Loyal0
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- Oct 20, 2015
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Hi guys,
So I have seen a lot of interest in making money by running mobile popups, mostly by the method I posted in this forum previously. There was some confusion on how to do this correctly, so I have decided to make video's on this subject based on the tutorial that should really make clear on what the basics of making a landing page, hosting and starting a campaign are about. I am still learning the best way to make these kinds of video's, so bear with me
.
Basically this is what you do:
-Find a good CPA offer to promote
-Make a lightweight, good looking landing page
-Host the Landing Page on Amazon AWS (NO shared hosting!)
-Launch a popup campaign using services like Popads and Propellorads
-Tweak your campaigns to improve Conversion Rate and become profitable
So this is the outline of what we are going to do. Keep in mind that like any other method, there will be some details along the way that are important for your success and tracking is very important to get data so you are able to tweak your campaigns.
Let's go through these steps and see what we have to do!
Find a good CPA offer to promote
The idea of popup traffic is high volume, low quality. To make this work correctly you need an offer that is enticing to the visitor, loads quickly and should have a low effort action to be fulfilled.
Find an affiliate offer that you want to promote. Good converting offers are SOI/DOI, mobile PPI, email submits, sweepstakes, adult cam/dating etc. Some people on the other thread also mentioned running scareware like AV and RAM cleaning, try at your own risk!
Any offer that asks the visitor to purchase anything physical or anything expensive won't work, so keep that in mind while we go forward.
As an example I'll be using a sweepstakes offer for a chance to win an Iphone X.
Make a lightweight, good looking landing page
The key to success with popups is for a great part the speed at which you can show your popup to the visitor. Any extra seconds it takes to load your page will be detrimental to your profit. So we need a way to make lightweight, highly converting landing pages. Needless to say, any kind of CMS like Wordpress is completely out of the question!
Anyone with good HTML skills can make these landing pages from scratch. What I like to do is use popup templates that have been tested and been shown to work well with this kind of traffic.
The landing page generator Purelander I use is the same as in the other method. No generator is perfect, but I like the features that PL gives me to run popups.
These features are blackhat tricks to increase the conversion rate significantly. These tricks are for example disabling the Back Button so visitors can't leave the page, making their phone buzz, phone alerts, exit redirects and more. Some work, some don't. We can easily add these tricks to our landing page.
Furthermore the landing pages are all around 15-20kb, perfect for what we are doing. Make sure you compress the images you use on the landing page and don't load unnecessary external content on the page, for example any external hosted images.
In this video I will show you how I make my landing pages:
Hosting the Landing Page on Amazon AWS
Now that we have made the landing page, we are going to host it using Amazon AWS. The great thing about AWS is that we can easily add CDN (Cloudfront) to our page with a couple of clicks. Just make an account at AWS and click on "S3 buckets". You should make a bucket, make it public and just drag the landing page files to the bucket. Adding Cloudfront support is easy too, just click on new distribution on the Cloudfront page, choose the bucket you've made and you are done. I am going to link the hosted page to a .xyz domainname I have bought on Namecheap. In this next video I will show you how to do all of this correctly:
If you don't want to use AWS and if you want to use a VPS, click on the spoiler below for alternative instructions. This is harder to do than using AWS!
Click on spoiler below to check the alternative step:
Launch a popup campaign using services like Popads and Propellorads and tweak your campaign
So now that we have the landing page up and running, we are going to launch a popup campaign to generate traffic. I will use Popads as an example, but there are several popup services you can try out. Check out this video where I show you how to do launch a simple Popads campaign:
The key after launching the campaign is to analyze your traffic with the data from your tracker and tweak the campaign to increase your conversions and become profitable. You should blacklist the domains that give you low quality (bot) traffic and find the domains that give you good traffic. If you want to make this your main source of income you need a lot of practice and by throwing out not working campaigns and tweaking several profitable campaigns you run at parallel you can keep scaling your profits up.
This method might seem like a lot of work and seem to have a high learning curve (it does), but it will give you actual experience in real performance marketing which is truly a priceless skill to have. The first time you hit a profitable campaign, it will really feel like you have found a way to print money.
