Archive for January, 2008
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Yes its true, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That was my thought when I saw this design contest over at SitePoint. Here are some highlights:
Some blog sites styles and layout I really like are:
ukoffer.com - (my site)
shoppingdiscount.co.uk - (Frosties site)
Links – In some blogs they use affiliate links, how do they cover up [...]
5 reasons I don’t want to see another “Top 5 reasons…” list. Ever.
This guest post on Patrick’s blog (a good blog normally) was the straw that broke the camels back.
I’m a big fan of blogs and have about 50 bookmarked that I visit regularly. However lately I’ve noticed more and more posts starting with “5 reasons….” and to be honest I’m getting really bored with them. I [...]
Didn’t have the operation…again
This time I didn’t even make it down to the operating theatre.
Basically, after turning up at the hospital this morning I was told that they couldn’t go ahead with the operation as I was taking aspirin (as prescriped by my consultant). Long and short of it is that the consultant should have told me to stop taking [...]
Guest post from Rob Berrisford
The following is a guest post from Rob Berrisford as I’m in hospital at the moment:
Reading recently about how EU MP’s are considering tighter controls for online marketing with particular interest on behavioural targeting, I considered how this will affect affiliate marketing.
One of the catalysts for this threat of increased regulation is the merger between [...]
Interview with Al Carlton, Super Blogger and owner of Coolest-Gadgets.com
Al Carton is the owner of Coolest-Gadgets.com which as you can guess is a blog about gadgets. However unlike a lot of other gadget blogs it has a massive reach (over 72,000 RSS readers at time of writing) and makes Al a good deal of money.
When Al launched his first site he earned less than [...]
Do you run a fashion or offers site?
Do you run a fashion site/blog? If so then why not promote SecretSales.com? With new sales starting every week from designer labels where customers can save up to 80% off retail price, conversion rates are very healthy.
Maybe you run an offers site? If so then below are just a few of the current special offers [...]
Jaguar XF gets “Car of the Year” award. I’m disappointed
What Car have named the new Jaguar XF the Car of the Year 2008. What a disappointment.
Why am I disappointed? Well when Jaguar announced the C-XF Concept in early 2007 it was met with universal acclaim. Everybody (including me) loved it. It was fresh, modern looking and just damned cool. Here’s some pics so you can [...]
New advertising opportunity, request for guest bloggers and North East meet
Stripe Ads
A few weeks ago I launched “Stripe Ads” on this blog. A Stripe Ad is basically the cream coloured strip that sits at the top of the page and contains a text link. Its a great way to adevrtise your product/service on this blog and I’m only charging £75 a month, with no minimum [...]
LKP - I’m Ready: Quality R&B from Newcastle
Anyone reading my blog regularly will know I’m a huge fan of R&B music. However its not often that I get to listen to real quality R&B from the North East, especially Newcastle!
Until that is I heard “I’m Ready” by LKP, a Newcastle based artist. The track has already been picked up by 1 Extra [...]
How NOT to run an affiliate programme
Warning rant ahead.
So, you’ve launched an affiliate programme, here’s a couple of golden rules on what NOT to do.
1. Don’t bother approving affiliates
I applied to the Nike Store affiliate programme on TradeDoubler just after Christmas and today about 3 weeks later I’m still waiting to be approved. Now I know that a lot of people [...]
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.
