Recommended Money-makers

The following is a list of all the ad networks and affiliate programs I use to make money online.
They were chosen from this exhaustive list of 130 ad networks. I have used all the following
networks at one time or another and can highly recommend them. They have proven to provide
good service/support and most importantly, on time payments.

Kontera ContentLink

Kontera ContentLink allows you to make money from advertising without giving up any current
advertising spots. Their technology reads your post and turns certain words into an ad. The
highlighted words are double underline and an ad pops up when you hover over it. Normally
Kontera requires a site have a minimum 500,000 page views per month before being accepted
into the program. However, I have a partnership with Kontera that will allow smaller blogs to use
their ContentLink service.

Fill out the application and enter “John Chow Kontera partnership” into the Comments field. The
application is sent to my personal account representative. He will approve you based on your
blog content and not your traffic level. This is a great way to use a service that is normally only
available to high traffic sites.

Sign up for Kontera

Text Link Ads

Text Link Ads is one of my favorite ad networks. They help me make money online by selling
those text links you see under “Featured Sites.” The links offer advertisers traffic and search
engine benefits and readers don’t seem to mind them at all because they are not intrusive. Your
link price is set by Text Link Ads and is based on Alexa, Google PageRank, number of RSS
subscribers, and other factors.

Sign up for Text Link Ads

Google AdSense

If you don’t know what Google AdSense is then you’ve been living under a rock. This is pretty
much a must have if you want to make money from a blog. Google display simple text and
image ads on your blog that are targeted to what you’re writing about. Google has been a
consistent money maker for my blog.

Sign up for AdSense.

Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser is a CPC ad network that competes with Google AdSense. It main advantage over
AdSense is its low $10 payout. You only need to make $10 in order to be paid. Big publishers
wouldn’t care about this but for many small blogs that are still waiting to hit that magic $100
Google payout level, getting pay at a lower level is quite attractive.

Sign up for Bidvertiser

AuctionAds

AuctionAds is one big eBay affiliate. What AuctionAds does is put all their publishers into one
big “collective” to go after the higher revenue share. Publishers can leverage AuctionAds’
creative delivery of eBay’s auctions and AuctionAds’ ability to achieve the higher performance
incentive tiers with the aggregate volume of traffic to make more money than they could with
their own eBay affiliate relationship. Right now, affiliates will get 100% of any money they
make from the system. As the collective moves up the eBay revenue share tiers, AuctionAds will
start to take a cut of revenues. The goal is for you to make more with AuctionAds than directly
with eBay’s affiliate program, which will be the case as the network increases its volume.

Sign up for AuctionAds

ReviewMe

ReviewMe is my blog’s biggest money maker, accounting for $4,500 of the $11,702.66 April
income. ReviewMe allows advertisers to buy sponsored reviews on your blog. Review prices are
based on your blog’s Alexa, Technorati and estimated RSS numbers. Publishers can set their
own pricing if they don’t like the price ReviewMe set. Reviews can be positive or negative. The
only requirement is the post must be at least 200 words long.

Sign up for ReviewMe

TTZ Media

This is my own ad network. It’s ideal for technology and shopping related sites. TTZ Media
provides product based ads that are trigger by keywords. The ads show products that are based
on the keywords entered and a list of online stores where the products can be purchased. A
reader clicking on the product will be taken to the store offering the product for sale. Money is
generated with a CPC model. A reader need only click on the banner and visit the advertiser in
order for the site to make money. The reader does not have to purchase the product from the
advertiser. CPC rates are based on product categories and number of clicks the affiliate can
generate. Our tech/review site based affiliates realize eCPM as high as $12.

http://www.ttzmedia.com/

FeedBurner Ad Network

FeedBurner provides CPM ads for both site and RSS feeds. The CPM rate can be get as high as
$10 and publishers get 70% of the money. However, the fill rate is pretty low. If you’re looking
to monetize your RSS feed, then FeedBurner is probably the best of the RSS ad networks. To
join the FeedBurner Ad Network, you must first have FeedBurner power your RSS feed.

Google recently bought FeedBurner for $100 million cash. You should expect to see AdSense
ads in FeedBurner feeds very soon.

Sign up for Feedburner

Deal Dot Com

Deal Dot Com offers a two-tier affiliate program. When you refer others to DealDotCom and
they get a free account, they are marked in the system as having been referred by you. Anything
that they buy will nets you a 35% commission. Unlike other affiliate programs that place a time
limit your your commission (like AuctionAds’ 5% for 6 months), the DealDotCom commission
is forever. That’s right, forever. It doesn’t matter if they buy something tomorrow, next week, or
fifty years from now - you’re going to get paid. What’s more, anyone that they refer to
DealDotCom goes on your second tier. Anything people on your second tier buy nets you a 15%
commission, forever.

Sign up for DealDotCom