Several months ago I wrote an article on how to make $200 per day with adsense on facebook + websites. If you want to know how to add $300 per day more with Propellerads then this article is for you. When I wrote that article more than a year ago I didn’t expect it to go “viral“. A lot of people contacted me in 2015 to learn more about how everything works or simply because they’re putting some work and wanted some feedback on the results they’re achieving.
2019 update: This strategy has been evolving and our latest system is to use Facebook Audience Network Ads to monetize our mobile traffic.
With over 1,400 comments it’s one of the top 5 articles on my blog and I know the reason behind it is the “simplicity” of the game.
But as many of you can see, creating a viral website isn’t that easy. In fact, from over 600 comments I have in that article maybe just a couple dozens of them are from people telling me that they started their viral website and made it work. Some of them make $50 per day, and some of them are making more than $500 per day. The rest is just people asking questions or commenting about how good it looks but they don’t have the money to do it, etc.
So first let me explain what this article is going to be about:
- I’m going to explain what you need in Facebook to go viral, WITH REAL NUMBERS, not the shitty articles that tell you go viral by creating something people love and that stuff that everybody knows but nobody knows how to put to use.
- I’m going to explain what you need in Adsense to make money as it’s not that easy. It’s a math game and all relies in the numbers
- I tried different methods and found that you can generate some extra income with pop under ads from networks like Propellerads using your viral website. This will be the final part of the post.
- I’m going to show you a few tests I made and the earnings with PropellerAds
That’s it. As always I’m going to try to keep it short, but you know I normally write 2,000 words per article so make sure you grab a cup of coffee before you continue reading.
Facebook Ads and going viral
OK so as mentioned, this is a numbers game and Facebook is the main traffic source to tackle if you want to go viral with clickbait news and stuff. I already mentioned how I do it basically in the former article, however a lot of people email me or comment asking for questions like:
- Is my CPC too high?
- Which countries should I target?
- What do you put in your interests when targeting people?
- I’m making money but I spend more than I earn with Adsense
Those are the main questions I think I’ve received in the last 6 months and I’m going to answer them all so you can understand the theory behind going viral on Facebook and making money.
This is the first part of the equation and your target here is to get as many visits as possible with a low budget. Remember we are using Facebook ads, so you need to invest money to make money and you’ve got to have some decent budget to test A LOT of campaigns.
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What is a Facebook Ads campaign?
In this case, a campaign would be the news/article you’re promoting, but keep in mind the price of the visitors could change a lot if you change your headline and image to something more compelling.
So the first step is to have a blog and start posting some news in the form of viral articles as explained before. That should be clear by now. But how do you make it viral?
Well, as surprising as this might sound, most of your articles won’t go viral. AND THAT’S FINE. It’s something you have to accept because you’re not the best copy writer in the world and you might not be expert at marketing either.
The thing is you need to test a load of campaigns and news until you find the golden ones. Sometimes it takes you 10 articles to find a golden nugget. Sometimes it could take you 30 or 50 until you find one.
Again, don’t worry. It’s normal to fail a lot of campaigns until you find the best one and scale it. Not even the best marketers in the world can make every product or campaign go pro no matter how good they are. However, you need to consider that if you’re going to test a lot of articles and fire campaigns on Facebook Ads, you need a budget.
How much do I need to get started?
Something a lot of my readers told me is why do they need $1,500 per month to get stared?
They just have $100 bucks and they want to know why they won’t make it.
The truth is they COULD make it, but most probably they won’t. Here’s the math behind it.
Let’s say this is your first time doing viral websites and you’ve got a small idea of how everything works. You write 5 articles every single day of the week and every 20 articles on average you find a good one that goes viral.
5 articles per day becomes 35 per week and 150 per month.
You create a campaign on Facebook ads for each article and pump $5 bucks to test it before deciding if it’s good or not.
- That’s $5 x 150 = $750 USD in just a month.
Now, if you write more articles or if you decide to test with a higher budget or with different images/headlines you’ll need more money, so it could easily become $1k per month or even $2k per month just in tests.
If you have $100 bucks to get started you’ll try a few articles and before the week ends you’ll burn your money without any success and you’ll move to the next shinny thing you find in the warrior forum. But let’s say you get lucky and find a campaign with those $100 and from 10 campaigns you launch 1 of them goes viral.
Now you need money to scale the campaigns and make a lot of money, but you don’t have it and Google Adsense won’t pay you until the end of next month… By the time you receive the payment your campaign will be long dead and the initial momentum you gained will be lost in space.
Now that I’ve explained the basics behind the budget you need to enter this business let’s analyze how your campaigns can go viral by answering the most common questions mentioned above:
- Go broad and pick up a country. It doesn’t matter which country it is. Facebook has a ton of traffic from every part of the world so just pick up a country where you know the language and maybe the slang and things that are viral at this moment. You can use Google trends to do some research.
- You’re going to write viral articles that appeal broad audiences, so initially you don’t need to worry about the gender or the ages of people you’re targeting on Facebook. Later you can go back and check your Facebook reports to see what’s working better. Initially just gather data.
- You don’t need to target specific interests because you’re going broad. Don’t try targeting people who already liked other big viral websites or meme websites because they might have already seen the article you’ve written somewhere else or they are used to those kind of ads in their newsfeed.
Finally, let’s get technical and do the math so you can understand how to make more money than you’re spending.
Facebook Ads by the numbers
I’ll make it simple with an example:
Let’s say you’re running a campaign in France and your average Adsense CPC is worth $0.25.
Initially you start a Facebook campaign (Clicks to website should be your objective) and your average CPC is 0.05 with an average CTR on your banner of 1%.
What do you need to be profitable in this case? Do the math… I’ll wait…
OK so if you earn 25 cents from every click on your Adsense banners and every click from Facebook ads to your website costs 5 cents it means you need at least 1 click in your Adsense banners every 5 visitors just to break even. Right?
So if you need 1 click every 5 visitors it means you need an Adsense CTR of 20%.
Are you going to make money here? I don’t think so… Who gets a CTR of 20% when the average Adsense CTR is usually 1-2%? maybe 5%?
Now let’s image this example:
You’re running the same campaign in France and let’s say your average Adsense CPC is $0.3. You start a Facebook campaign and with a great image and headline you increase the CTR of your Facebook banner to 5%. This results into a CPC of $0.01 which is 5 times lower than it was before.
What kind of CTR would you need in your website to make money? I’ll help you with the math again.
If you get paid 30 cents per each click in your Adsense banners and you’re paying 1 cent per visitor from Facebook, then you need at least 1 click to your Adsense banner every 30 visits to break even. Anything higher than that and you’d be profitable!
1 click every 30 visitors means you need an Adsense CTR of 3.3%. Is that possible to achieve? for sure!
So, in conclusion, what you need to make money with viral traffic is to get your clicks from Facebook as cheap as possible and to increase your Adsense CTR as much as possible to earn more money per visitor. The second question is, how do I do that?
The key behind cheap FB clicks
What you need here is to split test a lot of images and headlines until you find the best ones. If you’re not sure how to tackle this go to your Facebook account and like all the Facebook Fan pages related to viral websites until you understand the style behind them.
I already mentioned that writing a lot of articles and launching campaigns is they key behind this business, but trust me, the same article can perform a lot better just by tweaking the headline and the image. One image could have a mediocre CTR (les than 2% CTR on Facebook Ads) while a good image could have a wonderful CTR (4% and above) and that will lower your CPC costs a lot. That’s simply the key behind Facebook ads and cheap clicks.
Bonus: You can also use retargeting and custom audiences once you start getting traffic in your website to launch campaigns that will perform a lot better (extra ROI) because you know those people already visited your website. Also, don’t forget to check the Facebook Ads report in your ad manager to see which genders and ages are clicking your ad more so you can create ads for them and lower the CPC.
The key behind a great Adsense CTR
You need to split test several themes and positions. Do the math and discover what kind of CTR do you need to be profitable as we did in the examples above and start testing like crazy until you find the best combination. You can split test themes (with WordPress this is quite easy), split test colors, positions of banners, colors of banners, banner sizes and more. Make sure you split test as much as you can until you find the best combination for your traffic.
Here’s a simple test that can increase your CTR by 1-2% just by making a small change:
Another good thing is to split test colors and mix them with the design of your website. Have a blue website with blue menu and links? test blue ads and blue links:
Once you start launching several campaigns and measuring all your statistics you’ll know how everything works and fell more comfortable spending money. You need to get out of your comfort zone and make it work. Otherwise you’ll never make it in this industry.
PropellerAds and viral traffic
Finally, let’s talk about adding some extra ROI to your earnings by using PropellerAds (sign up here).
If this is the first time you’ve heard about PropellerAds, they are one of the largest networks and most of their ads are shown on a popunder (onclick ads, as they call them) format.
What is a popunder ad? Well, you know… the type of ad that pops in another window behind your original website. It looks something like this:
Yes, these are the same ads that most people hate and some of then assure pop under and pop up ads are dead but they can’t be more wrong. Pop Ads work wonderfully although I accept they’re very intrusive and sometimes I just hate to see them. But that doesn’t mean they don’t work.
Anyways, the real reason you’re here is because you want to know how to make extra money and see how I earned $300 extra per day, so here it goes.
First thing you need to do is to understand how to install and show Pop under ads from Propeller Ads in your website. I wrote a guide and a small review about them a few months ago, so make sure you check it out and come back when you’re done.
Back in September 2015 I started doing tests with a small viral website without Google Adsense just to see if I could earn any decent money with PropellerAds and my (already big) Facebook Fan pages. Here’s what I quickly achieved:
As you can see, I quickly noticed PropellerAds had some potential but the first I wanted to try it with a small website and decided to do the test just with my organic traffic from the Fan Pages I had grown in the past with my viral websites.
Some days I made $30 and some days the CPM (cost per thousand visits) was better so I made more than $70 per day with a CPM of $5.
My next step was to test the strategy with my biggest Fan Pages so I could make my $200 per day with Adsense plus whatever I could achieve as an extra with PropellerAds to increase my earnings and overall my ROI on my Facebook campaigns.
Here’s what I achieved back in September:
As you can see, I was earning pretty much the same with PropellerAds compared to Google Adsense, so I decided to contact my manager at PropellerAds and ask them if there was a problem if I used PropellerAds at the same time with Adsense.
My manager told me there was no problem and Google shouldn’t have problems either, however, they told me to be careful with Facebook because they don’t like pop ads when you’re running traffic through Facebook Ads.
WARNING, YOUR FACEBOOK ADS ACCOUNT COULD BE BANNED
If you don’t follow the steps below closely your FB ads account could be banned. There, I said it. So please read below to see my strategy before trying anything.
So I decided to check out Facebook Ads Terms and Conditions and yes, they don’t allow pop ups or pop unders on the destination of the ads. They don’t have problems with organic traffic (A.K.A. Fan Pages without Ads) though. So what I decided to do in order to use both Google Adsense and PropellerAds was to create an specific page with Adsense banners only for the articles that I promoted via Facebook Ads, and then clone the same article and put both Adsense and PropellerAds and use that specific link to promote it to my Fans without paying for Ads (organic traffic just by posting the links in my Fan Pages).
If you feel uncomfortable with this situation you can use any of the other ad network alternatives listed here. Especially the ones that aren’t focused on pops.
So in conclusion:
- While you’re searching for your golden nuggets to go viral using Facebook ads make sure you’re using the URL of your article with Google Adsense banners only
- For all of the articles that you promote to your fans organically (no Ads) use the URL where you have both Adsense and PropellerAds
What was the final result?
At the end of September and during October I was making $500 per day overall with my viral websites. Around $150-200 from PropellerAds and $300-350 from Google Adsense. Quite a nice bump in earnings just by adding a second ad network to the equation, isn’t it?
AGAIN, make sure you don’t use the URLs with PropellerAds when promoting via Facebook Ads or your account could be banned. DON’T SAY I DIDN’T WARN YOU!
Anyways, even if you don’t have an Adsense account, you can still make good money with Propeller Ads and viral traffic, the only bummer there would be that all your FB Ads would need to be focused on getting likes to your fan Page instead of website clicks and then you can promote your viral website with PropellerAds organically to your fans.
Since November I have been split testing a lot of PopUnder ad networks and found a few ones that sometimes perform better than PropellerAds. But as always, you need to split test the networks because what works for me could not work for you as there are many factors to count in like country of the visitor, operating systems, devices, etc. One of the best ones I tried was Pop Ads but overall PropellerAds has been more solid for this kind of traffic.
Conclusions
There you have it.
That’s how I added $300 per day with PropellerAds and viral traffic and overall how you can make more than $500 per day just with viral websites.
As always, remember to put this to test and never forget to split test everything until you find the best combination for your website/traffic. Don’t quit if you launch 3 campaigns and fail. That’s pretty common but the ones that persist are the ones who dominate it and make it big.
If you’re a lot into automation I recommend you to use the Ezoic Adsense tool to split test and increase your CTR and earnings. it helped us increase our earnings by more than 70% after a few weeks.
Finally, if you want to read more posts like this where I explain everything with numbers and step by step please don’t forget to share this post and leave a comment below. If you’re already running viral websites, I’d love to hear your feedback and know what’s working for you.
Talk to you later this week!
Karma Phuntsho says
Amazing articles on Google Adsense and Propellar Ads. KEEP INSPIRING
Tomas says
Hi Servando,
As someone who has been doing IM for 4 years now and owns high traffic websites, I’d like to share some of my experience and ask a few questions as well.
To all of you reading this, it is the simplest arbitrage formula Servando describes. I thought that arbitrage was dead, I was told that the arbitrage was dead, but in the summer 2018 I hoped on the train and it worked wonders with 100% ROIs until it died out. I still profited immensely. It is a roller-coaster journey, but definitely worth it if you’re up to increase your capital AND if you have CAPITAL to invest as mentioned in this article.
A couple of questions Servando:
-The lowest CPC I could get was 0,02 with CTR of 12-15%. I usually get 12-18% CTR for my FB ads, however CPMs are around $5, thus my usual CPC is 0,04-0,05.
What are your CPMs? If I’d be able to get lower CPMs with the same CTRs that would be a gold mine.
-You mention you clone the article and put Adsense and Propeller ads. As far as I am aware Adsense does not allow to publish their ads on duplicate content isn’t it?
-I bet you follow separate URL channels and their RPMs. Have you found a secret keywords/wording/article length in order to attract more high-paying buyers to specific pages and increase overall page RPMs?
By the way, I have tested quite some networks and just launched a new mobile version for one of my websites. My RPMs doubled 4x – it is specifically designed for real-time ad placements while scrolling. Hit me up via email if you’d like to chat more. Maybe we could help each other in this journey ;)
-Tomas
Servando Silva says
Hi Tomas.
Good to hear from you. Arbitrage isn’t dead but every year FB makes it a bit harder. you can still get some awesome ROIs as you mentioned if you hit the jackpot. I’d say for capital you’d need at least a couple grand to learn and test.
As for your questions:
– This will depend a lot on the countries your’re promoting. For USA the best we get are 0.01 or 0.02 (similar as you), but in other tier 2 or tier 3 countries we’ve got 0.0002… so it definitely changes a lot but at the same time monetization pays way less for other countries.
I don’t remember my CPMs as we’re not running viral sites at the moment. Usually I checked on my CPCs mostly. However I remember the CTR which as you said, could be anything between 10% (the minimum we wanted to see) and up to 25%. On average CTR was 15%.
– Yeah, so the cloned article was similar but not the same. Also they didn’t seem to care as much of duplicated content in the same domain as they care when it’s duplicated (stolen/copied) content from other websites. We did lose an account back in the day for low quality content once.
– Yeah, we tracked different URLs with tags but the RPMs were not as different as we thought. We tried using different keywords related to the articles based on the Google Ads estimated CPCs but honestly I can’t say we noticed any significant change. It was part of our system but it wasn’t proven to work.
We’re nor super focused on this strategy lately as we’re growing authority sites in niches and doing other stuff with our traffic instead of just ad networks arbitrage.
Tomas says
Hi,
Thank you for an extensive reply.
I see, FB CPCs for tier 2 are much cheaper indeed.. Maybe I will give this a shot and launch some traffic from these countries.
In my experience I have noticed a big difference between different page RPMs. As someone told me advertisers tend to buy a specific page and advertise on it, but I highly doubt that is true.
Regarding the keywords, I am glad you had the same experience, it’s not worth wasting my time on content optimisation then. I have also tried advertising to the States that has highest CPC for my keywords according to Google Ads planner. However, it did not increase my Adsense RPMs. Google has crazy algos.
One more question: I’d like to paginate my articles with the content on the first page and image gallery on the second – same URL, but /2/ comes at the end. However I am not sure about ads on image gallery page, since there’s gonna be short captions only and not a lot of written content. Have you tried this before? Is it allowed?
Thank you,
Tomas
Servando Silva says
No problem, Tomas. Glad to help.
Yeah, tier 2 and tier 3 are way cheaper but also the revenue generated has much lower CPCs and CPMs.
Advertisers to tend to buy from some lists and blacklist others based on performance. That’s pretty common and also happens with propeller, Adsense, fb audience network and pretty much any reputable network that allows you to work based on performance.
In fact, for propellers we tend to change the domain every once in a while to improve the results. But if you mean like an specific page of a website then I doubt it as I haven’t seen that available unless you’re using native ads (they have widget IDs for each ad where you can buy traffic).
As for pagination, a ton of people use it for increasing the age views and decreasing the CTR overall. It works wonders for networks which pay on CPM as well, but for Adsense I only had 2 pages max and both of them had text to avoid thin content problems.
Tomas says
Hi,
Awesome. I will try pagination and see how it goes. I’m currently using a service provider with PWA for mobile/tablet version with dynamic Adsense placements, my RPMs tripled as well as pageviews due to a very easy app like website experience. Let me know if you’d like to know and maybe even try them out. I’ll drop you a link.
To add, is arbitrage legal in general? My adsense manager said it is not and advised me not to do it. Of course there are gray areas, however he did not like this example I send to him: activefeel.com. This one is purely for arbitrage. No added value.
Thanks,
Tomas
Servando Silva says
There are many testers. I’ve been using Ezoic with good results as well.
