After the threat of manky weather yesterday evening and the fact it turned out rather nice. I decided a night off was in order and a drive out to some local woods for a walk.
These woods surround the old USAF Chicksands base in Bedfordshire, it is also slowly being cut down and destroyed (Centre Parcs here they come).
So park the car, not a care in the world, youngun climbing trees and having a good time.
Wandering back to the car on this lovely light night at 7:30pm (not really late) . SHOCK, there is my car, lonesome in the car park and the barrier padlocked shut! Imspecting the gate and lock I notice the bit of paper hanging on the gate witht he words scrawled 'LOCKED AT 7PM'.
Sheer panic by littleun and the missus.
A little moving of tree stumps and brambles and 30 minutes later we were free!.
Woods locked up at 7pm on a summers night....must be Britain!
Next time I will stay in and check my stats
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Stealing my pics
In the webstats for justsalou I notice a lot og hits from http://www.eekjes.mygb.nl/
I take a look and find it is because they are lift an image from http://www.justsalou.co.uk/
So....A little bit of renaming and this....
Becomes this...on their website..
well... every little helps.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Up and Down and all over the show
After what I thought was a promising start in Affiliate Marketing, strange things started to happen to JUSTSALOU for no apparent reason.
From climbing my way through Google all of a sudden I disappear, from 60 organic searches a day to zilch overnight. OK, Google throws a wobbly now and then.
When the Google traffic stopped, the next day traffic starts from Yahoo (not a lot just a little).
Fear sets in that I have done something really bad and have been penalised, but... with only a minor amount of traffic the sales still happen, in fact things got a little better.
Have to say here I am only a little fish in the market, I set myself a target of £20,000 in sales and £500 commission for the first year.
After 10 months I have £23,000 in sales and £1150 commission, so pleased so far.
Back to the search engine thingy, the last few days has seen the Google traffic return, around 110 visitors all organic. (i don't do ppc), and also a good deal of returning visitors to the website.
I was also pleased to see a broader range of search terms heading to my site (after a reshuffle and update of the pages and menus).
The problem, not a single sale from this traffic, and click-through down too, Page hits for the relevant searches looks OK, and the traffic looks well targeted.
So do I leave it, do I fiddle around, do I completely ignore and move on to one of the many other sites I want to get running.
I don't think I shall ever know..!
From climbing my way through Google all of a sudden I disappear, from 60 organic searches a day to zilch overnight. OK, Google throws a wobbly now and then.
When the Google traffic stopped, the next day traffic starts from Yahoo (not a lot just a little).
Fear sets in that I have done something really bad and have been penalised, but... with only a minor amount of traffic the sales still happen, in fact things got a little better.
Have to say here I am only a little fish in the market, I set myself a target of £20,000 in sales and £500 commission for the first year.
After 10 months I have £23,000 in sales and £1150 commission, so pleased so far.
Back to the search engine thingy, the last few days has seen the Google traffic return, around 110 visitors all organic. (i don't do ppc), and also a good deal of returning visitors to the website.
I was also pleased to see a broader range of search terms heading to my site (after a reshuffle and update of the pages and menus).
The problem, not a single sale from this traffic, and click-through down too, Page hits for the relevant searches looks OK, and the traffic looks well targeted.
So do I leave it, do I fiddle around, do I completely ignore and move on to one of the many other sites I want to get running.
I don't think I shall ever know..!
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Sunshine and definately no showers - Mission #7
There has been a lot of Sunshine lately, with a certain company causing a stir in the affiliate marketing arena. A good stir though.
They gang over at Sunshine.co.uk have hit the travel market with a certain rush, that has got people not only talking but building their first travel sites.
The sunshine.co.uk affiliate marketing incentives are real incentives with rewards that will give you your own dose in sunshine. We are not talking putting up the odd banner here, these guys give you everything you need to get your travel site on the road to success. Product feeds, dynamic banners, customisable and white label search boxes, rss feeds, email templates...the lot. Oh and not forgetting staff that do not seem to sleep.
The last few days I spent trawling their site for a cheap holiday, this was in aid of one of their incentives 'Mission 7'.
The simplicity of the sunshine website also made this a pretty simple task, although by the end I was going a bit cross eyed.
The best bit was receiving an email from Chris C at Sunshine.co.uk informing me I had won, I was amazed at this but soon started to realise I also had gained a free holiday but also the problem of knowing what to do with me 8yr old lad while I was sunning it up in Majorca. Again sunshine came to the rescue and threw in a ticket for him as well. So now I have a free holiday and an 8 year old with a big grin.
Chris got us booked up in a jiffy, with an upgraded apartment, good flights and transfer as well. So thanks again Chris and all at sunshine.co.uk.
And lastly a quick word to the other travel merchants.... look and learn!
They gang over at Sunshine.co.uk have hit the travel market with a certain rush, that has got people not only talking but building their first travel sites.
