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

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.



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6 Responses to “CPA Affiliate News You Can Use, Reasons For Landing Pages, Auction Ads, Yahoo Search Marketing”

  1. Josh on March 15th, 2007 9:55 am

    In regards to YSM - if you are spending more than $500 a month with them for at least three months you can call them and request your account be upgraded to “Gold” status which will allow you to use their import tools with .csv files. They are a litle hard to understand at first but once you get the hang of it, it is way easier than cutting and pasting into their import box. Hope this helps.

  2. Paul on March 15th, 2007 12:15 pm

    Curious - with Gold status, how many keyphrases can you upload with a .csv, and what is the daily limit?

    Thanks!

  3. Jimmy Tang on March 15th, 2007 12:28 pm

    Thanks for the tip on YSM. So do you still have to email them if you have less than 500 KW? Or can you just upload it yourself?

  4. CPA Affiliates on March 15th, 2007 1:17 pm

    As far as key phrases or daily limit. The best thing to do is contact your YSM rep.

    Jimmy- If you have less than 500 u can just upload them yourself, even if you have like 1K you can do it your self just start the campaign with 500 then go in and ad 500 more.

  5. Grant on March 16th, 2007 5:45 am

    Yep, I regularly max out the 1,000 keywords per ad group. Just paste as two sets of 500. I’ve also seen on the net that the account limit is 100,000 keywords, but I can confirm that my account won’t accept more than 50,000 keywords.

  6. CPA Affiliates on March 16th, 2007 10:58 am

    Grant - If you spend enough Yahoo will up your keyword limit from 50K to 100K. If you are spending over 5 or 6K a month with them and are using all 50K keywords email them and ask for room for more so you can spend more.

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