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Recently I have started getting some email response after I published my post on top pay per click programs, regarding what are the top CPA networks. In today’s post I am planning to give brief overview of the networks with which I work and I think they are the top CPA networks where you can make money very well.

NeverblueADS – This is my favorite networks because most of their campaigns are pretty easy to market and have more pay per lead kind of programs which most affiliate marketers are looking for. They have a pretty good interface with all things put out clearly; I can tell you NeverblueADS have one of the best web usability compared to the other CPA networks.  They have more than 24 categories each filled with so many wonderful offers which you can promote. NeverblueADS allows the following method of promotion email, web and paid search. Payment is once in a month with a minimum of $25 made through PayPal.

AzoogleAds – AzoogleAds started in the year 2000, is one of the fastest growing CPA networks. They have more than 300 good quality campaign offers in their network. Each of them is easy to promote. They have pay per lead, pay per sale and pay per download offers which are quite attractive with the publishers. They have several offers which allow targeting international audience. So if you are international publishers AzoogleAds would be a perfect match. The reporting is real-time and their interface looks like a web 2.0, you can generate several kinds of reports. They have a consolidated payment via check for a minimum of $50.

COPEAC – This CPA networks is quite popular among affiliate marketers. COPEAC offers Cost per Acquisition (CPA), Cost per Sale (CPS) and Cost per click (CPC) offers for its publishers; they have a very large base of advertisers to promote in a wide spectrum of markets. COPEAC have a referral program as well for publishers to refer other affiliate markers and get a 2% commission. Payment is made via check or wire on a monthly basis and a minimum threshold is set at $100.

MaxBounty – allows anyone who has a website to be their publisher to make money by promoting their advertisers offers on a pay for performance basis. MaxBounty is very popular among forums; you can see that if you are active in affiliate marketing forums, you can see several threads based on MaxBounty in these forums. MaxBounty is also one of the most reliable CPA networks which give the highest payment.  The minimum payout is just $50 which is paid each month basis. Allows international publishers to join and also have several international programs for them.

Affiliate Future – This CPA networks offers large number of UK merchants offers. This Network is owned by TMN group a leading direct marketing company in London. They have very good publisher friendly staffs working for them who respond to all your email and questions. Even though they are based in UK international publishers are allowed to join the network. They have a very good number of merchants in their 50 categories, one of the drawback is the same offers are listed in other major Affiliate networks which makes it less attractive for a seasoned affiliate marketer. Payment is made on a monthly basis with a minimum threshold of 20 pounds payments will be made by BACS/Wire transfer on the 2nd week of the following month.

Offersquest – A lesser known network, with around 100 campaign offers.  Some of the minimum requirements for joining this network are that you should have a fully functional website with no under construction pages. This Network allows only English written website which has English content on it. Offersquest doesn’t allow website which is offering incentives for any action by the visitors on the site. Most of the offers with this network are Cost per Lead. Payments are made through PayPal or check with a minimum threshold of $20. They have a real time reporting statistics for publishers.

DirectLeads – is an CPA network having offers from pay per lead to pay per click also it allows you to earn commission through referrals. Since most of the offers are not pay per sale you can see a higher conversion rate compared to the other pay per sale networks. DirectLeads offer excellent banners, buttons and text links for all their merchant offers. They have a cool interface category directory for all the offers. They provide real-time reporting on your commission and referrals. One of the drawbacks with this CPA Network is that the payment is made after 60 days after which you have earned $20.00 which is quite a long time to get your payment. Apart from that this network has potential for any publishers who want to make money.

ModernClick – is a leading provider of performance based direct marketing solution on the web. Getting into this network is quite hard, since they are picky in picking up the affiliates into their network. The have a technology which offers affiliate marketers to most latest and advanced tracking tool which provides accurate and real-time data for all the affiliate marketers’ online campaign. They have also a good fraud protection feature for affiliate marketers to protect their affiliate commission. The minimum threshold is $25 and the pay period is once a month via check or PayPal.

