Internet Marketing Blogs UK

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 [...]

We informed you about our new Search Web Services some weeks ago (blog post July 2nd). All missing parameters are now added to the new SWS and the end user guide was updated ("Additional Search Filters", page 4 - 6)....

After a successful beta-test we have launched a new version of our API. With the new AbeBooks Search Web Services (SWS) you will have access to more than 110 million books in a flexible and easy way. The new SWS...

Well, the time has come for me to leave AbeBooks, it has been a great five plus years in both Victoria, Canada and Düsseldorf, Germany. I want to thank all the affiliates for the wonderful work and effort they have...

Please.  I’m trying to travel around Europe not moderate comments!

It really fucks up the writing editor.  I wondered what was going on just now…

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 [...]

Congratulations to Mark Batty from Woolworths who entered the business card draw at the end of the awards ceremony on Thursday.

Mark has won a pair of tickets to this year’s a4uexpo, held on the 14th & 15th October.

Well done!

Affiliate Summit Boston 2008 is now sold out as seminar rooms have reached capacity. There is a great agenda published, what’s going to be your must attend sessions? See the full agenda here

Buy.at are promising that this years will be bigger and better than last years, and there will be an open bar and food available! To take place on Wednesday May 14th, at 1pm in a central London location yet to be announced, but they are now taking registrations. With only space for 250 people, if [...]

buy.at’s annual festive event is back and this year its set to be a Cracker! For those that have never attended a Christmas Cracker, the event is designed to provide an opportunity to network, build relationships and most of all to thank buy.at clients for their hard work over the past year! Xmas Cracker [...]

So you have a new web site up. You have worked hard and put together a great looking site. It’s got all the right things - great content, slick graphics, and it’s in a niche that has loads of searches. You have heard how easy it is to get yourself on the web and into [...]

Headlines that work magic for a newspaper may fetch zero visitors for online media. Yes, headline fetches and turns a browsing human being into a reader. This is the gateway that makes the viewer make a decision within fraction of a second to enter your page. If your headline is not strong enough you loose the [...]

A regular question I see posted on Affiliate Forums and newsgroups is “what program should I promote”? I think a rule of thumb for life in general is “follow your heart”. In other words, simply promote the product you are passionate about. That passion will give you the adrenaline rush you need to sit down [...]

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 [...]