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About Me

Hi, my name is Servando and I’ve been doing Affiliate Marketing for the last 5 years.

I’ve started many projects and failed many of them too. However, all that matters is to achieve success in 1 of all your projects to compensate for all the failures. I started blogging back in 2006 and finally focused on Affiliate Marketing in 2011.

As many of us (Affiliates) I started doing SEO and ranking websites. In fact, I still do it and I have a blog where I write about it but my main focus now is on paid traffic and that’s why you’re here too.

I started running paid traffic from Facebook back in 2013 because the organic reach from my Fan Pages was constantly going down and I wanted to learn how to monetize my traffic with CPA/CPS offers and stop using Ad networks like Adsense and similar ones. I have learned from several affiliates and made friends in the journey, many of which I speak constantly via Skype/FB, etc.

Fast forward to 2016, I’ve decided to open this blog to talk about my CPA journey. I’ve tried several niches including gaming, Coupons and Sweepstakes, App Installs and Utilities, Dating, T shirts and even sports. I’ve also tried Desktop and mobile traffic in the form of banner ads, pop ups, redirects and Media Buys, but 1 year ago I decided to focus on mobile traffic and that’s what I’ve been doing 80% of my time for the last 24 months.

I’m no super affiliate or a guru. In fact, as Finch says, I’m basically an intermediate affiliate doing 4 figures per day, and of course, sometimes buying data while losing similar quantities. That’s how this game is, and you’ve got to learn the importance of buying data and stop suffering when you see red campaigns in your tracker.

I’m here to document my journey and help others in the process. This pushes me forward and helps me keep track of my findings and experiences. I’ve done this several times before with different websites and I know that having a blog helps me get to know more people in the same niche, doing exactly what I do, and the connections are worth its number in gold.

So I hope to see you here and if possible, get to know you and put a face behind your nickname in an event in the future!

I’ll be sharing a lot of interesting content, case studies, traffic sources and more for my subscribers, so if you’re into mobile traffic, no matter if you’re just starting or if you’re already running some campaigns, subscribe to my email list (check the sidebar) and let’s talk some business!

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Comments

  1. Vishal Dhali says

    August 23, 2022 at 7:03 am

    Hello Servando I am new in Affiliate Marketing and I want to know how to use AdsBridge tracking but the problem is that I don’t know how to use that I saw your Article in your Blog and that was awesome but I am totally new and I don’t know where to start can you create some video tutorial in YouTube previous videos are not enough, Please Help

    Thank You
    Vishal Dhali
    Love from India

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      August 25, 2022 at 9:48 am

      Hello.
      Adsbridge has videos and documentation on its website. I recommend you try another tracker, though. There are many tutorials and case studies on afflift.com

      Reply
  2. Pedro Surita says

    October 19, 2021 at 7:26 am

    Hello Mr Silva. How are you? Hope you are very well.

    Could tell me please how possible make advertising integration?
    We do ulud.com is performance marketing software for building own CPA networks and think it will be interesting your audience.

    Regards, Pedro

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      October 21, 2021 at 9:45 am

      What do you mean by integration?

      Reply
  3. Melanie Ngo says

    July 1, 2021 at 8:22 pm

    Hi sir, I’m a member of a CPA Network – DYNU IN MEDIA which is based on Vietnam. We provides various offers from top tier 1 GEOs. I’ve known you as an super affiliate. So we can co-operate and you write an article about our network include introduction of offer, geos,etc. Pls let me know asap. Tks

    Reply
  4. Alice Jin says

    June 8, 2021 at 9:06 am

    Hi Servando:

    We are a leading fintech company in the financial industry for over 20 years, we generate about 400k leads per month from WW and looking to extend our budget and activities in the Latin America market, Europe, GCC and ZA on CPA model.
    do you know any good affiliates that can drive large scale of traffic in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia?