Hydra Networks – This is my second favorite CPA network which I promote. Some of the promotional campaign method with this network are email campaign, search, web and co-registration. Their state of art proprietary program allows giving an excellent tracking data and reporting of your online campaign, so that you can monitor it on a real-time basis. The number of campaigns in this network is more than 500 with cost per click, cost per lead and cost per sale offers. They pay you once in 15 days via check, direct deposit and PayPal.

RocketProfit – is my third largest source of income from CPA networks behind NeverblueADS and Hydra Networks. RocketProfit is one of the fastest growing CPA network with unique and exclusive Cost per lead deals. Recently there was an excellent review at Zac Johnson Affiliate Marketing Blog about RocketProfit. They have several Cost per Lead and Cost per sale offers. The payment method is through check wire transfer and PayPal. The threshold of $25 is the minimum earning you need get for a payment for duration of 15 days payment frequency.

Hope this answers my readers email questions. Very soon I am going to review each of these as well as other affiliate networks with more detailed posts. Also you can more other affiliate programs which I make money online also be reviews very soon.

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In my previous post A landing page guide to Affiliate Marketers, I promised to get into more details about increasing landing page conversion for affiliate marketers. As I outlined in my previous post some of the strategies for landing page optimization. Today in this post I am going to say about the main elements which increase you’re landing page conversion by more than 15%-300% if you test it.

Improving your website conversion is continues process to generate better results from your website visitors. Optimizing your landing page also increases your sales and has a great ROI for each penny spend.

Below are some of the main elements which can increase conversion on the landing page after testing it in different ways according to your requirements.

1) Heading of the page: – Each landing page should be structured with a Heading which is very important since it is the first element each visitors see it, So It should be catch and draw the attention of the visitors The heading should be most relevant to the keyword search by the visitors If it is irrelevant the visitor might leave soon and your bounce rate increases which also affects your Quality Score with Google Adwords programs if you are using that as your PPC marketing effort.

2) Call to Action: – The location of the Call to Action makes a big difference on the landing page if you put up your call to action on the page where it is not prominent then it will reduce your conversion of the landing page, because it doesn’t stand out. Don’t confuse the visitors with too many call to action, I would advice to have more than 2 call to action on a landing age to avoid confusion, it can be a phone or a simple RFQ (lead) form. Use a lot of White space around your call to action to offset or highlight the call to action. You call to action can be an image or text but all it need to be prominent in the eyes of the visitor.

3) Copy of the Landing page: – Content is the key for any sales copy including for your landing page. The content of the landing page should have the ability to transforms words into a sale or a lead conversion. Let your copy of the landing page be more detailed in simple word which a layman can understand, with good amount of whitespace and bulleted point to highlight the benefits and features of your product and services. Copyblogger has a nice blog post about 10 tips for writing a ultimate landing page.

4) Graphics impact on landing pages:- Images create a big impact on your landing page conversion rate. The best method is to portrait an image which is relevant to your products or service offers that you re giving to your customers instead of using non-relevant graphics. Also make it a point to add a caption to your images these powerful words under the images can tempt the visitor to click on the image so make sure that the images are clickable and take to the conversion area such as a signup page or what ever action then visitors want to do for you.

5) Optimize your buttons :- Color and the size of the button matters in your conversion rate, Usually Red or Green convert better with a call to action on the button like click here, download or signup these text on the button is key for a better conversion. Also the location of the button is a very important issue because if the buttons are placed where it is not able to notice you are not going to get any click on that button. The size the bigger the better since it stand outs and you are asking the visitors to do some strong action on the landing page where chances are more than 60 % click on those big buttons. Urgency is what makes people to take action on the page so focus on the call to action on the button for high conversion rate.

6) Trustworthy testimonials and security: – People like to believe what other people say about the products and services before they buy. This part of winning of the visitors trust can be achieved by add testimonial on the page and try to make it a trustworthy one which people believe that is a genuine and win your trust and can increase your conversion overdoing the testimonials can hurt as well. Testimonials don’t need to be highlight or stand out; all you need to do is that it is visible on page so that before they do some action they are happy and satisfied that they are buying from a trusted place. Equally important is the privacy policy of your website even though not all visitors won’t read the privacy policy page but still it is good, since some really targeted visitors might go through your privacy policy which should at the footer which is the standard location and every visitor knows about it where it would be located.

