AzoogleAds - Why They Rock

Affiliates are always looking for the best CPA company to work with, and what they should look for in a company to work with. My top recommendation is to join up at AzoogleAds, as they are my most preferred network for a variety of reasons. I’m going to write up a review of Azoogle, and then write a little guide that will “break you in” to Azoogle once you sign up. I’ll show you where things are located, and how to navigate around and use a few of their features.

Why Azoogle Gets My Top Recommendation

Although I work in a few different CPA networks (as different networks have their different strong points), the network with the most strong points for me has been Azoogle. I recommend Azoogle for the following reasons :

Reason #1 - Management

I have found my affiliate managers at Azoogle to be the best in the business. Some talk has come up at some forums (like DP) of affiliates being neglected by their AM. Well no CPA network is perfect, but sometimes not all the blame should be put on management, as the affiliate should make some effort to contact their manager if they’re in need of something. Plus if you really dislike your manager, you can always request a change. I loved both of my managers (Fraser was my development manager and Audrey is my manager now - if any of you guys have them). They’ve told me what offers are hot, helped me in marketing them, and have even scraped keyword lists with me. I couldn’t ask for more.

Reason #2 - Top Payouts

Azoogle is known for their top payouts, and they live up to it. Despite a few CPA drops recently, Azoogle has always had the best offers, and best payouts on the offers. It’s also fairly easy to boost up your payout after you’ve promoted the offer for a little. Back a little over a month ago when Blockbuster got really hot, the payout in Azoogle was $52. After about a day of promoting it, my manager was able to bump me up to $58…which is a HUGE increase.

Reason #3 - On-Time Payments

What good are top payouts if you don’t get paid on time? Azoogle pays out on the day they say they will, period. I’ve had one instance of a late payment, and that was after an insane holiday rush and the payday fell on a holiday (I can’t remember what it was).

Reason #4 - Great Offers

They’re always coming out with new offers that seem to convert great for everyone. They’ve also been open to bringing in new offers that I’ll recommend if I have been using them with another company.

Reason #5 - Ease of Use

This is best for beginners, but I loved how easy it was for me to initially navigate through my account, and find offers instantly to promote. Getting around is really clean and easy, which is key for complete beginners.

A Little Walkthrough of Azoogle

Alright, by now I should have convinced you that Azoogle is a bomb network, and you should have signed up. Now that you signed up, I’ll just show you a few things that will get you acquainted with Azoogle and their system.

Once you login, you’ll be sent to the starting screen. From here you can see recent news, your MTD (month-to-date) revenue, MTD clicks, and the menu that will take you to wherever you want to go. Now we’ll go and find an offer to promote.

Hover over the offers menu option, and then click on “All Offers”. This will bring up a screen that looks like this (click to enlarge) :

The offers shown will be the latest ones Azoogle has. You can customize different search options to display them in different manners, but lets say you already know you want to promote ringtones. Enter “ringtones” into the box and search it. Up will come all the ringtone offers Azoogle has. You can see all the payouts on the different offers, and then click to look at more details about the offer. Let’s say we want to look at the RockinRinger offer from Thumbplay. Click on the link, and the screen will look like this (click to enlarge) :

Note : If your account is brand new, the “Search” box won’t be there. Contact your affilite manager and ask them to unlock it.

We’re going to say you’re going to be doing PPC marketing, so you’ll chose the “Search” option. Here, we can read all of the rules for the offer. It’s very important that you read the rules and follow them. You can get in some deep crap if you break the rules, so it’s in your best interest to always read the offer description and rules. You’ll see the “Tracking URL” and then a weird looking URL. This is where you want to send your landing page to, it’s the actual affiliate offer with your tracking code in it. So if your landing page has a button that says “Click here to get started”, you’d make that link to the tracking URL.

Now we’ll take a look at reports. If you hover over the “Statistics” tab, you’ll see a bunch of different report options you can see. If you just click on the Statistics tab, it will jump today today’s stats for every offer you are running. The most useful report in my opinion though is the Sub Report. This allows you to see how each separate subid is working out.

Note : what are subids? A subid helps you track your offers more specifically. For example, if you’re promoting ringtones and you have a carrier landing page, you can link the Verizon button to http://youraffiliatelink.com?subid=verizon. Now if you go into your Sub Report at the end of the day, you can see how many times the Verizon button was clicked on, and how many leads you got from it. Even more importantly, you can track what exact keywords converted to leads, which is pretty awesome.

I’d show a screenshot for the subreport so you can see what it looks like, but I hit my subreport cap, so now they all have to be emailed to me and opened up in Excel.

If you click on the Rewards tab, you’ll see a little graph thingie that shows how many points you have, and what you can buy with those points. I save up for the 100,000 points and go for the big gift card :). You have to get at least 5,000 points ($5,000 revenue) for them to start adding up.

Oh, and definitely download the Azoogle toolbar for Firefox. Hover over “Tools”, and then click on toolbar. It saves all the suspenseful loads of your main Azoogle homepage. It tells you your daily (or monthly) clicks, leads, and eCPC.

Alright, well this post is long enough, and you should know by now how much I love Azoogle. You know why I like them so much, and now won’t be completely lost when you do sign up and get your account Approved.

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