I used to hate all advertising on the Net: not because I thought it was wrong; because I thought it was ugly, irritating, and invasive. But things change, and I don’t hate it all any more. Spammers should still be fined and imprisoned, and people who use popup ads should have to pay the Mozilla developers (thank you Mozilla). But relevant banner ads are ok.
Now that I’ve decided that advertising is not all evil, I’ve signed up for some affiliate schemes. I have some websites that aren’t doing much at the moment, so I might as well connect them to sites that are. If doing this can make money without irritating anyone, why not.
So I signed up with TradeDoubler. My original intention was to sign up for just one scheme with a particular retailer for just one of my sites, but TradeDoubler have a long list of partners in different categories so it was quite easy to sign up to lots of relevant schemes. Their list even gave me ideas for some of my other sites.