Cost per conversion is probably the most important metric for any paid advertising plan, regardless of whether you’re running Facebook ads, Google ads, Twitter ads, or ads though any other network. CPC is your return on your investment, the cost to make a sale, and by optimizing that cost, you can get more sales out…
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Driving traffic to a CPA offer is more or less identical to driving traffic to any website. You can still get traffic from all of the usual black and white hat sources, and the conversion rate you get depends on the quality of that traffic. There’s just one catch with CPA; often offers will specify…
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Imagine this scenario. You are a blogger. You’ve been running a website for a little over a year, working tirelessly to get it to where it is today. You have a reasonable number of viewers for a new site, but it’s still not much, particularly compared to the larger sites in the industry. You’re gearing…
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Linkbucks and Adfly are both services that fill a similar role, though they operate in slightly different ways. The core idea is the same; post links somewhere you control, get clicks to those links, and get paid for those clicks. It’s a low-level paid advertising scheme, not quite on par with CPC ads from Google…
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Web hosting is perhaps one of the most important but least monitored aspects of SEO. A good web host makes the difference between a strong foundation and a weak one. Your web host needs to fit your needs now, as well as your potential needs as you grow throughout the life of your site. What…
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AdSense can be a good method for monetizing a blog, but it does have some issues. Foremost among them is the issue of volume. Since AdSense is a pay per click network, and since their actual cost per click is relatively low, you really need a lot of volume to make any significant amount of…
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Years ago, when YouTube was a newcomer to the world of online video hosting, other websites sprung up to serve the same purpose. Most of them have either declined into small niche video hosts or folded entirely when the cost of infrastructure outstripped the possibility of monetization. Only YouTube has made it to the big…
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The main determining factor for the quality of a CPA network is the quality of the people using it. Low-entry public CPAs tend to have low payouts and poor advertising because they let everyone in. Higher tier public CPAs are that much harder to get into, but they’re more beneficial to those who maintain the…
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A couple of years ago, the Internet went bananas over the news that guest blogging – formerly a top SEO strategy for backlink building – would be penalized moving forward. You can see the fallout even today, reading posts like this one on major blogs. The shift from “guest blogging is great!” to “guest blogging…
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Amazon has a very robust affiliate program, which you can use to create individual stores and sell anything that Amazon sells. You don’t have to deal with shipping, support, inventory or anything else; all you do is pick the products and sell them. It can be very lucrative, when done right. What do you need…
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