How We Joined Adsterra From Scratch: Real Story Of Real $33k Success

Starting something new is always a challenge. So if there is a way to make it easier, why not use it? The case below is to help everyone who still is in doubt about joining networks in general and Adsterra in particular. Just read and get sure that cooperation can and will be profitable, and all you have to do is dare to start. In today’s case, we are happy to share the experience of our very engaged and enthusiastic publishers from Vietnam. They created a detailed and demonstrative story of great use for everyone who is to start their path with Adsterra. Read, learn, and get inspired! Mai Hang Mai Hang | content creator, SEO-er, website trader Hello, my friends. I’m Mai Hang — a website trader from Vietnam. I’m working in banking, but content creation and SEO are a hobby of mine outside of work hours. I love writing and sharing my finance, stocks, and investing knowledge I usually share via Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and Youtube. I work together with my husband. We first met in August 2020, when I was selling a Facebook page with almost 80k followers. At that time, I was a writer of small stories about life in Vietnam and wanted to switch to articles in the field of banking and finance. He bought and shared about the work of a website trader and asked me about cooperation. I could experience writing on a variety of topics, so I agreed. We worked together, and our love blossomed from there. After 3 years, I agreed to his marriage proposal, and our wedding had just been held on June 11, 2023. Talking about my husband, he is a quiet programmer, a bit shy, but always taking care of me. He loves programming so much that he sometimes doesn’t eat all day to complete the feature. He spends a lot of time self-learning about the web, mobile, IoT, and AI/ML. His main job is not as a programmer but as a network engineer for Viettel — a leading technology company in Vietnam. My husband and I have worked in the website trading market for 3 years. We have discussed with the owners of interesting websites in Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, China, India, etc., to make offers to buy them. My husband will work to improve IT aspects, such as: developing new features; redesigning the website UI/UX; optimizing resources, performance; etc. Meanwhile, I work as a content creator and SEOer to improve impressions (more than 30-50%). After 2 months or a bit more time, the websites become better and attract more traffic, and we sell at higher prices to investors who want to earn money from them. We have a list of private clients from China, Thailand, Singapore, and Korea who always ask for new websites weekly. Not just our story We were not aware of the benefits of joining ad networks for a long time as we were engaged in this occupation. Everything changed when we had two websites that could not find buyers. We kept and operated them for 6 months (posting new articles daily, maintaining servers, etc.) with only income from Google Adsense. As website traders, we know that successful business means that we can sell websites in the short term. So we needed to hang more ads to win in these businesses, but where could we get them? Then we found and tried some global ads platforms which are common in my country and drew the following weak points that we disliked: It took a lot of time to approve websites. We had to spend more than 1 day for the website to be approved. Sometimes, we chose the wrong category and needed to submit it again. Therefore, the actual approval time was even longer. The limited number of websites. As a website trader, I often buy and sell many websites. I have to create multiple publisher accounts. Limits make it difficult for me to manage all websites and get the minimum payment amount for each account. No support for the payment methods we needed. Most platforms did not offer the payment method that we expected. The available payment methods in my country are Paypal and some other ones, unsupported by platforms. So I can receive money via Paypal, but the USD-VND exchange rate is very low compared to the market. Therefore, I prefer to choose USDT (and sell it on Binance to VND) as my primary payment method. Figures first My husband first saw Adsterra on the Vietnamese MMO forum. A member posted a thread to share his income with Adsterra to attract others to register via his referral link. I asked him about the approval process and received a good answer: it’s automatic and not limited. It seemed to be suitable for our context. So the cooperation with Adsterra had been started. We have been working for 6 months and received over 33k US$ when I wrote this story. Our income from Adsterra Our income from Adsterra Why do we love working with Adsterra Our difference from most publishers is that we have been hanging Adsterra’s ads on around 100 websites. These websites have above 100k traffic per month in various categories: news, food reviews, car reviews, travel, dictionaries, horoscopes, etc. This gives us more perspectives and experiences. I will share what I am most excited about when working with Adsterra. One of our websites for sale in SimilarWeb statistics One of our websites for