Maximizing Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) Heres What Experts Have to Say [Video]

In the paid acquisition world, clicks on your ads can seem like the holy grail. But you need a better way to measure your content’s converting capabilities than just clicks — enter, cost per acquisition.

If you really think about it, clicks only tell you if people arrive at your content. And as much as I wish my clicks could spell out the whole picture for me, they can’t.

Instead, I’ve found the cost per acquisition (or CPA) is a better metric to determine whether my content is engaging enough to persuade my audience to stay and, ultimately, buy into my product or service.

Read on to learn more about what exactly CPA is, the formula for calculating it, how its bidding process works, and some principles for crafting creative and convincing ad copy.

Table of Contents

• Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)
• Cost Per Acquisition Bidding
• Cost Per Acquisition Formula
• Why is cost per acquisition important?
• What is a good cost per …