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My 2008 New Year Resolutions

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Tuesday, January 1st 2008   
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I don’t smoke (much) any more and frankly I love good food and beer too much to make too many promises on that front so what resolutions for this year?
Ages ago I stopped making ’stopping’ resolutions as you have to keep them up for the whole year, and started making ‘doing’ resolutions. They’re a lot [...]

Wrap up your datafeed site with some unique content

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Monday, December 31st 2007   
Topics: Featured, SEO, Shoestring Travel, Software & Tools, What I learned today, tips for affiliates / publishers    
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Data-driven sites are a great way to get a lot of content up quickly, but Google won’t pay a lot of attention to it unless you add something of your own.

We talk you through adding some simple news items to your Affilistore site to get more attention from the search engines.

Links mentioned in this video

* Affilistore
* Shoestring Travel
* Google News
* Yahoo News
* Wikipedia article & image of Machu Picchu

Affilistore 2 Released - a great new look for multi-merchant sites.

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Wednesday, December 12th 2007   
Topics: Affiliate Marketing, What I learned today, tips for affiliates / publishers    
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Good job I was a bit slow with the tutorial series! Affilistore have just released version 2 of their excellent software. For those who have followed the tutorials so far, don’t fret as there is enough similarity between the two products that the rest of the tutorials will still be easy to understand.
I’ve just uploaded [...]

Don’t like writing? Try hands-free blogging

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Saturday, December 8th 2007   
Topics: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging about Blogging, What I learned today    
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Lots of times at events I meet people who are obviously very knowledgeable about their subject and can speak well and enthusiastically. When I talk to them about blogging as a way for them to reach more people and show off their expertise, they say that what holds them up is that they don’t like [...]

We have a winner!

Posted by Stephen Pratley in Thursday, December 6th 2007   
Topics: Affiliate Marketing, Shoestring Travel, What I learned today, tips for affiliates / publishers    
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For those of you who have been following our Affilistore tutorial series, we have picked a winner.
Rob Evans of Axonic and Thrifty Spider picks himself up a ready made Affilistore website including hosting & domain name.
Coming this weekend are some more steps on using the Affilistore features to create and promote your own unique content [...]

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