Google and Bing do not hate affiliate marketers! They hate the people and sites that are continually trying to game the system and their visitors just to make a quick buck. Anyone who says differently is not thinking clearly or looking at the big picture! Affiliate marketers have paid millions upon millions of dollars to the big search engines to send traffic their sites. The big search engines know this and appreciate and want more of that money. Bing and Google do hate a negative impact on their prime assets, or searchers. They hate the scam sites that offer any value to vistors.

The big search engines are all after one thing: Customer Satisfaction for the people using their service. In my opinion, the goal of all of the Google updates is trying to get to the point that all of the search results bring up relevant websites with the information that the searcher is looking for. So, the days of blasting shallow sites with links and getting ranked on the first page are long gone. Deep, robust, and user friendly site are going to do well.

What does this mean to CPA marketers? It menas that if you want to run traffic from Google or Bing to your offers you need to be a little more creative and diligent in doing so. In order to use paid search from Bing or Google your site needs to be filled with unique, well written and relevant content. Your site should also have the following pages: About Us, Contact Us, Site Map, Privacy Policy, and Terms Of Service. Do not add shit content at all! Spun content, scraped content that is pieced together, and poorly written content does nothing but frustrate end users and will get your site slapped by the very people you are trying to get traffic from. You should have at least 20 – 500 word posts added to your site and a new post up every few days. The easiest and quickest way to set all of this up is through a blog. If you are unsure on how to start up your own blog, head over here: https://peerfly.com/blog/2012/04/so-you-want-a-blog-but-have-no-idea-where-the-hell-to-start-read-below/, I have you covered!

Now, here is where we can tie everything together. Back to the point, how we can make money using paid search from Google and Bing. After you structure your site as I laid it out above, add a squeeze page to a subdomain. For example: you set up your blog on www.mysiterocks.com, you then want to set up a squeeze page on www.mysiterocks.com/mynewsletterisbadass. You can set up your ppc campaigns on Google and Bing and send your traffic directly to your squeeze page. Now you have captured your vistor’s name and email address you can then send them offers over and over via email.

Now you can see how you can still use that ultra targeted, high quality traffic from Google and Bing to market CPA offers. The days of direct linking are gone. Seriously though, if  you are in this for the long run and the big money, building your list is the best way to go. Now, use what is outlined in this post and then head over here: https://peerfly.com/blog/2012/04/275-in-adcenter-vouchers-for-12/. Now you have a site that the big search engines will still love and free money to start sending traffic to your squeeze page. I personally use this method myself and am enjoying the returns that it yields! Drop a comment and let me know what you think!

If you are not using Youtube to send traffic to your site you are really missing out! Youtube is the second largest search engine in the US. A few years ago, when someone wanted to find something on the internet or to learn more about something they would run to Google, do a search, and be satisfied with the information they were able to find. Now more and more people are doing research on Youtube. Especially for “how-to” types of searches.

With that being said, it only makes sense to grab some of that traffic and send it to your site? It is quick, easy and free to create and upload the videos. After you make a few yourself you will see how easy it is to do this and will be able to put your videos together in no time.

Try this: Select a vertical and then an offer. Then think of what your demo would like to see in a video. (Head over here to get a refresher on how to learn about demographic targeting: Demographic Targeting) Now find some images related to the video that you are going to make and save them to your computer. You can then use a slide show creator such as Microsoft Powerpoint to put everything together as a slide show. Then you can use a free resource such as Animoto to add these slides to a video and also be able to add music. Then upload your video to Youtube. Make sure to use a catchy headline and make the slides in your video relevant to the product or service you are promoting. Include calls to action in these slides also. Make sure to make reference to your site and how your viewers can find your site. BOOM! That si a completed video.

Now, the next thing to do is to share your video across all of your social media platforms that you are a member of. Make sure that you have an account at Pinterest, Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Share your video and add a catchy little description for it also.

Now, the more videos you make the more of an impact this will have. You should be able to put together a video in around 15 minutes or so after you get the knack of the process.

Add this to your traffic arsenal. Have doubts? Let me aks you one question. What do you have to lose? This is FREE traffic. Give it a shot!