I got a really interesting email today promoting a new contextual program that combines the power of pay-per-click ads and affiliate programs together. It is call CONTEXTCASH. I'm going to paste some interesting info from their site below: (or you can click on my signature if you want to go directly to the site) Simply put, ContextCASH is a dynamic linking tool that generates affiliate links within the content on your site, on the fly, as it loads up in the user's browser. However, these are not ads or promotional links. These are keywords or keyphrases within any web page you publish that are automatically converted into links for you — without any extra effort on your part! (You can either use the keywords we provide, or customize it by specifying the keywords you want.) In other words, the software populates your content with affiliate links the moment users visit your website. ContextCASH looks for keywords and dynamically transforms them into affiliate links that are already embedded with your Clickbank ID, Amazon ID or any other affiliate link from any program you choose. You can use it on a content site, a blog, a forum, a site that publishes public domain materials, RSS-fed content, an article archive, you name it! If someone clicks on any link, they are redirected to the sales page of the product for which you're an affiliate that's associated with that specific keyword. And if they buy, you earn a commission! You can use it to monetize any website, whether you publish public domain content, ezines, blogs, forums, articles, transcripts, autoresponders, podcasts, even ebooks you bought with master resell rights that are just gathering dust... And more! If you ever wanted to make (more) money but without the need for programming, copywriting or creating a product of your own, ... this product may be for you. Good Luck and I'll let you know how it works for me! Frank
Yes, they this isn't...a really cheap shoddy adnetwork used this. It picks up keywords and turns them into links.
It sounds like an interesting script that will really work. You should see good results if what it says the script provides is true. Hopefully, though, the keywords generated are understandable such as "Free Video Games" instead of "Games fun nothing" etc etc...
i've been looking around further and found another tool that does the same thing. (http://www.kontera.com/tour.asp) This type of advertsing seems like it might actually work. Whether it has a decent ROI I don't know. Has anyone been using this type of advertisng I would be interested to know how well/poor it works? Thanks Frank
bah I really wanted to sign up but then you gota pay 97$ initial signup and 30 or so every month after three months. Sucks, tribal fusion does this for you if you recieve enough traffic. I love this kind of keyword linking advertising, any other of these? thanks
I was just looking at this and it's ACTUALLY a pretty interesting model that COULD be very lucrative. It's different I think than people are viewing it. If you use Tribal or Kontera or even Adsense you are getting paid per impression or click and you ONLY get a % of whatever the ad company makes. With ContextCash you add your OWN affiliate programs that you promote through CB or CJ or whatever and you keep the full commission. So you are getting paid CPA plus keep the full amount. You pay for using the software or service because it auto adds links. Plus you get to pick your own keywords. I didn't get it at 1st either until I saw it in action on Shawn Collins site today. When I saw the links and the way they were set up I was curious to see how he was doing that and saw ContextCAsh in his source code, then remembered him talking about it before. CHECK THIS OUT! http://www.affiliatetip.com/blog/archives/monetizing_blogs_though_affiliate_programs.html Ok some cool things to point out. 1) Mouse over the Adsense link - it's automatically cloaked. 2) I assumed the link to Adsense went to Adsense. It does not. Shawn set it up to go to Joel Comms "Adsense Secrets" affiliate program. Anyone who clicks the link and signs up Shawn makes comm. 3) Same thing with all the other links. If a merchant is curious about Shareasale and clicks the link - he gets cookied and if the merchant signs up even later Shawn makes $100! 4) Once you set up your affiliate prog links and KW and paste the code everything is automatic. So the way I see it it's an automatic way to place ads. You can use someone elses ad service like Kontera and only get a % per click. Or you can use affiliate programs, use your own time and energy to manually place all the links in all the right places within your content (time is $) or you can use their service keep all the comm but pay a monthly service fee. You pay to play one way or another. I think this is a very interesting model.
I thought so too 5star! I think that content rich sites will do well with this model. I am not too sure about others. Thanks for pointing out shawn's site. Can you ask Shawn if this is working for him? thanks Frank
About having to pay for ContextCash -- it is a script and service, not a program. It is simply a means to make your current programs more profitable. You can use your one account across multiple sites/blogs Also, you choose the keywords yourself - and you can even choose the products that those keywords are linked to. OR you can let the program choose the current top selling products related to those keywords (they have a team on staff staying on top of which products convert best in each category, etc)... so this will automatically update your links to promote the best-selling item (even if it just came out yesterday and you havent heard of it yet yourself). That's worth something! Too, you can put in ANY url - not just an affiliate link - so you can also use ContextCash to promote your own websites. For example, I have a large content-based website on Internet Marketing... and I often mention "passive income" throughout the site. I can use the CC program to make any instance of "passive income" hyperlinked to my new site: passiveincomeguide.com Immediate links & promotion of my new site throughout my established site - instead of going through it all manually! I really like that feature...
I think this would be great for MFA's and low earning content sites. But if you've got a site with regular visitors, I think this would aggravate them until they didn't even want to return. It is a great idea, though. I just think that most web surfers are to fickle for that inside of the actual content.
I use infolinks personally but its pretty good for me, $5 eCPM on avg from just infolinks atleast on my sites. I havnt tried kontera or vibrant yet
I think ContextCash could do well, I recall Google doing something similar but moved its CPA network to selected only