Affiliate Dogma

How Much Money Can I Make Out Of Affiliate Marketing?

Ok. I have been fielding some more newbie affiliate marketing questions today.

What an open ended question it is. One person may make £10 a month, one may make £10,000 a month working in the same sector.

In attempt to answer the question, or have potential affiliates put some thought into the actual questions they should be asking I have created this simple tool, just tell it the sector you are working in, your daily site traffic - expected conversions (this can baffle people, and I cannot readily answer) and it will tell you how much you can expect to turn over a month.

The earnings data has been collected from a reliable source and there has been a fair bit of averaging, so I am hoping that the figures look reasonable.

I would love feedback on this - so let me know.

Affiliate Marketing Profit Tool

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March 28th, 2008 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing, tools | 2 comments

Free Stuff - My Top 5 Open Source Applications

5) osCommerce

I have a sort of love hate relationship with osCommerce, it is a fantasticly powerful, FREE opensource shopping cart software. The bug I have with it is that it does take alot of customisation and plugins to get the application ready for a spacific project. I am now starting to lean towards xcart as software of choice, it is not free - but you get the source code and are able to customise. Again you do need customisation, but you get support (beyond free forums) and there are several great options

4) Drupal

This is my CMS of choice, nice clean with loads of addons. I actually packaged up the software with a selection of great plugins a while ago. It is still available for download from this site

3) FireFox

Ok this is my second browser. Doing website building work I need to get things running in the most popular browser first, then check in FF. Firefox has a fantastic array of plugins and toolbars, and I am probably very guilty of not using FF as much as I should.

2)Word press.

Blog Software, you are looking at an example now.

1) Open Office

Ah yes. Why pay microsoft hundreds when you can get it for free? (There are some very good reasons to use microsoft office, but I will gloss over that just now) Mostly compatible with Microsoft Office, Open Office has a spreadsheet, wordprocessor, database and presentation software that can be used to open, view and edit the microsoft equivelents. The big drawback is that OO is NOT compatable with Microsoft Macros - but has its own macro language.

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October 19th, 2007 Posted by admin | tools, oscommerce, xcart, x-cart, php | no comments

5 Essential Links for The Affiliate Marketeer

Just thought I would share 5 of the most useful links that I have at the moment.

I am not going to list networks (they are already listed in the navbar on the right). But I am going to list the 5 most commonly used links by myself at the moment.

Google.com

Ok - this is a bit of a cheat, but despite the problems that google brings and the reputation it has of a nonstop monster eating up the web, it does have a plethora of great tools. Excluding the search, adwords, adsense, there are also maps, analytics and unfortunately it is very difficult to get away from it.

InternetMarketingBlogs.co.uk

There are so many quality blogs out there that I read on a daily basis - it would be mad to try and list them, let alone pick a handful to fit into the top 5 links. So this service covers all of them. It is quick and easy to get a grasp of what is going on and follow up in detail on the original blog.

php.net

Being a fond user of PHP MYSQL this site is fantastic, THE manual to PHP programming. My brain is not big enough to fit all the functions that I use on a weekly basis.

AffiliateBounty

Need to find out if a company has an affiliate program? This site is fantastically easy to use, though unfortunately not definitive - yet.

SEOChat

Some great seo / keyword tools. If you are not already familiar with this site go and have a look, there is too much to cover here.

Other top links - The Weekly Q, Bumpzee, Facebook, Youtube, BBC News

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July 10th, 2007 Posted by admin | affiliate marketing, affiliate, tools | one comment

Which Dragon Has The Best Website

Ok this is another post about BBC 2’s Dragon’s Den and we have only had one episode to date.

Having a look at the official website for Dragon’s Den (www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden) I had the idea to write a review on each of the ‘Dragon’s’ official Websites. After seeing Keith Bond’s post about SEOmoz I decided to use this to assess which of these official Dragon’s sites are the best.

Deborah Meaden

http://www.deborahmeaden.com/

Page Strength: 0.5 / 10

Duncan Bannatyne

http://www.bannatyne.co.uk/

Page Strength: 3.5 / 10

Peter Jones

http://www.peterjones.tv/

Page Strength: 3.5 / 10

Richard Farleigh

http://www.farleigh.com/

Page Strength: 3 / 10

Theo Paphitis

http://www.theopaphitis.com/

Page Strength: 2.5 / 10

So there we have it Jones and Bannatyne tie first followed by Farleigh, Paphitis and finally Meaden. To be honest this is probably the order I would rank these in, only in a general webpage sense, the fact is that these people’s websites are carried by the people - brands. This sort of ranking tool is much more useful for you and me, affiliates especially.

Want to know your sites page Strength - see http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength

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February 12th, 2007 Posted by scifind | SEO, tools, webdesign, Dragon's Den | no comments