Comments on: PPV Case Study – Wrap Up and Conclusions

By: Nicola Tewhare

Nicola Tewhare — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:55:59 +0000

Maybe your spend was too small forthe amount of urls you permitted. It did not give you enoughtime to do your testing. Thanks for the share though

By: Jin Roh

Jin Roh — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:31:46 +0000

I use linksador.com and trafficvance.com. Much better than direct cpv conversion wise. Direct cpv claims that they dont outsource their traffic but they use a lot of publishers to show their ads.

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By: Justin Dupre

Justin Dupre — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:28:49 +0000

Yo Andrew, I really like your case study but I gotta tell you, Zac Johnson had one of the best case studies of the year… of the year!

By: Mike Chiasson

Mike Chiasson — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:43:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing Andrew. I also gave DirectPPV a try this week and my results weren’t so hot. I haven’t been too impressed with their Domain targeted traffic yet (granted I haven’t tried out the big domains yet). Their keyword specific traffic isn’t that bad though, granted I am basing this on some very small niche keywords here. Of course you can go read all about my fail at keyword targeting with DirectPPV on my blog lol. Keep up the good work!

By: andrew wee

andrew wee — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:40:20 +0000

Aside from showing that you obviously did not read the posts, and mistakenly think that dropping a link to your “Acne treatment” site would drive some traffic, you should realize that I don’t care about my feedburner follower count.

My expense is a dollar amount.
Your quality score is something different.
What’s the correlation?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:47:24 +0000

What lessons were there to learn other than your PPV campaign was a failure? There was nothing positive to take out of this case study other than your feedburner account getting boosted with a couple more newbies.

Your whole case study was $7.47… I have quality scores higher than that.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:41:49 +0000

Fail!

By: andrew wee

andrew wee — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:32:15 +0000

Hey Earl,
Great to see you post here.

I think most of us who have been doing this for some time will know that if some of the stuff you’re doing works out, you’re doing pretty well already.

There’s no point in doing “case studies” where numbers are fudged or an already successful campaign is retroactively analyzed.

It’s also funny that most are choosing to look at the numbers alone without looking at the lessons learned along the way.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:00:40 +0000

You’re wrong. If this was a test then the numbers were not big enough to give any significance (so a fail) and if this campaign actually worked (i.e. broke even) with those numbers you would never be able to make any money with that trickle of traffic.

Forget 200,000 targets, 100 – 200 max

By: Earl Grey

Earl Grey — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:50:24 +0000

I like the fact that you posted the study even though it just showed fail.
Better than having an ego and manipulating the figures or just posting success and hiding fail.

A++ Nice one and i wish more people would be as honest

By: Shock Marketer

Shock Marketer — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:40:56 +0000

GameVance can take some time until it starts popping (after initial install). They don’t want people to see a correlation between GameVance and popups immediately.

By: Jason Argall

Jason Argall — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:36:40 +0000

I’d say it wasn’t a case study if you didn’t get a large enough sample of anything statistically relevant to study. 600 views over 6000 URLs? We can’t learn anything from that.

The only conclusion should have been “Direct CPV didn’t give us enough traffic to study anything”. Nothing else of value was learned here… Maybe if you’re going to call it a case study you should extend the 2 week deadline and run it elsewhere.

By: Josh Todd

Josh Todd — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:09:28 +0000

You have angered the Barman. Grab the flame shield!

By: chris

chris — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:54:16 +0000

YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG