Monetize Those 404 Error Pages by Adding Affiliate Links
I was just reading Shawn Collins’ blog and he mentioned an idea I had never thought of, but it’s a good one. Monetize those 404 error pages by adding affiliate links. This is a great idea too for bloggers that don’t want to put affiliate links in their main content. This blog entry also has some good tips for monetizing unused domains.
“I’ve frequently encouraged affiliates to make use of their 404 error pages by serving up some relevant affiliate links to capitalize on the traffic that accidentally hits those pages.”
Read the rest, then come talk about it.
Affiliates Making Money Off Parked Domains.
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#1 davebriggs.net » Performancing’s BLog Improvements wrote on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006:
[...] Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not found”? Even better for you, do you provide handy links to your top content, a search form and some adsense ads? It is surprising the difference just this small thing can make to your blogs usefulness and bottom line! [...]
#2 blog.IT » Quick and easy blog improvement tips wrote on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006:
[...] One of my favorite blogs – Performancing, has a quick and easy blog improvements post which does of you who do run a blog should check out, even though most of the suggestions are pretty much common sense such as adding 404 error pages, providing multiple RSS feeds, Take off nofollow link, Show your most popular or best posts, Provide comment feeds or email subscriptions. Additionally, the Performancing offer a great WYSIWYG blog editor in the form of a Firefox extension. [...]
#3 Quick and Easy Blog Improvements : Performancing wrote on Wednesday, January 18th, 2006:
[...] Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not found”? Even better for you, do you provide handy links to your top content, a search form and some adsense ads? It is surprising the difference just this small thing can make to your blogs usefulness and bottom line! [...]