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CPA Affiliate News You Can Use, Reasons For Landing Pages, Auction Ads, Yahoo Search Marketing

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Posted on March 15, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, PPC, Yahoo Search Marketing  

At CPA Affiliates we try to provide up-to-date information and news you can use. This week has had a few interesting happenings in the world of CPA networks and tips for your promotions.

First, Many people ask why do you need to use a landing page? Well instead of rehashing it here on my blog I am going to point you over to Shoemoney.com as he recently made a post titled When to Make an Landing Page – Affiliate FAQ. In that post he points on the best reasons for making a landing page which include Stats, Geotargeting, Targeting the Offer to specific audiences, and of course to boost Quality Score. You can read all the details in his post.

Auction Ads another option for Marketers to make a buck! Basically instead of having to signup for CJ, then signup for Ebay, then go to Ebay to setup your ad etc… bascially just go to Auction Ads Signup and once approved choose the keywords for Ebay auctions you want to target, choose colors of your ad etc.. then click get code, paste it into your site then watch the money roll in. What makes Auction Ads so good? The main thing is they make it EASY to customize the look and feel of the Ebay Ads. This is great as before you had to be a good programmer or just live with Ebays templates. What website couldn’t make money from this as you can target any niche, group for stuff on ebay. If your interested click here to Signup for Auction Ads. (if you scroll down on the right I have put up an example of auction ads with it targeting laptops)

Yahoo Search Marketing is a blessing and a curse. They keep updating their system to make it look/feel better but it appears they are just more blindly following Google. I wanted to gives those running in YSM a tip as it states when you input keywords to only put 50, what they don’t tell you is you can do up to 500 and it will accept them. If you put in over 500 you will get a message. So you don’t have to take hours to upload your keywords only half hours. I wish they would implement an easier way to bulk upload besides emailing them and asking them to upload the keywords (which they will do). But for now stick 500 in at a time.

CPA News You Can Use, Easy Submits Email and Zips, Ringtones

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Posted on March 6, 2007 in Affiliate Networks, Affiliate Tips, Ringtones  

At CPA Affiliates we try to provide up-to-date information and news you can use. This week has had a few interesting happenings in the world of CPA networks and Promotions.

First off, up and Coming CPA Network Millnic Media is having a Mad Money March for Easy Submits. So if you do volume on Email or Zip submits you may want to check them out. I have tried Millnic Media and will be posting a review of them in upcoming weeks. So far I can say they are a hands on affiliate network and can be reached just about any hour of the day. I can also vouch that they pay and pay fast. If you do $1,000 in a week they will pay you weekly and will pay you by Wire, Check or Paypal. The money usually hits your account every Thursday if not Wednesday. Below are the details on Millnic Media Mad Money March.

Starting at 12:01 AM Eastern Time on Thursday March 1st 2007 and running until midnight and Wednesday March 14th 2007, we invite you to slam the following offers until they go crying home to their Momma’s.
[Total Combined Leads across all campaigns]
If your total combined numbers for those days
0-500 Payout = $1.30
501-1000 Payout = $1.35
1001-3000 Payout = $1.40
3001-10000 payout = $1.45
10001-25000 payout = $1.50
25001-50000 Payout =$1.55
50001+ Total Combined leads for that 10 day span = $1.60 payouts! 

On To Ringtones. If you have noticed lately that there have been a lot of posts on ringtones volume going down. Well it is in general people are searching less for “ringtones” (but are they just searching for more specific ringtones (IE Fergie Glamorous Ringtone) and less general ringtones……), but this is also do to the after Christmas, presummer slump. With that being said there are some new ringtone offers coming out lately not for the US but for other countries. The payout is less but to advertise in these countries it is DIRT CHEAP! Azoogle has Ringtone offers for various countries available:

Brazilian Ringtones

Indonesian Ringtones

Spain Ringtones

Australian Ringtones

(UK Ringtones & German Ringtones but these have been around)

So If you have tried or haven’t tried ringtones in the US, you may want to try other countries ringtones while the competition is LOW.

What NOT to do with a New PPC Campaign

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Posted on March 1, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, Google Adwords, PPC  

Over the years of me doing business online I have made my share of mistakes and hear from others about their mistakes.The key is learning from your mistakes or better yet learning from OTHERS mistakes. This mistake is one that occurs usually with a new person just getting into utilizing PPC advertising via adwords, Yahoo search marketing or MSN Adcenter. What you don’t want to do is setup a campaign an leave for hours without checking things out, as you would be surprised how fast your money can be spent. Especially if you are utilizing content or targeting high traffic terms like myspace, ebay etc… So on a new campaign check every few minutes to make sure everything is going right and you are turning a profit, or set your Adwords spend for the day of what you can afford to really spend.

This is VERY simple thing to do but you would be surprised how many new people contact me saying they burnt their budget in an hour. I know, I know where is the rocket science post that tells you how to make millions… well this isn’t it but if this post helps one newb not to blow their budget within hours on a new campaign and lose money this post is worth it.