I will be working on another method where I will actually discuss a real life case report of a popup ran using this methods and the results and tweaking I do to increase the conversion rate, so keep tight
I hope that this method will help you forward on your internet marketing journey, if you have any questions just ask in this thread and I'll try to answer them!
So I have seen a lot of interest in making money by running mobile popups, mostly by the method I posted in this forum previously. There was some confusion on how to do this correctly, so I have decided to make video's on this subject based on the tutorial that should really make clear on what the basics of making a landing page, hosting and starting a campaign are about. I am still learning the best way to make these kinds of video's, so bear with me
.Basically this is what you do:
-Find a good CPA offer to promote
-Make a lightweight, good looking landing page
-Host the Landing Page on Amazon AWS (NO shared hosting!)
-Launch a popup campaign using services like Popads and Propellorads
-Tweak your campaigns to improve Conversion Rate and become profitable
So this is the outline of what we are going to do. Keep in mind that like any other method, there will be some details along the way that are important for your success and tracking is very important to get data so you are able to tweak your campaigns.
Let's go through these steps and see what we have to do!
Find a good CPA offer to promote
The idea of popup traffic is high volume, low quality. To make this work correctly you need an offer that is enticing to the visitor, loads quickly and should have a low effort action to be fulfilled.
Find an affiliate offer that you want to promote. Good converting offers are SOI/DOI, mobile PPI, email submits, sweepstakes, adult cam/dating etc. Some people on the other thread also mentioned running scareware like AV and RAM cleaning, try at your own risk
!Any offer that asks the visitor to purchase anything physical or anything expensive won't work, so keep that in mind while we go forward.
As an example I'll be using a sweepstakes offer for a chance to win an Iphone X.
Make a lightweight, good looking landing page
The key to success with popups is for a great part the speed at which you can show your popup to the visitor. Any extra seconds it takes to load your page will be detrimental to your profit. So we need a way to make lightweight, highly converting landing pages. Needless to say, any kind of CMS like Wordpress is completely out of the question!
Anyone with good HTML skills can make these landing pages from scratch. What I like to do is use popup templates that have been tested and been shown to work well with this kind of traffic.
The landing page generator Purelander I use is the same as in the other method. No generator is perfect, but I like the features that PL gives me to run popups.
These features are blackhat tricks to increase the conversion rate significantly. These tricks are for example disabling the Back Button so visitors can't leave the page, making their phone buzz, phone alerts, exit redirects and more. Some work, some don't. We can easily add these tricks to our landing page.
Furthermore the landing pages are all around 15-20kb, perfect for what we are doing. Make sure you compress the images you use on the landing page and don't load unnecessary external content on the page, for example any external hosted images.
In this video I will show you how I make my landing pages:
Hosting the Landing Page on Amazon AWS
Now that we have made the landing page, we are going to host it using Amazon AWS. The great thing about AWS is that we can easily add CDN (Cloudfront) to our page with a couple of clicks. Just make an account at AWS and click on "S3 buckets". You should make a bucket, make it public and just drag the landing page files to the bucket. Adding Cloudfront support is easy too, just click on new distribution on the Cloudfront page, choose the bucket you've made and you are done. I am going to link the hosted page to a .xyz domainname I have bought on Namecheap. In this next video I will show you how to do all of this correctly:
If you don't want to use AWS and if you want to use a VPS, click on the spoiler below for alternative instructions. This is harder to do than using AWS!
Click on spoiler below to check the alternative step:
Host the Landing Page on a dedicated server or VPS with low latency
Now that we have a landing page we can use, we are going to host it on our server. The key here is low latency, high performance. Since we are going to send a lot of volume of traffic to the server, we need ways to make the page load very quickly (<1 second).
Things to keep in mind:
Use a server location that is close to the GEO you are targeting.
Use lightweight software on the server that can handle a lot of parallel requests.
If the server is not located near your geographical target, you should use a CDN. There are some free options out there. Keep in mind that if the server is close to your GEO, a CDN will actually give more overhead and have no benefit for keeping a low latency.
