Put a cash register on your photos with Edgeio.com
Written by amedeo on October 12th, 2007
Edgeio.com’s paid content service allows you to turn every piece of content into your personal, one-product store that goes anywhere on the Web.
This may be a more effective way to sell your content than directing customers to your library.
You might be able to sell:
- Ad-free versions of content;
- Raw or higher-quality versions of content (photos, videos, customized articles, etc.). For example, if you have been making music videos of local musicians like I have for ABQTrib.com, then variations of the footage that went into the videos might appeal to hard-core fans. Higher-resolution photos might appeal to picture savers.
Given the myriad ways folks can pull content off your site, this likely won’t work well to sell exactly what your customers can already see on the page.
To view a test of an Edgeio ad, continue after the break (I didn’t want my home page’s load time to slow down due to Edgeio’s servers).
Here’s a test drive:



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