    Reply
  5. JOSE LUIS says

    December 11, 2020 at 4:56 am

    Hola, soy empresa de nueva constitución y necesito saber dónde construir mis ofertas CPA para que los afiliados me las promocionen. Es decir, en qué lugares puedo subir mis proposiciones.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      December 11, 2020 at 4:50 pm

      Jose, lamentablemente no puedo ayudarte ya que yo no me dedico a ser anunciante ni dueño de ofertas.
      Deberías de hablar con algunas redes de afiliación para que veas cuales son los requisitos.

      Reply
      • Lucas says

        September 24, 2021 at 11:17 am

        Mi experiencia personal es la siguiente:
        Ser anunciante CPA no es fácil, debes enviar 50 emails para que te respondan 5. Si, asi como lo leiste, es como buscar un trabajo regular, no todos estan interesados en tu oferta asi que debes demostrar que sabes y tambien debes ofrecer un buen payout.
        Generalmente el deposito suele ser de 5k$, si no, no podrás anunciarte.

        Reply
  6. Eugenia says

    November 4, 2020 at 10:40 am

    Hi Servando,
    I’m Eugenia and I represent 2 projects – Tacolo.co and LosPollos.com
    I saw that you tried push traffic, so I guess Tacolo.co will be very good choice for you as we sell our own push traffic there. And LosPollos is the best way to monetize any mix of traffic and remnant, geo-redirect, or exit traffic.

    Reply
  7. Shane says

    December 25, 2019 at 5:08 am

    Hi Servando – do you mind if i ask why you only focus on mobile traffic right now? Any tips or insight?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      December 26, 2019 at 10:16 pm

      I don’t focus on mobile traffic only anymore. We run both mobile and desktop, however there’s more traffic available on mobile especially in some sources, so we tend to focus on that first.

      Reply
  8. mystario says

    November 28, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    do you do coaching

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      November 28, 2019 at 7:09 pm

      No, I don’t do private coaching.
      You can always learn a lot from forums like Afflift or STM though.

      Reply
  9. Ahmed says

    October 26, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    Do you believe that blogging is the best and easiest way to earn money online for a starter online?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      October 26, 2019 at 8:39 pm

      No, I don’t believe that.
      Blogging is difficult, it takes a ton of patience and a learning curve of a few months.

      It doesn’t take much to get started though, so it’s a non-expensive way to start making money online.

      Reply
  10. Shubham says

    October 15, 2019 at 9:46 am

    How can I learn media buying for CPA offers.Do you provide step by step training,tutorials,guide?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      October 15, 2019 at 10:52 am

      No, but you can learn a lot in these forums.

      Reply
  11. timothy casey says

    September 30, 2019 at 2:07 am

    Hi, I need a Zeropark advertising account with approval for further details email me.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      September 30, 2019 at 9:38 am

      If you need a Zeropark account apply for it.
      Buying or selling accounts is not allowed.

      Reply
  12. Gordon Goodfellow says

    June 5, 2019 at 7:08 am

    Hi Servando,

    I’ve been in affiliate marketing for over 20 years as an SEO, and paid traffic is an entirely new discipline for me. Therefore I’m looking forward to using your documentation as a guide to best practice, as you seem to be highly clued up in what you do.

    I am therefore very disappointed that Vultr seem to have changed their setup procedures so that they no longer resemble the clean, logical steps that you have illustrated at https://servandosilva.com/upload-landing-pages-vultr/

    Why tech companies do this I don’t know!

    Do you have any more recent documentation on how to set up a Vultr server?

    Thanks,

    Gordo

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      June 5, 2019 at 11:00 am

      The documentation still works. Several readers followed it recently without problems.
      The interface might be a bit new or cleaner but the steps and buttons are still the same.

      Where are you getting stuck? I can help.

      Reply
  13. TomasP says

    April 30, 2019 at 4:47 am

    What an awe-inspiring journey!

    Reply
  14. Anton says

    April 8, 2019 at 9:17 am

    Hi, Servando

    My name is Tony and I’m representing dr.cash – CPA network specialising on Nutra vertical: https://dr.cash

    We’ve checked your site and find it very useful for the Internet audience that represents advertising specialists.

