Cost Per Action, also known as CPA is all about conversions. I have discussed CPA in the past on this blog, and I would like to get into more detail here and now for those of you looking to make a long-term residual income.

Timelines from placement to action

The thing about cpa is that it is tricky to make money with if you have no previous experience with it. I am always excited about getting people into cpa, and sometimes get crazy about it when talking about how it works. Just ask Alex Whalley who I introduced a few months back to this wonderful world.

CPA is something I love because it allows me to make good chunks of money with little effort. How you say? Ok, I did warn you that it is hard to make money from with no experience, but when you do have that experience, it is easy as a $10 hooker on a crack withdrawal.

First, you will of course need to setup some niche sites. That’s CPA-101. Without niche sites, you aren’t being all you can be. But you don’t have to have niche sites in order to make money with CPA. I will discuss this more down the road ( I don’t want you skipping out on me early ).

Marketing a CPA niche site

For me, I love the fact that Google is my bitch when it comes to seo. I have been doing seo since 1994 back when Google wasn’t nearly as great as Yahoo!. Unfortunately, this won’t be the case for a bunch of you. So it’s important to get the basics down when it comes to seo.

You can learn more about search engine optimization with these handy articles…

• Using SEO for Practical Online Marketing
• 5 Awesome Ways to Build Backlinks
• Your Marketing Plan Template
• Are You Getting Top 10 Rankings Yet?
• How Important Is Your Traffic From Google?
• 3-Way Links & Other Cool Tricks for Google Rankings

That should be enough to get you started.

You will find that seo is vital to your long term cpa strategy. It’s not important to rank for every possible term in your niche, but it’s mighty handy to rank for a few good terms. If this blog were a cpa niche site, I would bank off of it with cpa more than I do. That’s because I get tons of traffic from Google’s natural organic rankings. It’s mostly because I have hundreds of articles on this blog which accumulated over it’s lifetime.

SEO is NOT your solution to short term cpa success! Let me explain…

If you just got into cpa and you are looking to rack up the $$$$$$ right now, you want to push social media sharing like you would push an old Pinto out of traffic. Here’s why I love social networks for cost per action campaigns…

The great thing about social media is that I don’t even need a website to promote my cpa offers. I can create a shortened link, and then have it ‘retweeted’ or ‘liked’ over and over. If you engage on Twitter regularly, you probably have a great solid network that will tweet any message you ask them to. The more friends you have with thousands of followers equals free traffic to your cpa offer.

Not using Twitter? Well you are slacking, and you probably shouldn’t be doing cpa in the first place. Again, this is CPA-101 stuff.

ADS come in all sizes

Are you cheap? I hope not. The next thing I want to discuss is all about ad campaigns. I am not talking about adwords or some other ppc/cpm medium. I am talking about utilizing ad networks like BuySellAds in order to drive traffic to your offers.

On BuySellAds.com, there are tons of websites you can list your banner ad on. Locate a few in your niche or a related niche, and submit your banner to them for a small price. If your ad cost $25 per month to place, and you made $3-4 per action, you only need a few actions in order to cover the cost.

This tactic may take a few tries to get right, but when it happens, you will know it.

Setup Offers on Your Blog

If you have an established blog like mine, you can create an offers page and direct readers there. If you have an seo blog, you can promote MaxBounty links for seo software. If you have a health and diet blog, guess what?! They have offers for that!

I don’t have an offers page on my blog only because I focus more on driving traffic to my consulting services, and other items that make up a good majority of my income from blogging.

CPA is Your Friend

If you haven’t gotten excited about CPA yet, you suck. But if you have, what’s your experience with it? What do you plan to do with it? Let me know below!

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I wasn’t planning to update this series quite yet, but thanks to an early advance in an unforeseen google result, I felt it necessary.

Firstly, let me tell you that my wordpress.com site is still up and running. I have only did some basic directory submissions to maybe 20 or so free directories. I have not did any article marketing yet, or any other kind of marketing except for maybe one or two blog comments.

See the screenshot…

You will notice that the site is now on the 3rd page of Google for “free blackberry stuff” without the quotes. This is a 20 million result keyphrase. The search volume is around 1,000 per month which is not huge, but it’s a start.

My goals for this site is to get 1st page rankings for “free blackberry applications” and “free blackberry themes” which has a good 40,000+ in search volume, and very low competition.

Free blackberry stuff is a good start for hardly any marketing at all. Imagine if I were to put out a few ezinearticles, and go crazy with blog hopping. Well, that’s what I am going to do.

Keyword research isn’t the only thing I have been doing. I have also been working on my strategy for product selection.

Selecting Products

I have spent some time locating other CPA Networks, and in my research, I came across Lazy Profits. This is my new favorite CPA Network because they have a great selection of offers to promote. It seems like they have a wider selection than MaxBounty does.

I am going after products with great demand. There are tons of Blackberry users, but there are even more people who want to lose weight, or take care of another problem that they are willing to give information for or spend money on.

Keep watching for another update. In the meantime, I suggest signing up with Lazy Profits because they will give you instant verification and you can start browsing offers right away. Go to LazyProfits.com to get on that.

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As you know, I posted my first article about the new CPA series I am doing, and having readers follow along with me. The goal? To make $1,000 per month with CPA (Cost Per Action) using MaxBounty as the network.

I started by creating a WordPress.com account (although that one will probably be shut down before you know it for their strict TOS crap. But luckily, this series will be using a bunch of different free hosts, and WordPress the actual script. So my advice to you is to search google for “free php hosting” and find a good few hosts that allow WordPress script, and provide ftp and free databases. There are a bunch of them. I am leaving my WordPress.com site up for now though, and not a huge deal if it goes down. I will update the original post if it does.