Here is a second tip free of charge. Double Check your URLS!!!! About a year ago i was helping a friend over aim getting a campaign going in a high volume market and he had accidentally made a typo in his urls and was sending traffic to someone elses site the good news is he had only wasted 50 bucks before he noticed it.

Tell us about a mistake you made in PPC or CPA promotions by leaving a comment.

High Pay-Per-Click Bids does always not mean High profits

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Posted on February 26, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, Google Adwords, Ringtones  

I was asked recently what my high bid was for Ringtones PPC campaigns and I gave an honest answer of .75 per click is my highest bid. The guy was like great ran off and started a PPC campaign on Google Adwords before I could say anything else he was logged off of aim. Well for him I hope he is reading this post, as I stated my highest bid for PPC in ringtones is .75 BUT majority of my bids are less than .20.

Remember my PPC bids are from information and ROI statistics from this past year of promoting ringtones. So I know for each target audience I got after what my return is and what I should bid. People should not be asking what is your highest or even lowest bid is they should look at their own campaigns and their ad placement.

I have found the sweet spots to be in top 3 or bottom 3 with the middle spots giving the lowest return. It is as if they do not even see them or the people that do are just clickers and not a buyer. Note this may not be true for ALL campaigns but I have found this to be true on 97% of my campaigns.

So take the time and look at your placements as I have had some campaigns I was sitting in position 6 and was getting poor returns but did not want to up my bid, as the jump was drastic so I lowered my bid. The results were great, I was showing at position 10 and the ROI was way up. The great thing is I was getting the same amount of clicks as when I was in 6 position but paying less and getting an increased return.

So next time you go to cancel your PPC campaign try lowering your bids and see what the results will bring. They may just surprise you!

Mini CPA Sites the New CPA Landing Page

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Posted on February 11, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, CPA Affiliate Announcements  

Last month I ran a contest where i announced i was giving away a Google Digital Picture Frame (Read it Here). After reading all the entries I declared a winner, Dealasite. Below was Dealasite’s comment that contained some good information.

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.

While i don’t feel this will do away with just landing pages. I do feel this is more of a trend for PPC as it goes to more measuring technics to see if your ad and page is worthy. Dealasite I have sent you an email asking for your information as to where to send the Digital Picture Frame.

10 Things to do when you seem to hit a Wall in Affiliate Marketing

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Posted on February 8, 2007 in Affiliate Tips  

As Affiliate Marketers we are always trying to come up with new ideas and new ways to promote offers and websites, but what happens when your well runs dry? Below is a list of 10 things I do when I hit a wall or I am frustrated with the results I am getting.

1. Turn Off the PC.
2. Go For a Walk
3. Hang Out with the Wife
4. Veg out in front of the TV
5. Blast some people away on Xbox Live (Ghost Recon & Rainbow Six Las Vegas)
6. Play Boxing on the Wii
7. Go Browse around Fry’s Electronics store
8. Read the Newspaper (Yes I know it’s so 2000 but still serves a purpose)
9. Take a Nap
10. Read a Book

No I don’t always do all of those things but those are 10 of the things I will do when I hit a wall and just can’t seem to come up with anything or I am getting frustrated with my results. I will say every time after a break, I do go back to my PC and work, I will start over flowing with ideas or an idea will hit me while I am doing one of the 10 things. Noticed I listed watching TV and Reading the paper, I have gotten several ideas spurred on from those two sources as you will read or see something and a light bulb will go off.
I hope this may help you when you hit a wall or maybe you have a few you can suggest?

Super Bowl Ads

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Posted on February 4, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, CPA Affiliate Announcements  

Well i decided to write about the Super Bowl Ads mainly due to the fact that i think most of them were sorry. I usually look forward to the ads during the game but lately they have been a big dissapointment.  Their was only a few of them that i even remotely found funny or entertaining; the blockbuster one before the game started with the animals clicking and scrolling with a real mouse, chevy car wash (funny in a wierd way), and the career builder ones….  Why am i writing about this on my blog?  Because a internet marketers we need to appeal to people and convience them to either visit our site, buy our product or signup for something. So here are a few tips.

1. Get People to your site.  Get People interested in your product, site or signup to your site. (targetted traffic, no use in sending a 1000 visitors interested in skiing to a hot rod site.)

2. Engage People on your site by visuals or unique content

3. Provide informative and usefull information about the product or signup.

4. Give Testimonials if possible.

5. (acutally this should be higher on your priority) if there is a way to make your site go viral or get a lot of buzz (social bookmarking etc..), utilize that with a stunt, video or giveaway.

6. Give them easy access to buy, sign up or revisit your site.

7. Make sure the actual singup/buy page is working and is just as engaging as your presell (nothing like a killer presell with a horrible buy page)

8. Test, Tweak, Test, Tweak.

9. If you can’t get it to work after many tries and can’t seem to get advice or tips from other people try another area, or try harder….   Sometimes it is the 100th try i get it right sometimes it’s the second…… but even when it is the second try their is always room for improvement.