Arbitrage is a grey area. In theory, all publishers do arbitrage in some way, however the particular thing Google hates is thin content without added value. Especially i the health niche.
If you have great content and it’s all written by yourself and there’s value to provide they don’t really say much.
Mbungu ngoma says
Bravo ! It sounds hard and great job !
So happy to fall on this post. I was looking for what would happens if I combined propellerads and adsense but reading this has answered to more than what I was looking for before.
om vishnu says
Do I have to create articles for this? It is not easy and very time-consuming work for me.
Servando Silva says
Yes, you nee to create a lot of articles and find the winners. It requires hard work 🙂
jojo ann says
thanks u for the gold informations !! but i have a problem .. i can t get high cpc in adsense , so no profit… even though i got 20% ctr on facebook ads, and 7% ctr on adsense.
1-i target usa traffic but the cpc 0.08 on adsense .
2- niche :cats ,
3- copy past articles
please any advices <3 <3
Servando Silva says
Your niche is probably the problem in this case.
Have you tried anything different?
Also, how are you optimizing your adsense locations and banner sizes?
Hector Salgado says
Hello, Servando. Your CPM in which Geos are based or which are the Countries that gave you a higher CPM?
Servando Silva says
Geos like UK, US, CA, AU have always good RPMs. Also many European countries like NO, DE, FR, etc.
Propeller actually sends a list with the hottest geos every month or so if yo u have an account with them.
Kusa says
I am interested in whether PropellerAds allows content that is inconsistent with Adsense rules, publishing such content can lead to a ban on Adsense, whether the same applies to PropellerAds? Also, Adsense takes care of invalid traffic and then they ban the account, whether it’s the situation with PropellerAds, can the account be banned?
Servando Silva says
They’re much less restrictive in that side. Make sure you read their guidelines but they basically don’t have adult sites and some other niches but the rest is fine.
saviour esara says
no the account won’t be banned.
Naman Modi says
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JOHN MULINDI says
Driving traffic has always being a challenge to many bloggers. Thanks for sharing your tips on traffic.
Irfan says
Sir i didnt understand onething tell me we can apply to facebook ads which my site is link with propeller ads ….or after applying facebook ads when can take aprovel from propeller ads tell me clearly sir ….one more thing you said if we apply with popunder ads our fb ads account will ban then how you earned that much amount of money sir iam getting confusion plz sir tell me clearly sir plz give me blueprint of it sir plz
Servando Silva says
Your site is not propellerads. You need to apply with your news site/blog for both Adsense and Propeller.
I mentioned it’s better to let the organic traffic flow to your site with popunders and the paid traffic (straight from ads) only have Adsense.
Okii Eli says
Great..which country were you targeting and can other native ads be used like MGID
Waqar Ahmad says
Hello.
how to increase ecpm in Propeller ads ?
i get 0.04 and 0.21 at upmost.
is there anyway to increase it ?
Servando Silva says
Having traffic for a good niche and better geos increases your CPM.
Holykey1 says
Hi, I’m Holykey1
Awesome article
Already subscribed by the way. I had to👌👌👌
I have a question
You talked about using Propeller ads with Adsense
It’s that safe?
It’s it safe to use Propeller ads together with Adsense?
Thanks, regards!
Servando Silva says
In the same website I don’t recommend it as Adsense can be very picky.
You can use 2 websites for this purpose.
Yazer says
Could you tell me how much the rates of CPM (average) if i will use the direct link of course the targeted visitor from US ?
Servando Silva says
It totally depends on where your visitors come from and the performance.
John Smith says
Nice share.
great idea for geting viral traffic Thank you for the article Silva.
Hrishi Dere says
Hello Sir
This is Hrishi Dere. A very interesting thing happen with me from propellerads on 30 May 2018. I got only one click from Australia (AU) which cpm was $1,146.60 and that one click bring me $1.15 revenue. How do I more traffic like this one?
The click was come from one of my old blogger blog where I have set popunder ads.
Thanking You
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
That person who clicked interacted and probably got something form the ads so your performance was great. It’s difficult to get many clicks like that as it will only happen once every few hundreds of visits.
ilyas el jallab says
Thank you for the information which companies are paying you for your sex advertisements From which you get the money you do from clicks cpc
Or through offers cpa
Servando Silva says
We don’t advertise any adult content as obviously it would be against FB policies.
Hrishi Dere says
Hello Sir
This is Hrishi Dere. I recently get a DMCA notice which took down two of my post from google search engine. I also re study google adsence policy for DMCA notice as it get me a little worry for adsence banned. Well I am still playing safe for not using any copyright material (on website) but I do use my visitor redirect to my (blogger)blogs which contain some copyright materials. I need your suggestion on this to avoid getting banned.
How about I post links in text form which will make user copy and paste link to visit the blogs. Is this also against the policy if so I may have to remove them before I get banned.
Thanking You
Regards
Your Friend
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
Why did you get the DMCA notices? Did you completely copied someone else’s post?
Don’t use copyright material, not even with blogger if you want to keep your account safe.
Hrishi Dere says
No I never used any copyright materials. Before blogger I was a YouTuber and very well know how irritating the copyright issue. I only write things which was viral at that time. Maybe my links was blacklisted by mistake in preventing copyright. I was having a option to counter file the DMCA notices but I dont want any more issue so I leave the topic to owners. And now I am taking care that I do not face one more DMCA.
Sian says
Some people said propeller ads use bot traffic.
Also propeller ads is scam
Is it true?
ibahim says
sir but people use adblock any tips or trick to profite maximum earning even they use adblock
Servando Silva says
If they use adblock you don’t want then in the first place. Adblockers cover around 10-20% of the population (geek, tech savvy and similar people) and there’s not much you can do about it.
Ad networks try to baypass it from time to time but there’s always going to be people blocking ads even on Facebook.
Sunil S Parit says
Hi, Sir, my name is Sunil Parit & I am having my own website But I don’t have traffic on my website. I use propeller & Adsense but no earning no traffic as you said facebook ad can I try this for traffic.
Servando Silva says
Yes. Facebook can be a great source of traffic if you earn the ropes.
Frankell Jonas Natera Basilio says
My question is: for a first ad to select a specific place, for a second ad I must choose the same place as the first one or can I choose another place?
mG says
well well well i guess i won’t be doing this anytime soon . i only have 177$ it’s not enough to start this business model .
Servando Silva says
Definitely not enough. Maybe get started with SEO or freelance for a while to build some capital.
Hrishi Dere says
Hello Sir
This is Hrishi Dere. Finally after 1 year 3 months and 24 days later Google Adsence approve my website. Now I can add and run their ads. I need your help to maintain this and to not get banned. Is there any new update related to this article of promoting website on Facebook with adsence ads. If there anything please reply it so I will promote it that way.
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
Overall Adsense pays but it’s better to use the FB audience network for this strategy. Check this post.
kailah says
Hi i read the 2 posts carefully but i’m still having hard time to figure out one thing i want you to explain it for me please ! so what i understand is that we’re making money here by doing arbitrage driving traffic to our website and making profit with adsense for example if i bump 5 dollar to an article and i am earning 7 dollar from adsense it’s good all i need is to scale and do more testing ..but why are we also growing our fb page using fb like compaigns what’s the point if we’re going to target peopole who don’t alerady like our page .. i mean it dosen’t matter if we have 100 k or 1k in our page likes pepole won’t care they’re just going to click on the post shown in the ad to read the article if they’re intrested… having 100 k or 10 likes in our fb page dosen’t make a diffrence .. am i wrong ? please correct me if so
best regrads
Servando Silva says
It makes a difference because organic traffic will help you with:
1. pre testing your posts to see if they’re winners before you spend money on them
2. Organic traffic will always have higher CPM than paid traffic, specially with FB instant articles
3. You still build a huge audience that will make you money even if some days you don’t have any campaign winners
4. Initially it will help you create the best audiences based on engagement and website traffic although down the road you’ll create campaigns with lookalikes of people who are spending more views and time in your site.
Sheraz says
Sir servando silva, i know its off the topic but i regularly follow and believe in you that’s because i’m asking i really need your help i making a niche website about home needs. It is like ecommerce store but in the informational way for example:- when someone search on google “home table” he gets the result and no 1 is amazon….But i’m trying to write an article on every product and then promote this informational store!!! Is it possible? Because amazon don’t seo on every single product can i outrank amazon by writing article on the product with complete seo?
Please reply your reply really really matters to me thank you soo much
Servando Silva says
It’s super difficult to outrank Amazon. They have some of the greatest authorities in the online world.
Instead, you can try ranking something like “top 10 home tables for old houses” or “best home tables for modern apartments”, etc. Ranking the product alone with a bigger article doesn’t make sense as those people many times just want to buy so Google sends them straight to an ecommerce store.
Zulfqar Ali says
Can you please guide me how to earn with direct link in propellerads if not have website???
Servando Silva says
You just copy that direct link and paste it wherever you want people to direct traffic, like in your social media accounts, etc.
Honestly, it’s the worst way to make money as the performance is super bad but if you don’t have a website or a way to receive traffic that’s how it is.
Daved says
could u give me a list for website which provide a good traffic for website or blog i don’t ask for pure or best traffic for CPA or affiliate net….. i wanna make money from buy traffic to my website that make me money from (pop under) Ads so i think u can share some of your secret with us 🙂
Servando Silva says
The best for websites and blogs are Facebook Ads and google adwords. After that i’d consider native ads like Outbrain, Taboola and Revcontent.
Daved says
Silva, Could u tell me what is the best and cheap to buy a traffic or media traffic to my website which is has propeller ads please ?
Servando Silva says
There’s no best and cheap.
Either best and not cheao, or worst and cheap.
Daved says
OK man i agree with ya i’m gonna edit my request to another style could u give me a list for website which provide a good traffic for website or blog i don’t ask for pure or best traffic for CPA or affiliate net….. i wanna make money from buy traffic to my website that make me money from (pop under) Ads so i think u can share some of your secret with us 🙂
Duru Freeman says
This 2018 is gonna be great. *smiles* Glad google directed me to your blog.
Concerning create a viral blog that’s fine by me. Maybe 2/3 post daily. I already have a propeller ads account. My problem is creating a blog on WordPress.
Don’t have that much cash at hand I want to use blogger. Maybe blogspot domain or buy a custom domain. The template I”ll be use is gonna be the one live on my blogs trendsgadget.com or usebtcoin.blogspot. com please tel me which theme from this blog will work best for this viral blog method… Expecting your reply ASAP.
Servando Silva says
WordPress can be as cheap as $5 per month in many cases.
If you don’t have money for the hosting then you definitely not have money for the FB ads. I recommend having at least $2,000 for this strategy, but better if you invest $3000-5000.
Yasser says
Hello Servando Silva I have a website and have Propeller ads on it (pop-under) i have a question or you can considering as request do u know of course you have an experience in this do you know a good service or website provide a traffic i want to buy traffic to my website even i buy 1000 visitor from US by 4 bucks please replay to me ASAP.
Thank u
Servando Silva says
Hello Yasser.
You can buy traffic from propeller as an advertiser as well, but if you plan to do pure arbitrage between a traffic source and another it won’t work because propeller works on performance, so your CPM will be much lower at the end.
abubacker says
Still I have doubt, I have adsence account and earning $5 to $7 per day.Can i use propeller ads along with adsence? will it violate adsense terms and condition?pls reply
Servando Silva says
No, Adsense doesn’t like propeller or any other ad network so don’t mix them for your safety.
oussama says
Hi,
Thanks for this article.
I have a CTR of 25% uk, usa, canada, but the CPC never got under 4 cents.
Servando Silva says
Those are expensive countries. What happened now with new year’s eve? Most prices came down afte rend of year as holiday season is over and there are less ads in the market.
oussama says
Yes, I will try again with the sme adset.
Thanks.
Hrishi Dere says
Hello sir
Is there any way to automatically redirect ad blockers to a page made of only propellerads which will save both blogger revenue and google adsense ban.
Also I have reach 6200 likes on Facebook fan page so is it profitable to do Facebook ads now.
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
Not sure how you can do that as I don’t use adblockers or care about people using ad blockers. But I know it’s possible because there are plugins for that.
As for your page, 6,200 is a good number to get started.
Hrishi Dere says
Hello Sir
Thank You for your reply. I am waiting for adsense approval. And I think I am now very close to it.
Meanwhile I am growing my social media traffic.
To study Facebook ads when I try to boost a post I am getting approximately 620 – 3600 reach and 5 – 26 clicks. All of this is for cost 1.58 USD. What should be my CPC bid?
Also is there any helpful eBook or video which will help me to learn how to use Facebook ads properly.Thanking You
Regards
Hrishi Dere.
Servando Silva says
Just bid automatically and use the website traffic objective.
Austin says
Hey Servando – enjoying reading your blog – thanks for the great content!
When you write articles, do you just curate viral articles and link to the originals, or write your own full articles based on other viral articles?
Servando Silva says
We write our own based on others. We don’t just copy or curate them.
Faith says
Propeller ads is a SCAM. They blocked my account for no reason after generating thousands of impression and traffic for them. I’ve contacted their support and reset password didn’t work. Support reply that they are investigating the reason why I can’t login to my account for over 5days. After blocking my account, they are sending me a daily report statistics showing 0 all through while I used a paid advertising to promote their direct url that is still ongoing, they are cheating on statistics. I have proofs of my statistics. Don’t work for propellerads
Servando Silva says
Where did you get your traffic from?
We have been paid more than $30,000 from propeller without problems and we actually meet them 2 weeks ago in one of the biggest ad networks conference in Thailand so they’re a very serious and one of the largest networks.
bakalemwa says
can you help me please to start monetizing with them?
Servando Silva says
In which part do you need help? Read the review to learn how it works step by step.
Star says
you cant use pop up with Google ads anymore
Adsense t&c
Servando Silva says
Yeah, that’s why you either separate them in different domains or put the code in each page of your news site.
Hrishi Dere says
Hello Sir
In the FB promotion What is the minimum people reach to get at least 1K visit on website. What is the minimum budget per month to get 1K visits every day.
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
There’s no way to know that. It depends on your CTR, your ad targeting, your country, devices, etc.
miky says
really nice article but i have some problems with it :
i made a viral website and start doing fb ads , i got .006$/click to website some times less for some European countries . it’s good but problem is adsense, CTR is really bad i don’t know why. it’s 0.2% or less although i put ads before and after next button which i divide articles into several parts plus google native into the content itself also sticky ad on the right (i know this one is forbidden ) .
i changed colors of ads and size but i can’t get higher cpc and so i’m losing . what can i do ??
Servando Silva says
Your Adsense CTR is the problem.
0.2% is way too low. I’d recommend you to try this strategy as well since you’re already getting cheap clicks.
Chukwuemeka says
Sir, how many likes do I need on my facebook fan page to succeed in propeller ads, and which countries are best to get likes from?
What are the rules to abide with on my part to be approved by propeller ads?
Thanks.
Servando Silva says
It depends on your page, your engagement, country, etc. and also in whatever you consider to be successful in this. Some people would consider themselves successful by earning $10 a day and others would consider $100/day a failure.
As for the rules with propellers, they’re a relaxed network so it’s not as difficult to get accepted as with Adsense or others.
Hrishi Dere says
Hello Sir
What is the minimum traffic and post required to get accepted by google adsence.Does domain title affect the approval.
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
There’s no traffic requirement. They check your domain topic (so as long as it follows their guidelines there’s no problem), your age and quantity of content.
Hrishi Dere says
Sir
The screenshot of cpm in this article are of one month duration or they are your lifetime cpm. My running month cpm is 0.54 but my lifetime cpm is 0.17 so whom I consider real.
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
The CPMs shown here are on a daily basis. Not monthly or lifetime. that’s why you see different numbers for each day of the month.
yeebo says
hello bro, how do you go about adding Propeller Ads pop under to specific page, thier plugins allows adding it to all pages , which i don’t want
also, what should my adspend be on a specific fb ads , and what are the indications that ads is doing well
thanks in advance
Servando Silva says
There are plugins that allow you to put script on each page individually, so you don’t implement it in the whole page.
You can start with $5 per day on each news post and then go from there. If you see the ad is making money or at least breaking even then you know that’s the signal it has potential.
yeebo says
Thanks for the heads up & quick reply .
So should my objective on FB should be Page Likes or Clicks To Website ?
also
How can i be certain of the Particular Ads that making me Money since am having about 5 Ads Set for a Single News post ?
Finally any suggested plugins on embedding script on a page, as a simple google search wouldn’t feed me anything reasonable>
Thanks in Advance
Hrishi Dere says
Hello sir
My propellerads cpm is going down i ask support about this so they said I need to improve my traffic quality.So do you know how to improve quality for popads.
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
Where is your traffic coming from?
Nadia Khan says
We have been rejected by Google for Adsense and now going to apply for propeller ads after reading your article.
Dimitrios says
Hello,
Very nice article! 😉
I want to start a viral website type of “9gag”. Should i apply same methods as you write above?
With a budget 100$ a month for advertise, do you believe i will be able to generate some income at least as a “part time job”?
Thank you very much for the valuable informations.
Servando Silva says
Sites like 9gag where there’s almost no text and it’s just fun are quite panelized for FB already. it will be super difficult.
Also, considering the minimum budget per month I recommend is $500 and better if you have $2,000 you’re not going to achieve much. $100 can be burn between the VPS, domains and a couple other tools.
Hrishi Dere says
Sir
I did send 597 traffic to propellerads in which 544 are from United states I receive 0.44 CPM and 0.26 Profit. I ask propellerads will I get good cpm rates if I send the same amount of traffic for the next 15 to 20 days they said yes you will get it after optimization. So what is optimization do you have any Idea about it?
And what do you think will my cpm rate will hike (for the given traffic) if I keep sending this traffic for next 15 to 20 days . Right now my Total CPM is 0.10 before traffic it was 0.09
Thanking you
Regards
Hrishi Dere.
Servando Silva says
Optimization menas after many days of sending a good amount of traffic they will decide which offers and ads are making more money so they show them to your audience and increase your CPM.
