Archive for December, 2008
Graze now have an affiliate scheme
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
I’ve previously written about graze.com
The fantastic news is that they now have an affiliate scheme.
They’re also running a launch competition with prizes of £1000, £200 & £100
This is sure to be a fantastic programme, so get yourself over to Affiliate Window now & sign up.
They also have some fantastic looking creative (more…)
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Speaking of SEO….
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Greetings All,
You may remember, I posted an SEO friendly theme for wordpress a while ago. I’ve been using it for this blog in all it’s ugly unstyled glory since then & I’ve spotted some interesting results. I posted about Spotify Registration being opened up to UK users the other day & almost instantly I found myself in the number one spot on google for spotify registration. That’s quite impressive given that I have no pagerank & pretty much no backlinks! Now if only they had an affiliate scheme….
TTFN
BFG
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Natural Search Results – Fixed – Google Farted
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
My last post was about how we’d taken a hammering in google for some of our more popular terms. It seems that things have righted themselves – it looks like we reappeared late on Sunday.
I have no explanation for what happened – I’ve decided that I’m going to refer to it as – Google Farted.
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Natural Search Results Have Taken a Hammering
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Greetings All,
I’m fairly pissed off today.
We’ve always done very well in natural search on google (well, at least since a couple of weeks after launch).
Today however, we’ve noticed that natural traffic has slowed to a crawl. I had a quick look around & although we do very well for some terms (command strips, mpro 110 for example) some of the terms we used to rank very highly for seem to have taken a beating. We used to fluctuate between 1st, 2nd & third for 3m, now we’re on page 2. We used to be around 7th or 8th for computer accessories, now we’re nowhere to be seen.
I dug into webmaster tools to see if I could see what was happening & (more…)
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Are You Feeling Brave?
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Well, are you? Firebox have recently launched the ‘ Mystery Box ‘.
They’re available in 3 sizes – Standard (£14.99), Deluxe (£19.95) & Super Deluxe (£29.95).
They’re also available in both ‘for him’ & ‘for her’ flavours.
You’ll save upto £15.00 on the normal value of the contents (all currently available on the site seperately at full price).
And…… If you buy before christmas – you might just find the keys to a £1000 Ego Electric Street Scoota in your box
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Quidco’s SureShop Agreement – Do cashback sites add any value?
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
I got an email last night asking me to accept Quidco’s Sureshop Agreement.
In a nutshell, the agreement is that I will resolve any queries within 30 days of them being raised or they will auto-approve. Now I don’t have an issue with the 30 day timeframe, but it did make me think about whether or not cashback sites in general add any value. (more…)
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URGENT – Stop Using Internet Explorer
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Internet Explorer is badly flawed.
MS are working on an update to fix this vulnerability now – but until the fix is released YOU ARE AT RISK.
UPDATE : It’s been fixed :-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7788687.stm
&
http://tech.uk.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=11984472
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Google Chrome is out of beta
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Greetings All,
Is it really 100 days since google released Chrome?
In that short period of time they’ve hit 10,000,000 (that’s ten million) active users. Wow!
It’s just been announced on the official google blog that it’s out of beta as of now.
You can get version 1.0 here
TTFN
BFG
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Spotify Registration is Now Open
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Greetings All,
Upscaling Servers Makes Sense Doesn’t it !
I’ve just spotted that Spotify registration is now open (if you’re in the UK).
Previously you had to be invited.
N.B. – Sorry Guys, I have no more invites available – please stop asking.
If you like Spotify, then you’ll love Share My Playlists.
I’d recommend this to anyone, it’s like having the biggest itunes library in the world, without any of the cost.
All the music is streamed live over the web – really really quickly.
TTFN
BFG
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The Problem with cookie free tracking
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Greetings all,
I had an issue the other day with sales appearing in the network account that I knew shouldn’t have been tracked.
The majority of these sales were staff members & a few were trade (account) orders that the telesales staff had keyed manually onto the site.
I investigated this further & discovered that the network was using the IP Address to track the sale.
With my affiliate hat on, this is all well & good, as it’s likely to minimise leakage, however once I delve a little deeper, it’s just plain wrong. (more…)
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