BlogVertise is another service which allows users (bloggers) to get paid for mentioning a website or service on their blog. This practice is popular with some bloggers as it is a means for them to be paid for things they would be doing normally. I believe the popularity with this method is the advertisement feels like a honest referral from someone who has something to say about the site or service. It’s becoming rather popular among advertisers and has become rather profitable with bloggers.
As usual blogs need to be approved before they are accepted into the service. New blogs (less than 30 days old) or those with little content (not certain what constitutes little content) can be accepted at a reduced rate of commission. This is in contrast with some services which will not accept new sites or sites with little content. Blogs which feature adult content are not eligible for using this service.
On a positive note, it appears that BlogVertise does allow sites which are hosted with a free blogger service to participate meaning that you can get started using this service without having to spend any money on domain names, hosting, or what not. Just write out your thoughts and you are on your way.
Payouts from this service range between $4 - $25. When a blog is on probationary state (Less than 30 days or little content) the payout caps at $2.00 per assignment. One thing that is nice to this service is after completing 5 or more assignments, bloggers can request to be on an increased pay scale, which I am assuming would cause them to get a higher rev share of the profits. While we are not in a position to give details of what this requires. We are assuming this will result in a need to use Blogvertise only as a means of providing advertising on the site. We are lead to believe this as it is common practice amoungst other advertisers with these types of services.
Payments are made monthly through Paypal. They do not offer any other payment delivery methods at this time, so this leaves any bloggers outside of the range of Paypal, or those without a Paypal account unable to use this service.
Linkshare is another mega affiliate sales site. They actively seek out new advertisers, and offer hundreds of different advertisers and products to the publishers. They have some of the biggest names in the industry such as ITunes, Macy’s, TigerDirect, and others.
They hold back one month of payment, but have a minimum payout of $1.00. This is direct contrast from other mega-affiliate sites holding a minimum payment of $25.00 or higher.
As usual publisher’s need to be approved before they can start advertising products. The terms and conditions of the service are in line with other affiliate sites offering the same line of service. If click fraud or other malicious acts (spamming, typo squatting, etc) are found the user / site will be banned, and profits will be forfieted.
WidgetBucks is a in content or sidebar based advertising box which delivers advertisements on a CPC or CPM basis for the monetizement of a publishers site. The payout using Widgetbucks is comparitively higher than other CPM systems occasionally seeing $6.00 CPM.
WidgetBucks has a collection of different skins available and also has a DIY skin system in place apparently which allows publishers to match the color scheme and feel of a site as to not draw too much attention away from the content, or my all time favorite, have a completely different off the wall colored advertisement section with a very normal looking site. Yes this draws attention to the ad, but makes the site seem less professional.
They do review every site which is submitted to Widgetbucks, and have a number of things which a site or publisher can be banned for, most commonly of which is Spam blogging, adult content, “hacks or warez”, copyright infringement, and hate related content.
Feedburner was a service used to deliver feeds to multiple streams across the internet. They also had an optional advertising system in place allowing publishers to monetize their feed traffic. This advertising was in a CPM basis, which at the time has a decent revenue share.
In 2007, the Feedburner service was bought by Google. They adjusted some of the more popular API’s which were previously premium services and made them free. However they did adjust the advertising concent, it is still CPM, but you can also use your Adsense information into the feeds as well. While Google does not make available what the revenue share is, I have heard it is in line with what Feedburner used to offer prior to the Google acquisition.
Its a solid service for promotion, and advertising isn’t half bad. It’s run by Google, so if you are trying to consolidate your income streams and you are using Adsense as well, this is one way to monetize without adding another series of logins and passwords.
Azoogle offers affiliate marketing solutions for publishers. In business since 2000, they represent many Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies in their online advertising spending.
As a side effect of being in business for this amount of time and having this level of clients, Azoogle is rather picky when it comes to qualifying as a publisher. All sites are screened prior to being accepted and all information is verified via a telephone call to the site owner. If the owner is unable to be reached, the application is denied.
On a positive note the payouts are done twice a month, which is better than monthly like many other advertising services are accustomed to doing.
We unfortunately did not qualify for Azoogles standards so the information I can give you on their system is limited at this time. Perhaps if Azoogle would answer an email I sent them I could give you more information. Alternately if anyone out there is using Azoogle, shoot me an email so I can ask you a few questions.. Publishers want to know!!!!