Of course, this comes with some caveats. Merchants will only pay affiliates for qualified AND legitimate leads. That means that the person you refer not only has to completely fill out the entire form with real data, the lead has to qualify for the Merchant’s service. For example, sending a Michigan-based mortgage provider a lead from Russia isn’t going to get you any cash. That said, it is still much easier to get visitors to fill out a form than to buy something online so, in most cases, pre-selling and converting large numbers of visitors is easier. Of course, because the people you refer aren’t buying anything, the payout for leads are often less than standard affiliate sales percentage, but not always. It’s common to see larger commission numbers in industries like insurance and mortgage loans where the lead means big money for the service provider - keep that in mind when hunting for these types of affiliate programs.
A good place to start looking for affiliate programs with the most lucrative pay-per-lead programs are at larger affiliate networks like Commission Junction and Linkshare, but be on the look out for affiliate programs run right off the merchant’s website. Those are the gems. Also try a quick google search for specific terms like “mortgage lead affiliate program”. You can bet that if there are good pay-per-lead programs on the larger networks that there’ll be a lot of affiliate competition around those programs, so taking the time to find programs that aren’t heavily publicized could pay large dividends in time, effort and income later on.
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]]>Although I only flipped the switch and released this blog to the search engines a few weeks ago (January 12th to be exact), I have a road map in my head of where it’s going over the next few months, and I thought that I’d take a moment to share my strategy and some thoughts with my readers, so you know what to expect over the coming months and why. Here are a few thoughts from me on planning, branding and building a new blog… (more…)
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…Trained as a family doctor, he put off medicine after discovering the riches of the Web. Since 2000 he has quietly cobbled together a portfolio of some 300,000 domains that, combined with several other ventures, generate an estimated $70 million a year in revenue…
…Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. He was one of the first to take advantage of a loophole that allows people to register a name and return it without cost after a free trial, on occasion grabbing hundreds of thousands of names in one swoop…
…Given Ham’s reach on the Web — his sites receive 30 million unique visitors a month — it’s remarkable that so few people know about him. Even in the clubby world of domainers, he’s a mystery man …
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Adsense loving bloggers take note. If you’re looking to make money blogging and you’re on the hunt for just the right Adsense Optimized Wordpress or Blogger Theme, Sensely’s newly released Adsense Optimized Theme is a must see. Although there are many free adsense optimized themes available on the web for free download, the majority of them are buggy eye-sores that ruin the user experience, and don’t really take into account the technical aspects of what really makes adsense perform. Sensely’s adsense theme package comes with a lot of extras and customizable options but it’s also got a (low-range) premium theme price tag. So why pay for this theme? Here’s a quick review of what you get for the money. (more…)
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]]>Earn 5$ Per 1000 views on Metacafe
The first site on this list is Metacafe. The site has a rewards program based on the number of times your video is viewed by visitors. There isn’t much fine print here. It’s as simple as it gets. The more your videos are watched, the more you get paid. Under their current program, you’ll earn $5 for every 1000 times your video is viewed. There’s only one catch. Similar to a lot of affiliate programs and Google’s Adsense program, you don’t get paid until you hit the $100 minimum payment threshold (approximately 20,000 views). While it might seem an insurmountable hurdle, any YouTube video fan knows that 20,000 isn’t that hard to do if your video catches on. Good quick videos can be incredibly viral and a low budget video shot on a home camera can generate millions of views over its lifetime. Take this video of Freddie “the YYZ Guitar Hero” on YouTube, for example. Since October 2006, the video’s been viewed on YouTube over 5 MILLION times. In a profit-sharing program like Metacafe’s, this video would have earned….ummm…carry the two…… $25,000 to date (and counting).
Hold on, we’re not moving on just yet. There’s more. If you have a website but don’t have any videos of your own you’ll be able to get in on the action pretty soon. Metacafe is about to launch an affiliate program for publishers where you can easily embed videos into your website or blog (YouTube style) and get paid based on the number of views. It hasn’t been officially launched yet, but you can check it out on their affiliate page.
My Top For-Profit Pick: Revver
Revver, although similar, has a slightly different revenue model to Metacafe. In my opinion, this could be A LOT more lucrative than Metacafe’s basic per-view program because Revver’s publishing tools make videos 10 times more viral. Here’s how it works… Users still earn money based on the number of views a video gets. However, instead of paying per view and leaving the content as-is, Revver inserts advertisements onto users’ videos and pays them a 50/50 share of the profits from those ads. The more viewers a video gets, the more money you get. Here’s where the program really gets good…when you upload a video to Revver, in addition to attaching an ad, they also attach unique tracking technology to the video. Revver ads can be served like YouTube on ANY blog or site, anywhere on the Internet. Since ads are attached to the video itself and dynamically served wherever your video travels, there’s no restriction on how your videos are distributed. The more people email your video, post it to other websites or download it from P2P networks, the more money you could earn. Consider that for a second. Now we’re talkin!
One last thing on Revver - For Bloggers and other Wordpress users, Revver’s got their own plugin for video publishing within posts and sidebars. How…ahem…convenient.
Beating Google To the Punch: Flixya’s Embedded Adsense Ads
This one’s worth mentioning for historical purposes, but I think it’ll probably be phased out soon. Flixya is a lot like Revver in that is shares ad revenues on a 50/50 basis with its users. However, instead of using their own ads, Flixya uses Google Adsense to serve ads into video pages. Although they beat Google’s recent adsense-for-video program (fed by YouTube) to market, Google’s Adsense for video program is now available free to all adsense publishers as of a few months ago (which you can see in the right sidebar of this site). Publishers under Google’s adsense for video lets you keep 100% of the click revenue and it works seemlessly with Adsense serving related content in classic Google style, so I don’t see Flixya being a real player in the for-profit video sharing arena for very long. I thought I’d acknowledge it though. ;-).
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Finally someone came up with a solution to monetize Feedburner Feeds outside of Feedburner’s Ad network. Feedburner’s internal ad network kept a lot of smaller blogs out of the game by requiring a minimum traffic count, so this should generate a good buzz with small blog owners. When Feedburner announced it’s up-coming integration with Adsense a few months ago and then didn’t offer its publishers a way to actually deliver Adsense ads within the feeds themselves, a lot of people were disappointed. I definitely was, especially because the solution that they did offer when it was finally released just embeded Adsense ads within your posts on your blog, which only takes a simple do-it-yourself quick fix at the bottom of your singlepost.php file. This morning, Bidvertiser Announced 3 distinct solutions to this problem and they should do really well with them. All of them allow you to keep your current feeds and feed counts. Here they are.
- For Wordpress users that DONT use Feedburner, the new Bidvertiser Wordpress Plugin allows you to seamlessly embed the Bidvertiser Ads in your feeds. You can download the plugin from your publisher account.
- For Feedburner user, there’s a solution that allows you to embed the Bidvertiser Ads in your current Feedburner address, without having to change more that the original feed field. Click here to find out how.
- Here’s the feed solution for Blogger/Blogspot users.
If you’re new to Bidvertiser and you’d like to start monetizing your feeds with PPC ads, you can get started by signing up for your free account here.