Pay Per Lead: Better than Adsense?
Pay Per Lead is when you refer sales lead to a merchant. In the world of the internet, this means sending the customer to the merchant’s web site.
Pay per lead is another way that affiliate programs pay out. Instead of getting paid for every click, the publisher-website owner gets paid by the merchant anytime a site visitor fills out a form and performs an action that does not require him to purchase anything.
Usually it is the email address that is what the merchant is after, because he now has a direct line to a potential customer and can work on closing a sale, without having to pay any more commissions.
This is a fantastic way for webmasters-publishers to make money (we are talking about you here) because it is easier to get a site visitor to submit his email address to get a free gift, free offer or free information than getting him to submit his credit card details and click the BUY button, right? Read more
Shopping Ads: A Waste of Time and Space
For the past month, I have been displaying ShoppingAds on my website. They were on Beta testing so I could understand if the system had bugs in it. It promised to be much like AuctionAds. In fact, it looked like auction ads, except that the come on was that this was to be a CPC program (cost per click), much like Adsense with images of the items for sale with prices, too! The invitation to join the program came from Text Link Ads and I was given an invitation code.
