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Time to Clean Up! Ive been meaning to write about this for a couple weeks but have been a tad busy with various pressing matters so here goes. The announcement in question from Google can be read here. Basically this means that the actual display url used in adwords PPC adverts will have to match EXACTLY the [...]

Quick and Easy way to Make Phrase and Exact Match Keywords One of the most time consuming aspects of manually entering keywords into a PPC campaign on Google Adwords is having to put speech marks (phrase) or brackets (exact) around keywords you wish to use on these options. Now unless im being stupid there is no way [...]

CPC, CPA, PPA? Eh? If you are new to affiliate marketing you may well be daunted by some of the jargon that flies around the industry blogs or in conversation with merchants. Ive started this post to explain some of the abbreviations and jargon that surround marketing online, not only affiliate marketing. Lets start with a good [...]

Purely Diamonds has been running it’s affiliate program with AffiliateWindow for the last couple of months, being very pleased with the interest [...]

Yesterday I was invited to tinker with affiliatefuture’s new affiliate software - using the affiliate future voucher code webservice to populate a website with discount voucher code and affiliate links. More info and get the software here It took about 2 minuites to install the basic setup, then I had a functional discount voucher site, nice. The [...]

Purely Diamonds now has a range of Branded Widgets available through AffiliateWindow. Don’t know what branded widgets are? They are banner alternatives, that incorporate product images and prices from the product feed. They take 2 minuites to set up and are available in a wide range of sizes. Log into AffiliateWindow and click on Content Widgets on [...]

I’ve finally got round to confirming my acceptance as a speaker at the A4U Expobeing held at the London ExCeL in October. I am due to join 3 other’s representing all 4 corners of the affiliate industry, Hero Grigoraki (Client Services Director, Webgains), Richard Clark (Marketing Manager, DSG International PLC) and someone from the agency Equator [...]

I’ve just received a phonecall from Fiona over at Equator agency, and was informed that i’ve won another competition! Wickes (on the Affiliate Window network) ran a competition over the past few weeks where the prize up for grabs was a complete Avalon Bathroom worth over £1200! Over 6 weeks affiliates had to send at least one sale [...]

Merchant pays Network late = Network pays Affiliate late = We’ve all been there and we know this is the business model adopted by some of the larger networks, the ones who can afford not to adopt this model surprisingly. But what options are available to us affiliates who month in, month out, get [...]

It’s time to reveal a major new venture that is being undertaken by several leading Affiliates. House Price Spy was established a couple of years ago, however at the end of last year the decision was taken to expand the site’s horizons and see if House Price Spy could be made into a major force [...]

On Wednesday I was at the Bristol a4uexpo Road Show and had a really great time, it was like an event of old! However it was lacking a bit on Affiliate attendance so you can’t have it every way, however the people that did turn up and stayed the course until the early hours. I [...]

Last week the BBC published an article about spam and a video accompanying it unfairly shows one of my websites Free UK Stuff, while talking about spam. I am pleased to say that after publishing this blog post and having received a number of blog posts (see list at the bottom of this message), forum [...]

Thanks to Martin for sending round this pretty cool blog post about the life cycle of a umm Blog Post!  Check it out here http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/ff_secretlife_1602.  To zoom in on the diagram click and hold!

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The voucher code affiliate story trundles on and a new chapter is underway. The old style devious, dodgy and underhand techniques of iframes and cookie stuffing have gone and now (just in time for the Christmas rush) every man and his dog can become a the owner of a voucher code site - “just like .... Continue Reading

A lot of merchants run competitions or promotions. Most don’t pay for leads, but then most don’t ask affiliates to push this aspect of their site as part of their affiliate program. Occasionally though a merchant might run a lead part to their program and ask affiliates to promote them. Last week MFI (Buy.at) decided .... Continue Reading

Things happen in affiliate marketing that you have to accept. For example The Sun have decided to change their bingo platform from Tombola over to a bespoke offering from Jackpotjoy. The site is due to launch next week. Because of this change, the affiliate program was terminated at the start of August - and compensation .... Continue Reading

Hannah from Mobiles.co.uk has laid down the challenge, can you come up with the wildest and weirdest way possible to destroy the Samsung U600 phone. This guy put his iphone in the blender, got a similar idea?!! Check out swifty7’s post if you want to destroy the phone, just be warned, the phone’s may take revenge! I considered [...]

I have just posted thread on a4u about this, but thought it worth adding here too, as there is slightly different audience here and I wanted to reach as many affiliates as possible. Kitbag are running a banner advert on their site at present, which is directing traffic to a competition run by another affiliate. If you [...]

Much like Microsoft affiliates4u have thrown together a new release of the a4u site and are now letting users help them test it whilst it is live. Unlike Microsoft this is actually the best way to go for a4u, as the idea is to improve the user experience, so direct testing will produce the [...]