Monthly Archives: August 2005

I have a couple of domain names listed for sale on Sedo, and one in particular which gets a lot of attention. Namely: www.pokeronline.co.uk which I get almost daily offers of around $200 or so for. Anyway I’m sad to say that I have just turned down an offer of $42,000 with a potential buyer after a couple of weeks of negotiation. So why turn down $42,000 I hear you say? Well I think it’s worth more. The reason being … Continue reading →

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, fair or unfair, closed Pay Per Click campaign groups are part of life in the “affiliate space”. (BTW I hate the term “affiliate space” it reminds me too much of corporate mumbo jumbo new media luvvy darling type speak). Anyway…where was I? Oh yes, closes ppc campaigns. Well I’m a part of a few and they are usually done on a first come first served basis. I.e. whoever has been promoting the merchant the longest … Continue reading →

Nothing much new to report, still plugging away at the redesign of UKoffer.com. Am taking a slightly different approach to the new site and am asking some merchants to “sponsor” certain parts of the site. I.e. to pay for a recommended listing on certain channels and have their brand featured above others. So far this approach is proving successful with quite a few merchants signed up. There are also some merchants who have offered unique content units and special offers. … Continue reading →

Spending every spare minute redesigning UKOffer at the moment and it’s very boring work. It just seems to take forever, one of these days I’ll learn how to use a database and clever script type stuff which may save time. Anyway, as a bit of light refief here is the first installment of a new occasional series entitled….. Affiliate sites that seemed like a good idea at the time but which I couldn’t really be bothered to finish properly. Don’t … Continue reading →

Got an invite today from Google AdWords to participate in their longer ad text Beta program. Basically what this means is that they are running a trial where instead of a maximum of 70 characters in the ad description field you can now have up to 200. The title, display URL and destination URL all remain unchanged. Google have only given me the option of using this new format on one ad group, which they have picked for me. They … Continue reading →