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MASSIVE POF PROFITS By Shardul Doshi It is Recommended That You Print This Document for more enjoyable reading and learning experience. Copyright Notice All rights reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical. Any unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Legal Notice While attempts have been made to verify information provided in this report, the author does not any responsibility for errors, or contrary information contained in this report. The report is not intended as legal, investment or accounting advice. The purchaser or reader of this report assumes all responsibility for the use of information and materials. Shardul Doshi assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever on behalf of any purchaser or reader of these materials. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. How Affiliates Make Money on Plenty of Fish 3. The Plenty of Fish Ad Platform 4. Getting Started 5. The Easy Basics of Plenty of Fish Ad Platform 6. CPA Networks 7. Setting up a Profitable Campaign a.) Offers that I’ve promoted b.) Choosing an Angle c.) Finding High CTR Images d.) Ad Approval Rules e.) Writing Ad Copies f.) Landing Pages g.) Naming and Grouping Your Campaigns h.) Setting Up Tracking i.) Uploading Your Ads j.) Money Control k.) 50% ROI Rules 8. Scaling (Reaching $300-$500/Day) 9. Niches that work well on Plenty of Fish 10. List of Tools I Use 11. Closing Thoughts Introduction Hello and welcome to Massive POF Profits. My name is Shardul Doshi and I've been a full time internet marketer since the last 3 years. I want to congratulate you on taking your first step to Plenty of Fish Advertising success. This guide is what I believe the simplest guide on how to make money with POF ads, written today for any online marketer. You can use my simple strategies for immediate results with some efforts. This guide is not a general introduction on making money with Plenty of Fish ads. This guide will give you an opportunity to learn from my one year experience with POF ads. I am going to reveal every secret, strategy and tactic that you should know. In the following chapters I will give you time tested and proven ways which allow me to make money every month. When you finish this course, you will have uncovered the easy step by step process to follow in my footsteps. What you are about to learn is really valuable. So I hope you take action. Thank You, very much for investing your time, money, and confidence in this course. I really appreciate your trust. How Affiliates Make Money on Plenty of Fish Step 1: Select an offer you want to promote. A CPA offer or a Clickbank product. I am going to give you a list of offers I’ve promoted so that you get a clear idea of what works on Plenty of Fish. Step 2: Create high quality ads that grab attention of Plenty of Fish Users. We are going to learn all the techniques that top affiliates use to create high converting ads on Plenty of Fish. Step 3: Once your ads are approved, your campaign starts running and you optimize it till your earnings can go well in excess of the cost of advertising campaign. I am going to show you exactly how to build and optimize your campaigns for 50%+ ROI. Making money on Plenty of Fish is simple, but remember what is simple is not always easy. What I mean is that it is not a very complex process, yet it takes much effort and dedication. If you follow what I say and put in the required efforts you are going to make money. Ready to dive in? Let’s do this. The Plenty of Fish Advertising Platform Plenty of Fish is an online dating network, where millions of users are eagerly looking for a partner, a relationship. The site is getting over 900,000 new users and 3.5 billion impressions per month. Plenty of Fish started their own advertising platform in 2010. Logged in user can see ads. They are displayed on nearly all pages. The advertising platform is: A CPM-Based Advertising Platform CPM refers to "cost per thousand impressions." A single instance of an ad appearing on a website is an impression. In short, you have to pay for every thousand impressions. There is no costper-click option available at present. If you have set your CPM to $0.40, you will be paying $0.40 for 1000 impression The Most Affiliate Friendly Advertising Platform In my opinion this is one of the most affiliate friendly advertising platforms I have worked with. They like affiliates and most of the advertisers here are affiliates. I recommend that make complete use of this opportunity while you have a chance to, before they do something like AdWords (Ban Affiliates). Traffic I know people who are making $3000+/day using Plenty of Fish Ads. You’ll find people on forums talk about how Plenty of Fish has very less volume or traffic. Of course, it’s not as big as Facebook, but there is ample traffic for us. 10 Countries If you target countries other than the United States, your returns are going to be better. Your click prices are going to be cheaper. Advertising options are available in the following countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Mexico, Ireland, Brazil and France. Small Ads When you create an account, 2 ad sizes are available for you 110 