How to quick start PPC CPA with direct linking

Being a noob sucks sometimes. You get to learn too many things and sometimes it is hard to figure what’s up. PPC CPA isn’t different, even worse you have to shell out your hard earned cash to learn how PPC works and how you can profit from it.

Creating websites, finding out the perfect niche, watching over your campaigns can be difficult. The most difficult part is to build a website and to edit it and to watch over your campaigns. How about we skip the website creation and all the content creation process and try to find out some gold?

How about direct linking campaigns to promote an offer or a product?

The beauty; Direct linking requires no website. All you need to do is find out a product, start a campaign and find out whether the product converts good or bad.

Building a website is the worst nightmare for an affiliate. It is such a pain in the ass! My first website took me 2 weeks and a lot of editing. You need to learn HTML, PHP and stuffs like that; you need to learn how to edit templates with the editors and how to put them up online. You need to check out if everything is good; you need to edit the mistakes and blah blah blah.

So what’s direct linking?

Direct linking is you simply put your affiliate link in the destination URL of your ad campaign, simple as that. I know what you are thinking, YES this works and works good for the newbie’s. There are those affiliates I know are already making good conversions with direct linking method, however this surely isn’t a long term method for sure. You can learn the system, and gain some knowledge with the method. The best part, you don’t have to go through the hassle of putting up a landing page and worry about the quality score.

How cool is that anyway?

Just keep your commissions greater than your click costs and up you go! So find out join a CPA network. Find out a product that makes sense or if you can, try to find out someone who is already converting the product. Ask you affiliate manager for a list of 10 good converting offers with their epc.

Join msn adcenter or yahoo search marketing or should I say, google adwords.

Use the keyword tool of google adwords or keyworddiscovery.com or word tracker or anything you name it to dig up a nice broad keyword list
Build a campaign and start bidding anywhere between $0.10 – $0.20.

Check for the keywords that are converting that find out the keywords that aren’t converting or performing poor.
Clean up junk keywords.

Track everything including keywords. Use SubID or anything, ask your affiliate manager for more.

Up your bids, if you are getting zero traffic. If you are getting loads of traffic and no conversion, the product or offer you are promoting, sucks. Leave it and find another.

If you are getting traffic and sales, this is the product you should be looking forward to make more money from. Optimize your keywords and ads and make it profitable.

This method however, is only useful to find out profitable niches and to learn PPC. For long term profit, you should definitely build some landing pages and improve from there. For some products, the possibility of google slap is high but other products will do well. Profit is all depending on the offer and the niche by the way.

Hope this helps to find out a few great niches.

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