Monthly Archives: January 2008

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Kieron

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 affiliate links e.g here http://www.ukoffer.com/ they have this link, which redirects? http://www.ukoffer.com/u.php?121 Sitemap – like here http://www.shoppingdiscount.co.uk/sitemap it should list all … Continue reading →

Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging | 17 Comments

5 reasons I don’t want to see another “Top 5 reasons…” list. Ever.

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Kieron

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 don’t know if somewhere someone is selling an eBook on how to be a good blogger that states that they must have at least … Continue reading →

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Didn’t have the operation…again

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Kieron

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 the aspirin 11 days before the op. And as he didn’t there was a chance that if they operated on me today … Continue reading →

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Guest post from Rob Berrisford

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Kieron

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 Google and DoubleClick. With this acquisition Google now has access to even more information than before, meaning they have some pretty interesting information … Continue reading →

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Interview with Al Carlton, Super Blogger and owner of Coolest-Gadgets.com

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Kieron

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 $25 in his first month from Google AdSense. However 2 and a half years later Coolest-Gadgets earned $61.5k in December 2007. Not bad at … Continue reading →

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