Some of you use the landing pages that are provided by your network, others create their own. And there is always a question – how to make it as high converting as it possibly can be? But it’s not that hard, to be honest. However, creating an effective page involves more than simply designing something that “looks good,” and giving customers what they want definitely takes some research.
Today, Maria Gondar from MGID, our network’s partner, is going to tell you some useful tips about creating a profitable landing page and which details deserve special attention. So let’s give Maria a hand 🙂

Pre-sell pages are kind of like the cheerleaders of Native Advertising. They encourage and interact with the reader, get them inspired and yet also frustrated about the problems they face. The reader has to click through to your sales or lead generation page to discover the full solution.

A landing page is important for building your brand reputation and enhancing confidence in the quality of your product. Not every landing page fulfills its task at 100%. But if you work through the structure of the landing page and complement it with an excellent design, you will get the result and over one hundred percent.

While developing the landing page, check grammar, spellings, fonts, animations and test mobile and desktop versions. Choose one style and tone of voice and maintain through the page.

Don’t try to mix all marketing techniques or use all of them, it will only distract customers. Your main page also should not be overload with the advertisement, your main goal is to attract customers to your product and not to monetize your site.

But what is a secret ingredient to make the landing page appealing?

By using an interactive design you are able to engage users with the web page while he is scrolling it. Your main task is to grab the attention of potential clients.  If working with coffee or tea offers, you can create a quiz to find out what kind of beverage he/she is suited to. It makes user experience more interactive and lower bounce rate. For dating, design sign up form in the form of chat.

Here are some tips concerning the following verticals

Dating

• Choose images according to the beauty standards of your target GEO.
• Interact with your user, include relationship or matching quizzes.
• Girls with tattoos are proven to receive more clicks.
• Flirty Phares in the header.
• Naked women on teasers is an already sign of bad taste. Mysterious and real looking girls is what converts now.

Nutraceuticals

• For beauty or weight loss products, use a filter on the landing page. Users could upload or take photos of themselves to see how they will look without wrinkles or 20 pounds less.
• Share success stories and reviews. People believe in the magic power of the product if they have some evidence from others. Include photos and feedbacks from influencers to build customers’ confidence in your products.

Maria Gondar, MGID marketing outreach specialist

Time goes by and affiliates are still asking what offers they should run traffic to in Asia (but not Thailand, Malaysia or Vietnam, of course). Everybody understands that there are a few good offers but more enterprising ones already run traffic to them and feel great, making easy money.

Diet Stars, for example. The second we said this offer is breaking records, everyone started to run traffic to it. Also, people really liked our Morocco insights, but we know that pretty soon the lead cost will go right through the roof.

So what’s this all about? It’s time to prepare reviews at other GEOs.

The Philippines – mobile internet coverage area is really huge, young population. The country is open to new ideas because affiliate marketing is only starting to develop. Also, the population of the Philippines is exactly the people who order our favourite COD offers and it will help you a lot. By the way, unlike Indonesia, mobile Internet is available throughout the whole country there.

Now, get to the point. In a word, the Philippines is some kind of a mix of Vietnam and Thailand offers. VN-traffic is cheap, there is lots of it, but conversion rates there are really low. TH-traffic is expensive, payouts are very good but it’s much harder to get profit there.
Average cost per click in the Philippines is about $0.02-$0.04. Conversion rates range from 0.5% to 1.5%. The saddest thing is that people there don’t go for adult offers. At all. That is weird but there is nothing you can do.

Well, they are obsessed with a healthy lifestyle. It exists at the level of a national idea – keep your apartment as clean as it’s possible, what and when you eat, etc. Also, they are hung up on “parasites” so Detoxic, for example, is popular there year-round.

Now let’s talk about how to run traffic there.

White-hat options are not profitable at all. This needs an aggressive pre-lander and banners with celebrities. And don’t waste your time on local celebrities – they are such bores.

https://www.instagram.com/itscamilleco – this girl gets conversion rates to the top better than anybody else. She is a fashion- and lifestyle- and even beauty blogger. The only noteworthy in the Philippines. You can easily find photos where she advertises her products and put the products you need instead of them, using photoshop.

