mraffiliate

After several emails with Brad Stanley the past couple of days at 7search dot com I signed up for an Advertiser account today. Everything went smoothly and they matched my $50.00 deposit so I'm starting with $100.00.

Brad has been great to work with and has answered my emails quickly and recommended a phone call in which I did.

I only know offline marketing. Currently I keep 4 small business websites ranked in the SERP's but I'm starting to distance myself from this niche and start promoting CPA offers. I will be generating traffic organically and by PPC.

Yes I know that I'm a complete newbie to PPC but I will be doing a lot of research and asking questions to learn and grow.

Now my next step is to find a CPA affiliate network and get approved. Once approved I will hopefully find a CPA offer to promote and try my hand at the exciting world of PPC.

I hope this thread will grow and provide a lot of information for all, especially those who are new to PPC. I ask that those who are experienced, if you would input your expertise here for everyone's benefit.

I will update this thread after each step I take. Talk soon

UPDATE: 11-15-11
Just signed up and was accepted with CJ. Yeah, I know it is instant approval but there is a company that I wan't to be an affiliate for and it is only offered through CJ. But this step is showing I'm moving forward. I will be taking the advice of many here at the Warrior Forum in that I am going to focus on one CPA offer / niche and test, test, tweak until I find a winning combination using PPC, organic, social, and other traffic methods to the point until all I have to do is maintenance and then I can go onto a different niche to diversify and grow my income.

UPDATE: 11-19-11
Good morning everyone,

Well I had a little disappointment. I did sign up for an account at CJ because I wanted to become an affiliate with a particular company that exclusively uses CJ.

I went to the Advertiser's detail page within the CJ control panel and hit the "Apply To Program" button and instantly a popup appeared stating my application was declined. I then emailed the Advertiser on the 17th and am still waiting for a response on what parameters they are looking for in a affiliate.

I was expecting an application to appear in order to input my information that would be submitted to this advertiser but I'm not sure why the instant decline. I'm thinking the website I input into the CJ application doesn't match the affiliate offer but that is expected especially if I were going to apply to multiply advertisers there is no way my website could match many different offers.

Anyone who uses CJ can give me pointers before applying to an Advertiser?

Well, I hope everyone has a great day. Off to work and preparing for Black Friday. I will respond to any posts this evening.

UPDATE: 11-21-11
Just got off the phone with the Advertiser "marketing department". I was told the reason my application was instantly declined is because I have not shown any earnings with CJ. I was told to email my PID to a particular person and they would look at my account and the approve me. Since I used a website during the signup process with CJ that is not related to the Advertiser's offer I will be registering a domain and building a site before I email the PID to the Advertiser. "Don't want to get declined for a second time for not having a site that is related".

ChrisBa

Welcome to the wonderful world of ppc And paid traffic. Please keep us updated on how it goes!

mraffiliate

Thanks for the welcome, and I will keep everyone updated.

mtmjohn

Do it and keep us posted ... Will follow the thread closely. All the best

IMBotz

PeerFly, EWA and Wolf Storm Media are good CPA networks to start off with. Also check out OfferVault for a comprehensive list of CPA networks and offers.

Good luck!

ossie

7search is a good place to start. It will allow you to learn and to test without losing our shirt. Track & test everything ideally use something like prosper202. Then scale up your winners by moving to other ppc platforms like adcenter, adknowledge, advertise.com with better confidence and understanding.

Get $50 Bonus Pay-Per-Click Ad Credits
Master Facebook Marketing

mraffiliate

I will. I have a day off work today but will be getting very busy soon for Black Friday. I'm considering signing up with CJ at first. "Does anyone know why CJ doesn't reveal their networks in Offer Vault?"

mraffiliate

Yes I have considered one of these networks but no sure how difficult it would be to get accepted. Maybe my offline experience driving traffic to local businesses may help.

mraffiliate

Hey Ossie,

I read somewhere on this Forum that 7search has it's own tracking system so that prosper202 isn't needed. Not sure but will look at prosper202 today.

