How To Apply To A CPA Network And Be Accepted – Part One

As you have no doubt discovered CPA marketing can be one of the simplest and most rewarding methods for making money on the internet. You must be a member of a CPA network to get access to all the CPA offers available, and so with this report that will be over three parts will teach you all about CPA networks and how to get accepted to the top ones. Instead of just giving a short article on the CPA network application process, we are going into detail on the whole procedure so you will fully understand everything and not be kept in the dark about the important aspects. The more knowledge you have about how it all works, the easier it will be to prepare to take advantage of the profitable CPA marketing niche.

CPA networks are effectively the go between in the whole process of the CPA marketing business. One part of their responsibilities is to successfully negotiate deals with top advertisers like Netflix that are looking for a way to buy leads. They will also help the advertisers to properly set up their CPA offers and campaigns to help attract affiliates. Another responsibility of a CPA network is to actually manage and communicate with all the affiliates who have joined their network, wanting to earn commission by driving traffic and successful leads to the advertisers. The CPA networks offer a marketplace for advertisers to contact affiliates and for affiliates to find advertisers and their CPA offers.

CPA networks also have the responsibility of monitoring and tracking earned revenues between the advertiser and the affiliate. They track the commissions earned by the affiliate and will bill the advertiser for any leads made and pay-out any owed money to the affiliates. Of cause the CPA networks take a small cut of each transaction to cover their costs, and it is basically how they make their incomes. So for example, if Netflix is willing to pay $20 per lead, the CPA network may pay an affiliate $19 per lead and keep the $1 as a commission. You may be thinking “Can’t I just deal with an Advertiser direct, and take the full commission and bypass the CPA network?” The basic answer to this question is a resounding yes and no! If you were a super affiliate that was sending lots of quality traffic and leads, then an advertiser would most probably make a direct deal with you. But, anyone new to CPA marketing and doesn’t possess the ability to drive lots of traffic, no advertiser will ever consider working with you outside the CPA network.

Another important piece of information to take notice of is that there are quite literally several hundreds of CPA networks to join and earn commission with. But, many of the smaller networks have much fewer advertisers and CPA offers available, making them much less reliable and possibly more risky to use. It would be really heart-breaking if you successfully earned $5000 in commission from leads and the network refuses to pay or the network goes into liquidation before paying out. This kind of situation does not happen often, but be assured that it can and does happen. Thanks to the advancement in software development, anybody can now setup a CPA network almost overnight. The best advice would be to join the larger and more established CPA networks, simply because they have built their reputation by doing business with honesty and integrity.

Something else that is interesting about CPA networks is they themselves are kind of affiliates also. Better known as ‘proprietary marketing’ this is when CPA networks will drive traffic to their own CPA offers. They aren’t just taking care of the various transactions; they are also trying to generate commissions themselves. Not everything is plain sailing for CPA networks; there is a lot of work and problems they have to deal with daily, which is exactly why there is an application process for affiliates in the first place. In the ideal scenario the network will tell the advertiser how many leads were generated by the affiliate, and the advertiser would then pay for the leads and pay the commission to affiliates. This however, isn’t how the business actually works and CPA networks can incur considerable financial risk because of the timing involved with cash flow. In many instances when there are affiliates earning huge daily commissions, these affiliates will refuse to wait up to a month for the network to collect the revenue from the advertiser first.

Just imagine a super affiliate that earns $5000 a day in commission from a certain insurance company’s CPA offer. Since the affiliate is driving such large amounts of leads, the CPA network has made the decision to pay the commissions on a daily basis. Say, the insurance company who is running the CPA offer only pays the CPA network monthly. This would mean the network would be paying out the commissions from their own funds, on the approval that the insurance company will pay them in a month’s time. But imagine if the insurance company starts disputing some of the leads as low quality or even fraudulent and are not going to pay out some of the commission. This means that the CPA network has been paying out huge commission on a daily basis, and will not recoup all the money from the insurance company. So there is some considerable risk that CPA networks do actually take on in this business.

