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I had an idea some time ago that would work somewhat like this: whenever you mention some kind of service or product in your articles, you would link those words to something like "https://myadnetwork.com/<kind-of-service>", then the ad network would redirect the user to some paying advertiser.

Fallback URLs, location (for local businesses) and other customization options could be used to make it work better.

Some _optional_ Javascript could also enhance this, but not change it fundamentally.




Isn't that partly what Skimlinks [0] does? Not only automatically converts product links to affiliate ones, but I think they also link specific product mentions.

[0] https://skimlinks.com/publishers




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