Comments on: Passive Website Income

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:58:35 +0000

I’ve been using Commission Junction and Share-a-Sale on my site (techtraction) along with the ad rotator plugin for my banner ad. I hand picked ads and services I “thought” would my audience.

Up to now I’ve been very unsuccessful but that probably has mostly to do with my site’s low traffic numbers. On the other hand, I’ve placed very specific ads from both of those services on my kids blog and they have been fairly successful. I should point out, however, that they were successful because they used their blog as a way to communicate their birthday wish list to other family members, which were items from the ads on their site. Therefore based on my limited experience and success, I’d say that using these services to create a “shopping” type site should be fairly successful.

By: stark

stark — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:04:57 +0000

That’s an interesting idea linking to affiliates from yahoo answers. I find to make a good amount of money from Affiliate links you really need a targetted website to whatever you are trying to sell. Users in the majority of cases aren’t just going to see a banner, then click it and pull out the credit card.

I think to really have success with it, a person needs to setup a site that proves to a user why the product is worth their money. You can do that in a blog, but I bet it would be minimal, unless the product dealt with making money online or something like that.

That is quite a big commission though on sales. Would definitely be profitable to figure out a working formula for affiliate success

By: Quotes Maniac

Quotes Maniac — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:15:16 +0000

I had some luck with Commission Junction but it wasn’t for long. A day after signing up, I had my first sale – the commission was for $99 . Boy! I was so happy .. I thought I could be rich.

I simply answer questions at Yahoo Answers and simply show them the best product to solve their problems. The link goes to my pages which in turn link them to the seller’s site.

The sad thing is the company pull off from CJ just after I got a few more sales. I managed to sell only 3 products for a total of $199.50 and that was the end of my CJ cheque.

After that, I pulled out because the product is very niche ( only 1-2 companies are using affiliate to sell it).

That was my affiliate story.

By: Agloco

Agloco — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:29:41 +0000

I enjoyed reading your blog. I’ve bookmarked your blog.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:49:51 +0000

My fondness for CJ has really taken a dive since they merged with BeFree, but I still would rather chew on tinfoil than use the websites of affiliate networks like LinkShare. What a nightmare. At least CJ’s interface is still really easy to use. It’s all I can do to figure out anything at LinkShare.

My only experience with AzoogleAds is that they approved me, I never got the email, and now they won’t send me my password without my Affiliate ID, which I don’t have since I never got the approval email. Now they tell me my only option is to re-register completely, even though they won’t release my shanepike username.

Oh, well. I guess the point of all this is that I definitely would start with CJ and then expand into the other networks as you need other advertisers and/or more specific types of offers.