CPA - The New Adsense Arbitrage?
Written by ady on July 11, 2009 – 11:31 am -I’ve been dabbling into CPA (cost per action) for the last month or so which is why I’ve been so slack in posting here.
The best way to describe CPA is that it reminds me of how easy it was to make fortunes every day with Adsense before Google changed the rules and moved the goal posts.
The biggest similarity is that there is no selling involved. You just drive traffic to the offer and as the offer is usually to get a free gift of some kind, you get the required action.
As usual I bought the traffic for testing purposes. No point in building a site to rank well, setting up a link campaign, writing unique content, submitting articles and all the rest of the work involved if its not going to be a winner.
As it was I still haven’t started building for the winners and I probably won’t. The traffic is dirt cheap and converting really well on the free offers so I figure if it’s not broke why try and fix it?
If you decide to give CPA a try, think of it as arbitrage. Buy the traffic as cheap as you can (forget Adwords) and drive it to the best free offers you can find.
The first thing that will strike you is just how easy it is to give something away, specially if there is a modicum of targeting for your traffic.
I have one offer on the go that’s converting at over 30% and I’m driving traffic at it that’s costing me a couple of cents. It’s making over $300 a day and only took a few hours to set up.
The hardest part to CPA is getting accepted into a network. I was turned down by the first 2 I applied for so lied on the 3rd and got accepted. They want corporations or at least genuine businesses, not IM’ers. Just set up a domain with a corporate website theme and submit that as your main site and you will be good to go.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Hi Ady,
Great article on CPA marketing!!
Which vendors you recommend to
buy cheap traffic for CPA offers?
Regards,
Rob