Plenty of Fish ads has come from absolutely nowhere to become one of the best targeting platforms in existence. If Facebook ads is like a beached starfish that hasn’t moved for years, Plenty of Fish ads is like a highly evolved octopus with brains capable of entering bank lobbies.
Alright Mr Green enough of the ridiculous metaphors, give us some facts…
Fine.
So I’m guessing the number one reason for people not moving over to Plenty of Fish is because they don’t think the volume is there. Please cast your eyes to the stats below.
Monthly Visits
- US: 65.4 million
- Canada: 22.6 million
- UK: 18 million
- Australia: 2.2 million
- Ireland: 1 million
At first glance that might not make much impact on you. But with less competition, click prices are cheap cheap cheap. People are doing huge volume in the US getting 16-17 cent clicks. CA with 11 cent clicks. UK with 4 cent clicks. With Australia and Ireland we are talking about 4 cents clicks and lower.
Next week Plenty of Fish are leveraging their traffic even more. You want more volume? You got it! They are introducing banners 300×250, 160×600 and 120×600. Yes they were meant to do this a while ago but next week is supposed to be the week. Want to make some easy money? Start making your banners now. The first few days there will be hardly any competition with these creative sizes. Clicks will be cheaper than cheap.
Sex
- 55% – Male
- 45% – Female
Affiliate marketing is a male dominated niche. By default a lot of us market only to guys. 45% of Plenty of Fish is female traffic. Talk to your wifey, girlfriend, partner, main squeeze, mother or grandmother about marketing to the ladies. You might be surprised what they can teach you.
Education
- 71% collège or university
- 10% Masters Degree or Higher
Household Children
- 57%
Can you say Snuggie for kids? I kid, i kid. The majority of people on Plenty of Fish are not those “young guy looking for fun” types that most affiliates start targeting. They are there because they want to start a family. Get into to that mindset.
Income
- 39k – 23%
- 30-60k 36%
- 60-100k 23%
- 100k-150k 12%
- 150kk+ 6%
Age
- 18-24 20%
- 25-34 20%
- 35-44 19%
- 45-54 24%
- 55+ 17%
Average Activity
- Time on site 15.1 mins
- Page Views 22.5
Pay attention to session depth and frequency caps. They are forces to be reckoned with! They can make or break a campaign.
Now I present to you the most underused tool in affiliate marketing history. The Plenty of Fish demographic search engine.
It is 100% free. Out in the public. Everyone can use it but not everyone does.
How does it work?
Lets say you have a knitting offer. Sure you have a rough idea of the demographics of older women but lets dig deeper. Enter “knitting” into the demographic search tool. Pick out the results with the highest percentages. Using this tool you’ll know to target:
- Women 55+
- PHD/ Post Doctoral and Masters Degree
- Widowed
- Big & Tall/BBW
This tool will tell you exactly what to target in order to get those insanely high CTRs which lead to cheap clicks. Game over.
Plenty of Fish. Plenty of Money.








Pretty awesome post Lorenzo. Keep it up with what your doing. Thank you.
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Lorenzo is delivering again and again
Have you had any problems with traffic quality on POF and do you have any tips to avoid this in the first place?
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POF is the leading free dating site its excellent for affiliates because everyone is single & desperate so chances of them completing an offer are much greater then any other site.
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Way to keep it coming with useful posts Lorenzo!
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Have you tried anything besides dating on POF?
If so please elaborate.
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What’s up with your blog giving out useful tips? Where’s your optin list so you can bomb us with (as of today and yesterday) Frank Kern’s cash machine or whatever the hell it’s called.
Why are you not wasting our time with vague marketing tips and strategies?
This is unacceptable.
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I’m not understanding how session depth plays a part in targeting. Care to elaborate?
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Lorenzo Green Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
@Tran – You are not trying to target different people here. It’s just a way of helping you increase your ctr. You may find that a user is a lot more likely to click your ad within the first 5 page views of their sessions, as opposed to their later page views.
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Josh Todd Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Is 5 pages the magic number or just an example here?
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MarketTech Reply:
March 12th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
POF defaults to 5. It’s a nice feature because your impressions are spread over more unique visitors. Kinda like frequency caps with media buying.
Tran Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Thanks for the info, very informative.
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why reveal this info ???
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Lorenzo Green Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Well I have hated Plenty of Fish for 10 years now. So I created this master plan to flood their ad platform with affiliates. Thus slowing down their servers which will be the demise of Plenty of Fish as we know it.
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Josh Todd Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 8:42 am
I think I see a flaw in your evil plan…
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Lorenzo,
Another great post. I was trying to stay away from POF so I can focus on PPV but you are making me think twice. Are they as strict as FB regarding images and such?
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Lorenzo Green Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
No, they are a lot more lenient.
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changing my startpage from affbuzz to mrgreen.am
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Affbuzz Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Nooooooooooooo!
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Josh Todd Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Hahaha now that’s funny.
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Wynne Reply:
May 16th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
ROFL.
LOL, creating more competition for everyone… People should really shut up about traffic sources, what benefit does it give anyone if more people are bringing up CPM prices? Oh yeah you want to be the new “useful” affiliate marketing blog.
Too bad POF will be over run eventually, and another traffic source slowly dies…..
Give yourself a pat on the back buddy! Now everyone likes your blog so I guess that’s whole point right?
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Lorenzo Green Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Yeah you are so right Mr Yellow! I guess I should take your advice and just spam users with useless info! Yay!
I bet you 90% of my readers already have POF accounts. The majority of people who are not using their account, will continue to not use them. The ones who are active might pick up a tip or two. Looks like your days of POF glory might be over now. Since this post raised CPM prices by 0.000000623. I’m sorry.
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Josh Todd Reply:
May 17th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Maybe if Mr. Yellow used the advice in this post then he could actually LOWER his CPM cost.
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It’s already pretty saturated. I remember just a couple months ago you were able to bid .15 or .20 CPM and be able to get a bunch of impressions in the U.S. Now youd be lucky to bid .30 or .40 and get a decent amount of impressions. Some demos I have to bid .70+ to get anyting.
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an added bonus is that you can run ads and steal images from the same web site!
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Your was really what I’ve been searching for. THanx!
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I’ve heard about plenty of fish but never used it. I’ll be sure to check it out because you over ephasized the cheap! And hopefully cheap will help earn bigger profits.
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Great article…I’ve been thinking about marketing on POF, but I’ve also been wondering about MIVA PPC. I know in the past MIVA was not the best marketing platform for conversions, but lately I’ve been hearing better things. Have you ever used MIVA? Had any success with them? Their clicks seem to be cheaper then POF, from what I’ve found online! Thanks for your time and stay green!
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How about GUTS? Nah, just kidding. You really don’t need unbridled courage to be a successful online income affiliate. But, how about SKILL?
Yep! That’s your absolute BIGGIE, the one affiliate program income attribute you cannot do without, because, more than
anything else today, online income acquisition demands that you have specific attack plans for your advertising campaigns.
Keywords are the life blood of online income affiliate advertising and sales.SMARTS – that’s the name of today’s online income affiliate game.
You already have “smarts?” Good, that gives you a head start. Yet, the catch is, knowing exactly when, how, where, and what strategies to implement
with the God-given smarts you possess.
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Great article chuck full of stats for POF. We have advertised with them in the past. We found that banner blindness is starting to kick in but still high converting compared with others.
The dating site market is now very segmented… you kind of have to wonder if/when there will be consolidation. The hot niche market these days seems to be Sugar Daddys, as can be evidenced on POF… glut of ads for young girls looking for rich older men. Once the economy turns the corner will be interesting to see if the traditional sites will get a boost.
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