I heard a lot of comments at affiliate summit about my previous SocialMedia.com case studies. People wanted to know if I’m still running there and if it’s still profitable. Yes, I have had profitable campaigns (very profitable) at SocialMedia.com but I am not currently running there.
I’ve ran into a lot of problems with getting ads approved, the system itself and the quality of the traffic. At some point I figured it wasn’t worth my time and gave up on working with the system.
The original reason that I did the case studies was because all I heard was that the traffic was garbage, doesn’t convert etc.. I don’t like to just take other peoples word for it so I tried it myself. In that process I discovered a very profitable campaign. I am now battling my own self doubts about the traffic source so I have decided to go at it again.
What this means is that I am going to do a few more SocialMedia.com case studies. I’m going to test some different niches and see what happens. I will report back and we can all critique together. I love case studies and plan on bringing more and more of them to AdHustler.com.
P.S. I still haven’t mustered up the time and effort to write an affiliate summit wrapup post. I’ve seen so many out there already and don’t want to just rehash what everyone else wrote. I expect to write something on the topic within the next few days.
Yeah, socialmedia.com took a HUGE drop in quality back in the spring. I used to run zip/email submits with a solid 30-40% conversion rate.
Needless to say, the people that owned SM.com must have caught on and took all the quality traffic for themselves to internally monetize.
When they started taking the quality traffic, my offers dropped to converting at less than 2%. I pretty much gave up after that since there are much better ways to get quality, cheap traffic.
Hey good blog btw. Lots of good stuff on here!
@Matt – Thanks for the kind words. I actually think it was your blog that got me interested in Social Media in the first place (I could be wrong but I think you did some post about SM tips that I thought was awesome).
There was definetly a decline in quality when I was running there when I saw referrals outside of SocialMedia.com serving my ads.
A lot to say here. Let’s see how the newest tests pan out. 🙂
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