CPA Marketing Beginners Guide - (Monetize - Info)
CPA Marketing Beginners Guide - (Monetize - Info)
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1. What Is CPA Marketing?
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One of the most lucrative ways to monetize a niche blog is via CPA offers. In this CPA
marketing for beginners guide, I will show you: what is CPA marketing, how it works,
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You are getting this guide for free, and I am pretty sure it’s much better than those paid CPA
products. I do not promise you that you can make hundreds of thousands at the starting
point. In the beginning, you need to learn a lot and apply those techniques. Yah!
When you are highly skilled and experienced, you can make 5 figure and even 6 figure
The term CPA stands for Cost Per Action. It’s also called Pay Per Lead, in short PPL. CPA
The main idea behind CPA affiliate marketing is getting particular action from your traffic.
People are more likely to get free products rather than spending their earned money. Thus
$20 per CPA offer. However, some high-end CPA offers pay $750 or even more for a particular
Some well-known CPA networks control the whole process. The vendors submit their
particular job or product to CPA networks. Those CPA networks promote those offers via CPA
marketers like us. They give us a fixed amount of money for every particular offer depending
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Your work is straightforward; firstly, you have to apply to a CPA network. After getting
approved, browse the existing offers and select the offer that suits your interest. After
determining the offer, just promote it as much as you can to the targeted online visitors.
I have already mentioned that CPA marketing is much easier than affiliate marketing. In the
You can distribute free offers, trial products, apps, etc., that people can grab for free. You can
make a profit for their particular action like confirming an offer, making an order for a free trial
ton of CPA driven sites on the web; one of my favorites can be accessed h
ere.
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Now that we have an overview of CPA marketing PROs and CONs for publishers let’s
So, till now, you got to know about CPA marketing and about it’s working method. Now, let me
introduce you to some best CPA networks to start your CPA marketing and earn a handsome
amount of money.
Read the details about each CPA affiliate network to get more insights. For each CPA site, you
will get its introduction and information about payment methods, payment threshold, type of
● Available payment methods: Check, ACH Direct Deposit, Wire Transfer, PayPal,
Payoneer, or Western Union
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By far, this is the best CPA network that I have ever tried due to its excellent user experience.
AdWorkMedia is always full of various types of offers. Thus you will never feel a lack of your
Besides that, the dashboard is pretty much real-time and equipped with the necessary
Join AdWorkMedia
The best thing about the AdWorkMedia network is its tracker via which you can know about
the browser, device, location, etc., of your converted traffic. Although this tracker is not as
powerful as the premium trackers, having a built-in (and free), link tracker means many CPA
lovers. So far, I made 5 figure profit from this single CPA network.
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● Available payment methods: Check, PayPal, Wire, Payoneer, ACH (Direct Deposit)
This is another favorite CPA network equipped with a fantastic dashboard and highly
The support you will get from the affiliate managers of MaxBounty is beyond expected. They
are very much caring about their partners. Apart from promoting other’s offer, if you need
inspiration for useful landing pages, then offers of MaxBounty are the best to look at.
This is one of the oldest players in the field of Cost Per Action marketing. PerformCb is one of
the market. PerformCb pays around 100M every year to its affiliates.
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lemonads
The lemonads CPA Network is a 100% performance marketing network based in Geneva, with
partners worldwide. Lemonads has created a first-class platform, making it possible to
increase its commercial performance significantly. Lemonads offers affiliates one of the
highest paying Smart Links in the industry. Plus a marketplace of 2000 campaigns with
different remuneration models: CPA, CPL, CPI, and CPI from more than 2000 active advertisers.
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Small but Amazing – this is how I think about CPAlead. Maybe it’s no massive network like
the one mentioned above. However, this is one of the most flexible and fast networks to work
it pays every week with various payment methods. Moreover, one can also monetize mobile
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It’s a great CPA network with high-end monitoring and tracking tool for maximum output. A4D
is pretty flexible for the publishers as they change their various policies based on the
publishers’ opinion.
● Available payment options: Wire Transfer, Bank Transfer, Cheque, PayPal, Payoneer,
Paxum
Convert2Media, better known as C2M, is based in Florida and has been around since 2007. Very
experienced, smart, and with a network of committed affiliates, C2M was one of our top-rated
networks for several years. Convert2Media has a top-rated network of advertisers and
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converts. You would get help from their affiliate managers in whichever way possible to
Click Dealer is another comparatively new but unique network worth being called one of the
This network is pretty active in the affiliate events that are taking place around the world. This
Netherlands based CPA network is spreading in the whole world via setting up physical
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I must say Mobidea is a beast when it comes to mobile CPA offers. This network is full of
high-end mobile-based offers, and amazingly, most of its CPA offers start from $30 and go
higher and higher. If your primary traffic source is mobile, then you MUST MUST and MUST
sign up for this incredible mobile CPA marketing network for highly converting offers.
