Travelpapers is now a CJ Affiliate Member

I signed up for Commission Junction back in 2007 to place affiliate ads through out Travelpapers.com selected pages. Looking back now, I believe I was two years to soon. My site application was still under development and its not much has changed - Travelpapers is still not where I would it to be however, its closer to the marketing stage of proving the concept.

Commission Junction has a policy if you don't make any affiliate commission within 6 months they will deactivate your account. My account got deactivated twice in the last three years, in order to resign you must register for a new account under a different valid email address.


I'm better positioned to promote my selected affiliate ads this time around with 75% of TID (travelers Itinerary Directory) content populated and ready for users (tourist and local travelers) to access.

In oder for Travelpapers.com to continue to provide users with free quick, easy access to local city (Toronto) business and travel services profile information - users must see the purpose in supporting advertisers core offerings on the site.

Populating TID

Today I decided to change the name of TID -Travel Information Database to – Travel Itinerary Directory (still retaining the abbreviation TID) to better reflecting the adjustment in the market place along with the changes in consumer’s behavior associated with tourism requirements.

No matter what name I attached to TID populating it still remains a hurdle that requires concentrated effort. The first time I realized that populating TID in the formatted structure I required was going to be challenging was when Neuro Nimbus (Development Company behind TID) finished their customization work in 2006 giving me the go ahead to input data.

tried inputting the information in the database manually but that was grueling, so I decide to streamline the data content to one specific geographical area leaving eight regions in TID without content.

Here are some of the options I’ve tried so far:

Visit library and photocopy business directories content then manually transcribe the information directly into TID.

Have my family browse online directories such as Yellow Pages, Toronto.com, and niche sites to copy and past content into TID.

Look into online tactics such as, scraping, mash ups, API and other extracting applications.

This is the state of TID to date; I continue to explore different options to strategically and economically populate TID.