Initially you enter on a learning stage where the system shows many ads and learns which ones convert better.
I normally test each network for at least 5 days before deciding if the performance is good or not.
Frank says
Thank you!
In this article you talk about ( Facebook ads – PropellerAds – Adsense )
1- So you tell me if i have article with (PropellerAds – Adsense) i cant make facebook ads , right ? because Facebook hate ( PropellerAds ) !!!!
2- Can i use Facebook ads to article have ( native ads with Adsense ) ?
3- Last thing i want from you exactly tell us what Facebook ads love any ( articles of CATEGORIES ) that can make us save from —} BANNED {—
I love to make article about number 3 above
Wait your replay & Thank you again!
Servando Silva says
Hello.
1. As I mentioned, you can do ads to the adsense only pages and organic traffic to the ones with Propeller+Adsense.
2. Facebook also hates native ads nowadays. It looks like affiliates pushed it too much and now FB many times doesn’t approve a page with Native Ads unless the content is very good.
3. They love everything that doesn’t break the rules and terms of service. There’s no niche they love more than the others.
Hrishi Dere says
Sir
The time when you recieve CPM of $3.50+ what was the traffic geo and was the maximum traffic was from Tier 1 countries i.e.US,Canada,UK,Australia,New Zealand,Norway,Finland,UAE,Denmark,Ireland,Sweden,South Africa etc. OR it was from all over the world but unique?
Regrads
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
It was from a mix between tier 1 and tier 2 countries.
I can’t remember the exact amount of traffic per geo on an specific day though.
Hrishi Dere says
Sir
Thank you for your reply. My second question is which will perform more better for Tier 1 traffic Onclickads or Direct placement ads/Direct link ads. Which ad type give more CPM rates.Thanking you .
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
On clickads are always better than direct link ads on pretty much every country as the traffic has more engagement.
Recette says
Dude I love how you think, I WAS ALSO THIKING for this strategy but I don’t wanna see my visitor quiting my website due the popunder, What you think?
Servando Silva says
I don’t care about that. Honestly, if a visitor hates any type of ads (popunders, banners, interstitials or whatever) it’s their problem. Also, keep in mind this strategy is not to create a branded blog with great content. Viral articles and things like that are usually low quality but attract a lot of people who are curious, just like magazines in the stores attract more people than books.
yousaf says
can i see your viral website for motivation ?
send me the link at my email id
by the nice post thankss
Servando Silva says
Sorry but we don’t reveal our websites or niche sites to avoid competition to copy or steal the articles and SEO efforts from us.
wasam says
I would like to know if adsense doesnot allow propellar adds then why have you suggested that,secondly how to get articles for our website using a spinner wise option?
Servando Silva says
I mentioned you can use propeller ads in different (independent) pages and use Adsense in other pages. Or you can even go as far as having one domain for one and a second domain for another. There are several ways to tackle this problem.
Chandra prakash says
Hii there. Propeller Ads didn’t work for my website with Indian traffic. I got $0.05 for 1634 impressions and 118 clicks with a CPM rate of $0.03 which is quite low.
Servando Silva says
Did you just test with 1,600 impressions? How many days was this for?
Paras says
My site is not get much traffic. So Propeller Approve My site? How much time to get approval?
Servando Silva says
They don’t have specific traffic requirements. Their approval time on average is around 2-7 days.
rxbot says
Nice method, thanks for..
I still choose to get traffic from search engine until right now
Servando Silva says
Organic traffic is good to get started, so keep working on it.
Younous says
Hi thank you so much for your articles.
I have question about facebook ads, what i have to boost ? My facebook page? Or articles? And that’s legal with adsense to send traffic from facebook ads? Because my friend get banned from adsense.
Thank you
Servando Silva says
Both. First you need likes, and then you need to boost your best articles and see if they’re profitable.
The traffic is allowed. But check out this new strategy we’re using in 2017.
Sikandar says
It seems that Google Adsense prohibits POPUPS & POPUNDERS too. That’s why I totally eradicate Ad networks with popups and popunders to give way to my google adsense which is more profitable that other ad networks.
Servando Silva says
They do. More recently they hate any pop network even if you don’t have Adsense in it.
For this guide I’d recommend having separated pages/domains for this network, or better yet, use Facebook Instant Articles like explained in one of our latest articles.
DB says
Very compliacted.. works for u doesn’t mean will work for everyone else..
Servando Silva says
Of course. As pretty much everything in the online world. Otherwise everybody would be successful and rich.
Dean says
Hello Silva,
I’m now an ardent follower of your strategies
Plz, what is your experience with Infolinks? does it work in this viral site mix??
Thanks
Servando Silva says
I tried them before and even made a review, but the performance is not as good as others for this strategy.
Gossipa says
I already started viral website and i target famous supermodel gossips in tge world.. i dont target any country bu mostly usa.. is that good ?
Tgank you
Servando Silva says
As long as it works for you. Just be careful with copyriht and that stuff if you’re using those models in your ads.
Sarah eddine says
If the cpd of my campaign on facebook is 0.01 that means I need 10$ for an article to get 1000 visitor which will make me 3$ CPM on adsence and 1$ on revecontent and 1$ for pop ads,
So I, m loosing money here, can you help, thanks a lot
Servando Silva says
You need to get cheaper clicks, and make more money from Adsense (my CPM on Adsense was $10-15).
However i’d recommend you to read this article, as it works better nowadays.
Coelus says
Do I have to create articles for this? It is not easy and very time-consuming work for me.
Servando Silva says
Yes, you have.
It’s time consuming, but you can easily do 5 articles in 1 hour every day.
Puneet says
hello Servando Silva and my blogger friends. i need some guidance from you i need a adsense account but google rejected my website for adsense. so someone can help me to get an adsense account.
Thanks
Ajay Meena says
Why i can’t use Banner Ads on Propellerads.com
There are showing “Banner Ads are not available for now
Servando Silva says
Can you take a screenshot?
Rose Richard says
I try using propeller in my site. But the result I get in the mobile display is not a good thing for my audience.
The pop-up is not sharp.
So using pop under, is there any way I can make it to show only on system ?
Servando Silva says
What do you mean by “it’s not sharp”?
Also, show in which system?
srujan says
can i post video on blogspot link with propeller ads……is that okay….help me
Servando Silva says
Yes, you can do that.
Tom says
Hi Servand,
1. My FB campaign for this article: http://healthcenter.co/types-of-eating-disorders/
had 11611 views and 801 clicks.
And from this I had 3 clicks on Adsense and I made £0.27 :). This cost me £20.
2. I found something strange with FB ads. From morning for few hours I had likes for £0.05. Then from noon all gone down and likes cost me £0.16. No matter what I do always got up cost of likes.
Also I found that campaign image which work in the UK and Ireland dosn’t work in the USA. I wonder why?
Alexander says
Thanks Servando, It is a great article. I wish I found this early enough. The great setback with newbies is inability to implement an idea until is saturated or obsolate. Most time you dont have private coaching. I have looked for a way to earn $100 daily for the past for the past 8years. My highest earning per day was $0.5…Pls Servando is this Adsense strategy still valid?
Servando Silva says
Hello Alexander. If your best was $0.5 looks like you didn’t really test constantly any strategy.
As for your question, better check out this new article which follows the trend but is more updated to 2017’s standards.
Tom says
Sevando how many FB fans I need to make similar profit to yours using PropellerAds?
Servando Silva says
$300 per day was when I had several pages of 100k fans.
Tom says
Thank you Servando. I just have around 800 followers so a lot of work ahead.
Servando Silva says
I usually start monetizing after 10,000 fans, which can take fro 2 weeks to 2 months depending on the niche virality, prices, etc.
Keep focused 🙂
Tom says
Hello,
I wonder if didn’t upset some of your FF fans by sending them to your page with PropellerAds? Have you had any negative comments?
Servando Silva says
There’s always people that get upset even with Adsense or whatever. Can’t be helped.
If a comment was very aggressive or negative I’d just hide it (not delete it) from Facebook.
Tom says
Thank you Servando.
Mhail Viduka says
So it’s mean there is no problem to combine Adsense and Propellers Ads in One WEBSIte ??
Servando Silva says
For this strategy, as you can see, they’re been running in the same website but NOT in the same pages.
So they’re kind of separated but running in the same domain after all.
sysads says
Hi
I just have a question about this result when I do a search of your domain. As seen in screesnhot, it shows some sub pages / posts.
https://snag.gy/eRawA0.jpg
How can I make my site also show like that?
Thanks
Servando Silva says
You can’t. Google decides to do it automatically when they think your site has good authority and has a lot of resources, etc.
I actually didn’t know my site looked like that already. I checked last year and I think it wasn’t like that yet. Thanks for letting me know 🙂
Joe Latham says
Awesome article thanks man! I am doing some testing with them now.
Priyanshu Raj says
Very Interesting Read! Thank God, I’ve got this link from Google.
Keep Sharing such valuable Stuffs Servando! 😉
Hrishi Dere says
Sir
Is there any way to get rid of Adblock users as they are ruining the entire show. Our efforts will be useless if the 90 % audience are Adblock Users.
Regards
Hrishi Dere
Servando Silva says
Adblock users are actually a minority of the traffic, and many networks including propellers are aways developing new codes and script to bypass them, so it’s a game of evolution between the ad blockres and the ad networks.
Not much you can do there.
muhammed yahaya says
can i have your facebook username ? i really need your help
Servando Silva says
Hi.
I don’t give private coaching even less by Facebook.
johny says
Hi,
can i do this? for example, i made a viral content/article in my blog, and then i copy a half of that post as a landing page with a “read more” link, and after that i send traffic from facebook ads to that landing page (with no ads at all), so they can click the “read more” link and after that they will get the full content (with the popunder/insterstitial ads). do you think facebook will banned me if i do this trick? 😀
there’s no popup/insterstitial ads on the landing page.. 🙂
Servando Silva says
If there’s no pop/interstitial in the first step of the funnel (your pre-lander in this case) you’re not breaking any rules, so yes, it would be worth a shot.
The trick is to make most of those people really click through your second page so you can monetize them.
Let me know how it goes as I have never tried this just for the sake of sending traffic.
Servando Silva says
No. I don’t give my personal number to my readers and I give no private coaching either anyway.
Brax says
Hi Servando,
i have a question for you, what if you wanted to target people that are into fidget spinners, what would you do in the targeting.
i mean fidget spinners are something broad, that’s why it’s a bit hard.
what’s your opinion about targeting broad things and how do you do it.
thanx
Ahmed Bagua says
Hi servando silva ! Are you use : Direct Link or PopUnder or Banner With this viral traffic ? and thanks
Servando Silva says
PopUnder and interstitials.
chrisy says
how to set those popunder and interstials in blogs i have a proplem of impressions and cpm
Medhi says
Hello
I have a problem is a few clicks into an account Google Adsense ?
And CPC 0.02 Euro?
Brax says
Hey
i was thinking if you could create a custom audience of the people who visited your website and then you can retarget them again, is that possible?
the reason i don’t think it’s possible because you can’t use the Pixel on Click to Website, and only for WC.
Thanxx
Servando Silva says
Yes, it is possible.
And you can also use the pixel for clicks to website and for all people who visited your site or specific pages of your site.
Hrishi Dere says
Sir Can I use this trick using Adsterra as they have High CPM Rates ?
Servando Silva says
Yes. Adsterra is a very good network we have been testing also.
This works for every network but of course you need to be on the top of the best ones for your geo in order to make the most out of it.
Jess says
Hey,
I spent last week promoting my FB page, went from 1k likes to 15.5k. Now I am starting to send traffic to my website. Yesterday I had 3.8k impressions and that only paid out $1.33, but I obviously spend more than that advertising. My blog niche is a mobile game. Any thoughts?
Servando Silva says
Hello Jess.
Of course, first of all: congratulations on taking action and growing your fans so fast.
Question, are you using propeller ads and Adsense for monetization or what are you using?
olasoji says
hello bro,
I have also worked hard in getting more traffic am getting 10k impression in propeller and my earnings fall to 5$ why bro put me through
Servando Silva says
Again, this changes a lot from geo to geo. Also consider Propeller was being used at the same time as Adsense to have more earnings.
Jess says
Servando,
Right now I am just using Adsense. I suppose I am commenting on the wrong post – I am a little hesitant to use Propeller Ads since I boost all of the articles I share to Facebook from my blog.
5.17k Impressions got me $3.33, my RPM was $2.36 and my CTR was 0.64%
My FB Ads are getting $0.003Cost per Result with a 10 in relevancy.
What are your thoughts? Pump more money into FB?
Jess says
My last reply was wrong.
Servando,
Right now I am just using Facebook Ads. I am a little hesitant to use Propeller Ads since I boost all of the articles I share to Facebook from my blog.
5.17k Impressions got me $3.33, my RPM was $2.36 and my CTR was 0.64%
My FB Ads are getting $0.003Cost per Result with a 10 in relevancy.
What are your thoughts? Pump more money into FB?
Servando Silva says
Your CPCs are great and you have a good relevancy score.
Do you have an Adsense account available as well? or are you just using Propeller?
Jess says
I’m only using Adsense. My ROI is at least breaking even. Would you just recommend investing more?
Samson Idoko says
Work on your ad placement.. You aren’t getting enough clicks on your ads.
Servando Silva says
Yes. If you’re breaking even you should spend as much as you can and optimize and learn from the data.
Medhi says
Hi !
I have launched an ad campaign in Propeller Ads
CPM = 0.5$ – 10 000 Impression
Only earned in Adsense just 0.80 $
Is there a bug?
Servando Silva says
Hmmm, if your read correctly this guide covers how to buy traffic from Facebook Ads and monetize as a Publisher with Adsense + Propeller.
It sounds like you’re buying traffic from Propeller and monetizing with Adsense, which is a totally different thing and it probably won’t work.
Ahmed Bagua says
Hi Servando ! 🙂
How to increase my CPM in propllerads ? and adsense ? and thanks !
Servando Silva says
The CPM changes from country to country and devices, operating system, etc of your traffic.
Ahmed Bagua says
What are the countries that advise me to targeting ? and thanks ! ♥
Servando Silva says
Tier 1 countries are usually the best, but also there are some tier 2 and tier 3 countries that get high CPMs. You can ask your account manager in propeller for the geos that are hot so you run campaigns there.
Medhi says
What is the method get Visitors in PropellerAds ?
OneClick ,Banner …
Servando Silva says
On click, and interstitials work well.
Medhi says
This way you can make money in Adsense ?
no problem.
hayworld says
hello silvam my CPM is very low like reading something like 0.56 or so but my impression read something like 22,000 and my earings is just $12 wish ought not to be so.how can i earn more or what can i do to correct this arnomally?
Servando Silva says
It totally depends on the geo of your traffic, devices (mobile vs desktop) and even browsers and niche.
That defines the performance of your traffic and your ads get a CPM based on that.
sheena says
do you recommend to buy traffic from native ads to send it to my viral site? have you try buying traffic outside facebook and google?
because i think facebook traffic is very costly.
will propellerads allow this type of traffic?
Servando Silva says
FB can be super cheap when done well.
Native traffic works, but it”s quite expensive actually to make it work. Test it and see for yourself.
Propeller has no problem with Native traffic, as long as it converts, but I bet it will be difficult to make a profit from native traffic monetizing with pops. It might work the other way around.
chrisy says
can i get public groups in TIER ONE where i can share my articles
Brax says
Hi Servando,
I want to ask you couple questions, what do we start with a Niche viral website or a Viral website like Viralnova and what do we start with when doing facebook ads, ppe or wc?
and how do we know if an article is a winner and how can we scale it ?
Servando Silva says
Nowadays it’s better to do a niche viral site. The way FB works now it helps to have a niche with engaged people.
As for the ads, Clicks to Website and PPE are the options you’ll need to test and see which one works better for your posts.
You know an article is a winner when it makes a profit instead of losing money, and when it gets a super high reach and engagement compared to the rest of your articles.
iulian says
How can i get trafic for my site? girlsporn-hd.com
Servando Silva says
Hey, check THIS ARTICLE because your site has adult content and propeller doesn’t accept that.
Sheena says
Will adding propellerads / popunder ads affect my SEO rankings?
Because my site have over 50 thousands page indexed by google.
Servando Silva says
I’ve seen some people mentioning they rankings get hurt when using some kind of ads. Looks like Google is very aggressive towards any other advertisement type outside of Adsense or classical banners.
Propeller has an article about this here: https://propellerads.com/top-myths-about-pop-under-ads-busted/
I personally recommended this strategy for social traffic as it has nothing to do with Google, but lots of huge sites with a lot of organic traffic use pop unders from many networks and they don’t get penalized.
Kirill says
Hey Servando,
Thanks for the articles. Helped me a lot, in the beginning, a couple months ago. Still crawling around and learning more every day.
These days, 1500$/month is way under that you need.
Thanks and have a great day!
Rico says
Hi, do you still do this?
If i use “boosted page” for my post which link to a site that has “popunder ads” in it. Will facebook allow it?
Because you said facebook.wont allow it if i use “website click” ads. How about “boosted post”. Have you tried this before?
Servando Silva says
No. they won’t allow it either. The pops are for organic traffic and for the rest you can use Adsense or Media net.
rico says
so you create different landing page for facebook organic traffic and the rest?
do you create a script to detect the traffic based on visitor’s refferer url? so its called “cloaking” then, will it affect SEO? because google doesnt like cloaking trick.
Servando Silva says
Yes, i have the same page with only adsense ads for facebook boosted posts and an organic page for the posts that i put organically in the fan pages that are not boosted.
It’s not cloaking and nobody cares about SEO in this strategy as all the traffic comes from social media, not Google.
Sheena says
If you have the same page then how do you detect if the visitor comes from “boosted page” or “organic” traffic?
Servando Silva says
You can change the URL of one so you have something like:
1. website.com/article1-organic
2- website.com/article1-boost
Send the organic traffic to the first one and the paid traffic to the second and you can check it in your analytics quite easily.
jean carlos says
Hola, con respeto a lo dle baneo de la cuenta de facebook, a ver si entendí si promociono mi web monetizada con proppeller en mi fanpage de facebook mi cuenta sera baneada?
jean carlos says
Hola, para lograr este resultado de generar 300 por día, cuanto debo gastar en publicidad en facebook por día?.
