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Servando Silva

The Perks and Pains of being an Affiliate Marketeer

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Tools & Resources

This is a page where I’ve gathered different tools and resources to be successful as a CPA affiliate. I’ve found traffic sources, networks, spy tools, trackers, etc. while working in this industry for a few years. I’ll be adding new content constantly so make sure you revisit this every once in a while.

Traffic Sources

Push notifications:

  • PropellerAds (My top recommendation. One of the top converting pop, push, and in-page push networks). Read the review to get a bonus.
  • Zeropark (Good volume)
  • Mobidea (read Mobidea Push review here and get a signup bonus)
  • Push.House (Check out my full review)
  • RichAds (Check out my review)

POP/Redirect:

  • PropellerAds (one of the top converting pop networks). Read the review to get a bonus.
  • SelfAdvertiser (Pop, PPV, redirect, and search traffic with decent volume) Read review and $500 coupon HERE.
  • PopAds (Best network to get your feet wet. Good quality and easy entry-level)
  • Zeropark (Good volume but nowadays a little more difficult to be approved) Read review HERE.
  • PopCash (Targeting isn’t that great, but low entry-level)
  • TONIC (redirect and pop traffic)
  • Bidvertiser (redirect, pop, native, and push notifications)
  • Adsterra (pop, push notifications)
  • Adcash (pop, push notifications, interstitials)
  • RichAds (Check out my review)

Adult:

  • TrafficJunky (Top-notch sites with premium banner traffic)
  • Exoclick (Top Adult Network worldwide)
  • TrafficStars (Another great adult network with premium traffic)

Tools

Trackers:

  • Voluum (Super Recommended, cloud-hosted, no installation required, only $62 per month with this discount!).
  • Adsbridge (Great for starters and the ONLY with a free trial). Read Review and Tutorial HERE.
  • Binom (Self-Hosted and affiliate oriented). Read my Binom review and get a free month + 40% discount here.

Hosting services:

  • VULTR (My favorite to host super fast landing pages at low prices. Totally unmanaged. Read how to set up super fast landings in Vultr).
  • Digital Ocean (Similar to Vultr but usually slower. Get $10 bonus with my link).

Spy tools:

  • BigSpy (Great tool at an affordable price if you want to do market research on the top social media networks. Coupon available)
  • Adplexity Mobile (The best tool hands down to spy mobile traffic. Great for pops, banners, and interstitial traffic with carrier support and lots of networks included) – Use coupon “servando” for $50 OFF
  • Adplexity Desktop (Same tool but for Desktop Ads, both banner and pops) – Use coupon “servando” for $50 OFF
  • Adplexity Native (Same tool but for Native Ads) – Use coupon “servando_n” for $80 OFF
  • Anstrex (Excellent Native Ads or Push Notifications tool with a much less expensive entry price (get it here)
  • Adperiscope (Spy tool for adult campaigns. Good price and covers tons of networks. Get it for $72 here)

Landing page building/editing:

  • Brackets (HTML Code editor)
  • PureLander (easily create simple pages for CPA offers)

CPA Networks

  • ClickDealer (Dating offers, lead generation and Sweepstakes. Great network overall)
  • ProPush.me (Add 30% ROI to your campaigns with this extra monetization method)
  • YTZ (Monetize your non-converting/remnant traffic)
  • Golden Goose (mobile content focused network)
  • Gotzha (lots of gambling, crypto, and CC submits)
  • TrafficCompany (great mobile content and pay per call offers)
  • Adcombo (great Cash on Delivery COD offers)
  • lemonads (finance, gaming, dating, sweeps, etc.)

Where to look for CPA offers:

  • Offervault
  • Odigger

Forums

  • Afflift (Most active forum all around and very affordable. Founded by Luke Kling)
  • StackThatMoney (The largest forum in the paid traffic/affiliate marketing space. Top affiliates doing 3-6 figures per day are here. $99 per month membership).
  • AffiliateFix (Great forum to get started in paid traffic. FREE to sign up).

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. jesus duque says

    July 16, 2022 at 10:10 am

    Hola servando, muchas gracias por toda esta información.

    Solo tengo una duda antes de comenzar. que red de trafico es la que funciona o tiene buen trafico actualmente?

