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Now that you’ve become a member of several CPA networks, you need to decide how you will direct traffic to your affiliate site in order to promote the merchant’s free offers. One factor in your decision will be your advertising budget; how much are you willing and able to pay for advertising? If you have some money to spend, then you can sign up for pay-per-click search engines such as Google and Yahoo. You register in the site, usually for free, and your ads appear on the results page in response to a search for specific keywords. You pay the host site every time a user clicks on the ad and is redirected to your affiliate site.In order for pay-per-click to be effective for you, you need to find good keywords to promote the CPA’s offers. You can do this using keyword tools that would provide you with a list of targeted search terms. Once you’ve identified your keywords, you can compose the headline that will appear on the search engine’s results page.

On the other hand, if your budget is limited, you can resort to free advertising methods. For example, you can upload videos to YouTube with a quick link to the affiliate site flashed at the end. Of course, this would work only if you are able to create good quality videos, although a power point presentation set to music would be enough if it had some content of value in it. You also need to tag the videos properly by putting your keywords in the description box; these tags will enable the video to appear on search engine rankings.

If videos are not your thing, you can write articles and submit them to article directories with a link to your affiliate site at the end. Again, you have to make sure that the articles are well-written, interesting and include targeted keywords in the body and title so they would have a high position in search engines.

A third method that will not cost you anything is posting answers on sites like Yahoo Answers. For example, if you have an offer for a free trial of a tooth whitening product and a user posts a question about how to get rid of yellow teeth, you can post an answer that includes a link to your affiliate site as a reference. Of course, if you do this your site should have useful content like articles and videos to avoid being branded as a spammer.

Related to this last method is joining message forums related to the niche of your free offer. You will most likely have to prepare a landing page, however, since many forums would allow links only to websites and not directly to affiliate offers.

There are many more ideas for promoting CPA offers; I’m sure you can come up with more than a few. But it never hurts to listen to the experiences of experts such as Alex Goad and Saj P, who have both successfully made fortunes on the Internet. If you would like to learn from them how to become successful in CPA marketing, why not be one of the first to sign up for Commission Payload, a new learning course that will teach you how to get the most out of this fast-growing online opportunity?