After you have made your decision to monetize your blog and right time has come to monetize your website, then main problem arises which affiliate or advertising network to choose. Undoubtedly Google Adsense rules the CPC network and all bloggers and webmaster loves to use it but there are many other ways, you can monetize your website along with Google Adsense or any other network.
In this post I would introduce you to Cuelinks which is an Indian affiliate network and good option for your Travel, Coupon or deal website.
There are many ways you can monetize your blog and affiliate marketing is one such way. To be successful in affiliate marketing it requires lots of hard-work, experience and patience. You’ll definitely want to use some sort of money management package so you can track all your profits. If you are India based and running website on travel, electronics, shopping, coupon codes, fashion etc. niche and want to try affiliate marketing which will work for you, then I will recommend you to use CueLinks content monetization tool which is specially made for bloggers like you and me.
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I came to know about Cuelinks from my visit to Ad:Tech New Delhi 2013, where I got the chance to meet people behind Cuelinks. And that day I only signed up for Cuelinks and started using it here after April. As Tech2blog.com is a technology blog so currently it is making very less money with this network. But I am pretty much sure that it will perform very well in fashion, coupon, travel, insurance type website.
What is CueLinks?
As per Cuelinks website “CueLinks is a 2-minute Content Monetization tool for bloggers, deal site owners, coupon sites, forum owners or any publishers or in fact, any websites which sends outbound traffic to online shopping, travel, finance or matrimony websites“.
And I fully agree with their definition of Cuelinks and they have really fast integration system.
Features of Cuelinks
- Simple Sign-up process.
- Fast Approval.
- Easy integration of CueLinks affiliate code/script.
- Timely payments.
- Tool to create any link into affiliate link.
- Automatic affiliate link conversion.
- Large variety of advertisers.
- Category based Ad Widgets
If you are a blogger, who is rejected by many big affiliate programs, then you will be happy to know that this program give opportunity to all the publisher whether big or small and there are 99% chances that you will get approved.
Cuelinks has automatic affiliate link creation facility, you just have to add their script in your blog body tag and you will be recommending some of the best product automatically through your affiliate links. All outgoing links from your website automatically become your affiliate links.
I like CueLinks platform and service very much. You have all most all the merchants at one place and the best part is that you don’t have send requests to each and every advertiser to get approved for their affiliates. You are already eligible for all the merchants who have partnered with Cuelinks.
Some of the popular merchant in the CueLinks affiliate network are Flipkart, Croma, Airtel, Expedia, ShopClues, Homeshop18, FoodPanda, FreeRecharge, Jabong, Zovi, Myntra, eBay India, FutureBazaar, Quikr, Big Bazaar, Bata, Bagittoday, Chhabra555, Goibibo, HDFC Life, HostGator, Hilton Hotel, JetAirways, Amazon.in etc.
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Above were only a few of the merchants from their long list. If you notice above list of merchants, you will find that there are merchants from every sector whether it is clothing, Shoes, insurance, grocery, travel, food etc., so you get all types of affiliate at one place.
CueLinks Dashboard
Dashboard of Cuelinks is very simple and contains all the needed information for publishers. Below the main tab there is earning detail section which tells year to date earning on your account, current month earning, last payment detail & next payment date.
Below earning table, there is a Revenue & Clicks graph, which shows you the graph between total clicks on blogs and affiliate clicks. You only get commission for your valid affiliate clicks. After this there is Clicks Stats, Insights & detail about new merchants.
Merchant Lookup at Cuelinks
Find any advertiser in Cuelinks is very easy task and you can click on the merchant lookup tab & easily find merchants of your choice for promoting. Below is the example of the same, where we have shown how easy is it to find merchant on Cuelinks. You will notice that finding any merchant is very easy and fast.
You also have option to choose merchant depending upon the location.
Cuelinks Reporting
Cuelinks also has made its reporting very simple and you can see your outgoing traffic report directly from its reporting section. To generate your report you can select the date frame and can also see links of websites to which your blog is providing traffic.
It can be also used to show your blog advertiser that this much amount of traffic you can easily provide them. Cuelinks also allows you to download your reports to CSV, XLS & PDF format.
Cuelinks Payment
Payment cycle of Cuelinks is NET60 based like many other affiliate network and they do payment through direct deposit and cheque.
You will not see any option to fill your payment details in your Cuelinks account. This is a manual process and once your account reach a threshold limit of Rs.500, your account manager will contact you and will ask for the necessary details.
UPDATE:
Cuelinks have started a new feature of monetization, which is called Cuewords.
