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’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 [...]

I’ve been looking at some new ways of building very niche, often local, sites that convert well in less competitive areas of SEO and PPC.
The original research stared when I began work with a local commercial mortgage broker who turned white when I showed him what the top guys were paying for terms in his [...]

I just saw a post on Kieron Donoghue’s affiliate marketing blog that he’s going through a redesign at the same time as moving from Blogger to Wordpress.
Kieron’s old design was the classic Blogger template, you can see it here at archive.org.
I actually kind of liked it, nice and uncluttered and it let the content [...]

I’ve just launched a new online PR blog for immediate future, my first totally custom Wordpress template.
The template is loosely based on the functionality of the standard Kubrick template and matches their soon-to-launch new website design.
Working with Katy Howell on the project has been fascinating as she really knows her stuff about getting involved in [...]