7) Pricing:- What most of the affiliate marketers ignore about educating the visitor about the price of the products other related expense occur if they are proceeding with the checkout. Don’t try to hide the price with small fonts and make the visitor to buy the product or service. Make it clear to the visitor on the main landing page that how much it cost and if any additional costs like sales tax or shipping charges. This not only helps you to win the confidence of the visitor as well as increase conversion since the price are prominent next to the call to action either the product image or signup button.

Study shows that most of the online sales are lost on a site due to the lack of implementing the critical element that builds value and trust with your website visitors.

If you are running an affiliate product are you using a landing page? Most of the affiliate marketers don’t know the benefit of having a Landing page to promote their affiliate offers. There are several Reasons why an affiliate marketer should use landing page for affiliate marketing.

What is a landing page?

Landing Page is a page where you send your website visitors through search engine traffic or paid advertisements. This landing page is where you will have your affiliate offer or subscribers mailing opt-in fields. Landing page is a sales man assisting your customers, so the content and the product should be highly relevant to the ad or the link which you made the visitor to come to the landing page as well as high quality relevant content relevant to that particular product or services.

Benefits of a landing page -

The benefits of a having a landing page is it increases conversions rate. Most of the people who buy online products and services do a research online before they buy they look for reviews, scams and other related search on the product, so having a landing page you have a slight edge over the other competitors who promote the same affiliate product of the merchant. Usually if you are to give a better idea of the product to the visitors chances are the visitors will go to the merchant’s pages through your affiliate link, which will in turn get you’re that affiliate commission for a referral to the merchant. Also if you are smart enough using a landing page you can have a opt-in mailing list through any of the email marketing services where you can collect their email address and name and start create a email mailing list. This is possible only if you have a landing page. With the mailing list your can pre-sell lot of related products to the email subscribers. Also if you landing page has good quality content it will start ranking in search engine which will bring you free search engine traffic.

Using a landing page increases conversion-

The whole idea of having a landing page is to generate better results from your web traffic. Increasing conversion is the fastest and the easiest way to increase your sales without paying more money to increase traffic to your website. Some of the best techniques to increase conversion on your landing pages are to use the following points Heading, Content …… Etc

You can further read the rest of the landing page guide for affiliate marketers in the next blog posts. You can subscribe to my future posts through my RSS subscription.

Every affiliate marketer faces several challenges today to make money online. I started out my affiliate marketing in the year 2000. But those days promoting other people products you had only a few option there where aren’t much affiliate merchants to promote. But today you can find affiliate merchants in each and every niche. But then why you still find affiliate marketing is a challenge.

In this Blog Post I am going to address this issue each new as well as expert affiliate marketers are facing:

1) Find time for your projects – Finding time for affiliate marketing is one of the biggest challenge each affiliate marketer faces. Weather they are a newbie or a super affiliates finding time is very hard. One of the best solutions for this is outsource. How I solved this problem of finding time for my projects was hiring people for certain tasks. If you are promoting a affiliate products it needs several task like writing, marketing, link building and of-course if you are doing paid marketing then you need the skills of PPC as well. Today you have several channels where you can find people to outsource, some for the source where I find people for my projects are cragislist.org, elance, scriptlance and getafreelancer. These places is an excellent source to find people as well as reliable and economical too.

2) Find the right Network - Most of the affiliate marketers are confused about to join which networks. You will hear several pros and cons about each network. For each affiliate marketer only few of the networks really works for them rest of them won’t work for them. Identified that network is a huge task you must try almost all of them and stick to the work which give you more ROI and gives you affiliate support. I tried almost a ton of networks but some of the most successful networks are neverblueads.com, Shareasale, LinkShare, Hypermedia and CJ. Once you find the right network you need to look for the products which will resonates with you websites or writing skills.

