Driving Revenue to Your Forums!

**Brandon Sheley** · 04-09-2009, 05:54 PM

I was turned on to this by Andy @fbodyonline. It's called Driving Revenue, and they have optimized their products for vBulletin Owners!

Here is some info pulled from their site:

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Specifically designed and optimized for vBulletin, our patent-pending software works by dynamically finding and appending your existing outbound links with a tracking code so that you earn revenue for driving sales to our partners. The original posted link is not modified, making this completely transparent to your members. Affiliate vB easily installs directly into your AdminCP as a plugin.

This is what I'm using in our new Webmaster eBay Auctions section. Right now I'm just trying out the eBay campaigns, but as you can see, there are many, many more to pick from. I might try out the New Egg, or some of the hosting programs as well.

It's free to apply, and all you do is add a piece of java script in the footer of your site, and all links (eBay in this case) will have your affiliate info.

**KevinL** · 04-09-2009, 06:12 PM

Looks cool. Might have to give a go

**ArnyVee** · 04-09-2009, 06:15 PM

Thanks Brandon, I'm definitely going to be trying this one out soon!

**Brandon Sheley** · 04-16-2009, 12:35 PM

I made my first $4.81 yesterday

**Caddyman** · 04-16-2009, 12:51 PM

This might work out great for the new top secret forum

**fattony69** · 04-16-2009, 08:28 PM

I signed up. Nothing yet.

**FoxyWL** · 04-17-2009, 01:22 PM

Hello *****,

Thank you for your interest in DrivingRevenue.com. After reviewing your application, we have found that it does not meet our minimal requirements. Therefore, we’re unable to accept you into The DrivingRevenue Program at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reason(s) listed below.

Issue:

- Little or no outbound links to our retail partners

Explanation:

The core program of DrivingRevenue works by dynamically changing outbound links to our partners into revenue generating affiliate links. If your site does not have these types of outbound these links, there is not a way to monetize the traffic.

If you would like to submit another website for consideration, simply reply to this email and provide us with the URL.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Regards,

The Driving Revenue Team

**Brandon Sheley** · 04-17-2009, 01:39 PM

This is why I got the phone call..

I told them that I would post an RSS feed like I had seen on Andy's site
F-Body Ebay Auctions - F-Body Online

Feel free to reply and link to his site or ours as an example

Webmaster eBay Auctions
That is, if you want to make similar "ebay auction" forum sections and using an RSS feed to pull the auctions.

Quote:

Originally Posted by FoxyWL

Hello *****,

Thank you for your interest in DrivingRevenue.com. After reviewing your applicaItion, we have found that it does not meet our minimal requirements. Therefore, we’re unable to accept you into The DrivingRevenue Program at this time.

We did not approve your application for the reason(s) listed below.

Issue:

- Little or no outbound links to our retail partners

Explanation:

The core program of DrivingRevenue works by dynamically changing outbound links to our partners into revenue generating affiliate links. If your site does not have these types of outbound these links, there is not a way to monetize the traffic.

If you would like to submit another website for consideration, simply reply to this email and provide us with the URL.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Regards,

The Driving Revenue Team

**FoxyWL** · 04-17-2009, 03:18 PM

thanks for the tip mate, i'll send them an email

**ArnyVee** · 04-20-2009, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Caddyman

This might work out great for the new top secret forum

A new site by Chase? Hmm....when you spillin' the beans?

**Caddyman** · 04-20-2009, 05:41 PM

idk, still in development

**ArnyVee** · 04-20-2009, 06:20 PM

Are you using the new skin that you had customized for that one?

**Caddyman** · 04-20-2009, 06:39 PM

no, a new skin....back to driving revenue....

i applied and was denied, ima try what Brandon said above, seems like a great program.

**cmangum** · 04-26-2009, 09:17 AM

Interesting to see what response I will get

**scottct1** · 06-02-2009, 08:26 AM

I applied yesterday and got a call today. I am very excited with what I have heard and am going to give it a shot.

**Brandon Sheley** · 06-02-2009, 12:23 PM

I'm starting to make money each week with this program, it isn't a lot yet but it's more and more each week

Let us know how it goes Scottct1

**Soliloquy** · 06-03-2009, 09:52 AM

Is it possible to turn off the automatic links for a usergroup? If I added this to my site, I'd want the donors and sponsors to be able to turn it off.

