]

As soon as my CPA network tells me I am on daily payments and the first check comes in.

Already checking out other URL shorteners... ;-)

 

[dabz5]

Now scale it up!!

How can you scale when you pay for traffic?

 

[PatJustPat]

Pay more for the traffic. Around 9 advertisers are around in the GEO, and they're bidding up to 16 or 17 USD instead of the regular 2.5 USD per thousand clicks.

 

[rafark]

How can you scale when you pay for traffic?

I would dare to say scaling when you're paying for traffic is in fact the easiest and fastest way to scale your business.

 

[syslay288]

I wish you could guide me.

 

[PatJustPat]

Look up "URL shorteners", signup to a CPA network (might get difficult as a newbie, I guess I got lucky). Ask your affiliate manager for a suitable offer, and start testing on different GEOs.

With a little bit of luck, you will get lucky and your affiliate manager will recommend you something that works. That happened to me...

 

[PatJustPat]

Update on the adventure: Running traffic over night was a bad idea. Zero conversions, and the traffic slows down. Probably too many people bidding on the traffic in total also, because I get only about 500 visitors or less per hour at the moment.

No way I can go higher with this offer, conversions are too low for that.

Still, a ROI of 10% today, even accounting for the "zero conversion night". Will observe further.

 

[Mr Positive]

Did you get paid.