Trevor

Let me cut to the chase. Some things just don't make sense to me. My questions are:

1. I've heard multiple times that list building is one of the only methods to make money on a long-term basis, which I certainly want to do. Does that mean that I shouldn't even bother to promote offers that don't allow traffic coming from e-mail series?

2. How do you create squeeze pages? I don't get it, do you just register a domain and make a one-page website with a couple lines and an opt-in form, with information that should entice the visitor to subscribe? I think from the SEO point of view, such a site wouldn't have the slightest chance to rank well, would it? Or with PPC, my thinking is that the quality score would be really low... Am I missing something?

3. Do you spend days choosing between CPA offers or do you just try them out one by one and pick the winner? Also, what criteria should I consider while choosing an offer? I always think of EPC, allowed countries, how the sales page looks, if it is clear to the customer and which traffic methods are permitted. Is there anything else to consider?

4. What is better:
a) to choose an offer first and then do keyword research based on the offer and create a site or
b) to do keyword research first and then think of a good offer that will satiate the needs of the people who use the keywords?

5. Allright, apart from above, I've already chosen a weight loss offer that I think I will be able to create a site about. I'm now trying to get information from the internet to get some knowledge of the product. Then I will create the site, but my question is, should I SEO the site really for the keywords that strictly describe the product (keywords such as the product's name, the diet plan's name etc.) or should I target other keyword that are used by people, who I think might find the offer valuable and eventually make the desired action (for example keywords like "Lose weight without working out", "Weight loss after pregnancy")?

Whoever reads that last line has nerves of steel .

truebusinessnow

you should look through the different forums, there are people selling ebooks for newbies that are not sure what to do , check them out

Trevor

I've already bought several courses and none of them answered what I ask...

ago

Hey Tekamolo

It seems you are already member of the War Room, there's lots of great information, tools, courses and e-books that Warrior Members are giving away for free. It is a way for them to give back to the WF community.

I can assure you that in one of those freebies you'll find the answer to some of your questions.

On the other hand, here's a WSO that I highly recommend, especially if you are getting started with IM and CPA marketing. 68 pages long and it is extremely detailed

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...cpa-offer.html

All the best

Stephen Lessey

Hye there mate, I'll try to answer some of these methods cause I once had the exact same questions. These are strategies that I picked up from the Forum and great mentors that I subscribe to

1. The key in the email series is to bring them into your product funnel. You capture the lead by PPC or SEO whichever works better for you. Then you give them a free gift, once they confirm you send the to a one time offer page where your CPA offer will be. Either way you them in your auto responder series. The CPA networks dont want traffic coming from Email series, but a link from a OTO if fine.

2. Give this a try if you need a quick sqeeze page. It has meta tags and all the bells and whistels. Free Video Squeeze Page Creator - Get Your Video Squeeze Page Now For Free!

Also, you are right google adwords would give something like that a bad quality score, thats why you need other traffic sources like Facebook.

3. Pick a niche first. Test different ads around that niche. Choose the top 5 ads, and test offers with those ads. Dont look at the network PPC, but your own EPC based on your results

4. B/ But you need to pick a niche first and stick with it

5. Your on your own there :-) lol

Let me know if I can help out further

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Trevor

hey ago,

Rags 2 riches is one of the few WSOs I've bought so far and I think it provides a great value.

Trevor

Thank you very much, you helped me understand some of the elementary concepts more... I don't have time to ask further now, but I will, maybe in the afternoon.

Trevor

I am back... The more I'm thinking about CPA, the more I think it will be better if I just start taking action right now without asking about everything... I will probably make many mistakes, but I'm not going to quit that easily.

imback

Good luck to you first off...

1-

List building is not essential but I highly recommended it for long term connection to proven buyers. Example, if you are into creating your own products in the IM niche then this is a MUST. If you are promoting a one timer CPA offer may not be necessary to build your list.

2-

Optimize-press is all you need for squeeze pages it is amazing! I think around 97 bucks

3-

I myself research offers, keywords, and etc longer than anything I do in IM. Some people would rather spend more money and get answers faster with testing. Whereas I like to research first and set up a game plan.

4-

I think it is best to test an offer with paid traffic if you have the budget. If you see some conversions with a few good keywords then go ahead and start some long-term SEO if it is a long term product

Good Luck,

CHAD

Naeem Sikandar

you want to focus on the name of the product because it converts well rather than looking for other related keywords to the weight loss niche.. select the product name keywords for your site. it works awesome

Trevor

But I guess with PPC, I might get into trouble by bidding on brand names, thus breaching the rules... Have you got such experience?

DerekMadden

The Basics

- write down a list of things that interest you
- knock it down to like 4 items and list them from most knowledge to least
- research keywords on google adwords
- spend some time finding a domain with exact match potential
- create a website, blog, etc..
- spend some time creating backlinks (comment on forums, social media, blogs, etc.)
- wait 30-60 days and you will be getting decent seo traffic

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Taking action is always the best bet. You're going to run into roadblocks, everyone does, but when you do, seek help then. Take action first.

elrascal

This statement is bang on the money!

