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 FB 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 of 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 on Facebook to go viral, WITH REAL NUMBERS, not the shitty articles that tell you to 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 rely on 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 copywriter in the world and you might not be an 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 started?
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 become 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 weekends you’ll burn your money without any success and you’ll move to the next shiny 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 to 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 kinds 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 imagine 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 in a CPC of $0.01 which is 5 times lower than it was before.
What kind of CTR would you need on 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 the 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 (less 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 on 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 a 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 feel 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 are here is that you want to know how to make extra money and see how I earned $300 extra per day, so here it goes.
The first thing you need to do is to understand how to install and show Pop-under ads from Propeller Ads on 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 a 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 other Adsense alternative. 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 use the Ezoic A/B tester 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!
Hola Servando, muy interesante tu articulo “GRAN CONOCIMIENTO SOBRE EL TEMA” Recientemente estoy creando un blog sobre citas en idioma english, y mi experiencia en el tema de monetizacion es poca, que ad networds me recomendarias para empezar a monetizar una vez terminado mi blog? y que tipo de publicidad me recomiendas, banners, popunders,native ads. apreciaria cualquier ayuda o consejo.Gracias
Hola!
De ser posible empieza con Google Adsense que en inglés paga bien.
I have a very bad experience with propeller das. Their ads are not very target and many of the ads that were showing on my sites where NSFW type ads whose niche is technology.
I stopped using propeller ads happy with ADSENSE.
Adsense is definitely better.
We use Propeller ads for verticals where Adsense performs bad or for traffic that Adsense wouldn’t allow into their program.
Hello, can i make money with 9 me out a website as an affiliate?
Yes, you can but you reduce a ton of your possibilities without using a website.
Which country did you target to get that good results
This case study is a bit old, but we had campaigns running in many countries at the same time. Mostly tier 1/2 countries in English and some tier 3s in Spanish.
Hello,
I’ve recently began writing and I find that my contnent is highly interesting and can change people’s life.So,I want to share it with people from all around the globe and live from my passion.
That’s why I am lunching my personel blog soon(maybe next month),and I am wondering if you would be interested in mentoring me so that I get as many readers as possible and have a high income.
Plz send me your answer via email.
With gratitude,
Farouk
Hello Farouk.
That’s great, but I don’t do private mentoring or anything like that at the moment 🙂
Good luck though!
I ensure you that you won’t regret it!
If you agree,you will keep 100% of the profit generated by ads and I will agree to do any chores in your place or anything you want(I have to start making profits in the summer to avoid high school .I am desperate plz help me).
If you still insist can you give me the contacts of s.one you think can help me though ?
Love+respect whatever is your response.
As I said, I don’t give private coaching or mentoring 🙂
I’m not interested in it.
Hallo,
thanks for your nice post. i read the Facebook Terms, it is just popup ads not allowed, so i think popunder ads will be ok with facebook ?
thanks
Aleesa
Hello
I created a site 3 months ago.
In English.
Website content
Entertainment. Celebrity News. TV & Movies. Moda. Animals. humor. viral
headlines for example.
20 awkward photos of celebrities with their parents Beyoncé couldn’t hide her hatred.
13 Disney women. who deserve to be recognized.
14 Ways to Wear a blazer and jeans according to the style of the famous.
I have no visits
I will show PropellerAds onclick ads on the site
I will buy traffic from the native ads network
I will use the propeller native ads and evadav
The click price in these networks is low
propeller native ads CPC from $0.005
evadav CPC from $0.001
Will, there be any return on investment using this method
thank you
It’s hard to know since you say you have no visits, which means your ads aren’t really appealing and nobody is clicking them.
I prefer using FB or other social networks for this strategy, to be honest as the traffic has much higher quality.
Perhaps you should try push ads from propeller and evadav to get traffic and not only show on click ads but also display push or banners in your site to maximze the revenue per visit.
My website is new and I don’t have any technical skills, should i go with propellerads or sovrn … can you plz help me out….just plz go and checkout my website and tell me what should i do…..i will be very greatful
If you’re just starting I’d say wait and build your traffic a bit more before thinking of monetization.
