Looking forward to Shoemaker’s show on webmasterradio.fm this week about monetizing forums and social networking sites. I’ve dabbled with adsense and some affiliate stuff on forums but never really explored it fully. From what I’ve read on DP, forums can be a tricky way to earn much money unless you run a huge one.

Quite possibly the first of all the affiliate programs, Amazon has recently come to my attention again. In recent times a lot of people have been displaying Google Adsense to generate revenue from their website, but it looks as if Amazon are making a comeback. It could be down to their excellent ad units that are easily generated now. When I first set up an affiliate account with Amazon a few years back, it was a pain to put together the affiliate links, but now it is positively child’s play. Enter a search term and Amazon will generate a set of direct product links in a variety of different sizes. Because it is not contextual advertising you can also run Amazon and Adsense on the same page. So if you’ve got any website related to anything that Amazon do, take a look. I’m off to set it up on a couple of my sites. Amazon Associates.