The interesting news on this blog is that I have finally sold the last of my five Text Link Ads on the right hand sidebar. This came as quite a surprise, given that my blog is only PR3, but the traffic is so much better than 3 months ago, that it really benefits advertisers!

So, I’d personally like to thank Patrick Gavin for allowing me this wonderful chance to earn some money! It really has helped me a lot.

Actually, Patrick Gavin is running a July special. It’s a good idea to take advantage of this. Here’s his email:

Hello Kenneth, I hope you are having a great summer. The inventory of niche websites have been growing fast I wanted to extend to you a special discount. Save 15% on all NEW orders for the rest of July! Just enter:

july

into the coupon code at checkout and you will save 15% off your order for the life of the order. Thanks again for your interest in Text Link Ads. We are excited about the growth of our inventory and the results reported back from our advertisers. If you are ready for an ad that can drive traffic and help your natural search engine rankings head on over to TLA now. Thanks again!

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Patrick Gavin
President
http://www.Text-Link-Ads.com
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So, if you’re interested in advertising with text links, this is one good deal!

We’ve got a new customer who’s just purchased a link on our right hand side! Let’s welcome Student Credit Cards who aim to help students and would-be students by providing rates, fees and comparisons, as well as by finding the best credit cards for students. So, do check the website out. You’ll find lots of good information there!

Here are our other advertisers courtesy of Text-Link-Ads:

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!