UPDATE: AGLOCO doesn’t make your members anything. DO NOT sign up for AGLOCO. It is straight rubbish.

Search: Every time you use the Viewbar™ to do an Internet search, AGLOCO earns money from the search engine providers. (For example, Google pays as much as $0.10 on average for each search that is directed to its search engine.)

Advertising: The Viewbar™ itself displays ads that are targeted based upon the websites you’re visiting. When you click on an ad and make a purchase, AGLOCO receives a referral fee, which we pass on to our Members. (Please note: Individual members do not receive any compensation for clicking on ads in the Viewbar™, and the Viewbar™ can detect if someone is clicking ads in a fraudulent manner.)

Transaction commissions: Many major retailers pay commissions when you refer customers who make a purchase. AGLOCO collects that commission and passes it on to our members. (For example, Amazon pays an 8.5% commission to most websites who refer customers, and has cut deals for even larger percentages. The bigger the AGLOCO community, the better commission we can negotiate for our Members.)

Software distribution: Numerous software companies pay websites to encourage the download of new software releases (for example, Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat Reader software), and trial versions of new programs. AGLOCO members not only get access to the latest and coolest software, they get paid for it.

Service distribution: Many online service providers will look to the AGLOCO community as a source of new and active users for their services. (For example, eBay, Skype, and PayPal, among others, all pay fees to people who help them recruit new active users to their services)

Product distribution: When Members agree to use a product, such as cell phones, high-tech gadgets, office supplies, new credit cards or financial services, AGLOCO can collect referral fees. Some companies even offer special rebate and cash-back programs.

UPDATE: You shouldn’t join now, or ever. This program is a scam, and useless. AGLOCO IS DEAD

First, it costs nothing to Join and takes less than one minute.

Second, you can help build the AGLOCO community by recruiting new Members TODAY.

Right now, inviting your friends to join AGLOCO is as easy and productive as it will ever be – but you need to invite your friends before someone else beats you to them.

Remember, the bigger the AGLOCO community, the more attractive AGLOCO is to potential business partners and advertisers.

Recruit your friends and family by contacting them through email. (But remember we have a strict anti-spam policy.)

Use your blog and your existing social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook, to contact your friends and encourage them to join a new community that will actually let them earn money.

Moola is a sort of online game like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The person starts with 1 penny and it doubles each round you win until you get up to $10 Million. Of course the odds of that happening are nearly impossible. If you get into the $100 range you got really lucky.

Anyways, They have an affiliate program in which you can give away Moola Invites. I have that link on many sites just because people tend to want to play Moola and win some quick cash. It works pretty simply. You have 4 tiers for your affiliates and it starts with 1st generations affiliates making you 4% of their winnings on down to 1% for your final generation.

Now this may sound like it could pay off big time, and certainly it can if I actually believed someone was going to keep playing until they hit the $10,000+ range. I have about 150 people in my tiers at this point and I get e-mails for my affiliate bonuses for things like “You have earned $0.02″ as an affiliate bonus. Whoopie! That is going to almost pay for 1 second of my phone bill.

Anyways, I suppose it could pay off eventually, but I have never been blessed enough to pull more than a 5 cent bonus in over a year. I don’t readily promote it, but hey, as background noise it may pay off one day if some ambitious person hacks the system or something and wins $10 Million and I get 4% of it. I’ll take a free $400,000 wouldn’t you? The only good thing about Moola is that you can’t join it unless you use a Moola Invite. So if people happen to be looking around for them you may as well provide the service. Who knows? Someone is bound to get lucky eventually.

A while back I had considered using StumbleUpon for directly Stumbling my own affiliate links. When you get a direct affiliate link for a product or service I figured there was probably no easier way to pimp it out than StumbleUpon right? Wrong.

Although, I had braced for the possibility that this was going to be frowned upon by Stumble so I decided to do it from a different IP address and account than I have my actual stumble account on. Just to be cautious.

Anyways, my plan was to use forums that had little Stumble groups to get a bunch of people to Stumble 4 of my affiliate links for various internet products. Each product was correctly categorized in Stumble for my target markets, with good buying term tags for them each. I probably was able to pick up a good 75-100 Stumbles for my links and was pretty proud of myself. This was really just a test to see if Stumblers actually went for these types of programs when they were randomly selected to see it.

After about a week I think I tracked approximately 1500 views from Stumble directly to my aff links. Really not quite as high as I had expected, but none-the-less, a pretty good picture of noticing a small trend at least. My purchase rate on these particular affiliates for PPC campaigns was around 8% so it wasn’t exactly a sure thing either way. How many sales did they create? Zero.

What else happened? Surprisingly there must have been a rash of “Thumbs Down” for my links because they fell completely off the map. Eventually my account was closed as well because I guess Stumble isn’t real excited about people submitting affiliate links into their system.

So…how else can Stumble be used? I am trying a couple different methods now. The obvious is directly writing blog posts and use it as articles (This is the recommended way), and the other, which can be more extensive is to try and create a number of lenses in Squidoo that I can simultaneously Stumble with basically the same content as the blog post, and even more related affiliates to the ones I am currently promoting.

Realistically there are better ways to go about this, but I figured I’d run some tests with Stumble and see just what I can and can’t get away with in regards to affiliate marketing. Squidoo is great for SEO regardless for any site so I figure at least that will be less intrusive to Stumble. IT also probably has a bit of a more professional look than many of the crappy sales pages for affiliates.

None of this is particularly a great way to work affiliates, but since3 I tend to use Squidoo and Stumble often for boosting SEO links I figured I’d try to combine them a bit and look for quicker ways to pump aff links out with out having to spend money on PPC, or write a ton of articles.

UPDATE: The AGLOCO Viewbar, just like Agloco is dead. I would encourage you to uninstall it from your computer as it has no use anymore.

Finally, after the long wait the Viewbar has officially been released to all the Agloco members and you can download it now. I got the e-mail a day ago, and went to get the viewbar immediately. I have run it for a few hours and find that it is not obtrusive in any way to my regular browsing.

The file itself to install the Viewbar is 2.2 MB in the download. May be a little slow right now because EVERYONE is trying to download theirs right now so you may have to check in a few times to get yours. Install takes just a couple minutes from the icon and you are ready to go. Launch the bar and enter your Agloco Username (I used my e-mail addy) and then the viewbar will show up at the bottom of your screen. It can be run with IE, or Firefox.

In the next post I’ll put up the Viewbar FAQs so that you can reference it and get started.

So NOW you can finally start using it and promote Agloco a little more since the Viewbar is finally here!