CPA Subtle Sales Method
This method is a way to get a ton of really simple CPA sales. This can be applied to anything from free trial offers to paid CPA offers. In addition, with a few simple twists, you can easily use these techniques to market your own product or any other sort of affiliate product. I suppose you could even do some blog promotion if you really wanted to. With that being said just hang on and follow the guide through. I will use a sample campaign but strongly recommend that you pick a different offer and apply the same techniques I am about to outline for you.
Choosing Your Offer
The very first thing to do is to choose an offer. If you have a number of CPA accounts then it is recommended that you use the free service over at offervault.com to view offers on all of the different top networks in order to see what is out there and who is paying the best in the most efficient manner possible. I usually just browse for a while until I find something that strikes me as a product with a niche that I understand and then I roll with that. In this instance I will be using a free trial offer for a natural weight loss/diet supplement.
Now that I have chosen an offer I will want to collect a link that is displayed either for PPC traffic or e-mail marketing. This is often also referred to as a ‘plain text’ link. Save this somewhere as we are going to use it to set up a redirect.
Creating a Redirect
Now we are going to take this link and create a redirect for the offer that you picked out. The purpose of this is two-fold:
1.It gives a clean looking domain to promote. Instead of seeing http://www.garbage.com/were/25435345.html you can just promote http://www.keyword.com
2.It provides a meta refresh which will in turn make this redirect the referrer data so your CPA network will just assume you are promoting via PPC means which means you don’t have to make sure your affiliate manager is okay with these promotion tactics, although they are more grey hat than black hat.
Open up a new notepad/wordpad document and paste in the following:
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=http://THATLINKFROMBEFORE.com“/>
Of course, replace the URL with the link for the CPA offer that you picked out before. Just save this file as index.html and upload to your hosting. You now have a redirect up and running…
What we are now going to do is to promote this offer by creating an ebook and then distributing this same ebook in a few different ways.
Creating an eBook
Since you probably don’t want to actually write out a whole ebook for each product you can hit up torrent sites for this and also Google searches will often yield niche related ebooks. In this case, I am going to use an ebook about a weight loss exercise routine that I found with a short Google search. If you want to keep this entirely white hat just search for PLR, or private label rights, ebooks which you are allowed to modify and distribute.
I now copy the entire contents of this ebook to a new word document (edit>select all and then copy) and at the very end I put in a short paragraph that, in this instance, looks like this:
In combination with this system I highly recommend that you look into BodyGlo which is a natural supplement that will both give you more energy for this workout routine and also will help with weight loss on its own. Currently BodyGlo is available for free (14-day supply) at http://www.YOURSITE.com
That’s it. I now convert this back to a .PDF (if you do not know how to do this just use the site located at http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/ – it is free). Come up with a trendy new name for your ebook and it is now time to promote it. The end user will get a great ebook that really seems like it will work well and at the end find that this, obviously, expert author is also hooking them up with a free supplement to help so a lot of them will go get it (in my case this works out to $28.00 each time someone gets this free trial offer). All that is left now is to get this ebook in front of a targeted audience.
Promoting Your eBook
The first method for promoting this free ebook is the commonly known old classic method. I include this just in case you have not heard of it before because it is still fairly solid and is a good way to make some extra bucks with very minimal work.
What you are going to want to do here is to create a torrent file out of this ebook for uploading to the popular torrent sites. This is a great method because once you upload it and people download it you have a passive source of distribution for your affiliate link that will bring in the random sale for quite some time to come. If you do not know how to create a torrent file please read up on that here: http://www.btfaq.com/serve/cache/56.html
You will then want to submit this to the biggest torrent tracker sites. Really all of them that you can find but be sure not to miss/overlook the following:
1.http://www.h33t.com/
2.http://www.torrentbits.ro/
3.http://www.demonoid.com/
4.http://www.doctortorrent.com/
5.http://www.mininova.org/
6.http://www.isohunt.com/
7.http://www.1337x.org/
8.http://www.xtremezone.ro/
9.http://www.btjunkie.org/
When done with this be sure to let people download this file or else you wont really be getting anywhere…
For these next promotion techniques we are going to want to have this ebook hosted somewhere to download. I prefer rapidspread if possible because it creates mirrors for you so you don’t have to worry about the download being exceeded.
