Do any affiliates use skimlinks.com?

Until you posted this thread, I had never seen or heard of this website before. It definitely isn't one that is being heavily discussed on the forum...unless they are all talking about it behind my back.

After examing the site for myself, I wouldn't use it. I wasn't able to verify the awards that they supposedly won and their little stat counter at the bottom of the page is more than likely fake. No thank you.

It's a slick program and I like it. Simply test it the earnings to your existing links and see which is more profitable.

Apparently, Joe, a lot is going on behind your back

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Never heard of it but it looks very interesting.

I've never heard of the site but will be checking it out soon!

Thanks for the responses so far.

I'm surprised that more CA affiliates that got cut a few weeks ago aren't talking about Skimlinks here! Instead they're talking about incorporating in other states.

I mean, why do that if we can just use this service?

Personally I've used 123LinkIt and prefer them. Skimlinks is pretty much the same, but 123LinkIt keeps less of a commission.

Im using skimlinks along with linkshare. they are working well together

I think more might know about it if they kept up my couple posts about it. But because I made the mistake of promoting it through affiliate links they banned me for a bit and took the posts down. Sorry about that I'm new to the forum and IM in general and am a bit to overexcited about some things. I personally haven't had to use it yet because my state is till letting us do business as usual but have heard good things from some ppl who have used it. I do promote it though because the give out referral commisions. :-)

I use skimlinks but is there a way to find out what product you are selling? All I see is the quantity sold. Not what is sold.

i am using Viglink.

>> If I right click and copy the link before the page loads I am still getting the "natural" address, not the redirect.

He is talking about timing matters.

He is not talking about the link will never be modified into affiliate link.

Ive never had "first-hand" experience with it ye but Skimlinks has gotten mostly positive feedback.Those who work with the program, say that it can be helpful. It can save time and effort, and to many people that’s worth the outsourcing cost.

The only problem I am having is I use the plugin on a Wordpress site and it will highlight the word sony when I want it to go to a model of sony. I tried contacting them but haven't got a response. Can someone please help if you found a way to directly link to a product. I have some specific Amazon products I want to link to but not sure how, right now I have their search widget on my site and I'm having them search for the product hah. But that will definitely drop my conversion rate, cuz it's just easier to click a link than search.

How does the skimlinks approval process work?

Hello,

I'm going to try their service on my sites and see what happens.Will let everyone know.

Thx

Hi CopyAcolyte - I got your PM, but I can't reply as I'm new to the forum. Can you email your questions to supportATskimlinksDOTcom?

Thanks!
Hannah

traffic amount stay similar ?

hello,

Sounds not familiar, I'm looking forward for it.

Thanks..

I had similar problems with Skimlinks where my Amazon links were just not getting affiliated. That, on top of the requirement to apply for each of your sites, nudged me over to Viglink and I haven't looked back.

Viglink also has a cool disclosure badge you can add to your page that helps you meet the FTC disclosure requirements. You can see an example at my sites in my sig (I have the badges in the footer). It's really easy to set up, if you are having problems adding it to your Wordpress or Blogger blog, let me know and I'll try to help.

Wow, I've never heard of viglinks or skimlinks. Very cool concept if it turns out they are actually legit. I'll have to give them more of a look tomorrow, but sounds promising!

I have no idea why anyone would ever want to use a service that takes 25% revenue off the top for something you can more easily do yourself. Especially for Amazon, there is almost no case where you would make more money using Skimlinks rather than your own links. Is this marketed toward people that are completely clueless?

I realize it's an option for Amazon affiliates who had the program shut down in their home state, but it seems as though there are far better options than something that seems like it gives you a minimum of 15% less revenue; even more, if you regularly hit higher pay brackets than 7%.

I guess I should have worded that better, but I'd intended to separate "clueless people" from people using it because they got banned from Amazon. I clearly didn't mean to call people in your situation clueless, so I apologize if it came across that way.

