by its very nature, affiliate marketing is very inward looking, often smaller affiliates work from home, business is informal with out the bells and whistles of the city, and the word still isnt truely out there that the CPA results driven model that forms the foundation. However, in a time of recession with everyone from [...]
I’ve always been results driven, it was actually why i didn’t do very when i was studying for my degree in affiliate marketing, too fluffy and not enough about results, so it was a very natural fit that i ended up in affiliate marketing and part of the reason, i’ve done so well. Its also [...]
There’s recently been a lot of noise on the forums about Sweaty Betty (on linkshare) restricting the use of its discount code to one affiliate on their affiliate program, with all other voucher code affiliates being binned from the campaign. You can read more about this here. Now I want to point out that this [...]
Affiliate marking is all about prescence on the web, and the biggest part of SEO is the domain, the relevancy of the domain name is a major factor in the success of the site. So it makes sense that you invest in a good domain that will help support both SEO and conversions. You can [...]
After a bit of soul searching, I decided to share my thoughts on why i was doing affiliate marketing, for what seems like peanut money. Affiliate marketing, particularly with true content sites is a long term game, it takes time to get a site ranking, it takes time to research a niche, and it takes [...]
I thought it might be good to tell you how a typical day pans out for me considering i practical live, sleep and breath affiliate marketing. 0700 – up and at em, quick game of Mafia Wars on the iPhone (its so addictive), qick log on to the laptop to check commission I’ve earnt overnight. [...]
Yesterday was a stonker of a day, relative to the last few days making £5.79 in commission, not to mention a few residual sales from affiliate campaigns via one site. Not too bad a day, but I need to figure out how to improve the conversion of this so I can gain more commission.
I work as an affiliate manager as a day job, hence why my affiliate sites take a significant back seat. so I thought that, in addition to cataloging and writing about life as an affiliate I’d start pouring out my knowledge of affiliate management here as well, after all from the looks of things I’m [...]
Junes been a really unusual month for me, I’ve been particularly lazy on the affiliate front, I’m about to change to a new job, I’ve got more sites to work on than ever before and it was my girlfriend’s sisters wedding which left me out of action for 4/5 days. What was nice was not [...]
The internet in many ways is similar to property. A domain name is like a promiment location, meaning that it inof itself is a commodity. But like property a location isn’t enough, its also about how the structure both of the site and the property is made; and its about design, the look and the [...]