Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
I'm not sure how many of you are aware of a thing called Skimlinks
It does a couple of things the first we have had running for a little while now...
If you click on a link to a product on one of some 18000 shop sites and buy that product RPF gets a little cut!
This has been broadly unsuccessful for us... I think in the last year we have earned about £50 ... As you can imagine that doesnt really pay for the time that is taken out of my normal working day keeping this place running!
The second is something that we are going to give a go, Skimwords
Its basically a thing that turns some of the text on websites into links ... usually when products or shops are mentioned
Its that thing that almost unanimously gets on people nerves ...
Unfortunately with google adds earning me in the region of £6 a month we are going to try something else
This is not a permanent fixture I dont think ... I want to experiment with it for a little while to see how well it can work ...
But also more importantly I want to see just how annoying it is for all of you ...
I dont want to annoy anyone!
I have set it up so it can be switched off for logged in users ill report back when i find out where the off switch is!
It also goes fairly heavily against my ideas of using this place to support smaller businesses as it tends to be bigger companies that are part of the affiliate networks!
Rest assured that this all makes me feel a little uncomfortable, but it is just something I think I need to see how well it can work before I rule it out completely
your thoughts would be good!
It does a couple of things the first we have had running for a little while now...
If you click on a link to a product on one of some 18000 shop sites and buy that product RPF gets a little cut!
This has been broadly unsuccessful for us... I think in the last year we have earned about £50 ... As you can imagine that doesnt really pay for the time that is taken out of my normal working day keeping this place running!
The second is something that we are going to give a go, Skimwords
Its basically a thing that turns some of the text on websites into links ... usually when products or shops are mentioned
Its that thing that almost unanimously gets on people nerves ...
Unfortunately with google adds earning me in the region of £6 a month we are going to try something else
This is not a permanent fixture I dont think ... I want to experiment with it for a little while to see how well it can work ...
But also more importantly I want to see just how annoying it is for all of you ...
I dont want to annoy anyone!
I have set it up so it can be switched off for logged in users ill report back when i find out where the off switch is!
It also goes fairly heavily against my ideas of using this place to support smaller businesses as it tends to be bigger companies that are part of the affiliate networks!
Rest assured that this all makes me feel a little uncomfortable, but it is just something I think I need to see how well it can work before I rule it out completely
your thoughts would be good!
