David Fiske A subtle blend of affiliate marketing and web development

Articles About Website Traffic

04/12/07 - Do Reviews Work?

As far as I'm concerned, price (inc VAT and delivery)is the most important factor in a purchase. Availability sits up there quite high together with the reputation of the seller. This goes for standard web purchases, offline purchases and auction purchases.

When buying something for (say) more than £50, I usually dig around and read some reviews.

My question is this: do reviews work at delivering valid affiliate leads or do they require an element of price comparison too? More

22/11/07 - Build It And They Will Come

Some preach that if you build a site and do absolutely nothing, you will not get any results. I'm happy to report it's not true.

I built a site a few months ago and never got round to finishing it off. I haven't promoted it directly (it's in a sub-folder of another domain - that's how important it was to me). I just added a sitemap to Google.

Anyhow, I've just logged into a network to find that I've generated roughly one lead a day throughout September. Yes it's not a stupidly large amount of cash but nevertheless, it pays for a year's worth of reseller hosting :-) More