Javier says
Hola Servando. El otro día respondiste un mensaje mío en el foro de STM, gracias por eso.
Te pregunto aquí que es más relevante. Haz probado hacer arbitraje comprando tráfico en otras redes aparte de Facebook ads (me han baneado)? Me refiero a fuentes como Zeropark, el mismo Propellerads, etc (de hecho en adplexity vi que el sitio gossip.it publicita en propeller ads)
La duda es cual sería segura para usar con adense, y en caso de no serla ninguna, que otra combinación de fuente de tráfico + red de publicidad se podría utilizar en combinación para arbitraje con sitios virales.
Desde ya muchas gracias!
Servando Silva says
Hola Javier.
Arbitraje con Adsense en redes pop no es “segura” ninguna la verdad. Incluso Adsense se ha puesto difícil con Facebook así que mucha gente que ahora hace arbitraje mezcla adsense con anuncios native y el tráfico lo consigue de native o de facebook (nunca de pops que yo sepa).
Ahmed Bagua says
Can i use other ad-network like revenuehits with viral traffic ?
Servando Silva says
Yes, you can use whatever network you prefer. in fact, you should test many to find which one yields better results for your traffic.
Ahmed Bagua says
Thanks ! ♥
Irina Ramirez says
Hello Carlos.
Try to mimic everything that’s working for them and apply it and learn from your tests.
I recommend you to have at least a couple grand for ad spend and have several networks available to monetize.
jean carlos says
Greetings my name is jean carlos and I write you from Dominican Republic. I have read almost all your articles about viral pages with the fan page on facebook. I currently work as an editor for a person who does the same and now I want to take the plunge and do it myself. I have collected a capital. For people who work now has more than one hundred thousand visits a day. I feel ready for the passage but some advice would be good. You know that even though you know the steps there is uncertainty. Then that you recommend me to do, I want to start big, how much money do I need ?, what steps are indicated? And I plan to monetize as in this post with Propellerads. I hope to exchange ideas with you. Thank you.
Servando Silva says
Hello Carlos.
Try to mimic everything that’s working for them and apply it and learn from your tests.
I recommend you to have at least a couple grand for ad spend and have several networks available to monetize.
franklin says
hi, mr,….how do i get started with propellerads kindly reply
Servando Silva says
Check this article to see how to setup Propeller with your blog.
Star the line says
Mr.how can i start it, because am tired with $5 per day.plz let me know how to start viral traffic, thanks
Nusagates says
Propellerads caused my site deindex by Google. He said that ads displayed on my site (propeler ads) detected as sneaky redirect.
Could you please tell me ho avoid that? Thanks
Cheers
Nusagates
Servando Silva says
If I find ads that can cause problems I’ll contact propellerads and show them some screenshots. That should help them pause those ads.
Other than that, I want to make clear this strategy is for social traffic so it won’t affect sites as search traffic isn’t really what we’re looking for.
Mahmooda Aftab says
Google doesn’t allow Pop Ads. I tried placing Propeller Ads 3 times and my website got blacklisted by google.
Servando Silva says
You can report this to Propeller. The problem isn’t the pop per se, but the things contained in the pop ad.
Virgo Girl Rising says
Propeller ads isnt what I though it was. I included it in my post “best ad networks for new websites” on my blog, virgogirlrising.com.
Propeller Ads was the main one I wanted, but I had a bad experience with them.
🙁
Samuel says
Hello Servando,
I have a viral website. Around 16000 visitors/month.
I started today with propeller ads, do you think that amount is enough? I will start some facebook campaigns now.
I have a facebook post promoting and on that post I have a link on it that goes to my website. Do you think they can ban me on facebook?
Samuel says
Also, How do you do on a wordpress website, to put the pop under ads only in one article? And not all?
They have a plugin, but they put their ads everywhere.
Servando Silva says
You can use a theme or a plugin that allows you to put the script on each page/post so they only appear there. There are many available.
Servando Silva says
It’s a good start, but eventually you’ll want to have that amount of traffic per day to make it worth your time.
They won’t ban you if you don’t show pops in the link you’re sending traffic to.
Sharad says
Hello sir,
Actually i want to know how to rank up my website in effective and increase my organic traffic.
Juan says
Hola Servando,
Muchas gracias por el articulo !!
Estoy comenzando un nuevo sitio web de articulos virales con temas de todo tipo, y pienso hacerlo similar a este: https://www.paraloscuriosos.com/a13296/estos-son-los-9-coches-mas-lujosos-que-poseen-los-futbolistas-mexicanos
Me puedes ayudar con las siguientes dudas:
1. Veo que en lugar de utilizar Propeller, usan Native Ads de la red RevContent. (Puede generar mejores ingresos este estilo de Native Ads + Adsense ?? O definitivamente es mejor Propeller con sus Pop under ?
2. Me puedes aclarar lo siguiente por favor:
* Adsense paga sólo si el visitante hace clic en el anuncio ?
* Native Ads o Propeller pagan desde que se imprime (muestra el anuncio) al visitante ?
Muchas Gracias por tu respuesta amigo!
Servando Silva says
Hola Juan.
Entiendo. Lo mejor que puede shacer es probarlo por ti mismo. Te puedo decir que Revcontent funciona bastante bien, así que será cuestión de que pruebes con tu tráfico a ver cual te paga mejor. No olvides probar otras alternativas como Outbrain o Taboola.
Y sobre Adsense, si, solo pagan por clicks, mientras que Native y Propeller pagan por impresiones aunque los CPMs por lo mismo son menores ya que el tráfico es de “menor” calidad.
Saludos.
Juan says
Muchas gracias Servando por tomarte el tiempo para responderme.
Parece también que es buena estrategia utilizar articulos de ranking (Algo estilo como “Mira el top 10 de…”) y con boton siguiente.. Ya que cada vez que el visitante da clic en “siguiente”, se imprimen más anuncios. Se estaría llegando más rápido las mil impresiones con menos visitantes ?
Tu crees que con éste método sea factible llegar a obtener algo como 2 mil usd en un mes ?
Gracias mi amigo !
Servando Silva says
Si, ese es un método que se usa mucho. Ten en cuenta que el performance de las visitas y el número de impresiones por IP también cuentan, así que no solamente por tener 10 impresiones de la misma persona que vió el artículo tus ganancias van a ser 10 veces mayor. Es buena idea probarlo de todos modos.
Juan says
Tienes razón, habrá que probar…
En cuanto a mi otra pregunta, crees muy dificil poder llegar a generar quizás dos mil usd al mes con este metodo, ya sea con Revcontent, Outbrain ó Taboola con tráfico latino ? Gracias!
Servando Silva says
Depende de tu presupuesto. El tráfico latino no paga muy bien casi en ninguna red, peor igual los anuncios cuestan menos.
Duchi says
Is it too late to start a viral website.?
Servando Silva says
It’s never too late, but it’s more difficult nowadays for sure.
techywap says
wow !!!
this article solved all my problem am facing with ads network thanks a lot man looking up for your next article!
B says
Hey great article! Whats the payout like per impression? I am thinking of trying this out. it seems like you are getting tons of traffic. how much do you think I’ll get paid with small traffic- say around 500-1000?
Servando Silva says
It’s impossible to say. It depends on your traffic’s country, devices, OS, etc. and most important, on your traffic’s quality and performance.
Ahmed says
Hi Servando
did you try to use back and next buttons in the article
Servando Silva says
Yes.
That helps increase the number of impressions and also trigger pop ads.
El Hope says
Hi Servando, really great work u’ve done here, i’ve been a silent reader of this website for like almost half year. And here i am, making 1st step of curious IM newb, LOL. so i’ve been meaning to ask you some questions :
1. Is ur viral website a niche site or a broad-topic site? if it’s a broad-topic site, what category u put for ur site when u sign to adsense or propeller? (as far as i know u should put ur site in one category, cmiiw)
2. Are u targeting one spesific country or more than one country?
3. in split testing picture, i saw u put an ad unit within the article, so what if the article has some pictures? wouldn’t it make the layout a bit scrappy?
4. and i’ve been wondering about featured image for article, would it be a problem if we just grab it from our article source site?
Thanks a lot before, and keep up the great work Serv! 🙂
Servando Silva says
Hi. thanks for being a constant reader!
1. They were broad sites (try to use another site to get your adsense account approved). I already had my adsense accounts for years before I started working with viral websites.
2. Only 1 country per campaign unless they have similar audiences/costs/language and you can mix 2-3 in each campaign.
3. Yes, it looks a bit crappy but the ads still receive clicks. The top earners are the ads above the fold though.
4. I don’t think that would be a problem, but you can do better than that 🙂
tongercore says
Really great article and info.
Question: are you willing to share one of your own viral websites where you earn your with us. I really would like to see how you actually have build one your own websites.
Thanks in advance
Servando Silva says
Hello Thanks.
I would share it but it’s quite a bad idea. Competition is always hard, and when people get to know some sites publicly there are always attacks, people who copy all the content, fan pages, etc.
So I prefer to keep them private.
Marco says
Allright, I het that. Too bad though!
Abu Monsur says
May you pls suggest some hints to outsource such a viral site design and its content?
Is it possible to build a viral finance site ?
Servando Silva says
I don’t know if it’s possible as I have never seen one, but you can start with a theme without outsourcing it. No need to invest on a design at the beginning while you’re still testing.
Simas says
Hey, love your articles, they’re really informative! I currently run a viral website, however, my earnings are very low. My CPC is always under 0.15 cents and CTR is about 1.5%, although most of the traffic is from USA and UK. Website drives only 1000 on average page views, but I don’t understand why CPC is so low. My questions are 1) Maybe you have any ideas why CPC is low (because I searched LITERALLY all over the internet, had many experiments, but no solution). 2) I hardly can re-write 3 articles (around 500 words). How do you make possible 5 articles a day?
Servando Silva says
Hello Simas.
The CPC depends on several factors like: niche/vertical of the website, traffic sources (organic pays more than social or others), country of visitors, device and OS of visitor, retargeting, etc.
it’s very difficult to control it and there’s no exact formula of how it is calculated as it goes through a bidding system on Adwords.
As for 5 articles per day, I just rewrite them or have a VA do it himself.
It wasn’t a difficult task. I took around 15 minutes every day to do each article so in 90 minutes i had my articles done for the day.
Stanley says
hello with my blog, i have more than 15k view per day but i only make 12-37 dollars per day, but only with native direct ads, my pop under really doesnt work. where i my to put my pop to work? o dont use mobile of my blog? put it web only? i make 2-5 dollars per day with popunder and 12-34 dollars with native ads, what can I do, im working verry hard to have this traffic everyday but my result is low. i put code popunder from /body, when i use antiadblock i see my cpm down from 0.06 i dont have more 2k impression with 15k view and i have 100k-200 impression daily with native ads. and more when i put different code popunder the doesnt work i never have 3k impression from pop. helpe me please
Servando Silva says
What’s the vertical if your blog?
You could also try banners from adsense/medianet and other native networks as well.
Ad Network says
The Problem is that this network is effecting the Rank and make your site looks unsafe.
Servando Silva says
If you read through this article you’ll notice the rankings aren’t important for this strategy to work. It’s all viral traffic so Google or other search engines have no power here.
Summit says
Hi Servando,
I just want to ask you which Business is easier and more profitable than the other, Shopify selling products with Fb ads or Viral sites with fb ads?
Because every business and it’s own risks and it’s success rates.
i just want to know your opinion.
Thank you,
Servando Silva says
Shopify has been hot since last year. Viral pages have been for 4-5 years, so I’d say Shopify is actually a more interesting option at the moment, but it has its perks too.
Steve says
Shopify dropshipping is definitely not easy either.
You can easily drop 500+ dollars on ads with no hint of any results. Yet you can on the other hand make thousands if you work smart, but also be lucky at the same time.
Servando Silva says
Yeah, it’s not easy, but $500 is nothing to test. I recommend having at least $3,000 for testing purposes. This isn’t about being lucky. You need to test, test, test.
Jay says
Does Adsense still accept Viral websites?
Servando Silva says
As long as they’re quality sites, without stolen content there should be no problem.
However, it’s always recommended to get your adsense account approved with another site and then use it in other sites as well (including your viral site).
kase says
probé esto a escala en una pagina completamente nueva de cosas otakus y frikis. de antemano ya tenia conocimiento de un par de post virales.
por lo que publique 20 post, aunque solo uno con intención de ser viral. y le metí 2 dolares por día.
Se han gastado 3 dolares, y ha generado 550 visitas (cpc de $0.007 y a dia de hoy el cpc va en $0.005 y bajando)
En teoría en adsense serian: 550 visitas * 0.03ctr * 0.3usd = $5.9usd (40% mas de lo invertido.)
la realidad es que en adsense tengo un ctr de 0.009% y un cpc $0.015usd
1) creo que la tematica tiene poco cpc y los otakus estan muy acostumbrados a ver anuncios.
2) intentare con otros dos sitios/tematicas, para ver el cpc antes de gastar 1500 dolares
Lars says
Awesome. Actually so awesome, that I found all my answers. Thanks all 🙂
Darrin says
Thank you for sharing your info. I really appreciate your efforts and I am waiting for your further post thank you once again.
kase says
you says “You create a campaign on Facebook ads for each article and pump $5 bucks to test it before deciding if it’s good or not.
That’s $5 x 150 = $750 USD in just a month.”
so i am little confused, you have others $750. so you re-ads the “clicks ads” for your virial post with a lot of money per day, maybe $25 per day and custom target. ok?
but you kill your oldy $5 ads of the viral post? or allows you to live?
donny dantes says
Hi,
Sorry did not wrote the whole info in the comment above,
My FB ads are alway being banned. I do not really know what am I doing wrong. Is it the native ads? I have sent a sample of my site. Most of my viewers are mobile viewers so there might be a problem with that and my website?
If it is not a problem can you see what is the problem. I cannot really get any profit with just adsense. My main income source would be the native ads.
Servando Silva says
Native ads are OK.
Your ads are being rejected or your complete account is being banned?
kase says
ok, 0.01 per click or less in facebook is the goal. but, what is the percent of facebook shares in viral ads?
Elin says
Hello,friends
Who can help me?i need to cashout money from Propellerads Advertiser balance?how can i do this?
Pedro says
Hola Servando, gran artículo. De hecho, vuelvo sobre él una y otra vez para repasar la estrategia.
Solo quería asegurarme de que he entendido bien un detalle o bien ya ha cambiado. Es relacionado con las dos versiones de la página/post, una para promocionar y otra para orgánico. En cuanto a Facebook lo tengo claro, ya he sido baneado en su día y he conseguido recuperar una cuenta, pero en los comentarios te han preguntado si tenías en la versión orgánica ambas redes, Adsense y PropellerAds, por el detalle de que a Adsense no le gustan este tipo de redes Pop.
Las preguntas, ¿tienes ambas redes en tus post/páginas orgánicas? ¿has recibido en algún momento algún aviso o strike por parte de Adsense en ese sentido?
En mi experiencia he de decir que tengo ambas redes en una web viral con la que experimento, pero el volumen no es regular y solo hay picos puntuales de 5000 visitas diarias, por lo que los números no se acercan ni de lejos a los tuyos, y puede que a Adsense no le importe.
De todos modos, me gustaría saber más al respecto.
PD: Si lo crees necesario para tu audiencia, podemos traducir estos comentarios al inglés para facilitarles el acceso a la información.
Gracias Servando.
Servando Silva says
Hola Pedro.
Si las llegué a tener, pero hoy en día mejor manejarlo por separado ya.
Adsense ha puesto muy pesado desde el año pasado, así que mas vale no arriesgar.
Pedro says
Gracias Servando. Tomo nota, ahora mismo estoy arrancando una web nueva y en esta no quiero arriesgar.
Un saludo!
Anjgel says
HeyServando Silva,
Nice article, I find it very useful.
The problem with my AdSense is that my Page CTR is always under 1%, could you please help me to get at least 2-3% CTR?
What I run is: 1st paragraph mobile responsive AdSense ad, 2nd Skycrapper Adsense ad, 3rd bellow post responsive box Adsense ad, I also run AdSense Anchor ad as they are new and I want to try them out.
Hope you can help me, thank you a lot.
Servando Silva says
Split test different positions and find the best combination by yourself. That’s the best advice I can give you since there’s no “best” template that will work for every niche and design.
Stanley GARCON says
hello can help me please i have a site web with 10-15 000 view everyday i only get fake money. i have 8-13 000 from usa everyday.
Ads today ‒ February 18
Earnings$1.551
Impressions57,988
Clicks0
CPM0.027
Ads this month ‒ February 2017
Earnings$43.088
Impressions533,048
Clicks317
CPM0.081
Date Impressions Clicks CPM CTR Profit
Total 537,334 317 0.08 0.06 $43.44
2017–02–18 58,000 0 0.03 0.00 $1.86
2017–02–17 133,468 0 0.02 0.00 $3.18
2017–02–16 145,167 0 0.02 0.00 $2.59
2017–02–15 75,933 50 0.22 0.07 $16.39
2017–02–14 43,012 0 0.16 0.00 $6.92
2017–02–13 22,648 7 0.15 0.03 $3.35
2017–02–12 36,264 55 0.13 0.15 $4.76
2017–02–11 7,902 35 0.12 0.44 $0.95
2017–02–10 7,117 80 0.16 1.12 $1.15
2017–02–09 307 13 1.94 4.23 $0.60
Servando Silva says
What do you mean by receiving fake money?
Also, where is your traffic coming from? It looks like the performance is very low so my first thought is to check where is it coming from because the quality is pretty bad.
Stanley GARCON says
i talk about bad money. i have 10-15 000 view everyday i only get fake money. i have 8-13 000 from usa but, i only put native ads, to day i earn 5,77 dolars only i post on facebook groups not fans page.
Servando Silva says
Work with proper networks and you will get real money instead of fake money.
Which networks are you working with that “faked” the money you earned?
Stanley GARCON says
ok i use propeller ads, for my payment i put every week i have 170 dollars with a new blog, when i will get paid? if i have every week my option? this sunday or how much?
