I’m sure i’m not the only one, I’m sure most people in Affiliate Marketing are like it, but I seem to have an addiction with registering domains!
A few months back I had a cull of domains because I just had too many and thought i’d never get sites done on them all, so I sold a few and just trashed the ones I knew wouldn’t actually make any decent amount of money, I registered some that had around 50k local exacts but the products only cost a few pounds so the commission generated from the sales would have been peanuts and been very uninspiring.
Anyway back to the cull, I managed to get down to around 130 domains, but today I now sit at 174, more than I’ve ever owned! I need to stop now, I think i’ve got enough to be getting on with, when I actually think about how many domains I have to develop I think I’m going to have a panic attack 
Anyone else the same?
Today I received this tasty sweetie hamper from Red Letter Days as part of their Christmas incentive.
I will certainly be trying to increase sales to Red Letter Days so as to move up a tier to gain an even better prize!
Luckily I like everything that’s in it
Red Letter Days Christmas Incentive Sweetie prize
Someone sent this to me today and said it was me, I couldn’t actually disagree with them
As I’m sure with most affiliates I spend so much time in front of the PC, which as well as working on affiliate sites I get distracted by looking for new sites to make and then realising I have enough to get on with, so distraction probably plays a big part of why I sit in front of a PC for so long.
Life as an affiliate
I received this today from Buyagift so thanks to Graham, Dan and everyone else at Buyagift!!
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I’ve promoted buyagift since I first started in affiliate marketing, and it’s things like this that makes me continue to promote them, and now I have my own blog I can thank them publicly
Now to find a longer straw!
I started to outsource my content writing as quite frankly I am no good at it, I found a great content writer who advertised on the A4U forum and they have written some great content for me, I’ve even found myself enjoying reading some of the content about subjects you never thought could be interesting. I even believe some of this content is the reason why some of my sites rank as well as they do.
Sometimes i’m after content to be written a bit quicker, I can be impatient at times, so I took a look over at digitalpoint for some content writers, advertising for people with a good grasp of English, I’d get plenty of messages from people willing to do the job and the rates were silly, so I gave some a go.
Now there’s a big difference between understanding English and writing in English it seems, they can write English words but cannot make it flow in English very well, “The hat he wears is blue. The blue hat can be worn on the head”, the sctructure of their writing seems to be a lot of sentences put together to form some content.
There are also some very good writers on digitalpoint, I think it just takes a bit of trial and error to find the good ones, but given the choice of paying $4/100 words(ok) over £15/500 words(perfect) I’d rather pay more every time.
I set this site up for two reasons really, 1. I love the show and thought it’d be good to have quotes from the show in one place, and 2. as a bit of an SEO play about.
The site is The Inbetweeners, if you are not aware of The Inbetweeners then part of the description from the Channel 4 website is: “The Inbetweeners follows four friends as they navigate the minefield of the Comprehensive education with their hormones at full blast. There’s vomit, offensive language, and a trip to Thorpe Park.”
So mainly I was looking to see how well it could rank, I never did any link building or anything else for the site, just the normal submit URLs to Google and Yahoo and within the first week the site was ranking page one of Google for the main terms I wanted which were ‘Inbetweeners’ and ‘Inbetweeners Quotes’, before long it was ranking number one for ‘Inbetweeners Quotes’ and still is, both on Google and Yahoo.
The site gets on average about 100 uniques a day, i’d say about 75% of those come from the keyword ‘inbetweeners quotes’, there isn’t much you can sell to do with the show other than DVDs so I just put up links to the DVD at Amazon and play.com, to date it has sold around 20 DVDs so at least it’s paid for itself.
As the standard complimentary blog post was titled Hello World! I thought i’d start with that as it is the first post on my own personal blog.
Why have I started a blog? Well everyone else seems to have one so I thought why not, sometimes I get excited and want to tell someone about it so this may be my outlet to do that, I can’t promise to give any valuable information as I just do what I do and things happen and I don’t always know why. This is mainly related to my affiliate marketing activities, for example having sites that seem to rank top in google and others that don’t and not being able to pinpoint why this has happened.
I can’t remember too much about exactly how I got into affiliate marketing but it must have been about 7/8 years ago when I first came across it, I had bought one of those local county information portals and was looking of ways to make money from it and that must have been when it started, I remember the first sale coming through a friend buying from ASOS, I think it was about a pound commission but it still felt good.
Despite that I didn’t really do much more with affiliate marketing for a few years, my first proper site was selling Little Britain Dolls when I found out they were going to be a big Christmas seller, I registered littlebritaindolls.co.uk and the .com, put up a simple one page site and linked into IWOOT, If I remember correctly I made £115 that christmas selling the dolls and other Little Britain merchandise, from then I was hooked, it took a while for me to stumble across something else to promote though but these days ideas are never ending and now I have more domains than I can cope with, just like any other Affiliate I expect.