To help you all to make the most of our Referral Program (while disclosing your use of Skimlinks at the same time), we’ve extended our special 12% commission offer.

Simply sign-up for the program in the Publisher Interface and add one of our Disclosure Badges to your site before September 1st, 2010 and we’ll give you 12% of what we earn for up to a year on sites you refer to us.

Grab a badge today, or find out more about our referral program here.

If you’re not already a Skimlinks publisher, and want to get involved with the referral program, click here to join us!

LONDON, UK – World-leading content monetization firm Skimlinks, today launched its latest product SkimWords.  SkimWords, in beta version, is an exciting new way to help publishers extract more value from their content, by automating the process of adding revenue-generating product links into content, with no advertising pop-ups.

SkimWords complements and extends the SkimLinks product and brings fresh innovation into the in-text monetization market. While SkimLinks turns existing retailer links into affiliate links on-the-fly, SkimWords creates new links by converting product references in editorial and user-generated content into geo-targeted links to where the item can be purchased.

Skimlinks has been working with existing clients including, ITProPortal, AV Forums and Anglersnet over the past month to develop the product and features that will allow SkimWords to serve a broader group of customers. In initial publisher trials, SkimWords has increased the number of pages that can generate revenue by 300 per cent.

The SkimWords Beta is now open for application from existing SkimLinks publishers and other content rich sites in the technology/electronics, sport/lifestyle, automotive and fashion verticals.

Skimlinks CEO and co-founder Alicia Navarro, says: “Being non-intrusive, transparent and relevant is key to the future of monetising content. We designed SkimWords to benefit all parts of the value chain: publishers effortlessly earn significantly increased revenues, users are presented with relevant and helpful links, and retailers generate incremental sales from links added to in-text references to their own products.”

“This is a beta version and early results indicate this will be a revolutionary entrant into the in-text monetization market,” concluded Alicia.

Stuart Wright, owner of AVForums, commented: “The fact that SkimWords does not interfere with our readers’ experience with annoying pop-up ads is so important. It also helps us automatically make the most from our international traffic via its geo-targeting technology. So far, we are delighted with how SkimWords is working and the revenue it is generating.”

“We’ve been really excited to be part of the pilot launch of SkimWords. Working with Skimlinks ensures we remain on the cutting edge of the innovation taking place in the in-text monetization market,” says ITProPortal commercial manager, Martin Beauchamp.

If you’d like to join the limited external beta, please visit http://www.skimlinks.com/skimwords for more information.

Not double but triple celebrations in the Skimlinks office this afternoon…

Skimlinks has won the Technology Genius Award at the 2010 LinkShare Golden Links (and congratulations to England and the US teams for their World Cup wins!).

The annual LinkShare awards bring together more than 400 advertisers, publishers and agencies to celebrate the best and brightest stars in the LinkShare network and Skimlinks beat both TheFind and ScanBuy to scoop the top technology prize.

Well done to all the winners. We are honoured to win this award in a key market for our business. Lots of credit goes to our fantastic engineering team and everyone else at Skimlinks who make our solutions rock and of course, thanks to all our publishers for your support.

Here’s to more Skimlinks wins (and World Cup successes!).

Our WordPress Plugin just got even better.

Its already super easy to install, turns all your normal links in your content and RSS feed into affiliate links on-the-fly, AND now, it can help you earn even more from what you do!

In one click, you can increase the earning power of your blog and disclose your use of Skimlinks to your visitors at the same time, to help you on your way to complying with FTC Guidelines.

Sign-up to the Skimlinks Referral Program and you’ll earn 12% of Skimlinks’ earnings from successful sign ups via your badge, and we auto-add a Disclosure Badge to the bottom of your posts.

Get the Skimlinks WordPress Plugin today; exclusively available in the WordPress Plugin Directory, or if you already have the Plugin, the update will become available to you in your Dashboard, allowing you to opt into the program.

Today Skimlinks hit a merchant milestone – with 10,000 approved, tested and active international retailers.

We are constantly adding to our service, and we implement new, popular brands every day, covering verticals right across the board, with everything from fashion to fishing, technology to travel; that we can offer to our publishers the moment they install our technology on their site!

Publishers have complete access to search for merchants in our interface, and can also use SkimKit to search for specific products from our merchants.

To apply to join Skimlinks, and take advantage of our fantastic merchant relationships, click here.