    Es que tengo un curso el cual ya es algo antiguo, y en este enseñan a usar RTX Platform (principalmente) y Zero Park, que me podrías decir de estas dos empresas, aun son buena opción? quisiera inclinarme mas a RTX Platform ya que es lo que enseñan en el curso que tengo.

    Ademas de eso me podrías dar una o 2 recomendaciones de empresas de trafico para un novato como yo que quiere empezar en esto? que estén funcionando hoy en julio 2022. y que tipo de trafico funciona, PPV, Push u otros.

    Te agradecería mucho tu ayuda.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      July 19, 2022 at 11:01 am

      Hola Jesus.
      Muchas redes funcionan y tienen buen tráfico. Es difícil responder la pregunta porque algunas sirven para ciertas campañas y otras no.

      Entre esas 2, tal vez empezaría con RTX aunque ten en cuenta que el depósito mínimo es mayor y si no lo usas te cobran comisión en unos meses.
      Todas las emrpesas que ves aquí están funcionando. Si no, nadie compraría su tráfico y ya hubieran quebrado, como varias lo han hecho en los últimos años.

      Saludos! Si quieres una muy buena que tenga push y pop, empezaría con Propeller Ads.

      Reply
      • jesus duque says

        July 20, 2022 at 11:02 am

        En serio muchas gracias por tu respuesta, me ayudas mucho a dar el siguiente paso. Espero que en un futuro no muy lejano abras algún curso o mentorías, sin duda seria uno de los primeros en inscribirme para recibir tus enseñanzas.

        Saludos, que tengas buen día.

        Reply
  2. Alex Morgan says

    December 13, 2021 at 12:45 am

    Hi , I was wondering if there’s a way that I can introduce our brand-new ad spy tool here.It’s free and you can and you can find ads from every placement possible. It supports more than 7 social media platforms’ ads.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      December 21, 2021 at 1:57 pm

      Hi Alex. And which tool is that? 🙂

      Reply
  3. khaled arbaoui says

    August 8, 2021 at 2:09 am

    Hi S.S,
    very informative content,
    do you have any online courses that can help a beginner to start?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      August 11, 2021 at 9:52 am

      I don’t but I recommend you check my resources page for more information.

      Reply
  4. Yulia Salnikova says

    September 4, 2020 at 10:17 am

    Hi!

    I’m from Affmy.com. Is it possible to get listed on your site?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      September 5, 2020 at 1:46 pm

      I only list networks I’ve tested or recommended by a close friend 🙂

      Reply
  5. Alexander says

    April 24, 2020 at 8:37 am

    Hermano, soy Nuevo en esto nunca he hecho CPA antes y me gustaría tengo algo de dinero ahorrado para empezar pero lo único que he logrado es ser aprobado en Maxbounty pero si hay otra mejor en la cual pueda usar alguna guía tuya me dejas saber. Bendiciones… muy buen contenido aunque no esté aún familiarizado aún con el

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      April 24, 2020 at 11:18 am

      Hola Alexander.
      Pues puedes registrarte en las que ves en esta página para que tengas múltiples opciones iniciales. Maxbounty es buena pero no la veo tanto en las fuentes de tráfico que yo manejo.
      Saludos.

      Reply
  6. Engelberth says

    January 14, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    Hola Servando, vengo siguiendo tu blog de hace rato tiene buen contenido y he visto cosas que no conocia, pero me parece extraño que nunca hables de Maxbounty, siendo esta famosa por ser una de las mejores redes CPA, de hecho en las redes que nombras no está, hay algo negativo en esta red?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      January 15, 2020 at 1:55 pm

      Hola Engel.
      No tengo ningun comentario negativo de Maxbounty. Al contrario, se que es una red buena y mucha gente la recomienda aunque ya no tanto como antes. El tema de la fama suele ser por encuestas y publicaciones que suelen estar muy lejos de la realidad, eso si.

      La unica razon por la cual no he hablado de ella es porque no se especializa en los verticales que yo trabajo, por lo cual no he trabajado casi con ellos. Pero si quieres trabajar con ellos, adelante. No creo que te arrepientas.
      Saludos.

      Reply
  7. OMAR FARUK says

    October 30, 2019 at 12:37 am

    Nice Blog …….

    Reply
  8. Leandro says

    October 9, 2019 at 10:53 am

    Hi Servando,
    I’m Leandro from Brazil and I’m looking for someone to create a partnership to bring some extremely high contents to Brazil. Do you like to talk about it? Let me know… Cheers

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      October 9, 2019 at 8:05 pm

      Extremely high content?
      Sorry man but what does that have to do on this page?

