Thursday, December 1, 2011

CPA Affiliate Marketing tips

People are familiar with affiliate marketing but most of them do not know about cpa affiliate marketing. CPA stands for cost per acquisition or cost per action, this method pays for the leads or email subscribers you generate rather than making a sale.

The cpa networks pay a lot of money for each lead that you generate from your website because these networks have many advertisers that pay huge amounts of money for the leads in specific markets. The advertisers promote their offers to the leads acquired from these networks and generate sales to their business.

The advertisers have to pay more money on advertisements if they venture out to get their own subscribers but instead they depend on cpa networks which consists of a network of quality websites that get good traffic.

This will benefit both the cpa network and the affiliates who promote the offers. If you are new to this type of marketing you need to have following requirements to get approved by the network.

    You should have a website of your own.
    You should get a good amount of traffic to your site.

If you satisfy the above two requirements then you can apply to be an affiliate, here are some of the best cpa networks online today you can apply.

    Getads.com
    Epicdirectnetwork.com
    Cpaleads.com
    Clickbooth.com

Make sure your website is well structured and gets good traffic, this is to ensure your application gets accepted in the first attempt itself. You should also specify what methods you are using to generate traffic.

If you are a newbie and do not have a website then do not worry try out the regular affiliate marketing and it is recommended you join clickbank if you are a complete beginner. The clickbank is one of the world's largest affiliate network for digital products and it is much easier to earn money for a newbie with this platform.

Once you are experienced with clickbank and have a website with good traffic then apply to the cpa networks. If you are approved into any of cpa networks they will assign a affiliate manager to you who will help you to grow your income, so make the most of it. You will have to place a banner or a form in your website that is given by the network and when your website visitors perform an action like filling the form (usually zip code or email address) you will be paid.

Maintain quality and provide good information on your website so that people trust you and they might perform the required action which pays you.

Learn some traffic generation methods which helps you get more visitors to your website thus increasing your earning potential.