CPA-Affiliates.com is Giving Away a Digital Picture Frame

17 Responses to “CPA-Affiliates.com is Giving Away a Digital Picture Frame”

1. jim on January 10th, 2007 9:41 am

   My first mistake in affiliate marketing was not tracking and just counting my money, what I should’ve been doing was tracking what page visitors were visiting before they converted and seeing why they were converting. By not doing that, I probably left a few sales on the table.

   Don’t count your money, it’s a waste of time!

2. Andu on January 10th, 2007 10:33 am

   Pick me pick me…what’s CPA?

3. James Dylan on January 10th, 2007 11:21 am

   I could use a digital frame at work for the old desk.

4. Avneet on January 10th, 2007 11:38 am

   For Google Adsense always check your keyword density. A good, free tool for doing this is found here: http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html

5. carl on January 10th, 2007 12:01 pm

   Here is my best piece of advise. Signing up with an affiliate is another sale. Do it through someone’s affiliate link that will help you. It’s a win – win.

   Lets say you have sites that are tech related. Get someone in another sector who is willing to help you in return for signing up “under” them. They will get an over ride off of your sales and you are not in competition with them. It is in their best interest to help you.

   If you are new this is invaluable!

6. Brandon on January 10th, 2007 1:42 pm

   My best day with affiliate marketing came pretty randomly. I wanted to promote one of the famous Xerox offers where they were giving away a plasma TV or something. I was looking to Digg to try to submit the story when I had an even better idea. There was a story already on the front page about how to “get free stuff” from different companies. So, I wrote a comment to the digg submission pretty early while there were only a few comments above mine and mentioned my xerox offer. Now, I didn’t just post my link like everday spam. I actually wrote an intelligent comment, discussing the story digg was linking to and added my link as a supplemental way to get free stuff. This worked great. I made several conversions and earned over $50 from one comment on Digg. Now I’m always on the lookout for another digg story I can submit a comment to.

7. dealasite on January 10th, 2007 3:43 pm

   Instead of writing landing pages, I’ve been working on writing landing ’sites’. They’re like mini websites where I group similiar affiliate offers, all SEO optimized for ranking. My goal is to get these to rank in the serps, and after a few weeks, they’re actually doing it!

   For example, maybe a site on Top Dating sites. Your index page can be an intro or summary of your top rankings with reviews/comments. A click on each dating offer could lead directly to that offer’s unique landing page.

   Of course, all affiliate links should be cloaked and all landing pages should be seo optimized like topdatingsites.com/true.html or topdatingsites.com/eharmony.html, etc.

   You PPC campaigns can still target that 1 landing page like normal, but the advantages of tying all these pages together would be:

   1) Lower bids by increased quality score because google or other search engines see an actual website (seo-optimized).

   2) In a few weeks, actual indexing in the serps leading to free traffic. (I create some backlinks from my other sites to add weight)

   This may be old news to everyone, but I though I’d throw it out, because all I hear people talking about is writing 1 landing page per domain with some little privacy and contact page thrown in.

   With my mini-site method, it will be around forever and I’ll just keep rotating affiliate offers in and out as they come along.

8. mrBadak on January 10th, 2007 6:06 pm

   well im not in the US so when i’m checking out the competition for certain keywords, i won’t see all of the ads because the advertisers only display to US users. So one of the easiest way to get around this is to use a web-based proxy, my fav is http://www.ninjaproxy.com. yeah you will get ads when using them but this is a fast alternative compares to changing your proxy on your browser.

   one of my biggest mistake when starting out was thinking that traffic equals sales. i was looking for untargeted traffic – what a big mistake.

   i was promoting a dvd title and bidded on broad keywords and was giving money to google fast. then i learned about targeted traffic and now i only bid on “specific phrase”. its better to have 50 clicks and maybe 1 conversion rather than 1000 clicks but no conversion!

9. Flukeit on January 11th, 2007 7:43 pm

   I think that perhaps my most amazing breakthrough experience might have just happened. About a minute or so ago as I was reading some of the posts and comments here, on this blog!

   I feel like a light bulb just went off. All this time, I had been sticking an ad here, or and ad there, some of them quite random. To build an entire page or even site around a single CPA ad is a concept that I had not yet conceived.

