ContentRobot

The ContentRobot team headed to Boston on Monday to attend the Affiliate Summit East 08 Conference - Shawn Collins and Missy Ward know how to put on a show.

We had a great time meeting up with some friends, clients, and colleagues - and we even had time to make some new ones despite being there for only one day.

While we were happy to hang out in the blogger lounge just to mingle, play Wii, and affix stickers to our laptops; we actually took the time to share our WordPress expertise with anyone seeking some technical advice.

We even attended two seminars: Content the Kills [...]

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Just when you thought we forgot about our affiliate blog … We took the plunge and began signing up for some affiliate programs with publishing accounts this week.

Chitika We headed over to Chitika because they are so blog-centric with their advertising. We were especially impressed with their Chitika | RPU program that brings related products right within a product-oriented story. We were approved for a Chitika | eMiniMalls account, which provides relevant content and comparative shopping information. We found it simple and easy to apply to Chitika and highly recommend it.

No sooner did we report our initial impressions of Open Ads, they rebranded themselves as OpenX today. According to their blog:

After news a few weeks ago of our new investment and the beta of the hosted version of our ad server software, we’ve got more news to share. We did it again, we’ve changed the name of Openads to OpenX.

In the past few months we have spent lots of time with folk in our publisher community to understand better what you want from us. Simply, you want us to make it easier for you to make money online. We’ve already started, [...]

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We spent our day yesterday kicking the tires of OpenAds. While a bit of an overkill for some bloggers, this is a great piece of software for those who are committed to serving ads, tracking click-thrus, and making some money.

What is OpenAds?

It’s free ad serving software that allows you to choose banners (from animated GIFs to Flash), campaigns and terms that you define. It includes a sophisticated tracking system means that helps you to gather statistics and optimize campaigns. Note: it’s also big, so it will take a while to download and then upload to your server.

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We hightailed it over to Smashing Magazine’s list of 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably Haven’t Seen) to find our affiliate blog theme.

We decided on BlogDog’s Green Dog Theme. Here’s a preview and click here to download it.

One thing that you’ll notice is that the theme is in Russian! Thankfully we have enough experience with WordPress themes, so it didn’t take too long to translate everything into English.

We are enjoying working out its kinks and customizing it for our use. We are really looking forward to launching our (first?) affiliate blog.