gtaylor

I am new to CPA and I am confused about developing websites. Some say a Wordpress site is the best and others say you need a "professional" site to approach the networks. Does a WP site work okay?

Also I am confused about sites. If I want to specialize in 3 types of offers:

1. Home based biz opps (affiliate marketing, niche marketing, etc)
2. financial offers (credit reports, debt relief, payday loans)
3. Weightloss and Vanity offers (acai, anti-aging, etc)

Do I need 3 separate Wordpress blog sites AND 3 landing page sites?

I have acouple of really good ebooks about what to say to the networks. Probably my confusion is as more about how to get organized with sites and everything before calling networks.

pikachu

Wordpress page is fine, as long as you switch it into website mode. Realistically you can even submit a blog that you've had around for a while. When I was starting out, I submitted a blog that gets around 3000 hits a month and just told them I was looking to do PPC advertising primarily so my website was not that important. Thats the most important thing to mention to them. I got accepted to 10-15 netoworks with a pretty much unrelated blog. Usually the website that they're looking for is your "advertising companie's" website. Pretty much anything will do though, just put something that you've done in. Don't let the process of getting accepted into a network stress you out, its only the very very first step. If you need more info lemme know.

gtaylor

Thanks for the help, pikachu. It sounds like maybe one of those situations that seems really complicated until you've been thru it a couple of times.
You advise sure does help...

honestbizpro

Hey gtaylor that is very true. Most times its a breeze.

Keep in mind the networks just want to be sure you have a clue that's all. They also are concerned of course that you are a legit marketer that they can pay.

What they really want is an affiliate army they can boast about to their advertisers.


In the end...whether we are a scrub or a veteran marketer its going to come down to what we do once in.

Find a well paying offer, test and tweak, then multiply your efforts on a tested and proven winner.

PPC-Coach

Networks want one thing, legit advertisers who are not going to lose merchants for them.

That's it.

You can lie and sneak your way into any network, but if you know what they want, you're going to get in faster and get better support versus outright lies. There's a fine line between talking the talk and telling 100% lies. Instead of trying to figure out ways to sneak in, be honest. I know if anyone here applied to my network and was honest about everything I would approve them faster then someone who I thought was feeding me lines. Also if you live in Russia or China, forget about getting into a CPA network. Sorry but too many of your countrymen and women have totally screwed it up for you in the past. Even if you did sneak in, you're at risk of losing all your commissions.

Honesty is the best policy.