Servando Silva says
They pay on a monthly basis. Did you fill up your payment details?
Stanley GARCON says
yes i put payoneer, mastercard subit on my acount my id payoneer, i say this coz i see per day o per week, o per month but i choose per week. ok i wish some mach i will get it.
Servando Silva says
If it’s weekly you just need to be sure you’re above the threshold and you’re good to go.
I always receive monthly payments and never tried payoneer so I can’t say much about it.
Riyaz Shaikh says
I boosted post on Facebook and they disable my account
Do you have any suggestion for not getting ban on fb.
Servando Silva says
Read their terms and rules to see what’s allowed and what’s not. I guess you did something they don’t like or your image/text wasn’t appropriate.
Riyaz Shaikh says
Can you please check the link which I boosted
factumfeed.com/574/13-hidden-features-on-everyday-things-you-didnt-know
Servando Silva says
I don’t see anything wrong with the link. So it was probably the post on your facebook page which didn’t meet their guidelines?
Riyaz Shaikh says
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=617794768421017&id=593817544152073&fs=5
Please check the link
Servando Silva says
It looks OK too.
What was the reason they told you after blocking your ads account? And which payment method were you using?
Riyaz Shaikh says
Your account was disabled for running ads that do not deliver a consistent and expected experience for viewers. It’s not an acceptable practice to monetize Facebook ad views using unoriginal or extremely minimal content on the destination page for an ad.
I am using credit card
vinodkumar says
hello i want to publish my site in publice so wat can i do??
Servando Silva says
What it publice and how is it related to this article?
Waqas says
Nice Article! Love the information you have provided. Running a viral website is not easy. Other than facebook ads for traffic what are your thoughts on traffic-masters or webtrafficgeeks? Or do you recommend a bulk traffic buying source that can be trusted with adsense, taboola etc?
Thanks
Servando Silva says
I haven’t tested those. The closest thing I’ve bought is traffic from native networks like Outbrain, taboola, Revcontent, etc.
hernan says
hola servando un gusto,voy a crearme un sitio web viral de videos y post chistosos ,mandandole trafico de facebook ,twitter y instagram .alguna otra tematica que me podrias recomendar?los quiero monetizar con propellersads y revenuehits ,puedo tener algun problema si los monetizo a los 2 en la misma pagina?
Servando Silva says
La temática depende de tus gustos. Hay miles de temáticas, así que si te sientas a anotar algunas seguro se te ocurren por lo menos 10.
No hay problema si usas ambos, pero ten en cuenta lo que menciono de las páginas de los anuncios y esas redes. Deben de estar separadas unas de otras para que no te baneen la cuenta de Facebook.
Jason says
hi Servando Silva i know its been a while since you posted about propellerads, just a quick question are you still earning those sort of figures daily or has it dropped down?.
i have an account there but i have yet to use it.
kind regards jason
Servando Silva says
I have been testing a lot of networks and also native advertising with this strategy, but I’m still earning $50-100 per day with Propeller ads as of today.
michael says
Hi, if you achieved a CPM of $5 with PropellerAds, wouldn’t you use PropellerAds instead of Adsense? CPM of $5 is extremely high. My site has 20k pageviews a day but its CPM is only $0.24 with Adsense. Your CPM sounds too good to be true. Any tips?
Servando Silva says
With Adsense I have had more than $15-20 CPM. Sometimes I had more than $30 so to put it in perspective propeller was good but i used it to add more revenue plus Adsense.
Asad says
Hi Servando Silva when i go to my website it’s just popup for one or two time how can i get ads on my website like this web
watchonlinemovies.com.pk
Servando Silva says
they seem to have multiple popups from different networks and also they allow more than 1 pop per day. You can set this in the settings of each network, but not all of them allow it.
Asad says
cab you tell me name of different networks that are trust able and is their any option in propeller ads to set more then one popup or not
Servando Silva says
I have a few of them listed here.
Dominic says
Please sir can you help me with propeller ad.or do you have a video that can help me with propeller ad.Help me boss
Servando Silva says
I don’t have a video but they have tutorials. What do you need help with?
Dominic says
Hello sir, my problem here is that I have been using propeller for almost 1 year but I haven’t able to make at least $2 from it.so I am pleading whether you can help me earn some money from it every month.Thanks.
Servando Silva says
Hmmm, but do you have real traffic going to your site?
tony Hester says
hello boss
am wondering, i have a website (BLOG) and everything fine but the problem is how can i use propeller ads on a specific pages because i dont wanna use popunder or popup on Facebook sponsor ads (as you said they could ban my fb account )
Servando Silva says
There are plugins or themes (if you’re using wordpress) that allow you to insert a code in every page or post instead of just installing it globally.
Servando Silva says
I don’t use blogger because you do’t have full control of your website but I’m sure you can add the code easily if you search in google.
tony Hester says
hello is using Interstitial ads for moblie (propeller ads) violate facebook ad terms and conditions
Servando Silva says
I fear so.
For organic traffic is fine but if you’re boosting posts or targeting ads straight to pages with interstitials, pops or other ads they won’t like it.
Brous says
Hi Servando,
Thank you for this Wonderful article i just wanted to ask you about the targeting of the ad.
For example : Dad Takes Last Breath While Holding Newborn Baby
for this article you choose what, what i have on my mid is : viral pages+married women+ age between 25-35 and the audience this way is like 1million person.
my general question is , what do you with targeting with viral Articles?
Thank you
Servando Silva says
Viral articles appeal a broad audience, but at the same time because it’s not targeted what you can do (and I use as a strategy is):
1. Do ads to get likes with broad targeting like the example you mentioned or even broader.
2. From all those people, some will become your fans and some will ignore it.
3. Now when you promote your posts, you’ll promote it to the people who liked your page (they already showed interest in viral things and articles)
4. The more your audience grows, you’ll have more people to target and also target people who visited your website (even if they’re not your fans) by using the Facebook retargeting pixel.
5. Scale up.
Brous says
Thank you so much for your answer, one more question if i run an ad for my website, what’s the ideal size of the audience so the campaign would work ?
i mean the audience’s size would be 1 million, 2 million or less … etc
and thank you again
Servando Silva says
For viral websites I’ve seen my typical audiences are over 1 million.
This could change when using remarketing and of course when you promote to your fan followers only but for like ads you can go very broad and anything above 1 million sounds right.
Sabbir Ahmed says
Hello
Thank you for your nice post. But I cannot understand the CTR area.
Thank You
Servando Silva says
CTR means click through rate, which means the number of clicks you receive per impressions of an ad.
For example, if you have your ad shown 100 times and you get 10 clicks, then you get a 10% CTR.
Kata Hidup says
Your traffic from where country guys?
James says
there is a little problem with adsense when you use a Propeller Ads. Adsense will be against. you will get a warning that on your website a popup that block content on mobile devices.
Servando Silva says
Yes, that’s why I explain it’s better to separate them in different posts or even different blogs depending on where the traffic comes from.
James says
THEN IT’S NOT “HOW TO ADD $300 PER DAY”,
IT’S – ONE MORE SOURCE TO MONETIZE the TRAFFIC ))
Servando Silva says
Yes, one source that makes extra $300 per day while also making decent money from Adsense at the same time. The title is correct.
orizu kelechi says
I already have AdSense account how do I link it to my website tanks
Servando Silva says
You don’t need to link it.
Just create an ad in your Adsense account and they’ll provide you with a code that you can put in any website and start making money.
stephen says
I don’t know how you get $5 ecpm but i get a $0.36 with 96% facebook traffic from U.S MOSTLY .Also, it seems my traffic is not properly captured as in for 1000 daily traffic ,just 53 impressions is recorded . can you suggest a possible solution ( i used the anti-block popunder code)
Kishore says
I WOuld like to promote my offer on cpa basis in propeller ads.Does propeller ads traffic gives good convertion like other cpa network?
Servando Silva says
Oh yes, if your offer fits well for pop traffic you can get a lot of conversions from them. I’ve been using Propeller to promote CPA offers for a couple years and they’re a very solid network with huge volume.
Erwan says
Hi Servando, thanks for the great resource. I’m wondering about the writing part of the system. You didn’t mention hiring writers, etc. The dilemma I’m facing for my site is that I don’t only want the content to be viral, I want it to be high quality writing to build a loyal audience as well. I found quality writers meeting my expectations for about $8 for 500 words. Would you consider 5 articles per week a good base?
Thanks
Servando Silva says
Hello.
$8 for 500 words doesn’t sound too bad. Most viral articles should fit between 200-500 words no problem.
However, 5 articles per week sounds going slow to me. I’d say 5 articles per day as you want to split test a lot and find your winners fast. You don’t want to take 2-4 weeks just to find a good one because you’re going slow. Something you must understand and accept is the fact that most of your articles won’t go viral, no matter if you pay $8 or $80 per article. So volume is key here and not exactly quality.
Isaac says
Hi great article. I recently bought a news website that uses an rss poster plugin on wordpress to get news from different feeds.
I wanted to ask if this would be an issue with google adsense if I display adsense ads on the website?
also if i am to combine both adsense and propeller ads together, where would be ideal placements both in homepage and single pages?
Thanks
Servando Silva says
The ideal placements will vary and it’s up to you to test them until you find the best one for your traffic/geos.
As for the RSS plugin, I’ve seen it in action a lot of times in the past. It’s always a gray area for Adsense since it will be republishing duplicated content, so that’s why some people use content spinners but I don’t like it.
ehsan masaud says
Hi servando, I cant manage to reach a CPM of 4.5
my CPM is very low i have over 10000 impressions per day on popunder. but my cpm is very very low so i cant achieve a high return, can you adivse me how to increase my cpm to 4.5 or higher.
Servando Silva says
What countries are you running at the moment? Is it mobile or desktop traffic?
ehsan masaud says
Hi
im running USA traffic and its 80% desktop and 20% mobile traffic i get 10000+ traffic bu my cpm is 0.05
Servando Silva says
That’s very low. Is it social traffic or where is it coming from?
USA easily pays like $1-5 USD with Propeller Ads.
Paul Emmanuel says
Want to know the countries with the higher CPM on propeller ads so I know where to face my website traffic.
Thank
Servando Silva says
AU, UK, USA and CA always have high CPMs, however there are some good countries like the nordic ones, France, Germany, Italy, etc.
Deepakcoolguy says
HELLO,
SERVANDO SILVA
I SIGNED UP IN PROPELLER ADS. I AM 13 YEARS OLD BOY. AND I AM A YOUTUBE GAMER. I HAVE A BIG POTENTIAL OF EARNING MORE MONEY FROM YOUTUBE. NOW, MY CURRENT REVENUE IS SAR24.89 RIYALS ONLY. BECAUSE, I AM NOT USING PROPELLER ADS. I AM JUST USING YOUTUBE ADSENSE. I WANT TO JUST KNOW ONE THING THAT HOW TO USE PROPELLERADS, HOW DO I ENABLE IT AND EARN MORE MONEY AND HOW DO I VERIFY MY DOMAIN (YOUTUBE DOMAIN). I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PASTE CODES ETC. COULD YOU PLEASE HELP ME STEP BY STEP? I WOULD THANK YOU A LOT IF YOU HELP ME IN THIS SITUATION.
Regards,
deepak raj
Servando Silva says
You don’t have a domain on Youtube and I don’t think you can use any of the networks listed here.
For Youtube you have to make contracts with other networks but I’m not really familiar with it as I don’t have any Youtube channel.
stephen says
HELLO, I WANT TO KNOW WHICH POPUNDER CODE DID YOU USE ON YOUR WEBSITE TO GET THIS INCOME. WAS IT THE STANDARD POPUNDER CODE OR THE ANTI-BLOCKING CODE? ALSO DID YOU USE IT ON WORDPRESS? IF SO, DID YOU MAKE USE OF THEIR OFFICIAL PLUGIN OR YOU JUST COPIED THE CODE TO YOUR SITE RIGHT AFTER THE area
Servando Silva says
When I wrote this case study things were a bit different.
They didn’t have an anti-blocking code yet, and the plugin was released a bit later so I put it manually in my website’s code.
I’d use the anti-blocking code since it helps increase revenue a bit more.
Yes, it was a WordPress website though.
mazharoddin says
Hi Servando Silva,
Thanks for the great article and information, I am excited to start viral website after seeing this post.
I have good experience in website creation etc, but I would like know how many minimum views we may need to get what we invested, particularly for countries like India, you already mentioned that payouts are low for India, but just wanted to know if it’s going to workout if we put more in Ads etc. Please share your thoughts. Thanks.
Servando Silva says
I will publish a new article about this in December as it has become very difficult with Adsense lately.
Payouts in India are low but so ad prices. There’s no particular views and it all depends on your virality of the articles so it’s kind of hard to give a fixed number for it.
mazharoddin says
Sure, thanks for the reply, yeah even I realized making money with adsense is becoming tough lately.
Hemant Chaudhary says
thanks for this awesome article but i think it is very hard to get approve for banner ads on it
Sam says
your propeller ads cpm is more than 4. where i getting avg 0.41 cpm. why there is big difference?
Servando Silva says
It depends on the country, type of traffic (desktop vs. mobile, OS, browser, etc.) and overall performance.
Haha Loud says
I just got my page unpublished after facebook approved one of my ads. now i’m beginning to think maybe it was because of the propellarads pop up that caused it. so sad I didn’t know about this earlier.
thanks for writing this article now i’ll find a way to remove propeller ads from articles I advertise on facebook.
Servando Silva says
Definitely.
For a post you want to promote on FB Ads just keep the Adsense banners as mentioned in this guide.
kenny d says
Hi, please can i use both google adsense and propeller ads on the same webste?. Will i be banned if i use both? Thank you.
Ronald Segura says
Hi servando,
Like always, this one was a great article. just have one question, does google adsense accept propeller ads along with their ads on a website?
Servando Silva says
That’s why I mentioned you can separate the ads with different URLs. Better safe than sorry.
abdullah ratra says
hi dear,
i have a site that have minimum traffic of 15000(monthly) but the fact is that i have pakistani people traffic.is there any difference of rate on pakistani traffic?and is there any restrictions that how much your domain will be old so will give you monitization?
Servando Silva says
Yes. Almost nobody wants Pakistan traffic so the rates are going to be much lower than Tier 2 or tier 1 countries.
No restrictions about the domain 🙂
olasoji says
Nice bro having been trying to reach you but you don’t accept me am also using propelller but i earned roughly 10$ perday sometimes 17$ per day please need help in how to increase my earning please bro…
Servando Silva says
Hey. Best way to reach me is here. Your earnings are completely proportional to the number of visits. How many visits per day are you getting and from which country?
vowner says
hey, I can’t see the comment box for new comments so I’ma piggy back on this thread if that’s alright with you.
I have been following several viral sites lately because I just started one a few months ago.
And there’s a trend/strategy going on that I just noticed just recently. There seems to be a network of viral sites and viral facebook pages that are publishing there contents on one Main “website”
You’ll see what I mean with the samples below (I have to ut spaces in between in case you don’t accept links on comments):
missmeena . everlastinggalleriesgalore . net
viralwebs80 . everlastinggalleriesgalore . net
hgrindthisofficial . everlastinggalleriesgalore . net
adnankhan5070 . everlastinggalleriesgalore .net
So basically “EVERLASTINGGALLERIESGALORE . NET” is the main website. Then the subdomains are a network of viral websites hosted in it. I can confirm that these subdomains are owned by different people.
So, this subdomains would post the articles hosted on everlastinggalleriesgalore on their own social media pages.
How does EVERLASTINGGALLERIESGALORE . NET making money out of this. There seems to be no form of advertising on their site. And what’s in it for those websites/subdomains that are part of the network?
Servando Silva says
Well, there are many networks where you can build a site on a subdomain (mylikes is one for example) and you earn based in the impressions and because they have a lot more traffic by joining forces they can get fixed CPMs or higher rates per 1,000 visits.
olasoji says
Thats the point the impression that counts is not much like 6k impression and giving me 3$ sometimes 5$ perday but the countries isvaries bro need your help on how to increase my traffic and get the good countries bro
sarahk says
Very good article.I try Propellerads but for my sites work better tribaladnetwork.com.This ad network combinate CPC/CPA/PopAds and maximise my earnings.
Servando Silva says
Tribal is another very good network. I agree.
olasoji says
bro can we talk pravitely need to ask some questions pls?
Servando Silva says
Sorry but I don’t give personal coaching.
Peter Vo says
Hi mate,
Love your blog and thanks for sharIng!
Just had a quick question regarding your propeller implementation – are you setting the onclick popunder to show 1 pop per session only? Or more often?
Servando Silva says
Hello Peter. Yes, 1 session or 2 maximum.
brad says
Hey Servando,
i wanted to ask you something
A. when i create my ad, i choose ” Boost Your Posts ” or ” Send Traffic to website ” ?
B. I Do Get Charged with ” CPC ” or ” CPM ” or ” Post Engagement ”
i Really hope you can answer and thank you 🙂 .
Servando Silva says
You should split test to see what works better for your audience, but usually I prefer to create a campaign in the ads manager for clicks to website and get charged on a CPM basis.
jamal says
hi!i want it but i dont know how to increase my cpm plz help me bro!
Servando Silva says
Can you be more specific with your questions? It’s difficult to help with so little info.
manish says
hey servando,
i really need your help. I have been working on viral webistes for almost an year but have not been able to reap profits out of it. on my recent viral site viralkahaniyan.com, i am doing stuff similar to what you mentioned on your blog. but despite using 3-4 ad networks such as google adsense, adnow & revcontent, i’ve not been able to bring any profits. though my facebook ads ctr is as good as 20 percent and cost per click comes out to around $0.001 or Rs 0.08 even at this rate i don’t know what is happening. adsense rpm is $0.40-0.45, revcontent is at $0.11 and adnow is at $0.14 rpm. since it’s a hindi viral site and the fact the we promote our content in india, rpms are less.
can you pls suggest ways how i can get profits out of it.