If you want to try Propellerads I recommend you test the push and in page push notifications.
Thanx for your reply…but In-Page Push is available for websites from the top -500 000 Alexa rank list and my Alexa ranking is only #4,012,254 so i think am not eligible for in page push notifications.
Try other ad formats then 🙂
Split test and see which one works best for you.
Am using propeller ads. Kindly help me out before I stop using propeller ads. Am unable to make $1 in 20days, please let know which zone tag is the best to earn more money. Am totally fed up. Thanks.
Push notifications and Pop-unders are my best performing ad types.
If they don’t work for you, maybe it’s your traffic or vertical that isn’t performing.
Is Propeller ads payout rates good for middle-east and north Africa countries?
They are quite decent. Those countries usually have lowe payouts although some times some countries get good rates like Saudi Arabia, UAE, South Africa, etc.
Hello
I can’t use Native ads if my website is under 10,000 visitors daily right?
With Propeller you can’t. But you can use other networks like MGID to get started and r¡probably pay better than Propeller.
Hello
But when i put native Propeller ads on my website i see them. And my website usually have 2,500 users daily. How is possible to ican see theme even my website receive only 2,500 visitors daily/
I just tried creating a native ad tag for my site and here’s the only message I received:
At the moment banners are available for websites from the top-500 000 Alexa rank list. You can check your website here. If your Global Rank < 500 000 and the banner tag is still unavailable, please wait some time and try again.Perhaps they have more relaxed rules now. Are you earning money from those visitors already with the native ad units?
Hola Servando una duda en el ejemplo mencionas el target de País como Francia. Pero cuando hago campañas en países como México mis webs virales rondan un cpc en adsense de 0.03-0.04 USD , algún consejo para poder aumentar el CPC de mis anuncios de Adsense? (tal vez no se agregarle SEO?, o crear muchos articulos? o agregar articulos de alto cpc en mi blog?) . Logro 0.01 en anuncios de Facebook pero lo que me paga Adsense es muy poco en México.
Gracias de antemano 🙂 saludos
Mexico es un mal país para esta estrategia 🙂
Necesitas un país que tenga un costo relativamente bajo o menor al que se te paga en Adsense y lamentablemente la mayoría de los países latinos o de habla hispana no son adecuados.
Sabes algo acerca de la estrategia de medios como Para los curiosos , Upsocl. Ellos usan anuncios en sus post virales a países latinos .. sigo sus anuncios a través de fb ADS library . Ellos tmb usan AdSense.
Cuentan también con buen tráfico orgánico de redes sociales, prueban muchas campañas y además seguramente tienen buenos deals con Adsense usando anunciantes premium.
Solo digo que es un poco más difícil trabajar con esos países para empezar, pero no imposible 🙂
I have used ( Adsterra ) ads for one day, then my website got blocked by Facebook.
Getting this message : Website doesn’t meet our Community Standards.
After removing the ad units, I have appealed my website and got Un-blocked after two days.
Is Adsterra ads are Facebook safe ?
Regards,
It depends.
What kind of ads were you implementing?
Also, are you running paid ads or organic traffic from FB?
Propeller seems to be more strict in terms of ads and also they only focus on mainstream (not adult) so it’s easier to work with them for social media traffic.
Hello
great information. God Bless you.
Facebook blocked my blog link, my traffic reduced drastically. Is there any other means to generate traffic to my blog? Also how can I get good click rates on propeller ads?
What were you posting that got your blog blocked?
There are many other social networks to generate traffic to your blog.
As for good rates on Propeller Ads, it will depend on the quality of your traffic, including factors like Niche, OS, country, device, Browser, etc.
Hello admin I just get approved propellerads Native widget approved on my website , please can you suggest me countries to run to make cool cash daily with propellerads native widget , I have try US traffic not too click on there widget I need another country with best performance on there native widget ?
Please also do u know any website that using propellerads native banner ,if you know tell me the website let me check how they place there banner thanks .
Looks like something changed in last 24hrs. My Adsense earnings suddenly stopped. I used to earn between $10-15 daily but in last 24hrs I only made $1 from a page that has over 30K pageviews daily.
