Well I think I owe Stu a beer…  I’m not going to get the Ninja Affiliate cloaking thingy - I’m going to try out the free WordPress plugin Monty suggested and see if that works.  If not I’ll be back at it wrangling with PHP code to make that cloaking work on that site damn it.

I’m also taking the plunge and signed up with MarketLeverage to try out some of their CPA offers - I was going to give them a go a while back but they’ve got this thing where they phone you first before they approve you.  Perhaps to know that you’re “real” and not some bot floating around the ‘net.  So the first time I signed up I didn’t manage to get approved… because I wasn’t around for the calls.  But this time I made sure I had my phone with me all the freakin’ time and finally made contact with them and now I’m an affiliate.

So why MarketLeverage?  Well, I’ve seen them around and I am always looking for new CPA sites and I’ve not done a CPA site of my own in like… forever.  So I thought I’d give them a whirl.  So last night I sat down and took a look at some of the offers and decided to try my hand at Coffee - yes there are about a million sites out there about coffee, but they’ve got some great offers going with big payouts so why not.  So I got started last night and realized why I’d not done this in a while.

I’m not sure if the way I’m going about it will work.

I’m not pushing the site with PPC.  No budget - so I’m going organic - which will take a while to be seen in the search engines.  But I’m doing it smarter this time.  I’ve made a list of the keywords that contain “coffee” and I’m going to work my way through some content adding some of the keywords to the site - and then watching them on my DigitalPoint account for Keyword tracking.  I’m hoping by being more keyword focused this time around I will be more successful than I have been in the past.

Also I love coffee - so learning about it and writing about it isn’t a complete bore.

Now because of the CPA offers - I’ve got the site set up with ads.  Now I’m wondering if I should have posts specifically directed towards the content of the CPA offer - that way I have a “landing page” if at sometime I have a bit of cash to flog to a PPC campaign?

I’ve never been overly successful with CPA sites… so it’s a bit of a learning curve.  Any suggestions or hints you could throw my way that have worked for you?

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