    We would like very much to make an advertising collaboration with you to share cases and knowledge with your readers, and of course to spread the word about our network)

    Please let me know if you are interested

    Best wishes 🙂

    Reply
  15. Vivek says

    April 1, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    Hi Servando,

    I wanted to connect with you for a speaking opportunity in 1 of our flagship conferences – India Affiliate Summit

    Website link – http://www.indiaaffiliatesummit.in
    Can you share your email id so that I can send across more details?
    I am available at vivek@iamai.in

    Have a great day 🙂

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      April 2, 2019 at 10:59 am

      Hello. You can find me at: contact@servandosilva.com
      🙂

      Reply
  16. Rolando says

    March 14, 2019 at 8:29 pm

    Hola Servando!
    Un placer haber encontrado tu blog.
    Me estoy iniciando en este negocio y me gustaría saber si ofreces algún curso o haces mentoría.
    Muchas gracias!

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      March 15, 2019 at 11:01 pm

      Hola Rolando.
      Si estás subscrito a mi newsletter respóndeme cualquier correo y te ayudo por ese medio.
      Saludos!

      Reply
  17. Sem says

    January 31, 2019 at 5:38 am

    Hey, it’s Sem , I’m developing online projects, web-sites and so on. I’m wondering what kind of add formats do you have and how much it cost?
    P.s. do you have Skype, Facebook, LinkedIn … or other messengers to speed up the conversation?
    Thank you in advance!

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 1, 2019 at 11:25 am

      I don’t offer advertising space in this website.
      As you can see, there are no banners or anything like that. I prefer to keep it clean.

      Reply
  18. Valentina says

    January 30, 2019 at 10:15 am

    Hi, Servando

    My name is Valentina and I am representing Clickadu – advertising network (https://www.clickadu.com/). I came across your blog and I found it efficient recommendation tool for the affiliate marketing players.

    We have relationships with direct advertisers and publishers WW in various verticals and formats. Looking for cooperation with you.

    Will be waiting for your reply,
    Valentina

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      January 30, 2019 at 2:16 pm

      Hi Valentina.
      I’ll send you an email.

      Reply
  19. Jeller says

    January 21, 2019 at 6:29 am

    Looking for cooperation, talk in detail

    Reply
  20. Federico says

    January 14, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    Hello,
    Thank you very much for all this valuable information you have on your website.

    Did I want to ask you, the offers of payment loans how is best to run them, with a landing page or direct link?

    Thanks in advance..

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      January 14, 2019 at 7:34 pm

      Pretty much all of the offers generate better profits and quality with Landing Pages.
      This applies 99% of the time.

      Reply
  21. Miki says

    December 16, 2018 at 1:15 pm

    Hello, can you please contact me on my mail ? i have couple of questions if you can help me . thank you!

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      December 17, 2018 at 11:54 am

      If you’re subscribed to my list just answer any of my emails and we can talk over there 🙂

      Reply
  22. Edouard Ducray says

    December 12, 2018 at 2:00 am

    Hello Servando

    Congrat for you Blog !
    We are a French Web Push Ad Network
    We are looking for Free Lance Media Buyers to help us increasing
    Feel free to ping us
    Edouard Ducray
    Skype:doudou0079
    edouard@adrenalead.com

    Reply
  23. Alex says

    November 22, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    Your journey is quite impressive, well done. 4 figures a day, not bad…

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      November 22, 2018 at 10:26 pm

      Thanks Alex.

      Reply
  24. Julie Wong says

    June 20, 2018 at 12:47 am

    Hi Dear,
    How do you think about the business of COD in South-east Asia? What kind of traffics are the best for them?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      June 20, 2018 at 11:18 am

      FB, Adwords, Native and even adult seem to work well for COD depending on the vertical in that area.

      Reply
  25. Teresa says

    June 19, 2018 at 3:22 am

    Hi Servando, we’re a business with an amazing product. We’d love you to write about how to attract the best & most relevant affiliates to help promote our product please. Thanks!!

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      June 19, 2018 at 9:05 pm

      Hello Teresa.
      Thanks but I don’t accept guest posts.