mraffiliate

Well, off to go grocery shopping

Since Black Friday is only 10 days away, I'm thinking of finding an email/zip submit offer related to Black Friday. It would be very relevant. Any thoughts and/or suggestions on some great Black Friday offers?

speedylikesKJ

Welcome to PPC , 7search is a great traffic source to make money through CPA just requires a little use of common sense and testing ,.. Just one advise as now you have chosen 7search don`t give up keep trying until you make good $$ out of it


Best regards
~kJ

pacelattin

Do low bids on as many cybermonday products Seriously, you'll make something..

mraffiliate

Thanks. I'll try not to give up. If I can make some money with the $100 I have to start with then I will reinvest it and keep going.

mraffiliate

Sounds like a plan but I need to get approved with some networks first

mraffiliate

UPDATE: 11-15-11
Just signed up and was accepted with CJ. Yeah, I know it is instant approval but there is a company that I wan't to be an affiliate for and it is only offered through CJ. But this step is showing I'm moving forward. I will be taking the advice of many here at the Warrior Forum in that I am going to focus on one CPA offer / niche and test, test, tweak until I find a winning combination using PPC, organic, social, and other traffic methods to the point until all I have to do is maintenance and then I can go onto a different niche to diversify and grow my income.

jeffreytheIM

Hi,

Good luck with cpa. The only thing is ppc is dead.

Buy Triactol
Triactol Canada

PPC-Coach

PPC died again?

Man it's died a lot of times over the years.

Don't tell Adwords and their billion dollar revenues about this. Or Facebook Ads and their massive revenue numbers, (hint: both come from PPC advertisers mainly).

mraffiliate

Thanks for your post. I will be trying PPC, organic traffic, social media, etc. and see which one's produce quality targeted traffic for the offer I will be promoting and scale those up.

mraffiliate

Interesting site you have on PPC. I'm currently studying Kenster's Rags2riches WSO which has been very valuable.

eyekantbeme

Very valuable indeed.......Im with you on that one for sure, man!



Jeremy

Oh yeah, and PPC only dies when you get banned from the following...

Adwords, facebook, 7search, myads, plenty of fish.......+like 100+ more and of course microsoft adcenter. Then once you manage to get banned accross the board, ppc might be dead for you lol, but you can always get on the CPM wagon!


Hope that doesnt help,

Jeremy

**facepalm**

To be Continued......lol

Checkout my sites ! www.GetYourFreeIpad2.net and www.GetYourFreeIphone5.com

Thanks!

speedylikesKJ

$100 is enough to find winners

mraffiliate

Funny post

mraffiliate

I will take your word for it. I'm currently researching keywords for the CPA offer that I'm considering promoting.

QUESTION: If direct linking to an offer isn't allowed, does that mean using a redirect or 100% iframing falls withing the definition of direct linking?

speedylikesKJ

On 7search you can use direct linking there is no such problem , And about make sure you contact your AM first and have a word with him about this matter because he is the best person to answer this question

mraffiliate

Yea 7search allows it but I was looking at the Advertiser's terms and saw that they don't allow direct linking to their offer. I haven't contacted them yet since I haven't applied for an affiliate with them yet.

ossie

Yes with 7search you can track keywords using the ###KEYWORD### tag in your url but you should still use prosper202 or some other tracking like bevomedia to help automate your tracking.

Get $50 Bonus Pay-Per-Click Ad Credits
Master Facebook Marketing

mraffiliate

Thanks for the info

faceblogger

CPA is not dead?

mraffiliate

Good morning everyone,

Well I had a little disappointment. I did sign up for an account at CJ because I wanted to become an affiliate with a particular company that exclusively uses CJ.

I went to the Advertiser's detail page within the CJ control panel and hit the "Apply To Program" button and instantly a popup appeared stating my application was declined. I then emailed the Advertiser on the 17th and am still waiting for a response on what parameters they are looking for in a affiliate.

