As many of you will know, I have recently had a little introduction to my family…! Eva is now 6 months old, Mummy is back at work and we are gradually establishing our new normality if that makes sense. During the last year or so, I have had very little time to dedicate to my [...]

I am currently having problems with one of my affiliate merchants. They run their own affiliate program, and have often been a little suspect about the accuracy of their tracking, however, yesterday I noticed something rather more worrying. Usually I am a IE7 user, however I had cause to log onto my admin control panel [...]

Last weekend I had some serious problems with my server due to the bandwidth that Super Proxy was transferring. In the month to-date it is transferred 100gb short of three terabytes of data… Yes you have read that right! This is mainly due to unscrupulous webmasters (although it pains me to call them webmasters) link [...]

As another post in my series about my Google Ranking Monitoring Software. Over the last week or so I have extended this to include Alexa Ranking, Yahoo Back Links and Google Back links, I will be posting a new version very soon. However this work has got me thinking about how you monitor and judge [...]

As regular readers will be aware I have my fingers in allot of pies in terms of my affiliate work. For some time now I have been selling photographs (photography is one of my hobbies) on several stock photography sites. The sales of these bumble along bringing in a little bit of cash. The affiliate [...]

Following on from my post about consistency in your link back strategy which was a brief post looking at what URL you give you when asking for a link to your site, and suggesting that the best thing it to be consistent. Our discussions have moved on and have highlighted an error, perhaps a fundamental [...]

I have released a new version of the Google Rank Monitor Software to correct a bug in the addSite.php file. The location of the script file was wrong meaning that you could not add sites. I have now corrected this. If you have already downloaded the software and are using it you must have either [...]

The Google Rank Monitor Software I launched a few days ago has raised some discussions as to what page rank to monitor. The software actually allows you to enter the exact URL that you wish to monitor, therefore if you want you can monitor several sections or individual pages on a site. This has lead [...]

I have packaged up the scripts that I have put together, modified and written that check an record the Google Ranking of a list of sites in a database. It then presents you with the results in a table view allowing you to monitor then changes occur. I have uploaded them and they are [...]

Yesterday an email came through from one of the affiliate programs I market. You know the ones, changes in terms, changes in commission structures, more often than not reducing the amount of commission they are giving. The have the right to do this as much as we have the right to stop selling their [...]

Following the recent Google rank review it seems that many of my sites have dripped by one ranking, and none of them have risen, perhaps this is due to not really doing anything pro-active on any of the sites for several months due to baby. I don’t see this as a big issue and I [...]

I thought I would write a post about questions I get asked. Q. How much do you earn from Affiliate Marketing? A. Erm… enough to make it worthwhile! Q. Why don’t you post earning summaries on your blog? A. I tend not to post about my earnings as I do not see this as relevant to my blog. [...]

Recently I have been forced into a change in web host. Some of you may have heard the chatter on the web about Layeredtechs hike in prices for all dedicated servers. A hike of 30% or more for all servers meant I would have been paying out near enough $100 more per month. I therefore [...]

I have just written some software (with some help from a friend!) which goes away and checks Google ranking for a given URL and records this ranking in a database. I have set this system up to run each week and loop through a table of urls meaning that each week I can record [...]

I’ve recently advertised for a freelancer to generate some links for Break Away Holiday Cottages, I have asked that these links be on sites with a page rank of above 3. I have also asked for some blog posts and comments to include a link back to my site. I have given details of [...]

Within the affiliate marketing business we often get hung up about online marketing, paying for clicks, adverts, comments on blogs, twittering, digging and SEO, however there is a very large area of marketing that is often neglected and that is what I call offline marketing. Offline marketing techniques What am I talking about when i reffer [...]

Assuming that you are not earning a full time income from affiliate marketing, and any earnings you do make is extra cash in your pocket (after the tax man gets his hands on it of course) what do you spend your money on? In my current position, any money I earn from my affiliate projects [...]

Yet another of my affiliate projects has launched today. Wow Factor Templates is a site that sells website templates, Wordpress templates, flash templates, osCommerce templates, phpBB templates, php-Nuke templates, logo templates, and Zen Carts templates. These can all be purchased and then downloaded online, via the simple interface. I decided to do this project after using [...]

Over that last few months I have been tackling a rather large project, and now My Request List is there or there abouts and is ready for its first public outing. Due to circumstances (see last post about my First Child being born) the work on this site has been a little stop start so [...]