pixels x 80 pixels 3.6 billion impressions available every month. If you are just starting out, I recommend that you start with 110 x 80 ads. 310 pixels x 90 pixels Once you get a little idea of how things work out on Plenty of Fish, you can start using your creative mind on 310 x 90 ads. Do 310 x 110 ads perform better than the 110 x 80 ads? Yes, because you get more creative space. Once you deposit a total of $1000 in your Plenty of Fish account, IAB banners will show up. They have the potential to get a high CTR and have 900 million impressions available every month. They come in 3 sizes – 728 x 90, 160 x 600 and 300 x 250. Examples of IAB Ads What is CTR? CTR stands for Click through Rate. This number is the percentage of people who see your ad (impressions) and then actually go on to click the ad (clicks). The higher the CTR the more the ROI (Return on Investment) you’ll make on your ads. For small ads anything above 0.15% is a good CTR and for IAB banners above anything above 0.50% is a good CTR. In the next few chapters you’ll learn how to get a high CTR. CTR Calculator: http://www.csgnetwork.com/ctrcalc.html Becoming an advertiser on Plenty of Fish To become an advertiser sign up here http://ads.pof.com They accept advertisers from all countries. You can make payments using credit cards (minimum $25). Support If you have any problems regarding the ad platform you can contact Ben – he will help you out. ben@pof.com https://www.facebook.com/benpof Getting Started Alright, before you actually post your first campaign you need to have a good web-host and proper tracking installed. Don't post a campaign without having these two things in place. Recommended Hosting MediaTemple.com I have been using media temple since 2 years and I have never had a problem with them. Their grid servers can handle a good amount of traffic. If you are just getting started their grid server is going to be more than enough. For $20/month you get the following with MediaTemple Grid Server Plan 100 GBs of premium storage 1 TB of short-path bandwidth 100 unique sites / alternate domains 2,000 GPUs 100 databases 1,000 email addresses Hostgator.com When I started working online; Hostgator was the first webhost I used. As of today I no longer use them, not because they are bad, but because my needs increased. If you already have a hostgator or any shared hosting account, that’s fine, but make sure that you upgrade as soon as you start getting more than 500 clicks/day. My advice to you would be to always go with a reputed host. I don’t want to bore you with any more hosting details, let’s move ahead. Tracking You must have a tracking system setup before you post an ad on Plenty of Fish. Out of all the available platforms, I choose Prosper202. It’s free, it’s very easy to use and it serves the purpose. Why do you need tracking? For two primary reasons 1. You can see which ads are converting the best. 2. You can see how much money a campaign has made. It basically saves you a lot of time and puts the numbers and stats directly in front of you, instead of you having to calculate everything. Download Prosper202 and install it on your server. In chapter we will learn how to setup a campaign using Prosper202. Domains Most of my domains are registered on namecheap.com - If you already own a domain you can use it, but don’t use something like http://buy-shoes-cheap-from-mysite.com for your tracking, because when users click they are going to see you’re tracking link at least for a few seconds. If you use a domain like the one above, it will leave plenty of fish users confused on where they are going. You can get a few tracking domain recommendations here: http://www.domaintools.com/buy/domainsuggestions/?q=track+ads The Easy Basics of Plenty of Fish Ad Platform Important targeting options:1. Login Count: It’s the number of times a user has logged into their account since they signed up. If you target users with login count less than <100, your ad will be shown to users who have logged in less than 100 times into Plenty of Fish. I generally set my login count to <50 to get higher CTR and better conversion ratio. 2. Frequency Cap: If you set frequency cap to 5, the user will see your ad 5 times per session. The minimum frequency cap required is 3. For my ads, I usually set my frequency cap to 3. 3. Distribution: If you select distribute ASAP your ads are going to be shown whenever a spot is available. If your bid is high, your money is going to burn pretty fast. If you select distribute evenly, POF will distribute your ads evenly thought the day. If you are just starting out, select Distribute Evenly. 