What Are You Paying For?
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Long overdue post
I’ve had a bad spell of writer’s block which explains the lack of content from me.I’ve been looking into PPV a fair bit recently and it’s a crazy game, I’m still learning form my mistakes so expect a fair few posts from me in the near future.
Anyway onto the topic of this post, I was testing a campaign out using URL targeting gathering about 30-50 URLs for the first batch to see how that went. I usually double check the pages I’m bidding on to ensure that they are of course on topic to what I’m promoting and not just going to waste money.
I removed any crap ones and launched it, as I saw traffic coming in from one of my targets (it happened to be the KEYWORD.NET target) I just happened to take a look at the page out of curiosity.
Much to my surprise it was totally off topic, I didn’t double check this domain because being the keyword I was focussing on I just assumed that it was what I believed it would be.
Moral of the post is to not assume anything, it was a stupid mistake but the nature of the niche I really doubted that it would be anything else.














April 13, 2010 at 10:12 pm
I hate when that happens. You know what they say though, when you assume something, you make an ass out of you and me!
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Richard Reply:
April 13th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Seems that way
Luckily I found it after a couple of views
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April 14, 2010 at 2:41 am
Haha hi Rich, this reminds me of my first dabbling in PPV when I tried using keywords instead of URLs and had a…well bad results. http://www.mikechiasson.com/2010/02/23/my-1-41-fail-at-cpv/
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Richard Reply:
April 14th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Haha funny results
You have to be careful especially if you are doing a niche your not knowledgable about – one thing could mean something totally different in their lingo
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April 14, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Playing around with PPV myself, I learned the same tough lesson.
Also, it always seems that the best URL’s are the WORST converting.
Good luck, I look forward to your posts.
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April 14, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Good to see you back Rich, I’ll call off the search parties now
I dabbled in PPV a year ago, i wish I still had the budget to get back into it.
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