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Another newbie, friendly CPA network to start your first step of thriving in the world of CPA
marketing. It’s effortless to use the interface, and flexibility will help you to run it, offering it
pretty smoothly.
This is a mobile traffic focused CPA affiliate network with plenty of mobile-based CPA offers.
Besides CPA marketers, app developers can also use this network to monetize their apps.
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In the past, I used to use this CPA affiliate network, and it was pretty good with the number of
offers. This network is frequently updated with new offers. If you are working in the mobile
app niche or mobile game niche, try it out because it has plenty of mobile-based offers.
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love with its user-friendly affiliate dashboard, friendly affiliate managers, learning materials,
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AdsMain is a rising CPA network with excellent experience and support. This new network
quickly gained much reputation and got a place among the top CPA networks of many lists.
Maybe you will find this network roaming around you while you are in the US and Europe’s
affiliate events.
It may sound boring to you as you have read this term many times in this article, but this is
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You can promote its offers in various ways, such as content lock, URL lock, virtual currency,
and so more.
● Available payment methods: Epay Service, PayPal, Wire, WebMoney, Payoneer, ACH
(Direct Deposit)
It’s a pretty new CPA network with a good reputation but an average amount of offers.
Honestly, it’s UI and UX has much room to improve and make this network much more flexible
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Adludum is another good CPA network that mainly focuses on the Content locking revenue
model. This network works better for writers, creative designers, video makers, artists, etc.,
compared to marketers. So, if you want to monetize your content with any sort of traffic from
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CrakRevenue CPA Affiliate Network helps you mostly to monetize adult content. They also
have different offers to monetize other types of content. Their offers have some of the highest
CrackRevenue is one of the best CPA networks globally as they provide premium offers in
You can expect some of the best payouts in the industry. They also provide publishers with
They also offer geo-targeting to allow you to get the best converting offers available from each
region. Its exclusive Geo-Matic ad tool automatically displays the best offers based on your
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Admitad is a very young but thriving and fast-growing CPA Affiliate Network based in
Germany. Still, they also hold seven other offices across the globe.
This company offers an excellent support team. They even assign a dedicated account
Admitad has developed an extensive affiliate network with more than 540,000 active
publishers. Their campaigns include offers such as E-commerce, online games, mobile, and
services.
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TORO Advertising is a performance-based affiliate network with 1000+ exclusive offers. They
offer rich media ads, which are the future of advertising. Publishers get on-time payment, and
TORO Ad Network uses HasOffers, EPOM, Mobile App Tracking, and AppsFlyer to track the
campaigns. With various payment options and less minimum payout, the TORO Advertising
Other mentions: M
yLead.pl [Review here], A
dvidi, R
evenueAds, C
oinZilla.
for beginners. For example, MaxBounty has traffic and promotion method restrictions on its
offers. Such as, some offers can’t be promoted on free giveaway sites, some offer promotion
activities can’t contain “Free,” “Win,” “Claim,” etc., words, and so more. After breaking these
restriction rules repeatedly, you may get banned with your all earned money. On the other
hand, CPALead has no traffic or promotion method restriction for its offers. Therefore, you can
use any kind of traffic and use any word while promoting its offers. This is the reason why I
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different publishers and 70 clicks converted into leads. So, it’s EPC will be ($2.5*70)/500
= $0.35.
● Payout/CPA rate: This is the money rate you will pay for getting every single
lead/action for that particular CPA offer. So, have a look at the Payout/CPA rate before
selecting your request.
● Conversion (in %): This is an essential indication of which offer to choose before
starting your promotional activities. CPA offers with high conversion rates are always
preferable. For example: Think about the previous model where the offer got 500 clicks
and 70 leads/actions. Here is the conversion rate of that offer (70/500)*100% = 14%.
● County code: Almost 95% of CPA offers are county targeted. Therefore, you must be
careful about choosing the suggestion. If you promote the US offers to the people of
Australia, you will not get any payment. Some CPA networks categorized their offers
based on county, and some mention the county code (US, UK, AU, BR, etc.) along with
the offers.
● Incentive and non-Incentive: Here is another important and probably less known CPA
network term. Suppose you search for the meaning of the “incentive” word. In short,
“incentive” refers to a digital bribe to get artificial actions/leads from people. In the
case of incentive offers, you can allure people by giving them extra gifts, coupons,
money, etc., to get the story from them. On the other hand, these digital bribes are
strictly prohibited in case of non-incentive offers.