Servando Silva says
India is a difficult country to make profitable from what I’ve seen from viral websites. The payouts are so low that even with good FB marketing it’s a difficult challenge. Have you tried similar countries around?
manish says
No, I haven’t tried any other country except india. Although i did try to promote some content in usa, but facebook per click rate was so high and i tried with as little as $2 dollar per post for a couple of posts but returns were not favorable for a vested interest.
Kajal Aggarwal says
very nice tips for earning and i using propellerads and good result. thank you very much.
Luan says
YESTERDAY I HAD 1688 IMPRESSIONS AND 68 CLICKS. You think I can get good money with the site? I mean, with this values?
But I earned just 0,00, and my eCPM is 0,00…
Servando Silva says
Impressions and clicks from where? From Facebook or on the ads or what? I can’t think of anything with so little data.
brad says
Hello
So i have this theory, where only with propeller ads, i buy traffic to my website, and since propeller ads doesn’t mind buying traffic or copy-past content, so i’ll buy traffic and copy content lol.
i think this method works.
thx
Servando Silva says
They don’t care as they’re not Google, but you’ll be safer from getting sued or getting a DMCA.
brad says
Thank you,
But would i get any profit from it ?
Servando Silva says
Being copied or not doesn’t make any difference i GUESS. aS ONG AS YOU’RE GOOD WITH marketing you’ll make money.
latif says
hi servando, Thanks for in depth information.my viral website went live just two days ago and I have 2000 facebook fanpage. So far I use facebook ads to send traffic to my website I was wondering dose facebook punish me if my website is Enabled in-site adsense overlays?
Servando Silva says
Do you have an example of that kind of ads? I’m not familiarised with them.
Latif says
I mean this type of ads google adsense Page-level ads, Anchor and Vignette. Dose facebook like these types of ads when you send paid traffic? It is only for mobile.
Servando Silva says
I don’t think they care as long as it’s not an interstitial or pop up ad.
Ishan dewan says
while running fb ads which is better to have a broad audience or narrow specific when sole target is to get likes on the page.
Servando Silva says
It depends on what you want to achieve. in this case for viral traffic you don’t need much targeting (many people like to see funny pictures and interesting stories on Facebook), but if you want to go for a niche in specific then a narrow targeting would be better.
Ishan dewan says
i am working on a facts based website and trying to develop fb page for it, so what should be the approach
Servando Silva says
Define it yourself. If you don’t know your audience you won’t be able to be successful.
Ask yourself, is a facts based website interesting for everyone? or just for a niche?
Ishan dewan says
I AM TARGETING AGE GROUP OF 15-24 SCHOOL AND COLLEGE GOING STUDENTS. JUST NEEDED TO MAKE SURE I AM DOING IT RIGHT OR MISSING SOMETHING. ANY TIP FROM YOUR SIDE.
Servando Silva says
The best way is to launch a general campaign and analyze the reports. There you will see the best ages, genders and ad placements without trying to guess what works for you.
Ishan dewan says
Thanks Servando for your replies and support. Will surely update you ..how things move 🙂
Ishan dewan says
Which whould be better to have gallery posts with 5 or 10 pages or just blog post. Is it ture that gallery posts affects the seo of the website
Servando Silva says
Many people use galleries with several pages to increase the impressions of the ads, so it’s something I recommend split testing. Nobody cares about SEO for this strategy in particular as Google won’t be your main traffic source.
Elaine says
Hi Servando,
Thank you so much for the great article! I have one question regarding the content on the website. I know that with adsense copy-paste articles are not allowed, but what about this option? Is it ok if i copy and paste articles and than add the source at the bottom of the article?
Thank you!
Servando Silva says
I don’t think PropellerAds cares about that, but I personally never do that. I rewrite them instead of being lazy.
Pedro leal says
Hello,
first of all nice to meet you 🙂
your posts seem very solid. congrats for the work you’ve been developing so far 🙂
I have a question: do you think this model can apply to webradio websites (that have a store in it and also its own daily posts)?
Servando Silva says
I’m not sure, but I think monetizing your customers with the store would be a lot better in that case.
golfy says
Hello Servando
i’m getting a very low CPM on propellerads cuz my traffic are from random countries.
can you please tell me which coountries that have high cpm ?
thx you
Servando Silva says
Tier 1 countries like USA, UK, AU and CA generally have good rates and tier 3 countries like India, Vietnam, Egypt (just to say a few examples) have lower rates.
But if you want to know which countries are performing better at this time, as your PropellerAds manager as they can see the performance each month and get the stats.
John says
Hi,
servando, I have a Facebook page with around 100k likes. I also have website created for it. My problem is that I have no idea where to get good WRITERS at good rates. I want writers that could write in a native level fluency.
ALSO how much on average visits does AN article get get for a page with 100k fans?
Servando Silva says
You can start hiring some writers in forums, upwork, odesk, etc.
As for the traffic, there is no average as it depends on your fan page activity.
Msaidizi says
hey Servando
Great post, I just wanted to add a mini tutorial that solves the duplicate content, facebook and propeller ads issue.
I know this post is 6 months old but to those who find this via google search and are still interested in trying this is a solution. (I have stripped down some of the urls since it wont let me post, just add the http://)
The solution is using Accelerated mobile pages.
For those who don’t know amp. (www.ampproject.org/) it is a project google has been pushing for mobile serps and user experience. It is essentially a strip down version of your post or page to be served to mobile devices without the additional codes and scripts.
Here are the two pages if you would like to see them served differently…
main page: (msaidizi.com/breaking-news-in-kenya/)
amp page: (msaidizi.com/breaking-news-in-kenya/amp/)
This amp page solves 2 major problems, first it solves the google duplicate content problem since google does not see the amp page as duplicate content.
second because the amp page is stripped down it will not work with propellerads tags which solves your facebook ads problem.
To those that have not implemented amp on your sites, you need to look at it now because it is the future of mobile page rankings for google serps.
We do not use adsense for our ads so there are no ads on our amp pages but we use this plugin to render the amp pages (wordpress.org/plugins/amp/)
see here on how to implement adsense on your amp pages
(wordpress.org/support/topic/google-ads-dont-show-up-on-amp-pages-2?replies=27)
or you can use this plugin that lets you add adsense code directly without tinkering with the code.
(wordpress.org/plugins/accelerated-mobile-pages/)
Anyway good luck and happy money making. If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment here and I will answer them best that I can.
Servando Silva says
Great share mate. I’ve used Google AMP but never in this way. Kudos!
Aldhy says
thanks for you share. but i don’t understand facebook ads.. do you have alternative to it..
Servando Silva says
No. I don’t. If you don’t understand them it’s time to learn something new.
Doctor Slim says
Hello Servando,your article is really awesome you are good man 🙂
I have question please explain me exactly how can i work and doesn’t get ban or something like this.
1. i want create facebook page and i already have blog, i’m using propellerads popunder, but my visitors saying that after they visit to my website then there appears some virus ads (from propeller) and they are worrying about this, if i start campaign with website clicks and fans of my page first time, second time and many times will show some virus ads, why they will continue using my facebook page? also if i don’t have adsense and i want create campaign to my website where i have propellerads popunder code does facebook accept it ?
thank you.
Doctor Slim says
Also when i tried start facebook website click campaign suggested bid was very high 3-4 USD and if for 1 click i would pay 3-4 USD how can i get profit ?
Servando Silva says
Use the automatic bid and optimize your ads for high CTR and your clicks will cost cents.
Servando Silva says
Antivirus ads are very famous in many networks so they’ll see them a lot.
I actually explained the answer to your question in the article in a detailed manner so please make sure you read it first. FB won’t allow the popunder for your FB campaign and I explained why and what I did to overcome this issue.
Ishan dewan says
signed up for propellerads which would be the best ad unit : Interstitial or Dialog Ads/Push Up. my website has max traffic from mobile
Servando Silva says
Try both and decide based on the stats. Both do very good with mobile traffic.
Adyna says
Great informations.Also i use http://tribaladnetwork.com for CPC ads.I get paid for clicks and conversions.I earn around $0,30 per click for USA traffic.
Richard Hix says
I have a dog page with 28K followers and growing at the rate of about 500 – 600 new people daily with 5 to 6 postings daily. It’s growing 100% from postings and then inviting the likes to follow the page using FB’s invite on their likes. My weekly reach now is over 400K weekly from the FB organic only. I have recently started a blog in the form of a news/magazine format. I post to the blog site 3 to 5 times daily and then share it to FB to draw people to the site. My problem is that even when I get them to the blog site I can’t seem to get better than a .5% click ratio on the Adsense ad’s.
My question is could this be due to the niche or ?? Any advice is appriciated.
Servando Silva says
It’s probably your adsense ads and the way you format your posts. Try different designs, ad sizes, colors, etc.
Richard Hix says
In addition to Adsense would you recommend using something like content.com or is there something better for low traffic?
Servando Silva says
I recommend testing 2 networks at a time and find the best combination for your website.
uthman saheed says
Thanks for this epic post. I will try all the steps highlighted here. You are so wonderful guy.
Hammersmith says
Hello, thanks for sharing the tips.
I have been sending traffic for the past 2 weeks and find out that Propeller shaves traffic heavily. I am sending approximately 20K every day and use three different tracking including GA. While my own stats show discrepancies, it is pretty small, i.e tracking 1: 1000, tracking 2: 900 and tracking 3: 1100. But stats shown on Propeller is shocking. They shave at least half of it. Every time I asked , they always gave me vague answers and blame the tracking script. While that may be the case, surely 50% shaving is just ridiculous. I notice from your reports your daily traffic was 10K+. Was this figure match reasonably with your own tracking stats ( I assume you track your traffic). I am their Direct link now. Cheers.
Servando Silva says
They count unique impressions so if somebody clicks 3 times in 12 or 24 hours (don’t remember) it will only count as one if I’m correct.
That might explain it. I think i normally see a 20-30% discrepancy between unique users and the impressions shown from the ad networks.
Tye Blake says
Hey again,
I have tested PopAds and RevenueHits and they have worked best for me for PopUnders.
Now the main question is, I have 3 spots on my website. Even if I do not put any ads on there, it is still going to take up blank space block because that’s the web layout so I am thinking must as well put something on there.
What do you think is the best CPM adsense alternative network for Banner ads other than ezoic?
RevenueHits doesn’t perform well because they are a CPA network. Propellerads don’t seem to be accepting new banner ads since they told me their inventory are filled.
Sidenote: My daily web traffic is about 5k+.
Thanks
SS says
what % of incoming fb traffic is mobile? I mean when a person likes a page and his friend see it
Servando Silva says
More than 50% of the FB organic traffic is now mobile, but when you run ads you can decide whether you want mobile traffic or desktop.
Paulo says
Hi Servando,
Let me tell you that your post really inspired me to take action.
I have started a viral blog in a huge niche for the Portuguese speaking audience.
So mainly Brazil and Portugal , i have replicated the ads position from a top viral site getting 3.5% CTR what i think is nice. But yesterday i was starting scalling up post that reached more then 4k likes, 100 shares and 100 comments… Nt badto start i think. But onadsense it was paying only 2 cents CPC do you think its because i only targeted mobile news feeds? Because at 2 cents it may not get profitable 🙁
Do you think maybe taboola be better in terms of payrate.
Paulo
Servando Silva says
Nice! Good to know you’re taking action fast!
Yes, the CTR is fine. You can try Taboola and Outbrain. In fact, many websites use both Taboola and Adsense at the same time to make more money from their traffic.
Marco Cuervo says
Hola Fernando, pude ver que hablas español tambien. Tengo un sitio web con un promedio de 1.000 visitas por dia, la gran mayoria viene de Facebook, donde tengo actualmente mas de 30.000 seguidores con un alcance de 14 millones de personas en la semana. Pasa que hice una pequeña prueba con AdFly en este caso y no me genero ganancia alguna, y ahora que lei tu articulo voy a hacerlo con FacebookAds. Pero lo que queria preguntarte es: Has utilizado alguna vez sistemas como los de AdFly o LinkBucks para anunciar tus sitios web? Al utilizar estos sistemas funcionan los ads de PropellerAds y AdSense?
De verdad aprecio mucho tu interes por querer ayudar a las personas con tu experiencia y eso lo agradezco muchisimo! Saludos
Servando Silva says
Adfly y linkbucks son de las peores empresas para monetizar webs. Los anuncios no son directamente de ellos, por lo que los pagos son más bajos y tienen menor cobertura. Yo no los usaría.
Saludos.
Angel says
Hola Servando!
Crees que esta estrategia sirve para paises tier 2/ tier 3 como España y Latam o esto solo lo recomiendas hacer con tier1?
Un saludo crack!
Servando Silva says
Si sirve, aunque hay siempre algunos países que funciona mejor que otros depende del CPM que te paguen las redes y e costo en FB. En países latinos lo hice un buen tiempo también.
chari rart says
hey servando
does this work with twitter too ?
Servando Silva says
I haven’t heard of anybody making this work in Twitter mostly because the nature of the traffic source doesn’t allow things to go viral as easily as FB and twitter ads are more expensive.
Jacko says
I used my mastercard in my own name. I just heard from them earlier today. They have banned me permanently for no reason. They asked me for ID which I gave them. Also I told them I can send them a picture of my debit card too, to prove I have it with me physically. But even after sending them everything, they simply sent me a cycled response like the first time, virtually accussing me of fraud and have banned me permanently. I am 100% sure I didn’t break any rules, as I only created a campaign to promote my Facebook page only. No website traffic. The page is still there but they have banned my account from any payments and ads.
It is also worth mentioning here they did the exact same thing my father as well, 2 years ago (banned after creating page like campaign). I’m pretty sure they are simply banning advertisers from my country 🙁
shkp says
Where are you from ?
Because it happend with me too .
Pech Chamnan says
Hello Servando Silva,
I’m with a cpm site, and my account manager told me that I can buy traffic for pop up ads.
So can you share me some traffic source to buy traffic for pop ads?
Thank You.
Servando Silva says
Yes. Have a look at this alternatives. Many of them are pop networks or offer pop traffic as well.
Jacko says
Just one more question. Can you show me some good examples of facebook page like ad campaign? As I don’t know if people will like my page if I just tell whats it about like its just a viral content page and not focusing on any specific topic or something.
I would really (really!) appreciate if you could give me some ideas about this. Thank you for your time.
Servando Silva says
Have a look at some of the biggest viral websites (just google search them) for inspiration. You’ll get some great ideas for ads, posts, etc.
Jacko says
Oh well. I just launched my first 2 campaigns (same country, one targetting mobile and desktop newsfeed, the other desktop sidebar), and it was approved. I was checking around to create campaigns for other countries and after good 2 hours Facebook sends me they have banned my payment account due to “suspecious activity”. They have asked me to fill a form and send them my government supplied id. I did it asap and hoping to hear back from them.
These are the perks of being from “not-so-trusted-countries”. Sad but true how different people are treated based on their nationality 🙁
Servando Silva says
Yes. They normally ask for your ID and documents once you start spending money, no matter which country you are. Which payment methods are you using?
Jacko says
Hello.
I hope you’re doing good. I’ve been reading about this whole FB ads thing on your site for quite some time now but I am confused. Could you please briefly answer my questions?
1). Do I promote my Facebook page for likes or do I promote a post on my page?
2). When promoting a page, do I enter page name in title or what? When the users click the ad, will they be taken to Facebook page or some specific post on my page?
3). I see that sharing external links gets 10 times less likes, shares etc., on the same page everytime. How does that affect us? As our goal is to get as many clicks to our site as possible.
Thanks a lot for your time. I just found your blog a few days ago and really love your content.
Servando Silva says
Hello Jacko.
Let me help you with your questions 🙂
1. You do both. First you need page likes and then when your audience grows to 5-10k likes you start promoting posts to your page.
2. Have a look at Facebook’s guidelines so you understand what you need to promote a page. They’ll ask you for a link and then a title and a description. They will be taken to your website when you promote your posts, and they will be taken to your Facebook Fan Page when you promote for likes.
3. Yes, external links always have lower reach and it’s been like that for years. That’s Facebook’s way to keep their visitors inside Facebook, but it doesn’t mean you can’t drive large quantities of traffic out of Facebook too.
Jacko says
Hello.
Thank you for your reply. What kind of cost per like can I expect targetting US, Canada, UK, AU, NZ etc.? I mean for the viral niche with decent ctr. Also, how much CPC in the same case when promoting website through Facebook page? Do I use post boost or just share links and get clicks organically?
Servando Silva says
That totally depends on your ads and CTR. A decent CTR would be above 4%. Sometimes it can go above 10% too.
As for the CPC, is changes from country to country.
You have to pay for both likes and promoted posts. Just sharing posts and getting clicks organically isn’t going to cut it in 2016.
mike says
Hi Servando-
Your information here is awesome! Thanks so much for putting this site together.
I have a viral strange stories site and Facebook page I’ve been putting together.
Was getting 4-5 cent likes and 1 cent visitors to site, can optimize more there but good for a start. Some Facebook posts are getting over 10% ctr.
On the Adsense side getting a 25-30 cpc, but ctr is horrible at 0.5%. It was showing improvement since starting the site and daily page rpm was up to $5, but then around May 26 or so there was a dramatic drop, with daily rpm around $1. I made only very small changes to the site at that point.
Wondering if there was a change in Google at that time, or I just need to work on my site? I heard Adsense should be optimized once about 5,000 to 7,500 page views have been registered. I’m at that level now.
Should I just try different themes and ad colors/styles/placements, or do I need a lot more traffic, or is there something else I’m missing?
Going to add propellerads into the mix. My goal is a total page rpm of $15. is that possible?
Thanks so much for this site, and any advice,
Mike
Servando Silva says
Hello.
That RPM is possible but will also depend on your traffic and country, device, etc.
You already have traffic, what you need to do is test different ad sizes, locations, colors, etc. until you find the best combination.
Also, I used to change the theme design every 2-3 months to avoid banner blindness and recover my CTR every once in a while.
Chantal says
Hi there…you briefly mention how to target countries but how do you target interests in your FB ads….do you base interests on the topic of the article?
Also, how do you decide which topics to write about?
Servando Silva says
Hello.
I don’t target interests for viral news.
Everybody can be interested in viral news, so it’s just a matter of appealing their curiosity and feelings to make them click your ads.
