Archive for September, 2007
GetUpdated.co.uk - everything you need to market online
I came across these guys the other week, when their sister company Affiliator placed a long term advertisement on my blog. They didn’t mess about, they just got in touch, introduced themselves and said - hey we’re serious about becoming a player in the UK affiliate market and want a long term ad on your [...]
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A4U Awards - the votes are in!
The first round of voting has been completed and the finalists have now been announced for the A4U Awards 2007. I’m delighted and honoured to be nominated in the “Affiliate Marketing Blog of 2007″ category, so many thanks to everyone who voted for me. Here are the finalists in full, please vote for your favourites [...]
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PreviewMyPPC.com – preview your ppc ads on the 3 major search engines
When I’m creating Pay Per Click campaigns, the most important thing to me is creating compelling ad copy that will provoke users to click on my ads.
If this wasn’t difficult enough then you also have to work within the guidelines of the paid search engine you are working on. So for Google AdWords for example [...]
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Short-Term Discount Codes
There has been quite a bit of discussion on the A4U forum lately regarding time limited discount codes. These type of codes are usually only live for anything from 2 hours to 2 days. In general these short term codes haven’t been received well by affiliates. Not having the time to implement a discount code [...]
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Affiliate Marketing – Merchants Survey Report 2007
Below is a press release talking about the key findings from the Merchants Survey Report 2007 that was produced by E-Consultancy in association with Buy.at.
Normally I don’t like to reproduce press releases here but I’ve read the report and found it to be a really interesting read (with lots of pie charts too!) So what [...]
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New blog design coming very soon
Apologies for the lack of posts over the couple of days. I’ve decided to redesign the blog and bring it up to date a bit as well as adding a bit more functionality. Hopefully it will be live tomorrow (Wednesday).
What I’m listening to right now: Eric Roberson – “We Can’t Pretend”
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Thankyou…
Just a quick note to say thanks to a few people, starting with my sponsors.
Buy.at
Buy.at were my first and longest standing sponsor. One of my favourite networks and fantastic people.
a4u Expo
The biggest and best affiliate marketing conference in the UK. If you’re not going, why not?
Affiliate Summit
Affiliate Summit London is nearly sold out, then next February [...]
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How to get around Google’s ban of advertising gambling sites using AdWords
We all know that you can’t advertise gambling sites using Google AdWords. So how do you get round it? Well, up until recently you could create sites that provided tips, tutorials and the like. However in June Google got wind of this and banned these sites too. So what do you do? Easy, you advertise [...]
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(user generated) content really is King, appreciate your commentators and some more blogging tips
Yep its an old chestnut, we all know that Google loves content; fresh regularly updated content. But generating content is a pain in the backside, its very very time consuming to write good quality content regularly.
So, what better than to encourage your visitors to write it for you? This is what happened with my recent Prince Concert Review [...]
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Blogging Tips
As you can probably tell from my last post I’ve been doing loads of research into blogs (see? I didn’t say “the blogosphere”) lately. And while I’ve found some good/average/bad/awful blogs a few common mistakes have really come to light, so I thought I’d publish a few tips here on ways to enhance your blog.
1. Tell [...]
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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.