ATTENTION: Don’t use any materials without changing something. This girl has a confirmed blogger-account on Facebook so you can be banned after the very first creative material.

Also, you can make really cool pre-landers using a local TV-show called “Salamat Dok”. It is a weekend morning show where three show’s hosts talk about healthy lifestyle. Use those hosts for creative materials and you can make your pre-landers in the style of the show. There are lots of episodes on YouTube. By the way, those episodes can be fully inserted in pre-landers. Nobody will watch this until the end but it definitely will enhance the credibility.

You can make creative materials in both local (Filipino) and English languages. But we recommend using Filipino there.

Speaking of the approval rate and targeting.

The approval rate is pretty unstable. The rate varies from 33% to 55%. Nobody knows what this is about, even call-centre operators. And as a tradition, we give you the statistic from our call-centres:

About offers. We recommend you to try Detoxic and Ecoslim. But maybe someone will be much luckier than all of us and get profit from other offers too.

Anyways. The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. If you are looking for something… exotic then try the Philippines. It will not disappoint you.

Good luck out there!

Among the numerous advantages and benefits of working with AdCombo as an affiliate, you have access to a special subset of offers that are provided on a unique cash-on-delivery structure (basis/model). If you want to maximize your earnings when promoting these offers, you’ll want to make sure that you keep several key points in mind.

What Is Cash on Delivery?

Before getting into how you can earn as much as possible with cash-on-delivery offers, it’s important to define from the very beginning what these offers are. With many more traditional affiliate programs, the affiliate may not be credited with a commission until a sale is finalized and the customer receives the product.

There may be a holding period, for example, to account for shipping time, to factor for credit card delays, or to wait for the return period to expire. This leads to a lag in payment of up to 60 days or more, depending on the program and the product. This is not at all the case with cash-on-delivery offers.

AdCombo performs with an entirely new model of leads. Rather than waiting through an extended holding period and jumping through a series of administrative loops, conversions with cash-on-delivery offers take place as soon as a customer completes the purchase via telephone. If the customer commits to buying, the conversion is deemed successful and the affiliate is paid the corresponding commission.

This model is remarkably effective for publishers, providing exceptional conversion rates and very high real EPC (earnings per click). The customer needs to confirm the order by phone when a call center service makes a callback after the order was made. That’s it.

Targeted Landing Pages

The same fundamental structure as all other CPA offers would basically apply here, but it would be prudent to tweak your approach accordingly to account for the specific circumstances (and benefits) of promoting a cash-on-delivery offer. Remember that the goal is for the lead to convert by phone call order confirmation confirming an order by telephone.

Given this, you’ll still want to have highly targeted and highly optimized landing pages that really help to “sell” the potential customer on the product or the service being promoted. It should be convincing without being overwhelming. Some affiliates have greater success with simpler, more visual landing pages, whereas other affiliates may find greater success with long form sales letters.

Regardless of your approach, it’s important that the call to action is featured prominently on the landing page. It may even appear multiple times. It’s also critically important that you make it as easy as possible to complete the phone call. If the landing page can integrate with a customer’s existing VoIP or Skype, that’s a definite advantage. The customer may submit an online form, but the conversion is not deemed successful until the order is confirmed by phone.

So make sure your landing pages make it abundantly clear that the customer needs to put the appropriate number for a call-center service’ callback. You don’t want to lose sales partway through the process.

The Best Traffic Sources

“If you build it, they will come.” As much as we would like to believe this iconic line from the 1989 American movie Field of Dreams, it simply is not the case in the real world and it definitely is not the case in the world of affiliate marketing. If you want users to visit your landing page, you have to figure out how to get them there.

The truth of the matter is that there is no magic bullet, no miraculous traffic source that has remained the most prized secret of all the top affiliates. It comes down to a lot of experimentation and optimization based on a myriad of different factors. Working with cash-on-delivery offers is no different.

Some affiliates find their greatest success with PPC marketing, others with email marketing, others still with article marketing or social media marketing. Leverage your existing expertise and be prepared to learn about other opportunities.