Affiliate Managers When Joining CPA Networks

After successfully joining a CPA network you are usually contacted by an affiliate manage, who is quite often referred to as an account manager. Affiliate managers effectively represent a certain group of affiliates and are the contact points for any questions or queries you have about any of the CPA offers that are available. The affiliate managers are very knowledgeable on all the CPA offers on the network, and will be happy to tell you which offers are converting the best at any given time. They have full access to a variety of information and statistics from every affiliate campaign, and so it is recommended to contact and get to know you affiliate manager to help build a good relationship from the start.

Just try and contact your affiliate manager as soon as you are accepted as an affiliate in the CPA network. Introduce yourself and give some basics on what you will be doing to promote any of the CPA offers you find, and this will help create open communication between you and the affiliate manager. Make sure you regularly communicate with them on a weekly basis to touch base and keep your name fresh in their memory.  Affiliate managers can help you no end with profitable information or let you in on promoting some CPA offers which pay higher commissions.

Affiliate managers should be seen as allies and a great resource for information on the most profitable and popular CPA offers in any network. In part two we will be looking at how you actually go about applying and how the whole application process works for CPA networks. Stay tuned!

Join one of the easiest to be accepted CPA networks over at Peerfly

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$30+/Day With Pinterest. Stupid Easy

Hey guys
This is a simple Pinterest method that doesn’t involve getting followers or doing anything blackhat. I’ve tried this method and know it works if you just take action.
First install the Mozilla addon “Pinterest Right-Click” or Chrome equivalent to make pinning easier when you’re pinning from a site other than Pinterest. Then open up an account on Pinterest. Something like 80% of Pinterest users are women so use a woman as your fake alias. Your profile needs to look legit so upload a pic of a woman and fill out all the information in the profile. You’ll also need at least 10 nice looking boards to make your account look legit. The easiest way to do this is by finding some of the top pinners on
Code:
repinly.com/popular_pinners.aspx
and copying their boards.
You should have a complete profile and at least 10 pin boards now. Your account should look 100% legit.
The niche we’re going to be working in is recipes. Why recipes? It’s one of the most popular niches on pinterest and more importantly, people will CLICK on your pin and VISIT your website so they can find the recipe. In other niches like animals or landscapes or whatever, users may like your pin and repin it but they have ZERO incentive to click your pin and visit your website.
Now what you need to do is visit the “Popular” section of pinterest and find some popular recipe pins. Click on the pictures to visit the source website. These websites will be our targets where we’ll copy recipes to use on our website.
Next create a simple website, copy the recipes from the sites you found earlier and post them to your site. Your site should be designed to maximize adsense CTR. Use a high CTR adsense theme (Thesis or Heatmap are good. Or search the forum for more suggestions), and put 3 adsense blocks above-the-fold on your website. If you don’t have an adsense account just apply for one. I’ve gotten adsense approved using websites with 100% duplicate content so it shouldn’t be a problem.
Now we need to pin recipes from our website in locations where they’ll receive a lot of targeted views. To do this we need to become contributors of community boards. For those unfamiliar with community boards, these boards are large public boards with thousands or tens of thousands of followers where anyone that’s a contributor can post pins. Usually these boards will have instructions on how to join as a contributor. If they don’t then follow the board and comment “[AT SIGN]board creator name” and ask politely to join. This is why you need a legit looking profile. If you come off as spammy you won’t be accepted. As long as you look legit it’s very, very easy to join these boards.
Some boards to get you started in the recipe niche:
Code:
pinterest.com/naglemarie/delicious-desserts/
pinterest.com/doorite579/my-pinterest-cookbook/
pinterest.com/doorite579/liquid-refreshments/
pinterest.com/patesmichael/food/
Now just pin images from your website to the boards. In the description write something along the lines of “Food Name Recipe” or “Food Name. Click For Recipe” You will get lots of repins and traffic to your site. Pinterest users are made up of bored, older women who aren’t very smart and will click ads at a higher rate than younger more computer savvy users.
DON’T SPAM. DON’T BE DUMB and you’ll make money.
Twist #1: Take RSS feeds from the original recipe sites and run it through yahoo pipes so it outputs the full recipe+image. If you don’t know how to do this search this forum or google. There are tutorials that explain it better than I can. Then take that full rss feed and turn your website into an autoblog using wp-o-matic or another autoblog plugin.
Twist #2: Only use high CPC keyword recipes on your website such as Diabetic Recipes or Weight Loss Recipes for more $$ each click.
Twist #3: Think of other niches where users have a strong incentive to click your pin and visit your website then pin those images onto relevant community boards.

