My first campaign and need some help!!

[sherlock]

This month I started trying to learn affiliate marketing, and I ran my first campaign yesterday.

Here is the information about my first campaign:

• traffic source: PropellerAds (traffic format: popunder)
• tracker: BeMob( free plan)
• network: Golden Goose
• offer info: geo： Cameroon ; vertical : mainstream ； category: Games, Education; conversion flow： HE+PIN

The purpose of running this campaign is to learn the correct process,so I used direct url and set both daily budget and total budget to 10$.
After I ran out of my budget, I saw 3k impressions, 0 click, 0 conversion.

Is this result normal? And what should I do for further learning?
Sincerely ask for some advice!

 

[Graybeard]

The purpose of running this campaign is to learn the correct process,so I used direct url and set both daily budget and total budget to 10$.

1. Did you test the link you used for the campaign at Propeller?
2. Did that click register OK on your tracker: BeMob( free plan)?

First things first ....

 

[sherlock]

1. Did you test the link you used for the campaign at Propeller?
2. Did that click register OK on your tracker: BeMob( free plan)?

First things first ....

Thanks for the reply!
I can see the data increasing in the tracker and postback to the network also worked,is that means the link is ok ?

 

[Graybeard]

Impressions mean loads of your page (bridge page/prelander)a popunder in this case (supposedly),
0 click on your popunder page? how would the tracker know that?
Conversions are posted back to the trackers URL from the seller's page

So this means that 3k impressions or events occurred at the ad networks counter

traffic source: PropellerAds (traffic format: popunder)

but you tracker shows 0 arrived and is shown as a click?

• on your server?
• or as a click on the network's
• or on the selling offer's servers?

Where is the click count's event occurring? (Or not occurring in your case?)

Are you following the documentation correctly? Add a Traffic Source From Templates

Traffic Loss

This guide describes how to set up the percentage of traffic loss for a traffic source.

docs.bemob.com

The discrepancy in statistics between a traffic source and tracker is a regular case.
A certain percentage of traffic can be lost on its way to the tracker due to the following reasons:

• traffic geo. For some African countries the traffic discrepancy can reach up to 40%.
• traffic type. As usual the most significant traffic loss is registered with pop traffic.
• bot traffic. There is no traffic source with absolutely human traffic.
• speed of internet connection. It affects how fast the website is loading.

 

[Marnie]

This month I started trying to learn affiliate marketing, and I ran my first campaign yesterday.

Here is the information about my first campaign:

• traffic source: PropellerAds (traffic format: popunder)
• tracker: BeMob( free plan)
• network: Golden Goose
• offer info: geo： Cameroon ; vertical : mainstream ； category: Games, Education; conversion flow： HE+PIN

The purpose of running this campaign is to learn the correct process,so I used direct url and set both daily budget and total budget to 10$.
After I ran out of my budget, I saw 3k impressions, 0 click, 0 conversion.

Is this result normal? And what should I do for further learning?
Sincerely ask for some advice!

Why are you running ads in Cameroon?

 

[Graybeard]

The purpose of running this campaign is to learn the correct process,so I used

Why are you running ads in Cameroon?

Because he is trying to practice on the cheap, that should have been obvious to you

Unfortunately, cheap traffic is generally poorly performing traffic: So it may really defeat the purpose for its use in the first place.

 

[sherlock]

but you tracker shows 0 arrived and is shown as a click?

• on your server?
• or as a click on the network's
• or on the selling offer's servers?

Where is the click count's event occurring? (Or not occurring in your case?)

tracker's statastics:

Visits | Unique Visits | WebView Visits | Clicks | Unique clicks | WebView Clicks | Conversions
2673 | 2582 | 918 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0


I don't know whether click event is needed or not in this case,maybe it just useless.

 

[Marnie]

Because he is trying to practice on the cheap, that should have been obvious to you

Unfortunately, cheap traffic is generally poorly performing traffic: So it may really defeat the purpose for its use in the first place.

Good Morning Graybeard.

Why would that be obvious when it makes no sense.

Even if it's just a $10.00 ad spend, target people who have money, not some third world country. No offense to anyone.

It wasn't that much money but if he had targeted better quality traffic, he might have made one or two sales.

Hopefully something was learned besides me knowing the location and demographic of Cameroon.

 

[sherlock]

Are you following the documentation correctly?

I followed the doc when I operated and it doesn't need to do much，just paste the url from propellerads , so i think I did it correctly.
The tracker BeMob is not selfhosted, is that a problem? Maybe the load is too slow?

 

[Graybeard]

Why would that be obvious when it makes no sense.

He is learning and I didn't think he was expecting many sales anyway.

This month I started trying to learn affiliate marketing, and I ran my first campaign yesterday.