I would just like to announce the birth of my first child Eva Lilia Houldsworth. born on the Monday 31st March 2008 at 5:35 am (yes I know its taken me three weeks to write this post! Lack of sleep and more pressing things to deal with!) Eva is perfect in every way, a little bundle [...]

I have been asking myself the question recently when the right time would be to do this affiliate marketing full time. This is defiantly something that I am seriously considering doing. I am currently in a very stressful but well paid Project Managers position, the only change that i would make from that position [...]

My latest project involves the use of datafeeds from a variety of merchants, these merchants are at the moment all selected from Trade Doubler simply for easy of formatting the datafeeds.   While working on this project have become very frustrated by the varying quality of the datafeeds from the merchants. It appears to me that [...]

I have never had a problem coming up with new ideas or identifying niches, a majority of the time I document those ideas and work them through to find out their viability. The ones that the research suggests could be successful go through to the next stage of developing that idea. Most of the time [...]

I have just found out that the RSS feed on Earning From Affiliates is not working. It seems like this stopped when I changed the theme some months ago, so new posts since then are not included in the RSS. Strange! Anyone any ideas? I have yet to have a look myself. I will try [...]

Following on from my little mini seris on earning from your parked domain names, i have noticed that Fasthosts and Regnow and probably other hosts already earn from your parked domains. The way that Fasthost are earning is by having a Sedo parking page on all parked domains. This allows them to earn from clicks [...]

Following the launch of broadband local last week, I can report that I have had three sales already, at nearly £20 commission for each sale that is a total of £60 commission in a week. This was the last thing I was expecting, if you read my earlier posts about making use of parked domains [...]

I have recently been sent a funny complaint letter by a friend, it seems that this is one that is unreleased to the net, but believe me when I say its a gem! Not only had me but the whole office in hysterics reading it! The thought struck me that this is the perfect opportunity [...]

As a follow on from the last post about using domain names that you have parked. I have been running through my portfolio of domains, in doing so I came across a domain name I have been holding onto for several years Broadbandlocal.co.uk. While with most of my portfolio of parked domain names I have [...]

This last month I have seen record earnings from Text Link Ads, both from referrals and from sold links. This has not only been a one off month but a trend of increasing earnings over the last few months. I am now up to about $400 per month from TLA alone. This shows that Text [...]

If you have been in the Internet business for as long as I have I am sure like me you will have built up a whole range of domain names that you have parked away. Some will have been bought for that brilliant idea you just haven’t got round to as yet, some will be [...]

Unfortunately this blog seems to have attracted the attention of spammers, each time I check the site I have to filter through 100’s of SPAM comments. None of these will ever see the light of day and I am not interested in the products they are trying to sell so what is the point? I [...]

I have been using AffMeter for some time and have it set to automatically update its self when new versions are available. Imagine my surprise this morning when loading up the software to find a totally different interface. What is AffMeter For those of you that do not use or know about AffMeter it is a [...]

Having a mini-clear out of domain names and website, I am selling GpCare.co.uk by auction on SitePoint This is a great little domain, well aged as first registered in 2001, but been parked for the last few years. Domain could be used for a site directed at Doctors or perhaps you have another idea for it. Either [...]

The Super Proxy Project is now up for auction at: http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/18581 If you are interested go over and place a bid. It has been a great project for me over the last couple of years bringing in good money however it is time to let it go so I can move onto other projects. Useful links: Web Hosting Fasthosts [...]

This week I have launched another Affiliate project DIY Journal. This is a site the brings together many sources for all things DIY, Tools, Decorating materials, Home Improvement, Furniture and Gadgets.  It is based on the superb Affilistore which is working well although the site does seem rather slow at times so I will have [...]

This evening I have implemented a nice new feature on Break Away Holiday Cottages. I have used Google’s Map API to create location maps for each holiday cottage based on their longitude and latitude. Once I got my head round it, this has been simple to implement and gives the site something extra that [...]

Well I have not posted in a while, there have been many changes in my personal life in the last 6 months, I have got engaged to the most fantastic and beautifl Cheryl and we are now expecting our first child! So what with wedding plans (now put on hold for some time!) and getting [...]

The last few articles I have posted have extended the scope of this site outside the ‘Affiliate’ sphere to a wider subject of earning money online. I have been pleased with the success of those articles, which have generated a good level of interest and have rapidly become both the most read and the highest [...]

What with the current storm over Googles changes to their page rank system I have been getting rather worried about what sort of page rank I would get for this site. As the site has only been going for a few months I have been working with a zero page rank. Today i have checked [...]