**Brandon Sheley** · 06-03-2009, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Soliloquy

Is it possible to turn off the automatic links for a usergroup? If I added this to my site, I'd want the donors and sponsors to be able to turn it off.

Nope, it's sitewide

**Rocket 442** · 06-05-2009, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Soliloquy

Is it possible to turn off the automatic links for a usergroup? If I added this to my site, I'd want the donors and sponsors to be able to turn it off.

They won't even know it is there.

**scottct1** · 06-05-2009, 11:00 AM

You can do it by using conditionals, however your users will never know this is there, so why bother.

I have been going for two days now and have made a few bucks in the 2 days. I know it can and will do better.

I got to start encouraging my users to post full ebay urls. As many of them not wanting to spam have just been postiing the item numbers.

**Brandon Sheley** · 06-05-2009, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by scottct1

You can do it by using conditionals, however your users will never know this is there, so why bother.

I have been going for two days now and have made a few bucks in the 2 days. I know it can and will do better.

I got to start encouraging my users to post full ebay urls. As many of them not wanting to spam have just been postiing the item numbers.

The way I understood the question, she was asking if the code could be turned off for a group, that they wanted to post their affiliate links
which if that is the case, the conditions would only effect that group, so if group A posted an affiliate link, only group A could see the original links, everyone else including guest would see the site owners affiliate link

Maybe I misread, but that's how I took the question and why I answered that it was all or nothing

**Rocket 442** · 06-05-2009, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by scottct1

You can do it by using conditionals, however your users will never know this is there, so why bother.

I have been going for two days now and have made a few bucks in the 2 days. I know it can and will do better.

I got to start encouraging my users to post full ebay urls. As many of them not wanting to spam have just been postiing the item numbers.

Make a RSS forum for ebay satellite stuff.

You'll start making more when you get more cookies with time.

**scottct1** · 06-05-2009, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

The way I understood the question, she was asking if the code could be turned off for a group, that they wanted to post their affiliate links
which if that is the case, the conditions would only effect that group, so if group A posted an affiliate link, only group A could see the original links, everyone else including guest would see the site owners affiliate link

Maybe I misread, but that's how I took the question and why I answered that it was all or nothing

Here is the way I took it...

He shows ads to all his unregistered and non verified members, but does not want to show ads to his registered members. Or perhaps he has a donars user group which he does not want to see the ads.

While Driving Revenue is invisible to user it can possibly slow down the loading our your pages since it needs to get info from an external server (Driving Revenues)

So if the poster wants only to have the driving revenue code for certain usergroups he can set it up as follows:

<if condition="(in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], array(1,3)))"> DrivingRevenues Code Here </if>

Now the DR code only is run on those two usergroups 1 & 3.

Someone mentioned making a EBAY RSS feed for my site. Thats a great idea, I will need to find out how to make a RSS feed from ebay.

**Brandon Sheley** · 06-05-2009, 12:32 PM

ah I see Scottct1 but I'm not sure it slows the pages down "that" much
here is how I'm using it on our site
Webmaster Auctions
all these threads are feeds from different sites
here is the list of sites you can use
Driving Revenue
and like if i were to go to this pcworld one and post a link to this laptop
Samsung NC10 Black Netbook - Cheap Samsung Netbooks. Buy the Samsung NC10 Black Netbook at PC World.
and someone would happen to click to it and buy it, I would get a cut
So the threads would be there, unless you just showed that section to all groups but the sponsors

**DieselMinded** · 10-10-2009, 09:49 AM

They contacted me via email , they even signed me up , i added the line of code to my footer , but i cannot verifiy i have the correct code because i cannot find it on the control panel

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-10-2009, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by scottct1

<if condition="(in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], array(1,3)))"> DrivingRevenues Code Here </if>

Now the DR code only is run on those two usergroups 1 & 3.

Someone mentioned making a EBAY RSS feed for my site. Thats a great idea, I will need to find out how to make a RSS feed from ebay.

I've actually noticed it slowing the page down a few times now, I'm going to think about giving this a shot.
The only thing that I'm concerned, is if I leave a group out and they might make a purchase, I would lose that sale.

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Originally Posted by DieselMinded

They contacted me via email , they even signed me up , i added the line of code to my footer , but i cannot verifiy i have the correct code because i cannot find it on the control panel

you can email support, they'll send you the code
that's how I got mine