Skimlinks: A Super Amazon Alternative

Do you live in a State affected by the affiliate nexus tax? Wondering how to replace your Amazon commissions? You should take a look at Skimlinks.

Based in the U.K., Skimlinks is a technology service that helps affiliates monetize their blog content by converting normal product links from over 15,500 merchants across 27 affiliate networks (including Amazon) into Skimlinks affiliate links so you can earn a commission every time a purchase is made.

BTW, there are currently 308 merchants listed under the book & magazines category at Skimlinks, including:

• Amazon (.com, .uk, .de, .ca and more)
• Barnes & Noble
• Biblio
• Alibris
• Borders
• eBooks.com

What is interesting is that they list the average commission rate through Amazon.com at 8%.

Getting started with Skimlinks

The setup is super simple.

You just add the javascipt code above the tag on your blog. Then you place deep-links to merchant products within your content and Skimlinks converts them on-the-fly. Links that can not be converted into affiliate links will send visitors to the URL as set.

Moreover, Skimlinks only works on natural links, so you don't have to worry about the Skimlinks' code overwriting existing affiliate links.

Too, you can choose to let the links work on a site-wide basis, or on selected pages only — it's up to you.

In addition to their basic links, they offer Skimwords, which recognizes product references in editorial and user-generated content, and automatically turns these into shopping links that can generate commissions.

Basic affiliate commissions are 75% of what the merchant pays Skimlinks.

More than 700,000 publishers are currently using the service on their websites.

And the service is getting even better. Skimlinks announced today that it had acquired content monetization firm Atma Links and will merge the Atma Links technology with its own affiliate marketing platform to offer its publishers and partners the first real-time in-text product identification and price comparison service.

Watch the video below for an overview of the service, then signup for Skimlinks!

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