It seems that the problem was a vulnerability in wordpress 2.1.1, the advice if you have had a similar attack is to do the following: Upgrade to the latest stable release (currently 2.3) Check your logs for access to theme.php or feed.php with query strings of ix= or iz= Report the IP addresses of those using these [...]

Sorry to anyone that subscribes to my RSS feeds or who has been on the site in the past 24 hours. It seems that this site has been the victim of a hack. I created a category yesterday called Alexa and looking in that category today I find 14 posts about mobile phone ring [...]

Photography is a great passion of mine, a hobby which I try to engage in as much as I can. Unfortunatly due to work and Business commitments my time for photography is limited to holidays. Never the less, recently I have identified a way to combine, my making money onine word with my photography hobby. This [...]

The Alexa rank of this site has improved this month from 1003979 to 810467 dropping 200,000. Looking at the weekly average it is set to drop at least the same again, if not more. This proves the work that has been put in to network and market the site is working and also reflects [...]

I currently have several projects marketing products from Amazon, indeed in the past this very blog has promoted books that I have read and recommend. with the recent success of Great Hampers, many of the sales are via Amazon, and looking back at the stats it seems that users are very interested in a [...]

Last night I changed the design of this site, I hope that this one will prove to be more flexible for me to do with what i want. The idea is that it is clean and simple while giving me the opportunity to promote my sponsors better. There are still a few little bits I [...]

With the growth of the internet, the market for web hosting is ever increasing. However this does not mean that their is easy money to be made, there is a huge amount of competition in this sector from the huge multinationals to the small guy who sells space on his own server. This does not [...]

I am currently puzzled by what seems to be lost clicks. While running a PPC campaign on Google Adwords, I tend to track their performance in real time, or as near to real time as Google and the affiliate networks allow. I have noticed that the clicks that Google Adwords reports differs from the clicks [...]

Although Great Hampers was formally launched just a week or so ago and even though I have not finally got the design of the site to how I want it. It has rapidly become my best affiliate project. It has the most sales per day, highest commission per day and seems to be the most consistent [...]

A report today on BBC online confirms what we all already new, Google is dominating the web. Their report states that Google Powered more than half of the search requests on the web in August, totalling 37 billion searches out of a total of 61 billion searches by over 750 million users. That makes the few pence per [...]

I have just signed up for the PayPerPost service, which allows bloggers like you and me to earn money from writing reviews and posts on their blogs. I signed up this evening because I had a spare 5 minutes and decided to look into the whole payed per post and reviewed post angle of [...]

I have been setting up some PPC campaigns on Adwords. I have been working with many 100’s of keywords. What I tend to do is create my keyword lists externally then paste them into Adwords, however I have been coming up against a problem where it keeps rejecting wanting an ‘Online Pharmacy ID’ At first this [...]

If you have been a member of a networ and an affiliate of any merchant for longer than a couple of hours you will have no doubt got numerous emails from the merchant telling you how great they are! These emails are worth paying attention to, recently Whittard released a 15% discount code that affiliates [...]

Interest for your visitors - firstly and most importantly, original content gives your visitors something to read, something that they have not seen in multiple other places. Avoiding being buried on search engines - due to the supplemental results system if a spider indexes duplicate content it will lump it all-together and your site will get [...]

I have been having a few problems in the last couple of days with Tradedoubler, I have not been able to login to the Affiliate area using Internet Explorer, it simply reloads the page. Seems to work fine using Firefox… Anyone else suffering the same problems? Share This

Some days a go I found (and i forget where… sorry) a blog post about the AffiliStore software, and thought that it was just the thing I was looking for. An out of the box package that creates a website from a Datafeed or any comma, or tab separated database and best of all [...]

I applied to join Google Adsense for this site and what do you know I was rejected. Apparently this site does not meet their approval criteria… no other information than that. Seems to me rather a silly decision, firstly this is a site that looks at affiliate and online marketing, and reviews and recommends services which [...]

So you’ve got a great idea, you’ve researched it, created a site, promoted it, given it all you love, care and attention, yet still it does very little, when is the point that you decide to bin that project? Indeed do you scrap it altogether or do you as I tend to do, just leave [...]

Following on from my post about my property development and how it has positively affected my affiliate work, and taking on board lessons re-enforced about sticking to the things you are knowledgeable about, I feel it is now time to launch one of the projects I have been intending to work on for some [...]

