Cost Per Action (CPA)

Lana Pavlova
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Lana Pavlova

Affiliate marketing expert with 3+ years of hands-on experience. Lana writes based on real statistics, case studies, and hands-on work with push and pop traffic.

Cost per action is a metric that measures the average cost of acquiring a desired action, such as a sale or form submission, through a marketing campaign. The formula for CPA is:

CPA = Advertising Spend / Number of Actions (e.g., sales, form submissions)

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