traffic merchant

Joined July 2025
Photos and videos
biggest CTR unlock this month: deeplinking from IG to external browser instead of letting users land in the in-app browser most link services don't even offer this as an option if your traffic stops in the IG webview you're losing conversions you don't even see
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on paid ads your CTA is the copy... on fan accounts your CTA is the entire profile - bio, pfp, story sequence, post grid once you realize that, you can split test profiles the same way performance marketers split test ad copy
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app distribution stops being a gamble when you treat it as math... certain traffic upside potential > hoping a post goes viral if i know my baseline touchpoints per campaign, i can model installs before i even start most ppl run distribution like a lottery ticket & call it strategy
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content driven distribution will always lose to account driven traffic in terms of predictability... when you control touchpoints per user, ROI is just math against the offer when you're relying on a post to land, you're gambling every campaign most ppl don't realize this because they're stuck thinking distribution = going viral
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most ppl pushing mobile installs are obsessed with creatives and ignore the actual conversion lever profile quality the user journey isn't creative → app store it's creative → profile → bio → link → app store if your profile looks dead in the middle of that funnel you lose 80% of the intent before they even tap through
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