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Show HN: Affililink - An automated way to monetise your site
Hi all,
This past month I have been working on Affililink, a way for blog and forum owners to monetise their site without the need to display adverts.
With a small javascript snippet, Affililink will scan all outbound links and where possible, add your affiliate code, effectively automating your affiliate scheme.
The idea came to me when I noticed a number of users post ebay links on a forum I manage. As ebay runs an affiliate scheme, I soon realised these links could help cover the running costs of the site.
I'd love to hear your feedback on this as it's my first serious project launch.
Thanks,
Dean
http://affililink.com
- makethetick 15y agoClicky: http://affililink.com http://affililink.com
- rabidonrails 15y agoI clicked the big "View Tour" button and the site returned a 404 error...might want to look into that.
- makethetick 15y agoFixed, I also missed that one, changed to 'getting started' for now. Thanks.
- nbpoole 15y agoSo, how would you compare your site with http://www.viglink.com/ http://www.viglink.com/ or http://skimlinks.com/ http://skimlinks.com/? Edit: Never mind. I posted this before checking out your site. I see that you provide the Javascript to perform the URL rewriting but require webmasters to register separately with affiliate programs. A very different model than Viglink or Skimlinks ;-)
- makethetick 15y agoTo be honest, I haven't seen these two yet. I might have to have a rethink. For now though, the MVP will require the user to sign up to individual schemes.
- mooism2 15y agoWhich affiliate schemes does it work with? http://affililink.com/how-it-works http://affililink.com/how-it-works gives a 404 error.
- makethetick 15y agoI changed the page to http://affililink.com/getting-started http://affililink.com/getting-started, must have missed that link! For now, it will work with Amazon and Ebay, I plan to add more but it's just a MVP at the moment.
- mooism2 15y ago"Step One: Create Your Campaign" What? Why? What's a campaign? Why does it need a name and a description? Why can't I just tell you my affiliate ids and get the linking script code?
- makethetick 15y agoIt's so you can manage multiple campaigns, for example, you may manage multiple forums/blogs and would like a campaign for each one. I guess it would make sense to go straight into a default campaign, giving you the option to rename it afterwards. I'll implement this for the next update.
- bmelton 15y agoYou might try renaming 'campaign' to be just 'website'.
- makethetick 15y agoI'll bear it in mind, thanks.