CPA - what is it?

Actually CPA stands for "Cost Per Action". The action can be Email/zip submit, filling a registration form and ...

These offers pay you when some action occurs. The point is you get paid for that action but you are (as an affiliate) not the one who does it. You have other people do the action for you. The action

How?

You promote and bring traffic to them. Every affiliate has his/her own way. Someone may promote it through paid traffic sources like PPC, PPV, media buy or ..

Someone else may drive traffic to the offer using free stuff like SEO, article marketing, forum marketing ...

Each one has its own rules and considerations but all of them proven to be profitable and some people make living using them.

My advice to you is stick to the method you pick, never give up and you will see results for sure.

~ Omid

CPA - Cost per action

More or less.. you need to get visitors to the cpa merchant and complete the 'offer', the offer can range from just submitting t here e-mail address to full information and credit card (hence why the difference in payouts)

As said above by Chris and Omid, CPA stands for Cost-per-action. In other words, you are attracting traffic to your offers which you find in CPA networks, and you gain a comission based on the action that the person who clicks your link takes. Some common "actions" are an email submission, address submission, a zipcode submission. You are basically promoting other people's offers and they are paying you for your services.

Do you need a website? You can have one, but that is not necessarily the only way to promote CPA offers. There are many different methods, such as article marketing, media buying (paying companies to show your ad on their high traffic media), video marketing, social media marketing, email lists, blogging, etc. You can also take action OFFLINE by handing out flyers or approaching businesses about different opportunities.

It is a very exciting aspect of internet marketing and pretty beginner friendly if you take action. I made money within mere days of starting my first ever campaign.

-Matt P

CPA = The best damn thing that happened to internet marketing!