Cuewords will automatically detect the word in your content and will add relevant links within the content, which will increase your overall earnings.
Cuewords are easy to setup and you can go to your Cuelinks dashboard and just “ON” the feature. You can set your density of Words between 2 to 10 and can also choose hyperlink colour.
In my opinion Cuelinks is a must try affiliate marketing option for all and without using any extra space, it can really make you good money depending upon the niche of your website.
Hope you got one more way to monetize your website and you will share this network with your other bloggers friend too. Let us know what you think about this network through your comments. Happy Blogging and keep visiting. Do subscribe to Tech2Blog.com by Email to get free information on making money online.
Comments
66 responses to “How to Make Money with Cuelinks”
This is very good information. thanks Pawan:)
You are welcome Bhavin, hope you have some more option now to earn online through Affiliates.
It’s another way to earn more money through blog. I want to try it. If you are tried then tell me how it works..?
Anna, I am using it and it is good for Indian affiliate market.
Hi Pawan, the use of cuelinks sounds great. I would definitely try it out. Thanks for sharing this post………..
Very nice informative post. I don’t know about Cuelinks before. thanks for sharing. Going to try this.
Yes Guatam, you must try it, it is very nice and gives good earning opportunity.
Dear, may you pls suggest where to insert javascript in wordpress blog i am newbie.
Most of the WordPress theme have option to insert the code under your body tag. If you don’t have such option, then you can insert that code in your footer.php file.
But how? I also want to know. So please help me inserting the code. I have a free website but i dont know how to insert the code.
Hi Deepak,
If your website does not allow you to edits its code or does not allow to add any extra code using widget, then you can’t enable it.
Can I know where you host your website?
Hello,
Really informative post, cuelinks seems to be pretty cool and im gonna try it soon.
thanks
Thanks for liking. Cuelinks is must try affiliate network.
Hi Pawan , can you tell me some top 5 to 10 websites for content monetization please.
There are lots of sites and I will recommend you to read our article on best affiliate program.
Thanks for sharing information on Cuelinks. Does it better than Infolinks and Chitika. If so, I am ready to give it a try.
Shiv, Cuelinks is like a affiliate network and it depends upon number of conversion. Whereas Infolinks and chitika are CPC based revenue sites. So we can’t compare both. You can have a try.
Does it works with blogs on blogger.com ??
You just have install script to enable it. So it should work on Blogger too.
Thanks for good information. Will try this and let us know more your experience on this.
I feel google adsense is the best advertising network but adsense revenue is not that high…Recently i was looking for a affiliate network and i opted for flipkart.com which is considered one of the best for India but then i came across your post – it looks interesting.I will read more about it and may try cluelink….I had a question – if i put 3 major ads and 2 link ads – then how many more affiliate ads i can place on my website….
Affiliates ads has nothing to do with Google Adsense until they break their guidelines and you can use “N” number of ads. Cuelinks too have Flipkart in their network.
Hey hi, I am interested in trying cuelinks. Will I be eligible to apply for google adsense if I have cuelinks already in the blog?
Yes you can try Cuelinks. Adsense and Cuelinks are compatible so you should not have any problem.
I too am using Cuelinks and I totally totally agree with you.. 🙂 Well written!
Hi Pawan,
Can you please tell me where to add the cuelinks code in my website? I am suggested to add the code in index.templet.html. But I could not see that file in my file manager.
Thanks
Upendra
Which platform you are using ?
Is it blogger, WordPress or custom website design ? You have to put their code just above body tag.
Is there any way to tell that someone really purchased a product. I have a regular affiliated clicks on Flipkart and Snapdeal but still only two conversion.
You can track your sales from the reporting section of every affiliate program. Your site should have good traffic to get sales.
Well i Know that but i want to track those links not merchant which make a traffic exchange like a particular product on which a user click. Is there any way. Okay i can track them using wordpress but I think cuelinks have to add some little improvement in their analytic.
I think it is very difficult to track affiliates sale individually. You will have to trust them only.
Nice informative and useful article. Can we use cuelinks widget Ads with Adsense Ads on our website. Does Adsense allow using other Ads keeping the number of Ads up to 3.
Yes, you can use. They do not violate Adsense policies.
You can only use 3 Google Adsense unit, rest you can put any no. of ads. Do not that user experience is very important.
Hi All,
I have been using other affiliate network OMG, Tyrocentral, PayOOM for my Deal site. Now if I use Cuelink Java script and my existing affiliate network OMG, Tyrocentral, PayOOM then how the link will be tracked.