This service was around before California got hit, and isn't specifically marketed toward those people, as far as I know. That is why I can't understand why people would voluntarily use it if they don't have to. At best, you're losing money; the 6% bracket on Amazon is so low that everyone will hit it. Yes, it's better than not being able to promote Amazon at all, but I cannot understand why someone who can promote Amazon themselves without a middle man would ever opt to use this service. That's why I said only clueless people would use this voluntarily, unless they're something I'm missing here that isn't apparent from reading the FAQ on the site. :confused:

I'll admit that I don't know much about the U.S. Nexus laws, but I recall seeing at least one thread here from someone talking about how they'd gotten their Amazon account reinstated by opening a business in another state. That's what I meant by "better options."

>> I'm in the process of changing all my links to Vig, looking forward to seeing the stats.

I am not using skimlinks, so i cannot compare between the two.

But Viglink is really helpful, no complain.

And i can send "add merchant" request to them,
and they will try to add my suggestion.

How does this website work ?

Hi there,
I applied for both of them for my sites and prepare a comparison table for their services. You can better to read and choose best one for yourself.
The Comparison of VigLink vs SkimLinks Affiliate Networks
Thanks.
Erdem

regarding Transction Fee

as a non-US paypal user receiving fund, i never need to pay any fee for receiving money, unless the company/person try to pay you money via "direct credit card transfer".

Do you mean skimlink send money to you via direct credit card payment/transfer ?

I haven't tried using skimlinks.com but I've heard a lot of good reviews so I think that this would be worth a try, I'm checking it too if it would suit my preference.

EUA

your paypal account is a business account or personal account ?

personal account can receive fund free of charge except receiving credit card payment

It's personal. I said but repeatin again, I don't receive any payment yet but this info write at SkimLink page. I asked about this warnign to CEO Alicia and She answered, they don't pay the paypal fees for other than UK-US. I will inspect this when my first payment reached to me. Also SkimLink will remove this issue at this month, after I will change that page :-)

I was invited to use the skimlinks a few months back one of my busy forums and I was unsure at first, however, after enabling it on my forum I making quite good money, what surprises me so much is that I have never seen a link on my forum.

So I don't think it retracts from the user experience nor does it take away from any other commissions on the site, so I'm quite happy with them.

In fact, I'm more than happy with them

Hi CopyAcolyte,

I have a large number of sites WP mage, Thin sites and a few Googlesniper sites after giving S'links a trial I moved 50% of my sites over from epn mainly due to the volatile nature of epn. The data from my trials showed me I was not losing any clicks and and had an alternative to epn if I should receive the dreaded epn email.


The only negative (for now) is that I pay them a comission, but hey thats life


Regards
Jack

This skimlinks is awesome although it looks like some wordpress plugins that do the same thing only this one has a lot more spunk in it.

I noticed a large difference in clicks that were reported through Skimlinks and what Statcounter was showing. After emailing support, they said that "we don't monetize links with affiliate tags in them by default."
So, if you previously had an Amazon Aff ID in your links and it is still there, Skimlinks will just ignore that click. That isn't going to work well if you can't earn from Amazon anymore.

I am using WPZon and want to continue, but apparently you must have an Affiliate ID in order for the plugin to work. Anyone have any ideas how to get around this? Does Viglink ignore Amazon links with aff tags in them? Is there a different Amazon plugin that will work w/o an Associate ID?

I heard that from lots of source, their click counts (and income also) is much more different using their own scripts. If your site earns much from amazon or ebay, you would better to code your own script with amazon/ebay override disabled at viglink/skimlink services. I will update the comparison of affiliate networks (you can look from my signature) page soon. I heard VigLink start to create links from text too... It's also good to include 123linkit services into my review. Wish, they start to support link affiliates soon.

Skimlinks is legit. It is owned/run by Alicea and there are many articles out there about her and the company. A lot of people use it to:

1. promote affiliate offers that they have been rejected for themselves
2. promote Amazon when Amazon was banned in your state
3. ease of use

That said, they do take a 25% chunk of your earnings.
So the question is would you pay 25% of your earnings in order to effectively have them manage your affiliate links on your site.

I use them for one site where I have links going to 100's of different advertisers because it would be a nightmare for me to try to manage this myself and I'm willing to sacrifice the 25% for the time it saves me. On sites where I am only promoting a handful or less of affiliate programs I do not use Skimlinks because I'm not willing to pay them the 25% cut on those sites.