4. Session Depth: The number of pages the user has viewed after logging into his account every time he logs in. The higher the session depth, the lower the CTR. POF users tend to ignore ads when to are browsing through too many pages. Your ads will appear on a lower session depth if your bid is high. So the higher your bid the most the CTR you get. Important Tip: Use the frequency cap and login count option for EVERY campaign. This increases the chances of your campaign being profitable. Inserting Tags in Small Ads Dynamic tabs allow you to fetch the users age, state and gender. You can insert these into your ads. This can be done only in 110 x 80 small ads. If you are targeting users in USA, you can also call the users by their state. This makes the ad more related to the user. You will get a high CTR if you ads are relevant to the user. Three tags: {gender:default} {age:default} {state:default} Here is how you should use these tags: Meet Christian Men in {state:default} Interested in meeting a {age:default} year-old Christian man? Join ChristianMingle.com Now! This works fine and most new affiliates will do this. But the problem here is that if the state or age information is not available, the ad will be displayed as Meet Christian Men in default Interested in meeting a default year-old Christian man? Join ChristianMingle.com Now! Here is how to fix it:- Meet Christian Men in {state: Your Area} Interested in meeting a {age:31}-36 year-old Christian man? Join ChristianMingle.com Now Here is how the ad will look to a person whose information is not available Meet Christian Men in Your Area Interested in meeting a 31-36 year-old Christian man? Join ChristianMingle.com Now! Here is how the ad will look to a person who lives in New York age 33 Meet Christian Men in New York Interested in meeting a 33-36 year-old Christian man? Join ChristianMingle.com Now! Ad Approval Time Most of my ads are normally approved on the same day, but I think you can wait for around 24-48 hours. Their ad approval teams work 7 days a week. After the ads are approved they’ll they will immediately start running unless you set a particular date. CPA Networks If you are having a tough time getting into CPA networks, I recommend that you read this fantastic guide by Omid G on getting approved in CPA networks. - Link Make sure that the network you join is reputed, pays on time and pays. Do your due diligence because there are many shady networks around that don’t pay. Stay with the most legit networks. Here is a list of my favorite networks EWA Network They have a lot of offers that are just killing it for me, and the payouts are high. Affiliate managers are really helpful. They have always treated me well. Adsimilis Lots of dating offers. I like when a network constantly tries to become better. Dating offers work great on Plenty of Fish and that’s why you should join this network. Neverblue Neverblue is the most professional network I've dealt with. Good selection of offers and competitive payouts. Give them a try, you certainly won't be disappointed. Profit Kings Media The have a handful amount of good offers with good payouts. I wouldn't say this network is perfect, but they pay on time. PeerFly I made my first conversion ever with PeerFly. They are very professional and willing to work with you to meet your needs. You can see a list of top 10 CPA networks here http://performinsider.com/2012/02/official-top-10-cpanetworks-announced/ Take 2-3 hours of your time and apply for all recommended CPA networks. Don’t give up even if your application is rejected and for the most part be professional. Omid G - CPA Approval Guide Setting up profitable Plenty of Fish Campaign Offers that I’ve promoted Not all types of offers work on Plenty of Fish. There are several ways to explain what type of offers work; however I will directly show you what I have promoted so that you get a better picture. Dating CPA Dating offers are one of the hottest and easiest offers to promote. Most of my campaigns are focused on dating. I target females, because payouts are better for female leads and the competition levels are a lot lower. ChristianMingle.com True.com RichMen.com WealthyMatch.com SeniorPeopleMeet.com Be2.com Speeddate.com Mate1.com BBPeopleMeet.com BlackPeopleMeet.com Weight Loss and Fitness – (ClickBank) A majority of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. Since 1900, consumers have been searching for a safe and effective way to lose weight. All told, Americans invest over $30 billion a year in weight loss products and services. Using Plenty of Fish you can make good money selling weight loss products in less time. Fat Burning Furnace – Link The Truth About Abs – Link The Diet Solution Program - Link Relationships - (ClickBank) All users on Plenty of Fish are looking for a partner. Guides that help them improve their dating skills or get their ex girlfriends or boyfriends back have worked for me. I have included a case study on how I make $250+ profit on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays promoting a relationship related ClickBank product. Get Your Ex Back (Target: Females – Link) Get Your Ex Back (Target: Males – Link) Pandoras Box – Link The Tao of Bad Ass – Link The Guy Magnet – Link There are hundreds of similar offers you can choose from, but the offers above have brought me a positive ROI and most affiliates on Plenty of Fish are promoting these. Choosing an Angle – Building Highly Targeted Campaigns Important Chapter The things I love the most about Plenty of Fish is their grand targeting options. If you think that you can just place an ad on the internet without targeting the right people and make a positive ROI, you are being very unrealistic. The more your ads relate to your audience the better the CTR and conversion rate will be. Many people will get this wrong, and burn