CPA Affiliates New Look Coming Soon

7 People Speaking Their Mind - Put In Your Two Cents!

Posted on March 30, 2007 in CPA Affiliate Announcements  

I wanted to give my readers a heads up that a new look will be coming to CPA Affiliates (Don’t worry the same great information and news will remain). I have been using a Free Word Press design for tool long. So I decided to do some revamping. First CPA Affiliates will have a logo and a new design in the coming weeks. Here is a sneak peak at the new logo.  This is also a heads up that in the next two weeks if you experience any issues in viewing this site, we might be messing with the back end and appologize ahead of time.

CPA Affiliates New Logo

Also once the new look is complete and launches I will be giving away some Goodies!!!

Affiliate Managers Listen But do they HEAR?

8 People Speaking Their Mind - Put In Your Two Cents!

Posted on March 28, 2007 in CPA Networks, Affiliate Managers  

Ok Guys since this is my blog you get some good tidbits of information but you also get to hear some rants from me. Well I have to Rant about Affiliate Managers.  I will state there are GREAT affiliate Managers out there but even the great ones can be better. Hopefully a Few affiliate managers will read this and catch a clue as i get hit up daily by new and old networks wanting me to push their services, somtimes i give them a try and sometimes i don’t. So here are my rants:

1. IF i signup for your network and i tell you how i promote my offers don’t keep asking me to try other things. Now I don’t mind the heads up; hey this offer is running hot on our network. But here is an Example. Lets say the offers you are running with the company are search only. Why would the Affiliate Manager contact me with information to push offers that arent even available for search? Or an area that you have told them you have no interest in promoting. This happens often!!!

2.Do Your Homework on the offers your Network Promotes. Example: (lets say i am a person that only promotes via existing websites, No search or email) I HATE getting an email saying, hey this offer is going great you should try it. Then i go into there system get ready to pull the offer then notice that the offer is for EMAIL ONLY!!!  or even better yet they didn’t email me but they hit me up on Instant messenger give me the offer speal then of course i am like great what banners sizers are available… then the AM comes back and says sorry it is only available for Email only….  Come on DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

3.You OVER EMAIL ME.  Don’t get me wrong, I like to be contacted every once in a while from my AM. Especially if they are coming with info on a new hot offer, or they get an offer i asked for etc…  But Geeze some of these networks seem to send you an email every 3 days then on top of that you have your AM emailing me every two days… So STOP OVER EMAILING ME!

Okay I got my rant out… feel free to leave your comments or Complaints about Affiliate Managers.

CPA Affiliate News You Can Use, Google CPA / PPA, Profit Margins, and Volume Traffic

2 People Speaking Their Mind - Put In Your Two Cents!

Posted on March 26, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, Google, PPC  

At CPA Affiliates we try to provide up-to-date information and news you can use. This week I will discuss a little about Google’s CPA or Google’s PPA whichever you want to refer to it as, Profit Margins on PPC to CPA Campaigns, and discuss What to do when Volume traffic isn’t there.

First on to Google’s CPA / PPA. If you haven’t heard yet you must be under a rock but Google have officially announced their PPA (Pay Per Action, basically same and CPA Cost Per Action) model for their advertising system. I think this is a good move fore google and an opportunity for advertisers but don’t think this will kill off all (if any) the CPA networks out there. There are MANY reasons why it won’t kill them off and honestly Shoemoney (Jeremy Schoemaker) made a great post adressing 6 reasons why Google’s model isn’t going to knock out CPA Networks.  No reason for me to reiterate what he said so check out his post.

Now on to PPC to CPA profit margins. I get asked all the time what profit margin should i shoot for. Well the best answer is the highest you can get. BUT with that said sometimes there is SOOOOooo much competition their isn’t a whole lot of margins out there. This is the key though. If you have the money profit is profit no matter how you look at it. But if you want most bang for your buck and have limited budget you want to go after bigger return items. There are many offers out there that you can get 3:1 4:1 2:1 and 1:1 returns. The  key is trial and error. Some campaigns i am happy to making 50% profit for what i spend while other campaigns i want 200% profit for what i spend. But to be honest if you got the money, i have a few on autopilot that i on get 10% return on it (better than any bank would give you for your money) but I leave it run because i have the spare cash and it doesn’t stop me from promoting other things or trying new projects.

Lastly I want to talk about volume traffic. This one is a kicker as people will contact me and say I got this campaign running I am getting good return but the traffic isn’t there i am only getting 1 or 2 or 3 leads a day. First off i tell them congrats on turning a profit some people go a month or two without much of any profit. Then I ask them what are you targeting and how many keywords are you using, usually the answer tha comes back is they are going after less than 100 keywords. Well there is the reason you aren’t getting volume. But many times by adding more keyowrds etc.. your return goes down and doesn’t make it worth while. But most importantly try adding more keywords targetting keywords that are a littl out of the box for what you are targeting sometimes you will be surprised with the converts, other times you won’t. Here is the real KEY if you can’t get volume and increase return stick with the low volume but try to replicate it with another offer. 10 dollars a day profit times 100 offers is 1K profit a day.

Which CPA Network is the Best?

6 People Speaking Their Mind - Put In Your Two Cents!

Posted on March 21, 2007 in Affiliate Networks, Affiliate Tips, CPA Networks  

I get asked this all the time which CPA Network is the best? Well honestly it is a tough question to answer but yet it is easy. It is easy to say what CPA Network is best for me but it is hard for me to say for sure what CPA network is best for you. I use MANY CPA Networks, but i do have a few choice networks that are my bread and butter. But this post isn’t about me it is about you and what CPA network will work best for you.

First, search the CPA networks, see who has good reviews and reputation with other webprenuers. You can do this by visiting blogs, forums and even searching for review of CPA Network X. Once you narrow your list down to 20 or 30… yes there are hundreds of CPA networks out there but the key is finding the right one for you.

Second, DON’T automatically signup for all those networks. Contact them and ask them about their offers, ask for a list of there offers (with links if possible) and even rates (not all will give you the list of rates but if you ask about specifc offers they will tell you). Now go through them and compare the various networks. See what networks have offers you want.

Third, ask about those specific networks in forums like digitalpoint or earners forum. People will tell you their thoughts and experiences. Don’t let one bad apple ruin it for you. Meaning if one poster is adimant about not using Network X but everyone else is posting good things most likely the guy was promoting spam or illegal stuff and got caught and didn’t get paid (for some reason these types also love to flame networks after they get booted).

Fourth, Make sure there terms and payout terms are to your liking, Signup and start promoting. If you start doing well ask for higher payouts, many people don’t even know they can ask for higher payouts. You can and will get them especially if you can send a nice number of leads. Also you can ask for quicker payouts which helps when promoting via PPC.

Fifth, If you find you don’t like your AM at the network ask for another one, or try another network. Find one that appreciates you and just doesn’t treat you like every other 2 bit out there.

Lastly,  There are times Exclusives are Truely Exclusives, when that is the case and you know you can promote that offer well signup for that network. I have signed up for 3 different networks only for 1 offer as they were the only ones that had it. BUT the more you are in the Affiliate market you will realize that even Exclusives aren’t always Exclusives. Meaning that another company may have that same offer but the exclusive may be on the design or layout (this can make a huge difference in your conversions at times, I was promoting one offer on one network then tried same offer with similar but different landing page and my conversions increased by 10%!).

I hope this helps those in their search for the best CPA Network. In the upcoming weeks I will post a list of all the CPA networks I currently use, notice i didn’t say signed up with as there are some networks i signed up with tried some things and never used them again.

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