David Fiske A subtle blend of affiliate marketing and web development

Articles About Useful Guides

22/07/08 - 5 Considerations When Creating Content

A lot of people get into the affiliate marketing scene through price comparison, static content or writing a blog. I think that's a fair assumption for the majority nowadays.

But when it comes to writing content for a blog or static website there are some considerations that need to be addressed before you start if you want to get anywhere with it. More

19/11/07 - Anyone Need An Affiliate Manager?

Here's an email from Roman:

Dear Sir/Madam,
I'm writing you according affiliate(account) manager position.

Affiliate program manager is a person who managing company's affiliate program at affiliate networks like commission-junction, google adwords,etc.

I would appreciate if you could to advice a person I can send my CV if your company has a vacation to this role.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely Yours,
Roman xxxxxxxxxx

I've got a few problems with this message that may help to educate people who email affiliates. 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

24/06/07 - How Cluttered Is Your Shared Server?

Spy on how full your shared server is!

If you're like me, you'll have thought "I wonder who else uses my server?". Today I stumbled across a website that does exactly that. More

16/04/07 - Guru Slayer, Day Job Killer...

Head over to A4U Forum and you will find a seemingly inconspicuous thread about PPC. In there, there are details on how you can read some of the latest ebooks on the net for free. I won't link to it from here as strictly speaking, the ebooks are protected by copyright and shouldn't be redistributed, especially for free.

Never the less, I accidentally read a couple of the guides. More

02/04/07 - Website Traffic Videos

I'm not sure how much attention you pay the ebook world but something that's big right now is Michael Cheney's Traffic Videos.

This product is released on 3rd April 2007 and is a set of videos that walk you through how to generate and boost your natural website traffic. More

28/02/07 - Where Do You Start With Affiliate Marketing?

As a reasonably prolific blogger/affiliate marketer, I thought I would construct a sensible map of where newbie affiliates should focus their energies.

Naturally, there will be some who agree and disagree with my map - that's what comments are for!

Let's crack on... More

27/02/07 - AdSense Alternative?

I have mentioned ClickBank in passing a few times and said how a lot of affiliates start there, then progress to UK based networks.

I had an email today offering me the chance to buy some AdSense rivalling software called ClickBank AdBox for a whole $7. That's about £3.50!

I've got a couple of sites where that would come in quite handy so I stumped up £3.67 (today's exchange rate through PayPal) and I now hold a copy of CB Ads in my hand (well, on my hard drive!).

So what is it and what's it like? More

31/01/07 - Tradedoubler Website Redevelopment

Tradedoubler have updated their website and changed from browns and beiges to blues.



Tradedoubler is the main network I use as I find them to work extremely well. More

18/12/06 - Another Small Investment Ready For The Next Phase

I have just placed an order with Amazon for two new books.

These books are about SEO and copywriting and so should help with developing Compare Sat Nav dramatically.

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14/12/06 - Multiple Streams of Internet Income Book

As you may have gathered, I don't usually recommend products. Or at least, I only recommend those that are good and credible.

There are so many guides and books available that it is often difficult to select the right ones. A lot of people are writing drivel about making money yet provide no credible and logical content for the reader to act upon. In fact, these products usually recommend more guides to buy at additional cost (and usually profit to the author).

This recommendation is different. More

11/12/06 - Price Tapestry Script

Your niche site should be a very specialised and individual site. It should not try and be the jack of all trades but should be a concise set of information, offers, adverts and sticky features.

I highly recommend a price checking script called Price Tapestry for use on your site.

It is PHP based and is very flexible. More

04/12/06 - Niche Guides

Thank you to everyone who has contacted me requesting more information on niches.

Whilst this site covers niches in some detail, it is aimed at people who are willing to put some effort in to learning and researching.

However, there are some commercial guides out there that can help you with developing niche websites. More