Monthly Archives: January 2006

One of the things that I find frustrating with *every* UK affiliate network is the process of adding bonuses, commission adjustments and compensations to your account. Let’s take bonuses for example. Now don’t get me wrong, bonus incentives are great as they give us reasons to push particular merchants with the promise of extra cash for doing so. But what I find very frustrating is that there are lots of merchants now who have a tiered pricing structure in place. … Continue reading →

Received an invite to an exclusive affiliate party from one of the major affiliate networks the other day. Unfortunately I can’t attend as I will be out of the country in February when it is planned. However I almost wish I wasn’t as the invitation promises “free food, free bar and a VIP private screening of the cult classic, Pulp Fiction, this event is not to be missed“. Really gutted I am missing this one, lets hope we have many … Continue reading →

In response to some of the comments from my last blog I thought I’d post some of the reasoning as to why I use PPC instead of SEO. Well I guess the biggest reason has to be how instantaneous PPC can be. If I happen to come across an opportunity (lets say the Crazy Frog approx. 1 year ago) I can quite literally build a landing page/site and have a campaign up in a matter of minutes. From there I … Continue reading →

One of the main irritants in Affiliate Marketing has to be when merchants feature telephone numbers on their creative (banners). Why? Well it pretty much cuts out the need for a user to actually click the ad then purchase online. Let’s say I spend about £8,000 a day (I do) on driving highly targetted visitors to my site. I really need to ensure that my site has landing pages that really urge the user to click through and then hopefully … Continue reading →

Hello and Happy New Year to everyone! Let me just say that one of my resolutions is to update this blog more often (he says 15 days after his last post). I’ve been literally inundated with emails from both my regular readers asking if I could update more often. So who am I to deny them! Well that’s the plan at least. I have to say that it has been a very HNY so far too. Traffic and sales have … Continue reading →