Entries tagged with “monetisation” from Monetise It

I posted on my personal blog a couple of days ago about the new Screenclick site.

One of Screenclick's affiliates also posted on his blog about the site redesign and has now found that his account has been suspended!

Is this how most companies handle feedback from their affiliates???

If you're interested in getting started in affiliate marketing, then this post may be prove useful:

Beginner Basics of Affiliate Marketing

It covers a lot of the topics that people tend to ask about and is definitely worth taking a few minutes to read

Microsoft has announced the closure of its affiliate network.

In an email to publishers last week the company thanked them for their participation and talked of a new range of products being launched on a new platform in 2009

If you're using eBay's partner network you may find the reports provided to be a bit lacking in detail ie. it's hard to work out exactly what is converting and what isn't.

According to a post on their EPN blog this will change come October 22nd, when they release a new category report.

The report will allow you to see which categories and sub-categories are getting the most conversions and you can match those against your campaigns.

While it may lack the transparency of Amazon's reports, it's definitely a move in the right direction.

No idea if this will take off, but it's an intriguing idea.

Basically Twittad will sell billboard space on twitter i.e. the background / wallpaper on user's accounts.

The downside is that you'd end up staring at the ad whenever you use the web interface ...

More on Mashable

Damien has put together a simple list of ways to make money from your blog, both directly and indirectly.

While he covers the more obvious ways, such as affiliate networks, adsense and selling ads directly (I'd chuck sponsorship in there as well), he also goes on to cover some of the book deals people have made, as well as the Irish blogs that have actually been sold to larger networks / media ventures.

I mentioned Netklix some time ago.

They've now gone live in the Irish market, so I suspect we'll start seeing their ad spaces appearing on blogs and sites in the coming weeks.

It will be interesting to see who is using the platform for advertising

Google's recent announcement about changes to their adsense referral program was not particularly welcomed by publishers. Quelle surprise!

The company has now changed their policy slightly ... Not as much as we would have liked, but it's a move vaguely in the right direction.

From their official blog:

The changes to referrals promoting AdSense will now depend on where your users are located, regardless of your location as a publisher. You'll earn $100 for every user you refer to AdSense who is located in North America, Latin America or Japan when they generate $100 in AdSense revenue within 180 days and they remove all payment holds. You'll no longer be paid for users you refer who are located elsewhere. These changes will go into effect the last week of January.

So if you're still getting US traffic you can still monetise it ....

Of course the rest of your traffic has now been rendered useless

According to the Google Adsense blog Adsense referrals ie. promoting the Adsense program, will no longer be available to non-US publishers.

While this may not upset people who weren't making any money from the product it will not be welcomed by those who were.

One user on Irish Webmaster Forum commented:

$1000 - $1500 a month gone for me. Just like that.

Some of the more prominent bloggers, like Darren Rowse, are more than a little upset:

The last line of the post on the AdSense blog which announces this shows just how out of touch the team that made this decision are with international publishers.

“We appreciate your support of this referral product, and hope it won’t cause you any inconvenience.”

You hope it won’t cause inconvenience? Are you serious?

As Darren points out, the Adsense policy change ignores a site's readership / traffic completely and focuses entirely on where the publisher resides. It's basically Google racism!

ShoeMoney also posts about it in his usual style

Even those not affected by the change are upset

So you can now schedule a bit of work on your sites to remove all the links to Adsense.

Thanks Google. We really love your corporate mantra - do no evil - you bring a whole new meaning to the English language

Dave from RedFly Marketing gives some insight into link valuation on the Irish Webmaster Forum

If you run content rich sites you will, invariably, be contacted by people who want to buy links. While it might be easier to simply outsource it all to services such as Text Link Ads you can also keep your options open and sell directly.

If your site attracts a young demographic with a sense of humour, then maybe some of the tshirts from the likes of TShirt Hell might go down well.

One of the guys in our office loves their tshirts and seems to have one for every day of the week. Before long he'd got the rest of us hooked too, so I thought I'd take a look at their affiliate program.

The T Shirt Hell affiliate program is tiered, so you can make income from people you refer to it. If your site attracts other webmasters and bloggers then this might be a winner for you.

One of my personal favourites is this shirt (image above), but other ones may be a little risque if you're trying to run a "family" site.

Since they relaunched their site a few months ago they also expanded and improved the tools available to affiliates, so now you can easily create links to their latest "releases", specials and popular items. Needless to say their system also allows you to link to ANY page on their site and make full use (and abuse) of their images.

I'd love to hear from people who have been successful with their program.

One of the advantages with synergy is, well, synergy....

Google Adsense publishers who use the blogger platform now have the opportunity to easily add inline ads thanks to the latest enhancement on the platform.

It's a Google product, so it's in their interest to make it play nice with their revenue generating products and services!

The full story is over on the official adsense blog