Choosing a domain name is seen as a big hurdle by new affiliates. You can easily get it into your head that you’re going to have to pay thousands for a good one, that all the good domains have gone, and that the ones left are either gay, psycho’s or lying.
Not true if you know [...]

Last week I announced a competition to win a travel website. The site in question will be built over this series of tutorials using the Affilistore tool for building data driven websites, starting right here.
They say failing to plan is planning to fail, so this is a quick intro to the steps we’ll be taking [...]

Today I received an email from Buy.at about changes to the AA programme after their merger with Saga.
The change now forbids any sites offering cashback on AA Programmes.
Now, here’s the interesting bit:
Loyalty partners are still permitted; sites offering points or air-miles are not included in the removal.
“You are still welcome to promote The AA programmes [...]

Shine Marketing are managing the Shoestring campaign on TradeTracker, and to help get some new affiliates involved in the programme, I’ll be running a series of tutorials on building a simple travel affiliate site, and also running a competition.
For the competition I’ll be giving away the travel website used in the tutorials based on [...]

The affiliate programme for Shoestring.co.uk is now live on the TradeTracker UK network, and we’ve managed to secure some extra budget that I hope will excite many affiliates by offering them a CPC payment on top of the regular percentage of sale.We’re hoping that this will encourage affiliates in the UK to try out what [...]