Am i being shaved?!?

battman323 said:

You *could* be getting shaved but not likely. The volume you're sending isn't worth shaving.

Is all the click traffic equally qualified? Are you suddenly getting new keywords that aren't qualifying the traffic as buyers? That could explain it.

Not all traffic is created equal. It's not just traffic volume but traffic quality that matters.

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Last week I was getting around 100 visitors a day, and making up to 30$, but that was YouTube traffic. I still have YouTube traffic this week, but most if is coming from SEO searching things like "*game niche* free download"... also what sucks about not knowing if I'm being shaved or not is not being able to optimize my website - maybe what I have now is working and I just don't know because of shavings.

Nobody can tell if you are being shaved or not. What I noticed lately is that many people in different niches complain about bad conversion rates. Maybe it has something to do with this period of the year, and maybe it does not relate to you and you are being shaved badly.

But from my opinion, 3 conversions from 160 clicks is realistic for your niche.

Being shaved is far from the issue.

If you are making $13 from 160 clicks, try to double the impression and clicks to 2620/320 daily. You will probably make $26 or more daily x 30 days = $780.

You still have windows of opportunity if you can improve the quality of your traffic and tweak your landing page, your conversion rate will dramatically increase as well as income.

Kikerinka said:

Nobody can tell if you are being shaved or not. What I noticed lately is that many people in different niches complain about bad conversion rates. Maybe it has something to do with this period of the year, and maybe it does not relate to you and you are being shaved badly.

But from my opinion, 3 conversions from 160 clicks is realistic for your niche.

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Yes actually, many people on the network were having extremely low CR's... maybe it's just this time of year :/

john1444 said:

Being shaved is far from the issue.

If you are making $13 from 160 clicks, try to double the impression and clicks to 2620/320 daily. You will probably make $26 or more daily x 30 days = $780.

You still have windows of opportunity if you can improve the quality of your traffic and tweak your landing page, your conversion rate will dramatically increase as well as income.

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The thing is maybe my CR rate is high, and my landing is perfectly fine, but I wouldn't know that as my leads are being pumped down. But like you said, I will focus on driving in more traffic and see if that will increase my revenue. $780 a month sounds good!

Try optimizing your offers and reducing the ones in your locker to only 3. Perhaps your clicks will convert more. Plus, you can always ask your AM.

Your EPC's are perfectly normal OP - very similar to the ones I had in the niche in the past (of course it all depends on the countries - mine were mostly from india etc. - the fact that you left that out makes this thread pretty pointless TBH).

Besides you only got 160 clicks - step up your shitty traffic before you start complaining about the EPC's.

Ambassy said:

Besides you only got 160 clicks - step up your shitty traffic before you start complaining about the EPC's.

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you could have said it more diplomatically, but basically this

the sample is just not representative enough to tell anything at this stage
on the other hand w/ most offers the first few conversions come faster and you'll have a higher EPC then later when the EPC is stabilized to an extent, you can call that shaving, but that is what is realistic

Even if i was in fake hack niches, I would:

#1 Get at least 250 UNique Clicks Daily
#2 Create a convincing LP
#3 Bank

But it's easier when the people are getting what they are after - CR goes through the roof as well as EPC.

itank27 said:

Yes, I contacted him and he said "We don't shave, but we don't like working with people that accuse us so you can just leave the network"... and I probably will. Too bad I've tried over 10 CPA networks and they all seem F*cked!

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Agreed with this AM. Ask for help bro, dont accuse people of things. Until your doing solid and consistent volume, you arent in a position to accuse people of shaving. Your probly just new at being an affiliate and not very good yet. if your really that concerned, then split-test offers, you can probly find the same offer on another network, or just go direct with the advertiser, complaining about things wont help you become successful in this industry. If you really wanted good advice you should post up pics of your funnel and ask people how you can improve your conversion rate. there are people making 6figs/month in this forum that you can get help from very easily, and your not leveraging that at all.