24 Days to the Expo, yikes!
Posted on 19. Sep, 2008 by Clarke.
Just noticed it’s only 24 days to the Expo, I am sure it’s not that soon! But yeah looking at the Affiliates4U site and the A4U Expo site it is indeed only 24 days left to go. Good news is that I just booked my flights, what I like about the Expo location is that [...]
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House Price Spy, Affiliate Venture
Posted on 21. Aug, 2008 by Clarke.
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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Business Cards are Dead!
Posted on 18. Jul, 2008 by Clarke.
On Wednesday I was at the Bristol a4uexpo Road Show and had a really great time, it was like an event of old! However it was lacking a bit on Affiliate attendance so you can’t have it every way, however the people that did turn up and stayed the course until the early hours. I [...]
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BBC Removes Video and Apology is added to Article
Posted on 09. Jul, 2008 by Clarke.
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.
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.
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.
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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Who’s account is it anyway?
Posted on 20. Mar, 2008 by Clarke.
Today I was wondering how many Affiliates think the actions of users coming via their links have nothing to do with them. To illustrate what I was thinking let’s take 3 examples to show different sides to the story and how rightly or wrongly an Affiliate could be associated with delivering fraudulent transactions. The idea [...]
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Cash-back Crooks!!!
Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by Clarke.
Hey attention grabbing headlines. Love them or hate them you’re reading this are you not Well first of all cash-back site owners take a deep breath, I am not about to expose any of you as crooks, instead I felt it was about time I highlighted an ever increasing problem that has been generated by [...]
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The great Discount Coupon Voucher debate!
Posted on 23. Jan, 2008 by Clarke.
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.
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.
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 [...]