Earning From affiliates 10 Commandments for affiliate marketing. These are what we see to be the 10 most important aspects of affiliate marketing. Use them as 10 tips for affiliate marketing.

Some of you may already know but in my ’spare’ time when not at work and not doing my affiliate work I do some Property Development. As with my affiliate work this property development really is a hobby, it is not my full time job and it is something I enjoy doing. Recently I was [...]

I have just launched Great Hampers! Just in time for Christmas! Basically the site finds Hampers from a selection of different merchants and shows them to the user in categories such as Christmas Hampers, Wedding Hampers and interestingly Halloween hampers! Its not all good news though, as I feared when I created the site, the [...]

Today I have made a change in focus in my affiliate work. I am consolidating the projects I have currently underway, rather than working on any more of my ideas. This is not a long term change, but just a short period where I focus on the projects I have at market, tidying them [...]

With tensions on the streets of Burma rising over the last few days, it provides food for thought. As we affiliate marketers chase that extra sale, that extra click and extra dollar, think for a moment that a majority of people in Burma live on just $1 per day. Tongiht, for me this brings a [...]

Just a very quick post, I want to give some exposure to an interesting site for those of you in the UK. Blogstorm.co.uk and specifically the ‘Big List of UK Marketing Blogs’ which is a blog/website by Partic Altorf. The ‘Big List of UK Marketing Blogs’ is a great resource for anyone who is interested in [...]

In many of the articles on this site you will have seen me banging on about the quality of traffic or the importance of getting quality traffic. It is about time that I wrote a little about what we mean by quality traffic and how we can start generating that quality traffic. What is Quality [...]

A quick post… I have just purchased the domain name makedoshonline.com from eBay and had it transferred to my account. I found it on eBay while looking for something quite different and thought it was something a little different. Not sure what to do with it yet, I may give it away on here as [...]

I have just had a slap from Kieron Donoghue over at Here.org.uk… A gentle criticism of my about us page, he has sighted my about us page as being an example that does not tell you who is writing. I have therefore updated my about us page to give some more details about me! No [...]

Landing Pages Part 1 This article is the first in a series of articles on everything to do with Landing pages, what they are, techniques for creating them, marketing them and using them to pre-sell your affiliate products. A landing page is a page that welcomes your visitor. It should be able to make the [...]

When you read the articles on this site or any similar site you will always see that everything we do surrounds getting traffic, not only that but getting quality traffic, by quality traffic we mean getting visitors to your site who are interested in the subject of your site, you are reading this very [...]

I have used GetAFreelancer.comseveral times in different projects, and it occurred to me that it maybe of interest to people in the Affiliate industry. Lets admit it right from the start, we cant all be an expert in every aspect of our industry and there are times that it may be prudent to get a [...]

  I have taken the decision to put Super proxy up for sale… I have chosen Sedo as my method for selling the site, this is mainly because I have used them in the past buying and selling some domain names. I have no idea what to expect at this stage, I have not set [...]

If you are running a Google AdWords campaign, you can make your ads targeted to your keywords using Googles keyword insertion tool. In the title of your ad use:  {keyword:} This will insert the keyword that hit your ad and this will become the title of your ad. So if the user searched for Ford Mondeo your [...]

Tools for Generating Keywords Before you start on your AdWords campaign you need to pay very close attention to the words that you are going to target. This is not as hit and miss as you may think as you will already have words that are obviously associated with your product or service and you [...]

I am please to announce that Break Away Holiday Cottages has finally launched and has made its first sales, I hope that the people who booked their holiday cottages through the site will have a great time! Break Away Holiday Cottages allows you to find cottage breaks throughout the UK, read and post reviews of those cottages [...]

Building links to your web site is a key task when promoting your online presence and you cannot expect to thrive in the virtual internet community without good quality, relevant links to your site.  Links to your site help generate traffic in two key ways, firstly by attracting traffic that clicks on the link [...]

I have just been playing with Amazons UnSpun site which creates lists that can be voted on, when looking under the list for Make Money Online, I find that Earning From Affiliates, yes this very blog is currently outranking John Chow, who is in many people’s opinions Mr Earn Money Online! I am sure [...]

I am starting to use Tradedoubler more and more, so much so that it really is my network of choice… let me tell you why. You may think that the biggest reason would be the choice of merchants, and yes you would be right in a way, but for me this is not the number one [...]

Questions and things to do before starting an email marketing campaign  Have the users agreed to receive your mail? They must opt in, they must want and expect your email. Be targeted, don’t mass mail, target to those interested in the specific subject, don’t ever buy databases of email addresses, these are far too general and [...]

