Cord Marston | Affiliate Marketing

… and EWA will keep you busy, stay tuned

got a new truck by the way:

After talking with a few friends who advertise on Plenty of Fish it seemed as if none of them believed you could make money advertising in the 110×80′s. For those of you who don’t know what that is, Plenty of Fish offers 4 ad dimensions  (Regular: 110×80, IAB: 728×90, 300×250, and 160×600). I know there are ways to make money on the smaller 110×80′s because I’ve done it before. After showing them they said it was too old and that it couldn’t be done now. Well they were wrong see for yourself:

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After reading one of my new favorite blogs, WallofMonitors.com , I noticed there was a post about the Toyota Prius that was hilarious. If you hate the Toyota Prius as much as me, or you just want to take a break to watch something hilarious watch this:

WAHOO! I finally unlocked the Plenty of Fish IAB banners after depositing an additional $300 into my account today to bring the total up to exactly $1,000! I consider this one of my first accomplishments in the affiliate marketing world aside from creating my first successful campaign on PoF. This also could mean good things for you! More case studies coming your way, stay tuned for a Plenty Of Fish and Richmen.com case study.

So as some of you might have noticed I was hacked my some spaghetti and anime “hacker”..phisher? I’m not really sure how they got my information or how they gained access to the server. However, I apologize for any emails / twitter updates / blog updates / anything that was posted that was inappropriate. The thing is why would a hacker chose me? A 20 year old kid, limited / newbie affiliate marketing skills who works at EWA? Was it because I am so new and so willing to share all of my campaign information? Was it because it was easy because the server / blog just happend to be phished to my account? Was it because I work at EWA and you are jealous? Either way haters gon’ hate.

So I after evaluating my current advertising situation with Plenty of Fish – making a little here and there I decided to look around and see if I can find another site that I can advertise on in the same way. Here is a useful list of sites you can do media buys from courtesy of Black Hat Guide:

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Since the Meet Locals & PoF Case Studyy was put on hold / stopped because the advertiser reached their budget for the month I decided to switch over to a very similar offer Shop4Guys (US) which was offered by EWA with a payout of $3.10. The landing page was almost identical to the Meet Locals landing page so I was expecting around the same conversion rates.

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After speaking with Ben at Plenty of Fish I got a few answers that some of you might be interested in. First off I was talking to Ben about the other ad formats that are allowed on PoF other than the typical 110*80 image ad. Come to find out, PoF offers banners as well, however, you have to make a total of $1000 deposit into your account to have that feature. Here is what Ben has to say about it:

What do you think about the $1,000 deposit min? Do you think it should be raised / lower? Do you feel as if the CTR difference is worth it?

What kind of offers have you tried running? So far I have only run dating offers but I feel like running health and beauty offers could be next, after all other people are doing it, why not me?

My first case study and it really isn’t even a case study, it’s more of a follow along (just nobody is following along besides myself)

For this case study I went ahead and chose the Meet Locals (Female Registration) (CA, US, UK) offer. It has a $3.10 payout and converts on a simple profile registration, sounds good! I will be running this offer on Plenty of Fish targetting people in Canada, aged 21-40, login count < 50, and targeting people that are overweight (Body Type: Big & Tall/BBW, A Few Extra Pounds).

As of right now I have 12 creatives pending, all of them with the same ad text and description, just a different image. (I will post the images

later once they are approved.

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