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Affiliate Marketing at LeadsCon Las Vegas

This week I am getting ready for Affiliate Marketing at LeadsCon Las Vegas What is LeadsCon? LeadsCon is the preeminent conference dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of those operating in the online lead generation industry. LeadsCon provides a unique and collaborative environment designed for networking and sharing. Meet the people, gather the knowledge, and get [...]

Affiliate Blog Contest by Affiliate.com

I am going to be judging the Affiliate.com Blogger Contest along with Missy Ward, John Chow and Zac Johnson. Get blogging the winner of this competition will be sure to get lots of exposure as well as the cash. So write to tom@(nospam)affiliate.com get your t-shirt and take a better photo than this one. Find [...]

July Results

July was a funny month, but it actually ended well, i’ve started PPC to my strongest site and the launch of my first ‘atomic niche’ site has been interesting, I’ve also invested in articles from content now, when at first glance look pretty good, but i need to find the time to put them up [...]

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 [...]