thousands of dollars without targeting the right way. The only way to profit from Plenty of Fish is to use their targeting options. Don’t think that if you target males between age 18-65 for a dating offer and upload a hundred ads, you are going to make profit. It’s not going to be a good campaign. Broad campaigns rarely work well on Plenty of Fish. You will have a low CTR and a low conversion rate. In this chapter we are going to learn how to use all their targeting options to setup small niche campaigns. People will only click on your ad if there is anything in it for them. Using the targeting option on Plenty of Fish, you can come up with unique angles. Generic targeting is the most common mistake new affiliates make on Plenty of Fish, and you should avoid it. All top affiliates use angles and all most all networks allow it. Below are all targeting options you can use. Smoking Habits: I love to use this targeting option and the conversion ratios are surprisingly high. I think people who smoke want to be around smokers. Smokers on Plenty of Fish can bring you good money. Angle Examples Girls seeking male smokers Guys seeking female smokers Girls seeking male smokers With Car Guys seeking blonde smokers Girls seeking male smokers over 40+ White girls seeking black men who smoke Sample Smoking Ads Height: Females' attraction towards a man may be determined by the height of the man. I don’t know why but, very few affiliates are using this targeting option. You can also do this when you are promoting generic dating sites like True.com Angle Examples: Females looking for guys below 5.8 Feet Males looking for females below 5.3 Females looking for tall guys Tall Males looking for tall girls Sample Ads Has Children: Works great for targeting offers and products that are parent related. If some one has selected ‘Prefer not to say’, it means that they most probably have kids. This option can be used with generic dating sites too as there are plenty of single parents on every dating site. Angle Examples: Single Dads Looking For Single Moms Single Moms Looking For Single Dads Single Girls Looking For Single Dads Sample Ads Body Type: When you are promoting BB Dating or weight loss offers this can be a great option. There are plenty of niche sites, plus sized dating service for single larger men and single BBW, with good payouts. Can be used for promoting generic dating sites too. Angle Examples: Females looking For Athletic Males Males looking For BBW Females Females looking For BBW Males. BB males looking for BB blonde females BB Christian males looking for BB Christian Females Females looking for thin males Sample Ads Income: You can easily link people with lower income towards people with a higher income. There are many angles you can come up with for this targeting option. While promote sites like Richmen.com and WealthyMatch.com, this targeting option can do wonders. Angle Examples: Rich men looking for females Rich women looking for tall males Rich women looking for short males Rich women looking for rich men Rich men looking for blonds Rich Men Looking For Christian Girls Religion: Very huge when trying to run a religion based offer. Christian Mingle would obviously be targeted towards Christians etc. Generic sites have Christians, Jewish, Buddhist people too, so don’t be afraid to use this angle with high converting generic dating websites. Angle Examples: Christian Men Looking For Christian Women Christian Soldiers Looking For Christian Women White Women Looking For Hindu Men Christian Women Looking For Christian Men Rich Men Looking For Christian Women Jewish Men Looking For Jewish Women Sample Ads: Ethnicity: People have attractions preferences towards certain ethnicities. You can come up with so many angles here. I have a lot of campaigns that are using this targeting option. Angle Examples: White Women Looking For Black Men White Soldiers Looking For Black Women White Women Looking For Indian Men Black Women Looking For Black Men Rich White Men Looking For Asian Women Sample Ads: Hair Color: Self explanatory; some people prefer blondes, some red heads, and some brunettes. Use this angle with generic dating sites. Angle Examples: Real Men Looking for Blond Women Blond Women Looking For Short Guys Tall Men Looking For Brunettes Firemen looking for Blond Women Sample Ads: Age Again, self explanatory. Target older men towards younger females or younger men towards older women (cougars). Many affiliates do this, and it works great. Angle Examples: Younger Women Looking for 40+ Men Cougars looking for Men 18-25 40+ Women looking for 40+ Men Short Women looking for 40+ Men Sample Ads: Gender: You can target people based on their gender. Targeting only based on gender for dating sites makes it a little difficult to make profit, don’t do this till you gain some experience. 