3) Sticking to one Niche – Often Affiliate marketers are greedy they need to get into each every possible niche they can. And they end up earning nothing. Also a huge waste of time and money. Just focusing on one particular product and slowly diversifies or leveraging that strategy to other related offers is want an successful affiliate marketer do. But it doesn’t mean that you need to keep all your eggs in one basket. You can monetize your affiliate site with other related offers one the site. But if you are planning to promote your affiliate products through PPC it is always good to stick to one product on your landing page rather than distracting your visitors.

4) Traffic – Most of the affiliate marketers face the problem of getting traffic. PPC is one of the best way to start off with your online money making venture. You need to spend some money in the beginning. Once you go through the learning curve you will realize that you need to spend money to make money. There are several other ways to get traffic too. Getting relevant traffic which converts as a sale is very hard. Some of the other methods to get traffic is optimizing website for search engines to gain search engine traffic, Social Media marketing to get social media traffic, Email Marketing, Article marketing etc.

5) Manage your time – Most often affiliate marketers doesn’t manage time properly. The productive time of each affiliate marketers is mismanaged because of too much time is spend on reading and sending emails, checking stats and other non productive things. Managing your time is key to any successful affiliate marketing and making it profitable is very important.

Today there are several social media web2.0 websites, getting traffic just from Google, yahoo and MSN is not that important. But for affiliate marketing does it is going to help to convert into sales.

Social media traffic is good if it is relevant. But useless if it is not-relevant. It is a new trend among online marketers to catch on the social media traffic. Also social media web2.0 websites brings in tons of traffic. Will it be helpful? Since the traditional method of getting traffic is through search engine optimization which takes effort and time or PPC advertisements which also needs time to optimize your campaign but also need a lot of money to see the ROI.

Here are some of the best methods to get traffic for affiliate marketing which will convert into sales :-

1)     PPC Traffic – Traffic from paid placement will convert better if you have a good landing page, Ad copy and keywords. One of the reasons it converts better is because People are taken to the right page for what they want. You are driving traffic to the exact page for what the visitors search query was. If you are able to do a good job with PPC you can make a killing.

2)     Search Engine Optimization – Traffic through optimized web pages converts better too, since most of the visitors reaches the web pages through navigating within the site. Also most of the visitors coming through search engine traffic are cautious and try to find a good deal with good reviews and comparisons with other products. Still SEO optimized web pages are good for affiliate marketing the only worry is it takes time as well as you are at the mercy of the search engine algorithm.

3)     Email Marketing – If you are an affiliate marketer and needs traffic email marketing is a good option but the conversion rate is very poor, but it is fast and cheap. All you need to sell a person is their email ID and send the traffic to the desired product page through that email. As we all know Spam is a big issue in emails, and so many email providers have spam filters. Getting through this spam filters is impossible and automatically your email is send to junk folder. Still there are ways you can get conversion. Try good Email Marketing services like Aweber who have a double opt-in email capturing technology. You need to capture email information through a squeeze page and create an email list; with this you will be able to successful.

4)     Social Media Marketing – Social media converts are little pathetic since it is not targeted.  But if done carefully it will be a tremendous success. Since certain social media sites like Myspace and Facebook can target certain demographics and age group. This is quite interesting since no other traffic can do that.

5)     Blogs – Blogs traffic can convert but needs to have updated often and affiliate marketing through blogs can be better achieved through reviews of the products. One of the good things about blogs is it is indexed fast and the blogging platform allows people to see fresh content.

6)     Article Marketing – This Bum marketing technique is little old but still some people rely on this, because they found it to be successful all these years. To build an Affiliate empire through article marketing is hard and takes long time and but provide good advice and linking to the right product in the resource box can convert better. Article writers are always regarded as expert in that particular field so; it converts only if you can provide a solution to the visitors for what he is looking for.

7)     Offline Ads – Placing ads on newspaper and niche magazine can convert but it conversion is really bad. It takes a lot of money to advertise on magazines and newspapers. One of the best ways to do this strategy is to advertise on certain niche magazine for example on magazines, newsletters and newspapers which is relevant to your affiliate product.