http://techblog.pro/30day-with-pinterest-stupid-easy/

Making Money With Pinterest And Blogger Adsense Method Part One

Pinterest as any savvy internet marketer knows is a very popular photo sharing social networking website, that allows its members to share, repin, like and comment on each others photos which are posted to niche categorized and user-defined boards.

Since the rise in popularity of Pinterest especially with the amount of female users using the photo social networking site on a daily basis. Many businesses especially the fashion and cosmetic industry have grasped upon making money with Pinterest using the power of internet pin boards for product images onto Pinterest, with that all important link back to the actual product page where it can be bought and create sales revenues.

This has resulted in millions of dollars in revenue for these types of businesses, and also has opened the doors for smaller businesses to promote and start making money with Pinterest. Lots of niches are available across the Pinterest network and boards for anything that has images to display can be created, except for pornography or lewd images which is pretty standard practice.

With all this in mind there is still a problem for most novice internet marketers who want to get into making money with Pinterest. Lets face it most of us do not own businesses that sell products and probably do not have websites that have enough traffic to attract visitors to follow our boards on Pinterest.

And now the days of being Pinterest Amazon Associates as a method to making money with Pinterest is gone, as noone can post images to Amazon products with their affiliate links embedded without risking a ban or without Pinterest just changing the links to their own affiliation.

So what about the rest of us who would like to cash in on making money with Pinterest. Well my friends in the next few paragraphs you will discover my own personal money making method, that uses the power of Pinterest traffic and Blogger Adsense revenue using just a few available software tools and online services.

The first step to this method in making money with Pinterest is getting yourself a niche for which to create your boards and Blogger blog. Just go over and register an account at Pinterest if you haven’t already done so, and look through the categories in the menu at the top on the home page and choose yourself a niche which will help you when making money with Pinterest. Keep in mind you want to choose a niche that will earn the highest possible Adsense revenue, so for example look at the Health & Fitness or Fashion categories.

Once you have chosen your niche and assuming you have a Google Account with Adsense incorporated its time to firstly setup your Blogger blog. Goto blogger.com and create yourself a blog and give it an appropriate name and choose the Watermark template.

Go to the layout settings in Blogger and click ‘add a gadget’ to the left of the box marked ‘Blog Posts’ and click the plus sign next to Adsense to add this widget. When configuring the Adsense choose the format as 120×600 skyscraper, select text only and put the colors option as blend template. Save these settings and the click ‘add a gadget’ to the right of the box marked ‘Blog Posts’ and add the Adsense widget and the same setting as before. Make sure you delete the usual Popular Posts and Profile widget off the right hand side.

Here is another quite handy feature to place on your Blogger blog, its the html code for a Pinterest pin button which you can place above your image so people can repin your image back to their boards on Pinterest with a link back to your blog to help with making money with Pinterest.

Now just click on one of the ‘add a gadget’ in the layout settings and click the plus sign next to the HTML/Javascript, and in the content box copy and paste the following code into the content box:

Now drag and drop the box containing the Pinterest button so the box fits nicely on top of the ‘Blog Posts’ box. Just take a look at the image below to get a better idea of the sort of layout your Blogger blog should be taking.

Correct Layout Of Blogger Adsense Blog

Now the only thing left to do with the Blogger blog settings is to click settings then post and comments, and change the value next to ‘Show at most’ to 1 post on the main page. And that’s the Blogger blog nicely set up.

http://blackhatsparrow.com/making-money-with-pinterest-and-blogger-adsense-method-part-one/

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In part two of this method to making money with Pinterest we will be looking at how to grab niche-related Pinterest board RSS feed URL’s and how to use them to help auto-populate your blog with photos.