55% of POF users are male and 45% are female. Angle Examples: Girls who always reply Russian Girls who always reply Learn to attract women Chat with 5 women in 5 minutes Girls looking for guys who drink socially Sample Ads: Browser Type I decided to split test browsers after reading this article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/86 74678/Internet-Explorer-users-have-belowaverage-IQ.html The conversion ratio and clicks were higher for internet explorer users. So In my browser targeting options I always select Internet Explorer only. If after running the campaign, I find that it’s getting very low traffic, I select Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari. I never select iPhone or Android. More sample ads There is a fine line between using angles and fooling people. Don’t use lines like- ‘Guaranteed - get girlfriend by tomorrow” “This soldier wants to date you” “This doctor was asking about you” “22 rich men searched for you” “The #1 Dating Site of America” This will provide bad quality leads to the advertiser. You could get banned or in legal trouble. Finding High CTR Images Most new affiliates will use professional photos from stock photo sites. Amature Photos work really well on Plenty of Fish. These types of photos make Plenty of Fish users believe that they are looking at a real person, who they can date. Don’t go for stock or professional looking photos, they don’t work most of the times. To find high CTR images I’ll login to my AffExpert.com account ($39/month) and see what images other affiliates are using to save testing cost. Once you login to AffExpert.com click on Tools > POF Ads Spy Tool and to see which ads have been running the longest click on Days Seen. I’ll copy all the images and ads, tweak them a little and set up a campaign. 95% of the time these images will get a good CTR for campaigns with login count <50 and frequency cap 3. Whenever I feel the need to use some new images and creatives for dating offers I use: http://whatboyswant.com http://thechive.com/category/girls/ http://www.cosmopolitan.com/ If I am promoting anything that’s not dating, I’ll use Google or Bing, but again I’ll stick to unprofessional and amateur images. Most ClickBank offers have their affiliate creative section where the vendor will provide you with the creatives. You can try those creatives too. For men amateur pictures of girls with good plump breasts, curvy women, girls with glasses, girls holding cameras and emo girl images work well. For female’s amateur pictures of men with uniforms, men with babies or pets, men with muscles or ripped bodies and body images with tattoos work well. Using this tool you can get an idea of the type of ads other affiliates are running, make a few changes if you want to, and copy them for instant profits. With this guide I have included 100+ High CTR dating images, feel free to use them. Ad Approval Rules The ad approval team at POF sees that a woman’s breasts on the ad or on the landing page should not be larger than her head. Bikini’s are ok, bras and panties are not. POF allows animated GIF banners but they have to fall under the subjective ‘3 second rule’ meaning the banner can’t change any more frequently than every 3 seconds. Also the banner can only flash for 3 seconds after three seconds it can’t flash/pulsate anymore. Please refer to the guidelines here and follow them https://ads.pof.com/ui/documentation/AdvertisingGuid elines.aspx Allowed Not Allowed Writing Ad Copies (Ad Copies That Work) Headlines Put your biggest benefit in your headline. Your headline should tell everything about the offer. The users should have a reason to click there, go to the offer page and take action. Most people will only read your headline and nothing else. Want A Girlfriend? Click Here NEEDED: Christian Men Dating Descriptions You want to convince your user to sign up or buy a product in here. You have 128 characters to do so. Keep it simple and to the point. If you are using an angle, include as much information as you can about the angle. According to POF terms of service you should have something like Join Now or Register Today if you are promoting a dating service. Are you {age:25}-35. Date a soldier in {state: your area}. Sign up today! Single men with children in {state:your state} are looking for single moms. Sign up and meet them tonight! I would say don’t get too creative here. Keep it simple and to the point. Landing Pages Most new advertisers will direct link. From one year of my experience I can confidently tell you that the right type of a landing page will bring you better ROI than direct linking. As you are going to be using angles for campaigns, landing pages are a must. If you don’t use a landing page, you’ll probably end up with a negative ROI. In this chapter we are going to learn how to setup landing pages that convert. We’ll see what differentiates a bad landing page from a good landing page. Your landing page should look similar to the original offer page. Using similar colors, logos, buttons and style is important. The theme of your entire sales funnel should be the same. Landing pages are required for CPA offers and not all Clickbank products need a landing page. I mainly use 2 types of landing page templates, and I split-test some times. Style 1 Style 2 Your landing pages should have the following elements (As many as possible). These will increase your conversion ratio. Headline Just like the ad copy headline, the ad should tell people why they should join the website. Try using words that create an image in the users mind. Cute, Hot, Sweet, Brave, Strong, Real etc. Image(s) A picture is worth