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 [...]

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 [...]

I was just reading David Hawk’s piece on how affiliate marketing ‘killed itself’, along with some well written critiques by Kieron from UKOffer and Jason from Loquax.
David likens the affiliate channel to a concept called the tragedy of the commons.
Bear with me while I explain the concept, then explain why David is so far wrong.
The [...]

I’ve just a really great article by Kieron Donoghue about the evolution of PPC landing pages from single page gateways into fully fledged content sites to comply with Google’s Quality Score
I thought I’d pull together some Of the components of the open source Content management system Joomla, that will help you build a site like [...]