Another technical bit
Before we start, tonite's mood
Right now I host my landing page on the dedicated server as a small laravel application where all profile routing is done and smartlink/offer rotation selection before redirecting visitors to CPA page.
All data about lead(name, age, interests) are stored on another server so this landing page requests it via rest API and then caches it locally.
To get information about leads' geolocation I use 3rd party service(you know, one of those ip2location resolvers). And it limits me to 10k API calls per day unless I want to pay $600/year per next tear which will limit me to 50k/day. And it's one of the cheapest I have found which has quality. I don't like free(or cheap) ones because they have accuracy problems so if you want to have an accurate ip2geo resolver, it will cost a bit. But even high-priced ones will not be perfect so the cost/quality ratio is what matters here.
This service allows me to make cool add-ons like these:
(my test proxy apparently is located in Sterling right now. If lead is located NY, it will show that girl is from that region)
I'm hitting my limits with my current traffic already and unless I want to upgrade and pay $600/year, I need to find another solution.
And this thread is all about "free traffic" right? Paying for API services - feels like cheating in this case.
Anyhow, a large portion of my traffic comes from the US and IN. Both continents are far away from my EU servers, this does not help with page speeds either and in the end, customer satisfaction is important right? If my landings have to load relatively heavy video previews of hot girls then the poor guys waiting for it to happen - can lose all interest.
So now I have already two problems I want to solve with my landings:
- Speed, fast page loading times from all geos.
- Unlimited ip2geo with high precision.
And here is where Cloudflare workers can come in handy.
Here is an example script that can be used as a base for ip2geo resolver
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/geolocation-hello-world/
Example of how to handle redirects(to external CPA networks):
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/bulk-redirects/
A great example of how to deal with timezones(I use them in my landing as well)
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/geolocation-custom-styling/
CF geolocation has all the needed data for my landing page and it's free for 100k daily requests.
I'm now deploying my landing page on Cloudflare's Worker services.
Result: super fast landing pages & free ip2geo resolver.
If you want to, you can use cloudflare workers to host small HTML page for free that contains iframe or redirect to the smartlink, no need to pay for hosting.
All CPA networks should start to use this to host their prelanders on cloudflares edge. It would speed up their smartlinks and decrease costs by a lot.