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

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