      Reply
  26. carlos says

    October 14, 2017 at 7:37 pm

    Hello Servando, I would like to know if you have any guide that teaches me step by step how to mount a VPS in Vultr with LEMP and configure it to upload my landing page and also to link it with a CDN that you recommend me. I really like your blog and thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us. 🙂

    Reply
  27. Alana says

    September 29, 2017 at 5:35 am

    Hi Servando, Alana from Affiliate World Conferences. Please kindly get in touch. Thank you.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      September 29, 2017 at 1:12 pm

      I just sent you an email.

      Reply
  28. Nzube Onwughalu says

    August 9, 2017 at 5:51 am

    HI SERVANDO SILVA
    Please i need your help on my website. I need us to talk,, here is my email nzubeonwughalu@gmail.com

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      August 14, 2017 at 10:21 am

      Hello.
      I din’t provide private coaching or consulting like that. Thanks.

      Reply
  29. Anes says

    August 8, 2017 at 4:02 pm

    Hi Servando..
    I am newbie in Cpa affiliate, i want to start with CPA Mobile offers and I am confused between a lot of network (top traffic source mobile propellerads, adcash, popcash, zeropark..).
    What is the best ?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      August 14, 2017 at 10:22 am

      There’s no best network out there, but if you want to get started I think PopAds and Propeller are good choices.

      Reply
  30. PTS says

    June 22, 2017 at 4:51 am

    Hello,

    Could you please send me an email to support professionaltradingsystems.com I could not find any contact form on your website.

    Regards

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      June 23, 2017 at 12:27 pm

      Hello. How can I help you?

      Reply
  31. James says

    February 16, 2017 at 4:01 am

    Hey Servando,

    My name is James, Business Director of Newbidder, we are an SaaS platform for affiliate marketer.

    Newbidder have integrated upstream and downstream,which allow you one-stop promote and optimize your offer. Competitive price, user friendly and one-stop operation,all make us better than other SaaS platform.

    I have a proposal want to discuss with you. Please feel free to contact me.

    Looking forward to hear from you.

    Kind Regards,
    James

    Reply
  32. Moris says

    February 12, 2017 at 7:54 am

    Hi Servando,

    It’s Moris Katzobashvili – we met few times 🙂

    Please add me to Skype so we can talk – moris.katzobashvili

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 12, 2017 at 6:55 pm

      Hey Moris.
      Where do I know you from?

      Reply
  33. beatriz says

    February 9, 2017 at 8:25 am

    Hola Servando!
    Te conocí por unos video en un curso.
    Me pregunto si das aun coaching grupal o personal.
    Ya genero algunos ingresos con CPA pero quiero dar el paso.

    Me encantaría saber si puede ser.

    Saludos!

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 9, 2017 at 10:45 am

      Hola. No doy coaching por el momento Beatriz.
      Saludos!

      Reply
  34. Peter says

    February 7, 2017 at 2:45 am

    Hey Servando,

    I’m co-founder of NativeAdBuzz, we are a spy tool for native ads on both mobile and desktop.

    NativeAdBuzz was created for individuals and small teams and is very user friendly for newbies to the industry. It is also better priced than the other spy tools, making it more accessible.

    I’d like figure out an offer for you and your lists.

    Let me know how interested you are.

    Best wishes,

    Peter

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 7, 2017 at 11:05 am

      Hi Peter.
      I’ll send you an email and we can talk more about this there.

      Thanks!

      Reply
  35. PeakAdx says

    November 29, 2016 at 3:43 am

    Hello,

    I came across your blog and I found it an extremely efficient recommendation tool for the online marketing industry players. Congratulations for the good work you have done.

    My name is Anna and I’m representing PeakAdx (https://www.peakadx.com/), A Pop Ad Exchange maximizing ad revenue for Pops and Redirect publishers for mobile & desktop.

    We have strong relationships with direct advertisers WW in various verticals, managing a pool of more than 20,000 active campaigns making our solution the most competitive in our niche.

