This is how Nick, one of our Afflift Follow-Along contest participants started his story. And he was pretty right — one of the main affiliate marketer’s pains is tons of money lost on tests. Is there something that can relieve this pain?
Yes, the answer is additional monetization. Let’s look at how you can compensate for your testing expenses — on the example of Nick’s campaigns.
We thank Nick for sharing his case study — and if you want to thank him, too, join ProPush.me using Nick’s referral link.
Nick wanted to be honest about his latest efforts this year: he ran multiple campaigns without much success. His favorite vertical is Sweepstakes, so he was mainly focused on it. Besides, his recent campaigns also included iGaming products.
Nick even has his course on how to profit from Sweepstakes — you will find it (and tons of other useful posts) on his website.
Here are the stats of some campaigns Nick has been testing lately (mainly Tier 1 GEOs):
Yes, the test stage can really hurt your feelings and budget. Nick was playing with creatives, landing pages, angles — and it all swallowed up money.
— Over a couple of months, I managed to dig a $1,950.10 loss on this group of tests, losing just over half of what I spent. That feels pretty bad.
Such large spending doesn’t have to be so painful, though. Extra monetization alongside running your main offer can cover a significant amount of expenses — and sometimes, even most of them.
Nick proves it by showing his stats from ProPush.me. He uses ProPush Smart Tag with all his campaigns:
Here are the stats for the same group of campaigns we showed before, but with ProPush they look much more attractive:
— With that additional revenue, my ROI improves to -36.37%, making it much less painful. That counts as a “successful test” in almost any affiliate’s books.
Before ProPush, Nick tried a similar extra monetization solution from another company. However, as he said, it didn’t bring anything even close to the income he gets from ProPush.
As you might know, ProPush offers two ways how you get your income:
According to Nick’s experience, his users stay subscribed for approximately 2–3 weeks. Remember, though, that he uses Push traffic — it means that his audience has many other push subscriptions so far. With other traffic types, a user’s lifecycle might be longer.
So what did he choose: CPS or RevShare? The answer is RevShare, and Nick vividly showed us why.
He collected 1114 subscribers from a single GEO, and the highest CPS rate for this GEO was $0,14. Now look at the table:
| Subscribers | Potential earnings with the CPS model | Earnings with RevShare |
| 1114 | $155.96 | $608,16 |
If Nick chose the CPS model, he would earn only 25% of what he got with RevShare. Yes, RevShare takes more time to start bringing profit — but it’s probably worth it, nah?
Nick’s experience proves that extra monetization is not only a pleasant bonus — but also great support for your budget when you are testing expensive campaigns.
— I was mind-blown. I will even avoid running campaigns where I can’t have ProPush implemented in some way.
We think such a review makes it hard to resist trying ProPush. Agree?
Join ProPush today, and save your affiliate marketing budgets!
Still, you need to prepare for your monetization — and choosing the right hosting is one of the important steps. Why does it matter so much and how to arrange it all wisely?
Let’s straighten it out.
Even the best landing page won’t help you earn money if it takes forever to open it. And what if it stops loading at all? The same is true for publishers who are striving to monetize their websites.
These are the issues you can easily avoid if you pick the right hosting provider. Hosting is responsible for your website or landing page's quick and stable work — it’s like a house footing.
A hosting server you use for your site or page must be capable to manage all incoming traffic, and all user requests — 24/7. Any mistakes, delays, or activity breaks may result in losing users: they will barely visit your page again to check if you fixed the issues.
Imagine how much converting traffic you can lose with an error like this?
So how to find the provider you can trust and shall you pay for it?
There are several types of hostings — we’ll look at them in detail a bit later. For now, let’s speak about the two largest groups: free and paid hostings.
We know it’s tempting to save money, especially when you, say, run a very expensive advertising campaign. However, we don’t recommend you save exactly on hosting.
What’s the difference between a paid and a free provider? Look at the table:
| Free Hosting | Paid Hosting |
| -Has many content restrictions -Can be heavily packed with ads | -Works much faster than the free hosting -Doesn’t contain ads |
Let us explain it a bit. Maintaining a hosting server for rent is a pretty expensive business. Here is what a hosting provider shall have:
So, as you can guess, it all costs significant amounts of money. Too significant to do it for charity! This is why all free providers show their ads on pages located at their hostings.
Will your pre-lander for collecting subscribers be really efficient if it’s already full of banners? Will your website stay so user-friendly with a great deal of ads you can’t control?
Besides, a free hosting service will never provide you with such stable and quick work as a paid one can. What is more, you can’t host just any site on a free server: many of them block eCommerce shops, or sales landing pages.
And, by the way, you are not guaranteed that the free hosting service doesn’t have any hidden fees.
This is why ProPush.me accepts websites and landing pages located only on paid hostings. No exceptions!