Anyone else noticed that?
Will Propeller Ads be an alternative or Ezoic?
I didn’t notice that with Adsense, but has it corrected now after 24 hours?
Sometimes there are delays and the reporting gets stuck for a few hours before updating again.
I just realized that main source of traffic Pinterest links to my website was blocked for suspected spamming.
I have submitted the issue to them and hoping they sort it out.
Now I see how damaging it is depending on one source of traffic but it takes long to get organic search.
I do not know what else to do now.
Also I tried Properller Ad but antivirus is reporting issues with it so had to remove it
Hello sir,
Is Propeller ads payout rates good for middle-east and north Africa countries?
and how much is the CPM for this tier? I think it’s tier 3 or 4 for these countries.
Best regards,
Usually Middle East and African countries have low CPMs, below $1. However, there are some countries like Saudi Arabia or South Africa that perform much better.
YOU CAN GIVE ME A PLAN TO BUY BOT TRAFFIC. IS INCOME ADS ON MY WEB SITE
No. Buying bot traffic to monetize it with ads is called ad fraud. Stay away from that.
Hello Servando.
Since I am yet to get adsense on my site fakazasong.com. I now use propeller ads and I just make 1$ in a day. How can I boost my earnings?
Also I make a traffic of more than 5k views daily. I need an advice on how I can monetize that with propeller?
Where is your traffic coming from? keep in mind Adsense is not very keen to download sites, so I would be careful with that.
As for how to increase your earnings, besides increasing traffic, you should test propeller’s push ads and interstitials. Those tend to perform better than banners.
My traffic is majorly from South Africa and USA because my niche is music.. “keep in mind Adsense is not very keen to download sites, so I would be careful with that”.
Can you please explain what you meant by that quoted sentence?
Google Adsense doesn’t like download sites very much, so sometimes they either block the site or ban the accounts.
As long as the music has no copyright issues you should be on the safe side yet Google isnn’t really a fan of that niche.
please can you put me through on how i can use the facebook ads to maximize profit on my propeller?
i’m working with my site on propelleradsense ad exchange and some things are not going well, i’ll just ask which banner popup or banner do you recommend?
my site is this: smartzonedaily.com
With PropellerAds I normally select push notifications and pop ups as those have the best performance lately.
I am much interesting about this topic please I have question to ask.
am using viral blog since 2015 but AdSense banned me last month with $5000 , now I want to using native ads to earning cool cash.
1, propellerads pop up and direct link which one give earning pass.
direct link it’s give earning per impression ? or untill people click on the image link you can earning ?
2, direct Link how can I use it to make amazing money daily like $300 , can I place image link like 3 on one page?
3, pop up I know it’s give earning but my blog is viral and next post gallary once visitor like to see more pics once they click next it will pop, so it make me lost earning on other native ads like mgid & content ad I use on my blog & most visitor don’t like pop up.
Please i need your advice using direct link & pop up together with my other native ads, if direct link give cool earning by impression only I will keep using only.
Hello.
I’m not sure I understand your question but here goes my answer as much as I can help.
1. PropellerAds has native ads in case you want to use them, although you need a certain amount of page views to get accepted. Considering you had $5k last month with Adsense you probably pass the limit though.
2. Don’t use direct links from PropellerAds. So far they are the worse in terms of performance and I think most people don’t use them anyways.
3. Don’t use popups for your viral sites on FB unless it’s al organic traffic. I’d use native ads + push notification ads to monetize my traffic for sure.
Am running ads from mgid direct link is not good I think pop under is best, but direct my site is what I don’t like much. But I will give try of pop under
I just come back again and read your post very well, please admin how can I created popunder ads on properllerads because I only see onclick(pop under)
How can I get PopUnder ads hope I need to contact them to open the feature foe me?
Hello, can I use Propeller’s native or push notification ads for Facebook ad, can please recommend best Google AdSense alternative that is good for low traffic bloggers
For FB ads as in like buying traffic from Facebook ads and monetizing it with Propeller?