I like to use DigitalOcean as a VPS provider. VPS hosting is really cheap nowadays and you can get good performance for a low price. Make sure to check reviews of the providers on the internet and look at high uptime, stability and quality support. If you are currently a student, check out the Github Starter Pack (link). Part of this starter pack is 50$ free credits to spend at Digitalocean and a whole lot of other free stuff we can use in this profession. If you do this you can test this out without spending anything for hosting for at least a couple of months!
Make sure you get a VPS with linux(preferably Debian) installed. I like to use Nginx as the web software. It's lightweight and has been shown in numerous benchmarks to have the best performance for this kind of highly parallel requests traffic.
Log in to your server.
Put in:
This should install Nginx on your server. Going to the IP of your server on port 80 should now show your landing page.
This should install Nginx on your server. Going to the IP of your server on port 80 should now show your landing page.
If sudo is not installed, you should do "su" and login as the root user and then run the command "apt-get install nginx".
Any other error you should be able to troubleshoot through googling, but for most people this will just work out of the box.
Here is a video where I show you how easy it is to upload the landing page to your server. I am using my local pi server to show you how this is done, on your vps/dedicated server you can do the same thing.
Now that we have a landing page we can use, we are going to host it on our server. The key here is low latency, high performance. Since we are going to send a lot of volume of traffic to the server, we need ways to make the page load very quickly (<1 second).
Things to keep in mind:
Use a server location that is close to the GEO you are targeting.
Use lightweight software on the server that can handle a lot of parallel requests.
If the server is not located near your geographical target, you should use a CDN. There are some free options out there. Keep in mind that if the server is close to your GEO, a CDN will actually give more overhead and have no benefit for keeping a low latency.
I like to use DigitalOcean as a VPS provider. VPS hosting is really cheap nowadays and you can get good performance for a low price. Make sure to check reviews of the providers on the internet and look at high uptime, stability and quality support. If you are currently a student, check out the Github Starter Pack (link). Part of this starter pack is 50$ free credits to spend at Digitalocean and a whole lot of other free stuff we can use in this profession. If you do this you can test this out without spending anything for hosting for at least a couple of months!
Make sure you get a VPS with linux(preferably Debian) installed. I like to use Nginx as the web software. It's lightweight and has been shown in numerous benchmarks to have the best performance for this kind of highly parallel requests traffic.
Log in to your server.
Put in:
Code:
sudo apt-get install nginxThis should install Nginx on your server. Going to the IP of your server on port 80 should now show your landing page.
This should install Nginx on your server. Going to the IP of your server on port 80 should now show your landing page.
If sudo is not installed, you should do "su" and login as the root user and then run the command "apt-get install nginx".
Any other error you should be able to troubleshoot through googling, but for most people this will just work out of the box.
Here is a video where I show you how easy it is to upload the landing page to your server. I am using my local pi server to show you how this is done, on your vps/dedicated server you can do the same thing.
Launch a popup campaign using services like Popads and Propellorads and tweak your campaign
So now that we have the landing page up and running, we are going to launch a popup campaign to generate traffic. I will use Popads as an example, but there are several popup services you can try out. Check out this video where I show you how to do launch a simple Popads campaign:
The key after launching the campaign is to analyze your traffic with the data from your tracker and tweak the campaign to increase your conversions and become profitable. You should blacklist the domains that give you low quality (bot) traffic and find the domains that give you good traffic. If you want to make this your main source of income you need a lot of practice and by throwing out not working campaigns and tweaking several profitable campaigns you run at parallel you can keep scaling your profits up.
This method might seem like a lot of work and seem to have a high learning curve (it does), but it will give you actual experience in real performance marketing which is truly a priceless skill to have. The first time you hit a profitable campaign, it will really feel like you have found a way to print money.
I will be working on another method where I will actually discuss a real life case report of a popup ran using this methods and the results and tweaking I do to increase the conversion rate, so keep tight
I hope that this method will help you forward on your internet marketing journey, if you have any questions just ask in this thread and I'll try to answer them!
