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Has anyone checked out Viglinks?  Apparently, the way they work is as a go-between for affiliate programs.  They have the account with the affiliate programs, then they automatically crawl your site and convert the links to sites with affiliate programs and change them into affiliate links which they then credit you with.  If anyone had any experience with auctionads, it's a very similar idea, but on a much larger scale.  I'm currently testing them out, but only had it live for a day or two.

They do take a 25% cut, which sucks, but is pretty standard.  The upside to that is that with the weight of all of the sites on the service, there are some (like Amazon) who pay a much higher percentage of the sale based on volume, so the volume should bump up the cut on the sales enough to more than make up for it. 

Also, there is some talk of there being the possibility of them being able to get around the location issue with some affiliate programs like Amazon.  Not sure if they can, but there was talk about it.

If you want to check it out, it might be worth your time. 

I have an affiliate link for them (they'll pay me 10% of your first years revenue if you sign up under me), which is this link:

http://www.viglink.com/?vgref=15898

If, for whatever reason, you don't want to go through the affiliate link and just want to go straight to the site, use this link:

http://www.viglink.com

Sounds promising.  I'm using very little advertising space right now, but this might be useful down the road.  Thanks for the link brotha!

Interesting idea!  Does it slow down your site?  They are probably doing this via javascript… 

Thanks for sharing, I'll check it out.

I'd be interested to see how this works out as well.  I'm thinking that with a 25% cut it might just be better to pay someone to add links to all your older posts by searching through Wordpress for all of your related posts.  That way you have at least some control over what gets linked and what doesn't, and you save 25% in the process.  

My biased scale of link annoyance:

Kontera (whatever it is) that pops up when you bring your cursor within 1/4th of an inch of any of their in-content ads.

In-content links to tag pages…can't stand that. (Don't know why.  Maybe because if you can't link one relevant post from the current post, then what benefit does the reader get out of a link to 40 completely unrelated posts?)

In-content links to a post/blog homepage for keyword that doesn't offer some context for the link, or is unrelated to the present article.  For example: a blog post about how you love Diet Coke (or whatever) with one or many "diet coke" links to an article about how you can save $1.00 on Coke products with some coupon a year ago.  

Buy Like Buffett said:

I have been using Viglink since January. It's a pretty good system.

Would you mind sharing if you've made much off of using them or not?

JT_McGee said:

I'd be interested to see how this works out as well.  I'm thinking that with a 25% cut it might just be better to pay someone to add links to all your older posts by searching through Wordpress for all of your related posts.  That way you have at least some control over what gets linked and what doesn't, and you save 25% in the process.  

 

My biased scale of link annoyance:

Kontera (whatever it is) that pops up when you bring your cursor within 1/4th of an inch of any of their in-content ads.

In-content links to tag pages…can't stand that. (Don't know why.  Maybe because if you can't link one relevant post from the current post, then what benefit does the reader get out of a link to 40 completely unrelated posts?)

In-content links to a post/blog homepage for keyword that doesn't offer some context for the link, or is unrelated to the present article.  For example: a blog post about how you love Diet Coke (or whatever) with one or many "diet coke" links to an article about how you can save $1.00 on Coke products with some coupon a year ago.  

I think the bonus here is that they have relationships with multiple affiliate networks, which means that instead of having to find, apply for, and get accepted to all of them, you only need to sign up with viglinks.  Maybe that makes it worth the 25%, maybe it doesn't, but, it's one of the reasons that I decided to give them a try.

Buy Like Buffett, JT and Beating Broke – would love to hear more about your experiences in terms of customer service, quality of affiliates delivered, revenue potential as well as impact on site speed

I haven't heard of them, but thanks for the info! Might be something worth looking into.

Wojo said:

I've used Viglink for about 3 months. For my "main" affiliate programs, I sign up directly so I get 100%, but VigLink is nice for all those other "miscellaneous" links on my site that I might not have time to get to, but could be affiliated.

Have you seen any income from it at all?