Monetising your website and affiliate marketing ramblings from Chris E Frost…
With the recent news of Facebook buying Instagram, there are some who are rushing to backup their Instagram photo’s before closing their account.
Parking the reasons why you’d want to do this to one side, it got me thinking about the photos I’ve taken and shared on social networks such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc.
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Over the past 4 months, I’ve been tinkering aroundwith my websites in an attempt to improve performance, reduce load times & bandwidth, without impacting the layout.
During the course, I’ve stumbled across a few little tools & websites, that I’ve found invaluable and thought I post them here to share with others;
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Thats right! Now is the time to really start planning your Christmas strategy if you’re wanting to make the most of the busiest season in affiliate marketing.
Already a number of merchants and one network have dropped me emails asking what my plans are, how we can work closer together, and what opportunities are available for extra exposure etc. The difference I’m seeing this year is that some of the merchants are the biggies, the ones that usually suffer from more red tape than a chinese new year!
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Lately I’ve been receiving little snippets of information about the forthcoming a4uexpo being held in London on 18th & 19th October. A change to norm, will see it move from ExCeL in the docklands to Hilton Metropole in London’s West–End. It’s hard to believe that this will be the 5th annual a4uexpo – a long cry from the days we used to meet in a pub!
Already sponsorship packages are being snapped up by networks, agencies and merchants and a lot of affiliates are booking early, saving a small fortune with the early bird discounts that are available. If you know you’re definitely going to attend, then go register and grab your ticket now while saving £100!
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Web stats are a boring part of Affiliate Marketing, almost as bad as link building, but are essential if you’re to tweak and improve the performance of a website and see if your visitors are behaving in the way you think/expect.
I’ve always found that most tools out there, either confuse the hell out of me, or show me too much information meaning I never pay much attention to them. For some of my sites, I’ve no idea how people are finding me, what keywords they’re using, and where they are clicking out to. A few months ago however, I stumbled across Piwik, a downloadable, open source, real time web analytics software program which I implented across a few of my website such as The Outdoors.
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I'm Chris Frost, a Director, entrepreneur, business owner, eMarketeer... whatever you call it. I own a company that manages sites generating income through affiliate marketing.
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