You can Make Money with WPMage with CPA
Some people seem concerned about WPMage because they don’t have an ebay account, or maybe not even an adsense affiliate account. I made this video to show you how easy it is to monetize these sites with CPA offers, or with any affiliate network that gives you html banners.
Basically, the mage sites are installed with a plugin that allows you to put any html on the top of every post in a few seconds.
I only have 2-3 sites up so far using this method. I gotton a few clicks on them, and will start making money from them as the traffic increases. Again, still just little baby sites. I’ve heard Greg say that other Mages are making loads of money with CPA.
Even just a zip submit banner can make money with this sites. I mean, if you have tons of these sites, with tons of posts, and tons of zip submits, you’re bound to make money. I’m anxious to start making more Mage sites with the zip and e-mail submits. I’m not crazy about the repeat bill offers, I’ll stay away from those. 
WP Mage Ramblings & Tips
I thought I would just ramble on this post and relay to you some of the tips I’ve learned about WPMage.
- The CPMage and WPMage packages come with the necessary plugins loaded and configured. Things like all in one seopack, wordpress stats and more. I’ve learned that I can unzip the package, and add any more plugins I want, so that every future install will also have those plugins. A nifty little timesaver if you want to customize your sites further.
- For my adsense sites, I’m following xfactor’s method of putting just one large block of adsense at the top, which is exactly how the mage installs itself. I just simply disable the sidebar adsense widget.
- I’m creating unique ebay campaigns, adsense channels and amazon tracking ID’s for each site. In addition, tracking ID’s for the CPA offers I have running.
- Greg recommends tweaking the front page with a little unique content to make it look nice in case of a manual review. I have to admit, I’m lazy, and haven’t done this. My front pages simply have an ezine article, but NO links of any kind. To do this, when I first install the site, I insert only one keyword, use no translation, don’t select any monetization methods, and pull only from ezine. After the site is installed, I go into the admin backend, and use the posting mage to load the rest of the posts with ebay, amazon, whatever.
- I did build my own “template.” It’s not a theme, but what Greg calls a “template.” The template defines the layout of the posts. So, for example the, template below is the one I’m using most often. I created it mainly so that my ebay links would display above the content. Then, amazon, then the content. These templates can be configured in any number of ways.
- {$KEYWORD}
[affmage source="ebay" results="100"]{$KEYWORD}[/affmage]
[affmage source="amazon" results="10"]{$KEYWORD}[/affmage]
[mage source="flickr"]{$KEYWORD}[/mage]
[mage source="answers" backup="article"]{$KEYWORD}[/mage]
[mage source="tags"]{$KEYWORD}[/mage] - To include a CPA offer or clickbank product on my posts, I add the code to the whydoworkadsense plugin under CODE #3. Then I change the settings to display code #3 on the pages. Done!
- I am using translation on just a few of my sites. The most readable are en|fr|en or en|es|en. Others think this makes the article 30% unique. You can translate back and forth from like 20 languages, but it becomes more awkward to read.
- Soon, I’ll experiment with creating foreign sites. With the mage, I can translate my articles to end with, say, german. I would use a german .de domain, and be sure to include my eBay Germany ID, and then I have a German site with no more effort than building my US sites. I might try this with just adsense, too. Someone said the German adsense pays nicely.
