Attracting people to your site - testing adfly

Today i want to share with you my experience with a service called adf.ly , and the results in the first day of my campaign.

My relation with this service is that i am only a client and i don't receive a penny for talking about them here.

For those o dont know adf.ly is a url shortner service that transforms big urls into tiny url's, like google and others. The nice thing about add.fly is that when you share your tiny url, people o receive it see a 5 seconds add before proceeding to the desteny.

Watching some videos on youtube, i discover this service and how you can set a campaign to advertise whatever you want on them for a low price, and thought to myself it was worth trying to advertise Linkmyplace

Setting up a campaign is easy, you choose how much you want to buy of traffic.

As you can see in the picture you can choose between worldwide traffic, specific countries, or both and the price is per 1000 visualizations of your ad for 5 seconds. This means that if you want to show your ad for 10000 people worldwide, you put 10 USD in "Worldwide Deal" and so on. After making the payment you can setup how your campaign will behave.

For instance i set my campaign to deliver 10 USD to worldwide traffic and 5 USD to Portugal traffic. Then i set i want this campaign to spend a maximum of 2 USD per day to distribute the traffic, and also on every day of the week. This means that my campaign will run for about 8 days.

The site offers some script for including in my webpage to give statistics inside add.fly of conversions, but in my case i am using google analitics for checking the results of the campaign.

As you can see in this picture it seems they are fulfilling what they promise and respecting my daily budget

On Google Analytics the traffic was all like this during certain periods of the day and global numbers for the day are as follows

So my conclusion for now is that people are seeing my site, even if it is only for 5 seconds. How much of this people stops to really look at my site and how many of them will register in the site will be subject of further analysis during the campaign, but i will share with you my conclusions in a future post.

Meanwhile, please let me know what you think about the subject, if you know a better approach, please share it.

Cheers

Linkmyplace