In case of AdCombo, many of the best and exclusive offers are targeting tier-2 geographic locations. This includes countries in Eastern Europe, South Asia and Latin America. Part of the appeal here is that while there is a strong opportunity for profit in these regions, the competition is far less fierce than in tier-1 geos like the United States and Western Europe.

This also means that purchasing and bidding on traffic through various networks and strategies can be far more affordable. Some of the strongest niches in the network include weight loss, health products and beauty products. You could be paying much more for the same amount of traffic in a tier-1 geo, only to reap a fraction of the profits.

Trackers and Traffic Distribution Systems

Not all traffic types are similar and you don’t want to be wasting your marketing and advertising budget on the traffic that won’t convert. If an offer is targeted at mobile users in Lithuania, for instance, why would you pay to send desktop users from Singapore to that landing page? This is where trackers and traffic distribution systems come into play.

We’ve written previously about some of the tracking software options available to you on the Internet. Most of these are paid services with multiple tiers of plans available to suit your budget and your needs. They are oftentimes well worth the investment after you have taken the time to learn how to leverage their power accordingly.

At their most basic level, trackers can provide insight into the particulars of each user arriving on your landing pages. You may know their geographical location, the device they are using, what browser they are using and much, much more. This data can be used to determine what subset of users result in the highest conversion rates, but a much more fruitful use of this data requires an additional layer of processing.

Sometimes also known as a traffic direction system, a traffic distribution system (TDS) is an advanced redirection script. It is able to detect the data that your tracker has learned about the user and split the traffic in real time against your defined parameters. For instance, you might direct a user to a particular landing page based on what country they are in. The person in Romania gets the Romanian landing page, whereas the person in Slovenia gets the Slovenian landing page. This lends itself to a far more optimized approach and significantly higher conversion rates, since you’re not wasting any traffic.

In effect, the TDS turns into a traffic hub, splitting out the users to a different path or page based on the criteria that you set. Simply define the rules and the TDS will make the appropriate decision as visitors arrive. If you are serious about making money as an affiliate marketer, a TDS is positively invaluable. You can recoup the associated costs very easily if you have great, targeted landing pages and set the right redirection rules.

Popular TDS providers include Keitaro and BossTDS (if you have a lot of traffic sources).

Managing Cash Flow and ROI

Perhaps the greatest advantage of working with cash-on-delivery offers is that you don’t have to wait an extended period of time for users to convert. Users only have two lines to fill in and a phone call to complete. That’s all it takes to convert and you literally get cash-on-delivery.

But you cannot allow yourself to rest on your laurels. As AdCombo pays out twice a week (through your choice of Webmoney, Paxum, PayPal, ePaymants or wire transfer), it means that the cash flow situation is far more expedient and efficient than you may have experienced with other affiliate networks. What this also means is that you can re-invest your earnings to increase the amount of your traffic, optimize your landing pages, and perfect your TDS rules.

Only by putting this money to work for you, by putting it back into the system, you can improve your return on investment (ROI) and scale a strategy or structure that is already working for you. If you can turn $10 in traffic into $100 in profit, why can’t you take $100 in traffic and turn it into $1,000 in profit or more?

At the end of the day, the only way you can assure your success as an affiliate marketer is to never stop changing. Never stop adapting, experimenting or optimizing, because the Internet won’t wait for you to catch up. Keep squeezing every dollar you can out of every campaign you try.

The lifeblood of any successful affiliate campaign really boils down to one single factor: traffic. You want not only to attract as much traffic as possible to the offer you are trying to promote, but you also want to make sure that traffic is as highly targeted as possible. You also want to ensure that you are sending high-converting traffic, because a visitor that doesn’t follow through with the desired action is ultimately a wasted opportunity.

The great challenge, then, is sourcing this most elusive of desirable traffic while still being able to maintain an optimal return on investment (ROI). The problem with utilizing the most popular sources of traffic is that you end up competing with individuals and businesses who may have more robust resources than you do.

Thankfully, there are many lesser known or under-utilized traffic sources that you can tap into to maximize your earning potential as an affiliate.

