Royal Messenger to the Kingdom

Thanks very much to all of you who voted for RoyalSurf! With your votes and support, RoyalSurf has returned to the Affiliate Funnel Top 10. Please remember to vote daily and keep in mind that on the Affiliate Funnel scale, 10 = GOOD and 1 = BAD!

This week, with our mere 16,500+ members, RoyalSurf outperformed the over 140,000 member powerhouse, TS25! Our total delivered hits and unique hits exceed theirs. Please take a look for yourself by looking at these statistics.

Are you using splash pages or squeeze pages to advertise? If you’re not I’ll bet your results are less than stellar in the traffic exchanges that you advertise in.

What’s that? You say you “are” using a splash page but it’s not doing so hot either?

Well, here are a few questions I have for you about the splash pages you are using…

Are you using the same program provided splash pages that everyone else are using? If there are hundreds (or worse, thousands) of other people promoting the same pages as you are promoting, how will you stand out from the crowd?

How old are they? Like all advertising, you need to freshen your ad campaign from time to time. Even great splash pages need to be changed and swapped out occassionally. Just like commercials on TV and radio are changed periodically, you need to change your splash pages too. That’s because after a while people get use to them and tune them out.

Have you tried tweaking the text, colors, images, etc? Not all splash pages are created equal. There are good ones and bad ones, just as there are commercials that work and those that don’t work so well. And, sometimes just changing a word or a color can make all the difference to the response you get.

Tweaking splash pages successfully will require that You test your splash pages to see what works and what doesn’t work… which means you will need a good tracker to track your results. The key thing to remember when tweaking is to change only one element at a time and then test.

If you change more than one thing at a time you won’t know what resulted in the change in response (good or bad). Both are important to know. The bad so you can remove it and avoid repeating it in the future. The good so you can duplicate it in the future.

Please do yourself a favor and grab this Free guide to “What A Splash Page Is & Why You Should Use One.” It’s well-worth your time because it could improve your results by as much as 500%!

No joking… Did I mention already that it’s free?

Grab your Free Guide here.

Oh, and if you don’t yet have yourself a good quality tracking service you’ll not find any better than HitsConnect Ad Tracking System. Best of all, I’m pleased to be able to offer all RoyalSurf citizens a 30% discount off the usual rate…

Get 30% Discount Off HitsConnect’s usual rate by clicking here.

I’m experimenting with something new at RoyalSurf to see how the members respond…

Several times a week, perhaps even every day, there will be at least one special splash page or squeeze page in rotation that will earn the person who finds it a great prize…
Such as…

• 25,000 or more banner impressions,
• $5 or $10 or more in cash,
• Free month’s upgrade, etc

There’s only one little catch… finding it!

That’s because the only way you will find it is by actually clicking through on splash pages or squeeze pages to learn more or sign up for their list, product or service. It may be just a simple click through or you may have to enter information such as your name, email, etc.

The idea here is for you to be observing, paying attention to, and actually patronizing our advertisers. Naturally, you can’t click on or signup for every splash page and squeeze page in rotation at RoyalSurf… and you aren’t expected to.

I do ask however, that you “Surf Responsibly - Don’t Surf & Ignore.” I’ve made a post on our blog, the Royal Scribe, that explains this concept in great detail. Why not take a read here.

Observing, paying attention to, and actually patronizing our advertisers who offer something that interests you can really pay off… “Surf Responsibly - Don’t Surf & Ignore” explains how and now…

You can win a great prize from RoyalSurf too!

Either way you WIN!

Whether this goes beyond an experiment and remains a permanent benefit to RoyalSurf members depends on the response of the members and the results. If it effectively increases the conversion rate for our members then we will seriously look at keeping this benefit. 

At the same time, there is a sure way in which some members can guarantee that the experiment will be abandoned quickly… and that is if any of our members start “teaming” the search for the prizes.  In other words, if members gather together and try to jointly figure out where the prizes appear and share that information with one another, this will be discontinued.  Such actions will ensure that no one can benefit from our efforts to improve the results all of our members receive.

The King