Yes, you can actually make your own diamonds at home. There are a number of methods that you can use to actually produce your own diamonds in the home.
Of the various methods these two are the most common.
Carbon and a small seed diamond in a pressure cooker. This method was popularised in the popular TV crime program CSI.
“Take a piece of pure graphite, put it in a ceramic box with some chemicals. Slide the whole thing into a pressure cooker. It simulates the temperature and pressure 15 miles below the earth’s surface. Graphite vaporizes. After three days, they pull it out the ceremic box. Break it open. You got yourself a [real] diamond crystal […] at a fraction of a price as diamonds from a mine. It’s like nature only a million times faster.”
Also this internet video shows 2 guys making home made bling using just Peanut Butter and a Microwave:
As you would expect - these methods are complete RUBBISH (don’t believe me? Check out the Mythbusters episode on home made diamonds).
But as a ray of hope, you can make money out of diamonds from your home, or office, or anywhere with an internet connection by signing up to and promoting the PurelyDiamonds affiliate program on Affiliate Window (Merchant id 1992). No hassle, no broken microwaves and support from me, just sign up and get in touch
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We have seriously entered the wedding ring buying season. Please see our hotpicks below which contains a number of best selling wedding rings for men and women. Imagine the scene….
You get to the alter and you say your I dos and it’s time for the best man to present the wedding rings, he pats his top pockets then his bottom pockets and you stare at him getting worried that may be he has forgotten or lost the most important part of your wedding, the rings! But there they are in his inside pocket and he passes them over to you and a look of relief washes over your face!
Wedding rings are the be all and end all to any wedding, though typically wedding rings are usually just plain gold bands they don’t have to be. Some men really like to spoil a woman and get her a wedding ring encrusted with diamonds. Like they say diamonds are a girl’s best friend!
The most important part of the wedding is saying “I do” then the slipping on of the ring, knowing that you will spend the rest of your life loving them and cherishing them, no day is more special than your wedding day! So choosing a high quality wedding ring, that can be a bit different to the plain and simple yellow gold can really seal the moment with style!
18ct white gold 0.25ct single stone diamond ring
AFFILIATE URL: http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?awinmid=1992&awinaffid=!!!ID!!!&p=http://www.purelydiamonds.co.uk/purelydiamond/products/products.php?cod=PD112CWS
Platinum 0.23ct eternity ring with 14 diamonds
AFFILIATE URL: http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?awinmid=1992&awinaffid=!!!ID!!!&p=http://www.purelydiamonds.co.uk/purelydiamond/products/products.php?cod=PD182PLS
Platinum flat top wedding ring
AFFILIATE URL: http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?awinmid=1992&awinaffid=!!!ID!!!&p=http://www.purelydiamonds.co.uk/purelydiamond/products/products.php?cod=PDWG032PL
You have your brand new website, it is all ready, seoed to the hilt - but you want that one big mention in the national press to trigger the start of your new venture.
You want to get your press release seen by as many people as possible.
There is a lot of services you can submit to here is a list of a few.
A quick word of advice, if you are submitting direct to a magazine or newspaper do your research! Make sure your press release is in keeping with the publication and most of all NEWSWORTHY. Look for similar stories in the publication and make a note of the journalists name. Need a little help, check out a press release writing service like http://lowcostpr.co.uk/
Big hint: If you are emailing press releases yourself DO NOT have the press release as the attachment. Have it all in line in the email. Have a couple of lines of introduction, followed by your name and contact number, followed by the press release text.
If you have more information, PDF or medi pack include a link, but do not attach to the email.
Many merchants - including PurelyDiamonds publish RSS feeds. These may be of Top Ten products (like purelydiamonds feed://www.purelydiamonds.co.uk/purelydiamond/rss/topten.xml on AffiliateWindow) or blog entries with news of new products.
Some merchant, like amazon now allow you to build specific feeds with the affiliate code embedded (amazon instructions here)but what about the others. How can you use these feeds on your sites?
Many affiliate programs allow you to add a tracking link direct to a URL, some you need to add code at the start (like affiliatewindow), others you need to add the code at the end, and others you need to add code at both the start and end of the URL.
With static pages, not generated by a CMS or blog (like wordpress) you can add feeds using a little PHP, you can dowload MAGPIE RSS here. This is a set of code files that you need to unzip and upload to your website, just follow the instructions.