Yes, you can use native or push notifications. What you can’t use in that case are interstitials or popunders, as FB doesn’t like those.
For blogs with very low traffic and a niche that’s hard to monetize I recommend focusing more on growing your site’s traffic instead of worrying about monetization yet.
Either that or go with affiliate marketing as it pays a lot more than ads if you’re in the right niche and you have something good to promote.
Please with a viral website and a post reach of 10k per day on facebook, how much estimate$$$ can i really make from propeller ads per day. Thanks.
Honestly? nobody can answer that.
Reach is one thing but the number of clicks can change a lot.
Also, the revenue and CPMs change a lot depending on the vertical, the countries where people are visiting your site, devices they are using (mobile vs. desktop), OS, etc.
The best way to get a number is by testing it yourself unless someone with a very similar sample of traffic like yours already has got some data.
can i use both propeller and adsense ?
You can but I don’t recommend it.
You can use both as long as you use Propeller’s native or push notification ads. But if you’re planning to use their pop ups or interstitials Adsense is not going to like it.
How do i implement Propeller’s native or push notification ads on my website
The same way as you implement their pop ads. Just create a new ad in your account, select the type of ad (push or native) and you’re good to go.
I think push notifications have their own menu in Propeller since they’re very famous lately.
Hi
My website currently hit between 80K – 150K monthly page views.
The issue I am worried about is I currently use Adsense and so far I hardly make over $12 daily and I believe I should be making way more than that.
Any idea what I should do?
Thanks
Hello Isaac.
With that amount of traffic, you will get better rated at networks like Ezoic, Monumetric, Adthrive or Mediavine as long as you meet their criteria.
Great one I’ll try it out Adsense sucks now, how about adsterra any tricks at all?
Adsterra and Propeller are both great performers.
Can’t complain there.
Am shot of words for someone to be making such an amount daily is really mind blowing, thanks for sharing this with us.
This strategy has been getting harder and harder but the people who managed to scale this at the right time were doing more than $1,000 per day just with PropellerAds…
We couldn’t hit those numbers, unfortunately.
Hi
Hello sir can you please tell me which country I targeted to get more likes on fb page and how much it cost to make 80k likes on fb page so that I can viral my blog post and earn from propellerads pop under please tell
I am big fan of your blog
Thanks
Reply me soon
Waiting!!!!!!!!!!
You need to target the country you want to write for.
If you just go after cheap likes you end up with countries that also have super low CPMs so it’s all balanced.
I like focusing on tier 1 geos like USA, UK, AU, CA. The likes are expensive but the CPMs are much higher as well. And I can easily find other ways to monetize the traffic other than just ads.
Bro can i make thousand of dollar with propeller ads?…
I don’t know if you can, but many people are doing much more than a thousand per month.
Hii Servando, my recent comment was this..
“Hii Silvado,
I have a website fullformplanets .com currently im geeting 150-200 Organic visitors Per day. But im not getting clicks and my daily earning is 0.00-0.01$ per day.
So, please suggest me best Thing i can do according to my sites theme to increase CTR.
You can also suggest me a wordpress theme you know to increase CTR.”
As you said which ad network im using so i use adsense and my problem is mention in above comment.
Please mail me solution Of this problem.
I will thankful l…
I can’t send you the solution by email.
If your Adsense CTR is so bad you need to check the layout of your articles and split test to improve it as much as you can.
Also, check that your ads are being displayed properly for your audience.
Hii Silvado,
I have a website fullformplanets .com currently im geeting 150-200 Organic visitors Per day. But im not getting clicks and my daily earning is 0.00-0.01$ per day.
So, please suggest me best Thing i can do according to my sites theme to increase CTR.
You can also suggest me a wordpress theme you know to increase CTR.
Are you using PropellerAds to monetize that traffic?
You said you’re not getting clicks but which type of ads are you testing?
And how does one get viral traffic from fan pages, honestly it seems Facebook fan pages are dead in 2019
Nowadays is all about ads and paid traffic. organic traffic is almost dead unfortunately, so a budget is needed to get started.
Hi! Thanks for your articles and work!
You write, nowadays it’s needed only pay ads, fan pages and post engagement don’t work anymore, right?
