We’re currently working with the people over at Skimlinks to help spread the word about their very clever affiliates service. I’m a big fan of Skimlinks (and can’t say enough nice things about Alicia Navarro, their CEO) and I like the simplicity of what they do. We used them when I was at Shiny, adding their code to our site so that any outbound links to merchants would automatically be converted into affiliate links.
Not only did it save us having to make individual deals with the affiliate companies, it also saved our writers having to go to the trouble of inserting affiliate links into posts. Not to mention the fact that writers could get on with their jobs without having their editorial independence compromised — after all, most of the time they were unaware if the site they were linking would convert into an affiliate link or not.
So when Alicia approached Miramus about helping to pimp them out to the web community, we were more than happy to get involved. Stay tuned for more – we’ll be announcing an excellent blogger event very shortly!
