5 new blog monetization programs opened in March
March 2007 was a great month for small online earners/publishers, if we are talking about blog monetization opportunities.
5 new blog monetization programs opened for them and they are not from some third tier ad networks offering to test some shady monetization schemes. All of them come from well known players in the industry and look really promising:
Chitika RPU ad units came out of limited beta and are now available to all Chitika publishers. I have been using Chitika RPU since January and it almost doubled my blog income overnight. If you look at my earnings results for Chitika this year, I would say that 70-80% of income was generated by just this one ad unit.
Auction ads is a program owned by ShoeMoney and MediaWhiz Holdings, the company behind Text Link Ads and ReviewMe. Auction ads is a CPA program that serves the ads for various eBay auctions to your blog. You enter the keywords for which you want to have auctions displayed, or even make ads contextual and get paid when someone registers for EBay service or completes an auction.
Kontera is pretty well known program that inserts inline text links into your blog post text. When user mouses over the link, a small box with ad appears and if user clicks on it, you get paid. So far the program was closed for publishers with less then 500K+ pageviews a month, but John Chow has arranged to accept any publisher with good content, regardless of his traffic. I wrote more about Kontera John Chow Partnership here.
Amazon Context Links Beta. In appearance, this program is very similar to inline text links from Kontera - you add some Java script from Amazon and it makes certain keywords on your blog into links to Amazon product database. The only difference here is that you get paid affiliate commission only if someone buys something. I wrote more about Amazon Context Links Beta here.
Shopzilla Publisher Program allows you to display sponsored shopping content from them on your blog. They even help you make this content contextual. It’s is a CPC program, but you don’t get paid when someone clicks on and ad on your blog. After clicking on that ad, your reader is taken to Shopzilla site and you get paid only if he clicks on a paid merchant listing on their site.
I haven’t yet a chance to thoroughly test most of these programs, but I already signed up for all of them and will report here about the results. So be sure to check back.
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