Even Penguins Aren’t Tough Enough for This Goodbye…
I started this blog way back in 2008 to diarise my journey as an affiliate marketeer musketeer. I felt the word musketeer correctly personified my brave but floundering attempts to master the art of the affiliate. It’s been a long old journey that’s followed my efforts to grow my affiliate earnings from £0 per month [...]
Continue reading...19. November 2011
5 Simple Ideas That Turned £600 A Month Into £1800 A Month
These 5 simple ideas are essential reading for any aspiring affiliate marketeer who is stuck at £300 a month in commission. When I last posted on here, I was earning next to nothing and just couldn’t seem to cross the £600.00 a month mark in affiliate commission. Now, just over 6 months later, I’m comfortably [...]
Continue reading...18. March 2011
US to UK Host Made My Site Re-Appear
This may not actually be true but a few days ago I posted about how I was moving my server from a US host to a UK host. Because my site had bounced about the serps for over a year, most of the time completely out of sight, I wondered if the change in host [...]
Continue reading...18. March 2011
£100 Day Today – All Too Rare!
Well…I had a pleasant surprise today when I logged into my stats. I’ve passed the £100 mark in commission for the day – unfortunately it’s for a couple of products that pay over £50 in commission. Is this really a success?
Continue reading...15. March 2011
Will Google Love Me More If I Move Server?
As you all know, I set up an affiliate site last year (february 2010) promoting bar stools. If you go through the posts on this site you’ll get the url. Anyway since then it’s been in and out and up and down in the SERPs and today, for the first time in that year, I’m [...]
Continue reading...13. March 2011
My Event Horizon
There are two things in life you can’t change 1) The speed at which time passes you by and 2) how the events in the world around you shape your passage through it. In the next 6 months, 2 major things are going to happen for me that will change my life forever. One, you [...]
Continue reading...7. March 2010
1 Month Old Site Lost It’s High Rankings
I’m sure many of you reading this have started a new site in the last few months. Now maybe your situation is different to mine but I’ve heard tales of this particular affliction hitting all fairly new sites after a short period. My new affiliate site over at www.barstoolsuk.co.uk had in the last month been [...]
Continue reading...16. September 2009
SEO for WordPress Sites
I have chosen to make my affiliate sites using WordPress – it’s free and infinitely scalable – which is just awesome. I generally create them with custom themes that I have developed to suit each niche I’m working in. Whilst doing this, I have come across three distinct wordpress-related problems regarding SEO but thankfully, they’re [...]
Continue reading...16. September 2009
FAILED: Money Making Challenge 14/11/08
In November of 2008, I wrote a post on this blog about how I wanted to make $690 in 11 days. I threw together a few ideas and actually did release a WordPress Theme but only actually managed to raise $190. A whopping $500 short of my intended target. It’s been almost a year since [...]
Continue reading...4. September 2009
Can this offer be for real? On-topic, quality links just $3 in any niche!
I stumbled across a site today that I’d never come across before and was amazed at how easy they make building healthy backlinks for very little cost. Backlinks can be discreetly bought in any number of ways such as footer links, blog posts, article posts or any other well-respected means of building backlinks on any [...]
Continue reading...24. November 2008
What All The ‘Gurus’ Forgot And Why Wannabe Wannabe-Wannabe-Wannabes Will Always Be Wannabes
There’s been a lot of flapping lately. If you can imagine the world of google in a hierarchical form, with google at the very top, then 4 or 5 Super Gurus on the tier below, then 10 times as many guru wannabes on the tier below and then another tier of guru wannabe wanabees below [...]
Continue reading...21. November 2008
What Does Google SearchWiki Mean For Your Site?
I’ve just done a search for one of my many sites and spotted a new googleism in the SERPS. The ability to ‘promote’ or ‘delete’ a result from the results pages! Admittedly, it is customised for my preferences, using my google ID as the epicentre, but is an interesting move towards user-generated content, pulling the [...]
Continue reading...14. November 2008
Can I Make £460 in 11 Days?
OK, so it’s the credit crunch here in the UK. I have an exploding credit card bill and I need to pay £460 by the 28th November 2008. The strength of the £ to the $ at the moment is weak, which is good news if I’m working in $s, and it means I need [...]
Continue reading...9. March 2008
Want Business Success? Just play golf!
I haven't been playing long and spend more time in the rough, dropping balls and taking free hits than actually playing well but...one thing's for sure, if I had to recommend a great place to network with other likeminded business people, it would be on the golf course.
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