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James Little writes about Affiliate Marketing, SEO, PPC, Blogging, Internet Revenue, and other random thoughts
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Affiliate Summit – Killer email and social list building techniques

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I was a few minutes late into the session and it was pretty packed out, so am expecting good things. When I entered the speaker (Hunter Boyle was going over a case study. Hope that the session develops into more than this as I am nit s big fan of just having case studies at [...]

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Affiliate Summit – Are your affiliates adding value?

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This was the first session that I had listed as one to attend as it’s the most relevant topic for me today. Billed as looking at SEO, PPC, Coupon and other affiliates it will apparently look at what value each adds. Will be interesting to see if cashback/rebate is mentioned and after a number of [...]

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Affiliate Summit – 25 Ways to Improve Your Website by Vinny O’Hare

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I’m going to attempt to blog at the summit for as long ad my iPad battery holds out or as long as long as my fingers last with the touchscreen keyboard. My first session is from Vinnyohare.com and it’d actually 28 ways to improve your website, not 25. Vinny has a long history (since 1999) [...]

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Getting links from your twitter friends

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I’m sure a lot of people are doing this already, but one gem that I got out of ThinkVisibility from an SEO perspective this weekend was about how to find (and then analyse) the websites of your twitter followers. First of all the inspiration from this is from distilled, specifically the presentation from Paddy and [...]

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If Carlsberg did conferences… They’d probably do ThinkVisibility!

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On Friday I took a very early train to Leeds in preparation for ThinkVisibility #5 – an SEO/Affiliate conference held on Saturday 5th March 2011. I was convinced to go to the conference earlier this year when meeting up with Dom, Ray and Jason at the London Affiliate Conference and as a ThinkVisibility virgin I [...]

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Pre-A4U Expo Plans

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The A4UExpo is by far the greatest conference in the world and it officially starts tomorrow, so my general excitement is building! After taking a look at the conference schedule and organising a few meetings I think that this year I have it cracked on what to sessions to attend at the two day show. [...]

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Cookie stuffing, CJ, Ebay and the FBI

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When ebay moved away from CJ (where they had a global deal) a lot of questions were raised about why the programme moved in-house and the answer seemed now only to lie in the cost savings but also the new payment model that would have been difficult to implement at a network. But now maybe [...]

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Cleverat Enter Voluntary Liquidation

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This may not come as any great surprise to many, but it’s officially been announced on their site that Cleverat (www.cleverat.com) have entered into voluntary liquidation. There have been rumors around for some time that they were struggling; a search on the brand name takes you to this page on the A4UForum where a number [...]

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What a difference 10 years makes…

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As the clocks stroked 12 on New Years Eve, I reflected back on the past 10 years in my life, and wow, what a ten years it’s been! In the past 10 years I’ve done the following (in pretty much this order).. Left College, got a job working in a call centre for One.Tel After [...]

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Facebook and Game Developers crack down on virtual currency offers after Techcrunch hits out.

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Lots of readers of this blog may not have experienced Social Media Virtual currency platforms before, so I’ll give a quick overview, using Mafia Wars as an example. Within Mafia Wars you’re able to use “Godfather points” to level up quicker, transferring them into topping up energy or gaining additional skill points – you get [...]

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