Archive for December, 2008
What is Pay Per Lead Affiliate Marketing?
CPA is cost per action. If that action is buying a product, then we have to get our potential customers to open their pocketbook. In today’s economic times, this is getting harder and harder. And the competition is fighting for the same customers you are.
When CPA is used, sometimes it is referring to pay per lead programs. No taking out the credit card. Not even getting a free trial that is billed monthly in 30 days, although some can be. Just get the lead and get paid.
A Universal WordPress Import Plugin
When I was building sites with Drupal, this was one module that was available and worked well. I had a site that imported ShareASale datafeeds. I have yet to find a similar plugin in WordPress, not even a pay version.
But I have been playing around lately with the CSV import plugin mentioned in my last post. I had some issues with it working. Not matter what I did, the timestamp would not come out right. All the posts were dated in 1999. Well, I fixed the issue by editing the plugin and ended up looking at the stucture. It is pretty simple. I could modify it to creat pages instead of posts if I wanted to.
Forget BANS Sites and Learn to Love Data
You may be a blogger. That may be where you start. You may be a PPC affiliate marketer. That could be a starting place. You may not want to get your hand dirty with all the technical details. That’s great also, if you have a staff or a budget for hiring other people. But I would say that most of the readers of this blog do not.
Data. What is data? Anything on the internet for the most part. As soon as you post an article to your blog, it becomes data. I know. I know. You wrote it. It’s the result of your work. But once it hits the internet, it becomes data. What else is data? The Clickbank marketplace XML. Affiliate datafeeds. Your bookmarks. The list goes on.