Linking to a CPA offer from an image may get you some click throughs, but it would be better form to build a mailing list from your landing page. This will give you the opportunity to build trust through time and give you a lot better chance at building a group of buyers. You can also market to your list for years to come if you have other similar offers in the future.

Correct me if I'm wrong. What should I do is capture their email address then promote my offers using email marketing? Would it be better if I capture their email at the same time link my cpa offers? thanks...

what about if you already have a paid lead source

Several ways to do this... from easy to complex

1) Make your landing page an image of target cpa landing page and link to cpa offer. Page can be as simple or as elaborate as your creativity allows.

2) Add lead capture form to your landing page to capture lead... then redirect visitors to cpa offer after they opt in

3) Add lead capture form to your landing page to capture lead... then "Pre-pop" visitor's info to the CPA offer page upon redirect. NOTE: The cpa offer has to allow for pre-popping.

4) iFrame the CPA offer page's opt-in form; then use HTML/CSS to place it and position it on your own Landing Page. NOTE: .

- Jay

jaggyjay has share a good guide to setup a lead capture landing page although i wouldn't really suggest doing #4

Typically a landing page is normally used to presell someone to fill out the offer, so if you were promoting a zip submit, you would probably make a strong sales pitch as why they should fill out their zip code on the offer.. the other big portion is the traffic source that your traffic is coming from and how you are planning on converting that traffic into conversions (method)

Basically landing pages exists to resell a product or a service. If you are promoting an email/zip submit offer, you should prepare the visitor to enter their email / zip code. You could do it by creating a landing page and an action button. The action button should point to the CPA offer exactly. In this way, when you convince the visitor to enter their email/zip, when they click to the call to action button, they will be redirected to the right place, where they could do it.

Capture email then send to email submit CPA offer after.

Thanks to all. One last question.

Since I will be doing this as a trial and only needing one domain. Should I host this one using godaddy they have a promo which is 34$ a year with free one year domain or buy domain from namecheap and host it from hostgator?

I'm tight on budget since I will be hiring people for landing page creation and seo.