The sunshine.co.uk affiliate marketing incentives are real incentives with rewards that will give you your own dose in sunshine. We are not talking putting up the odd banner here, these guys give you everything you need to get your travel site on the road to success. Product feeds, dynamic banners, customisable and white label search boxes, rss feeds, email templates...the lot. Oh and not forgetting staff that do not seem to sleep.
The last few days I spent trawling their site for a cheap holiday, this was in aid of one of their incentives 'Mission 7'.
The simplicity of the sunshine website also made this a pretty simple task, although by the end I was going a bit cross eyed.
The best bit was receiving an email from Chris C at Sunshine.co.uk informing me I had won, I was amazed at this but soon started to realise I also had gained a free holiday but also the problem of knowing what to do with me 8yr old lad while I was sunning it up in Majorca. Again sunshine came to the rescue and threw in a ticket for him as well. So now I have a free holiday and an 8 year old with a big grin.
Chris got us booked up in a jiffy, with an upgraded apartment, good flights and transfer as well. So thanks again Chris and all at sunshine.co.uk.
And lastly a quick word to the other travel merchants.... look and learn!
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Time for me to change to AM
Over the last three to four years, I have been dabbling around in web design for local companies, (and some not so local). The amount of hours put in for the reward that came has become unjustified especially when there is so much I want to do with my affiliate marketing.
I am still new to affiliate marketing and learning day by day, each sale that comes prompts me to do a bit more.
This week see my commission so far pass through the £1000, I know it is not much compared to the majority of souls in affiliate marketing, but it is enough for me to say goodbye to web design and hello to putting in more hours to developing sites for myself.
I realise the amount of hours I put in will probably go up, but its still nice to see those sales click up.
I am still new to affiliate marketing and learning day by day, each sale that comes prompts me to do a bit more.
This week see my commission so far pass through the £1000, I know it is not much compared to the majority of souls in affiliate marketing, but it is enough for me to say goodbye to web design and hello to putting in more hours to developing sites for myself.
I realise the amount of hours I put in will probably go up, but its still nice to see those sales click up.
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Sunshine's working hard to get that tan
The people over at sunshine.co.uk have been working hard lately promoting their new affiliate scheme and throwing incentives at its affiliates and would be affiliates left right and centre.
Macbook Air's, Trips to Barbados, and undercover spying trips to the Costa's are some of their latest carrots put before us.
As travel companies go, they seem pretty clued up, the Sunshine site itself is easy to use, offers good flight and hotel selection and now I hear even hotel transfers too.
I first made contact with Chris at Sunshine when he replied to a cry of help for my own www.justsalou.co.uk website, and again what he told me did make sense and is proving to make sense in the number of visitors to the site and also the time on site they spend.
What Chris doesn't know yet is I will be beating at his door again shortly, with some help for hotel pages.
As soon as sunshine.co.uk was put to market, Chris and the gang at Sunshine were there with hotel feeds, destination feeds, shortly followed with search boxes, special offer banners tailored to what you want and even code to prepare your own email marketing.
The end result of all this is an affiliate scheme that is user friendly with all the info you need to get into travel, whether you want to promote a broad range of destinations or that little niche destination that you want to push, and also enough info to make me want to push more and get on with it.
Macbook Air's, Trips to Barbados, and undercover spying trips to the Costa's are some of their latest carrots put before us.
As travel companies go, they seem pretty clued up, the Sunshine site itself is easy to use, offers good flight and hotel selection and now I hear even hotel transfers too.
I first made contact with Chris at Sunshine when he replied to a cry of help for my own www.justsalou.co.uk website, and again what he told me did make sense and is proving to make sense in the number of visitors to the site and also the time on site they spend.
What Chris doesn't know yet is I will be beating at his door again shortly, with some help for hotel pages.
As soon as sunshine.co.uk was put to market, Chris and the gang at Sunshine were there with hotel feeds, destination feeds, shortly followed with search boxes, special offer banners tailored to what you want and even code to prepare your own email marketing.
The end result of all this is an affiliate scheme that is user friendly with all the info you need to get into travel, whether you want to promote a broad range of destinations or that little niche destination that you want to push, and also enough info to make me want to push more and get on with it.
Sunday, 16 March 2008
Nokia N95 @ O2 - Free on £25.00 month tarrif
I have now taken delivery of my Nokia N95. Looking around the O2 website at the phones available I opted for the N95 to replace my O2 ICE.
My package was a two year contract, with 400mins a month and 1000 Free Text, also free O2 to O2 calls, the price £25 which included the Nokia N95 for free.
The phone itself is quite chunky and solid, good spec, easy to use and allows me to pick-up my email as well as browse the web. (although I have never been a fan of web browsing on small screens).
It is worth looking at all the tarrifs and phones as there are many combinations of tarrif and length of contract that can give you the phone your looking for, and with contracts from £15.00 per month and a free phone it is worth a look.
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