Affiliate Marketing blog by James Little

From the face of it – this looks like a very nice widescreen TV.

Then you see the room behind. It’s certainly a creative use of the spare room..

I was out for lunch today with a friend of mine who has recently started a site called UK Poker Buddies

It’s completely free to sign up and there is no advertising on the site – a good resource for offline poker players.

Web 2.0 Logo Generator

It’s just been announced that the “big three” search engines (Google, Yahoo & MSN) have joined forces for the support of the sitemaps protocol.

Here’s the full announcement from the big G:

We’re thrilled to tell you that Yahoo! and Microsoft are joining us in supporting the Sitemap protocol.

As part of this development, we’re moving the protocol to a new namespace, www.sitemaps.org, and raising the version number to 0.9. The sponsoring companies will continue to collaborate on the protocol and publish enhancements on the jointly-maintained site sitemaps.org.

If you’ve already submitted a Sitemap to Google using the previous namespace and version number, we’ll continue to accept it. If you haven’t submitted a Sitemap before, check out the documentation on www.sitemaps.org for information on creating one. You can submit your Sitemap file to Google using Google webmaster tools. See the documentation that Yahoo! and Microsoft provide for information about submitting to them.

If any website owners, tool writers, or webserver developers haven’t gotten around to implementing Sitemaps yet, thinking this was just a crazy Google experiment, we hope this joint announcement shows that the industry is heading in this direction. The more Sitemaps eventually cover the entire web, the more we can revolutionize the way web crawlers interact with websites. In our view, the experiment is still underway.

Check out the official sitemaps site or the full details from Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Sitemaps is supported by the Creative Commons license that Google donated $30,000 to earlier this month.

Good news for UK Affiliates in that Buy.at – an affiliate network that I would certainly place in my top three in the UK Scene have managed to implement BACS. Affiliates have been crying out for this method of payment for years and it’s great to see that they have finally managed to take the step that means no more standing in bank queues!

With the expected launch of the new buy.at control panel just around the corner it seems that it’s gearing up for an excellent 2007 for the Newcastle based network.

Threadwatch (my first choice for SEO news) had a link though to John Andrews’ Blog and an article about Ted Leonsis (Vice Chairman of AOL).   It seems that Ted thinks he’s pretty good at that SEO lark as his blog, which started a year ago,  is Number #1 in the rankings when search for, err, Ted Leonsis.

It seems as if his comments have caused a bit of a stir in the SEO community and already those who didn’t make it across to the Pubcon in Las Vegas are twitching their fingers and starting to target a new search term.

It will be interesting to see how this one pans out – let’s hope dear old Ted doesn’t get too upset when he’s no longer #1!

In case anyone hasn’t seen it, Paul Wright has put together a fantastic article on the use of some tools to generate thousands of keywords for PPC campaigns.

It’s an excellent read so if you have a few spare minutes you should check it out now.

…but it’s been a over a year since my last post. I’d pretty much forgotten about it until I very randomly met with my old MD from Field & Trek. He mentioned that he looked at the site every now and again, so I decided it was about time that I got around to updating it.

I work for an iGaming firm called St. Minver these days as an Affiliate Manager for their Bingo & Casino sites.

Family wise Kieran has just had his 4th Birthday and Jacob is now around 18 months old. Lindsey still manages to put up with me somehow.