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Quick Question: Does everyone who reads this blog understand what spam is? In a nutshell, it’s unsolicited email - junk emails that you haven’t asked for from people and websites you haven’t signed up to receive emails from. It’s the scourge of the Internet, and all spammers should be lined up against a wall and [...]

Many people mistake marketing newsletters as “spam” despite them having joined a site and agreeing to receive email communications. In part online marketeers are responsible for this - some sites do bombard their mailing lists daily, whilst others happily flog details to anyone and everyone without thought. The media also play a part by portraying spam .... Continue Reading

I found out last night that BBC News ran a story and video about spam that clearly shows my website Free UK Stuff and domain name and screen shots from the website and double opt-in email sign up system. What is unbelievable in this “experiment” conducted by McAfee is that they have totally no clue about [...]

For anyone who hasn’t been able to download this from the A4U Forum thread, here is the attendees list that was posted a couple of days back. Affiliate Get Together Attendees List Pleeease don’t turn up on spec, there’s a huge waiting list apparently. Those on the list will have been told details already.

Want to know what wacky keywords have been used this month to find my website?

Okay, probably not but here goes anyway!
 
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Deal Group Media launched their new “dgmcompare Broadband” service for affiliates yesterday, which apparently is an easy way to incorporate comparison tables into your website content for the various Broadband Affiliate Programs out there. Which all sounds great, but as a renowned technophobe, I still didn’t quite get it. So I asked Jess from DGM [...]

Pinch, Punch. first of the Month - No returns! Yes, it’s the first of July today, the sun is shining, and that can mean only one thing - it’s time to start planning for Christmas! Of course, some people have already been working on their Christmas sites for a couple of months, but for me [...]

Swansea is a brilliant place to live - Mumbles (as loved by Nadeem) and Gower are close by and there’s even a pier to visit. It’s an ideal place for a Buy.at Event. The winner of the latest Buy.at promotion is offering affiliate’s the chance to win a networking party brought to their hometown. Unfortunately the .... Continue Reading

Well ive not blogged in a while but thought this was worth a bit off a mention, ill do my bit etc. Affiliate Window winner of the best network innovation award at the recent a4uAwards (sponsored by alpharooms I might add) & winner of the publishers choice of network have been a bit special. Now as [...]

Er Indoors arrived home from work two weeks ago in excrutiating pain around one of her wisdom teeth - Her NHS dentist had closed for the evening, and as she was in so much pain, she rang the “Emergency Dentist” service, only to be told that there was not a single dentist to be found [...]

A short while ago Lee McCoy posted bout some keyword analysis he did on a site of his that shows just how long and thin the long thin tail of keywords is on one of his sites. 76% of the traffic came from search phrases that only delivered one visitor. OK, I thought, well there’s another [...]

Voucher code sites and the click to reveal problem have hit the spotlight again on Affiliates4U. Click to reveal a code is used by many voucher code sites as a way of ensuring a cookie is dropped when a visitor comes looking for a discount. It at least beats them using the unethical 1×1 iframes .... Continue Reading

A big thank you to Goldsmiths who very kindly emailed me to tell me I won their recent affiliate prize draw via LinkShare. I’m now a very happy owner of one Hugo Boss Gents watch with blue chronograph dial and very nice it is too. Usually when we’re lucky enough to win something (or a .... Continue Reading

I’m extremely pleased to announce that Shine Marketing have been asked to manage the affiliate programme for OfferX, a quiz website that I’ve had dealings with for a few years. In the coming weeks we’ll be revamping creative, helping raise conversions and keeping an eye out for the affiliates that drive the best quality traffic so [...]

Buy.at and Littlewoods have launched an early contender for Innovation of the Year 2009 with some quite funky new interactive video ads. At first glance they look just like normal videos but, and here’s the cool bit, if you hover your mouse over the products featured you can then click through, via an affiliate link, .... Continue Reading

Firstly a big   thank you to all your hard work in the build up to FathersDay 2008.   Please see below for a small selection of our top products.Please can everyone   check deep links that have been generated manually for this affiliate   program if you used to use this affiliate program when it was ThePoetryStudio.   As [...]

The 3rd Bullet Business Bingo Summit took place over the 17th and 18th June 2008 at The Royal Garden Hotel, London. It featured talks, exhibition and networking opportunities for all those involved in the online bingo world. I was there in a “speaker” capacity to do a panel session on affiliate marketing and bingo alongside .... Continue Reading

If you have a site which has any kind of relation to sports, send me a message or post a comment below and we can sort out exchanging links. I’ll delete the comment once I’ve read it if you want me to (mission impossible style), just say so in it. I have a variety of different [...]

Justifying the cost of attending a4uexpo is easy for most experienced affiliates, and certainly for those who attended the 2007 event, as they know that it will pay for itself many, many times over. For those just embarking on their Affiliate Marketing careers however, it’s a hell of a lot of money to risk. By [...]

Getting set up with a website seems so much easier these days. Pick up a free CMS like Wordpress, find some nice free theme like Revolution, create content with the various content options from the likes of Paid on Results, Affiliate Window or Buy.at, and then grab yourself some content through sites like Kieron’s new .... Continue Reading

Award winning affiliate manager Chris Clarkson has suggested on his Pfft that perhaps it’s time for praise to be lavished on the content sites of affiliate land, especially since the “Merchants Publisher of the Year” was content site light in terms of nomination. Joe from Cantbarsed has responded to this by pointing out that out of .... Continue Reading

Ian Ebbs recently announced on Affiliates4u that thanks to his Affiliate Marketing success, he is leaving the dreary shores of the UK to travel the world for several months, before deciding where in the world he would like to settle down. I’ve known Ian for a few years now, and despite being a Blackburn Rovers [...]

No merchant likes their affiliate program to be criticised or questioned on a forum or a blog! In an ideal world it wouldn’t happen. Everything would work well and we’d all back slap each other from here to eternity as the affiliate marketing machine kerchings at every turn. Sadly affiliate marketing life isn’t like that - .... Continue Reading

I celebrated my 1000th post on affiliates4u by letting everyone know that we have booked our round the world tickets and are off at the end of August and we won’t be coming back! (except for holidays) In the next six months i’ll be in Barbados (thanks AF & Sunshine.co.uk) then back for some English [...]

Back in January, I introduced the “Muppet of the Week” award. Rather surprisingly, given that I do like to have a good old moan on these blog pages, there’s only been four winners of said “weekly” award in the last five months - Stan James, Cleverat, Ladbrokes and iLevel. Well, I’m “pleased” to announce the [...]

I know many affiliates out there spend hours, days, weeks or even months developing a website and getting it chocka full of content and then if like me, the next step is a dreaded one. I simply HATE link building. I HATE it with a passion. Not that I am unsociable, but I simply can’t [...]

Purely Diamonds are very excited to announce that they have just launched their affiliate program with AffiliateWindow. Purely Diamonds have been in the diamond industry for over 30 years. They are specialists in the design and manufacture of diamond jewellery—everything from rings and earrings to bracelets, bangles and pendants. They are also experts in the manufacture [...]

Play.com Affiliate Program The Play.com Affiliate Program is on Affiliate Window, and pays up to 6% commission. As you would expect from a market-leader with a very strong brand, conversions on site are very high indeed, with an average conversion rate reported of 8.5%, on an average basket value of £45.00 per order. There are a [...]