Waitresses Get Tips. Cab Drivers Get Tips. Why Not You?
Here’s an interesting way to monetize your blog or website… accept tips and give a link in return.
Scratchback.com provides an online tipping system which allows you to accept tips from your readers.
In exchange, you provide the person tipping you with a link to their site. And it’s hands off, just set it up and let it run.
Here’s how it works: You create a free ScratchBack widget, place it on your site, and then readers can tip you. When they do, they get a link of their choice.
So unlike a “Donate Here” button, the person doing the tipping is getting an advertisement in return. And you determine how much the minimum tip is.
It only takes a few minutes to set up, looks good on the site, and Google won’t penalize you for these ads.
Also, with ScratchBack the ads only appear for either a certain length of time, or until they’re bumped off by other ads (your choice.) So if someone wants to keep their link on your site, they’ll need to keep tipping you.
One thing I take issue with is their claim that this idea is brand new. It’s not.
While they’ve updated the look, they’re not the first to create this concept. Some time ago my friend John Delavera created a script called “Buy me a Drink” which basically does the same thing.
With John’s script there is no custom ‘message on mouseover’ like there is with Scratchback.com, but you also get to keep 100% of the tips you receive. ScratchBack keeps 10%.
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