I’ll have to disagree with you about maxbounty and neverblue though…they’re not scammers.

If your leads were not showing up in the interface then it’s probably an issue with your tracking setup. If you think you sent more leads than you were credited with, then the advertisers (NOT the CPA network) may be shaving you–but shaving is a part of the industry like it or not. If that’s the case then just move on to a different offer.

If the leads show up in the interface then you’re gonna get paid. If they didn’t pay you there is probably a legitimate reason. Maybe you were sending bad/fake traffic or doing something against their TOS? They should tell you if you ask them. If you read the terms of some offers they have the right to back out commissions if they turn out to be duplicates, but that’s disclosed up front.

Please elaborate on what the REAL reasons were for you not getting paid. I’d bet that it’s not “scamming”. I’ll bet that it’s one of the issues I mentioned above, but please let us know the details.

Thanks!

If you’re outside of the US or Canada, then it can be pretty tough to get accepted to a network. Most networks will accept people from the UK, AU, NZ, and much of Europe, but outside of those areas it can be pretty tough to get accepted.

It’s because of the high amount of the fraud that the networks have found in other countries. Sorry, that’s just the way it is.

If you’re from outside of these countries, you MIGHT have some luck if you meet face to face with some companies at an event like ADTECH, ASW, ASE, etc. If they can see that you’re a real human being and not some “fake account” that might get you in.

If you are in the US, EU, UK, AU, NZ, or CA and still are getting rejected then my best advice to you is to meet some affiliate managers at the affiliate events like I mentioned above, or if that’s totally out of the question, then call up the networks on the phone and talk to them.

Make it seem like you know what you’re doing and are making a lot of money on some other networks. If you come off like a newbie then they probably won’t want to deal with you. But if you act like a player who’s already making money, and who wants to spread some of it to their network then you’ll have a pretty chance of getting in.

If you know anyone online or in person who can give you a recommendation to a CPA network that should help a lot too. Talk to that person’s affiliate manager and you’ll probably get in.

It’s all about relationships in this biz. Get in tight with an affiliate manager and they will give you all sorts of golden information. But first you have to get in a network of course. If you follow what I just told you then you should be OK.

But if you’re not in one of the main English-speaking countries or Western Europe, then it can be tough. My advice to you then would be to try working with Clickbank. I think they’ll accept pretty much anyone from all but a few really high fraud countries.

Good luck with it and let me know how it works out for you!

Best,
Brad

What you could also do is provide some guide to get accepted in the CPA networks.

I have been rejected by most networks and I am sure fellow IM beginners would like to know how to get accepted WITHOUT a website or even a email list

Plus POF is CPM pricing which means you’ve really got to test a lot and get some high CTR ads to make it work.

FB works similar in that way. Even if you’re doing CPC pricing (which I recommend) you still have to have a great CTR (generally over 0.6% or so) to get the cost per click down and also so FB will keep showing your ads. They’ll stop showing the ads if the CTR drops. I wouldn’t use CPM pricing with FB anymore since they changed the way the show the ads a few months ago.

If you want to run FB I’d try to run non-US traffic. It’s a lot cheaper and less competitive.

I’ve had the most success with yahoo PPC lately but since bing is taking them over we’ll have to see how that plays out in the future.

Overall, hydra has always been a great network for me. Especially since they got the new interface a couple of months ago and you can now add your pixels manually. (although they don’t always work and sometimes you have to have your aff mgr do it.)

Hope that helps you out!
Good luck!