Skimlinks Adds Affiliate Links to Product Links Automatically

We’ve written about London-based Skimbit several times and CEO Alicia Navarro provided her reasons why the UK is a great place to build a startup.

Today the Skimbit team is announcing the launch of Skimlinks. The easiest way to describe Skimlinks is that they provide a way to instantly turn all of your product links into affiliate links with no changes to individual content. You add one line of Javascript to your template and then, where Skimlinks has a relationship, the links automatically become affiliate links.

Revenue is split between you and Skimlinks. Skimlinks doesn’t share what percentage they take of each sale. What I like about Skimlinks is that once you add the Javascript code to your site, all of your old pages of content will also work with the Skimlinks program.

Skimlinks works with merchants including AmazonUK, Ticketmaster, Boots, eBay, BT and play.com. It looks like the list is mostly UK-based companies. Depending on what percentage Skimlinks takes, it may make sense to use Skimlinks in addition to affiliate programs you are already running.

Here’s a video overview of how the Skimlinks system works and you can checkout another viewpoint on the launch from Jemima Kiss.