blogkitsImagine the power and ease of Adsense, combined with the greater earning potential of performance based CPA affiliate revenue. The blogosphere meets affiliate marketing in a merge of 2 worlds that could only be accomplished by a master of both. I have anxiously been waiting to announce this news.

Jim Kukral is the fearless leader and the publisher of Revenews and is a well known blogging expert. He is also the VP of Branding & Marketing at Forge Corporation a leading outsourced affiliate management company. Jim’s been a leader in the affiliate marketing industry for years. I can’t think of anyone that’s more well versed on both sides of the blogging and affiliate marketing equation than Jim. So it’s only fitting that he developed a blog ad network that is built around affiliate programs. He just sold BlogKits to Forge and I predict this will be big. Jim just let me know I can talk about it now that the news is public. Here are segments of the Press Release.

BlogKits Launches World’s First True Performance Marketing Network for Bloggers
Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document. Global performance marketing firm Forge Corporation Ltd. has acquired BlogKits Blogging Network. Launching world’s first performance marketing network built for bloggers.

(PRWEB) July 13, 2006 — The billion-dollar affiliate marketing industry has finally caught up with blogging. Forge Corporation Ltd., a global provider of performance marketing solutions, announced today it has acquired BlogKits, a blog network built to help match bloggers with advertisers.

By acquiring and developing BlogKits, Forge now has a unique stable of highly targeted blogs in our network that no other network has. Merchants can join BlogKits even if they have other existing network relationships. We’re not interested in taking business away from anyone; only bringing new business opportunities that they can’t get elsewhere.

BlogKits was acquired from Jim Kukral, business blog expert, who was also recently appointed to Forge as the VP of Branding & Marketing. He has spent the past 10 years working in the online marketing and blogging industry.

In a survey produced by BlogKits in 2005, 73% of bloggers agreed that using affiliate links on their website was an acceptable practice. The same survey concluded that the primary reason bloggers use Google Adsense is because “it’s easy” (93%).

“Bloggers want control and ease of use. They want to “place it and leave it”, said Mr. Kukral. “Which is why Google Adsense works so well for them. The reason bloggers haven’t embraced the standard affiliate networks as a viable model is because those networks don’t specifically cater any offers to bloggers. There’s too much clutter going on. Bloggers don’t want to work that hard. BlogKits eliminates that.”

“Adsense has been a revolutionary tool for bloggers, and should always stay part of a successful blog monetization strategy. BlogKit’s approach is not to recommend to replace Adsense, but to add to it without penalty. We believe there’s a lot more money to be made on a well-matched cost-per-action (CPA) offer for bloggers as opposed to a few pennies per click from Adsense.”

Adsense still holds a majority of most bloggers’ income generation, and the existing affiliate networks like Linkshare & Commission Junction have thousands of existing merchant/affiliate relationships. But they don’t have the bloggers. BlogKits does.

BlogKits is currently accepting applications for signup from bloggers into the network at http://www.blogkits.com, and is working with merchants to prepare offers for launch, which is set for some time in late summer of 2006.