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Also, you should check them out, too. They’ll appreciate your interest!

(edited to correct URL mistakes)

Affiliate Programs are a venerable aspect of online money making, none more so than Amazon.com’s own program. Recently, John Chow reported on why he wasn’t an Amazon.com affiliate (most likely, because he runs his own affiliate program, called TTZMedia) saying that he thought the products were non-exclusive, low rates of commission, etc..

It reminded me that I had joined Amazon.com affiliate’s program yonks ago. I think I got $22 or so. Not bad, but I didn’t take a check for the amount. Instead, I used it for books and videos. I took a look at the recent stats, I had earned a grand total of $1.36 since January. I hadn’t done anything to earn that money, except place the code on a few sites, about a century ago.

So I’m now trying to add the code to this website, to see what happens. Since I added the old code, there are a few more options, such as Omakase. Affiliates writes:

Omakase – leave it up to us! Omakase links will show an Associate’s visitors what they’re most likely to buy based on Amazon’s unique understanding of the site, the user, and the page itself. To create Omakase links, simply modify the template and appearance elements below and copy the resulting code on to your page. Then leave the rest to Omakase!

This will create dynamic links for your product ads, though you can choose general categories as well. I selected out Personal, Sports, etc., though I included books, video, and so on. This image shows the general options, including banner size, but there’s an advanced options feature that allows selection of categories.

Despite John’s criticisms, I still think Amazon can be helpful for blogs that don’t have other Affiliate programs going, or if you want to include book products. It’ll give you a chance to get a feel for affiliate programs, but soon you’ll be wanting to earn more!

I recently signed up with theNewsRoom to earn a little dosh, and to provide a little relevant news via the video that they have on the website. In fact, I’ve placed a couple of stories, already.

However, at the time I wrote the story, there was no monetization system in place. Just yesterday, I received this good news!

myRevenue Is Here!

We know many of you hamyRevenueve been waiting for this moment. myRevenue is here! Now you will be able to keep track of your earnings. After logging in to TheNewsRoom click the myRevenue tab in the left hand column. This will take you to the myRevenue section which shows you up to date earnings information. Keep checking back to this space because PayPal as well as other updates will be available soon.

As you can see from the jpeg below, it’s really working. I’ve earned the grand total of 1c. I’m now making plans on how to spend that money, but it’s quite difficult! (Woops! That’s not my jpeg! But it will do.)

You can earn money in four ways, both directly and indirectly. But it’s the referrals that should interest us as the power to generate additional revenue begs comparison with Agloco and some of the other multi-level schemes. I don’t know of anyone who’s been paid, yet.

But this stream of revenue could be quite lucrative when combined with Adsense and Paid posts. So for certain kinds of blogs, it would be well worth adding some of the videos! Well worth considering, and I’m sure anybody can do better than my 1c.