Affilate program for every website - Matched.

There is a new advertising option for monetizing your web site or blog. Company called Matched.

Generally for publishers program is based on fix rates paid monthly. There are not special requirements about page rank or number of visitors. You receive £3 per page. One domain can have up to 5 pages with banners. Number of domains is limited, up to 5.

It makes £3 x 5 x 5 = £ 75

If you sign up right now you can receive additional bonus £5. Registration is very easy and takes you around 3 minutes (sign-up here). Then your account is activated and Matched starts to search relevant ads for your sites.

Payment is done either to UK bank account or via PayPal. Here is the prove of the payment.

UPDATE 20.11.2008

Here is the extract from the email which I have received today from MATCHED

MATCHED HAS CLOSED==================It is with much regret that we announce that Matched.co.uk has closed.Matched has been running as a beta experiment for some time and, after much careful consideration, it has been decided not to progress the project to the next stage.As a result, Matched will not be accepting new sign-ups and will no longer be assigning adverts to its current publisher base.If you completed your last payment run before November 19th 2008, you will still be paid, but please note that no future payments will be made after this. Therefore, we recommend that you remove any Matched ads from your websites.Thank you very much for being part of the Matched.co.uk experience and we wish you the best of luck for the future success of your websites.

Get more traffic with related posts.

I was already posting my tips for getting more traffic to you blog. You should follow these tips especially if your blog is fresh and want to get indexed by search engines.

Today I would like to add one more tip how to get more visitor to your web site. I found out it with my financial blog StockWeb. Recently I submitted blog to new service provided by Wikinvest. Wikinvest is kind of Wikipedia focused on investing and world of finance. They launched new service which is linking of related sites though widgets. displayed at the end of related blog posts. Widgets themselves look nice and are fully customized with web site design.

Back to my traffic increase tips. I have noticed significant traffic growth since "related posts" widgets are running. One benefit is exchanging really targeted visitors as they are coming for related content. And next is positive impact on your ranking for search results. Widgets contain direct link to 3rd party pages and therefore you are getting backlinks, your Technorati Authority is increased etc. And this has positive impact on number of visitors coming from Google, Yahoo...

Of course Wikinvest is not for everybody as it concerns finance blogs but If you google "related posts widgets" you will definitely find other providers.

I just want to highlight, If you want traffic increase start with cross sites linking through related posts.

Blog Income report - September.

Another month is over and here is regular monthly income report from my blogging. You remember I set my target to earn $600. Unfortunately I haven't reached this amount and as you can see below total income was around $350. Not bad but it is already second month with declining income.

Forbes blog network is the best surprise. I started to generate solid income again with sold impressions around 25%. Also direct sales are improving. The biggest income sources like INO and Adsense are with weak performance this month.

For October I am setting lower target, $500.


Google Adsense $74.37 ($87.57)
RevResponse $0.50 ($2.10)
INO $195.35 ($285.93)
Forbes Blogs Network $4.21 ($0.82)
Direct sales $74.5 ($42.5)

Total $348.93 ($418.92)

Blog income report - August.

New month begins and we have here latest earnings report from my blogging. As usual in brackets you can see income from previous month for particular program. This month was not very good as shown from earnings statistics. There are two factors why I haven't reached targets. First, I had been posting significantly less. Second, August is usually weak in terms of visitors due to holidays. It is especially seen for finance related sites.

Bad month for Adsense which generated half of the July's earnings.

Rebound for RevResponse, I want to focus more on this program. As the product is very attractive because they offer free stuff (magazines, newsletters). I want to try different ways of promotion for RevResponse.

INO still continue to be number one but with half of July's earnings. I have already referred program to some fellow bloggers and referral INO's earnings reached $6.50 this month.

As I mentioned last time I replaced Forbes Blogs Network ads. Replace is not the right word. I filled in INO HTML codes in Adify account for unsold inventories. So whenever Forbes ads are not available banners will show automatically INO ads.

Generally I am not very happy with my August performance and therefore I decided to set targets. September I want to end it up at least with $600.


Google Adsense $87.57 ($163)
RevResponse $2.10 ($1.26)
INO $285.93 ($574)
Forbes Blogs Network $0.82 ($1.19)
Direct sales $42.5 ($42.5)

Total $418.92 ($782.31)

New start up business. Affiliate sales.

Recently I got two ideas for new start up businesses. Both are based on affiliate sales as a referral.

1.) The first one came to my mind like 1 month ago. And the business is linked with affiliate sales through EPN (Ebay Partner Network). Which is actually new program offered directly by Ebay. Up to now all affiliate programs for Ebay actions had been offered by 3rd party sites like Commission Junction or Auction Ads. And here is also showstopper. By 3rd party companies I had been accepted without any problem but Ebay refused my application to Partner Network. In fact I received automatic email right after I submit application. In email letter there was just stated "We cannot accept your application at this time".
I have browsed the issue around the web and found there is not problem for US or North America based applicants or most of European countries.

Well let's see in future if I will find the way how to get accepted. I don't want to post more details about the niche product which I would like to promote. But definetely I see this as a very profitable. It has high number of bidding and no shipping costs. If everything will go fine I promise to post more details.

2.) For the second business I can provide more details. It is about affiliate sales of flight tickets. I found Czech based server Kralovna which search for independent home based travel agents. After approval you receive access to search and sales engine for air tickets. You can either promote on your web site as a HTML code or directly refer sales with your unique affiliate number.
The whole service is for FREE. About commission, you receive CZK 380,- (around EUR 15,-) plus 5% from the price of air ticket. Fix based commission equals minimum rate for transactional charges.
As mentioned before you can offer this to you web site visitors or to your friends wishing to buy flight tickets. Good point which you can highlight is that their price will be free of transactional charges. And this makes cheaper deal for them and great business for you.