Techy Techy Geeky Geeky » Affiliate Programs http://techytechygeekygeeky.com Too Busy Being Geeky to Actually Design this site. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:30:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Sad Day, I’m not Good Enough for Skimlinks. http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/sad-day-im-not-good-enough-for-skimlinks.htm http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/sad-day-im-not-good-enough-for-skimlinks.htm#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:47:47 +0000 keith http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/?p=161 Rejection HurtsI submitted a link to a cake site (incredible-cakes.com) that I am developing. I got rejected. snif. Admittedly, the site still needs a lot of work and has been sitting dormant for most of this year.

According to their message – copied below, they don’t have any merchants that match my site’s content at this point.

I’ll probably submit another site to them in a couple of weeks.

Big Kudo’s to Skimlinks.com for watching their log files and tracing back to my blog post. I rec’d a comment from Alicia Navarro – Co-founder & CEO of Skimlinks.

I fully believe it’s always worth 60 seconds of a company’s time to throw out a quick howdy to a small blogger from Fort Wayne, IN. Plus, I really like that someone out there is “keen to hear my thoughts.” :-)

Thanks for the comment Alicia, but my thoughts will have to wait until I have something that works with your application!

Here’s my rejection letter. (I don’t care what it is, rejection is always painful.)

Hi Keith,

Thank you for applying to use Skimlinks on your site. Our approvals team has run an analysis and, unfortunately, decided your site is not suitable for Skimlinks.

Regrettably, the range of merchants that we are currently working with does not match the content of your site. Consequently, Skimlinks would generate negligible revenues for you as it is unlikely that we would be able to monetise included links.

If you decide to make changes to your site, or you have another site you would like to use Skimlinks on, please apply again via

http://skimlinks.com/register

or contact us on support@skimlinks.com for more details.

Regards,

The Skimlinks Team

Best regards

]]> http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/sad-day-im-not-good-enough-for-skimlinks.htm/feed 1 UK Based Skimlinks competes with Viglink for your links. http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/uk-based-skimlinks-competes-with-viglink-for-your-links.htm http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/uk-based-skimlinks-competes-with-viglink-for-your-links.htm#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:58:27 +0000 keith http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/?p=131 I just posted some information about the company Viglink.com whose goal is to monetize the links on your website by matching them up with existing affiliate marketing programs.

I just discovered Skimlinks.com based out of the UK who also launched the same concept. They’re also starting a push into the US market. I’ve signed up for an account to do a little comparison.

If you’re interested in monetizing your links, and you don’t want the hassle of affiliate programs, check them out. Let me know what you think.

Viglink.com

Skimlinks.com

]]> http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/uk-based-skimlinks-competes-with-viglink-for-your-links.htm/feed 2 Viglink is in the House. http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/viglink-is-in-the-house.htm http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/viglink-is-in-the-house.htm#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:31:54 +0000 keith http://techytechygeekygeeky.com/?p=116 ViglinkA few days ago I received an email from my brother and business partner simply titled “look.”

The only think in the body was a link:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/186733/found_money_monetize_your_site_with_viglink.html

After reading the article, I discovered a very interesting a simple solution to the problem I’ve always had with affiliate marketing. I’ve dabbled with a few affiliate programs, but I’ve always found it too time consuming and difficult to track and manage very many of them. I’ve got quite a bit going on in life, and really don’t have the extra time to dedicate to maintaining a bunch of affiliate programs.

Enter Viglink. If it does what it promises it will eliminate the hassle of maintaining your affiliate programs. For a cut of the profit, they take care of it for you. All that you need to do is drop a few lines of javascript into your website(s) and Viglink will monetize any links you post. No more messing around with the affiliates yourself.

Backing from companies like Google’s Affiliate Network, Linkshare, and Commission Junction prove that this is obviously one to watch.

I’ve just set up the code (a very simple process) and now it’s just time to wait and see what happens.

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