David Fiske A subtle blend of affiliate marketing and web development

October 2007 Archives

30/10/07 - Fastest Delivery I've Ever Seen!

I placed an order with Find Me a Gift yesterday at 3:30pm yesterday. I received an email from them at 3:45pm saying it had been despatched. I've used Google Checkout as a merchant so I know that you can do this to tidy up your interface so I just assumed it would be despatched today.

I was truly amazed at 11:30am today when the postie handed over the parcel from them! More

27/10/07 - PageRank Changes

Oh what a wonderful morning....!

Just checked my sites and I've had plenty of good PageRank changes. More

26/10/07 - Price Update 26/10/07

Compare Sat Nav has benefited from a price update and will soon benefit from a new navigation structure to mimic my credit card comparison website. More

26/10/07 - The End Of Voucher Code Sites?

There has been a series of voucher code bloopers as reported by e-consultancy lately: Threshers, Sainsbury's, Hamleys and Littlewoods.

Furthermore, what with sites like Tesco are stopping voucher codes from being displayed on websites and affiliates reporting voucher code theft, is this the beginning of the end for voucher code websites? More

25/10/07 - The Power Of Viral

A couple of good computer animation videos for you here.

Enjoy. More

25/10/07 - Thanks For My Free DVD

I received a free DVD a few days ago and got round to watching it yesterday.

It was an educational DVD but quite interesting nevertheless.

What was it about? More

23/10/07 - 5 Tips For Increasing Your Productivity

Here are five simple tips to help you stay focussed on your affiliate marketing efforts. More

23/10/07 - Solving A Problem That Should Never Have Existed!

When I took out my hosting package, I noticed a small condition that limited the amount of emails I could send out to 250 emails an hour.

That's not a problem until you want to set up a mailing list but after 2 days of coding, I've come up with a solution. More

23/10/07 - Affiliate Website Ideas - Part 2

Time to look at another market for website ideas. Having just read that Mothercare has launched a social network site called Gurgle, I'm going to look into the topic of child birth. More

23/10/07 - Affiliate Website Ideas - Part 1

After yesterday's article, I've decided to take a look at some sectors and suggest what affiliates could do to develop an online presence that makes a profit.

Today, given the success of Gaming Alerts on Dragon's Den yesterday, I will take a peak at the gambling sector. More

22/10/07 - Stuck For Website Ideas?

It's natural not to know where to start when developing websites. At least for "real world" businesses like Tesco or Argos they know what their website will have on it - company information, product information and an ordering system. Even Domino's Pizza do online ordering now.

But as an enterprising affiliate, what do you set websites up about?

Here's a few tips. More

19/10/07 - Price Update 19/10/07

You can tell Christmas is just around the corner! I've just updated Compare Sat Nav and an awful lot of prices have fluctuated this week, with quite a few of them going down (good news for bargain hunters!) More

19/10/07 - Which Is Better - Books or Car Insurance?

Time to help sort out another dichotomy in the world of affiliate marketing - is it better to chase the big bucks or is it better to chase the smaller bucks? More

16/10/07 - One Large Sites Or Many Niche Sites

Here's a dilemma that gets banded around the interweb on a fairly regular basis: which is better - one large but fairly broad website or many small niche websites?

Here's my take on things. More

16/10/07 - 6 Step Affiliate Marketing Plan

As the one year celebration draws closer, I find myself reflecting back on both good and bad points throughout the year.

As a result, it's time for a new direction. It's time to action everything I've learnt. More

12/10/07 - Climate Change Logics - Are We Looking At The Wrong Question?

Whilst updating Make Us Happy, I found this gem of a video on the climate change argument.

Watch this:

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12/10/07 - Price Update 12/10/07

Another week, another update to Compare Sat Nav.

For all those who hate reading these messages, they may soon be moving... More

12/10/07 - SQL Error Chocolate Raisins

Care of Techdo blog, here's a pack of milk chocolate raisins with an SQL error!



I found Techdo through BlogRush so it must work! Other Techdo highlights include: More

12/10/07 - Time Just Disappears

I'm sure time goes faster when I'm working on my websites. I'm sure I get 3 hours days unlike those days that most people get.

To combat this, and to tie in with my Christmas planning, I've made a time plan! More

09/10/07 - Innovative Affiliate Based Payment Service

Remember a while ago, free iPod sites exploded. They quickly lost their buzz in favour of the million dollar homepage style sites which, in turn have lost their buzz to cashback sites.

Well, there's a new payment gateway based upon the free iPod concept. More

09/10/07 - You've Got Three Choices When It Comes To Affiliate Marketing

The way I see it, you have 3 choices when you want to pursue a career in affiliate marketing. One is quick but costly, the other two are cheap but time consuming. More

08/10/07 - Could Tesco Compete With Royal Mail? Could Stelios?

On the 20th September I wrote about how the Royal Mail could be killing e-commerce. According to a comment on Boyd's website, they are but he's come up with an ingenious idea.

I pulled out my artbox and came up with this (can you guess what it is yet?):

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08/10/07 - Flash Graphs

I've just finished changing the graphs on Compare Sat Nav to a SWF Flash alternative. The way I used to create them was via the PHP imagejpeg function, generating an image from my price check data. Now, I have integrated the Open Source software Open Flash Chart.

Here's a demo of a small graph (Navman S30) and a bigger graph (TomTom One GB). More

05/10/07 - Price Update 05/10/07

Another week goes by and another update is issued to Compare Sat Nav. More

05/10/07 - Blog Redesign In 24 Hours

Yesterday I announced I needed a new blog design and today I have one!

I've gone one step further and built 12 templates so I get a fresh new look each month automatically. I've also added some extra features. More

04/10/07 - Wow, That Blog Re-Design Bandwagon Moves Fast!

Unless you live in a cave, you'll have noticed Kieron's new blog design and James Little's new look.

Well that looks like a fun new bandwagon to jump onto so I'm announcing I will soon be releasing a new design, so expect some odd looking pages for a few days! More

03/10/07 - Will Cashback Sites Commit Suicide?

Sounds a bit dramatic but will the success of cashback sites be their own wrongdoing? Here's why I think that if cashback sites aren't careful, they are at risk of killing themselves unless they adapt and evolve. More

01/10/07 - Open Source Digg Software

Nothing to do with Digg itself but there's an open source Digg style script called Pligg which means you can create your very own Digg style service.

Some examples that already use this script are: More