CPA Marketing seems to be the hot topic currently in Internet Marketing. Every week you can see launches of new CPA courses. It started all with Aymen’s Arbitrage Conspiracy which launced end of last year ( I bought it, but it was not one of the best courses I’ve ever bought).
Affiliate Jump’s biggest selling point is that most affiliate have a hard time to get approved for the big affiliate networks. But to be honest that’s pretty easy (if not the easiest part in CPA marketing) in my opinion.
Here’s how I get approved:
- I sign up with the network
- If they ask for my promotion methods I tell them that I’m a Search Engine Marketer using PPC search engines
- If I don’t get approved instantly I call the affiliate manager
- This works even if you don’t have your own site, just tell them that you’ll build your own landing pages depending on the offers
That’s how I get approved in 90%. If it doesn’t work for one CPA network then I move to the next, there are plenty out there.
So why paying a monthly fee to access a CPA network (including $200 setup fee for Affiliate Jump) when you can get access for free?
Ok, AffiliateJump is providing training and offering landing pages you can use. But do you want to use them same landing pages as hundreds of others use? No, you want to be different.
CPA training: There are many other great CPA courses out there that cost less than 100 bucks. A good one I recently bought is called zerofriction marketing and provides similar information as courses that charge $2k.
It happened again, this time the Google Slap hit Affiliate Review sites. How did I notice? Firstly I observed a traffic spike on one of my review sites (a sign that some competitors disappeared) and a few days later the Google quality score for one of my other review sites dropped from 9-10 to 1 over night. Then Perry Marshall mentioned it in an email a few days ago.
My review site – also having real reviews and providing value – was slapped although it used cloaked affiliate links. Some people think that it hit mainly review sites with lots of affiliate links, but I’m not sure. I could well be that Google focused on certain niches they didn’t like. Is there a solution? Read on…
Why the latest Google slap is a good thing and gives us Affiliate Marketers great opportunities
There were so many crap “review” sites out there from people who never bought the product and did not provide any value at all to visitors. It’s good to have those removed and increase reputation of “real” review sites and affiliate marketing in general.
Less competition from lazy affiliates who just use a day trading business model without building a real business.
Do I still recommend using review sites?
Yes, I still like review sites (they make me a nice 5 figure passive income every month) because they target buyers. Here’s how to benefit from the latest Google slap and make more profits from the opportunity:
- Buy the products you’re writing a review about or ask for a review copy
- Study the product and identify gaps -> create a useful bonus to fill the gap
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- Let visitors comment your review and share their experiences (social proof and user generated content)
- Be different, determine your USP
- Build a list, start collecting optins (e.g. give away a valuable report)
- Use Wordpress to build your review sites, I use FirePow 2.0 to create and manage all my blogs from one place. The Google quality score for my WP landing pages is normally between 8-10 (which means lower CPC and higher positions).
- Write a real review with interesting content (not just 3 sentences). Your site needs to have enough content to not look like a thin affiliate page.
- Cloak your affiliate links
- Optimize your review pages for Search Engine, don’t just rely on PPC traffic
- Use other PPC Search Engines like Yahoo Search, MSN, 7Search
- Diversify your business, don’t rely just on review sites, start creating your own products (why not creating a sperate page for the bonus product you offer and sell it?)
Now is the time to follow these tips and start dominating your niche markets. Let me know how it works…
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Emilio Paz’s PPC Bully 2 is launching on June 9th. You can watch a PPCBully demo on how to find a profitable PPC campaign in less than 56 minutes here.
Version 2 will be a direct competitor of Chris Carpenter’s Google Cash Detective which launched in March 2009 and is currently closed for new members.
Google Cash Detective 2 has been my favorite tool to find successful Adwords campaigns. How does PPC Bully 2 compare? I had the opportunity to test drive PPCBully 2 and will show you my head-to-head comparison. The results are very interesting…
Google Cash Detective vs PPCBully2 review:
Let’s do a real life campaign and search for direct linking campaigns for the popular Clickbank product Fat Loss 4 Idiots (you are not limited to spy on direct linking campaigns for both tools).
Here is the Google Cash Detective search:
GCD found 770 affiliates using direct linking campaigns for fat loss 4 idiots.
Here the results for http://www.PPC-Bully2.com:
PPCBully2 returns 21089 ads which are currently promoting Fat Loss 4 Idiots.
You can see that PPCBully shows all running ads. GCD lists all keywords for each affiliate. In my opinion it’s a little easier to identify profitable campaigns with PPC Bully 2 as you don’t have to dig through all the keywords.
One other advantage of PPCBully 2 is the filter, where you can drill down the search results much easier. In PPC Bully you can just enter the Clickbank affiliate or vendor name or CPA network urls to search for running ad campaigns, while you need to enter urls in GCD (although you can search with wild cards).
One downside of PPCBully 2 is the search history which starts in April 2009. Google Cash Detective’s data goes back to October 2008 which makes the search results more relevant at the moment.
Final Conclusion:
Both are great spy tools and the main difference is the user interface for the search results. I personally find the PPC Bully2 interface a little easier to use and you can find profitable ads quicker than with GCD. If you are a serious Affiliate Marketer I recommend to have at least one of these spy tools in your arsenal. You’ll find profitable campaigns much easier and will save money that you would waste with testing otherwise.
PPC-Bully2.com lanuches on June 9 and is $1497 (compared to $1997 for GCD)
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