If it’s for a niche site, then of course, I’ll select interests to make it work.
I decide how to write the news based on what I see that’s working with other viral news sites. After writing 30-50 articles you’ll understand what works and what gets more traffic for your website and you’ll understand the key behind the images, titles, and the importance of copywriting to get more visitors.
smai says
Also, have you seen those ads on sites where you have to scroll through it to continue reading the page? Do you know which ad network that is? Here’s an example: m.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriation/comments/449ibm/keep_scrolling_to_continue_ads
Servando Silva says
I think those are customised templates for the website. Not exactly a Network but I’m not sure.
smai says
Hi Servando,
I love this blog and am absorbing and learning so much!
A few questions for you:
1. You said that adsense doesn’t like it when you copy/paste articles from other sources, but you also said that we should post one article without propellerads and just google adsense to run fb adverts with and then have a duplicate post with propellerads to post on your page. Does this mean I should have two separate domains, a .com and a duplicate .net both running the exact same articles, just one with propellerads and one without? Will adsense shut me down for having two sites with duplicate articles? Will it make it seem like i’m ripping off another site’s articles even though they’re both my sites?
2. Since adsense pays so little for mobile traffic, is it possible to have adsense on the desktop version of your site and redo your mobile version with different ad networks that pay more for mobile traffic?
3. Can you dumb down the idea of ‘retargeting’ for me? I’m a little confused about how to do it 🙂
4. tattylandz.com/014d5c3c487a35 is a great viral site, when you pull up this link on your phone, there is a big box that says, ‘You might also like:’ with a list of three articles people can click on, it is a paid distribution and I was wondering if you knew which ad network that is from. I see it used by a lot of viral sites and am thinking it may be valuable if so many people are using it.
Servando Silva says
Hello Smai.
1. It can be 2 domains or the same domain with different URLs for each one. You can make a few changes on each article if you want to play it safe.
2. Well, if you install a plugin that auto redirects to a mobile version of your website you could do it, but who told you Adsense pays so little for mobile traffic? it’s not true.
3. Retargeting allows you to target your ads to people that already visited your website. That’s pretty much it.
4. It looks like they’re using mylikes but I’m not sure.
smai says
Servando,
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
To be a little more specific with the first question, so I can have one domain with duplicate posts (with a few changes on each article just to play it safe) and pick and choose which articles on the same domain to activate the propeller ads on? Is that possible?
I thought that once you put propeller ads on your site that it would do the popunders whenever anyone visited your site, no matter the page. Do popunders appear when people click on anything and everything on the website?
Also, do you have an example of a site that uses propeller ads? Could you add it to stream-seo so that I can see how it works?
Servando Silva says
I don’t know if having the code enabled or disabled is possible for each page, but sounds like it’s possible if you can add the code on each page separately.
Normally, you just put it in your header and it works sitewide, so you’ll need to find a way to do it just for specific pages.
Just look for propeller ads examples on Google and you’ll find many pages.
Andrés Zamora says
Hello Servando
I have a website with 1 week old http://www.viralvideosportal.com and facebook fan page, now I am having around 100 daily visitors from Facebook, I dont use Facebook Ads yet. Only organic traffic from my fan page, everything is in autopilot. Is this work for me to make 100$ daily with facebook ads, all the videos posted are viral from youtube.
Any advise please, I am almost new in this field.
Thanks and Regards
Servando Silva says
Hello.
I’m not sure I understood your question.
You have a page and around 100 organic visits per day. That’s cool. But asking for “any advice” is like shooting at a wall and waiting for something to stick.
Do you have any specific question I could help you with?
Tye Blake says
Hey Servando,
I’m currently using Adsense for the Banner, RevenueHits and PopAds for popunder and make roughly $300/mths, do you think it’s a good idea to use propellerads for more banner too? and their popunder? Or do you think it’s too much ads and im overdoing it?
In term of web traffic, most of them are organic and I’m gaining more each day. However, I want to make use of my traffic.
I’m thinking since adsense is the best ad network around, I should just stay with that?
Regards,
Blake
Servando Silva says
It’s going to be too much man.
If you have Adsense banners I’d stick with just one more network (wether that is Propeller, PopAds or Revenuehits) maximum instead of sticking 4 networks at the same time.
Mike Tromba says
Hey Servando,
I really enjoyed the article and I have learned so much from your writing. I am looking for a bit of advice if you would be able to respond. Also, I would be more than happy to use your affiliate link for my propeller ads account.
Recently I taught myself html and css (3 weeks ago) and I developed a website (iogames.space) which I though was fit to be hosted online and shown to the world. It has been up for 2 weeks and is already at the point where it is getting 12k+ page views a day… every single day it is increasing by 1000-3000 page views and I feel it has excellent potential to go viral just based on the nature of the extremely viral webgames niche that I am targeting.
I am writing to you because I am seeking some guidance. The steps toward actually making money from the website just seem so murky and unclear. There are so many different ad networks and different routes to take that make it really hard to choose. What is the most logical first step towards monetizing my site? (without adsense because I was banned when I was a little kid for clicking my ads… I was an immoral idiot) Another one of the dilemmas I am having is the fact that my age (17) is holding me back quite a bit. I don’t think that I can get paid by any ad network at 17 years old because I cannot technically enter into any contracts until I am 18. I am assuming that I will be forced to work under my parent’s name in order to get paid until I turn 18. Have you ever had to deal with something like this? I want to take advantage of the explosive trend now, and I feel like I would be leaving a lot on the table if I wait until my 18th birthday next march.
Also, would you recommend I setup propeller ads asap, or would it be smarter to wait until my website grows to a viral level in order to assure that I do not fend off any potential repeat visitors with the intrusive ads?
Thanks so much!
Mike
Servando Silva says
Hello Mike.
Glad to hear your story. Well, if you were banned from Adsense many years ago, I’d give it a try to create a new account and apply for it.
However, yes, there are a lot of networks and it’s up to you to test them and see which one works better for your site. PropellerAds works quite well for gaming sites. Also, many networks can pay via paypal, and you don’t need to be over 18 years old for that I think. Revenuehits is one example but you can find more alternatives in my blog.
You can start testing propeller and see how it goes. They won’t pay you until you put your bank account but i don’t think you need to be over 18 if you add your father’s bank account or lend it from a friend who’s past 18 y/o.
Yoan says
Hi Servando,
I’m french, so sorry in advance for my mistakes ! I’m quite impressed by your work and by your advices. This is the only site I’ve found that actually provides useful tips and advices on the arbitrage method. I would really like to have your opinion on a site, which is one of my competitors in France : extase-y(dot)fr
This website is a general viral news site that uses the arbitrage advertising method. The owner has created a Facebook page in October 2015, which has 425,000 likes today (super fast growth). However, all articles on the site are copied and pasted from other viral sources. So, the owner has banned the Google robot to visit his site (with robots.txt). I saw through SimilarWeb that the site is buying traffic with Taboola (80%) and Google Display Network (20%).
Thus, my questions are the following :
1. Taboola requires 500,000 page views per month. This site could therefore not directly start buying traffic with Taboola AND displaying ads with Taboola, am I right?
2. How is it possible that this site does not get banned by Google for duplicate content ? He is buying traffic using the Google Display Network but it is strictly forbidden by Google to copy content. Or maybe, is it just forbidden to copy-paste content only with Google Adsense (to earn money) but not with Google Display Network (to buy traffic) ? There is something I do not understand.
3. Assuming that at first he did not buy traffic from Taboola (because of the number of required page views), how do you think he started ? Only by buying trafic from Google Display Network ?
4. In your opinion, is it possible to have 425,000 likes in 7 months just by buying traffic from Taboola/Google Display Network, and by displaying a Facebook like box on its website ? Or was he necessarily using Facebook ads as well ?
I really do not understand how he was able to grow so fast in such a short time, while copying all the articles. Thanks in advance for your answer!
Servando Silva says
Hello Yoan. Your English is quite good 🙂
1. Maybe he’s spliting his traffic with another site OR faking more views on order to get approved. At the beginning it wouldn’t be possible but if his site has grown fast then it’s entirely possible.
2. Well, if he’s blocking google bots and not using google tools like google analytics and webmaster tools he can stay under the radar for a long time. Also, i guess he has several Adsense accounts in case one goes down.
3. I think he started with Facebook Ads as most people do. Also, there are other content discovery networks like Taboola with lower requirements and entry level.
4. He probably used a lot of Facebook Ads as well. But yes, it’s very possible when a page goes viral. 425,000 likes isn’t that much actually. I had more than 20 million likes after a few months, so half a million isn’t impossible at all, although this days is a lot harder so it’s a good number.
So, after all, I don’t think it’s something especial or I don’t think 7 months for growing to half a million fans is super difficult. Also, if you have a budget you can do that in 1 or 2 months. And for the part where he copies all the articles… well… the internet industry is very shady and there are a lot of people doing big numbers without following any rules. Google isn’t almighty when you do paid traffic. You have to follow their guidelines and rules when doing SEO, but paid traffic is a different story.
Servando Silva says
Which countries are you targeting?
juanxpxp says
Usa, Australia , New Zealand Canada
Servando Silva says
Yeah, it’s a very low CPC for those countries. Try including keywords with high CPC (check Adwords keyword tool) in your articles to increase it a little.
Himadri says
Servando, really an awesome article. I really loved the idea of Facebook Ads. Now a days, this is really a good option to advertise using Facebook ads. To get some target visitors and real customers there are no exception of Facebook ads. I am also promoting my Facebook page on Facebook ads and getting good results. Thanks for the nice information. I read the whole article with a great pleasure.
Vasu says
Hi Servando,
Can you let me know on how well a FB Page/Website on Photography can do. Like, with numerous content already available in Internet is Photography niche good to start now..
Thank you!
Servando Silva says
I have no experience in that niche, so I can’t really talk about it.
Dreamer says
Hello,
the way i see it it’s better to get traffic organicly ( i mean through the page not promoting
websites ) because this way you’ll have permanent free traffic through your ” ACTIVE page ” not payed traffic.
How can i have cheap Fanpage likes to my facebook page as low as 0.01$ per page like ?
Dreamer says
Please tell me am i right ?
Sam says
Is it better to boost individual posts on Facebook or to promote your fanpage? I’ve tried both and promoting my fanpage was very expensive for the amount of likes I received. Is this normal?
Servando Silva says
It’s good to do both.
If your fans are expensive it’s because your ads aren’t good enough or your targeting is bad.
Tye Blake says
Hey,
I have a somewhat viral site with 4-5k views daily, I’m using revenue hits and Ezoic and get about $6 total. Also my viewers are mainly from Canada and USA. My CPM on revenue hits is usually $1.50. Do you think Adsense will give better results? Just want to know because Adsense doesn’t approved me and I feel that I’m missing out my chance to maximise my earning potential.
Servando Silva says
Yes. Adsense or PropellerAds will probably give you better results.
Jteuh baiz says
Hey!
Great article.
What is the name of your fb viral page?
I am too starting an entertainment/viral website but cannot get adsense to approve my website! Do you know if traffic matters to get approved?
Servando Silva says
I don’t like revealing it for security and competition reasons 🙂
You can start another website and get your adsense approved there, and after that you can use Adsense in any website.
Dreamer says
Hello,
What is the average cpc in Adsense with these viral sites, i mean random posts with random keywords it could be as low as 0.01$ per click right ?
Thank you
Servando Silva says
Yes. It depends on the country. I have seen anything around 0.05 and up to 0.3 depending on the country and the ads that were served in that moment.
Dreamer says
Thank you, let’s say the countries are developed like US and Australia
what about the CPM ?
Servando Silva says
CPM for those countries can be anything from $1 to $50 CPM depending on your traffic.
Pech Chamnan says
Hello,
A few days ago Facebook unpublished my page, I don’t know why? but maybe I post my blog that used popup and pop under ads.
So can you tell me can I use mobile push up and interstitial instead of pop ads or not? (90% of my traffics are from mobile)
Thank you.
Servando Silva says
Facebook doesn’t do that.
Unless you are paying for ads, they won’t disable your pages just for the ads you’re showing in your page (except for adult or ilegal content).
Rajnikant says
Awesome 🙂 – Quick question: how big a page should be so we can use start with Propellerads?
I mean, minimum page likes?
Servando Silva says
I normally wait until 10,000 fans before I start monetizing the page and sending traffic to a website.
Rajnikant says
awesome post – I have a FB page with 11K likes, in friends niche, mostly women..
I get 80 – 120 fans each day organically, and my posts get 500+ comments, 100+ shares, and 30+ comments..
They do really love the posts..
once I have over 100K likes, I can then create my website and hire a writer to write interesting articles on womens’ category and some related to page, and then can boost the website with FB organic likes..
My question is: what is the CPM rates in pakistan for propellerads? How many thousand impressions I’d need to make $40 a day minimum!
Thank you once again for awesome detailed post.
Servando Silva says
You will have to test it and see for yourself. There’s no specific CPM per country as it depends a lot on your audience.
You already have 11k likes so you can do a test and see what your average CPM would look like.
Also, keep in mind Pakistan isn’t a good country for this. Traffic is cheap, but the monetization will be cheap too.
Rajnikant says
If possible – Can you suggest me some countries that have good rates? That are tested by you..
Servando Silva says
USA, UK, ZA, DE, PL, NL and a few others have great rates. You can ask that to your manager too.
itachi says
I have a youtune channel I create viral content I tried to boost one of my videos on my new facebook page but the resualts were terrible
The question is does facebook and youtube a good mix or I just don’t waste time and money for nothing ?
Servando Silva says
Unless your video is really, it’s just a waste of money. It all depends on your video and your ads, but I’d rather send them to a website with my video embedded instead.
Matt says
Servando, thanks for answering my previous question. Looking at your Propeller Ad stat above, they pay you based on impression? The stat show your have 0 ad click. Please Enlighten me, Thanks
Servando Silva says
It depends on the type of ads you’re using. If you use banners, you’ll see clicks. if you use pops, you just see impressions. That’s why my reports only show impressions as pops open a landing page in a new window and thus no clicks are recorded.
Dreamer says
Hello Servando,
i think that i’m gonna start with Facebook ad campaign for page likes only …
what do you think it’s better from these options to get high CTR and low CP Like and of course tons LIKES 😀 :
A. to set everything broad without ANY targeting only for 3 countries or more.
B. set little targeting like : age between 35-13 and the language … etc.
and do you think that 400$ can get me 15k likes in my page ?
Thank you 😀
Servando Silva says
Hello.
A. Never mix countries in each campaign. use a campaign for each country you want to test. You can set everything broad and have super high CTR images or you can also go targeted and have great engagement too. Both methods work but for viral stories you don’t need to be super targeted.
B. Run broad on age and genders and after a few days analyze your Facebook stats and see what works better and launch a campaign with those settings.
C. That’s up to you. It’s not impossible but I can guarantee it.
Afrivibes says
Thanks
1. you made mention of not just click on the ‘post post button’ of Facebook but to Boston posts with website clicks, please how do I do this because I want to be charged only when when someone comes to my website.
2. If I bost a post through my Facebook fan page and I end getting more than I use to get before, may be I bosted the ads/post with $200 and I get a lot of traffic, does it In any way affect google policy or will it make them disable my account?
3. Am approved to Mgid adsense and another ads network but am scared of placing their ads on my website because I heard it’s against google policy
Please help me. Thanks.
Servando Silva says
Hello.
1. You can create a click to website campaign in your Facebook Ads Manager.
2. As long as it’s real traffic and you follow Google’s policies it’s alright.
3. I explained how to avoid having problems with multiple networks in the article, actually.
kelechi mmeje says
Ok, thanks, what are the steps I will need to follow to bost my with only click on the website ?
Servando Silva says
Facebook and many blog have basic guides for that.
A quick Google search will give you the answer.
Diego Zapata says
Hi Servando.
Thanks for this outstanding post about making more money with with propellerads in viral sites, and all the stuff involved to improve the incomes using thins monetizing system.
Would you mind if the next time, i write my comments in spanish? I have a basic level of knowledge about english, then i feel a little uncomfortable writing this way.
I’m wondering something, and i will really appreciate if you can show your opinion or answer to that:
-I’m making FB ads just for testing, without any ad in my landing page, and i’m getting 0.0006 US$ per clic en FB Ads (for latinoamerica sites)… I wanna test Adsense, but i am concerned of getting banned just because the most powerful channel of traffic is the social media… And some hispanic webmasters are saying that Google bans the viral sites, for being not cost-effective for the advertisers. Have you heard about that, and do you think (in some way) that can be dangerous?
Regards,
Diego.
Servando Silva says
Your English is quite good, actually. 🙂
Adsense has been very picky the last 6 months. There’s always a risk of being banned with this methods and that’s the reason I don’t rely on Adsense alone anymore.
Errol says
Google’s Adsense policy says that a website should not include malware or contain pop-ups or pop-unders that interfere with the website’s navigation. So I take it since Propeller Ads’ pop under ads open in a new browser window behind the main browser window, Google will not classify their pop under ads as interfering with the website’s navigation?
Also, recently a few webmasters have reported that they are getting a warning via the Google Search Console for Deceptive Site / Social Engineering which is caused by Propeller Ads’ pop under ads. Visitors who try to visit these websites are getting a “Deceptive site ahead” warning in their Google Chrome web browser. Google is also deindexing pages from these websites because of this.
If you are currently using Propeller Ads’ pop under ads on your website(s) are you experiencing any of the problems I have mentioned above?
If you google the following “pop-under ads deceptive warning” you can get more information on what I am talking about.
Servando Silva says
For this strategy, I don’t really care if the pages are indexed at all or not. All the traffic comes from social networks and I’m not looking for SEO traffic or anything like that.
As for mixing Google Adsense and Propeller Ads, I’ve explained this in the article and for several comments below. You can always have 2 different pages (even different domains) so you don’t mix Adsense with pops but still make money from both.
Juan says
Servando, has tenido alguna infección en tu sitio con esa empresa? Es decir algún virus que que genere código malicioso y por ende google te penalizara.