1. YouTube

Granted, YouTube is hardly the Internet’s best kept secret, but it is still a platform that continues to grow and continues to provide incredible opportunities for Internet marketers of all sizes and budgets. There are at least a couple of different ways to go about leveraging the power of YouTube to your advantage.

If you are interested in playing the longer game, the better play is to grow your own YouTube channel within the industry vertical that you’d like to focus. Provide real value to your viewers and grow that audience. Then, when you mention that there’s something you’d like to promote in the video description, they’re much more likely to click and follow through, because they trust you. But this can take a lot of time, a good deal of effort, and a healthy dose of luck too.

The faster approach is to purchase advertising through Google and YouTube. This can take on the form of the banner ads that can appear while a video is playing or it could be one of the pre-roll video ads (or one of the interstitial video ads). This can deliver immediate results, but it can take a fair bit of budget and experimentation before you find the specifications that work best for you.

2. AdClerks

Some people might tell you that banner advertising is dead, but that simply is not the case. It just means you need to be more creative with how you utilize banners and you need to be more selective about where your banners appear. A great marketplace for this traffic source is AdClerks.

The concept here is really simple and you can start getting the targeted traffic you’re looking for in a matter of minutes. The site offers a large marketplace of pre-approved publishers whose websites typically have substantial traffic and an engaged audience. You can sort and search based on niche and budget, buying up banner space on specific sites either for a flat monthly fee or on a CPM basis.

The platform is really simple to use and you can see “live” where your banner will appear on each specific website. This eliminates that part of the guesswork. Of course, there are no guaranteed clicks or returns here, so your mileage may vary.

3. Bing Ads

The elephant in the room has been Google for a number of years now and the company’s AdWords/AdSense platform is an absolute giant with online advertising. The greatest challenge there is the sheer level of competition, fighting for the most lucrative keywords and ramping up your ad bids accordingly.

A very viable alternative that isn’t leveraged by nearly as many companies is Bing Ads. Microsoft is no slouch and its ad platform can really deliver some serious results for affiliate marketers who are able to purchase the right PPC traffic and turn it into serious CPA profit.

As with all PPC networks, Bing Ads will take some experimentation and optimization, but it will likely be far more affordable and far less competitive than Google’s alternative.

4. Ezine articles

Despite the popularity and power of blogging, it can also be very difficult to build up your own brand, website, and traffic before it can be truly profitable. A far more efficient way to reach a wider audience more quickly is with article marketing and EzineArticles is easily one of the best in the business.

It’s critically important here that the articles you submit are high quality and completely original. Otherwise, they will quickly get rejected and you may no longer be able to submit content in the future. Provide some real value to the readers of the article, integrating the affiliate links in a seamless and useful way.

EzineArticles accepts content on a broad range of subject matter, from arts and entertainment to computers and technology, from relationship and self-improvement to shopping and communications. No matter what niche you approach, there’s an opportunity here.

5. LinkedIn Ads

While much attention is constantly directed at Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn continues to be the largest professional-oriented social networks on the Internet. Users there engage for a very specific purpose. They aren’t there “for fun” like how they might otherwise utilize social media. They are there to advance their professional careers.

This also means that they could be much more cognizant of investing in their professional futures and this lends itself well to a higher level of conversion on offers that you promote through LinkedIn advertising. Promotions can take on the form of display ads, sponsored content, sponsored emails, dynamic ads or text ads.

What’s critically important here is the targeting that you can employ. Depending on the affiliate offer that you are trying to promote, you may target users based on a particular job function or geographic location. More than 450 million professionals are on LinkedIn, ready to consume what you have to show them.

6. Pinterest Promoted Pins

Continuing on the social media front but moving away from the professional space, Pinterest Promoted Pins can be a tremendous traffic source for the right niches. Pinterest is most popular among adult women, mostly those who are interested in beauty, fashion, DIY, cooking, crafting and similar endeavors.

Far too often, Internet marketers can quickly disregard a potentially lucrative and highly-converting traffic source because they see the platform as little more than a casual place for users to waste their time on the Internet. The truth with Pinterest is that its users are highly engaged and incredibly active.