It works but it’s very low and sometimes FB can just cut it out with an algorithm update.
Usually, new pages have decent reach but after a few months or the more they grow they start getting less and less.
You should take a look at BadHits – it’s an invite-only network. You can use this link to create an account: badhits.com
They don’t care about the quality or source of the traffic. All accounts are automatically approved. The main reason people use them is because they have a no-ban guarantee, they never ban publishers for low-quality traffic.
Most people just use them to send all the traffic they can’t get any other network to buy.
It sounds like a sketchy business honestly.
Networks always work on performance because they need to be profitable for their advertisers. A network that doesn’t cara bout quality and has all accounts approved with a no ban guarantee is most probably being used for back hat purposes or simply will go bust someday without giving any reasons.
thank you for the information, very useful for me
Hi Servando, what do you mean by “one page” is it Facebook page or website? I dont have adsense actually.
I’m talking about the pages of your website. In my case, wordPress pages or posts.
Hi,
I don’t understand the following statement. Can you please explain this to me.
“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).”
It means I create 2 articles for each news I’m going to post.
They all have the same information but one has adsense and one has propeller ads+adsense.
I link to the one with adsense+propellers in the organic posts of the Fan Page and I link to the page with Adsense only for Facebook Ads.
Amazing articles on Google Adsense and Propellar Ads. KEEP INSPIRING
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Do I have to create articles for this? It is not easy and very time-consuming work for me.
Yes, you nee to create a lot of articles and find the winners. It requires hard work 🙂
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
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?
Hello, Servando. Your CPM in which Geos are based or which are the Countries that gave you a higher CPM?
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.
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?
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.
no the account won’t be banned.
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Driving traffic has always being a challenge to many bloggers. Thanks for sharing your tips on traffic.
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
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.
But what if I dont have an adsense account?
How can I redirect the traffic?
Use any other ad network that you like.
Adsense is not the only one available, although it’s one of the top paying ones.
Great..which country were you targeting and can other native ads be used like MGID
Hello.
how to increase ecpm in Propeller ads ?
i get 0.04 and 0.21 at upmost.
is there anyway to increase it ?
Having traffic for a good niche and better geos increases your CPM.
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!
In the same website I don’t recommend it as Adsense can be very picky.
You can use 2 websites for this purpose.
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 ?
It totally depends on where your visitors come from and the performance.
Nice share.
great idea for geting viral traffic Thank you for the article Silva.
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
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.
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
We don’t advertise any adult content as obviously it would be against FB policies.
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
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.
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.
Some people said propeller ads use bot traffic.
Also propeller ads is scam
Is it true?
sir but people use adblock any tips or trick to profite maximum earning even they use adblock
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.
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.
Yes. Facebook can be a great source of traffic if you earn the ropes.
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?
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 .
Definitely not enough. Maybe get started with SEO or freelance for a while to build some capital.
Please I’m interested in learning SEO but I don’t know anyone that can teach me I’m ready to pay the person please add me on Whatsapp +2348062963518
I don’t have SEO courses, but if you do a quick google search you will find a lot of them online.
Nobody is giving to you via WhatsApp though. It’s always going to be via online platforms.
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
Overall Adsense pays but it’s better to use the FB audience network for this strategy. Check this post.
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
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.
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
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.
Can you please guide me how to earn with direct link in propellerads if not have website???
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.
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 🙂
The best for websites and blogs are Facebook Ads and google adwords. After that i’d consider native ads like Outbrain, Taboola and Revcontent.
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 ?
There’s no best and cheap.
Either best and not cheao, or worst and cheap.
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 🙂
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.
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.
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
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.
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
No, Adsense doesn’t like propeller or any other ad network so don’t mix them for your safety.
can you help me please to start monetizing with them?
In which part do you need help? Read the review to learn how it works step by step.
Hi,
Thanks for this article.
I have a CTR of 25% uk, usa, canada, but the CPC never got under 4 cents.
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.
Yes, I will try again with the sme adset.
Thanks.
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
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.
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.
Just bid automatically and use the website traffic objective.