Hey, Im a completely newbie to the world of affiliate marketing. I have a been involved in e-commerce for several years so over that time I have developed a vague concept of what is involved with affiliate marketing over the years but not in any sort of depth to know about the various aspects. My past venture involved a website that sold guitar equipment, but over the years it became less and less profitable and at the start of 2010 I decided to close it down. Since then I have been looking into various ways of making money online - this time without all the stress of handling and shipping physical goods. It just seems to me that there is no need to have to go through the hassle of handling physical goods when money can be made via digital products - where i dont need to do anything that is not on my computer infront of me. About 4months ago I first came across CPALeads. I created a bunch of basic websites where i copied information off how-to-ebooks that I have accumulated over the years and whacked the CPAlead survey script on the websites. I have been making money on this ever since however the amount of money being made is too small for me to stick with it - only like $10 a week... so I have been researching more effective methods to make money.... Thats when I stumbled across this forum. I have been reading a lot of the posts and checked a whole bunch of links that have been posted round here - and I find a lot of the topics really interested. Just from reading over the posts here, I can see there is a lot of serious money to be made on the internet in affiliate marketing. Everyone got to start somewhere and I want to turn my attentions into CPA marketing as I think this looks like an area were there is a lot of potential profits to be made. Being new to this field I am still not entirely sure exactly what it all entails still.... what ive gathered so far is that the most common method is by finding a company that offers some sort of offer or survey, and then promoting them via the use of PPC? Is it essentially; you are directly promoting an individual offer that (like the ones that the CPALead script brings up) without having to have some sort of content unlocker involved?? Where is a good place to start to look for company's that I can get these surveys and offers to promote? This is all really new and exciting to me... but im just looking for some basic guidelines of what I should know as a newbie and what I should look out for and avoid. Thanks in advance for any help or feedback that is offered to me. Regards, Tom P.S. Please excuse anything I might have said that is incorrect or downright silly haha... I am a newbie after all
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Hey dietdimelow, if you want to learn more about affiliate marketing, i'd suggest you check out this free affiliate marketing guide written by super affiliate JonathanVolk: http://www.jonathanvolk.com/affiliate-marketing-guide/ All the best!
There are lots of tutorials on CPA course that you can find from google.However I also found the JonathanVolk's course very useful.You may take look there and I hope you will get some cool stuff there.
Thanks for your replys, have had a look at the links provided and its very much appreciated. Just another question or two; when promoting an offer, for instance a survey, would Google Adwords let me diretly link to the offer directly or is a landing page necessary? What are Adwords regulations for CPA links? Also does it cause any complications with the country the offer is allowed in, as ive seen some offers only available to certain regions?