Archive for 'General'

Networks Who Can’t Track Clicks

Posted on 10. Oct, 2008 by Clarke.

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After my blog post last week, Networks Get Your Own Merchant Content Correct. It’s time to highlight yet another thing that annoys me as it’s asked far to often and you would think with all the razzmatazz Networks make about how wonderful their tracking is that the following question would not be getting asked as [...]

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Parents Council and Affiliate Marketing

Posted on 07. Oct, 2008 by Clarke.

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I am about to undertake an experiment to see if one small primary school in Glasgow can get parents, staff, friends, family and the local community spending online via a website setup and run by parents in the schools Parents Council. I am interested in seeing if we can get the 5,000+ households in the [...]

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House Price Spy, Affiliate Venture

Posted on 21. Aug, 2008 by Clarke.

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It’s time to reveal a major new venture that is being undertaken by several leading Affiliates. House Price Spy was established a couple of years ago, however at the end of last year the decision was taken to expand the site’s horizons and see if House Price Spy could be made into a major force [...]

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BBC Removes Video and Apology is added to Article

Posted on 09. Jul, 2008 by Clarke.

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Last week the BBC published an article about spam and a video accompanying it unfairly shows one of my websites Free UK Stuff, while talking about spam. I am pleased to say that after publishing this blog post and having received a number of blog posts (see list at the bottom of this message), forum [...]

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BBC News experiment overloads brain cells of editors

Posted on 03. Jul, 2008 by Clarke.

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I found out last night that BBC News ran a story and video about spam that clearly shows my website Free UK Stuff and domain name and screen shots from the website and double opt-in email sign up system. What is unbelievable in this “experiment” conducted by McAfee is that they have totally no clue [...]

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Sunshine on a Rainy Day!

Posted on 24. Apr, 2008 by Clarke.

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Nope this blog post is not a sad excuse to use a title based on a song, I will leave that to the king of song titles changes, Jason. Also I am not even trying to win one of the many holidays and prizes up for grabs via Sunshine.co.uk nice that they are and all. [...]

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BETAing around the Bush!

Posted on 23. Apr, 2008 by Clarke.

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Why do so many Affiliate Companies have websites in Beta? It used to be the case that “beta” was the final stage before realising your software yet some of the betas are going on 2 years now, so what’s so badly wrong with the sites or software that they have to keep them in “beta” [...]

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The great Discount Coupon Voucher debate!

Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by Clarke.

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It’s been going on for months mostly because a couple of bad eggs have been cookie stuffing and so robbing real content Affiliates of the hard earned money the deserve but more recently (today) a Discount Codes Podcast discussing the subject was released over at the top Affiliate Blog (puts this one to shame) by [...]

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New Theme to Replace the Broken One!

Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by Clarke.

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My Affiliate Marketing Blog has a new look . After breaking it last week during a security patch update David my designer at UK Internet Sites has come up with a new look. Not sure about the chair on the top-right hand side but it was my fault for saying, “just do a blog design [...]

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My WordPress Theme is Broken

Posted on 14. Jan, 2008 by Clarke.

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Hi all, I was updating my blog today to the latest security patch 2.3.2 and after upgrade for some reason my custom theme would no longer work (update worked on my other blogs with no problem). As the guy who designed it is no longer around I will have to make do with the standard [...]

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Tumble Weed Rolling By

Posted on 10. Dec, 2007 by Clarke.

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Well I was never one for posting loads, indeed my average is something like 2 posts a month however since the A4u Expo I been so busy with so much stuff that simply have not found (or is that wanted to find) the time to update my blog. I am sure it’s not been a [...]

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I am an A4uAward Finalist

Posted on 28. Sep, 2007 by Clarke.

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I just found out that I am an A4uAward finalist in the category “Industry Champion Award 2007″, so thanks to everyone that voted for me it’s been totally un-expected and can’t help feeling a little chuffed that people have taken the time to vote for me. Full list of finalists in the Industry Champion Award [...]

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