ScratchBackThe Fun Way To Do Online Advertising

Visit http://www.shankrila.com/ for a really good deal on a tip. It’s only $2 for a tip, and they claim to have 20k+ monthly visitors and 400 or so RSS subscribers. It’s like a tech blog with a “life” twist.

ShanKri-la is a humble attempt to disperse information about technology that can make our lives a little bit easier, a little bit enjoyable and a little bit more manageable. We live in a world where our daily lives are a blur. Monday starts with a dizzying speed and before we realize it’s the weekend and you take a moment’s break and Monday is looming at you again even before you woke up from that Sunday night’s sleep that you were yearning for all week!

You like tech blogs? Check it out then. http://techie-buzz.com/ is running the ScratchBack widget for a tip of only $5.00. Great deal, for a great blog on technology.

My aim at blogging is to spread the news about the latest technology and keep it as simple as it gets, I get some chances to review beta and alpha softwares, I tend to give information to the users about how they can use those and what are the good and bad features.

If you’re using the ScratchBack widget and you’d like to see your blog featured here. Just drop us a note!

Sphinn this story please?

Well, the cat is out of the bag. We hinted the other day that a big blog network was adopting ScratchBack. We can say it now, it’s Splashpress Media. Check out the announcement here on David’s blog (he runs their marketing).

One of the advertising systems I have enjoyed here on this blog is Scratchback. It is a system that allows readers to tip the blogger and show their link on the blog. The great thing about the system is that links are done using JavaScript which means they shouldn’t create any issues with Google like other text link systems. The other great thing is that the blogger sets the price and time.

I have used the system on this blog for a while, selling ten dollar links, but Splashpress’ prices are insane. If you want to get links on The Blog Herald, Blogging Pro or other blogs in the Splashpress Media family, here is your chance.

So head on over to some of their blogs and enjoy a super low-cost way to advertise on their huge traffic. I believe most of the widgets they put up are set to only a $5.00 tip.

Here’s a few blogs that have it going already. Go tip!

http://www.blogherald.com
http://www.bloggingpro.com
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
http://www.901am.com/
http://www.gadzooki.com/

Over at JimKukral.com, my main blog, I’ve just released my new web show called the Daily Flip. It’s a show about marketing and being an online entrepreneur and stuff like that.

I’m using ScratchBack to help monetize it, check it out here on this video. See the arrow pointing to the ScratchBack widget on the right of the video?

We believe that using ScratchBack in this manner is a viable way to make money with your video or audio podcast content. The widget on JimKukral.com is only set to $10 for a week, as a starting point. A podcaster could adjust that to anything they wanted, based upon the “value” they put on their show.

For example, if you’re getting 2,000 video views a day on your blog, you may set your widget to be a month link, and make each link be $100 or more. That’s money that you didn’t have before, and more importantly, you don’t have to embed an ad in your video.

Give it a try? Visit ScratchBack.com today to get your own widget, for free!

We’ve been conducting a little experiment over the past month or so. We wanted to see how/if tipping ScratchBack users with a direct link to an affiliate site would drive conversions and sales for a product. So here’s what we did.

Over the past month, we’ve tipped close to $200 across a few hundred ScratchBack widgets all together. Some were $1.00, some were more, and we didn’t care what type of site of blog it was we tipped. Tip: Using the ScratchBack directory is a good place to look for blogs to tip.

The site we promoted was www.buytheflip.com, which has affiliate links on it to Buy.com. The payout from Buy.com is 3% of a sale, and the typical purchase price of a Flip camera is about $150. So selling one camera earns about $4.50 in commission.

So in return for our tips, we put up links that looked like this example image below. You can see one live here.

Did it work? Yes! Here’s how the numbers crunched for us.

Tips given to promote affiliate site = $200
Sales of product through Buy.com = 62
Commission earned for sales = $279
Profit = $79

Essentially, this proves that you can use ScratchBack to drive affiliate sales, if you’re smart about it.

We’re seeing a LOT of people doing this, promoting all kinds of offers like ebooks and mastermind courses. Give it a try. Try the directory to find some good places to tip!

Are you experiencing the same kind of luck we had? Contact us because we’d love to feature your story!

We’ve sorta quietly launched our new directory, or marketplace, the other day. Check it out at www.scratchback.com/directory.

Are you a ScratchBack widget user? Feel free to add your blog or website to the free directory. Adding your site or blog allows advertisers/tippers to easily find your blog based on categories, so they can tip you.

For example, if you wanted to make some tips and a get link back on some “business” related blogs, you’d go here. Now you can see all the sites/blogs in the business category, and decide if they are something you’d like to tip on.

Remember, the directory is FREE to submit your site. Nada, zip… ZERO!

Submit today!

www.scratchback.com/directory

We can’t think of a better way to give thanks on Thanksgiving by tipping some of the users of ScratchBack for their excellent blogs.

Check out this blog post, where over 100 blogs have submitted themselves as users of the widget. You can scroll through the comments and find new blogs you like and go and tip those bloggers. Most are VERY affordable tips, and can be great exposure for your own site or affiliate link or whatever.

So to those of you in the USA. Happy Turkey. And to those of you not… Happy Thursday.

Another great series of tips from DigitalKeyto.info, this time about how to make money by tipping people who use the ScratchBack widget.

Remember, you can add your site to this post so people can find it to advertise on, or browse the comments on this post for sites to tip. We will have a directory coming soon so this will be much easier.

1. Advertise your site!

There are many good deals right now since it is new. Find a site with some traffic that still has a low ScratchBack price. If the site is set to bump, you could have a link to your site for several weeks. The trick is finding a site with traffic. Manuel Viloria was the first blogger to buy a link here to his blog.

2. Advertise your spammy site.

Actually, my first advertiser with ScratchBack was a bit on the spammy side. It is a link to a page of different home-based businesses labeled Top Work At Home. While I would not want a full link to a site like this, it is no different than an AdSense ad for a home-based-business. If you have some type of site that would normally not be indexed by Google, this is a good option for getting traffic. Always check with the owner of the page first since they may not approve your link if they do not like it and you will be out your tip.

3. Advertise a product.

Almost like the previous way to make money online with ScratchBack, this is another case where you would not normally get a link from a website or blogger. Jim Kukral (who is behind this whole ScratchBack thing) is the first one I saw using this. Think of it as running an AdWords campaign without a CPC. Jim used a link ad here to send readers to a site selling a cool flip digital video camera that plugs right into your USB port to send the video to your computer.

4. Set up a business creating ScratchBack graphics for advertisers.

Similar to method number 5 of making money online with ScratchBack on your site. In this case set up a page with fees and some design ideas for designing graphics for others who need buttons to advertise on ScratchBack. Yep, you need a little know how and software, but it could be handy. You may be able to work out a deal for a discounted ad with sites using ScratchBack with images. It will help them get more advertisers too. I may start to do this myself.

NOTE: The ScratchBack BIG Directory is now live! Add your site/blog here, free!

http://www.scratchback.com/directory/

We’re working on putting together a user-generated marketplace for ScratchBack. In the meantime, if you are using the TopSpot widget, we encourage you to post your site/blog here in the comments so that others may browse this page and see that you’re using it… and give you some tips!

Just follow this format in the comments. Example:

Blog Name: JimKukral.com
Topic: Blog about online marketing
URL: www.jimkukral.com
Tip cost: $25.00

That’s it. Thanks, and we’ll have a “more elegant” solution available soon.

Responding in video form to Shawn’s video about ScratchBack.

So, do you think we should have a marketplace? What would you like to see? Remember, this is beta, send us your feedback!