Paid links with linkbucks and linkbee

Following on from my previous post on linkbee and linkbucks options for monetizing your links here are some working examples of the different types of links you can create. Use these to preview what a link would be like for someone clicking on it. As mentioned previously these should be used with some caution to avoid annoying and alienating your hard won traffic.

Linkbee

Intersitial Link. This acts a brief commercial between the transition of your link.

Banner. This will display a banner at the top of the destination page for your link.

There is also the option with Linkbee to use the service as a simple url shortener with no advertising element.

Linkbucks

Linkbucks offer a few more options.

Intersitial Link. This acts a brief commercial between the transition of your link.

Banner. This will display a banner at the top of the destination page for your link.

Pop up. This shows a pop advertisment before the destination site.

Linkbucks also have the option to use the service purely for url shortening with no ads. There is also a choice of alternative alias domains to use in your links instead of linkbucks.com which could be useful especially if any are appropriate to the destination content you're linking to.

If you really want to go to town with this monetized linking linkbucks also have options to automatically covert whole pages either through a form on their site to get a reworked version of your HTML or with a script you add to your code that will convert your links to paid links on the fly. Both options allow you to exclude some links you don't want converted. Again you'd want to give a lot of thought to how you might use this. With a lot of traffic it could be quite lucrative but if you've got some serious sustained traffic exposing your visitors to too much paid linking probably isn't a good idea. If you can drive a decent volume of traffic for a short campaign this could work well especially for monetizing those that click away from your offer.