Archive for April, 2005
More affiliate blogs
If like me you love reading blogs then here’s a few that may be of interest. They are all from people involved in Affiliate Marketing. First, here’s some from the UK…
Keith’s Affiliate BlogUK Affiliate Blog - KandevilOne Little Duck - A Siteowner’s TaleWelsh Web Wonderbird
And a few from over the pond in the US…
Adventures in [...]
I have a confession….
Well it’s official, I’m a gadget geek. I’ve had a Motorola V3 mobile phone since they came out late last year. I’m very happy with it too, it’s served me really well and has just about everything I could ask for in a mobile.
But then they have to go and release a limited edition [...]
Ideas and Domain Names
I was reading the Affiliates 4U forum today as I do every day and I saw someone posting that they had a site all ready and go for the new Sony PSP. This triggered a distant memory and after looking in my web hosting account I discovered that I registered the domain PSPshop.co.uk in May [...]
Tip for the day!
One of the biggest problems that we have as webmasters is the amount of spam we receive to the various inboxes we have for our affiliate websites. This is mainly due to the fact that we all have a “contact us” page which clearly displays an email address. Spambots crawl the web and harvest these [...]
Radio 1’s Big Weekend
Not doing any work today I simply can’t be bothered. Instead I’ve been watching with interest the activities surrounding the Radio 1 Big Weekend tickets that went on sale today. Radio 1 are giving away 15,000 tickets for each day and according to the Sunderland Echo tickets have sold out for the Saturday event already. [...]
I’ve heard of short notice but this is ridiculous…
I had an email today from DGM that was sent at 2.30pm. It was a request from one of their merchants, iwantoneofthose.com and it basically asked all affiliates to adhere to some guidelines such as abuse of URL’s, keyword bidding and trademark infringement. The email also came with an excel spreadsheet attachment “affiliate check list”. [...]
Advertising Standards Authority
Had a phone call today from the Advertising Standards Authority which is never a good thing. Apparently they had received a complaint about a page on my website promoting a certain telecom service. To give them their dues they were very polite and seemed very switched on as they asked if the ad on the [...]
Mobile Phones
I only dabble a bit with mobile phones but today I received my monthly report of the reversal rates for the month previous for one particular merchant. Now unfortunately with mobiles you do tend to expect a certain degree of reversals maybe 20% to 30% or so. However mine was slightly over 60%. Of course [...]
House shopping
This is my first blog for 4 days so apologies if anyone has been visiting this page every day waiting with baited breath for the next installment of my blog - yeah, as if!!
Anyway, I’ve been really busy with personal stuff since my last post. Basically all of last week I started to feel the [...]
Not a good day
Well I don’t often get them but today was officially a “bad” day.
It started off with a trip to the accountant where they gave me good news and bad news. The good news was that “you are doing very well Mr. Donoghue”. The bad news was that they have finally completed my last yearend accounts [...]
Welcome to my blog. My name is Kieron Donoghue and I run UK Offer Media Ltd. I thought it would be fun to post a daily (well hopefully daily) blog, writing about my experiences in Internet Marketing and more specifically Affiliate Marketing. I'll include some personal stuff too, probably about my other passions, music and cars. Please feel free to post your comments and thoughts too.