Even if you aren't 100% sure what to do you still need to do something. Some things will work. Some things won't. Either way, Who cares! Each experiance is a new learning curve.

The more you do, the more you learn.

The more you learn, the better you get!

I started learning through "the challange" and I only made $1 with adsense in the first three months. I just kept going and tweaking things on my site and over time I have learnt what to do through my mistakes.

Ghansson

I alway advise people to start by asking their affiliate manager what the current top converting offers are and go from there. And to be specific about what kind of traffic you will bring

Trevor

I have some initial budget for PPC, but I've heard thousand times that without any experience I am most likely to just burn my money with PPC...

Nikomia

Very true. Do you feel confident in spending money on PPC? If you don't, then it ain't the right route.

Yesterday, I was searching around randomly for WSOs. Somehow I stumbled upon a WSO that made me almost fall down my chair. It was talking about some unknown methods to make $500 per day! The method was laid down in a step by step format. The best part is the WSO was available for free. At the same time, it is newbie-friendly and requires almost no initial investment.

I thought I would share the WSO with you. Interested?

AllanVans

To be very honest with you,you can have keywords but that will not help you rank high in Google all by them selves, forget ppc that is not necessary, you can use article marketing, if you have a blog it would be alot better for you to place your product and information on your site and then use the articles to market your blog if not use the site that you are making and then place really heavy content using the keywords that you find make sure you headline to your article contains the strongest keyword you find. Not only that you should use all the keywords related to what the product is for to like lose weight etc. you will be cool you are just making it hard on your self you have to promote you site first to get that email list then you will be able to sell other products to you list trust me this is simple just take it one step at a time and market your self with your product, you got it stay cool like the breeze my friend!, You can also use your blog or site to sell products trough your hyperlinks, articles carry backlinks for your site and when readers click on them you will get traffic however you have to be very consistent with them and you will make it . here is a link to one of my articles>> Unique Article wizard, Article marketing at its best

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Nikomia

@ Tekamolo, I've PMed you the free ebook. Let me know, if you liked it.

Trevor

Thanks for you suggestion, however, facebook is not my primary aim at the moment and I don't want to get distracted.

Trevor

I plan on doing so in the future, but I can't afford a mentor currently.

Matthew NY

Try your best to afford one of the recommended ebooks. They are a bit double-sided however. You MUST put in your side of the bargain. 90% of the people that put out their ebooks will have no problem sending you some support emails to help you through the process, but you are your own boss.

You need to have a lot of self-discipline in this business because no one is looking over you except yourself.

You are in the War Room, which is FILLED with great information. People on this forum are extremely friendly and very helpful. Use that great access to your advantage.

Best of luck! If you have any more CPA questions, feel free to send me a PM.

dotips

Hi Nikomia, Hi all. Would you share the info with me ? I'm desperately seeking a good way to promote CPA offers with Facebook.

I'm so newbie with CPA that I started to build a website dedicated to free gifts from CPA offers, when it seems actually you got to create website or FB fanpage with a certain topic, then put a CPA offer relevant to this topic and not create a page stuffed with CPA offers

So if you know about a free resource to help getting started with CPA offers combined with FB I'd be strongly interested to know more about

Thx !

DOt

ChrisBa

You have many questions which is good, however you will need to research them one by one..

Here are some pretty generic answers to get you started..

1 - This statement is false, it is a way (and a good way) to make money, but there are several other ways as well

2 - You register a domain, buy web hosting, and then build a website, you can use a CMS like wordpress that will take lots of the work out for you, but in general you will need to research how to create a webpage for this question.

3 - No, too many people get too hung up on this, just chose something and go with it.

4 - Doesn't matter, both ways work. Again don't get hung up on this, just do it.

5 - Honestly, if you take a look at weight loss offers, they are very high paying, which tells you that they are probably hard to convert (market is very saturated and normally requires a credit card submit to get credit), skip these ones and go for someone lower paying, it will be easier to learn

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Could you possibly PM me the ebook too?

Thanks

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I would suggest on defining the keywords first. Try to get a survey/research running with the goal of defining the keywords that you're going to pay for when posting ads.

Way to success...

WAWarrior

On point #2,I like to create a simple Squeeze page using HTML templates - and there are many free HTML editors on the Web. Once you choose a Niche and the affiliate product that goes with it - go to the merchant sales page. If you are going to market it, you must like the sales page as well - it must have potential to convert ( compelling). Choose content from the merchant page to add to your Squeeze page - benefits to users for buying the product. Also throw in a relevant bonus to attract people to sign up. You need to promote your squeeze page via the usual channels - articles, bookmarking, RSS , forums.

Add that to your signature - Click on my signature to see an example in action. Hope that helps.

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1. Money is in the List. Email marketing is still one of the most powerful online marketing methods. If you ever want to create your own affiliate products, then you must go with it. As for CPA offers, in most cases, advertisers will clearly state if their offers accept email traffic or not. But I bet you'll find lots of email allowed offers in every network.