a thousand words. You cannot have a landing page without good eye-catching images. Don’t use images from stock photo sites. They don’t capture attention. Use amateur images. Testimonials You can copy and paste some testimonials from the advertiser’s site. There should be a ‘success stories’ section on every dating site. Don’t make up your own testimonials before asking your affiliate manager. Advantages Add 2 to 4 advantages that give them a quick idea on why they should drop whatever they are doing and immediately join the site. I have minimum 2 and maximum 4 advantages on ALL my landing pages. Time constraint This has increased my conversion ratios. I don’t know why but I never bothered to add a time constraint. I tired it once just to see if it works out, and my conversions were higher. Call to action It is a fact that the more the people click on your call to action button, the more the money you are going to make. Have big call to action buttons that screams Join Now, Join FREE Now, Meet Them Tonight. Naming and Grouping Your Campaigns Grouping Plenty of Fish recently introduced a very necessary feature: Grouping You can now group your campaigns together to help organize your advertising efforts. This makes it a lot easier. A video done by Plenty of Fish ads team shows how grouping works http://screencast.com/t/ynNniMXvla Campaign Names Avoid naming your campaigns in the following ways Campaign #6 USA Dating Campaign 1000 Images Campaign Last Final Luck Try Campaign There are infinite other ways to name a campaign but I hope you got the point. If you are running ads on Plenty of Fish, you want to be organized, because you are going to be running 30+ campaigns to reach the $300-$500/Day profit mark. You need to know what the campaign is about by looking at the name. You don’t want to confuse yourself. Plenty of Fish gives you 30 character limits to name your campaign. This is how I name my campaign OfferName-Angle-Country-TargetAgeGenderAdType So if I am promoting Richmen.com USA, angle is Date Rich Christian Men, target gender is females and age group is 26-31 then my group name would be Richmen.com USA and campaign name would be Richmen-Christian-usa-2631F-T1. After naming my campaign, the first thing I’ll do is put it the group Richmen.com USA T1 – Small Ads, T2 – 310 x 110, T3 – 300 x 250, T4 – 160 x 600, T5 – 728 x 90 Setting up Tracking If you are having problems installing Prosper202 on your server, please read their installation instructions. Once you have downloaded and installed Prosper202 on your server, we are going to setup our first campaign. After logging in to the platform click on Tracking 202 under My Applications – 1. Setup > PPC Accounts Enter Plenty of Fish in the traffic source field and click Add. In Add Traffic Source section, select Plenty of Fish and then enter the email you use to login to Plenty of Fish. Leave the pixel type and pixel code section blank. 2. Setup > Aff Networks Enter the name of the CPA network where your offer is. Here I’ll enter Neverblue and click Add. 3. Setup > Aff Campaigns Here you enter your campaign name, affiliate link, payout and decide whether you should cloak or not. Enter the campaign name in a proper way. If you have read the chapter naming your campaigns, you know how you should name your campaigns. I’ll get the affiliate link from my CPA network for the offer I am promoting. I always set cloaking to On, to hide my traffic source from the networks and most networks are ok with this. Enter the payout your CPA network is offering. 4. Setup > Landing Pages By now your landing pages should be ready and uploaded to your server. I’ll use style1 landing page and upload it to my server. I’ll enter the link to my landing page in the Landing Page URL section. Click Add. 5. Setup > Get LP Code > Simple Landing Pages After you select everything, Prosper202 going to generate 3 codes with instructions on where you should place them. Follow the instructions carefully and add your codes accordingly. The instructions are pretty clear. 6. Setup > Get Links This will be the hyperlink for your ads. Select landing page as method of promotion. In max CPC enter 1. You cannot track CPM on Prosper202, but you can update your CPC later. Click on Generate Tracking Link 7. Setup > Get Postback/Pixel A postback pixel will help you track your conversions in real time. You should add this to your network. The adding process is different for every network, so you need to ask your affiliate manager. Uploading Your Ads A common mistake among many affiliates is that they upload hundreds of ads at once. I don’t recommend it because that is going to require higher testing budgets. Here is what I normally do Upload 30 images with 1 headline Let the ads run for 1000-1200 impressions each. Select all images with CTR above 0.1% Test 3 headlines on each image. Keep the ads with the best CTR, pause ads with CTR less than 0.1% Adding Sub ID’s To know which ads convert the best don’t forget to add a Sub ID in front of your tracking link For Example Ad 1 http://1trackingads.