This lends itself to the widespread re-sharing of pins, helping to extend your promoted pins to an ever growing audience. This is understandably a very visually-oriented social network, so crafting the perfect image for your pin is of positively critical importance. Stylized text and eye-catching imagery are key here.

Leave No Stone Unturned

The most important lesson to recognize in affiliate marketing is that every opportunity is worth exploring. The most highly publicized and best-known traffic sources can certainly be worthwhile, but they can also be highly competitive and potentially over-saturated. Look into rarer traffic sources to carve out your segment of your niche, building the traffic you need to succeed.

Start to bring traffic to the best offers  

Hi, there! We are going to tell you how to become a publisher in a good affiliate network. When a newbie starts to deal with networks he/she realizes that this business is not so easy to get in. There are several things that you should know and in order not to waste your time and to protect your nerves to get an approved account.

1. Don’t be stupid! Nobody will give you a chance to spoil its own reputation just because “you want to try yourself as an affiliate marketer”. Pay attention that in the sphere of affiliate marketing there are at least three partners: an affiliate marketer, an affiliate network, and an advertiser. And if one of them screws up his\her responsibility in this business all the others run into mischief too. When you bring traffic of low quality an advertiser doesn’t sale his\her product and an affiliate network loses its reputation because a lot of leads go to trash. That’s why be ready to prove that you know how to get traffic of good quality. For example, you can prove that you are good in it if you show the confirmed payments history which reflects your previous wins in internet marketing. It means that you can work well.

2. Don’t be upset! If you don’t have any positive experience in this sphere there is a way out. Prove that you are a real person with benevolent intentions and aren’t sharp cookie! A photo of your passport isn’t necessary, but you may give a link to your account in social networks where you have been doing posts since you had found out how to log in. You probably won’t get more “likes” for your posts from an affiliate manager, but you will increase the possibility to get an approved account.

3. Don’t fade! If an affiliate manager asks you about your traffic sources, show where you are going to get it. It may be your personal sources: website, blog or public page in social networks. Don’t be in a hurry to create a new website on an unpaid domain, it won’t help you to get an approved account. Your source must have at least 200 unique clicks per day. If you have a website with an adult content, there should be at least 600 unique clicks per day. If this is a niche resource with a narrowly targeted audience then 70-100 clicks per day will be enough.  Also, affiliate networks can decline your request if you have only one source of traffic at any postpaid resource, for example “facebook” or “yahoo!”, since in this case there is no guarantee that an affiliate has money for internet marketing tools and will pay for his traffic.

4. Don’t give up! If you are not Mark Zuckerberg and don’t have your own source of traffic or don’t have experience as Attila does just show a screenshot of your personal account with current balance at any traffic market. This is not a secret that if you are ready to invest money it proves your reliability in any case. It will show that you have serious intentions and you are interested in bringing real leads and ready to take a risk of failure. So, you get a profit, an affiliate network get a commission and an advertiser get his\her products sold. Everybody becomes happy and a bit wealthy. That is called good partnership!

5. Don’t be tight lipped! If an affiliate manager asks you to show your business plan do it. There is no doubt that an affiliate manager knows how it works, but he/she must be sure that you know that too. Your plan must contain main issues concerning how exactly you are going to bring the leads, your good knowledge of the sphere an offer belongs to. What kind of ad platforms you will choose to promote this offer. You don’t need to tell your affiliate manager all profitable key schemes, just show that you know how to monetize the traffic.

Follow this simple rules and your chance to get an approved account in an affiliate will be higher. Even if you just begin your way in affiliate marketing. Go ahead!

Dear publishers,

Our mind-blowing contest TRAFFIC HUNTERS has come to an end! That was a fantastic month of catching the referrals, and our traffic hunters did well!

We would like to thank all of you for your participation and all the activities: landing pages, interesting case studies, banners and etc.

There already are the winners, but within a week we have to check all the registrations whether they are fake or true.

Remember, that only active registration will be recognized as qualitative ones.
Right after that we will finally announce all the winners of the contest, as well as our special prizes.

Thank you all.

Stay tuned!