If you are not so technically minded you might want a script like RSS2HTML you will jsut have to edit the template file so that the affiliate tracking code buts up to the ~~~FeedLink~~~ parameter, either code before:
Making sure that the tracking portion immediatly follows / preceeds the URL code with no spaces.
If you have a wordpress blog my good friend Keith Bond has created a plugin for using RSS in blog posts and pages, you can now add the url tracking and this will automatically populate all links from the feed!
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Ok, so I do this occassionally, buy into what can often be seen as spam, where someone offers a submission service, tool, advice for a couple of dollars via an online marketing forum. If done occassionally it is often worth a punt.
Last week a new poster on the A4U forum was offering his google news submission servic, strangely in US dollars for a UK forum, but there you go.
The service was $30 - $15 for a review ‘copy’. Details on A4U here
Doing these type of buy ins can be more educating than useful up front. So I handed over my hard earned (so you don’t have to - there you go you now owe me 20quid) and stated my keywords and link.
Yes all three keywords did end up the the first page of google news, all three made it to page one (one made position three, the other two position 1). The least niche of the 3 is now (6 days later) on page , the other two are mid way on page 1.
Any way, the traffic from this, not alot, the keywords were a little too niche. I should have probably had Credit Cards or Persoanl lonad for this test. Also - the worst thing is that the link achieved was from a third party site. Namely searchbyheadlines.com.
This site is free to post to anyway, I have tried it and it can be fairly easy to get on page one for niche keywords using this service.
As with alot of these types of offerings online, it is all about information rather than any real magic.
It was worth a punt, but would not reuse the service.
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The time to act is NOW for Valentines day 2009. Ok Maybe wait untill the brain fog of new years day has passed
So what goes on on Valentines Day. Well amongst other things this one day in the shortest month sees a big peak in marriage proposals.
Of course I am thinking about PurelyDiamonds and their huge array of engagement and wedding rings (Engagement Rings | Diamond Engagement Ring | Wedding Rings | Diamond Pendants | Diamond Studs) Purelydiamonds produce a vast array of the highest quality rings and other diamond Jewellery at up to 50% off high street prices. (and yes they are passing on the VAT decrease).
Why PurelyDiamonds? Purelydiamonds offers some wonderful product photography and video of the products. If this weren’t enough to boost conversion rates all items come with a standard 30 day money back guarantee, hugely boosting consumer confidence in purchasing such an exquisitely expensive item online.
If the customer is not quite ready for the full proposal on 14th Feb, there are some amazing deals on the highest quality diamond pendants, bracelets and earrings.
Also think Easter and Mothering Sunday gifts - there are some fantastic gifts that will last alot longer than chocolate (and be alot better for the waist line)
Purely Diamonds offers 7% commission on all jewellery. All prices include delivery and the PurelyDiamonds affiliate program can be found on the Affiliate Window Affiliate Network
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There has been alot of talk of inappropriate voucher code use, click to reveal voucher codes and general affiliate abuse of voucher codes.
Well here is the solution for merchants.
It will nullify voucher code fraud, it will mean that any non affiliate vouchers are not abused, it will mean that voucher code fraudsters who display non existant vouches will not get commission after another affiliate has done the pre sale.
ONLY display the voucher code box at the checkout when a visitor has used a URL specific to the vouchercode. This may be a magazine or TV advert, PPC advert, flyer or other. It is your right to have this URL / voucher combination IGNORE the affiliate tracking code from the network.
Many merchants already do this on their PPC campaigns. If the PPC campaign is the last referrer for the sale the sale is not reported to the affiliate network.
So if a user sees your advert and discount code in a magazine /catalogue/on tv or whatever and uses your link - something like merchant-name.xxx/offer a cookie would be triggered to show the vouchercode box on your website. The same cookie would deactivate the affiliate netwrok tracking code. Customer gets the discount, the sale is trackable and the merchant doesnt fork out commission when the user searches for a discount vocher for the product.
When the affiliate link is clicked no voucher code box is shown so customers will not abandon the shopping cart looking for a voucher.
Also the merchant wouldnt lose the sale to a competitior selling the same/similar product when searching for a discount code.
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Just through my own personal experiences I thought I would list my favourite affiliate networks so far Christmas 2008. I have excluded a number of indy programs - I have to keep some secrets…
Amazon (I know it is not a network, but it just performs so well)