sale in SimilarWeb statistics Quick & automated self-serve system First, we can add many websites under the checkout of the automated system; no extra people are required. It is perfect for us to proactively deploy ads without waiting. We could consult the account managers if needed to choose the right website category and the most effective ad types. CPM of each website category and ad type will update based on advertisers, so you are welcome to keep in touch with your manager for the news. It’s easy to manage your websites and ads on a centralized page. We can set website and ad categories, add/enable/disable ads, turn on/off website statistics, and hide/show websites (we use this function to hide the already sold websites). Easily managing 100 websites! Easily managing 100 websites! Many ad formats to choose from We are hanging 9 different types of ads on our websites: Popunder, Social bar, Native banner, and fixed-size banners. Each ad needs to be compatible with the content and design of the website to bring the most interaction. I advise you to carefully read the ad’s description and see the available demo to choose ad types and placements. For example, a native banner can be placed on the sidebar (vertical) or at the top or bottom of the article (horizontal). For unclear matters, feel free to consult your account manager before customizing the ads. Adsterra’s tip: use the guides to learn more about our ad types and use them wisely and with maximum profit. Also, be sure to read the instructions for installing the advertising code (they are available when generating the code itself). Native banner on our website Native banner on our website JOIN ADSTERRA

Making High-Converting Social Bar Ads in 2023: Your Skill-Boosting Tutorial

Social Bar ads best practices Making high-converting Social Bar ads is your growth point in 2023. If not say more — a must-have skill in competing over quality traffic: clicks, leads, and conversions. We could have rolled out yet another tutorial or textbook for you. But there’s a better way! Today you will dive into practice. Only hand-picked expert tips and vertical-specific examples that will supercharge your Social Bar (In-Page Push) campaigns with CTRs and conversions. Don’t miss them out! Contents [show] A gentle intro: What are Social Bar ads? Practice is cool, but we must start with a short and succinct definition. So what’s Social Bar, and why does it matter a lot for your campaigns’ success? We all used to frame advertising into several formats that can’t be changed or customized: push notifications, popunders, banners, etc. Social Bar came as a revelation. This format pushes the boundaries of visuals but uses the most enhanced ad serving technology. Social Bar is a multi-format ad unit with unlimited design capacities that is served as a display ad. Adsterra high-converting Social Bar ads include the well-known In-Page Push, too. Over 20 templates and skins are available in your Advertiser’s account (hit Campaigns → Create and pick Social Bar from the AdUnit category) Just in case we have a detailed guide to a campaign setup. Skins for Social Bar ads TWEAK SOCIAL BAR To Contents ↑ Why advertisers should try SB in 2023 You can target all OS and browsers, not being afraid to miss out on iOS users. Ads are Google-friendly unlike web push. Social Bar beats banner blindness: users are curious about it. Outstanding UX: you can advertise any vertical from seasonal sales to luxury segments. Strongest CTRs (up to 30X higher compared to web push) followed by quality conversions. Cost-effective pricing: CPM, CPC, CPA. The shortest path to conversions: A/B tests with up to 15 creatives. Quick setup with over 20 templates. Personalization and customization: you can apply for any design and ad behavior. Social Bar ads combine push and display formats' benefits To Contents ↑ 10 mistakes that can kill your Social Bar campaign, and how to avoid them Affiliate marketers have to set up dozens of campaigns a day, leading solid traffic to someone else’s landing pages. While they can triple ROI using Social Bar ads, they also risk draining budgets. You won’t make any critical mistakes while protecting your budgets and conversions with this set below. 1. You didn’t translate creatives to local languages It only seems that users willingly consume ads in English, a universal language. But a true pro will always make alternative creatives translated into local languages when targeting non-English speaking audiences of a particular GEO. In the example below, our partner affiliate translated all Dating creatives into the local language and got rewarded with a nice ROI 195%. You should think of your audience and translate Social Bar ads to local languages 2. Your mismatched the languages of a creative and a lander/pre-lander Another sad mistake is attaching a pre-lander that mismatches your creative by language. Though this happens in haste, it may return disappointing results in lost clicks and leads. Make sure to pick the appropriate pre-lander. The example below we took from a case study. Here a Social Bar creative and a matching pre-lander show a perfect language match. Your creatives' and your prelander's languages should match 3. Setting up extra language targeting