The title should be “Forget the Search Engine…for a moment” as Search Engines generate a huge amount of traffic if you use them right.  What we are going to look at here are the marketing techniques that you should also be running alongside the mainstream SEO.  Too often the SEO tail starts to wag [...]

There have been goings on at Amazon Associates that have been missed by myself so this may be old news to some! They have finally updated the aStore with a key improvement which means I am use the feature more. I have written an article in the past on this site about how to rapidly [...]

When I first created this site, I intended to write a post about Super Proxy, I never got round to it! Super Proxy was (is) the first affiliate site i created. It is not really an affiliate site, but it does make use of online marketing, banner adverts and text link ads to generate income. Super [...]

Daily Proxy List is an example of a Topsites affiliate project. If lists and ranks web proxies by their popularity. While showing pay per click (ppc) adverts to generate income. This article shows how this type of site can be created and gives some hints and tips.

If you get in quick Text-Link-Ads are running a 15% off promotion if you place your order with them before the end of August. Simply put “August” in the coupon code. If you read my recent article about Text-Link-Ads and were wondering if to give them a go, now would be a great time [...]

This brief article is to look at the basics for SEO, explain the use of a landing page and why you need to make absolutely sure that SEO techniques are used properly to optimise your landing pages if you are to get the very best out of your advertising budget.  This article is suitable [...]

After reading a post some time ago by John Chow about the percentage of the income from his blog coming from text-link-ads, I decided to give them a try. I am now using their publisher and referral programmes on several of my sites including this one, and as they give $100 worth of free adverts [...]

If you have ever researched the affiliate and earning money online industry you will have no doubt come across blogs and websites promising the earth. Telling tales about people who managed to earn £10,000 in 7 days for only 30 minutes work… most of these sites sell guide books or reports on how they [...]

Ever been frustrated when you have a great idea that you know is a niche, you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about and want to start affiliate marketing but one problem, you cant find a merchant? Well that’s the position I am in at the moment. I don’t want to disclose the details of my idea [...]

In this article I discuss the success and failures I have had with direct product marketing. Using Google Adwords PPC, i have made some huge profits, but this income seems to fluctuate, why could this be?

I have done some research on the net to see how others are getting on with it and it does seem that you have to choose where you use Auctionads carefully.

AFFmeter is a bit of software that checks all your affiliate networks activity, pulls them together into one place and then displays to you in a simple graphical interface the activity on each account.

If you have a site or blog which is in a similar subject to this one, affiliate marketing, SEO, making money online, online marketing, etc. I would be very happy to make a link exchange with you. Please either contact me on office@NOSPAMearningfromaffiliates.com (delete NOSPAM) or reply to this post and we will sort it out.

Pay per click marketing does not need to be a hit and miss affair, nor is it voodoo, it is all about maths. Your success in your ppc affiliate marketing can be broken down in to a simple.

Quill Internet web hosting website overhaul with a web hosting review focus.

I bought myself a Western Digital My Book World Edition II 1Tb NAS Drive, I figured that firstly 1Tb should be enough to put my music collection, digital pictures and all my working files for affiliate websites, but also the Network Attached Storage would allow me to access all those files easily via the desktop, apple mac or laptop without any of the other computers having to be switched on.

A tip for AuctionAds users to target specific Sellers, either with the seller name and a keyword or select a random item from a specific seller.

I have had AuctionAds on Super Proxyfor 4 days now and am rather disappointed by their performance. I always knew that it would be hard on this type of site as Super Proxy is a service site with a wide range of people using it, therefore anything based on a keyword will only be of interest to a limited sector of those people.

This describes a gem of a code change that allows you to rotate keywords on AuctionAds so that each time an ad unit is called it shows a different set of auction adverts based on an array of keywords.

AuctionAds are very new in the market place, only a few months old, however they have already proven a big hit with many. They seem confident that you will increase your revenue over Google Adsense that thay issued a 10 day challenge during the last 10 days of May 2007, traditionally revenue tails off towards the end of the month for some reason.

It has been a bit of a couple of weeks, you may or may not have hear about the problems we have been experiencing in this neck of the woods with the weather. An average months worth or rain falling in just a couple of hours was just too much for the drains to cope with. There has been mass flooding throughout East and west Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and this weekend the midlands area of the UK. I myself live in Hull which has been severely affected, about 10% of the houses in Hull have been affected. One of my properties included.