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How I made my way through the world of affiliate programs to earn some extra $$$
A real-life daily updates on the programs I tested, programs that worked and the ones that failed
I made mistakes by joining some affiliate programs - so you don't have to. I succeeded on the other ones - so you can succeed too
Archive for November, 2007
Thursday Thirteen - Best Affiliate Programs
I’m happy to announce that my application to become Adobe affiliate has been approved!!!
That is, apart form Apple affiliation and Clickbooth - Make Money!, the best affiliation I have .
This Thursday Thirteen, affiliate programs:
Wednesday Widget - I like quizzes!
I’m a quiz fun! Yes, I am. From time to time I like to take tests and quizzes, just to shake up my head. If we amuse our brains every day we should never get senile or unable to learn. It’s just a question of exercise.
So, for today I got this great widget from my friend’s blog exquizzme.com. You can turn your own blog into a widget like this one too. And if you have more than one web site/blog you can use it wisely.
Monday Money: Smorty Statistics
This one will be a short post.
Why?
Because it’s dedicated to the Smorty affiliate statistics, and if you are the affiliate of the Smorty, you know why.
Affiliate statistics on Smorty look like:
- Referral Reports:
- Last 2 Weeks – Total: $0
Very informative, hm? :)
So, that’s it for today. Stay tuned.
Web site buttons. Friday Freeware!
This Friday I’m offering for a free download four web site buttons for your blog/web site: “Advertise here for 30$ a month”, “Advertise here for 25$ a month”, “Advertise here for 20$ a month” and “Advertise here for 15$ a month” for you to choose. They are in 125×125pix.
Hey, hey! The things are going, and they are going well!
The only thing I’m not happy about is AJ, because that isn’t my style. Also, they want me to spend a 120 to get a 60?! Well, you know. I don’t like it. Just please tell me: you need to spend more money. Don’t tell that something is free ‘cos it’s not. You know: it’s all about a sleazy marketing wordings and I turned out to be the sucker. My mistake. I can’t blame none.
I have many new things to do and that’s my experience that I will never repeat again.
Enjoy! It’s a Friday!
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Please ignore the black corners, the edges are actually transparent. Just click on the image to see what it will look like on your blog!
Wednesday Widget - Things I want
This is my list named “Things I want” from boxedup: now you know what I want for my birthday :) and I’ll keep you posted with my new wishes!
What about Smorty?
I’m not sure whether it’s me or …?
Well, I’ve tried to work it out with Affiliate Junktion, but those guys just keep on sending me the same emails this week. I just hope that I didn’t lose my money! Because I already payed them. I’m not sure I like this situation. The guys behind the affiliate junktion review and moneyfrom-net.com posted some good words about them (on my last post regarding the AJ), so I’ll not rush into conclusion. But than again: I am not sure if these guys are not the Affiliate Junktion guys just making some promo for themselves.
I don’t know what to think about all that “affiliate” and “make money online” things I’m doing now. Sometimes I just hate the Internet!
Next “fishy” thing is smorty.com.
Smorty.com wants you to write an article of between 150 and 400 words. Not so easy when a broad theme comes in (like mine about the shopping cart software, whos service I really liked). Then, you have to publish that article on your blog - and guess what - wait for 5 days for them to review and eventually approve it. Hm, interesting. 5 days. On my graphics-illustrations blog it means that more than 3000 people already saw that post. Google took that post into account when weighing the value of their site, and guess what: no matter if your article good or bad, stupid or clever, after five days of sitting on your blog it can be refused without any explanation. Click. Done. Like that. Gone by the wind.
Not sure it was worthwhile. Not at all. Let’s see what happens next.
Monday Money Statistic - Commission junction
Five days ago I started with “commission junction” affiliate program.
I was fascinated with the options that were offered: so many Advertisers to choose from! I remember them since late nineties, when I was young and fresh to Internet. Those days I didn’t think it will last, but luckily I was wrong. :)
So, after getting the account there I applied to few advertisers, some of them declined me immediately without explanation:
“Your application has been declined by this advertiser for one or more reasons. If you have a question please contact the advertiser through advertisers detail page within the account manager.”
Well, I didn’t find anything on the detail page, maybe I should contact the advertiser directly? Yes, but I don’t have a time for that.
Here are my affiliate statistics for the first five days in business:
- I created 19 links from 12 advertisers and posted them on 3 blogs
- Total number of impressions are 1,581
- Total number of clicks are 5
- Sales? None!
It looks like my visitors likes shopping at shop.com (ratio impressions:clicks is 4:2), then “eBags Outlet“, WhiteSmoke English & Grammar Lessons and WhiteSmoke’s Shopping Cart.
Smorty pays you to blog!
Yeeee! I’m happy to announce that I’m authorized to write for smorty.com!
Now why is this so cool?
Because, my dear reader, if you want to write for smorty.com you better have a damn good blog! And, when I say good I’m talkin’ 25 criteria parameters that need to met before they even talk to you. Needles to say, that I met ‘em all (with my graphics-illustrations). One by one. Hello criteria! How are you … 25 times …
Anyways, enough showing off. Time to do some real writing. I’ve got several subjects to pick from, so I’ll just take one and make a damn good article about it.
smorty.com pays you to blog!
Wednesday Widget - Countdown
Birthday countdown (badge) - now you can’t say you forgot :)
Jippy - countdowns and reminders, Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries…
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