One of the affiliate managers from EWA Network hit me up on AIM Wednesday morning and it went a little like this.
AM: I see you are running _____ niche
AM: You should really run traffic to this offer ######
brow1e: Hey thanks alot. I don’t know why I wasn’t running that before must have missed it.
AM: Ya, it’s converting like crazy
brow1e: Adding it to the rotation now
So instead of actually adding it to the rotation I just went and made a new PPV campaign. I decided to direct link it so I could see if it converted at all and maybe I’ll make a landing page later. After a few hours of hanging out at the house and hitting the golf course I was back in the evening to check my stats.
According to the Ad Network they were showing 800 impressions. EWA Network was showing about 280. WTF!!!!! Boy I was pretty hot. I jumped on AIM and Emailed the AM and gave him a piece of my mind. Actually I wasn’t as mean as you might think. He replied back swiftly (that’s EWA for you) with the answer.
AM EMAIL: “Browie, All of our offers are tracking correctly. We do not show clicks for countries that do not support the offer.” Here is a screen shot from today. Mexico – 95, Canada – 60, Brazil – 54, Argentina – 36. I even had people from Iceland view my offer, ugh.
So here is what happened. With a combination of not sifting through the 2,000 URL’s I grabbed from Affportal and forgetting to only target the United States I wasted over half of my impressions on international traffic. Lesson learned and I shut all of the international stuff down and my campaign is back on track.
Thank you, EWA Network
-browie
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At least you figured out you were targeting the wrong people in 1 day and not like a week later.
It also would have been easier for you to blame the network and start saying they suck other than to admit your wrong. Good advice browie.
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browie Reply:
July 25th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Ya thanks Derek,
This also shows that people tell you to not check your stats all of the time but you still should limit your budget when you start and check your stats EARLY so you don’t get screwed over.
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Doh, these things happen. Lesson learned and minimal damage.
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browie Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Yes minimal. And the campaign ended up being a dud
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Yea lesson learned, always check your demo targetting, I have done it myself so I feel ya!
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