Linking Referral Services

What is a Linking Referral Service or Linking Service?

A Linking Service is a website that offers the option to convert your external links (the traffic that's leaving your website or blog) into a new URL that pays whenever a user clicks it.

How is that achieved?

Monetising links is achieved by showing adverts. These adverts generally come in one of two forms, intermission adverts or banner adverts with intermission (full screen) adverts generally paying roughly double what banner adverts do.

Where can I post these links?

Forums, blogs, social networking sites, your own website or anywhere else you can think of. Just be sure that your not breaking any rules if you are posing them on someone else blog or forum. The majority of sites have no problems with users posting these links.

How do I know which type is right for me?

The easiest way to know is to test, try some of both and see how your users react. Do you see a decrease in people users clicking one type of link but not the other? Do you see a big difference in revenue generated by each type? I generally prefer the intermission adverts as once the user has arrived at their new page they are no longer affected by any adverts. How much of a difference a banner advert makes to the appearance of any webpage will also vary from site to site and page to page. Play around see what works!

Do these services cost anything?

No, all the linking services listed on this blog are totally free to join and use.

I have loads of links on my website/blog, do I have to convert each one?

No. Each linking service offers it's own way of converting large numbers of links or all the links for an entire blog into monetised links. Each one of these will be discussed individually, although they are generally very easy to use.

Do you have a favourite one of these services?

Yes. My favourite is Linkbee but that may not be the one that's best for you.

I think I'm ready to give this a go. Where do I start?

Read up! Or click here, here or here.