Okay, you are ready to pay for a server, but it’s still unclear which one to choose. We won’t consider literally all hosting types here: just the ones that will best suit your needs as a website owner or an affiliate marketer.
As the name suggests, dedicated hosting will serve exclusively your website. In simple words, it means you rent a special place for your site and will never share it with anyone else — just like if you rented a house.
Obviously, it’s the most reliable way to ensure quick work and manage large volumes of traffic. Still, you don’t really need it that much if you are an affiliate marketer with a pretty simple landing page.
Another type is the opposite: you share the hosting with the other website owners. Getting back to simple terms, it’s like renting a space in a shopping mall.
Such hosting has particular limitations but will be enough if you have a plain site or a landing page that doesn’t require many resources. It can easily handle about 3k visitors per day.
VPS, or a Virtual Private Server, is something in between Shared and Dedicated hosting.
In a nutshell, it’s also shared hosting, but you have a special private space here — like a fence that protects you from a sudden neighbor’s visit. The other websites using the same server won’t interfere with your processes like they can at shared hosting, and usually allows bigger traffic volumes and higher loading speeds.
You can rent a hosting anywhere — but choose the location wisely.
Suppose you want to run traffic from Brazil, but your server is physically located somewhere in Germany. It will take more time to load your site in this case, so the closer your server is to your users, the quicker your site or landing page will work.
You have two ways of how to deal with a hosting location:
So, as you know your needs, finding the right hosting is not a trouble anymore. But probably you wanted some more straightforward recommendations? Okay, we got them!
Just a little bit more of a theory to sum up — what to look at when choosing a hosting?
And what are the best web hosting companies that can ensure it all? We gathered the top-three popular hosting providers according to the HostAdvice research — and the opinions of our partners.
GoDaddy is one of the top popular hosting providers — it serves 16% of all existing websites. It offers three hosting types:
Although GoDaddy doesn’t offer you any free trial periods, you can claim a refund after the first 30 days. Another advantage is that you can select your hosting location: USA, Europe, or Asia.
Bluehost also has many positive reviews and has established itself as one of the top-recommended hosting providers. It offers the same hosting options as GoDaddy but has a whopping eight pricing plans for the shared type.
What is great about Bluehost, all of its pricing plans include free usage of the Cloudflare CDN, so you won’t have issues with your hosting location.
Ionos claims to be the best hosting provider to react to traffic spikes, with a loading page speed of 1.23 seconds. It also has various pricing plans and a free month for new customers.
We think things got much clearer now, right? Once you choose a suitable hosting provider, it will do its work smoothly — with no distraction from website mistakes.
Or you have everything ready? Why wait then —
Start monetizing with ProPush.me!
Good news — you can! And this is exactly what our partner did within the Follow-Along contest we organized together with our friends PropellerAds and Afflift. Meet Pablo T, the Afflift Forum member — and his experience with ProPush.me and Push Traffic.
Pablo was determined to focus on a single traffic source and a single vertical. As he said himself —
— No more jumping around and chasing shiny objects!’
His choice fell on a Sweepstakes offer with a $10 payout. It could be pretty challenging: nobody gives so high payouts for easy conversions! And here are the other campaign details:
Pablo decided to give his campaign a three-day test, using one landing page, and see if he gets conversions. Another important detail: he set his campaign to run only from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. and use only Classic Push ads.
If you are curious about how he set up his campaign in detail — welcome to the gallery!
And, after he set up everything in PropellerAds, Pablo added a ProPush Smart Tag to his landing page.
The very first day of testing showed a low CTR, so Pablo decided to add more creatives to see if they perform better. However, things didn’t change much: the second day did not bring any conversions, too, even though the CTR became a bit higher.
Here are Pablo’s stats for Day 2:
And, with 282 impressions from ProPush.me, there was still no extra profit:
Of course, Pablo started optimizing his campaign. What did he do?
While the main offer hadn’t brought any profit yet, ProPush stats showed a more positive result. A $6 profit is the profit, too!
Later, Pablo’s main offer finally brought the first conversion. So, there was a -58% ROI and a single conversion — not the best result you can hope for.
The campaign was crying out for optimization!
Pablo decided to make changes in the User Activity targeting and add In-Page Push traffic besides Classic Push.
Here are his first results after his optimization efforts:
To make things clearer, see what each row in the stats above means:
Meanwhile, ProPush profit got stuck at $6 — nothing has changed since June 3:
It seemed like using Push traffic with ProPush was really a bad idea… but let’s see what happened next.
Pablo kept optimizing his campaign: comparing landing pages and creatives and In-Push and Classic Push traffic types. Two landing pages finally showed a positive ROI!
And Propush got off the ground, too:
Long story short, campaign optimization did not help much: while some of the slices were performing okay, there was still negative profit.
