http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk Life on the road to earning a fortune as an affiliate - I hope Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:26:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For almost 15 months now I have been working hard on developing my own retail business dealing in car modification spares from dashboard LED conversion kits through to replacement dials and more. It's been going quite well with my main point of sale being ebay (where I have a very ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2008/06/26/whether-to-come-back-to-affiliate-marketing/ Well finally I have found a small amount of time to allow me to update the Blog. So things are still going well, after a bit of a slow month in April (which seems to be the case for most businesses) May has started to see trade picking up again. Steve ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2007/05/20/time-for-an-update/ I noticed yesterday that MSN has completely altered the format of its CSV and Excel spreadsheets for mass uploading, this is something I will need to address in Keyword Organiser as soon as I get an hour spare to do some coding. This bring me on to a quick round up ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2007/03/24/msn-google-and-yahoo-or-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Busy has become my middle name this last month or so and I'm loving it, things are going well with the new business and I'm off to sign a partnership agreement this weekend and hopefully we will have time to setup a business bank account and if it all goes ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2007/03/06/a-brief-update/ I've put this in the 'affiliate marketing' category because recent activities has me thinking quite a lot about whether most affiliates stay firmly within the 'affiliate' role (sending traffic to another business for them to close the deal - or not as the case is quite often), or whether they ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2007/02/13/affiliate-merchant-or-both/ We are well into the new year and I thought I'd do a quick round up of where I am in relation to my goals for 2007 as I posted sometime ago. 1. To be making £1500 a month from my online activites by May 07: NET Surprisingly this one is looking ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2007/02/09/busy-busy-busy/ I have created a tool for pay per click (PPC) advertising that shuffles keywords and formats them into phrase / exact and broad matched keyphrases. It also allows you to set the maximum bid in Google and MSN, another neat feature (this was my main reason for creating the program) ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2007/01/27/pay-per-click-tool/ 2007 is approaching fast and I have been thinking about setting some goals, it is something I am quite used to as I use the technique to drive me on in other areas of my life. So here are a few of the things I intend to strive for through ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2006/12/18/2007-and-my-goals/ Today saw one of the biggest days with regards to SERPS traffic to my site ever with 171 UVs, unfortunately not one converted into a sale, even though I passed well over 50 percent onto the merchants. I cannot understand quite whats happening at the moment, everyone is reporting huge ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2006/11/29/oooh-the-stress/ The last few days I have been working hard on my main site, I have updated it as stated below to a database driven site, and it has been really well looked upon by Google and suddenly my UV (Unique Visitors) has shot from 20 - 25 a day to ... http://www.myaffiliatelife.co.uk/2006/11/16/the-tides-and-stresses-of-being-an-affiliate-in-the-uk/