Next up we are going to do some forum promotion. This is, once again, a pretty classic technique but for this method it works very well. Simply find some niche forums, in my case forums about weight loss/exercise, and sign up a new account. If possible stick the URL with a descriptive anchor text, be sure to mention that this ebook is free, in your signature and then start posting in active threads. Don’t make it spammy, make sure your post is relevant and it will stay up. This is another great passive strategy because not only will people from this forum download your ebook but when people from Google search and find this forum post that is so active they will eventually come across your signature and scoop up the ebook. People who love free stuff will download this ebook and that is good for you because people who love free stuff will also get your CPA trial offer.
Now if you are looking for less of a passive long term solution and more of a quick commission, although you will probably get banned shortly so the sales life on this method is short lived, you can try less subtle advertising – also known as spam!
To do this simply create a new topic and let everyone know how you found this free ebook that has a great exercise routine in it and after trying diets/workouts for months with no success you have already seen the results in a few short days with this routine. Of course provide your link and reiterate that this ebook is free – no strings attached.
The third option is to spam private messages. You can do this manually but it is quite a pain. You can also check out Mass PM Markete. It is only $27 and found at http://www.nouru.com it will private message everyone on the forum for you automatically which is nice and at $27 you make your money back from the first conversion (and even turn a dollar profit in this case haha). It really is a great tool for this and other methods.
I recommend spending a few hours and rinsing/repeating your forum marketing on as many of the biggest forums you can find in your niche to insure maximum exposure to your ebook.
The next way we are going to promote our ebook is through another classic strategy, Yahoo! Answers. For this method create two accounts which I will call Account 1 and Account 2 because my imagination is a bit slow at this early hour.
With the first account we are going to post a question. Now the thing to bear in mind here is that you are not targeting Yahoo! Answers traffic but rather Google traffic. This works well because Yahoo! Answers is considered by Google to be a very high authority website and thus, almost immediately, ranks your question at the top of search engine results for keywords found in the question’s title. You must also, however, phrase it to look somewhat like a question so Yahoo! Answers users don’t flag it as spam.
Here is an example of what I have posted with Account1:
Question: Free Exercise Routine eBook?
Body of Question: Where to get a free exercise routine ebook that really works?
Now I will post this and come back with Account 2 to follow up. Account two will make their response which will look somethi ng like:
Answer: I found a great ebook that was totally free. I’ve been using the exercise routine in it for almost two weeks now and I see some great results, I recommend it and you really can’t beat free!
Source: http://www.RAPIDSPREADLINK.com – That’s the free download link
That’s it for now. I will usually do 3-4 questions and answer them per day based around different keyword sets. I pulled this one off the top of my head but if you need help with keyword research there are plenty of tools, AdWords has a free one that works great and gives traffic figures.
In a few days I can come back and pick my answer as best answer so that anyone searching Google and clicking through to here will find the link and download my ebook.
Tomorrow I would create two new accounts and do 3-4 questions again. This is because every now and then you will get one of these accounts banned for this and so it is better to have the questions spread out so they are not all removed at the same time in the event that this happens.
Our final promotion technique is going to be to create a blog around this niche, for free on Blogger.com, and promote the hell out of our ebook on it. Now you could write some articles and make it look fancy but I don’t want to spend more than 30 minutes TOTAL ONE TIME on this so I’m just going to make a sloppy looking auto blog hosted on blogger.com. In order to this we are going to follow the following guide of mine for this process:
The first thing you need to do is navigate your way over to Blogger.com and
sign up. You may already have an account but you will want to create each
blog on a new one due to the fact that auto blogs are occasionally banned
when reported.
Now create a new blog and customize it a bit. Be sure to insert some big links and presells for your new ebook before the first post and in the sidebar, of course blend the colors for a higher CTR as
well.
Now go to ‘Settings’ and then ‘E-mail’. You’re going to create a new e-mail
that will be used as your ‘Mail-to-Blogger’ e-mail.
It should look like: yourbloggername.whateveryoulike@blogger.com
Under the e-mail setting click where it says ‘Publish E-mails Immediately’.
