A discussion of earning with the Best Affiliate Programs, SEO, Wordpress Blogging and General Motivational Ideas for Internet Publishers and Affiliate Marketers.

It’s no secret that the credit card niche has always been one of the most lucrative yet most competitive niches for affiliate marketers. The only problem lies in finding legitimate credit card offers to promote. CJ, PepperJam, Linkshare and the rest have few if any credit card offers in their program list. The few they do have require an affiliate manager’s approval which can be difficult if you don’t have a proven history. So what is a potential affiliate to do?

I’ve been successfully using CardOffers.com for almost two years now and the platform has been very solid, their publisher support is unprecedented and best of all, it’s free to sign up. You don’t even need a website to get started and you can earn up to $40 per approved credit card or $20 for each referred friend who is approved. Here’s an example blog post about prepaid credit cards that has CardOffers affiliate embedded in the post.

CardOffers.com has credit card offerings from Discover, Citi, American Express, MBNA, MetaBank and more. They go out of their way to make sure affiliates have the widest array of tools for promotion. Here’s a screenshot of the content delivery formats…

Included are Templates, Search Forms, Spreadsheets, Javascript code, search forms, XML and just about any other format you can think of to deliver the correct and up-to-date marketing data. Sub-tracking is enabled for affiliates to view the performance of specific ad-campaigns they may have running or to further analyze where approvals are generated from within a site. If you’re only interested in displaying specific credit cards to your visitors and only require the advertising links, and not any content delivery formats, then you can obtain raw links that can be placed directly on your site.

If you’ve been looking for a good credit card affiliate program, check out CardOffers FAQ and see what they have to offer.

If you’re ready to signup click Here To Join CardOffers.com

         

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LinkXL is one of the newest solutions for webmasters and bloggers to monetize the content on their blog or website by selling automatically placed inline text links. LinkXL takes a novel approach to buying and selling text links in that the advertising links are targeted to relevant keywords on a particular site and not just a floating link on a blog’s sidebar or a website’s footer such as with TLA or TNX.

LinkXL’s techniques are more like Kontera ContentLink, Adbrite inline ads or Chitika inline ads in that LinkXL delivers text link advertisting within existing content on your site or blog. All of this is accomplished using a fully automated system that distributes links based completely on a publishers preferences and settings.

If you’re a webmaster who is concerned with Google’s crackdown on buying and selling text advertising links, LinkXL has a soluton for you that won’t anger the Google gods because publishers have the option of choosing to have links tagged as nofollow. The nofollow option is what makes LinkXL a truly contextual advertising system as opposed to another link selling for pagerank scenario.

The Basics for Publishers

LinkXL seems to have a very innovative system for the automated placement of links. The publisher is allowed complete control of pricing of links based on Google pagerank and publishers can choose whether links are followed or nofollowed (see image below).

After you’ve added your site in the step above, you’re prompted to add filters for your website to tell the LinkXL engine which pages in your site you will be indexing in the sstem for link placement. The filters allow wildcards, so for example, you could only sell links on your forum or blog by using a filter such as /blog/* or /forum/* and links will only be placed in those directories.

Add Hot Keywords for Increased Earnings
In addition to being able to set your own pricing, publishers can also set “hot keywords”. Each “Hot” keyword is priced as a percentage of the current rate for that page. For example, if a “Hot” keyword is set to 200%, its price will be twice the normal rate. Also note that this pricing will apply for every instance of the keyword(s) in your web site.

Automatically Filter Unwanted Advertsiers
One of the more unique aspects of LinkXL is the ability for a publisher to ban advertisers, categories or ketywords in respect to the links that will be sold on their site. This way a publisher can assure that links to bad neighborhoods such as casinos, adult content, dating sites or other unwanted niches are not placed on your blog or site.

LinkXL Software Installation
Flexibility is a great concern with most publisher programs and LinkXL hascovered this base by allowing you to choose either the PHP or CGI version of their software for installation on your site. They even supply a Wordpress plugin version for those of us using the popular CMS software who do not want to edit source code files and prefer the simplicity of a plugin.