Will the link of OMG, Tyrocentral, PayOOM be tracked under cuelink?
Could anyone make me understood the concept ?
Regards
Borah
Hi Borah,
I see that you use good number of affiliate program in your deal website. Cuelink script will process all the link through its system and I think you will only get commission for Cuelink in that case.
Thanks Pawan. So I should not use cuelink's java script. If I want to use Cuelink, I should use "link me" option.
Yes, Link me is good option. Though you can use java script for some time and do the comparison of earning and traffic.
Thanks Pawan.
You are welcome, keep visiting our blog for more such stuff.
I have an Question Regarding AdSense.
When the CueLinks JavaScript code installed in website, every outbounding link from the site is referred by Cuelinks referral system, linksdirect.com. In case of AdSense, when someone clicks on the Ad, it should take them directly to the URL shown in that Ad unit. Then Google tracks our publisher ID and pay us according to the CPC of that Ad. This is how Google AdSense works. If clicking on AdSense Ad takes the visitor to somewhere before it goes the actual URL,Google considers it as spoofing and terminates the AdSense account.
After all, redirecting visitors or modifying Ad unit code that takes them to false destinations is against the AdSense policies.
So Cuelinks safe with AdSense?
Hey Anoop,
You have a very valid question.
But you will be happy to know that Cuelinks does not change your Adsense code. Only normal links which are relevant to products in Cuelinks inventory will be converted to Culinks affiliate links. So Cuelinks is safe to use with Adsense.
Thanks Pawan for Info
Very well informative article . But its old one. please update it with latest features of the website.
We have already updated this article. Did you check our UPDATE at last of the article? Let me know if anything is missed.
I am using Cuelinks in my forum trick4deals.com since April 2015 . I have a question : Does Cuelinks cheat users payments? As I have seen one two complaints in web ?
They look genuine company. The founders are very good guys. Have you reached your payment threshold?
Thanks for the informative post.
Hi Tanvi,
Thanks for visiting our blog and liking our content. Keep interacting with our blog.
Regards,
Pawan
How to add Cuelinks on Blogger. Tired everything I understand but failed.
Hi Yogita,
Please follow below steps.
1. Go to Cuelinks and copy the code.
2. Go to Bloggers blog and Template> Edit HTML.
3. Find </body> and copy the code above it and save.
Hope this helps.
How can i select a particular affiliate ads ?
Just go to merchant search. But, I would advise you to use their code, which will automatically add relevant affiliate links.
Wonderful post. I’m a newbie to blogging and I have been rejected by Adsense twice, I have Infolinks on my website for past couple of days and I would like to If I can use the infolinks and cuelinks together on my website? I’m an affiliate marketer of web hosting and Amazon deals. Please let me know. Eagerly waiting for your answer.
Yes, you can use Infolinks and Cuelinks together on your blog. Let me know if you face any issue.
Hello Pawan,
I am from India and I have a website with the traffic from all over the world, but I came to know that it’s best for Indian traffic only. Please suggest me what should I do now. Should I go for it or is there any different program for me. 40% traffic is from India and rest are from all over the world with almost 10000 visitors daily.
Hi Qwais,
You have good traffic. Even if you convert 40% of Indian traffic, it would be good. Apart from it, you can use Amazon.com affiliate program.
Please reply Pawan brother.. Please tell me if I join Amazon.com, will I get commission from USA only just like Amazon.in for India.. Please tell me if I join dot com, will I get commission from everywhere or just USA.. I hope u understand my concern
You will get the commission when there will be a sale from your Amazon.com affiliate link. So, people buying from Amazon.com will give you the commission.
Amazon has a different website for different countries, but Amazon.com is most famous one so you can start on Amazon.com first. Payment can be received through cheques and Wire transfer using services like Payoneer, which I am using for now.
Bhullu, Dekh kar accha lga apna Garwali brother itna achha likhta hai! Good Pawan Keep it up
Bus bhai ji, koshish hai. Thanks for liking it.
Is this better than Vcomminssion and viglink site?
HI Andy,
Cannot compare both. I think company which pays in time and give good offers is good.
Sir, I have joined Cuelinks. My concern is if I share any link on my blog and if someone goes through the link (suppose amazon) and don”t like that product and purchases different products, so in this case will I get the commission or not?
Yes, you should get the commission.
Thanks Sir..for sharing this article..You explained it in a good way…
Thanks Nitish for reading. Hope you will enjoy more of our articles.