    Main characteristics:
    Device: Desktop & Mobile platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS & Android, iPhone.)
    Campaign types: CPM, CPA, CPI, CPL.
    Ad formats: Pop (Pop- up & Pop- under)
    Targeting: All verticals.
    Markets: All Geo’s. (WW)
    Both publishers and advertiser will find best monetization solutions with us which will allow them growing their business.
    We would like to join your blog, what’s the next step? If you need further information let me know.

    Looking forward for your reply,

    Reply
    • Fabricio says

      July 23, 2017 at 4:27 pm

      Hi,

      Just to add to this, Servando we would love for you to come out and try our platform.

      In addition to everything that Anna mention, we are one of the few header bidding pop platforms. Where, thanks to this, we try to maximize your adrevenue on each impression.

      Reply
  36. Said says

    November 5, 2016 at 2:15 pm

    Hola servando quisiera saber si tienes algun mail para contactarte. Quisiera enviarte un mail con mis agradecimientos por una guia que leí por allí. Y unas dudas que quisiera que me pudieras aclarar.

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      November 6, 2016 at 3:36 pm

      Hola. Te puedo contactar a este correo que usas para Disqus?

      Reply
      • Said says

        November 6, 2016 at 3:36 pm

        Claro que si amigo.

        Reply
  37. juan says

    October 2, 2016 at 3:24 am

    Hola servando mucho gusto, empece mi primera campana gracias a tu blog. lo leo continuamente, me parece muy buen blog me gustaria saber algo cuando empiezas a recoger Data en que data me baso para sacar la conclusion general en la DATA reciente o en el la DATA que obtengo desde que lance la campana gracias.

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      October 6, 2016 at 12:52 pm

      Hola. Cuando haces cambios los datos cambian, así que si vas a analizar de nuevo tus campañas después de haber modificado parámetros, lo mejor sería que solo busques la información en los datos recientes desde que hiciste el cambio.

      Saludos.

      Reply
      • juan says

        October 7, 2016 at 10:20 pm

        Hi Servando muchas gracias por la aclaracion, digamos que toda accion que uno realice en una campana puede ser considerado un parametro?, por ejemplo, – (persona A quiere probar una oferta lanza la campana, despues de un dia la pausa, por cualquiera que sea la razon.) este simple accion puede corromper los datos que estaba adquiriendo antes de pausarla?. digamos que la persona reactiva la campana, los datos que empieza a recibir son los datos en que tiene que buscar la informacion para optimizar la campana, no los datos viejos.

        Muchas Gracias por tu tiempo Servando.

        PS. he estado recomando tu blog a muchos amigos interesados en este modelo de negocios. hay un mercado amplio en la comunidad de habla hispana que queiren saber sobre este tema pero desafortunadamente la mayoria de blogs son en ingles y los que hay en espanol solo hablan de SEO muy pocos van a hablar de Arbitrage, si los encuentras la calidad de la informacion no es muy amplia. solo te lo digo a manera de sugerencia.

        Buen Dia.

        Reply
        • Servando Silva says

          October 13, 2016 at 12:12 am

          Si no realizaste ningún cambio y solo se pausó la campaña entonces lo único que podría cambiar es el rendimiento por día, por lo cual no habría problema y no corrompe los datos.
          Muchas gracias por la recomendación, pero por el momento no estoy interesado en cubrir el mercado hispano. Saludos!

          Reply
  38. oscarmartinh says

    September 13, 2016 at 6:01 am

    Hola Servando,
    Enhorabuena por el blog 😉
    ¿Tienes algún email de contacto?
    Un saludo
    Óscar

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      September 19, 2016 at 7:58 pm

      Hola. Gracias.
      En que te puedo ayudar?

      Reply
      • oscarmartinh says

        September 20, 2016 at 5:05 am

        ¿ofreces formación personalizada sobre Affiliate Marketing, CPA, etc?
        Saludos 😉

        Reply
        • Servando Silva says

          September 28, 2016 at 11:29 am

          No por el momento. Saludos.

          Reply
  39. victor says

    May 26, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    gracias por hacer este blog enfocado a redes cpa

    Reply

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