Affiliate Odyssey

When I started this blog, a short 3 weeks ago, I finished the first few posts with a summary of the day’s affiliate activity - losses, CTRs, etc.
I’ve now put  a “Tale of the Tape” graphic into the sidebar showing the same information and I plan to keep this updated each day.
As you can see, [...]

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I came to Derek Beauchemin’s blog via a post Amit Mehta made and boy am I glad I did.
Quite how Derek manages to come up with so many content-rich, informative articles and still run an affiliate business, I don’t know but his blog is an absolute treasure trove.
I decided to write a review for 2 [...]

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Emmie Matthews & Ed Stevens, a pair of UK affiliate marketers, managed to win an investment of £200,000 from Theo Paphitis on tonight’s episode of Dragon’s Den.
Their company, Gaming Alerts Ltd, sets up comparison and offer sites for bingo, poker and betting.
I’m still trying to get my head around how this is a good investment [...]

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Amit had a great post today about a common mistake made by AdWords beginners. I’ll leave you to read his advice, but suffice it to say, it’s a mistake I too have made.
I’ve been doing client work for the past two days so I paused my campaign until I can spend some time on my [...]

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The 5 day test is over and I’ve learned a lot about AdWords, which was the whole point of the exercise.
CPC has come down to £0.36 which is pretty cool which gave me an idea:
I was already split testing two ads, obviously sending them to the same page on my site which, because of its [...]

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