But, surprisingly, ProPush generated some more earnings:
Pablo’s main offer didn’t make a hit. Even after he added two Popunder traffic campaigns to test it, too, the results did not become much better:
In the end, Pablo admitted that PopUnder traffic was not doing better than Push Traffic for his main offer. The final results for two weeks showed only 15 conversions, collected mainly with In-Page Push traffic.
However, Pablo managed to earn $14 with ProPush — and he liked it! It’s not easy to get even such an amount with Push Traffic, so it was not bad at all. Provided he didn’t make any changes in his ProPush settings, it’s a good result!
Most likely, things would be much better if Pablo had chosen the other traffic type from the very beginning. Still, you can see that ProPush can do its job even when you send this controversial Push traffic.
So, don’t just refuse extra monetization if your offer needs the ‘wrong’ traffic type. It can work as well — probably, not that efficiently, but still.
Join ProPush today and boost your earnings, too!
Why did we find this Follow-Along Contest case study exciting, although the final profit was not that impressively big? Because it vividly shows that ProPush.me works fine even if you have low volumes of traffic, and literally everyone can get their piece of the pie.
And don't forget to visit the Afflift forum, follow the threads, and share your own insights!
Viccarterann told us that his campaigns hadn’t been really successful lately. He thought that his main issue was that he picked the wrong offers. So he was determined to concentrate on the PropellerAds network as a very high-quality traffic source and do his best to find suitable converting offers. Here is an overview of his campaigns:
Again, his main aim was to find a profitable offer that would convert easily. We mean, he didn’t intend to spend much time on extra monetization — and luckily, he didn’t have to! All that Viccarterann needed was to add a Smart Tag from ProPush.me to this landing page — and don’t think about it again.
Thanks to his previous experience, he was pretty sure in this step: here is what he said:
— In the last few weeks, I have not sent any traffic to my landing pages, but Propush continued to generate money! Just look at the stats:
Viccarterann willingly shared his checklist for setting up campaigns — including extra monetization tools.
Here it is:
Viccarterann tried various approaches towards his PropellerAds campaigns. He spoke to his account managers in CPA networks to get the best offers, tried targeting different GEOs, and tested various landing pages — but not that it all worked out. For example, here are his stats with the three new GEOs he decided to test after the other campaigns failed:
As Viccarterann supposed, the reason might be very high competition for the chosen offers. He didn’t blame ProPush.me for it, as the similar campaigns without a ProPush Tag on the landing pages had more or less the same flow. And, what is more, unlike the main offers, ProPush.me did bring some profit:
Not bad for not doing anything — this was Viccarterrann’s verdict on his ProPush.me stats.
However, he needed to start getting profit from his main offers, too — and this time, he decided to change CPA Goal to SmartCPM. It caused a pretty large click loss, but finally highlighted an offer that had potential:
Despite the negative ROI, this offer had the chance to show green numbers later. To optimize it, Viccarterran did the creatives' A/B testing, deleted the worst converting zones with the biggest spending, and changed targeting settings to work only with the Chrome browser.
It didn’t change things much, so he decided to add one more campaign (the one with the -79% ROI on the screenshot above), and combine both campaigns with a CPA Goal model. To do it, he requested the report from the Bemob tracker (it’s a nice feature, try it for your projects, too!) and got detailed information on each campaign:
Now, having more accurate data on hand, he created a new campaign — a combination of the previous two:
Besides, he added a special Backbutton campaign:
It helped! As you see, the numbers finally became green, and the ROI has extremely boosted up to more than 100%. If there was more traffic, the profits would have been much more exciting, but anyway — it works!
ProPush.me Tag was still active, meanwhile. Again, it did its job perfectly — and only the small traffic volumes prevented Viccarterran from earning much larger amounts:
As Viccarterann said himself, ‘Not a big deal — but it’s free money!’.
The two final campaigns kept bringing small but stable profits, with positive ROI and net profits.
So did ProPush:
It turned out that you can install a ProPush Smart Tag once — and earn $1 per day doing nothing else with it. As you see, even the small traffic volumes on the main offer can result in some additional revenue from ProPush.me — so we are not just for high-rollers.
Overall, within a month, Viccarterann got almost $20 of ‘free money’, as he calls them himself.
So, Viccarterann put the ProPush Smart Tag on all landing pages he used and kept getting subscribers. The more traffic he sent, the more subscribers he got — and nothing changed in the main offers’ flow. He also noticed that when the CTR of his campaigns rose, his ProPush CR percentage also increased — and it was evident even with relatively small earnings.
The best thing Viccarterann found in ProPush is that he didn’t have to do anything special to increase the subscription rates — and he will keep using ProPush for his future campaigns.
Want to try such a lazy monetization?
You are welcome to join ProPush.me today — and share your best case studies, too!
