Archive for the ‘Affiliate Stuff’ Category

Google Adwords Displaying Products

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Greetings All,

I know that this has been in testing since 2007 but I’ve been seeing it more & more often recently.

What happens is that you search for a product & when the results are displayed you see the normal adwords ads, but one of them (this can be above the results or on the right hand side) will have a hidden div & the text “Show products from RETAILER for SEARCHTERM” it might look like this (at the top):-
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Blog posts I want to write

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Greetings All,

Unfortunately, I’ve been completely snowed under at work recently & have been neglecting this blog.
I have a list of things I want to write about but haven’t yet managed to….

Here’s the list :- (more…)

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Perry Belcher Loves Post-it Notes

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Here’s a productivity boosting video from Perry – it’s only about 5 minutes long & is certainly worth watching. If you’re in the UK, you can (more…)

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Twitter only competitions – vanity, insanity or genius

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Greetings All,

Any twitterers out there may have seen some twitter based competitions, @johnchow & @shoemoney are a couple that spring to mind.

It’s an interesting idea – basically to enter you need to follow them on twitter & send a tweet to all your followers that you’ve entered by following them & (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 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

Try it now! (more…)

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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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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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