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CPA CPA is an acronym for Cost per Action and refers to "ads" that are sold on the basis that money is only given when a certain action occurs because of the ad. A CPA ad could be one in which a publisher gets paid for people that click thru an ad and sign up for a newsletter or enter a contest or fill out a form for more information on a product. Many consider direct sales or Cost Per Sale ads, and CPC ads to also be a form of CPA. But CPA usually refers to being paid for leads, sign ups, and so on.

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Old 03-26-2008, 11:36 PM
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I have been with an affiliate company for a year. Recently in the past 2 weeks I've had excellent results with one of the offers. I've made about $3000 with 900 clicks. Out of the 900 clicks I've had 300 people complete the offer. Does this seem suspicious to you? I mean, I'm actually not using any blackhat tricks (like I usually do) with this one. lol Everything is just being made by good old advertising. But I don't want anything to come off looking weird. Think the affiliate company will be suspicious?
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Old 03-27-2008, 12:06 AM
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

it depend on the affiliate network and on the way you got offers completed

generally affiliate get suspicious when you make something irrelevant like a lot of clicks with just a little impressions or your site is completely new and you got a lot of clicks ....see?
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

if the offers are legit you "should" be fine. the network and the advertiser will communicate if they see a problem. but who knows, you can have a scumbag advertiser who can just complain that your sending b.s. leads just so they dont have to pay you. but i think since your sending real leads the advertiser should be pretty happy

if your account manager gives you shit and accuses you, tell them to check with the advertiser to check out the quality of the leads. but they will probably do that first before giving you shit anyway
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

It depends on what network your using, if your leads are legit obviously you will have no problems.
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

If you don't even do any black hat stuff you shouldn't have any problems, and 10% conversion isn't too high if your offer is good and traffic is highly targeted.
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

i think it's suspicious that you are concerned about the signups being suspicious.

very interesting....
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

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If you don't even do any black hat stuff you shouldn't have any problems, and 10% conversion isn't too high if your offer is good and traffic is highly targeted.
its 33% conversion. Im not a CPA guru, but isn't that a pretty high conversion?
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

Looks ok to me, I wouldn't think you sohould get any shit from the am.
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

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i think it's suspicious that you are concerned about the signups being suspicious.

very interesting....
i agree, if you are doing everything white hat here, why to even botter on asking this??

i think that 33% convertion its ok
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Default Re: Will this seem suspicious?

you are fine plain Jane... if there's nothing wrong with what you are doing... there's no need to be afraid of anything. If they cancel your account... just f**king SUE them to court!!
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