   This last year, I have made a small fortune with Google Adsense and YPN. CPA advertising might be the third stone I am destined to uncover.

10. Lars on January 12th, 2007 9:58 am

    This is just amazing!

    I guess this is one of the best ideas ever! You should do this much more often since this is a nice thing to bring your readers some extra value!

    Great idea!

11. Toni on January 13th, 2007 8:30 pm

    I am still learning the ropes when it comes to CPA advertising, but here are a few tips and ideas I have picked up so far.

    1. Use custom graphics rather than default banners. I create custom graphics for each ad to compliment my site’s content and design style. PS: I obtained permission from my affiliate manager before doing so.

    2. Use your Affiliate manager. They are there to help you. Unlike Adsense they are more than happy to talk with you via phone or email. Have a chat, run your ideas past them, you’ll gain valuable feedback and suggestions.

    3. Get people to sign up under you. This month I am making more with my sub-affiliates on Azoogle then I am with my own account.

    4. Understand you will have to change, update, etc… your CPA offers more than with Adsense. Offers will often expire before the date originally stated. Use some sort of include files in your sites or even a full-blown script to keep track of your offers and allow for easy updates. Otherwise CPA becomes a pain.

    5. Join more than 1 CPA network. Different CPA networks have different offers and tools. Sign up and explore the variety. Some CPA networks even offer nifty tools like Co-reg and datafeeds. Plus this means that you gain access to more affiliate managers = more info and ideas for you.

    Good luck

12. soj on January 20th, 2007 12:08 am

    If you select me, I will ask you to sell the item on ebay and then donate the proceeds to a worthwhile charity.

13. max on January 20th, 2007 4:24 pm

    cpa’s rock!

14. tmoney on January 23rd, 2007 8:20 pm

    YouTube Marketing Tip:

    The youtube algorithm will choose the display thumbnail from the frame directly in the middle of the video.

    For instance, if your video is 1min long, placing a still image of a girl in a bikini at :30-31 seconds will generate thousands of more hits.

    You can also keyword stuff the description which will help your video appear next to ‘related’ videos.

15. Matthew H. on January 24th, 2007 7:02 am

    Use adsense as an intelligent part of your content – make it look like content – filter it so it shows very relivant ads to your viewers and then they will (very willingly) click.

    The biggest mistake I see out there are ugly, stick-out ad blocks, completely unfiltered. People don’t like to be hit over the head with “ads” they like subtle info that tickles their brain.

    Don’t bury it at the bottom of the page like it’s an apology or footnote. Fold it into your content and you will get the most eyeballs looking at it – then make sure if they are looking, they are seeing something on topic.

16. Kasper on February 4th, 2007 6:35 am

    Hi,

    I recently found a pretty good way to promote affiliates, without much effort.

    Instead of taking your time to make a website to convert traffic into actual “customers”, I’ve found e-books to be a goldmine. By promoting affiliates through e-books you can give readers, who are already interested in the topic, a nice offer.

    For obvious reasons I’m not gonna disclose exactly what niches I’m doing this in. Nevertheless I’ll give some examples:

    Get, Buy or download one of those packs with a lot of different resellable e-books. Let’s say you find an e-book called “Making a killer with AdSense”, you edit the e-book to include some of your own affiliate links. E.g. in a chapter introducing people to AdSense, put in your own affiliate link to adsense. Besides that, you could also find a nice place in the e-book to insert recommendations for other things you are promoting – say webhosting, seobook.com, cloaking software – whatever you like. You’re really only limited by your own imagination.

    Finally when you have your own custom-tailored e-book done, you’re ready to start distributing it. I use different kind of ways to distribute my e-books, but here are some of places – it’s only your imagination that stops you from finding 100’s of other places.

    1) Kazaa, Limewire, E-mule.. etc.
    2) Torrentsites
    3) E-bay (sell the e-books for $0.01)

    If this is done right, you can actually make a fair amount of cash.

17. Anurag on February 18th, 2007 7:37 am

    I am a newbie to adwords, And the first thing that I learnt was that first test your add on the google serach network and see the response and then move to the content network. In one night I had spent $55.60 on a campaign and got nothing out of it. May be my landing page is not good enough but I ran the ad on the content network.

    So as a tip for adwords starters…first run the ad with the google search network and then move on to the content nework. Don’t make the same mistake as I did.

    Thanks

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