Surly CPA marketing can't be this easy!

I see you are from Canada. I am from England but live in Canada. I haven't had any succes with any Canadian offers yet. They just don't seem to convert very well for me. 90% of my income comes from the U.S

This is where many people new to CPA fail. They start blasting paid traffic to a brand new offer blind to the fact that it might not convert. I've seen it many times where people complain they spent $20 in traffic and no sales.

Always test offers! Always track!

Scale up when you find a high converting offer.

Simple solution. Get to know a few terms like PPC, CPA,PPV call up the CPA network and tell them you have been doing IM for about a year and that you are part of other CPA networks. Mention Commision Junction. Tell them you will be driving traffic using PPC with Bing and Ask search engines because Adwords is to tricky for CPA offers. This will show them that you are familiar with search engines. Nine times out of ten this will get you approved. If you don't know what you are talking about, at least pretend you do. A lot of the Affiliate managers don't know their arses from their elbows

Not really. I got accepted into 2 networks last week with almost no experience in IM. You have to be honest on your applications and be confident as well.
Don't give up!

Join Senuke and blast the heck out of every article.

Still seems like secret sauce to me

If I showed you the landing page, I might as well jump ship and scrap the campaign altogether.

Articles usually get ranked pretty fast without bookmarking or linking. But by bookmarking them, they tend to stick around (first page) longer

Why would you want to hire someone?

It would appear to me, that the CPA networks somehow know how successful you are and literally begging you to join their networks. I am a member of 9 different networks and have never been bothered by annoying calls. But then again, I am not driving 100.000 visitors a day to their offers, which makes me somewhat insignificant.

Yes and imagine the old days when there werent these great tracking software platforms...I cant imagine because I'm not that old...at least I tell myself that :rolleyes:


Oh c'mon, can you at least tell me your best keywords! Please

Try and get yourself out of that mindset and this may help give you more success. Focus on the basics and as they say...get er done.

Good post, hopefully I can add some here. The truth is that there are many scammy networks with awful offers, but they generally dont stick around for long. There are also very great networks with great offers.

With that said, a majority of the problem stems from the affiliates, not the networks. Many affiliates do real shady stuff and deceive people and scam people into fulfilling their offers. The networks are trying to weed these creeps out and thats why it may seem like you are jumping through hurdles to get accepted.

Most of the reputable networks dont do any adult offers, gambling offers (some do bingo) or pharmacy products. Most are legit offers.

I understand exactly where your attitude and perspective come from. I almost jumped ship when I very first started but I gave it more time and realized that the industry isvery wde and you can really approach it in whatever way fits you best...you can be dirty and unethical or you can go 100% straight up legit.

try neverblue, they let me in a year ago when I started. They're known as one of the better ones. I just joined qwikmedia too, not sure how great this one is. They let me in cause I have a few handfuls of websites...

Don't lump ADULT industry into SCAM. None of us would be making any money online if the adult industry had not come online first. I was working at earthlink in dial up sales back 1996 and most people came online because of the adult industry not to email grandma. The traffic stats speak for themselves.

Adult is why we have decent video Tech. And the top adult companies do more for their affiliates than any non-adult company I have seen. And they pay on time like clock work. So just because something is adult does not make it a scam. If you don't like Adult Content fine. But don't put down the industry that was the MAJOR force behind the growth of the internet and online video technology.

In fact the biggest scam was all of the money from Wall Street that went into "Mainstream businesses" and then they went out of business. When the adult companies where the ONLY companies making money online.

It always T's me off when people put the ADULT industry down when NONE of us would been making a dime if they has not come online first. The internet was around for quite a while and the web got it's push from Adult, just as VHS killed beta becuase sony would not allow adult on the beta format, and HD DVD died becuase Sony wised up and said Adult is allowed on Blu-Ray this time.

And Adult affiliate programs are the easiest to sign up for, they do not make you jump though hoops and are more than willing to assist you in your efforts.

The hard part is finding an offer that converts well. There is a lot of trial and error involved in this game. It is just the nature of CPA marketing. Keep prodding away and you will find a little money maker eventually, I guarantee it

Why shouldn't they? Just get on the phone to them and tell them you are going to kick ass

nicet tips thanks

Weird, I just answered this question in another post...here you go:

1. Make sure that your offer on your CPA network allows for "pre-pops" which means pre-poplation of data (email in this case).
2. Next, visit the landing page of your offer to see what it look like, and then you need to make your landing page visually similar
3. Where ever it makes sense on your landing page, you put in an email capture form. Here's the trick....you can generate this form from AWEBER (I'm sure other email systems do the same) and then simply paste their HTML into your landing page. ** As you're creating the form in AWeber, there's an option to "Pass Form Data" which means the data captured on the AWEBER form will then "pass" through the URL.

4. Next, you need to modify the CPA link to pass that data...here's how.

Your normal CPA link looks something like this:

FakeCPAoffer.com/index.asp?subid=whatever&em=passedemail@gmail.com

So let's look at this structure:

the "subid" is a way for you to track your traffic..you can put in keywords, traffic source like CPV/organic/etc.

the "em" variable in this case is the email that you captured in Aweber and passed to this offer landing page. Some CPA networks use "e", some "email", you just have to ask them.

When the page loads, the "passedemail@gmail.com" is pre-populated on the offer landing page which makes it one less step that separates you from your commission.

Hopefully that helps get you started in the right direction...let me know if you have questions

- Jeff

1. If you are serious about promoting CPA offers, you should join several CPA networks so you can can rotate offers or change the network if a offer expires and you are getting good traffic to your Page.

2. checking Google trends is on my list of daily things to do. Some days I can't find anything that I could promote CPA offers with. Other days I will find 2 or 3 topics to write about and I usually get a good amount of traffic.

3. I used Senuke in the past but find it a little pricey although it is very useful. I bookmark and backlink manually now. Once you have a plan of attack you can whizz through this daunting task. I usually watch Family Guy while doing this.

Yes, I think this is the most overlooked strategy. Once you find some system that works, just repeat the freak out of it and multiply your profits that way. Some times scaling is hard or imossible to do depending on the campaign, so why not just try and repeating the same system many many times. Works wonders!



1. There are many. I would try and get into a handful of the reputable ones as their service and affiliate managers are very helpful. Neverblue, CXdigital, Maxbounty etc

2. There are many and it depends on the traffic. Dating offers are generally solid or try short forms which should be fairly easy to convert.

3. I used SpeedPPC which saves boatloads of time...like a real lot of time. Can do manually at first if low on budget because software is normally not cheap.

Hi guys, I appreciate all the thank you's. But there is a little thing called a thank you button that you can hit and the more people do this, the more it makes me look like a super ultra guru.

Ha ha Cheers man. I was using the term jokingly. I have a long way to go before becoming a guru. If anyone is a guru around here it is you. It's a funny thing, when you help others, somehow you are helping yourself at the same time. I think just being part of a community and engaging with other like minded people is a important part of internet marketing. Communication. That's it, I am practicing my communication skills

Just a Google Trend, mate. If you get in early enough with a red hot trend, you can get thousands of views to your article in couple of days. Article directories usually get a lot of search engine love for new articles, which is why articles are ideal for Google Trends/Cpa offers. I have to add though, that sometimes you get lucky as well.

Galileo perhaps?

You can't link directly to CPA offer from most article directories, so need to go back to blog.

I think it is article > Blog (which has the LP).