I was expecting an application to appear in order to input my information that would be submitted to this advertiser but I'm not sure why the instant decline. I'm thinking the website I input into the CJ application doesn't match the affiliate offer but that is expected especially if I were going to apply to multiply advertisers there is no way my website could match many different offers.

Anyone who uses CJ can give me pointers before applying to an Advertiser?

Well, I hope everyone has a great day. Off to work and preparing for Black Friday. I will respond to any posts this evening.

speedylikesKJ

Join Maxbounty or peerfly you can read reviews about them on Reviews of CPA Networks, Affiliate Programs and Ad Networks - Affpaying

mraffiliate

Thanks SpeedyLikesKJ. I will look at the site you provided and/or offervault to look at the offers that Maxbounty and Peerfly have.

speedylikesKJ

most welcome mate these are the best networks to start with , best affiliate managers in industry.

Troy987

yes, I agree with Maxbounty and Peerfly

Duce

direct linking is in my opinion the wrong way to do ppc. why spend all that money and time on finding what works and what doesn't to only target these people one time. You will never make any money that way...well at least not big paydays. Just like affiliate marketing you want to build a list...yes even with cpa offers. Think about it you uncover a great dating campaign...keywords, offer, ad copy, etc. And you are making a killing but you did build a landing page you're direct linking. The ad copy is not converting like it was so now your campaign drys up and you are back to the drawing board. Now if you would have built a landing page to build a list and then send them to the dating offer, now you can email them other dating offers and offers related to the dating niche.....

Build a landing page yes it takes a little more time but it's worth it. But that's just my 2 cents....well 2.5 cents.

eugene

$130.15 in 3 days promoting CPA on Facebook...
No Landing Page, No iFrame...pm me to find out how.

mtmjohn

Sorry, affiliate marketing is dead

Both are great networks, have nice offers with good payouts

Going Up

Well said my friend. It was in my mind but was not sure with it. Your reply made it clear to me. Just another question. Would it be the same conversion rate as if we direct them to our CPA offer ?

Dramatically Increase Conversions & Get More People Into Your List. Increase Your Traffic With Power Traffic Generator Power Popup Plugin

mraffiliate

Thanks for your post

mraffiliate

eugene,

The main reason I have been hesitant to make a squeeze page and build a list is because I have input my name and email address in many squeeze pages and then I was bombarded by emails trying to sell me something and in almost the past two years I have never made a purchase from Affiliate Marketer's emails that I have been sent. I do read of those who say that building a list can make you a lot of money I myself hate to be on the receiving end of those emails.

mraffiliate

UPDATE: 11-21-11
Just got off the phone with the Advertiser "marketing department". I was told the reason my application was instantly declined is because I have not shown any earnings with CJ. I was told to email my PID to a particular person and they would look at my account and the approve me. Since I used a website during the signup process with CJ that is not related to the Advertiser's offer I will be registering a domain and building a site before I email the PID to the Advertiser. "Don't want to get declined for a second time for not having a site that is related".

sangelf

Hey Warriors,

Sorry to intrude into your thread, but saw Maxbounty and 7Search mentioned here so thought of asking following. I also just started on CPA (2 days old!) and used direct linking from 7Search and sent about 170 clicks and 0 conversions. I asked my AM to have a look but she gave a general reply, saying this normally happens when the "surfers' cookies are disabled and simply they did not fill the fields" etc.

1) I was wondering if I used correct urls? I can see my clicks in Maxbounty reports though. I used, from Maxbounty offer's=>Creatives-> Search -> "get tracking code" as the "Default Destination URL" in 7Search. Is this correct? (there's "Preview Landing Page" url aswell...)

2) The above mentioned URL is NOT permitted in adCenter, why is that? When I entered that "tracking code" for "Destination URL" in adCenter it says, "The ad does not meet Microsoft adCenter editorial guidelines." This is clearly due to the additional affiliate ids etc in the URL, mmm. What exactly happening here?