2. Instead of promoting products/offers directly via PPC/PPV, I like to set up Google friendly squeeze landing pages to capture my own leads(list building), then send out weekly newsletters with Clickbank products or CPA offers.

3. Never wrong with reputable larger networks.

4. Depends on your verticals or what you have in hands. Say you already have some good email lists in certain niches, then just pick offers and test them out with your existing visitors to see if they're converting or not. All you need to do is to highly target your audience.

Trevor

Thank you for your positive response!

Trevor

Guys so I've got my blog set up, with quite a lot of content (all written by myself, have been working rather hard lately) and SEO'd. After two weeks the site has an Alexa rating of about 1.7 M, which might be an indication that it is liked by the bots. Don't you think?

I strived to come up with good keywords and really didn't rush the keyword research part. My main KW gets about 2000 searches per month, it is long-tail, now I'm also building backlinks through spun articles, FTS and forum posts. I also keep on adding more content on a daily basis. Still not getting traffic though, because as I said the site is brand new.

My question is, what if the site won't rank anyway? I know it's about competition, which doesn't seem to be stiff (260k phrase counts, but only 4 out of 10 website on the first SERP in Google has the exact long-tail keyword in the page title). With all that said, should I just keep on adding more content and building backlinks till the goal is reached? Or is it better to "move on" if that one just doesn't work?

P.S.: Don't get me wrong, I'm not anyhow in the state of mind of quitting, I know that making a site rank can be a matter of months, not weeks, but I'd like to know your opinion on that.

Trevor

Any opinions?

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It is for sure you will rank if you update it with continuous quality posts, natural backlinks and social submission.

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Hey

I need to chip in here. I would say one of the best ways of making a lot of money in internet marketing is simple lead generation. No crappy "per sale" commission type where you (the affiliate) takes all the risk ... you get a potential customer via PPC/SEO, sell it to a broker/merchant and get paid hard cash for it. Think car insurance quotes, travel insurance, debt management. Huge market and massive margins. That's what I do anyway.

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Trevor

Thank you guys,

I'm building more backlinks regularly and adding more content daily, and I've already achieved some rankings, still not for my main KW, but rather for other related and less competitive KWs. Which also motivates me.

bqpennell

Ignore this completely, There Is so many ebooks out yes,

The bad news is most wanna charge for it, this grows skeptical to newbies as he claims who does not wanna invest money into something they are new out and do not know the endless possibilities,

The good news is there is nothing in any so called WSO that can't be fount or researched with time and effort for free,

I Love these people that make thousands and then say i want to help Buy my Ebook for 17$, Either help cause you want to or keep it to your self all your doing is taking advantage of people who are clueless or just do not know any better, when you know before you put a price on it there is nothing in there that has not been discovered or discussed before. Think about it people if you can download hundred dollar software or games for free i am sure you can find a already written ebook on the topic you want,

I Bought alot of these scripts, Software, And guides just cause i can and i assure you there is nothing i haven't heard of before, go to my network in my signature and i don't care if you sign up or not but help your self to the file in the signature called CPA Bundle it has everything i ever paid for. I haven't tried nor read over half of it, Call me a Hoarder lol Anyways help your self and save your hard earned cash

WSO Aurthur's, Guru's are just people taking advantage of your lack of knowledge because they have not wrote anything you can not throw into Google and find for free somewhere. not to mention most guides tell you partial truth as of course they do not give you 100% detailed info as they don't want to saturate what there doing,

howsyamama

Tak...

Just a bit of info here - and please anyone more experienced and knowledgeable please pipe in - I recently (naively) tried promoting a squeeze page through Adwords - and very QUICKLY got my account banned. Google does not seem to appreciate a page with zero content, offering a free giveaway in return for an email address.

I'm not in the process of building and tweaking a blog (for the same domain) to see if I can get the account un-banned.

The point here is, be careful when dealing with Google. Know and play by their rules or risk serious aggravation...

Again, hoping all of you with more experience will elaborate for me!

Good luck,
Adam

howsyamama

bq... I agree to a point. But I prefer to view it this way. If I can buy a program for $17 that saves me hundreds of dollars in time and wasted effort, then it's worth it.

NOT THAT THEY ALL DO THAT, of course. I have invested (not a lot, thankfully) in programs/software/etc. that were WORTHLESS. But I have also found some - and some that were not cheap - that flattened my learning curve by A LOT!

Anyway, I believe the point here is to BE SELECTIVE. Try not to fall into the trap of believing that the next "new thing" is the answer. The answers are the same - it's just making sure you hear them in the right way for you.

I'm in what I consider the "late newbie" stage. So I'm still learning DAILY. But I have learned a LOT from others, and in some cases have paid for that knowledge.

In the end, this is an cheap business to get into. In dollars, not in time and effort!

Good luck!
Adam

howsyamama

What a very cool tool, Stephen! Thanks for this. I plan to use it!!!