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Originally Posted by wedouglas
I just signed up for Zango. I will really see if the traffic is all its cracked up to be. I have a suspicion that the amount of traffic Zango drives from adult websites is next to nothing.
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i think you will be shocked. just make a list of the highest traffic sites... bid on the URLs and see what happens.
i tested it for mainstream mobile stuff... and from just one URL from one competitor that was also using zango... i got 250 clicks a day for US traffic (you can call them and ask them to set it to restrict traffic by geography).
pretty sobering. i stopped it after two days. its stealing. there is no way to justify taking an user that is trying to go to xyz.com because the owners of xyz.com busted their ass to build a great site and get traffic and then send them to abc.com.
using zango is one thing. a sponsor using zango is something totally different. i dont personally have a problem with some guy using zango who is just trying to get ahead in life. we all have to ask ourselves where to draw the line and we do it more than it would seem. but being a sponsor and robbing his own affiliates is just bizarre. more bizarre is admitting to it... then saying "so what" .. then saying "you're all just a bunch of idiots"
i am not going to go into details about my sites/landing pages etc. but i will say that i more than doubled every penny i spent in just a test. about 24% clicked through to the sponsor from my landing page (as opposed to 80% for adwords)... conversions were about 1:20 or so (as opposed to 1:8 - 1:9 for adwords). BUT - i was paying on average about .025 per click... as opposed to .40 - 1.10 on adwords.
For Lars to say he's losing money by using Zango traffic is just a complete fucking joke. Particularly when you have AFF which converts garbage traffic very well... and you are taking an affiliate commission out of the equation.