2009 July | Affiliate Blog

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All the small things

After what ended up being a rather frustrating weekend, I managed to salvage some decent results, setting up two more traditional sites, and focusing efforts on my main site. lucky for me, this months commissions are looking promising with commission coming in on Linkshare, Amazon and affiliate window, adsense has already exceeded last months results [...]

Setbacks and a new plan

after sleeping on my massive setback yesterday, I’ve decided to take a step back and reassess my affiliate marketing. currently I have over 80 domains. and around 17 sites up. of which 10 are now broken. my strongest site however hasn’t been affected likewise with the site that generates most commissions from amazon, which is [...]

The most frustrating day of my life as an affiliate

After discovering the wp-o-matic, ECU trick, i thought my workflow would speed up and I’d be able to work on more sites quicker. once ‘d discovered this trick, in quick succession i created around 9 sites, which i would eventually get round to rewriting the content get ranking, hoping that i’d make a little more [...]

Distraction ruins my affiliate marketing

I’m a very focused person, especially when it comes to work…i can usually focus in the office for hours without flinching…however once i get on the tube and head home, its like a superman clarke kent transformation, by the time i get back i’ve walked about half a mile, been stuck in the commuter train [...]

Voucher codes god long tail

The way people search in Google is one of the key foundations in SEO and affiliate marketing (particularly niche), interestingly there has been a trend over the last few year that users are searching more and more specifically, with 4 word key phrases offering the highest conversions, giving indication that users are looking for very [...]

Converting CPM to CPA

I was chatting to a sales lady at upmystreet today, now normally i wouldn’t want to name and shame, but this lady’s sales skills were tragic, no surprise when the head of display advertising at the agency i work at warned me she’d be useless. basically there’s been a lot of noise about how CPM [...]

PPC Trial

I’ve recently setup an atomic niche affiliate site in very much the same way as seamaster did, selling 1 product with a .co.uk URL with only the model number, i selected a few ‘exact match’ keywords all containing the keyword (the model number) and i set the ads to run for a specific 5 hours [...]

nice video on viral- see i’m adding to the noise

nice comments on viral videos which might be useful for marketing guys and for affiliates especially as you can now make clickable youtube videos…

Affiliate marketing is a buzz word

I stumbled on this wonderful viral video about…viral marketing. as an comedian will tell you, comedy has its foundations in truth, and the truth in this viral is how big companies get brain washed in to the latest marketing craze, first it was display, the PPC, then the mysteries of SEO, and oh wait, affiliate [...]

Mid-july update

here’s a quick update for july. google -£63.34 estimate – £109.08 amazon – £12.08 linkshare – £6.45 skimlinks – £0.19 total -£82.06 (actual), £127.80 (estimate) not bad, but not as high as I hoped… my test sites have been setup but as yet, i’ve not done any linkbuilding so I’m unsure how effective they will [...]