Skimlinks

I originally started out researching Mashable which is the self proclaimed world's largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. It was difficult to discover exactly how they make money besides the obvious banners around the perimeter of the content. I decided to search a broader topic rather then focus on a specific site and I discovered Skimlinks. Skimlinks is an affil­i­ate mar­ket­ing ser­vice aimed at pub­lish­ers that want to make money from their shop­ping rec­om­men­da­tions. So what is traditional affiliated marketing? Basically it is getting paid a commission for driving traffic to a retail site through blogged content or links. The CEO and founder of skimlinks explains in the video posted below exactly the services they provide to authors and the video gives some good insights on how people go about making money through blogs and or networks.

What is interesting to me is that there are services now that actually target people trying to make money from blogs and other types of sites. I think the video below explains the process pretty well.

Skimlinks: Revenue through recommendations from JD Lasica on Vimeo.