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Just wanted to tell my story as a motivation to people who are new to CPA. I have some background in html design, and some history with playing with affiliate marketing. A friend of mine does PPC and he's been helping me with some tips. I started out about a month and a half ago. I'm currently averaging about $150/day (some days are crap, like today, others can go as high as $300+) doing PPC to landing page to offer using CPA free trials. I've had some ups and downs, but I have to say this was amazingly 'easy' relatively speaking, considering the short amount of time that took to reach what basically could replace a full time job's salary! I'm still not feeling very secure in it, as I'm running only 3 offers, but looks very promising! Here's the formula, and it's not rocket science: 1) talk to your affiliate managers as far as what offers are hot and converting. You do not want to start with an offer that you have no idea if it sells. Establishing a good relationship with them never hurts. I'm signed up with a bunch of networks, but I'm currently working with Lidango.com. Their payouts are pretty impressive compared to some of the bigger players. 2) once you have an offer, go to google/yahoo/msn and search for keywords that are related to the niche. See the landing pages and ad types that are showing up on the results. Build something along the same lines. 3) keywords - this is where I think people will have the hardest time. You need to be willing to spend some money to test out keywords. Use tools like the adwords keyword tool, and words that come to your mind as starting points. Let those run to about 1.5 times the value of the revenue of the CPA. So for instance if you earn $30 per CPA, you have to be willing to run a keyword up to $45 or so. You can see how if you have 50 keywords, this could amount to 50*$45=$2250! so you *have* to have some budget to go with at first otherwise you're not going anywhere. Hopefully you will see some sales generated by some of those keywords sooner than later. 4) So now you have offers that you know are converting for someone else. You have ads and landing pages formats that other people are using (a tool like PPC Bully or Google Cash Detective can help you with this, but I haven't used them personally). Once you have some sales, test everything. Bump up bid prices for the keywords you're getting success with. If the network allows for pixel tracking, that is also helpful, as you'll be able to see the revenue and costs right on your adwords/yahoo/msn interface. Using a tool like tracking202 also can achieve this. Hope this helps. This is the exact process that has worked so far for me. I'm feeling pretty confident that I can boost this to $1k/day, but we'll see, I'll keep you guys updated. |
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can i join you ?
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Great post, thanks for the information, and continued success with your business.
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Congrats mate and thanks a lot for sharing this ![]() I am also looking to try to get into this CPA thing soon so it is good to hear all these success stories. Keep it going! Question - How difficult you think is getting into Lidango network and do they accept international affiliates. Any tips would be appreciated.. |
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Nice share . Very practical Advice . I am sure this post would inspire lots of other warriors. What I like the most about your strategy is that you are starting with what is proven to work . This makes your system less susceptible to failure . But , just like any other PPC advertisement platforms , it is always important to test and track all of your keywords . Then based on your tests , ditch the losers and scale the winners . Just to complement your ideas ... When I build and run any PPC campaign , I focus mostly on these critical components : Hope it helps, Mike |
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What traffic source do you use?
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wish i could understand what you guys are saying...having a serious challenge monetizing my website..been blogging for just about 4months.
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| GuruInTraining Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK
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What ppc platforms do you find works best?
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Mike's advice is pretty helpful when you have found the winner and want to optimize your campaign and scale up the profit. ~ Omid |
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Great info Steve, thanks for sharing your experience. You make it look easy
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very impressive post。 I am learn ppc to cpa too. I think I have some advantage from your post. Thanks , and hope more info . |
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Yes definitely a very helpful post. I too want to share my way of getting CPA leads I created 1 page landing page for some IRS attorney and created 50 us state site and promote them on yellow pages, and others like google map etc and you know I am getting $100+ every day
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what you build site per cpa produck or just 1 site and write artikel cpa produck with url cpa link inside? what you used adword |
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| Active Warrior Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Florida
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Grate Info .... Thanks
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I didn't understand the logic of using a keyword 1.5 times of CPA revenue. One more thing, did you spend $2200 at once in PPC? What is your daily PPC budget? Please also tell, what is your conversion rate? |
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this was really informative and motivational. Wish you continued success towards your journey to $1k/day
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Hey Steve, Thanks for your informative post. I was just wondering if you can tell me what Ad Network you use and perhaps show me an example of your landing page? You see I'm very new to this and I'm not quite sure how to do certain things. So if you can give me an example of a landing page, that would be nice |
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wow, there are some pretty solid tips mate! Good job and thank you very much! |
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wow, thanks for sharing! Now you've given me another reason to look into CPA again!
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great post.. am new to cpa so this helps me a lot. thanks
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Hi Steve, Thanks for sharing this valuable information. Thanks, Nagendra Bandi |
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Great info ! Thanks for sharing this!
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$1200/month is a fairly large income then. I also wish that peaked
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Hi All, This is actually quite useful. I have made an Ok amount with CPA, yet this is truly inspiring. Thank you! cheers, Patrick |
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thanks dude, i bookmarked your tips
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How much are you spending to get this return? Have you ramped this up since this was first posted -I'm curious as to how this going?
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very basic guide thanks for sharing anyways |
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Great information! I haven't had a chance to test PPC with the search engines but I've found free trial offers work pretty well with Facebook also. Instead of doing a test of 1.5 times the offer amount, I usually run mine for about 100 clicks then discard it if it doesn't get any conversions. I don't want conversion rates lower than 5%. |
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Have you got any more specific tips in relation to: 1. More details about picking out exactly which offers you will promote? 2. How close do you run the margins on the ad bids? For example, if you have an offer converting at 10% that pays $100 CPA, how much do you bid per click? $5? $7.50? $9??? Thanks, |
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Thanks for sharing
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really useful tips thanks for sharing
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Sometimes you simply have to be promoting the right offer. Those who are currently not doing so well promoting certain offers, its possible to be doing all the right things and be getting substandard results. I know of some if anybody is interested.
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Great Offers, All The Time, Just Ask...... Currently Looking For Affiliates for Solid Converting Life Insurance, Finance, Lending, Credit/Debit Card, Stop Smoking, Weight Loss & Other Self-Help Offers Ready | |
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What is your traffic source? I am interested but I don't have too much, as CPA requires lots of time and attention. |
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Thank you, Good share, Following..
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thanks interesting post
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Thanks for sharing, carry on with your success in your campaigns
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Thanks for sharing us your story Good luck |
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That's good but risky. Any way to limit or eliminate most of the risk? Alot of new IMers don't have a lot of money up front to get started.
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great share...this post proves that things dont need to be complicated to make us money.
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Very informative, and yes... It does help to have a good relationship with your affiliate manager.
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Thanks for this tutorial!
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nice information thanks for sharing it.... |
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Wow! $1200 a month is CPA!! Thank you for sharing your steps how you accomplished to earn that amount per month.. Hope I can earn that too soon..
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Yes there are several ways. Alot of marketers will tell you that direct linking is the way to go but you can still do well with CPA offers on your own blog. Most important thing is to engage your audience and get them to your desired action. | |
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| Well, I have few methods to get 1st starting budget for like $10-$50. It can be higher if you work more but it isn't an easy job.
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