Te cuento, yo lo utilice si no mal recuerdo hace unas semanas ataras justo después de leer este post, por eso me anime a revisar algunas reviews de otras personas, donde la mayoría también mencionaron que esta empresa inyecta virus a tu sitio y tal fue así, que mi sitio se infectara justamente a los 2 días de haber integrado esta empresa.
Antes de hechar la culpa a esta empresa, analice las posibles causas y todo apuntaba a ella. Lo que hizo fue desaparecerlo de google, como? Bueno, cada vez que entraba a mi sitio ya sea como invitado o por mi escritorio de wp, me salia un mensaje diciendo ALTO! este sitio quiere obtener tu información, (salia una pantalla roja), y como era mi primera vez , de ahí vi q había desaparecido de google y de ahí fui a mi WMT y me llego ese mensaje de advertencia.
Me tomo como 3 días volverlo a la normalidad, pero bueno ya esta todo arreglado, por eso te pregunto si has tenido problemas?
SAludos
Juan
Servando Silva says
Hola Juan.
No, en realidad la mayoría de los anuncios que hablan de virus, son simplemente eso, anuncios. No son virus reales pero tratan de hacer que descargues antivirus, etc. Aunque si he visto algún sitio o anunciante que se pasa de listo y quiere usar algún código malicioso (cosa que está prohibida en Propellerads pero aun así algunos se la juegan).
La estrategia se basa en tener miles de visitas directamente de redes sociales como Facebook por lo que no me interesa en lo absoluto lo que piense Google o no del sitio o si lo indexa, le sube/baja los rankings, etc.
Pero eso es algo que puedes hablar fácilmente con tu manager de Propeller, ya que incluso varios de los sitios más grandes del mundo usan esa ed de tráfico y en su mayoría es tráfico orgánico (sobre todo sitios de descargas, ver películas/series en linea, etc.
Lify says
Hii
how many likes do i need in my Fb page to make 30$ a day without sponsoring click websites ?
Thank you
Servando Silva says
Organically without paying for ads?
It depends on your audience and level of engagement with your articles.
To make $30 per day steady I would consider around 50,000 to 100,00 fans (depends on the engagement) to avoid paying for boosted posts, although I don’t really like that strategy as it’s very volatile and completely depends on the FB reach algorithm.
Life says
let’s say my page is very active and i post 10 articles a day not just one ?
how many life to make 30$ a day,
Servando Silva says
Doesn’t matter.
There’s a sweet point where you just won’t make more posting more, and your earnings will actually decrease if Facebook thinks you’re posting more than you should.
Ben says
Servando, you’re the man. You’ve answered so many questions for me 🙂
Servando Silva says
No problem, Ben 🙂
I’m happy to help.
Pech Chamnan says
Hi,
Can I use facebook group instead of facebook fan page and boost ads?
Thank.
Servando Silva says
No. If you use groups that’s considered as SPAM.
Also, you can’t use FB Ads with groups, just with Fan Pages.
Pech Chamnan says
Please guide me some tips with facebook ads! I don’t know which Country should we advertise to and which blog content should we post?
Please guide me!
Thank you
Kalyan says
Hi,
Do you think ” terms of conditions” , “privacy” and “dcma removal” are important in order to create a viral site… If so do we need lawyer ? I am very confused. Please advice me…
Thank You.
Servando Silva says
When you receive a DMCA what Google does is they remove your content from their search engine and you can lift the penalty if you delete said content. No need a lawyer unless you want to fight back and argue that the content was originally yours (which probably won’t be in this case).
Always link to the sources and give credit where it’s due.
kalyan says
Hi,
This is my site catbarks.com
Can you please check it out once.
Do i need to make any improvements?
How about the domain name?
what is you opinion on this site? can i continue with this?
Waiting for your opinion.That would be much helpful for me
Thank You.
Servando Silva says
Sorry, but I can’t check site by site every time someone emails me or leave a comment with it.
It’s all matter of testing and improving it and I can’t decided wether to kill one site or not just by quickly looking at it.
Servando Silva says
I wrote this article just about 1 month ago. It’s working quite well now. In a few months or years, who knows…
Simone says
AWESOME !!
but what if i only use FACEBOOK PAGE LIKE campaign and post articles directly to my FB page ?
let’s say that the page is 10k likes and it’s so active, would this plan work ? is it profitable also ?
Thank you
Servando Silva says
Yes. If you’re fans are quite active and you don’t need to boost posts it’s fine too. But you might want to test them anyways to increase your revenue.
Simone says
Thank you for the response,
can you please check my calculations right here :
let’s say i have a 10k likes in a facebook page and it’s so active, and i
post 10 viral articles daily and each article gets 500 page views so the
total daily page views are 5000 page views , month it is 150 000 page
views, let’s assume that the CTR in Adsense is 3% and the CPC is 0.3$
because the country targeted is USA so : 0.03 * 0.3 * 150 000 = 1350$ a
month, and the CPM is 2$ per 1000 so it’s 300$.
Can you please check my plan here because it’s too awesome to believe !! 😀
Thank you Again
Servando Silva says
Yes, your calculations are correct.
Doesn’t sound too awesome for me as I’m sure you can increase the CTR a little but it’s a start.
Also, getting 5,000 daily page views from a fan page with 10,000 fans is very unlikely unless it is really active and engaged.
Simone says
Thank you
when you Fb page was 10k, how much page views were you getting on your website using facebook organic traffic not sponsored ? and was it active or not ?
Peace
Servando Silva says
It was pretty active. If the page wasn’t active it would mean I’m doing things wrong, or my articles and images are super boring.
With 10k fans, I’m not sure but probably a few hundred visits per day already. 10k is the minimum I would get before starting to send people to my website.
Chan Dararith says
I don’t think it easy to make it because price advertising on facebook it expensive then advertiser propeller pay to us.
Servando Silva says
No. It’s definitely not easy, but as long as your articles are great and go viral you will make more money than what you pay on Facebook.
Not something everybody can do though. it requires a good budget and testing a lot, as with pretty much any other business.
Aira-Pilot says
Hello Servando,
there is something i don’t understand, how do you ” yourself ” use Propellerads+ Adsense and get that amount of traffic ?
Servando Silva says
The traffic in this strategy comes from Facebook Ads as explained above by creating viral articles. Is that what you mean or maybe I’m not understanding your question?
boby says
adsense hate pop under or pop up
Servando Silva says
That’s why you can separate the URLs as mentioned above. So you can have a page with pops and a page with clean Adsense only. Up to you 🙂
shkpoupo says
but how do you do it ? making pages for pop ups and pages for adsense ?
Servando Silva says
Yes. I explained in the article that you can make one page with just adsense or just pops or both. That’s up to you.
Just duplicate the pages, one with adsense and 1 with pops and depending on the traffic you send them to one or to another. It’s a simple process 🙂
Adnan says
i was using propellerads but yesterday i got email from google search console with subject “Social engineering content detected on (my domain)” and here the details of the email
“Google’s Safe Browsing systems have detected that some pages on your site might be hacked or might include third party resources such as ads that are designed to trick users into installing malicious software or giving up sensitive information. To protect your site’s visitors, your site has been demoted in Google’s search results and browsers such as Google Chrome now display a warning when users visit your site.”
so i have removed all the propellerads code from my website and have asked google for review, i have also contacted to propellerads team about this issue.
What do you think propellerads are not secured? and how to avoid such security threats from google?
Servando Silva says
Are you using it for search engine traffic?
They have several barriers to avoid this as far as I know, but I mainly use it for viral traffic and in that case I couldn’t care less about what Google thinks as I don’t rely on them to get thousands of visits per day.
A review should help you though.
Adnan says
yes i rely on search engines and social network like Facebook.
so should i avoid using propellerads?
Servando Silva says
I think there’s an specific ad type from them that could be hurting you in the case of Search engine traffic. Better contact them and see how they proceed and what they actually recommend you.
Androiddunya says
Adnan
Same thing happened to me recently and I realized that one of the ad code from propellerads caused that.
You can check whether your web page includes any malicious ad codes using this site:
https://aw-snap.info/file-viewer/
Sandeep says
As I know it is not allowed to put AdSense ads on the sites having pop up or pop under.
Google clearly says –
Site behavior
Sites showing Google ads should be easy for users to navigate. Sites may not change user preferences, redirect users to unwanted websites, initiate downloads, include malware or contain pop-ups or pop-unders that interfere with site navigation.
Please clarify this.
Servando Silva says
I already explained this in the article 😉
Basically, what I do is to put some pages with popunders and no Adsense and some pages with Adsense but no pop advertisement. It’s all explained up there 🙂
Ramaz says
Nope, you said – “For all of the articles that you promote to your fans organically (no Ads) use the URL where you have BOTH Adsense and PropellerAds”
Servando Silva says
Yes, to avoid being banned from FB that’s correct.
If you feel like you don’t want to mix Adsense with Propeller just do one for each copy of the article. Problem solved 🙂
ricostrong says
The ad codes your using havent been picked up by google if your promoting both. Stick with them.
p.s this strategy can be used for a lot more than just viral sites btw.
Servando Silva says
Yeah. There are a ton of angles to do it 🙂
Google is always evolving, and so do we.
Masri says
Can I use propellerads in the same website I use with adsense?
and what kind of ads should I use?
thank you so much.
Servando Silva says
Sometimes Adsense is very picky, so sometimes it’s just better to use them alone. As for the type of ads, please check the propeller ads detailed article here.
Sagar bhatrarai says
Im new is adsense ..i dont know how to increase ctr cpc…. Today i studied your article & yes off course i will try this…..but i dont know how to use propellerads…..
Can you please personally email me….??..im have lots of trouble with fake people..they are just in way to ruin me..
Servando Silva says
Sorry, but I don’t do private coaching.
However there’s a guide on how to use PropellerAds linked in this same article. It’s something that shouldn’t take you more than 10 minutes to learn.
I don’t know about fake people trying to ruin me, but I don’t think it’s important in this case, honestly.
Awele says
Nice writeup! Can I propellerAds the way I use google adsense (for example) on my website?
Servando Silva says
Sorry, can you use PropellerAds how?
Tye Blake says
Hey there,
I am currently having about 1500 web traffic daily on my wordpress blog and earned $6.50 already on RevenueHits.
Can I still use propellerads side by side with RevenueHits or any other ad network that can work together with RevenueHits?
Thanks and looking forward to your reply.
Servando Silva says
You can split test them and see which one works better for you.
Shaban says
Hi Servando !
Another good post from you , i have read some previews posts of you and all of them are amazing. I want to ask you about what i am starting those days.
I created a website oxomag.com
and also i had a facebook fan page with nearly 500K fans that i changed the name as the domain fb.com/oxomag
but my facebook page is dead , dont get so much reach , likes ..
what i am supposed to do in this situation ?
Thanks
Best Regards
Servando Silva says
When a facebook page is dead, there’s not much to do. the best thing is start a new one because Facebook filtered down and it won’t reach much people at all.
Sagbee C says
Hi, Can you tell me how many viral websites you do have to generate this much income?
Servando Silva says
Just 1.
You don’t need several sites. Instead just focus on growing one and dominate your business.
Daniel says
I like very much what you’ve done with this awesome blog!
This article, helped me to understand more clearly how to bring people on my next viral website.
I have one question: It’s ok if I make the content first and after this to start promoting of website?
Ex: This month I want to add 200 articles and focus on this. Next month I’ll focus only on promoting (social network/fb ads etc..). What do you think about this plan?
Thank you!
Daniel
coFounder of StylishThemes.co
Servando Silva says
Hi.
I think it’s better to start with your fan pages as well. Building fans and getting some traction even if you just post images and not links to the website is better than starting all over when you have all the articles already published.
Onx says
Hi Servando, How did you post your post facebook page? and boost this. Do you copy your post link and share or upload image and link in the description? Thanks in advance. Have a great day!
Servando Silva says
Usually I just copy the link and Facebook gets all the information like title, image and text.
However, when I’m doing paid ads, when you go to the ads manager you can select the link and then upload 6 different ads (images) and split test them to see which one gets more traffic.
Ricardo says
Hi Servando,
What WordPress themes do you recommend now?
Servando Silva says
I got some of them really modified up to my needs, so I’m not sure what would i recommend if you’re planning to buy one straight from a theme developer.
Usually magazine style themes work well.
Ashutosh says
This was epic Servando. I was aware of the propellerads but was not sure how big it can impact. This was the first visit to your site and as I have started working on AdSense niche site so your blog seems to be very helpful. Thanks for that.
Cheers!
Ashutosh
qasim says
Hi’ I’ve 13,967 likes on fan page, But my website traffic is very low, Only 16 visitors per day. It’s so strange, Please help me, Thanks.
Servando Silva says
Are you using boosted ads or just free organic traffic?
How did you build those 14k fans and what are you linking there?
Steve says
Are copyright issues a problem? Especially with images and video.
Servando Silva says
You would be embedding videos, so it’s not like stealing them and putting on your own youtube channel.
As for the images you can always link the another source to stay safe.
Mahmoud Fathy says
Hello Servando again.
Mobile Ads in propeller ads isn’t good at all with me.
And Onclick ads ” on mobile ” redirects visitors to the Ad Landing Page instead of being on my website.
” not opening in a new tab like desktop ” so i contacted my manager and told him to stop this Onclick ad unit on Mobile.
did i misunderstood something about mobile ads ? ” i’m using ” Interstitial ” and ” Onclick ”
—
And the last thing can i contact you for some advises ? I’m an admin in ~million fan page.
Thanks a lot ! 🙂
Julien says
May I know how much money you invested and what topic the page is?
Mahmoud Fathy says
Actually it’s not my page but i rent it.
It’s from 2010 and reached 1 million like Organically
without any promotions.
From the days when the Facebook was so easy with this stuff 🙂
Servando Silva says
Sometimes their mobile ads trigger mobile redirects which actually convert and pay really well. I’ve seen them before too.
Mahmoud Fathy says
Yup and this kills the user experience !
I Don’t want to lose my users and kill my brand name that’s it
they told me there is a solution and i’m waiting.
Actually it’s not my page but i rent it.
It’s from 2010 and reached 1 million like Organically
without any promotions.
From the days when the Facebook was so easy with this stuff 🙂
Mahmoud Fathy says
Propeller ads on mobile devices is horrible
It’s working well on desktop
the problem that Onclick ads on mobile trigger the user to the ad
since that my page fans won’t click on the links again.
The Manager there told me that he can disabled it for me on mobile devices but i will lose nearly 50% of earnings .. mmmm
Servando Silva says
Try some of the alternatives listed here 🙂
juan says
how many likes are needed in a fanpage to earn 50 dollars a day with Adsense with viral articles?
Servando Silva says
For $50 per day you’d need around 30,000 fans. Usually you can start monetizing and making some money after 10-15k fans.
Colin Ma says
Servando, do you take online interns? I’m a student at University of California, Irvine and would love to learn from you!
Servando Silva says
I don’t, Colin. I don’t do private coaching or interns around SEO at this moment.
Thanks!
waqas ali says
i want to ask some thing about propellerads. i think we cant use popunder with google adsense . b.coz it against google terms and conditions. i really really enjoyed to read all of your article its really impressive. i am planning to start as soon as possible. if i will success then let you know for sure… thanx for that great article .
Servando Silva says
I didn’t have problems running it with Adsense, but if you want to keep safe you can run one page with Adsense only and another one with PropellerAds or any other network only.
That’s up to you 🙂
Mahmoud Fathy says
Do you use the mobile ” Dialog Ads/Push Up ” Servando ? with the viral website too.
Servando Silva says
Yes. I actually test every type of ads until I find the best performing ones.
For mobile traffic, Interstitials do well in my case.
zzzzzz... says
This actually works but it takes a lot of time. Creating viral articles that targets traffic from tier 1 countries will give you the best results.
Servando Silva says
A lot of time and persistence 🙂
Yeah, countries like UK, AU, USA, etc. work really well, although USA is very competitive.
Tom says
Hi, I am two weeks new with my website. When you say a post goes viral how many clicks is that usually. I’ve written over 100 posts but none more than 100 on Fb even with boost. Which is more effective, boosting an article or promoting your page?
Servando Silva says
Hi Tom.
You need to do both things.
1. Promote your page to get more fans and likes. Especially at the beginning.
2. Promote your posts with website clicks as objective (don’t just click the boost post button on Facebook because it won’t work as well).
When you go viral you simply make more money than you’re spending. Usually viral articles bring at least 5-20 thousand visits per day while the bad ones barely get 1,000 or 2,000 visits.
kase says
when you say “Usually viral articles bring at least 5-20 thousand visits” you refere a ONE article?
and when you say “bad ones barely get 1,000 or 2,000 visits” you refere a 5 articles?
5 articles * 5 usd / 0.02 fcpc = 1250visits + (share click?)
Servando Silva says
When I say 20,000 visits I’m talking about just 1 article.
Also when I say a bad post gets 1,000 visits per day I’m talking of just 1 article, not 5.
Colin Ma says
I see, awesome. To get really affordable clicks I know you mentioned a high conversion rate. However, to get a better PPC do I want to do very specific interest/demographic targeting (such as people in US 13-19 who have liked “Chris Brown”? I would imagine general targeting (for example everyone in the US, Canada, Europe) would be more expensive. Or is there no correlation?
Servando Silva says
I mentioned a High CTR, not conversion rate.
As for your other question, I explained it in the article 😉 as that’s one of the most common questions I received.
Johnny Test says
Enjoyed every bit of this, been seeing adverts of Propeller ads in my Gmail but i thought they would be a shady ad network.
You have given me all the proofs needed and i hope id make some good amount of income with them too.
Thanks Servando
Daniel says
Thanks Servando,
1. Yes I can play around with categories.
And to include and exclude the Ads, I can use two different templates for the “Single Post” in WordPress.
2. I have tried the rectangle Ads 328×228, has not made much difference but I had text wrap around the Ad, as Adsense also want to make sure there is content above the fold. So the Ad on top has wrap around text. The bottom does not have text wrap around, but I have not been able to get it in center below the blog in my theme. It is always left aligned I tried different css tricks all failed.
3. Yes I will try split testing one country each and explore some non-US country although most of my current little revenue comes from US. I have seen UK is also decent sometimes.
Thanks