● Offer type: CPA networks included offers of various types such as Pin submit, Email
submit, Downloads, Survey, Installs, Mobile, Purchase, etc.
Also, I want to share some trending community of CPA marketers that can help you stay
are T
op Gold Forum, W PA Elites
arrior Forum, CPA Hero, C
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If you are a newbie in the world of CPA networks, then don’t apply for the world’s top leading
CPA networks such as MaxBounty or Peerfly because these networks will approve your
account after the interview will conduct via mobile call. Besides, these networks require your
previous experience and have strict and fast rules about offer promotion.
Wondering how much you can make with these newbie-friendly CPA networks?
It depends on your skill and experience to offer a promotion. Some expert CPA marketers are
making $3,000+ per day with these newbie-friendly CPA affiliate networks.
that I don’t sit with just one CPA network. Get your account approved to at least 3 CPA
networks so that you can compare the quality of offers, CPA rate, conversion rate, etc., which
1. AdWorkMedia 6. Convert2Media
2. CPALead 7. A4D
3. AdGateMedia 8. CPAtrend
4. CPAGrip 9. ClickDealer
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Firstly apply in 2-3 CPA networks for publishers/affiliate accounts and gain some experience
working in the CPA industry. Then you may start with leading CPA affiliate networks for
higher achievement.
Here goes the step by step process to apply in CPA networks (both newbie-friendly and top
the screenshot of the sign-up form. In almost all CPA networks, you need to provide nearly the
Most of the CPA networks require your own established website or blog via which you are will
to promote CPA offers. However, you can also advertise with other sites and media.
Maybe some of you are stuck at this point only because you don’t have an established website.
Don’t worry, my friend, CPALead doesn’t require any website 😀 . So get started with it. If you
have a good website, then you are highly recommended to apply for AdworkMedia as well.
Step 1:
information. I recommend you provide a professional email hosted on your domain (for
If you don’t have any, proceed with your regular Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo Email.
Step 2:
Filling up the promotional method part of the signup form is very important to get approved.
● Choose either website or PPC as the promotional method. If you can, choose both of
them (if the option is available).
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● Don’t try to lie by providing others’ websites as your promotion source. You may be
caught.
● You can add these promotional methods in the description: PPC campaigns,
Facebook ads, Promotion via content, Promotion via SEO, and Promotion via Display
networks.
After pressing the “Submit Application” button, you are done for the newbie-friendly CPA
networks but not for the top networks that approve accounts after a mobile phone interview.
After applying for an account, they will Email you by telling you that they will send you a
In the case of the top CPA network, don’t just keep sitting on your chair idly. You need to
● If that’s not possible, then buy some Skype credit and make a phone call to your
● If you can’t do that, either send an Email or send a Skype message saying that you
just applied for a publisher account and are ready for the phone interview.
This simple approach will give a positive impression about you in front of your affiliate
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Facebook is known as the ocean of traffic as it gets more than 1 billion unique visitors daily.
Here go the effective formulas to promote CPA offers on Facebook. Remember, in the case of
Facebook. You need to cover up your CPA offer link in the second method or write a post on
your blog.
Firstly, do research and select some pages that are related to your chosen CPA offer. Make a
real, trustworthy comment with a strong CTA (Call to Action) so that people will click on your
provided link.
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You can get laser targeted traffic by doing a little more in-depth work, such as sending private
messages. However, you need to keep in mind that you need to be more conscious and strategic
in this case.
Visit pages related to your CPA offer, read comments on each post, find someone who has a
problem, and ask for help (your CPA offer must solve the problem).
Remember to mention his/her name and say how you found him/her while sending a private
message. You can also start a conversation with Hi, Hello, What’s up, etc., and then come to
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In both cases, you need to be careful and stay safe. Don’t make too many comments in a short
time; neither send too many private messages. Keep a gap of at least 30 minutes between your
comments and private messages. It’s better not to do more than five comments and private
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It’s better to start your Twitter marketing from hashtag research for the best result. For that,
CPA offer.
After pressing the search button, you will get recent tweets that include #amazon and other
related tags. Select some tags and get ready for your main work.
Now your job is to make tweets, including hashtags that you have selected.
Here are some tricks to make your tweets more visible and effective:
on Twitter by your keyword and see if anyone is asking for help to end up with your CPA
If you think you can provide a solution and make some bucks, send a direct message to
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sales from Pinterest traffic are higher than Facebook traffic, which is a clear sign of getting a
In this case, it will be better to write a post about your selected CPA offer and then drive traffic
from Pinterest. On the other hand, you can also use shortened links.