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=7259 9&t202kw=1 Ad 2 http://1trackingads.com/tracking202/redirect/dl.php?t202id=7259 9&t202kw=2 Automation Plenty of Fish Bulk Uploader Save some time. Yes there is a bulk uploader in POF itself. You can add 10 images and one ad copy, it will add the add copy to all 10 images. Mr. Greens Plenty of Fish Tool ($100) Work on your landing pages while the ad uploader is working in the background. One thing I love about Mr.Greens POF Uploader is that it helps you add a sub ID to every ad automatically. Just click ad Sub ID and in Start From enter 1. Money Control – Being Smart Every affiliate has this question - how much money do I need to get started on POF? I have seen some people build profitable campaigns with as low as $100, but not every one is so skilled, including me. It took me a couple of thousand dollars, because not many guides were available when I started. To be realistic, if you are going to do everything manually, and follow all the instructions in this guide then $150-$250 would be enough. If you plan to buy the tools and outsource - $350-450 is good. I cannot be certain about these numbers; it differs from person to person and these numbers are nonspecific. Don’t spend thousands of dollars at once, you need to start slow and scale slowly. Commit yourself to a loss limit, and stop if you go down a total of $50/day or $100/day, depending on your overall budget. If you end up in a loss, think about what went wrong and try to rectify the errors. Don’t setup 10-15 campaigns at once until you a POF veteran. Don’t upload hundreds of AdCopies at once. As Mr.Green says, monitor your campaigns like a hawk. In a rush to make money, many affiliates will end up making these mistakes and then they will run around forums creating a lot of “POF is dead” noise. 50% ROI Rules All of us would like to start with a low budget. As promised, I am going to show you how I create profitable campaigns with very less investment and get a minimum of 50% ROI. I have campaigns bringing me ROI’s as high as 400%, but 50% is the minimum. Use Login Count <50 and Frequency Cap 3: All your campaigns should have login count <50 and frequency cap set to 3. These are the two most important targeting options you need to add to every campaign. This will definitely get you the best quality traffic on Plenty of Fish. Once you gain some experience and make some profit, think of experimenting with higher login counts and frequency caps. Select Offers That Convert: Get to know your affiliate managers, give them a slight idea of what you are planning to do and then, ask them what offers are hot right now. They’ll email you a list of their top dating offers and offers that you can promote on Plenty of Fish. If you are promoting a ClickBank offer, check the gravity of the product and see if the landing page is convincing enough. Payouts more than $4: It’s difficult to make a positive ROI on offers that pay less than $4 in US and UK. Don’t select an offer that pays less than $4. Once you send a few hundred leads, ask your affiliate managers for payout bumps. They should be able to increase by 10%-15%. Come up with unique angles: I am sure that this book has given you a clear idea on angles. All CPA networks encourage that you use angles and narrow targeting on POF. You can use any angle that you want to mentioned in this book or you cam come up with your own angles. Don’t post a campaign without using an angle. Broad targeting rarely work on plenty of fish. Use Landing Pages: You need a landing page that relates to the angle, because the offer landing page is probably not going to. This page should convince people to sign up on the website. For ClickBank offers you don’t need to come up with angles, so landing pages are not necessary, and the top converting ClickBank offers will already have good landing pages. These are the most important elements of every campaign and doing this top affiliates make a lot of money on Plenty of Fish. Scaling (Reaching $300-$500/Day) If you have read and understood everything till now, you should be able to set up a profitable campaign that will make you $10-15/day. To reach the $300-$500/day mark, you’ll need 30-40 campaigns making $10-$15 a day. You can select 810 offers/products, and come up with 4-6 angles for each – to have 30-40 optimized campaigns that bring you long term income. Out of all the campaigns that you setup, some will have to potential to make $40-$60/day or even more and this is achievable by scaling the right way. Why not make the most of all our campaigns? Below are some of the ways I use for scaling my campaigns. Bid Increment This is the easiest way to scale your campaign. The higher you bid the more that traffic you’re going to get. You might also get a better CTR, as your ads will be shown to a lower session depth. Before you increase your bid, take a look at your ROI and increase bids accordingly. Your campaigns should bring more profit after the bid increases and you should not go in a loss. Gender Almost all dating offers accept male and female traffic. Most of my campaigns are targeting females. All advertisers are desperate for female leads. They pay more. You’ll get good payout bumps if you send female leads. Once you make profit there, you can target males. Obviously the creatives will be different, but the offer can be the same. Gay traffic on Plenty of Fish is less