I setup the site, and it’s got all the basics up there. I downloaded the banners for the CPA offers that I will be promoting, and created ninja links pointing to their contextual destinations. This got around one of the restrictions on WordPress.com and allowed me to get the CPA offer link to actually work.

Part 2: Search Engine Optimization

As you know, search engine optimization is vital for CPA campaigns to make good money. It is not the only method of traffic however, so don’t stress.

For the seo part of this campaign, I will be using a program called SEO Elite, which is a great little cheap seo tool that will help you get top 10 rankings.

SEO Elite allows you to analyze the competition, and build some serious backlinks. This thing is guaranteed to get you many top 10 rankings in a short period of time.

I am not really trying to sell this software. I don’t have to as it will hold it’s own. If you don’t have it, I advise you to get it while it’s still cheap. If not, then you hopefully have some basic seo knowledge under your belt. If you need some seo primer, check out these seo articles I have written right here on my blog:

• Using SEO for Practical Online Marketing
• How Important Is Your Traffic From Google?
• Killer SEO: Not Having It Will Destroy Your Blog!

To start this off, I am going to create a new project using SEO Elite.

Notice that it has different options based on your goals.

I am going after the keyphrase “free blackberry apps” and other relevant phrases like “blackberry app reviews”. One of these has around 10.5 million results in Google which is rather small compared to the hundred million results in some searches where brandonconnell.com actually ranks on top. Suffice it to say, I am not worried about the competition.

To reach my goal, I am going to analyze backlinks for a major competitor. I can go after some of those links and get my own on the sites that link to it. The site I am analyzing is Crackberry.com. I am checking the PR, Alexa Traffic Rank, age of the sites linking, and other factors.

Notice the screenshot on the left. This is the backlink analysis in action. This will give you a lot of information to sort through, and kind of puts you in the direction of how to reach the success that your competition has.

When you want to get somewhere, you can always get there by copying the techniques of someone that has done it before.

I will be using information like this, and my own knowledge to gain top 10 rankings for each of the CPA websites that I setup. Blackberry is just one of the ones I am going after. You will notice in your MaxBounty account, that there are lots of different offers to choose from. I will also be setting up sites for weight loss, vacations, etc.

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I have a friend right now attempting to make $1,000 per month with cpa (cost per action) using MaxBounty and I thought it was a good idea for me to create a series tutorial showing you how to do this.

For reference, I am going to be doing this using absolutely no money for the site development, hosting, or marketing. I will be doing this in my spare time as well, which will show you that it can be done even if you have a full time job.

To start out the series, I created a free blog on WordPress.com and inserted some CPA ads, and a small starting article review. You can see the first CPA site at http://freeblackberrystuff.wordpress.com/ (note: wordpress.com is touchy and your website may not be there for long because of their dumb TOS, but you can use other free hosts. Do a google search for “free php hosting” and you will find lots of them that will even give you free ftp access and a sub-domain).

The CPA I am using on this site ranges from $1.60 to $2.80. These are not huge conversions, but with traffic and numbers, the goal is to make a little under $40 per day using only CPA. This is equal to an 8 hour a day job for 5 days a week making below minimum wage.

If you want to follow along, you will need to get yourself a MaxBounty account. I just ask that you write your own articles and don’t rip mine. I don’t care if you go after the same ads or whatever. Just don’t steal my text.

First, check out my site that I mentioned above. See how I set it up with a basic theme that was there when I signed up for an account with WordPress. Notice I placed some cpa ads in widgets in the sidebar and footer. There is absolutely nothing complicated about this.

I will be updating this site here and there until I get it how I want it. I will start marketing it tonight via blog hopping and article marketing. I will also submit it to tons of directories. I have a list that I use, but for this project, you can use a good list I found at http://addurl.nu/ (this link goes to the wayback machine version because the domain was down the day after I wrote this).

Once I get the basic edits done to the website, and get some marketing done, I will post here again with an update and my next plan of action. If you are joining me, I wish you luck.

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CPA which is also known as Cost Per Action is something that I have been working with a lot lately. I know this will sound like blasphemy because I am an affiliate marketer, but CPA is so much better.

The reason why I love CPA so much is because it is very easy to get paid for doing nothing. If I had 50 niche websites on the same topic, but with different unique articles on each one, then I would make a lot less money than I would if I had MaxBounty banners on those sites instead. The simple fact is, it is easier to get someone to submit their name and email address than it is to separate them from their hard-earned money.

It is pretty simple to make lots of money with CPA. If you use a mix of the simple actions, along with the sale actions, then you are diversifying yourself for better profits. You would create the sites just like you would a niche site for ClickBank or Google Adsense. MaxBounty allows you to use banner ads, and contextual ads depending on the offer OP.

Once you have your niche sites setup, you want to drive as much traffic as possible to them. The best ways include the normal blog hopping, & guest posting paired with the StumbleUpons bought on Fiverr. In addition, a good 50 articles published on EzineArticles for a single niche site will do wonders for your CPA campaign.

Let’s break down the math. To reach $5,000 per month, you need to get $1,250 per week. That’s not hard to do if you are an ambitious marketer. If you used just the basic $2 actions alone for this, you would need 625 actions to take place. Many established bloggers have enough traffic to convert them into actions, in addition to the niche sites. Take that, and add the rankings which bring in traffic to your niche sites and you can make bank.

The 625 actions may sound rough for some of you, but no worries. There are some non-sale actions that pay upwards of $20 per action for filling out and submitting a simple web form. In this case, the 625 actions gets dramatically reduced to 62.5 actions. What an improvement!

A great way to generate the desired traffic is to guest post on extremely high traffic blogs like ProBlogger. That blog alone will bring you 500 unique visits in a few days. Of course, you can guest post on this blog as well.

Did you discover CPA yet?

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