● Create a board that’s related to your CPA offer. For example, You can name your board
● After having some followers, you can start promoting your CPA offers by uploading
and pinning images along with your offer link. Make sure your images are attractive
and relevant.
● To add the link to your board’s pin, you need to open the image and click on the edit
button. Then put the link below in the box and save it. Remember, you can add a link to
pins that are uploaded by you. You cannot add a link to any pin that you have repined
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● Add as many images/pins as you can to your board. Find out the popular pins of other
video making and editing, forget about all other methods and focus on making high-quality
videos.
I know some CPA marketers who are making $10,000+ every month only via Youtube video
marketing.
Don’t worry if you are a newbie and don’t know how to make videos. You can simply make a
slide presentation in MS Powerpoint and record the presentation as video using any screen
recorder like CamStudio, Ice-cream Screen recorder, Camtasia, etc. Don’t make videos for the
Here are some trimps to rank Youtube videos and make more money:
● Try to keep the length of the video for more than 2 minutes.
● Put your keyword in the video file’s name (before uploading it), in the title, in the
description part, and tags while uploading the Youtube video.
● To accelerate the ranking, share your video on all social media as much as you can.
● You can also build some backlinks for your video to get the best result. Click here to
see 41 effective link building methods.
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get thousands of traffic from Reddit within a couple of hours if your post hits the top position in
it.
The bad news is the Reddit community hates marketers. So, suppose you are willing to
and strategic.
1. Get an account on Reddit.com and engage in the subreddits (these are individual
groups on any specific topic/niche under Reddit).
2. Act like genuine community members and avoid all sorts of promotions, at least for
the first month.
3. Gather link karma (by posting helpful and funny links) and comment karma (make
valuable comments in other posts).
5. After achieving some karmas, you can write a helpful post on any topic excellent
related to your CPA offer (don’t forget to include the link to the CPA offer or Blogspot
post) and publish it.
6. Make your title attractive so that you can get more views and upvotes.
7. Upvotes are the game-changer in Reddit, so focus on getting more Upvotes from other
community members. If you provide value via your post or link, you will get upvotes.
Many people misunderstood forum marketing and ended up getting banned. Just posting the
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First, you need to know the ultimate aim of forums. Forums are created to build a community
and help each other, not to promote products and services. Signature enabled forums are best to
get started.
I am not going to provide any list of forums because it depends on your CPA offer niche. Find
out some forums that are related to your selected CPA offer.
Here are the steps that will lead you to successful forum marketing:
● Sign up for a signature enabled forum and complete your profile details.
● Make sure the forum has enough members and visitors. Simply look at the number
of threads and replies.
● Add your blogpost’s link in the “Home page” or “Website” section of the profile.
● Write an excellent looking sentence and include the link in the signature section.
Some forums do not allow direct affiliate links, in that case, link to your blogspot
post.
● After setting up your profile and signature, start engaging and helping other forum
members.
● Make friends, give replies, ask questions, give thumbs up, and position yourself as a
dedicated contributor to the forum.
replies.
If you notice carefully that the member expressed his expertise about CPA marketing in this
thread, and right down in the signature part, he invited me to check out my CPA
marketing-related guideline. According to his saying, this single link gave him lots of targeted
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Article marketing is pretty much the same as blog post promotion. If you don’t have your blog,
you can signup for free blogging services like Medium.com, WordPress.com, or B
logger.com.
an article on the Clash of Clans mobile game and promote CPA offers related to the Clash of
add a strong call to action sentence or button to get the best out of it.
In the above example, you can use “Grab Free COC Gems,” “Participate in COC Gems Giveaway,”
etc., as CTA so that people will take action. You can make a handsome amount of bucks every
month.
● Make sure to add value to your content so that it will be approved for publishing.
Native advertising is an online marketing method that involves using paid ads that
match the website’s look and fit seamlessly into the surrounding content. This way, you
can leverage the content and the credibility of publishers and increase your ads’
conversions.
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I’ve written a complete guide on native advertising that explains what native
advertising is, the PROs and CONs, and how to leverage and are the best native
advertising networks.
Also, we show you some best practices you should follow to maximize your ROI.
Several payment methods are supported by tons of CPA networks. However, I found Paypal and
Bank transfer very common among all the networks I have tried. Besides, you can also get your
I highly recommend you sign up for a Payoneer account with a virtual bank account under
Bank of America.
You can use this bank account to get all your affiliate money. I prefer Payoneer over Paypal
because, with a Payoneer master card, I can get cash from an ATM at any corner of the world.
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Conclusion
So here you have it: A complete guide on CPA marketing for beginners. Now it’s time to set
I’m Daniel, and I’ve helped 30 community and
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