How to maintain your CPA site
I've been running sites promoting CPA products for over 5 years now and I say CPA sites are one of the most time consuming sites to monitor if you don't know how. Why? Because offers come and go and if you are not monitoring your affiliate links, your visitors will be directed to inactive pages or dead links.
There were a number of instances that I earned $50 today and zero tomorrow. I was shocked before but after checking my sites, most of my links were dead because offers just went inactive.
So how avoid this problem while maintaining your conversions.
1. List the links of offer pages you are promoting. For example, if you are promoting free grocery, free walmart coupon, free laptop, free airline ticket - these offers have their pages inside your account in CPA network where you are a member - record all those URLs.
2. Use PHP jump script
This describes how it works: PHP Affiliate Jump Script - How to create an Affiliate Link jump script in PHP
3. Instead of using the actual affiliate links on your site, replace those links with those from PHP jump script.
4. Check all your recorded URLs daily. If there is any inactive link, replace it immediately by editing your jump.php script.
Why a jump.php script is important? because even if you have dozens of links featuring the same free offers in your site, you don't have to change all those affiliate links when something gone bad. Just edit the link inside your jump.php script and all affiliate links in your website will be updated.
Checking 10 to 15 links daily is not a hard job at all...
Good luck.
There were a number of instances that I earned $50 today and zero tomorrow. I was shocked before but after checking my sites, most of my links were dead because offers just went inactive.
So how avoid this problem while maintaining your conversions.
1. List the links of offer pages you are promoting. For example, if you are promoting free grocery, free walmart coupon, free laptop, free airline ticket - these offers have their pages inside your account in CPA network where you are a member - record all those URLs.
2. Use PHP jump script
This describes how it works: PHP Affiliate Jump Script - How to create an Affiliate Link jump script in PHP
3. Instead of using the actual affiliate links on your site, replace those links with those from PHP jump script.
4. Check all your recorded URLs daily. If there is any inactive link, replace it immediately by editing your jump.php script.
Why a jump.php script is important? because even if you have dozens of links featuring the same free offers in your site, you don't have to change all those affiliate links when something gone bad. Just edit the link inside your jump.php script and all affiliate links in your website will be updated.
Checking 10 to 15 links daily is not a hard job at all...
Good luck.