Thanks in advance.
Hope answers to these would help myself and other newbies :-)

PS. I will also try to chat to adCenter people to see whether, the URL is having any formatting issues...

professorrosado

I believe your problem has been addressed already in the thread indirectly. Adwords, Bing, etc., do not allow direct linking to your offer - you need a landing page.

I use a post on my blog for some offers. From there they click to the offer. I can get an email at my site before they proceed, as suggested above.

I have the same ad running on 7Search linking directly to the offer.

sangelf

Thanks for that Professorrosado.

No, I have read in several threads, that you can direct link in adCenter... please correct me if I am wrong, sombody else? Also still I am still looking forward to more opinions to Q1 and Q2, thanks.

I agree that using landing pages and trying to capture emails by ourselves is the way to go long term, but I am just starting out on CPA, and would try things 1 step at a time.
Cheers

professorrosado

how to direct link to Adcenter ?

Also, I have found in my search the following:

AdCenter has changed alot like google they are using quality score for keyword,adcopy and landing page, they are checking relevance for all these items. If your affiliate has all these three relevancy in their landing page then there is no problem or else the quality score will be very low and there is a chance to ban your account for violating their policies(adcenter).

And in another forum:

Direct linking is still possible but if you are promoting affiliate offers you basically need to be the first person to have EVER advertised the page or they (Google/Bing) will likely not approve your offer. For these networks, if you have the ability to, you should look into creating a landing page to ensure that you can advertise. (this from a 7Search staff member's post)

martbost

Just to weigh in here. My business partner and I have been jumping on 7Search heavily over the last week or so. Not only do they offer you a $50 bonus matched when you first sign up, but until the end of this month, you can use the coupon code "HOLIDAYCHEER" and they will match your next deposit with $50 more. For those of you with a tight budget, you are really looking at $100 = $200, which you should be able to adequately promote some things for $200.

Also, one of our affiliate networks that we use is giving $25 Visa Gift Cards for every offer that you send 15 unique visitors to. We are up to $1,325 in gift cards....yeah!

You can private message me about the affiliate if you want to know. I am not much for giving plugs between affiliates out loud, but this offer has been awesome.

Please do consider using the self-hosted Prosper202 in your campaigns to track your progress though. To echo what was already said, it will really help you gear up for larger ad networks with offers that have been tested.

Lastly, If you are not using landing pages to capture optin leads before promoting your offers, you are really missing out on the opportunity to have a longterm customer.

Good luck on your venture and hope the coupon code helps!

Marty

Marty Bostick
Mobile Marketing That Works
Txt MOBILEDEMO to 75309 to see it in action

martbost

One question for this thread, how should the ###KEYWORD### be used? I wasn't quite sure it if should simply be appended to one of the SUBID's or C1 fields if someone could explain it.

Thanks

Marty Bostick
Mobile Marketing That Works
Txt MOBILEDEMO to 75309 to see it in action

professorrosado

What I understand is that it will INSERT the keyword wherever you place the code IN THE AD.

I have been using it to dot my ad with the keyword the searcher has searched for in order to make the ad more relevant and get more clicks.

mraffiliate

Thanks for the recent posts. I have been working a lot of hours because of Black Friday. I got another Lap Top so I'll be tinkering with it in a couple of days. I did get a good domain registered and now I'm looking for a clean and simple landing page so that I can submit it to the Advertiser and then start promoting the offer.

shimmi

I want to PM you for the name of the affiliate, but my post number is too low for that.. Can you please PM me instead? I don't mind getting paid in Visa cards

PPC-Coach

You can direct link on any ppc engine.

CJ rejected you because the advertiser auto-rejects any applicant under a certain income level.

Direct linking affiliate offers is different on every ppc engine rule wise.

Hopefully you made some $$$ today as it was a good day for sales.

Dresden14

be prepared to be ripped off. 7search (bidvertiser, amongst many others) are horrible, horrible places to buy traffic. Stick with bing, google - thats it.

AIM U/N: 'debt' - Credit Card Debt Help | Sinus Infection Symptoms | Credit Card Consolidation

Consolidate Credit Card Debt