What you have now done is set up this blog, hosted on
Blogger.com/BlogSpot.com, to automatically post whatever contents come
into your e-mail. Now you’re getting the auto picture… right?
From here all you have to do is to get fresh e-mails into your inbox, easy
enough!
I am sure you have seen a whole crap ton of people trying to get you to opt
in to their various niche related mailing lists. Like me you probably always
stayed well away, while now you see that they are actually good for
something! The majority of these mailings lists actually send out
personalized lessons, with a subtle sales pitch only one in four or five
mailings to keep you subscribed. Most mailers, at least the good ones,
created theses mailings themselves which means you actually now have not
only a good sized series of niche specific e-mails coming in, to be
automatically turned into blog posts, but a good percentage of the time it is
valuable info that is 100% copyscape passed unique content! Show me how
even a paid auto blog can do that without rewriting to the point of obvious
machine jumbled crap!
Now you will note that most mailings have a limited course. Because of this I
recommend you subscribe this blog to a new mailing list once a month. This
will only take you about 5 seconds per blog per month, you can even leave it
with your 30 or so unique articles and it will continue to generate traffic and
income for years but really is 5 seconds that big of a headache? I usually jot
down the day that I started in a notepad document and then everyday head
back and look for the blogs created one month ago to add them to a new
mailing list. I do 5 new blogs a day which takes me about 10 minutes total
to find quality lists for them all, use Google it is your friend!
You should have chosen a long tail keyword for your niche, this is because –
unlike regular blogs – you are going for volume rather than individual effort.
Instead of a niche on ‘lipstick shades’ go for a niche of ‘dark red lipstick
shades’. What this will allow you to do is to conduct an initial one time
promotion and then easily hit page 1 of Google without ever having to work
on backlinks again!
All that you will need to do, with your micro-sub niche, for promotion is the
classic 5 minute two step.
1. Submit your blog to the top social bookmarking sites with your long
tail keywords as the anchor text (the title of the ‘story’). Please use
Digg.com, StumbleUpon.com, Propeller.com and Reddit.com. You may
say that these are nofollow, if you believe that really matters you are
sorely mistaken. These backlinks will lend you plenty of juice in a
micro niche.
2. A few more links for good measure. Be sure to find 2-5 related blog
posts and quickly comment on them. The quickest way to do this and
still remain not looking like spam is to put your URL in the URL box
only and to just read a comment, then reply to the comment like this:
@ Jim23 – I agree with what you’re saying about Obama but I still
won’t vote for him!
Boom! You got a relevant blog comment, with your link, that will pass
even moderated blogs!
Hope you enjoyed that, as you can see it is pretty simple. People coming to this blog from Google will now see a sloppy ugly blog they don’t want to sift through and the only links around will be to your free ebook so they are going to start downloading it!
That’s all that there is to this method. Sure it takes some time to do it right but the material gets out there and circulated and you will make long term money, unlike with Craiglist etc., with this method.
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I´ve already read half of this post before, but wow, your posts are awsome, just private coaching would be better than this!
interesting post. We use a similar method but this goes a little deeper than ours.
This is killer dude – honestly. As you said several times, none of the info is new per say, but it’s the order and fashion you present it in that makes it worth the read.
Here’s what I’m thinking of doing with this:
I make a few grand per month flipping blogs. As you know, if there’s already money coming in, they are worth more. I always integrate a branded PLR ebook into my flips as a revenue stream.. http://easyecowedding.com/ is a good example of my typical $300-$400 flip.
Putting your step by step to work for a week, generate some sales for the website, flip at the end of the month as usual.. would probably increase the value of my flips by 200%..
And I would most definitely outsource 60% of this.. lol.
Cheers brother,
Some classics, but definitely got my wheels spinning.
Hi,
Wonderful post.I have little bit idea about this CPA marketing in which you can make money without someone making a purchase and this means that the conversion rates will be much higher than in traditional affiliate marketing.Right….
I have to admit I have been reading your blog for about an hour now. I have more straight forward information here than I have on any message board. Thanks so much for this how to article. I cant wait to try it out.
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