Content Partner sites....... what are they?

[PrinceAlessio]

hello.
Im fairly new to epinions, some of you know me already..... http://www.epinions.com/user-princealessio

Anyway I've been looking around epinions alot these past 2 weeks. I keep seeing "content partner" sites being mentioned. People say they make alot of money off of them. Anyway, Id like to make one if possible but i cant figure out how. I guess I dont understand the concept of a content partner site yet.... is it like making ur own webpage ?
thanks for the help,
Alessio

[soxfan[$]]

Hi Alessio, welcome to the board!

It's late, so I may not be as coherent as I want to be ... but let me give this my best shot.

The content partner program is designed to reward users who drive traffic to the site. Here's a hypothetical case:

1. Joe Schmo writes for Epinions. Joe also has a personal homepage.

2. Joe decides to join the content partner program. Since he just got out of the movies, he picks shrek.epinions.com as his partner site.

3. Joe links to his reviews from his personal homepage. He uses shrek.epinions.com instead of www.epinions.com in the links.

Joe can also use shrek.epinions.com when he posts links to message boards and the like. (Posting epinions links to search engines, though, won't help, since they only accept www.epinions.com).

4. People visit Joe's homepage and click on his reviews, surfing the site through shrek.epinions.com.

5. Every time someone visits a page on shrek.epinions.com, Joe gets a little money in his account. Very little money. As in one- to three-thousandth of a cent. Once upon a time, Joe could have made money surfing through his own site, but Epinions stopped that earlier this year.

Joe, if he is so inclined, can customize his Ep partner site to more closely match the look of his outside site, He can also tweak the content to feature his favorite categories. He can also take certain Epinions features and place them on his outside site.

Some folks may indeed make a lot of money off partner sites -- probably because they naturally get a lot of traffic to their own sites.

Hope that made some sense!

Ailsa

[hypotenuse]

Made a lot of sense Ailsa!

And here's the link to the epinions CP page:

http://www.epinions.com/partner/cpc/



Lynne

[jo.com]

Welcome, Alessio..just wanted to reiterate, that I can't imagine anyone making a lot of money on CP sites; true some additional pennies over the month..and that's about it, but I guess it is better than nothing. I did a web page a few years ago for fun and I use that. So all (I say that lightly since it took me weeks to do) you have to do is a webpage and you then have a CP site.

[PrinceAlessio]

hmm i still confused.. some people make it out to be the only way they make money on the site. Also if i did make one.... and i were sending a friend a link to my reviews.... would i sent a link to the regular epinions or a link to my CP site? Which makes more money?

[soxfan[$]]

some people make it out to be the only way they make money on the site.

Well, maybe they make more money from that than from Eroyalties or Income Share. I'd guess, though, that most people don't earn a heck of a lot from the CP program.

Also if i did make one.... and i were sending a friend a link to my reviews.... would i sent a link to the regular epinions or a link to my CP site? Which makes more money?

You'd use your CP site on epinions ... for example, shrek.epinions.com instead of www.epinions.com. Otherwise Epinions won't know that the friend visited using your partner site (and wouldn't be able to credit you for the pageviews).

Ailsa