How to promote CPA offers this way to cpa
I often hear that many new affiliates are struggling promoting CPA email submits and I never understand why is that?
I think free offers are probbably the easiest money to be made on the internet. The thing is – you need to think outside the box to be one step ahead of thousands of publishers that are doing the same thing over and over again.
Youtube, Facebook, Twitter are already saturated. Yes, they worked a few years ago, but not today. Have you checked how many “free ipad” videos are uploaded on Youtube? 682,000! and it’s still growing everyday! It would be unwise to even think about competing there.
I’m not here to tell you that you can’t make money with email submits, opposite I’m going to reveal you five methods that has been a gold mine for me in the past two years. And I still don’t see many affiliates do that. So, you ready? Let’s get into it:
1. Building an email list
I’m sure you have already heard that “money is in the list”. And it’s true. This also applies to email submit offers.
Whatever you do, you want to build a list of subscribers first. Never send traffic directly to the cpa offer. First capture their email address and then redirect them to the offer page.
Just imagine having a list of 10,000 people that are seeking for free offers. What’s in it for you, you say? Well, we know that they are interested in free stuff and most likely they are short on money. So we can send them:
- other free offers later (free iphone, free ipod, free xbox and etc).
- business opportunity offers (clickbank)
- Get paid to take surveys, read emails, reviewing products CPA offers (these kind of offers works incredibly well)
Do you see the power here? Instead of making $1.20 per visitor and losing them forever, with email list you could easily make $5 per subscriber. That’s four times more money!
Now that we have a list ready, it’s time to drive traffic and grow your subscriber base and make money at the same time.
2. Pinterest traffic for CPA email submits
Yes, Pinterest is huge for CPA offers! I can’t find a better traffic source for female oriented CPA email submits. Possibilities are endless and still not many affiliates are using it for CPA offers.
I’m having success promoting various gift card offers (TJ MAXX, MAC Cosmetics, Walmart, Ikea) and trust me – you can make much more promoting these kind of offers vs free gadgets. Peerfly many of these.
I guess the main reason why affiliates are struggling to make money with Pinterest is that it takes a lot of time and work to post pins manually.
3. Document sharing sites and CPA email submits
SEO still works. Document sharing sites are another secret weapon for email submits. Many of them ranks pretty well on Google and can bring you a lot of traffic.
But again, it depends on how you use them.
When I found out that some of my documents was getting a decent amount of traffic I started scratching my head thinking of how could I automate the whole document sharing process and after some serious digging I discovered Doc Presser WordPress plugin.
Basically it creates a .pdf file from your WordPress post or page and automatically distributes to 14 high authority document sharing sites. So, instead of having just one article on the internet, now you have your CPA article posted on 14 different high authority sites which usualy rank much better than your blog post.
Here’s the plugin in action:
4. Sweepstake sites/forums and CPA email submits
I wasn’t gonna share this strategy on my blog (usually best pieces goes to my subscribers), but what the hell.
Ok, so the thing is that the internet is full of huge free stuff/sweepstakes sites that are open for any free offer/sweepstake submission.
Let’s take http://www.online-sweepstakes.com/ for example. This site is huge and gets great amount of traffic (according to Alexa it’s 11,146th most visited site on the internet). Not bad?
This site has a “Add-a-Sweep” link which means we can easily submit our own sweepstake (email submit offer in this case).
I’m not going to post a list of sites where I promote offers for obvious reason, but to get the idea of how many there are, just google for: “sweepstake sites” or something along those lines.
Not all of them will accept your sweepstake offer (they are aware of CPA offers), but most of them will. You just need to find which works for you.
5. Yahoo answers and CPA email submits
This method did wonders a few years ago (now Yahoo got a bit strict and if you are using it wrong – they will ban your account at the speed of light).
However, if you know what you are doing and doing it in a gentle way – you can generate a huge amount of targered traffic to CPA offers with this.
Here’s a quick guideline to get started with Yahoo Answers + CPA:
Get a free yahoo answers account
If you don’t already have an account, get a free Yahoo answers account.
Find questions related to the offer
Use yahoo answers custom search feature and find questions related to your niche and the offer you are promoting. You want to customize your search so the results will include only open questions. Obviously because a resolved question will not do you any good.
Answer questions
Start answering question related to your niche and the offer you are promoting. Try to not over promote. It’s always best to be really helpful in answering questions, and not just post a link to your CPA offer. Be genuine in helping people while at the same time promoting your CPA offer. When linking to your CPA offer, use only the resource box to link to it. Don’t put links in the body of the answer, as it looks spammy.
Rinse and repeat
Repeat this process over and over again. Of course, you can try different niches and different CPA offers to promote. If you can master this process, you can really make good money doing this. It takes a little time and work, but its well worth it. It wont cost you any money and you can see results almost immediately.
BONUS: exit traffic and CPA email submits
This strategy I call free money. And it’s exactly this – free fricking money!
By exit traffic I mean traffic that are about to leave your site anyways.
Have you seen those pop-up messages that jumps up when you click X button on your internet browser?
Check any CPA or Clickbank offer, almost all of them have this. It’s because they work. They may be anoying for reputable websites with many returning visitors, but not for CPA or Clickbank sites with visitors that are less likely to come back.
To illustrate the power of exit traffic, here’s an example:
I have one CPA site with ~200-300 unique US visitors/day. And when they are about to leave my site, I have an exit pop-up saying: “Wait, click the cancel button for something Very Special!”.
When they click cancel, they are redirected to the email submit offer. With this I make extra $8 to $15/day from those who are leaving my site.
This can work in any niche.
For gaming site = free xbox offer
For make up/fashion site = free cosmetics gift card offer
For bizz-op = get paid to take surveys CPA offer
And so on… Make sure to split test and see which offers convert best for your demographics.
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