The ramblings of an affiliate marketer
November 9th, 2006
Well hello again and welcome back.
The last couple of days has seen me do some fairly extensive work on one of my sites, this work has involved some difficult php coding (difficult for me at this stage anyway) but I think the site is much better for it - I will check my logs and see if anyone uses the feature over the next few days, and if they do I will post the idea and some code for it. Unfortunately sincea major update of my main site 4 days ago, I have not made any sales at all, and although I am still getting traffic it does seem to be slowing down somewhat, I can only hope that it will get back to what it once was and then some more as well once the search engines fully index and update my pages. Considering I have gone from 74 pages and about 120 products to well over 3000 pages and 1600+ products I should hope the visitor count should rise 
I’m thinking of doing a small tutorial on here for complete novices (those that are only just thinking about starting in Affiliate marketing) whilst most of the pitfalls are still very clear in my mind. I certainly think I can steer someone in the right direction so that they gain an insight into some of the problems I faced in the very early days of my new venture. More on this in a few days as I think it over some more…
Some good news is that today I got some new sponsorship from a DVD / Music company that will be sending out some FREE DVDs for me to review and another one to give away in a competition on the site. I am extremely happy about this as it gives me fresh focus for that site, and another reason to push it forward. The only thing is I need to sell about 30 films a month to sustain the deal and at this stage the site has yet to make any sales. A massive campaign to get the site noticed is in order I think. The fact it is already listed in all of the major search engines is an added bonus so all I need now is to tighten up the SEO (search engine optimisation) and then give people more reason to join up for membership (which is free).
More soon,
Mark.