Recent content by starkwaters

honestly the payment issue is the real bottleneck for most people trying to scale there... if you dont have mobile money or local processors integrated its just a waste of budget. but the traffic volume is definitely there if you have the patience to filter out the garbage zones. pop is always...

tbh the payment processing is what kills most of these startups before they even get going. you can find a decent source in china and get some tiktok traffic but the moment you try to scale, your merchant account gets flagged and they hold your funds for 180 days. unless you have offshore...

That domain ban drop sounds brutal... always the part of CPA stuff that makes scaling annoying. Curious if you’re just swapping in fresh domains now or if you’re rebuilding the funnels a bit so it doesn’t happen again. Also maybe one niche was carrying most of the volume?

unlinked brand mentions are probably the easiest on your list if you already get some traffic... just setup a google alert, and if someone mentions you without linking, send a quick email. usually has a decent success rate since they already know who you are. but yeah, skip guest posting if you...

The bigger risk usually isn’t some dramatic arrest, it’s the boring stuff getting pulled out from under you... host, domain, payment processors, ad accounts, bank, all that. If you’re gonna touch that space, the jurisdiction you’re in and where the company sits matters way more than people make...

tbh camera movement is another big giveaway... if the whole video is handheld and you suddenly cut to a perfectly stable tripod shot it just looks off.

tbh try setting a max cpc limit on your automated bidding strategy. just do it gradually so you don't choke the algorithm and kill your volume...

tbh the biggest issue here isn't even the high bounce rate, it's compliance. Outbrain and Taboola are incredibly strict about traffic sources and landing page consistency. if their compliance teams detect adult referrers or suspect any kind of cloaking they will just ban your account and freeze...

checked out the site, looks like a solid stack. is the docker setup lightweight enough to run on a basic vps or does the redis and mongo queue eat up too much ram? tbh some of my target sites are pretty aggressive with cloudflare so i might need to test how the proxy setup handles it. thanks for...

honestly sim routes in bangladesh are a massive headache right now and have been for months. the local telcos upgraded their firewalls so cross operator blocking is super aggressive. if you are doing otp or anything time sensitive direct route is pretty much the only way to go even if the cost...

tbh claude 3.5 sonnet is still the king for writing flow, gpt4o just sounds way too robotic. but you definitely have to do it section by section. if you try to generate the whole thing at once it just repeats the same three points over and over to hit the word count... doesn't matter what prompt...

Broad targeting is great in theory but if you don't have the budget to train the pixel you just end up burning cash on junk. Honestly feels like keeping accounts alive and managing domain bans is half the battle anyway these days, no matter how good your creatives are...

Please send samples of Quality guest posts.

idk if i quite hit the 1k posts mark yet but been here way longer than 5 years. if i qualify id love to grab one of these to test out. thanks

Yeah @TommyBerger makes a solid point about the exit scams, renting a gate is a massive risk. i get why people want to do it since the setup for a real offshore merchant account is expensive like @JasmineSmit said, but renting is just a ticking time bomb. even if the holder doesn't rip you off...