Well, I took the plunge. After having many discussions with Captain Squid, reading countless webpages on affiliate marketing, searching through threads in the forum, I decided to take the plunge and sign up with PepperJam Networks. There were several reasons for me to think in this direction:
- My Squidoo pages do okay, but I haven’t had more than 2 in the Top Tier at the end of the month at once. Granted, I have fewer than 50 published lenses right now, but even still, the percentage earning top dollar is small. And you know things will only get more competitive.
- Sometimes, I wonder if my Amazon modules will really bring me that much money. I mean, everyone I know goes straight to Amazon to get stuff, or at least, to look for stuff. I want to be able to bring another place to shop for my visitors. Maybe stores that are more specialized.
- The lensrank hysteria really took me by surprise. And during that, the Captain said one clever thing: you can reduce your dependence on lensrank for payouts if you have other sources of payout. Like Affiliate Marketing. Hmmm.
- I was thinking between PepperJam and Commission Junction. In the end, though, I checked out the PepperJam partners on its blog and was glad to find more than just the eBook or dating companies as advertisers. Once I saw that BBC signed on, I decided to go for it. BBC is more my style than any kind of get-rich-quick or dating services company.
Now, I’m just waiting to hear back. Hope they don’t reject me!
On blog spam: I have recently been getting a ridiculous amount of spam comments on this blog. My question is, is there a difference between marking them Spam vs. just deleting them? I was hoping that one way would block that email address, but apparently, neither way has worked. I’m getting some 80 spam comments every 2-3 days.
