Welcome to March and a whole new month of safelist marketing. Lots of good stuff to talk about this month so let’s jump right in…
First, the big news last month was all about the rise in popularity of safelist cheat software and the safelists owners efforts to fight it. Well, I am happy to report that the war is over… and WE WON! Mostly. Andrew Baxter, the creator of the most popular software made an appearance at Net Marketing Forum and agreed to stop selling and supporting his software. You can read the whole thread here.
Andrew also states that the developers of several other safelist cheat programs had sent him very angry emails because he had made his software so public resulting in the safelists adding anti-cheat devices. I guess that confirms that there are still other cheaters out there but at least the anti-cheat stuff is working.
Also I want to remind everyone that while there are people using bots to click your safelist credit links this doesn’t hurt the effectiveness of safelist advertising. When you spend your safelist credits your credits are used whether or not someone opens your email. The bots just allow people to earn credits they don’t deserve. This could result in more emails in your inbox but that also means more credits for you to earn.
There was a pretty huge launch last month. List Effects is the new viral list builder from two of the biggest names in the safelist and text ad exchange industry. To be honest, the site isn’t really pretty. In fact, it looks a little too much like the inside of a text ad exchange… but it’s the results that matter. And WOW is List Effects kicking butt. Check the stats below and you will see why I am so excited about this new program.
A not so new program that I finally joined last month is List Building Maximizer. I don’t know why I waited so long to join this one. I guess I figure that newer sites aren’t going to have enough members until they have been around for awhile. Obviously I was wrong. Based on the stats below List Building Maximizer is crushing it! If there are other great safelists like this out there that I am missing out on please let me know.
Ok. Here are my safelist stats from last month. These stats come from advertising my video splash page for Safelist Marketing Tactics.
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Total Clicks |
Unique Clicks | Action | Sales | CTA | CTS | |
| List Effects |
1,076 | 818 | 104 | 21 | 12.71% | 2.57% |
| ViralAdStore | 1,520 | 915 | 61 | 18 | 6.67% | 1.97% |
| ListBuildingMaximizer |
1,757 | 894 | 57 | 18 | 6.38% | 2.01% |
| Got Safelist | 3,808 | 1,571 | 50 | 10 | 3.18% | 0.64% |
| Elite Safelist | 1,396 | 682 | 36 | 10 | 5.28% | 1.47% |
| List Auction | 1,042 | 737 | 34 | 10 | 4.61% | 1.36% |
| AdSolutionline | 2,338 | 917 | 26 | 4 | 2.84% | 0.44% |
| FreeSafelistMailer | 962 | 466 | 13 | 3 | 2.79% | 0.64% |
“Clicks” is how many people viewed my splash page. “Action” is how many people clicked the link on my splash page to go to the main site. “Sales” is how many people joined my site. CTA and CTS are “clicks to action” and “clicks to sale”. I ranked these safelists by sales but it is also important to look at the other numbers to determine how responsive each safelist really is.
Not counting the two new sites it looks like I had a slight drop in my overall results from last month. That could be a result of me playing around with my subject lines. I am surprised that List Auction continues to drop. This could be a result of how few emails they are sending out which means less credits for me to earn for my own ads. It’s nice to see Got Safelist and Elite Safelist doing really well again.
Obviously the biggest winners this month are List Effects and List Building Maximizer. If you are not a member of these two programs yet you are missing out on some seriously good traffic.
I guess that’s about it for this month. As usual my stats are a result of my efforts and the pages I am promoting. Your results may not be the same but you can use my stats as a guide for deciding where you should be promoting this month. How do I know which safelists work best for me? I track my results. If you aren’t tracking you are wasting a big chunk of your time. You can get a free link tracker from TEToolbox.
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I totally agree with you I use most of the same safelist and get good results. I really do like list effects. I just joined power marketing don’t know yet how it is. I’ll let you know if its worthwhile. Keep up the good work
Your results are about on par with my own, save for List Effects which I haven’t really been able to use much yet and Free Safelist Mailer, which I rarely see much out of.
Elite and GOTSafelist both totally rock. Global’s also suddenly become very responsive for me very recently, after not having been all that much all along.
List Building Maximizer ebbs and flows for me but was a major front runner for me in November and December. I had no idea you weren’t already in it or I’d have said so LOL.
Shame on Jerry you probably missed the most effective time I was getting lots of sign ups and sales from day one on list building maximizer.
Not as good now but still very effect. my top converter followed by Adsolutionline.
Just shows we all get different results.
Yea Jerry shame on you! LBM is doing very well. thanks for joining under me though :)
ListEffects has been tops for me as well.
.. I just really wanted to chime in to add that these cheaters DO affect you in your safelist advertising.
Imagine you have 20 emails coming in from cheaters daily out of 100 from a particular safelist. That lowers the possibility of your ads being clicked on.
So yes, while you don’t directly waste credits, you can still lose out on valuable page views due to these people.
Oh and EliteSafelist rocks! (totally not biased here at all :P )
Solomon Huey
Good point Solo.
I just didn’t want to scare anyone away from safelists out of fear that they are swarming with cheaters. It’s not like traffic exchanges where if someone is using a bot to surf your credits get wasted.
But yes, the safelists that are now using cheat protection (such as Elite Safelist) should start seeing an increase in responsiveness as member ads will now have a better chance of getting seen.