than 1% so it’s pointless targeting them. Distribute ASAP As I have said before; If you or starting out, select Distribute Evenly option. Once a campaign makes profits, you can select Distribute ASAP option. By doing this, you’ll get the most available traffic for your bid and targeting. You’ll need to increase your campaign budget if you are doing this. Other Countries Offers like Be2.com, Cupid and Richmen allow you to advertise in multiple countries. You can advertise Clickbank offers in all countries (I recommend that you advertise ClickBank products only in developed countries). The competition will be less and your ROI’s would be better. IAB Ads We start with small ads, but once you know that your angle is profitable, offer converts and you are getting a positive ROI, you want to start using 310 x 110 and IAB ads. You’ll get a more impressions, more clicks and it means more profits. Login Count Scalability I use this only when my dating campaigns are bringing more than 150% ROI. Use this option for scaling Clickbank campaigns; increasing login count <100 won’t work well most of the times with dating offers, unless you have some really great images. The people at POF Ads suggest that you duplicate campaigns (link). I don’t know about others, but I have not had success with this. Yes, I do get more traffic but I also end up suffering a loss, because I am only increasing the number of times my ad is being shown to the same person at a different ad spot. Money burns fast if you do this. Type Offers That Can Work Well On Plenty of Fish Targeting Options Offer Types Drinking Habits Dating angles for people who drink Height Dating angles for small/tall people Grow Taller eBooks on Clickbank Smoking Habits High Heel Shoes Dating angles for people who smoke eCigs Car Quit Smoking guides, NLP and Hypnosis Programs Dating angles for people who have cars. Education level Car Insurance Dating angles for people according to their education Has Children Education Loans Dating angles and offers for people with children Religion Ethnicity Pets Religion based dating offers and angles Dating angles according to ethnicity Dating angles for pet lovers Pet insurance offers Dog training guides on Clickbank Hair Color Body Type Pet food products Dating angles according to hair color choice. Hair Growth Products For Bald People Dating angles for different body types Weight loss CPA products or weight loss products on Clickbank Body building programs on Clickbank List of All Tools You Can Use It’s not sensible to do everything manually as it can take you a lot of time and effort. You want to automate things and save as much time as possible. Luckily, we have some pretty amazing tools at our disposal: Mr. Greens POF Ad Uploader If you've read the whole guide, you'll already know what this does. It’s a Firefox add-on which will help you upload thousands of ads in minutes, saving you a lot of time. You'll need Firefox Browser if you want to use this tool. AffExpert POF Spy Honestly this is one amazing tool to help you find out what your competitors and other top affiliates on POF are doing. It gives you a lot of high CTR images. It beats trial and error because you let others do the work for you! You can save some money on testing with this tool. Prosper202 I have been using this since I started. It's free and it serves the purpose. Prosper202 provides pay per click affiliate marketers with free self hosted PPC software! The only effect this software will have on your bottom line is a positive one. 90 Second Website Builder A drag and drop website builder. If HTML is a little foreign to you, this tool is a god sent. You don't need to know a line of code for using this. DriftNet Driftnet is a Firefox Add-on for Plenty of Fish advertisers. Its main goal is to make the day to day management of your campaigns quicker and allow you to get a better grasp on larger campaigns. Don’t buy it if you are on a limited budget. Buy it once you have lots of campaigns running. Photoshop CS5 I use it frequently to design landing pages or IAB banners on Plenty of Fish. It saves a lot of time because of the batch processing functionality. If you don't have Photoshop, you could outsource the batch processing to some one who has it. You will be able to easily find many people on oDesk.com Dreamweaver CS5 I prefer to code my landing pages in Dreamweaver. If you don’t know anything about Dreamweaver I recommend the Lynda.com Dreamweaver CS5 training videos. If I don't have the time to code, I outsource my coding to http://www.primediart.com primediart@gmail.com Closing Thoughts I want to congratulate you on finishing this report. In my one year of using Plenty of Fish Ads, it’s become one of my important and valued sources for making money online. It’s my sincere hope that this guide has helped to show you how to make money using Plenty of Fish ads, and made you realize the true potential it has. The tips, ideas and strategies shared in this report will make you money, just like they have for me. Now, you know everything I know. All you have to do is take action. If you want to get in touch with me for any reason, send an email to shardul@risealta.com or Skype: risealta20 Sincerely, Shardul Doshi fb | tw | lkin | g+