Monthly Archives: August 2007

APS CashPlus affiliate program – be careful

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Kieron

Now I have a prepaid credit card site so I was interested to see the APD CashPlus affiliate program launch on Affiliate Window. However I wasn’t so happy to see some of their terms and conditions, namely: “You must make every endeavour to generate at least 50 activated card sales per month” This was very worrying, so I voiced my concerns on the appropriate thread on the A4U forum, no response. So I emailed the agency who are looking after … Continue reading →

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Buy.at launch ContentEngine – easy way to add latest offers and content to your site

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Kieron

I first got involved with Beta trials for the Buy.at ContentEngine about� 3 years ago in 2004 BT (Before Tyson)� at the time when Buy.at where in their old Newcastle offices, and only employed a handful of staff. At the time I thought it was a really cool, useful and easy to use tool. And it is. However since then the company has been concentrating on expanding and becoming one of the biggest Affiliate Networks in the UK. And now … Continue reading →

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A4U Expo Affiliate Marketing Conference – Early Bird discount ends tomorrow!

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Kieron

We all know that the A4U Expo is going to be the biggest and best Affiliate Marketing Conference in the UK this year, if you want to save £100 on the affiliate delegate rate then be sure to register before midnight (GMT)� Friday 31st August. Yes thats tomorrow. I’ll be participating on the following panel, so if you want to come and� buy me a Peroni� ask me questions then in would be great to see you. Meet The Super … Continue reading →

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David Hawk is wrong – the Affiliate Marketing Industry is alive and kicking

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Kieron

David Hawk is wrong, wrong, wrong. His recent article entitled “How the affiliate marketing industry killed itself” is so biased to the bad apples of our industry that I can only assume it was wrote as link bait. What also saddened me was people like Lee and Linda� agree with him, surely you don’t guys? Anyway, here is why David is completely and utterly wrong. First of all David’s article talks about brand name bidding affiliates and how merchants have … Continue reading →

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Blog traffic and popularity and what this blog is all about

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Kieron

I meant to post about this a while ago, but forgot. Anyway Dfinitive.com posted a few weeks ago a list of the Top 30 UK Affiliate Marketing Websites according to Alexa. It was cool to see that mine was the top blog listed. I was also pleased to see that out of the 28 blogs listed in the “Affiliate Programs – Weblogs” category in Alexa� that I was number 2 overall. And number 1 was given to Linda, over in … Continue reading →

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