      You’ve got the wrong guy :p

      Reply
  9. Naresh Kumar says

    September 29, 2019 at 9:53 pm

    Hi SS what is best spy tool for a newbie to start with i have very limited budget?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      September 29, 2019 at 10:43 pm

      For which traffic type? Any sources in particular?

      Reply
  10. Naresh Kumar says

    September 29, 2019 at 9:51 pm

    Hi SS please suggest me if we take voluum is it self hosted or do we take vultr also i have this confusion please suggest and one more things what is best tool for a newbie?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      September 29, 2019 at 10:44 pm

      Hi Naresh.
      Voluum is cloud-hosted so you don’t need a VPS to host it. However, you still need a VPS to host your landing pages.

      Reply
  11. Nauman Ishrat says

    August 9, 2019 at 7:28 am

    Hi

    How can I get Anstrex coupon code
    Is it still available

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      August 9, 2019 at 12:26 pm

      The coupon code has expired recently a few weeks ago.
      They won’t have any more coupon codes for now it seems.

      Reply
  12. Claudia says

    August 7, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    Hola Servando,
    Veo que en la lista no mencionas Adcash, la recomiendas?
    He leído en varios blogs que esta red se encuentra entre las top 5 y me interesa registrarme con ellos pero apreciaría mucho tu opinión acerca de ella.
    En caso que la recomiendes, tienes algún cupón de descuento?
    Gracias.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      August 7, 2019 at 7:45 pm

      Hola Claudia.
      Adcash es buena. No sé si decir que entre las top 5, pero es una buena red con mucho volumen de pops.
      No tengo cupones con ellos de momento pero pronto haremos una revisión de esa red y sus tipos de anuncios. Saludos!

      Reply
  13. DANIEL DOUGLAS says

    February 27, 2019 at 7:29 am

    Hey Servando,

    Thank you for taking the time out and making this blog happen.

    I look forward taking in all your content to help me move forward in my business.

    Kind Regards
    Dan

    PS

    Do you have any newbie focuses content.

    I have started out on Bing PPC and plan to get into the led gen space with Search and Social retargeting.

    All the best.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 27, 2019 at 12:27 pm

      I consider most of the things in this blog newbie friendly 🙂
      I have never used Bing PPC so I can’t help there.

      Reply
  14. Akinduyo Eniola says

    February 24, 2019 at 5:49 am

    Hi Servando,
    what a wonderful blog you have here. Do you have a guide on how to start Affiliate marketing.
    I need to know how affiliate marketing works.

    thanks

    Eniola

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      February 24, 2019 at 11:11 am

      Yeah, you can read the start here page in the top bar 🙂

      Reply
  15. Chris says

    January 27, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    Thanks for the rich information provided. Please how can a total newbie like me start and where can i get detailed and comprehensive knowledge on affiliate marketing. Pdf recommended by you would be fine, thanks in advance.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      January 28, 2019 at 12:21 pm

      Forums are your best choice. No PDF can cover all about affiliate marketing.
      Affiliatefix and Afflift are the forums I recommend for beginners.

      Reply
  16. Vlada says

    January 25, 2019 at 9:02 am

    Hi Servando!

    Your blog is wonderful!

    I represent AdsBridge – affiliate software (tracker) for tracking conversions of marketing campaigns, including those from Facebook and Google Adwords.

    How could I reach you to discuss a possibility of cooperation?

    Looking forward to hearing from you.
    Best wishes,
    Vlada

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      January 25, 2019 at 12:03 pm

      Hi Vlada.
      I’ll contact you or you can always answer any of the emails from my list.

      Reply
      • Vlada says

        January 28, 2019 at 1:31 am

        Thank you, Servando.

        Looking forward to hearing from you.

        Have a nice day!

        Reply
  17. Kristina says

    January 15, 2019 at 3:57 am

    Hello Servando,

    I represent Leo.cash – the innovative platform specialized in monetizing website traffic from all over the world via push notifications. My team is interested in cooperating with you related to the placement of a review about our platform on your site. Our goal is to share information about Leo.cash services with your readers.

    Hope, this offer will interest you. I would like to get acquainted with the terms of placement and our further actions. I look forward to your reply about our cooperation.

