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A4u Awards Ticket £0.99p …. bargain

Max — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:15:08 +0000

Want to go to the A4U Awards ? More Info Here

For 99p ? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170221504592&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:GB:1123

Sunshine are running a charity auction and with 5 hours to go its at 99p a bargain if you ever see one

I’d bid myself but I’m busy on the day shame.

The Manchester Meet…

Max — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:39:49 +0000

Just thought I’d do a quick post blog about the meet up we had in

Manchester on Friday. It was a nice relaxed event with a mixture of agencies, a few network staff and some affiliates. A good mix I’d say. It was hosted by R.O.Eye who are an excellent agency who run several programs. They are in my eyes the best agency I know in the Industry and got my vote for agency of the year in the a4u awards voting. The affiliates I talked to were of different levels, some had been doing it for a long time, others were new to it and hadn’t tried it before and were simply interesting in finding out more. It was good to listen to other affiliates and share some information/advice and tips as well as have a general chat about it. It’s always good to be able to put a face to the name you’ve been chatting to by email or on msn. Overall the event was definitely worth me going to , if not just for the free drinks and food which looking back I should have taken some of the food back to fellow starving students in my flat who have run there loans down to the ground and are living off rivita and Sainsburys basic cheese I will be looking forward to the next event that I come across in the near future and working with people who I met for the first time or continuing and pushing more sales.

My Blog … 4,312 spams caught for you since you first installed it.

Max — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:48:47 +0000

Quick Post, after reading Keiths Post here it got me thinking about blog spam.

If you own a blog and get lots of spam comments then install this

My blog stats are as stands: Akismet has caught 4,312 spam for you since you first installed it.

Not that bad, wander what others blogs have got, I bet Kieron’s has caught a lot since its very popular

A week today… Manchester Meet Up

Max — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:46:32 +0000

Just to let you all know there’s going to be a Manchester Meet up on the 23rd of May, which is a week today.

Date: Friday 23rd May.
Time: From 1pm
Location: Manchester Rain Bar

It can be found here: M1 5JG - Google Maps

It’s at 80 Great Bridgewater Street, near Deansgate Locks and Manchester Central (formally G-Mex.)

Richard and Michelle from R.O.EYE will be attending. We’ve laid on some food for 2pm and there will be plenty of free beer for anyone who is interested!

It’s available from 1pm onwards and we suspect the majority of those attending will come for the afternoon. Can you please reply or PM me if you will be arriving after 6pm so we can get ideas on how long the area needs to be available from?

Who’s up for it? Affiliates, merchants, agencies and networks are all welcome. The more the merrier. ”

I’ll be making an appearance earlier on about 1pm. Will be good to have a few beers and chat. So if your able to get there then make sure you do. When you’re there don’t forget to come say hey to me

Ups and Downs of Google on my revenue

Max — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:52:07 +0000

Google really has a massive grip on us affiliates. If google decided not to like my site it could cut my revenue massively. And recently it has been having an affect on me. One of my established sites which has been No.1 in google for a term for 3 months plus has been moving around from 1st to 3rd. I’ve put a little table showing the difference in Revenue a position or 2 does to me.

As I know people like seeing real figures and not just talk so I’ve used the real figures that i’ve recieved.

Position #1 £72.30 , £74.60 , £93.50, £57.70 , £81.42

Position #2 £63.45 , £59.40 , £49.96 , £60.30 , £55.70

Position #3 £37.50 , £31.63 , £41.65 , £44.45 , £39.98

Now these are just different days, not in any order but just from the position that google had me in, shows that it can vary from the max over last 2 weeks or so was £93.50 and the lowest was £31.63 a difference of £60 odd which if you add up over a month is £1800 which is a big difference !

Obviously this doesnt take into account general different day stats, such as week days when its lower than weekends etc, but it still shows quite a difference.

Google rules me and its scary.

Unsuccessful PPC … it doesn’t always work

Max — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:48:37 +0000

I’ve had many a successful ppc campaign over the 2 years i’ve been in affiliate marketing, but it’s not always the case. Often i’ve ran ppc campaigns and they haven’t been profitable. It’s not as easy as adding some keywords, making an advert and seeing the cpc turning a profit !

Recently i’ve been doing some direct PPC to some merchants to find that the CPC and conversion rate isn’t worthy of me carrying on. Direct PPC can be great but it doesn’t always work like you want it too. One of the reasons my PPC campaign didnt become profitable was as I was competiting directly with other merchants and not other affiliates thus they would make a bigger mark up on a sale than I would. So they could afford to push the price of each click up more.

When is the stop off period ? how long should I let it go before I pull the ad ? People have various ideas on this, but I generally wait till either 200 clicks have been done, 2 days of the ad, or if a limit of around £100 has been reached before I look into an ad and see if I should pull it.

The point is, if a campaign you run isn’t successful at first then maybe it won’t be overall.

Max has Mumps :(

Max — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:12:11 +0000

Bad news for me, woke up friday morning after only getting in that night at 4:30 am to find my neck was twice the size and looked a cross between a 22 stone guy and a hamster

So i’m quite i’ll at the moment with Mumps and can’t get much work done either affiliate or revision.

Things/Blog Posts to look forward to (coming soon)

The Uk Rich List
Unsucessful PPC
Up’s and Downs of Google
Meet Ups

1000 Balloons 1 Bedroom £70

Max — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:11:21 +0000

Quick post although I haven’t been posting much on my blog recently (sorry lack of time, lots work going on affiliate wise for me not much time for posting) I have been having fun in my uni accommadation

Friend went away for a week… we climbed in through his window, emptied his room into the kitchen and set it up as it was there. Then over 4 days bought around 1200 balloons and blow most of them up and filled his room with them. It did take a very long time and we did regret not buying a electric pump to help us along, but all in all a fun time His reaction was classic

p.s Still looking for more partnerships for affiliate sites. Get in touch via the contact me page.

Past couple of weeks

Max — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:12:40 +0000

Just a quick update, its been a while since I posted on the blog, theres no major reason why i’ve not posted but the usual one of me being busy is one of them. I’m aiming to post a lot more next week (fingers crossed).

A few things

I’m potentially looking to do some partnerships with some other affiliates. So if your interested, maybe have an idea and want to do it in a partnership get in touch with me.
Google Adwords new url policy comes into action next month, Not allowing direct ppc to merchants I believe
Finally, Sunshine.co.uk are running an amazing competition to win a Apple Macbook Air … now these things are amazing. Whats more to enter all you have to do is put a link on a website for them. Only 150 entries so far so the odds are amazing, You can sign up to them through Affiliate Future.

An Interview with … Me

Max — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:28:30 +0000

Just thought I’d direct you all to an interview with me that Kirsty did. She’s doing three interviews this week named “Meet the Real Affiliates” basically interviews with affiliates who aren’t the super affiliates that interviews normally take place with.

Today’s interview with me can be found here, and the interview with Ray can be found here.

Check out her blog it’s a great read, and has loads of useful tips. AffiliateStuff.co.uk