Move Over AdSense, I’m Taking Exit39!
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 at 9:24 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer
Sometimes I’m glad I read the news. And today, I’m glad I read a small post on the 5 Star Affiliate Program blog. Here’s why…
While trying to find a new template for my blog today, I lost the coding for the Google AdSense ads that were in my sidebar. This got me to thinking, why do I have those ads on there anyway?
The answer, because this month I made 70 cents by having them there. OK, so 70 cents is better than nothing, and I made that money because people left through an ad that they found interesting.
However, if you’re NOT running a site that is set up to specifically make money with AdSense ads, you might want to rethink your Marketing strategy. How else could these people leave your blog or website?
They might have left through a link that was listed on your blogroll and ended up buying something from one of the companies you represent as an affiliate? Certainly that commission would be more than 70 cents! I digress. The only reason I bring this up is because so many people tout Google AdSense as the greatest way to make money. It’s never been that way for me; I really don’t make much on any of my sites with those ads. But now there’s a new kid in town. It’s called Exit39 – it’s what I read about today.
If Exit39 works the way it says it does, you can replace your Google AdSense ads with rotating datafeed ads in the sidebar or footer of your website or blog. If you’ve worked with datafeeds before, you know that when an affiliate uses a datafeed, it is coded with their affiliate number. You won’t get paid pennies for a click; you’ll get paid dollars for a sale!
The cool thing about Exit39 is the rotation. You could conceivably load up a bunch of products from the datafeed into your sidebar, and every page view would pull up a new set of products. That means that while people are surfing your site, they will see different products on each page.
There are a limited number of companies participating in the program right now, but this looks like very good news for affiliate marketers. I’ll give it a try and let you know how it works.
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