when not needed If translation to local languages simplifies sales, extra targeting by language may cut off a massive load of traffic. It happens when you target, say, English-speaking countries and tick ‘English’ as the additional setting. Alternatively, you will need the Language targeting when running an offer for the French-speaking audience on the same GEOs. Avoid overusing language targeting 4. Creatives don’t match the final landing page It commonly happens by accident, of course. You design, say, a “selling” creative for a Software offer with a powerful CTA that will kickstart tons of clicks! …And then you put the URL of an ecommerce site. You get lots of clicks that will barely return any conversion. Take care of your budgets and always re-check the target URLs, and how they match the creatives. Mismatch between a landing page and creative 5. Misleading that returns high CTRs but zero conversions We all love high CTRs. They mark how appealing our offers and creatives are, leaving great chances for further conversions. But the opposite effect can come, too, if you cheat on users or mislead them by mistake. Here are some typical cases: Promise something for FREE while there’s not a word about freebies on a landing page; Promise something that users won’t get; Use product photos or brand names that differ from those on a lander; Mix dates or other vital information (wrong date of a seasonal sale, incorrect promo code, etc.) Social Bar is more than powerful. Use its capacities with sense, keeping the balance between engagement and truth. Avoic misleading ads 6. Using one creative for all your campaigns With up to 15 creatives available within a campaign, many affiliates use just one, or — what’s worse — one creative for all campaigns with similar targeting. We recommend adding at least 4 creative for a test campaign. This allows for testing how your traffic responds to the offer itself and to the format you pitch it with. Use multiple creatives instead of one 7. Creatives look cheap A no-brainer, but still, the most frequent mistake. Avoid using pixelated icons, badly cropped images, images with photostock copyright. Otherwise, your ads will look cheap and non-credible. Users may click, but they won’t make conversions. 8. Typos, missed words, and grammar mistakes Everyone can make a typo — it’s not a crime. But those pitiful little slips can repel users. Always check the spelling of brand names, use grammar correctors and checkers to minimize mistakes, make your copy look accurate. And avoid rabid typing — save at least some 15–20 minutes for checking your spelling. BTW, have you found a typo in the previous sentence? 😉 Check your creatives to exclude typos or grammar mistakes 9. Using only one typical template for your vertical Some affiliates and advertisers still use just one set of creatives that traditionally match their vertical. This mostly happens with VPN and Antivirus offers. Affiliates are used to thinking that users will consume classic OS notifications (or system notifications) natively. Thus, they avoid adding other designs and…miss lots of quality conversions! Adsterra serves you over 10 templates for notifications (within its In-Page Push skin,) but you should give a try to other multimedia-rich templates: widgets, chat heads, and animated icons. Our advice will be testing as many creatives as possible to find the most converting Social Bar asset. 10. Your ad copy doesn’t sell the product or engage users When you name the product or feature, you give information. When you name a value, you make a sale. And when you call for action, you make twice more! You may not be a brilliant content manager or copywriter to create high-converting Social Bar ads! Put yourself in a user’s place and think about what would trigger you to click and then, maybe, buy a service or product. Look at these examples. One set of creatives informs users with pretty dull headings like “Streaming,” “New game,” “Install this app.” In contrast, the opposite set states the real value explaining WHY users should visit this offer. An example of how to make your ad copy sell To Contents ↑ Secrets of Social Bar ads: find creatives for your vertical Adsterra advertisers often ask something like “which template creatives best fit my VPN/Ecommerce/Crypto vertical?” However, it’s not the format that makes sales — these are your message and visuals. Adsterra delivers over 20 template creatives on the Self-Serve Platform and unlimited designs on managed accounts. You can adjust any template to convert greatly on any vertical. And what’s more, you should use different templates within one campaign to surprise and engage users. We have prepared some presets you can base your offer tests upon. They’re pretty universal, though we recommend you try and make up your own best formulas 😉 A gentle reminder here: To find Social Bar, hit Campaigns → Create and pick Social Bar from the AdUnit category. TWEAK SOCIAL BAR To Contents ↑ VPN offers (also Apps) Android How to find: In-Page Push → Classic Custom Widget → Social Box iOS How to find: Custom Widget → Social Box White Custom Widget → Flat Black / White In-Page Push → Custom → Compact That's how to find Social Bar templates That’s’ how a Social Box template looks like