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I have come to the conclusion that safelists and viral list builders don’t work so this will be my final update.

Wait for it…

April Fools!

Ok, that was weak. We all know safelists and viral list builders rock. I will keep posting my stats every month until they stop rocking which I suspect won’t be for a very long time.

Did you hear that Viral Mail Profits had a relaunch last month? That’s no joke! In my opinion Viral Mail Profits is the best tool to manage all of your safelist and viral list builder mailings from one location. They have now added their own mailer to allow you to send your ads to other Viral Mail Profits members. I don’t have any stats to share this month but the results have been very good so far.

The latest viral list builder just launched a few days ago from Michael Coursey. I’m talking about My Viral List Profits. This one is so new I haven’t even had a chance to test it out yet. I do have a special promo code that you can use if you want to test it out for yourself. This is an exclusive promo code so don’t go sharing it with everybody you know (ok, you can share it with a few people). Use promo code “safelistexclusivecode” to get 1000 credits, 1000 banner impressions, and 1000 text ads. It’s only good for the first 100 people who use it so don’t wait too long to use it. Enjoy!

Ok, let’s get to the stats…

Last month I picked up a total of 191 subscribers just from advertising my squeeze pages on safelists and viral list builders.

Keep in mind that I have upgraded memberships at most of the safelists and viral list builders which often allows me to send more ads more often. So your results with some of these sites may vary.

	Hits	Unique	Subscribers	Ratio
Viral URL	60	92%	32	53.33%
The Lead Magnet	1,272	70%	16	1.26%
Quick List Profits	694	68%	14	2.02%
State of the Art Mailer	3,996	76%	13	0.33%
Instant Profit List	560	65%	13	2.32%
Power Profit List	538	65%	12	2.23%
Ultimate Profit List	445	73%	11	2.47%
Adchiever	1,372	74%	10	0.73%
List Joe	1,695	69%	9	0.53%
AdsolutionLine	2,945	43%	8	0.27%

For years people have been telling me to try Viral URL but I resisted because it’s not credit based and I don’t care about link cloaking and viral ad bars. But their “Gold” membership allows me to email 3,000 random members every 3 days. That doesn’t sound like much but the results speak for themselves. I think I will be sticking with Viral URL for awhile.

As far as the credit based sites, I am sure Stefan Berg will be happy to see that The Lead Magnet is on top once again. Way to go Stefan!

As a matter of fact, almost all of the new viral list builder sites have been kicking butt lately. It’s nice to see something new taking place in the industry that is actually working. If you are not a member of any of the new viral list builders listed above do give them a try. They are very simple to use and the results have been great.

That’s going to do it for this update. Keep in mind that all the stats that you see above are a result of my own advertising efforts with my own ads. Your results may vary but you’ll never know it unless you are tracking your ads! You can get a free link tracker that will show you which ad sites work best for you from TE Toolbox.

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This just in… Safelist marketing DOES NOT WORK!

Ok, now that i’ve gotten my April Fools joke out of the way… Happy April!

It seems that there is not much news to talk about in the world of safelist marketing this month. Well, that’s not entirely true. Global Safelist just hit 10,000 members. That’s a pretty big milestone in anybody’s book. Congratulations Doug!

List Building Maximizer just announced that they are giving away $1,000 in their referral contest which is running through May 31. I’m pretty sure they are still giving away $1.00 per referral as well. I can’t find any info about that on the site but I do keep finding random $1.00 payments in my account so it must be true.

Ok, That’s it for the news… let get to the stats! These stats come from advertising my video splash page for Safelist Marketing Tactics.

	Total Clicks	Unique Clicks	Action	Sales	CTA	CTS
List Effects	1,742	1,072	117	35	10.91%	3.26%
ListBuildingMaximizer	1,817	843	37	18	4.39%	2.14%
List Auction	1,646	1,028	47	16	4.57%	1.56%
List Joe	1,629	1,147	51	15	4.45%	1.31%
Elite Safelist	1,565	694	24	13	3.46%	1.87%
ViralAdStore	1,654	943	37	10	3.92%	1.06%
Got Safelist	4,041	1,595	44	9	2.76%	0.56%
FreeSafelistMailer	1,333	609	23	6	3.78%	0.99%

“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.

Once again List Effects is killing it! I just wish understood why. The site is brand new and to be honest it’s not very pretty but somehow it is managing to blow away all of the competition. I guess I gotta give props to Frank Salinas & Jon Atwood for releasing one very responsive site.

List Building Maximizer also continues to impress me. For just being a regular credit based safelist it has managed to hang with the big viral list building two months in a row. Same goes for Elite Safelist which seems to get better and better every month.

It’s great to see List Auction and List Joe back on top again. I was getting a little worried last month when they started to slip in the rankings. Both of these sites have been consistent performers for me and I would have hated to lose them.

I guess that’s gonna do it for this month.

Of course I always need to point out these are my own personal stats and depending on what you are promoting your results may vary. I provide this information as a guide for trying out new safelists that you might not already be a member of. It is important that you track your ads to find out which safelists work best for you. You can get a free link tracker from TEToolbox.