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    Direct Deals vs Networks: Is Going Solo Really Smarter?

    honestly been seeing a lot of chatter about skipping networks and going straight to advertisers lately. Honestly I think a lot of guys are overestimating how much better it is. Sure, some direct deals can pay more and cut out middlemen, but let's be real, they come with a lot more hassle...
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    Best VPNs for Netflix - which actually work?

    Been testing VPNs for streaming lately and man, some are just trash for Netflix. ExpressVPN is still king for smooth streams, no buffer, no errors. NordVPN used to be decent but lately their US servers give you the gray screen of death more often. CyberGhost? Meh, unreliable. Surfshark? Good...
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    Tracking tools nostalgia - who remembers when BeMob was king?

    Man, looking back at the old days when I first started, everyone swear by BeMob and it just worked. Now I'm bouncing between Voluum, RedTrack, and BeMob trying to get consistent results. This week I had to switch between all three to track the same campaigns and honestly it's a headache. BeMob...
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    VPN speed test results I just ran, sharing what I found

    So I just did a quick test on a VPN I've been eyeballing (privatevpn, by the way) and wanted to share my results. I used speedtest.net and tested from my location (US) to a couple of different servers. On my base internet (100 Mbps down, 10 up), I got 94 Mbps down and 9.5 up without VPN. With...
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    Pop/redirect traffic - still kicking or dead? My latest results

    Just ran a quick test last week on pop and redirect traffic for a niche I've been messing with. Usually, I avoid these kinda traffic sources because they're kinda shady and some say dead but man, I just pulled in 120 bucks in 3 days from a small campaign. Started with a $50 budget, ran some...
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    Scholarship Link Building in 2023, Still Worth It?

    been testing this strategy for a bit now and I gotta say, it's still pulling decent links if you do it right. I set up a few scholarship pages, targeted some niche communities, and pushed out legit content around education grants and scholarships. The results? After 3 months, I managed to snag...
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    How do you catch if a CPA network is pulling a fast one on fraud?

    So I posted about fraud detection before but I keep running into weird things with networks and their numbers. Sometimes I get weird spikes in conversions that just don't make sense like a sudden jump in leads that don't match the traffic source. I'm wondering if anyone here has cracked the code...
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    Best proxies for Google scraping price vs quality

    hey so i'm new to this affiliate thing and wanna scrape google for keywords but proxies are confusing. got some cheap datacenter ones from a random site, paid $20 for 100 IPs. they were cheap sure but kept getting flagged after like 50 searches tops. then i switched to residential from a fancy...
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    Frustrated with SaaS affiliate programs' recurring commissions

    ok so i posted about saas affiliate stuff before but gotta vent a little. everyone acts like recurring commissions are this magic ticket and you'll be making bank with like two signups lol. yeah no. reality is most programs have insane onboarding, terrible landing pages, and cookie durations...
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    Starting with FB, TikTok, Google for CPA and wondering where to even begin

    ok so everyone's hyping up fb tiktok google ads for cpa like it's some huge goldmine right. they all say just test scale repeat but nobody tells you where to actually start. do i just throw money at these platforms and hope it works or is there a secret trick? i get the idea, find your niche...
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    VPN for streaming - which actually works with Netflix?

    So I posted about VPNs and Netflix before, but I gotta question the hype around certain ones. Everyone keeps pushing these top-rated VPNs claiming they work flawlessly with Netflix, but I've tried a handful myself and it's a mess. Some get blocked, some are slow as hell, and others just never...
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    Outsourcing team building - need quick feedback on results

    been trying to scale my CPA campaigns by building an affiliate team. Started last month with 3 outsourcers. Results are kinda meh so far. We did 12k in commissions but it took way more hands-on than I thought. One guy's been crushing it with $3k in profit, but the other two? Not so much. They...
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    OpenVPN on Raspberry Pi: Protocols, speeds, and privacy stuff

    Been messing with setting up an OpenVPN server on my Pi for a while now and gotta say, the protocol choice really affects performance. I ran some tests last week. Using UDP with OpenVPN gave me around 70 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload on my 100 Mbps line. Switched to TCP and it dropped to 55...
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