David Fiske A subtle blend of affiliate marketing and web development

June 2008 Archives

30/06/08 - Thanks Phil For My Mug And Goodies

Many thanks to Phil, a regular reader and affiliate manager for The Retail Factory, who has sent over a mug, chocolate and some office goodies. More

26/06/08 - Coding Websites Is Like Cooking Food

We're always being warned off some sort of food. This is bad for you and so is that. Don't even think about the other!

There's always some sort of nasty chemical or ingredient that is had for you: artificial colours, flavourings and hydrogenated fats for a start.

So what has this got to do with websites? Well for a start if you use a ready-built script off the shelf, there could be stuff lurking about in it that you do not know about. More

26/06/08 - Thanks To IWOOT For The Freebie

Many thanks to Paul Smith of I Want One Of Those who sent over a freebie. I noticed a new product on their site and contacted Paul who arranged for it to be sent out.

What is it? More

24/06/08 - Want A Free Holiday? It's Easy and I'll Show You How

This is the third (first, second) and final post in my mini-series on the excellent incentive being offered by Sunshine. As it stands, my site Orlando Florida Holiday has a 1 in 6 chance of winning. That's right, I could win a holiday easily worth £2,000 simply because 6 of us have entered.

I'm extremely surprised by the response to this competition. I've put other incentive-chasing on hold for a couple of weeks and cranked out this beast of a site. Anyway, I'm not forcing you to enter (it's better for me if you don't) but in case you want to know a bit more about how I set up my Orlando site, read on. More

24/06/08 - My Sunshine.co.uk Competition Entry

First off, congratulations to Sunshine on offering one of the best affiliate prizes I've ever heard of. Hats off to the team.

I've got a brand new passport just waiting to be used! Having never been abroad with my fiancée, I see this competition as a good attempt to!

The destination I've chosen is Orlando in Florida to supplement the content on Orlando Florida Holiday, a site I've created in around 2 weeks from scratch purposefully for this competition. Here's my itinerary: More

24/06/08 - Christmas Eve 6 Months Today

Okay, not the best thing to mention now but Christmas is fast approaching. What has this got to do with affiliate marketing and why now?

Well it's time for content and SEO affiliates to start making a move on their Christmas content. More

20/06/08 - Free Berocca Blogging Stress Relieving Pack

Affiliate marketing, let along blogging, can be stressful at times. Thanks to the chaps at Berocca you can get your hands on a free Blogger Relief Pack. More

19/06/08 - Win A Free Holiday Using Price Tapestry

Sunshine.co.uk are offering a 'free' holiday (free flights, free airport transfers and free accommodation) to a very lucky winner. There's talk of a Sunshine baseball cap and a t-shirt for the winner to take on holiday!

The holiday is an opportunity for you to familiarise yourself with a particular place and either extend or create fresh unique content to help promote Sunshine and help rank better in the search engines. When it comes to holiday's, there is nothing better than actual photos and video clips.

I'm entering a separate website but I just wanted to show you how easy it is to set up a travel website using tools from Sunshine.co.uk and Price Tapestry. More

12/06/08 - A Year And A Half For a Decision

Congratulations to Tesco and Tradedoubler who took exactly 479 days (that's 68 weeks and 3 days) to review an application for a site.

I applied back on 19th February 2007 and today I received the outcome. More

12/06/08 - Smart Movie Advertising

Today sees the collaboration between Sainsbury's, Universal Pictures and Vue to promote the new film Mamma Mia. Nothing interesting there until you find that they are offering 10 free Nectar points for watching a trailer.

So why does this interest me? More

12/06/08 - Apprentice 2008, In About 10 Minutes

Thanks to the creative geniuses at Boleg Bros, you can watch a summary of each episode of the Apprentice Series 4 - in Lego! There's a little bit of creative licence in the actual films but they are a fair representation of each episode. More

11/06/08 - Thanks To Screwfix and Affiliate Window!

There I was saying to my mother last night 'I've Won a Mug in 6 Months'. Then Tom from Affiliate Window just called to say I'd won the Screwfix widget competition!

The vouchers are being popped in the post as we speak! More

10/06/08 - How Did You Find Me?

Lee wrote a humorous article on the weird and wacky keywords people used to find his site. In need of a short distraction, I've decided to post an identical article using this blog as a base. I don't usually check the keywords here as I write what I see fit rather than to target particular keywords. I save that for my other sites!

Anyway, here goes! More

06/06/08 - What I Would Like As Incentive Prizes

Be Cheeky posted a question on the forums earlier this week: what do affiliates want as incentives?

I think the best thing merchants could offer is a set of gift vouchers. Why? More

02/06/08 - About

It seems a bit odd to add an about page as post 481 but nevertheless, I've decided it should help those who have stumbled across this blog by accident.

In a nutshell, here's what my blog is all about. More