Taking Smartlinks out of the private, now you can register with me in my affiliate And earn in this direction. For those who hear about it for the first time, or want to learn more about this direction – I will try to explain how to earn on such offers, and how they work in general.
You probably heard that for the last year and a half or two years – I’ve been mining traffic on my own, not buying it and then monetizing it. I moved away from traditional arbitrage schemes and into the niche of smartlinks and free traffic. Under such conditions, you depend very much on volumes. When the traffic is free, you don’t have to choose and be capricious, you just take everything you have, the more the better, and then you figure out how to monetize it all.
Large amounts of traffic are large amounts of data. It’s the data and the analytics that allow us to convert our traffic into money. Smartlink is a system that analyzes data in real time and decides where on the basis of the data the visitor will bring more profit or is more likely to make a conversion.
Basically, such a monetization scheme is used when working with sources where it is impossible to target by audience, or when it is difficult to calculate all the possible variants of rules and settings for your tracker. Let’s look at examples of such traffic sources where smartlinks can be a more profitable solution.
To illustrate the benefits of smartlinks, let’s try to look at some schemes where smartlinks are actively used. One such traffic channel could be #hashtags
There are hashtag searches on Twitter and Instagram, where there is always some kind of audience, by bringing your hashtags to the top, or regularly making a post with a hashtag in instagram, we get into this rotation, the main thing is to understand the principles by which these tops are ranked and how to squeeze a publication in there. For example, to get into the best publications by hashtag, you had to gain the number of likes and surpass the previous publications. To get into the newest publications, you just need frequent cross-posting by the hashtag.
Let’s say I found the hashtag #bmw, clicked on it – to find other photos with that hashtag. In the hashtag search, the first place is the top of publications, where they are already pouring on teeth whitening products, and on gambling, according to the scheme I described.
The trick is that you’ll never guess what country your post will be viewed from, what device, what type of connection the person viewing your instagram post will have. The point here is probably that BMW fans don’t have enough money for a BMW, or it’s important to the owner of such a car to have white teeth.
There are also thematic feeds and content aggregator sites, which parse various tweets, images, videos from the Internet into their feeds, and allow other users to form these content feeds and influence their ranking. In Russia, for example, you can display the top posts on the site Pikabu, and get traffic due to it.
For example, in tumblr, you can often see how the top are winding affiliate links to Amazon or ebay, with a selection of incredible products, or just means for weight loss. In order to understand the principle of getting into the tops, it was enough to watch the feed for a day and find all the publications related to diets, making money online or dating. It took me less than an hour to find the guys pouring traffic from there and burn their account farms.
Next, just look at the accounts and see that they are all registered recently, and the publication got into the top because of the huge number of likes under this publication. Looking at who likes and raises these publications to the top – we see that these accounts are empty, freshly registered.
A similar principle applies in Pinterest, it’s also a pinterest page that, based on user preferences, generates a content feed that is used by more than 150 million people around the world. How many people use Tumblr.com. – I couldn’t find it, but the site ranks 47th in the Alexa rankings. In general, there is a whole niche with a huge amount of traffic, and there are specialists in this niche who have understood the principles of content ranking in grids, and know how to push their publications there, which in turn bring free traffic. From experience, I can tell you that the webmaster who sits in this niche for about 2-3 years, withdraws from these sources about $2000-4000 per day. The whole complexity is in lack of targeting – of all possibilities, which such traffic sources give us, we can play with topics of publications, text, headlines – that’s all. We can’t choose the country in which we want to publish our entry, gender or age – who to show the publication to.
A widespread scheme for mobile tarffic mining today is ad spoofing and introducing its own formats on android devices. Since the distribution of an infected app, which substitutes advertising and introduces new formats, takes place from the official playmarket catalogs, the developer cannot target the audience in advance. If you optimize your app inside the playmarket – it can take the leading positions in Asia or UAE, and have a lot of traffic there, but it won’t shoot out, say, in USA. That’s why your solution should be universal and constantly analyze the most profitable offers in those GEOs, where the traffic comes from.
Thus, the affiliate program simply takes over the analytics of traffic, its tracking and optimization, substituting the most profitable offers and solutions based on the data that turns out to be collected about the visitor who clicked on our link.
In the examples above, we looked at the sources of traffic, monetized in the examples who-what-can. Honestly – pouring from Instagram hashtags to the merchandise, in my opinion, so-so-not a good idea. The most profitable niche there obviously will be dating, and CTR of publications with girls who want to get acquainted will be much higher. The reach of the dating niche is greater than the reach of people who want to whiten their teeth. Let me remind you again, smartlinks are for those who take quantity.
First of all, smartlinks look at the GEO from which our visitor came, and finds the most profitable offers in this GEO.
Next, the smartlink determines the type of device and the type of connection of the visitor. If it is 3G connection, it will redirect to wap-click solution, because it will be the most profitable, and wapclick conversion by dating niche shows conversion figures in average 1:5-1:20. Although if it happens that the user will be in a country where wap-click market is not strongly developed and there is a more profitable solution – smartlink will certainly choose it. If the visitor happens to be connected via wi-fi, and it is not possible to rip his subscription, smartlink will choose the second most profitable monetization option, most often these are dating sites that pay for the registration and the questionnaire filled out on the site. Operational systems are also taken into account, for example – if in the current GEO there are offers on mobile installations android (*.apk) – smartlink will determine the type of device, and if it will be android – will direct traffic to this solution.
Suppose it’s a tumblr, and our picture with the girl was baited by Russian guy, who is sitting at the computer, which is connected to the home wi-fi network, such a guy will not be able to slip wapklik, mobile offers on it too will not convert, so smartlink will send it to the desktop solution.
That said, in the images above, I’ve given only the most illustrative parameters by which the analytics and rotation of offerers, the system constantly analyzes internal statistics, collects data and optimizes solutions.
You can work with this direction in our affiliate CPA.RU To do this in the menu of the affiliate program, open the directory of offers, and find in the list of offers under the name of “Smart Link”
At the moment there’s only one smartlink theme – dating, keep that in mind. Later we’ll diversify the theme categories for smartlinks and we’ll let you know about it 😉