    Respectfully,
    Kristina, Marketing Specialist of Leo.cash

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      January 15, 2019 at 11:22 am

      Hi Kristina.
      Are you guys mostly re-selling MegaPush’s traffic?

      Reply
  18. Mirko says

    September 18, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    Hi Servando, congrats for this blog full of strategic contents.
    Wich forum do you reccomend for adult affiliate marketing?
    Looking forward to your reply.
    Thanks
    Mirko

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      September 18, 2018 at 4:46 pm

      StackThatMoney has some adult related content but i’m not sure there’s one focused on that anymore.

      Reply
      • Mirko says

        September 19, 2018 at 2:23 am

        Thank you Servando.
        What about Affletes? Is a good choice?

        Reply
        • servandosilva says

          September 20, 2018 at 11:33 am

          Affletes is good and has some great topics inside, however it’s still kind of new so not as active as other forums.

          Reply
          • Mirko says

            October 6, 2018 at 6:04 am

            Thank you Servando! Just signed up for STM 😉

          • servandosilva says

            October 9, 2018 at 11:20 am

            Nice Mirko!
            See ya there.

  19. Francisco Gonzalez says

    August 13, 2018 at 1:08 pm

    Hola Servando, como estas.
    Me he suscrito a tu blog aun cuando ya lo sigo desde hace un tiempo y tengo algunas dudas que me gustaría me respondieras, si es posible.
    En primer lugar, decirte que tu página es genial con una información increíble que de verdad ayuda bastante.
    Bien, estoy en el marketing de afiliados hace unos cuantos años y consigo resultados, sin embargo, como las cosas cambian, me surgen algunas dudas.
    Ahora estoy probando Bidvertiser, ya la probé años atrás y funcionaba más o menos. Mi pregunta es la siguiente, ¿realmente merece la pena invertir en esta publicidad?
    Otra pregunta;
    He visto el curso “CPA Media” y lo veo muy interesante. Me gustaría poder promocionarlo con ppc y otras fuentes de tráfico. Pero no veo que tengas programa de afiliados directo. ¿Como puedo promocionar dicho curso?
    Muchas gracias de antemano.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      August 13, 2018 at 2:45 pm

      Hola Francisco. Mucho gusto.
      Bidvertiser hoy en día me parece de calidad y volumen bastante bajo. Hace unos años la usé pero hoy en día no me enfocaría en ella.

      Sobre CPA Media. Solamente los alumnos del curso tienen la posibilidad de ser afiliados y promocionarlo con una comisión del 33%.
      Saludos.

      Reply
  20. AdSpy Team says

    June 1, 2018 at 7:04 am

    Hi Servando,

    We are AdSpy.com – the largest Facebook and Instagram Spy Tool. We came across your blog and were wondering if you would be interested in promoting our ad intelligence tool or adding us in your list of Landing Page & Banner Tools?

    We can offer free trials to your visitors, exclusive discounts and we are always looking for new ways to collaborate and cooperate with engaging blogs if you have suggestions of how we can help each other out.

    Our main selling points are:
    – The largest database out of any social media spy tool in history
    – Both Facebook & Instagram
    – Mobile ads
    – Much more that you can find on our site!

    Please let us know your thoughts on this and looking forward to a collaboration with you!

    Thanks,
    AdSpy Team

    Reply
  21. Gbonsquare says

    January 23, 2018 at 3:48 pm

    Hello Servando, please are Adworkmedia and CPAgrip good networks to work with or you will suggest I get them changed as a newbie.I want to start making good money even with a lean budget of $1000.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      January 24, 2018 at 11:40 am

      Adworkmedia is fine. They have some good apps and pin submits.
      I don’t have experience with CPA Grip but it didn’t look like they had anything special in my point of view.

      Reply
  22. Sam says

    August 28, 2017 at 5:30 pm

    Hey, Servando.

    Do you still recommend 50onred (RTX Platform) for Pop traffic or is the quality not good enough anymore?

    In the case that you still do recommend it, what is the best way to get masivr volume from it?

    Best 👍

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      August 29, 2017 at 11:11 am

      the quality is similar. not the best, but not the worst. I’ve seen much worse and made them work.
      I like doing RON campaigns at the beginning with them and analyze the data per country to see what’s available to get more volume.