Tables

Visits​	Unique Visits​	WebView Visits​	Clicks​	Unique clicks​	WebView Clicks​	Conversions​
2673​	2582​	918​	0​	0​	0​	0​

The 35% of your traffic WebView Visits were real people and started a session the other 65% were total garbage that you paid for in the CPM cost
Your tracker only tracks clicks IN and not OUT

Append BeMob click ID

From this guide you will learn how to set up the click ID parameter supported by your affiliate network.

docs.bemob.com

Bemob CAN report the WebView Visits and it can report the posted-back information --usually conversions


If you are using a landing page and want to track the clickout you will need to;
Make that tracker read a s2s post-back from your server of a click event firing.
Use in addition to a tracker Google-Analytics GA4 on your landing pages --recommended. Why?
Because your [button] is an GTM event in GA4
here I drew you a AI assisted Map read:

GA4 GTM and onClick Events

 

[sherlock]

if you are using a landing page and want to track the clickout you will need to;
Make that tracker read a s2s post-back from your server of a click event firing.
Use in addition to a tracker Google-Analytics GA4 on your landing pages --recommended. Why?
Because your [button] is an GTM event in GA4

I am grateful for your patience！

In fact I haven't started learning how to create and use a landing page yet, but I will do so in the coming period of time.
Do you have any relevant suggestions for this?

 

[Cecilia_7777]

This month I started trying to learn affiliate marketing, and I ran my first campaign yesterday.

Here is the information about my first campaign:

• traffic source: PropellerAds (traffic format: popunder)
• tracker: BeMob( free plan)
• network: Golden Goose
• offer info: geo： Cameroon ; vertical : mainstream ； category: Games, Education; conversion flow： HE+PIN

The purpose of running this campaign is to learn the correct process,so I used direct url and set both daily budget and total budget to 10$.
After I ran out of my budget, I saw 3k impressions, 0 click, 0 conversion.

Is this result normal? And what should I do for further learning?
Sincerely ask for some advice!

I am learning affiliate marketing recently. Have you tested the link? And may I know you work with CPL/CPA/CPC or other?

 

[Graybeard]

Have you tested the link?

You can DM a link or pseudo link

you work with CPL/CPA/CPC or other?

Only CPA as in CPS. I don't work with most smaller middlemen networks. I have worked on the management end of in house affiliate programs, develop and program 15+ years.

1. You have no landing page of your own? yes/no?
2. WebView on your dashboard of the tracker is an estimation of the inbound traffic from:
   a.] traffic network to the tracker URL for that ad campaign
   b.] real word data from your bridge page (landing page URL at the network)?

If I tested your "link" I probably would be redirected, based on my US GEO, you would see no "click" on you tracker as it is not tracking your direct linking. My "click" would not show on the ad network side either unless Golden Goose s2s posts back the inbound clicks and not only when there is a conversion event.

 

[HaLeb]

if we have a multiple mobile applications services and i want a best traffic mvas in cpa model ;what is the best geos and the best companies that push the traffic with high conversion rate and profit?

 

[Graybeard]

if we have a multiple mobile applications services and i want a best traffic mvas in cpa model ;what is the best geos and the best companies that push the traffic with high conversion rate and profit?

Too bad that is not published information (real statistics with data). Your AM (Affiliate Manager) should be able to give you global epc (earnings per click) data on his network's mvas offers.

Use that in the push traffic CPC/CPM costs at an ad network is see if it breaks even with the epc*0.642.

example:
((0.03/0.00055)/0.642) * 0.03
~2.54885301614273576890
((CPC/epc)/0.642) *CPC = performa return ROAS

#AI-ROBO-BRAIN comments:

 

[GB Scriese]

Hello Sherlock,

I see that you delved into the technicalities with Graybeard already. I only would like to add, speaking from experience, that pop-under traffic will convert poorly. I mean very poorly.

If you are trying to get your bearings in the affiliate market, I recommend testing something with more trackable events involved - not only clicks, but perhaps post-conversion events, if it applies to the offer. Of course, you might need to risk more than $10.

 

[HaLeb]

Too bad that is not published information (real statistics with data). Your AM (Affiliate Manager) should be able to give you global epc (earnings per click) data on his network's mvas offers.

Use that in the push traffic CPC/CPM costs at an ad network is see if it breaks even with the epc*0.642.

example:
((0.03/0.00055)/0.642) * 0.03
~2.54885301614273576890
((CPC/epc)/0.642) *CPC = performa return ROAS

#AI-ROBO-BRAIN comments:
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thank you Graybeard for this information, but based on your experience now in any country has more conversion and views in this field

 

[Graybeard]

but based on your experience now in any country has more conversion and views in this field

That's like asking: What age group prefers apples over oranges?
My experience is limited to the US and other English speaking markets --and it's no longer current.

Things change very rapidly anyway but the 'numbers' still rule IMHO.

>>has more conversion and views in this field. What `field`?
I would just go with any data the affiliate network can supply you with the specific offers.

Different cultures (countries) will buy more or less of certain things.
Some products (things) are locally specific also.

The best GEO's (countries) are the ones that you actually understand:

• the buyer's thinking; and,
• the buyer's language; as well as,
• the buyer's attitudes and affinity toward your advertising or content's context.