Rory Hansen

The other day, I mentioned BlogRush, which is a new service that hopes to drive more traffic to your page through a multi-level blog advertising widget.

Another new service that is gaining a lot of publicity as of late is DealDotCom. Unlike BlogRush, whose goal is to increase your website traffic, DealDotCom is a pretty typical affiliate program, that will hopefully let you use some of that new traffic to make an extra buck or two. What makes DealDotCom attractive are two things:

1. First of all, their affiliate program pays out at 35% for tier-1 referrals. Tier-2 referrals pay out at 15%, which is still decent.
2. Secondly, the products they sell are generally of interest to other bloggers, especially those hoping to make the leap from blogger to “pro-blogger”.

Just take a look at some of their recent deals:

• BayRSS 2.0 – Affiliate Plugin for Wordpress (Sold for $22.87) - A Wordpress plugin which allows you to “outsource” the creation of content to other authors, and share revenue with the content creators.
• Product Blueprint (Sold for $7.95) – An eBook and 30 minute video which explain how to find profitable markets fast and what to charge for products in these profitable market spaces.
• WPAffiliatePro – Marketed as the “Ultimate Wordpress Affiliate Solution”, this is a Wordpress plug-in which allows you to better manage affiliate links and understand how your links are doing.
• Long Tail Traffic Secrets (Sold for $39) - Another eBook, this one talking about blogs, podcasting, and social networking and how you can cash in on these forms of media. Provides expert’s secrets and tips to get top search engine rankings.

I just signed up for the DealDotCom affiliate program, to see if I can get a piece of this 35% pie. Heck, who knows, maybe I’ll actually even buy one of the advertised products at some point. I almost bit at WPAffiliatePro, based on some of the feedback that JohnChowDotCom had given the plug-in.

Like what I plan on doing with BlogRush, I will keep you posted with the results.