      Reply
  23. Zluck says

    May 12, 2017 at 12:42 am

    Hello, Please could you let me know if the plan 25GB SSD (1 CPU 1024MB Memory/1000GB Bandwidth) in Vultr is ok to begin with?
    I am using a 512MB SVZ VPS plan in RamNode and I find LP speed is not so good, therefore, I haven’t used the server quite often. And I realise the importance of LP, so I’d like to make some change as to improve the LP speed. Under your link, should I input any coupon code to get the bonus you mentionned? Thanks.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      May 12, 2017 at 10:51 am

      Hello. Yes, it should be more than enough to get started.
      Check this article to read more about that.

      What coupon are you talking about?

      Reply
  24. Khabchi says

    April 28, 2017 at 7:28 pm

    Hi I want to know how can I promote Pin Submit step by step. Please it’s urgent.

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      April 30, 2017 at 10:20 pm

      If it’s urgent buy a course like 6WAMC and learn everything as fast as possible.

      Reply
  25. Nguyen says

    March 9, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    Hello,
    I registered Zeropark but they rejected my application. Can you please help me get in ?

    Reply
    • servandosilva says

      March 9, 2017 at 9:52 pm

      It really depends on their application process. There’s not much I can do except for when we’re running a promo or something like that.

      Reply
  26. shahrear mehfuz says

    January 12, 2017 at 5:30 am

    Hello Servando
    I am new Marketer.I want to know How Work Spy-tool. I really want to know about It.And which traffic source is really good for Gift card offers. Thanks

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      January 12, 2017 at 11:19 am

      You want to know how a spy tool works? They crawl different websites and index the banners and other ads into a database so you can check them by geo, OS, etc.
      Facebook works great for gift cards.

      Reply
      • shahrear mehfuz says

        January 12, 2017 at 11:37 am

        thanks

        Reply
  27. hasan says

    November 17, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    Hey Servando, What is your contact info skype or email ? and Do you teach 1-1 ? please let me know

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      December 1, 2016 at 12:10 pm

      I don’t. Sorry.

      Reply
  28. Roger says

    September 25, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    Nice info. thanks.
    One question that I have is that I recently tried Pop traffic with some sweepstake and the conversion was good only to find out that almost all the leads were reversed. That feels really bad. The affiliate manager told me that that traffic source was problematic.

    I was directly linking to the traffic source. No landing page.

    In your opinion which networks accept such traffic? I asked Luke and he told me the offers with PPV allowed one’s are OK to promote via POP advertising. I tried it and it doesn’t convert at all. Please share your take on this. Thx.

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      September 28, 2016 at 11:31 am

      Stop direct linking and add a landing page so you can increase the quality of your conversions and don’t get reversed.
      Yes, pop is part of PPV advertising and it does convert very well.

      Reply
  29. christia says

    August 15, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    Hola disculpa que vps me rrecomienda para crear fb ads ya que mi ip esta en la blacklist? gracias de ante mano

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      August 16, 2016 at 12:45 pm

      Cualquier VPS como DigitalOcean o Vultr debería funcionar.

      Reply
  30. Servando Silva says

    August 4, 2016 at 12:26 am

    Hello. You can ask them here. I don’t work with Maxbounty but they’re a good network. Best Regards.

    Reply
    • Amit says

      August 4, 2016 at 12:44 am

      Which networks do u suggest? I am keen to understand the domain and where to run the campaigns

      Reply
      • Servando Silva says

        August 6, 2016 at 12:46 am

        The ones I recommend here in this page.

        Reply
  31. Eskil says

    July 15, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    Servando. what is your opinion on AdsBridge?

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      July 15, 2016 at 5:43 pm

      I have heard they have good support but honestly I haven’t tested it so I can’t say much about it.

      Reply
  32. Amr Albasel says

    July 2, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    AsmallOrange VPS host , Is good for use on it CPV Lab Tracker ?

    Reply
    • Servando Silva says

      July 3, 2016 at 10:36 pm

      For start, maybe yes, but I don’t really recommend CPV lab anymore.

      Reply
      • Maris says

        March 19, 2017 at 1:39 pm

        What happened to CPVLab? It used to be recommended as number one.

        Reply
        • servandosilva says

          March 19, 2017 at 3:37 pm

          Things change quickly in this space. Competitors appear and the ones who stay updated, competitive and adding features are the ones people use.

          Reply

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