All this Top Affiliate Challenge stuff have got my juices flowing about maybe doing some CPA affiliate marketing again. You may remember that the last time I attempted this I bummed out quite badly, losing a good chunk of Pay-Per-Click change to the likes of Adwords and FaceBook. Well time is a great healer isn’t it so I feel it’s about time I wasted used some more of my money to try and get a decent CPA offer going.
The one thing that stood out during the TAC was how Jonathan Van Clute managed to be able to match his boasts of cheap targeted traffic to earnings. Got to admit I was sceptical at first, but just seeing the affect his knowledge sharing had on the other contestants earnings was a real eye opener. I think this has to be the key to CPA marketing, to get enough eye balls in front of your offer for as little as possible. Unless you are lucky (Vegas proved I’m not), PPC with Adwords whilst giving you targeted traffic very rarely gives you cheap targeted traffic. So the big question is, where does Jonathan Van Clute get his traffic from? There did appear to be a lot of hints during the program, talk of pop-under, pop-over traffic sources that are targeted. A little bit of research also shows that he’s certainly no huge fan of PPC and much prefers to use pay-per-impression traffic. But where from? Where do you find targeted sources of cheap PPM traffic? I’ve tried several sources in the past but it almost always turns out to be junk traffic from somebody who has either been paid to click or is a bot. What I need is cheap keyword targeted traffic that you can buy per impression.
If anybody has any clues I’d like to know? I reckon that from what I’ve done in the past I see pretty decent conversion rates from the traffic I get, I’ve just very rarely found any ways of buying in that traffic cheap enough to make a profit on it (other than getting lucky with the odd PPC Adwords campaign). So if anybody knows where Jonathan Van Clute is buying his traffic from and would like to share please feel free to drop me a line, I’m sure we can come to some arrangement 
14 Responses to “Where Does Jonathan Van Clute Get His Traffic From?”
Paul B
August 1, 2008
If I could get cheap Trans-Atlantic flights I’d seriously consider it but at the moment the costs of getting state side are just a bit too much. OK for a holiday but I couldn’t justify a conference to the wife
|Greg
September 16, 2008
I know that Jonathan is someone with some major skills but I’m still waiting to find out where he gets that traffic but something tells me that I may be waiting a very, very long time:)
I will say that Jonathan is someone that I would listen to with three ears since he certainly showed himself onTAC to have marketing abilities which were unmatched.
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|Jonathan van Clute
February 5, 2009
I get my traffic from any and all sources I can find where I don’t have to deal with PPC. =)
Primarily though, yes I have my “favorites”. There are two networks in particular I use most and between the two of them I’m spending over $60k/month right now. It can and does fluctuate of course, this is a highly volatile business.
I actually have steered a LOT of people into the exact path I took to learn how to do what I do. 3 or 4 TAC contestants even bought the same materials I did… though except for Carl I haven’t heard what they’ve been doing with it.
Stay tuned to my blog, as I’ll likely be piping up again within the next two months as to how anyone who is serious, can once again get in the door the same way I did. I don’t blog a lot, but this will be worth paying attention to.
Ultimately though, I can’t just tell everyone where I get my traffic. And frankly I’d be doing you a disservice if I did. PPV traffic is VERY dangerous if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing with it. Treat it like PPC and you’re TOAST. I speak from experience. LOL
Jonathan
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Paul B
February 5, 2009
It’s figures like $60k a month that scare the living crap out of me! Especially when I learnt lately that most of the top guys are only making a 30% profit margin, that could go very wrong, very quicky!
But I guess with any method you can start small and scale right? I’ll be keeping tuned to your blog for hints….
|Jonathan van Clute
February 7, 2009
You’re right that it can go very wrong very quickly. The last 2 days have seen DDoS attacks on BOTH DirectTrack AND LinkTrust – the two biggest names in CPA network backend software. This has meant that suddenly, all offers stop redirecting and your traffic is going to dead pages! Not fun. I consider myself fortunate my biggest campaigns currently are not with any networks, so while I have some losses from this, they’re not terribly huge.
I was trained to strive for a 50% margin. Don’t always hit that… and honestly I’m happy to take ANY profit no matter how small, though the smaller it gets the less work I’m willing to put into it. But also on small margins, you have to start REALLY watching them closely so they don’t get away from you.
This isn’t a game for those who are afraid of leverage… the only way to do numbers of significance is to utilize credit cards HEAVILY, as well as any other credit lines you can get. I have direct credit now with one of the networks I buy the most traffic from, which helps a lot.
Jonathan
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