10. When you find something that works try to repeat it in another area with tweaking of course.

You have any tips you want to share or want to give feedback about the super bowl ads…. just leave a comment.

February the Month of Love and Money

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Posted on February 1, 2007 in Affiliate Tips  

Well of course everyone knows that February is the month of love due to Valentines Day, but it is also the month of money for many affiliate marketers. I know for me in January, I have been prepping for the start of February for targeted offers. What offers do you target for the month of February? Well honestly it is almost a no brainer but I will go into what offers I choose and why.

The first one is a dead giveaway….. Flower offers. Especially these days’ people are ordering more and more off the internet so why not get your cut? Many of the offers you can push people to will give them 5 or 10% off their order. Some of the flower companies have taken notice and even built alternative white label sites for you to promote to. Azoogle has a white label offer for FTD.

The second is giveaways. There are many simple email and zip offers that are “Valentines” giveaways. Some examples are Free Flowers, Free Tiffany’s Jewelry, and Victoria’s secret gift card.  These won’t make you as much per signup but you can get volume going.  From my initial test I have to say that Free Flowers offer will convert the best of the three from now until Feb 14th.

Lastly is the promotion of dating offers. With Valentines Day coming up people start looking for love and many are looking online.  Just about every CPA network out there has a dating offer. (While other networks have some different offers Azoogle’s Payout is hard to beat)  I have found the key with these offers is don’t go general, the best converting is targeting to groups. Find Networks that have offers that appeal to older people, Christians etc…  Then push to those audiences on adbrite or any of the top 3 Search Engines (MSN, Google, Yahoo).  I haven’t dealt much on 2nd or 3rd tier with dating, but I am sure you can make them work also.

As always test, test, test! If you have any suggestions or feedback feel free to leave us a comment.

Affiliate Summit West Update

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Posted on January 22, 2007 in Affiliate Information, Affiliate Tips  

Affiliate Summit

For those of yall here at Affiliate Summit West it was great to meet you, you know who you are. For those of you that didn’t make it you are missing an AWESOME opportunity to Network with other Affiliates and Networks. As i stated in my agenda post I was planning to network, network, network and thats what i have done. I attended two sessions so far besides the openning stuff.  Went to the session Marketing Your Affiliate Site – Outside of the Box It was so great I got up and left after about 15 minutes into it. I was hoping it was going to talk about new methods etc.. but instead started talking about making your website user friendly but also going back to old way of selling with flyers, sponsoring events, newspaper advertising. Yes these are all good means and possible ways to get traffic, it was just stuff I already knew and was hoping for more.  The second session Ask the Experts: Super Affiliates was entertaining to watch, Jon F., Jeremy Schoemaker, and Andrew Johnson were doing a Q & A. In my opinion Andrew Johnson was not the greatest speaker to be joined with Jeremy and Jon. He may know his stuff and maybe he is better one on one but from what he was saying in Q & A, just didn’t seem like he was in the ranks. Maybe he just doesn’t do well with public speaking. But in general the session was good, but no real nuggets came out of the session. Just answers you would get from reading Jon or Jeremy’s blog.  I only have one session on the agenda for tomorrow but i may be skipping it to do more networking, as so far, the sessions were more of a buzz kill. I will post more about the different networks and networking i did later but wanted to give yall a quick update.

Pay Per Click Networks Tested

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Posted on January 19, 2007 in Affiliate Information, Affiliate Tips  

I get asked all the time how I would rank different pay per click networks on how they perform. So I decided to run a test with me and some friends that are part of various pay per click networks. They were all tested with the same ad copy, keywords, pricing (.15 per click) and landing page. (Remember this was a test case and results with vary depending on the offer.)

Scoring for search engine networks are as follows:

• Traffic Volume (Most volume = 10 out of 10)
• Conversion Rate (Best conversion rate = 10 out of 10)
• Click Pricing (Lowest pricing = 10 out of possible 10)

For a Total Score of 30.

Many will ask, why didn’t I rate the interface? The main reason being if it converts well and the price is right we can live with a horrible interface, well maybe not horrible but you get my point (It’s about the $$$$).

Search Engine Score Chart

Traffic Is King and as you can see Google is still #1 when it comes to traffic! But if you can’t afford the traffic it does no good which is why it isn’t #1.

Conversions are key to an Affiliate which is why every affiliate should give MSN a try as it converts better than the rest.

I think the numbers speak for themselves, in general use the ones near the top and stay away from ones near the bottom, EXCEPT 7search and enhance because with the right offer I have had these SE networks convert extremely well.

This also proves a point that every offer is different and you should aways test on your own. 

Also check out a Directory Vault Blog post about a .12 PPC campaign they ran across different PPC networks. (Had similar results)

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