Automatic Affiliate Links to Millions of Products With New Innovation
Some of you may know about Skimlinks, a cool tool for bloggers and publishers that want to spend their time on content and don’t want to (or know how to) work as hard on the monetization side of things. If you are a publisher that doesn’t want to deal with joining and logging into multiple networks to find, create and maintain lots of different affiliate links, this may be something you want to take a look at. Skimlinks makes it easy and automatic to add affiliate links to content. You don’t have to join any affiliate networks and Skimlinks does most of the work for you, for a percentage of the commissions.
Check out examples of blog posts using Skimlinks to see how it looks.
Skimlinks just launched SkimKit a new editorial research tool. The free desktop app is available to Skimlinks publishers and aggregates millions of products, coupons and news from more than 7,500 merchants. It even incorporates a URL shortener that allows you to create shortened, monetized URLs from your desktop to help extend your reach to Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social media. Here’s part of the launch announcement from their blog.
*Advertising Disclosure Policy*Our latest innovation is unleashed
SkimKit is set to revolutionise the linking process for content creators; by allowing you to search for affiliate-enabled products, with one click access to deeplinks, and image URLs. It works a bit like a search-engine product search; except every item in the SkimKit can earn you commissions if you decide to feature it in your content.
There are a bunch of other cools features in SkimKit too: like the merchant search, which lets you browse the entire Skimlinks’ network of merchants, or search for specific brands, and My Starred List, which allows you bookmark products to export directly into your CMS or XML.
SkimKit is also home to Skimlinks’ own brand URL shortener, which trims down your product links, and monetises them too. That means you can still earn commissions anywhere you can’t use Skimlinks; like on Twitter, Facebook, or within emails and newsletters.
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#1 Joe Stepniewski wrote on March 8, 2010 :
Hi Linda,
Thanks for the kind words! We’re really excited about the launch of Skimkit, which we think will tempt more affiliates to use our service.
Our publishers were asking us the question: “Skimlinks is cool, but how do I know what to link to? e.g. if I am writing a piece on my kitchen accessories blog about Italian designer kettles under $200, which merchant/product do I link to to earn affiliate commissions via Skimlinks?”
So we aggregated thousands of merchant product feeds to provide a searchable index of ‘affiliatizable’ products in a nice desktop tool, which can filter by price/merchant, so you’ll know you can link to Alessi kettles at Bloomingdales.com and earn an affiliate commission (instead of linking to them at Barneys.com where you can’t earn a commission). We even show conversion rates in Skimkit, so if Bloomingdales and Neiman Marcus are stocking the same product you’ll immediately know which one to link to.
The idea is that you focus on writing great content, while the Skimkit tool helps you to link to relevant products quickly and easily, both a time-saver and value-add to your content.
We’d be really interested in any feedback from affiliates on ideas that will make Skimkit useful for you. We’ve already got some new additions coming up to help spice up your content, so I’d recommend checking it out!
Joe
Co-Founder, Skimlinks
#2 Linda Buquet wrote on March 8, 2010 :
Hey Joe,
You’re very welcome! Always happy to spread good news about tools that can help affiliates. Thanks for stopping by with more info.
#3 Automatic affiliate links to millions of products with new innovation | press wrote on March 10, 2010 :
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#4 Sylvia wrote on June 24, 2010 :
Wow, this seems very interesting. For those that earn money online, affiliate losses are likely one major frustration they experience. Personally, I don’t make a lot of money online, although I do use affiliate marketing to make some money. I will experience up to 150 clicks to an affiliate site with no sort of reimbursement. This company seems to be addressing the issue head on. About time someone does!