The Downside - Software Uses IonCube Encryption
Every system has it’s pros and cons, LinkXL is no different. While everything else works perfectly fins, the only downside I could find is that LinkXL requires that you install IonCube PHP encryption software on your server or website. While IonCube is a well known and trusted mechanism for encoding and encrypting PHP scripts (like Zend encoder) for commercial distribution, I don’t like the fact that it eats up over 8MB of disk space for each site you’ll be adding in the system. For a publisher such as myself with over 100 websites, that’s a significant amount of disk space chunked up for LinkXL to distribute encrypted uneditable code.

Outside of the one small issue with LinkXL using IonCube encoding, everything else with LinkXL looks very well thought out and it seems to be a very robust, flexible solution for both publishers and advertisers alike. Don’t take my word for it though, check it out for yourself by visiting LinkXL and taking a test drive of the system.

         

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This affiliate program virtually sells itself and it has great rewards for publishers who turn business their way. The T-Shirt’s are hilarious and the affiliate tracking is top notch which makes this program quite lucrative if you have banner space on a site that caters to people who are into off-beat humor. It’s a perfect fit for any type of site in the niche or popular music, tattoos and piercings, alternative lifestyle or any other kind of website where primarily teen to young adult might visit. Once your visitor clicks through, you’re almost guaranteed a sale.

1. Webmasters get $4 for each T-Shirt sold from their affiliate link
2. You can earn $1 for each T-Shirt one of your referrals sells
3. US Publishers are paid by check, non-US publishers are paid by Paypal

To Signup for the Affiliate Program, click this banner

To check out the T-Shirts they have for sale, click this banner…

         

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TNX.net is a relatively new program that pools advertisers and publishers to aggregate advertising links into publisher’s websites. With TNX.net, you’ll be able to sell advertising links on every page of your website, instead of just the main page. The more pages you have indexed by the system, the more money you will make. When you add the TNX code to your website and submit it to the system, a spider will go out and index all of the pages on your website and disperse ads across the pages. Each time an ad is place and viewd on your site, you earn TNX points which can be redeemed for advertising in the system or for cash value. The current value of TNX points is .70USD for 1000 points. It doesn’t take very long to build up thousands of points if you have a site with a lot of pages that has reasonable activity. The best part about this program is that you earn residual income withouthaving to do anything more than login to your account and sell your TNX points back t the system. Payment are made in Paypal and usually are funded within 72 hours.

From their site, here is a description of their service…

TNX.net combines the benefits of Contextual Advertising, Text Link Brokers and Relevant Exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links. You’ll be able to sell links on every page of your website, instead of just the main page. Automatically sell links to thousands of advertisers. Receive payouts every month in advance, via PayPal, Check, Wire, or any other applicable payment method. Our system is Secure and Confidential: No public list of users. All sales are automated.

While it’s a well-known fact that Google has been cracking down on buying and selling text links, many of these affiliate programs are still bustling with business. Possibly the main reason is many webmasters are choosing to ignore Google’s guidelines and manage their own websites the way they want to manage them, not the way that Google tells them to manage them. Essentially, it’s fostering a community that is no longer dependent upon Google PageRank and placement in Google search. For many webmasters who have no rankings and are merely looking at text links as an advertising medium, or for webmasters who are unaware of Matt Cutts and his grandstanding on using the “nofollow” tag on advertising, the answer is quite clear, that bloggers and webmasters alike are growing tired of being dominated by sponsored listings, black hat SEO’s and the Google Dance.

With TNX.net, we’ve found them particularly useful to monetize forums. Hand in hand with Kontera Content-Link, TNX.net can add value for most forum owners becuse the text links are easy to slip into a forum context and are virtually undetectable from normal content.

For publishers interested in buying advertising links in the TNX system, you can automatically place millions of non-reciprocal links to your site and your links will be placed on relevant pages (of which you’ll be able to choose it’s quantity and quality). Additinally, SEO specialists and consultants get discounts up to 50%.

If you’re interested in joining this program, click the banner below to sign up.

Happy Publishing,
Dave

         

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