Hallo,
Thank you for posting it.
Well what you are saying it is true,... if you target forums you get more conversions, but in the opposite you get more people spamming for it.
Many forums do not accept links or images on your posts only in the signature, and to be honest before someone get into your signature you must get reputation.
This process will take a while and at the end for the time spent, it is not worthy.
Sending crappy traffic to banners will not get you into the pot, you have to create a marketing campaign for that, splitting and testing every day, spending time and effort to achieve your results.
If it was that easy just send traffic to a banner add, we all should be millionaires, but this is not the case.
There are however people around that with 50 billion impressions monthly, got nicely ROIs from their CPA networks.
But again of course with 50 Billion impressions monthly and 1 Million lead generated, you certainly will be more happy. But this does not means that the system works.
Becuase if you got attention with small numbers you will definitely see that for 30K impressions you get 3 clicks or more throught a banner ad advertising campaign and 0 leads. So it is worthless? It depends, will you ever buy a stock that does not make you any return?
For what is concern CPAs, they are not complicated but people are, and because you see banner ads everywhere on the net, people get used to them and many times consider them annoying.
In my opinion the efficiency of a banner ad advertising campaign today has not got the same efficiency compared to the one in the 90s.
Sooner the idea of banner ads advertising will be replaced by videos and no longer working.
You should see CPA in the long term as a form of investment, I mean in 10, 20 years time from now, what really will be profitable to get into.....and in my opinion I do not think CPAs for waht they are today, should be the ones to be considered for a long term profitability.