Noone wants to be the kid who’s never even heard of a Yoyo let alone own one and that’s why I’ve hopped on to the bandwagon with these cool kids and got myself a stripe ad. ^Up there, like. I’m not going to use it for advertising as this blog is very new and I only get a very faint trickle of visitors so I’m going to sort of copy Ray (sorry!) and just use it to show off some posts I’ve written with my very own hands.
I thought it would be cool to use on my discount code blog to display random codes and visitor retention stuff, but it appears someone else has had the same idea. I wonder how long it is before a) they become really tacky and unoriginal b) someone creates a different StripeAd without the mandatory ‘Powered by’ link (even if it does have your clickbank hop thing in it) or c) I forget to update the bloomin’ thing.
Tags: Plugins, StripeAd, WordPress
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In December, Affiliate Window ran a promotion where affiliates of AW had to collect gold coins then log on to the website on Christmas Day at 3pm to claim a Christmas gift. Whilst some were not happy with this, and possibly rightly so, there were some cracking prizes to be had with all 8 coins such as an HD telly or an iPod Nano.
Well I had all 8 coins but I thought I wasn’t eligible for any prize due to the fact I hadn’t been promoting AW merchants for long, otherwise I would have hopped on to the computer at 3pm, Queen or no Queen!
Luckily for me, my flatmate logged on and managed to claim us a prize. Unfortunately the higher tier prizes had gone but I’m well chuffed with what I got; a DVD voucher from CD Wow (yes - that’s an affiliate link. Well, on the off-chance you’re browsing marketing blogs then buy a copy of 300 on DVD, I wouldn’t mind 10p or so for telling you 300 is a cracking flick on DVD!). So, Affiliate Window and CD Wow, I thank thee very much for my first affiliate prize/freebie. Hopefully there will be more to come 
And congrats to everyone else who got a prezzie!
Tags: Earnings, Incentives
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Here I am at 5am and I feel like screaming from the rooftops with joy. I finally located the </div> that has been messing up my code and causing me nothing but frustration and anger for the past half hour.
I’m no expert coding whizz but I love designing and coding my own sites. I’m easily bored and have a redesign more often than I have Sunday dinners, something which I’m going to stop doing if I actually want to start getting traffic and money! I’m self taught in HTML, CSS and bits of PHP learning from tutorials on the web, e-books and lots of trial and error fun. But it’s frustrating as hell.
My biggest peeve is Internet Explorer. I can spend a few hours lovingly coding a site and previewing it in my browser of choice, Firefox, where it looks perfect. I switch to Internet Explorer and suddenly my site has chunks missing, features overlapping and whatever else IE decides to break my site with. This very site is a perfect example; the sidebar looks fine in Firefox but IE prefers to insert a chasm of space between each link. I think I’ve finally worked out that the issue is down to the line-height property.
Tonight I’ve been working on what will eventually be my biggest site and I’m sick of serving the minorities. I try and keep my sites to an 800px frame for those that still use the ridiculously magnified resolution but the site I’m working on requires three good sized columns and that won’t happen in an 800px frame. I’m going to make it relatively liquid, but if Amazon don’t keep to an 800px frame (go to Amazon, switch your display to 800px and notice the scrollbar at the bottom of the window), there should be little issue.
This site has more <div>s than I care to mention, and WordPress likes to throw in a few unnecessary (in my opinion) <div>s for extra measure. I make one small change, the sidebar disappears and I have to spend the next half hour counting how many <div>s are actually closed, checking sizes, margins, padding and all that malarkey. Perhaps I’m stupid, perhaps I put too much work into it but in the end I come out victorious. I have a nice three column site that works and now needs many more hours to put in content and optimise for SEO….
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Hello one and all to my new affiliate blog. My name is Phil Hancox and this blog is about affiliate marketing and my experiences as an affiliate marketing guy. It’s quite fitting that it’s the first week of January, I have a new blog and my affiliate career is really just starting. I’m hoping that come the start of 2009, I will be linking back to this post in my annual review and saying ‘Look where I started’.
So far I have about 2 or 3 websites that I would consider developed and ready for the world to see, with another few in development and almost 15 domains waiting to be built upon. In terms of earnings, I am very much inspired by the likes of Ray, Max and Kieron but so far I’ve had about 10 affiliate sales and a bit of Google Adsense. Now that I’ve stopped ‘dabbling’ and started to get a bit more ’serious’, I’m hoping my earnings will increase and this blog will follow that progress.
This is the initial theme that I’ve created but as you’ll possibly learn if you read the blog in the future, I get very restless with design so it could change fairly regularly! I’ve added a blogroll of other affiliate blogs I enjoy in the sidebar (if you want to be removed/added/edited please let me know) and hopefully I’ll be adding other articles and stuff soon.
Here’s to 2008, and I hope you pop by again soon.
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