Affiliate Aims

Haven’t updated for the past few days as I was busy with offline things and didn’t really get a chance to work on any sites/affiliate marketing or this site!

My aims for the 13th and 14th March were:

- Purchase the prizes for the BOB competition draw – not done because I have found them on ebay and need to wait for the auction to end but I have them chosen! They are good
- Have a total of 10 pages on BOB – Done
- Have at least 1 post in each category (there are 16 categories) – not done
- Have the merchant list completed with all merchants I have been accepted by – not done
- Decide on the weekly feature posts, one for each day of the week! – not done
- Install xml sitemap on BOB and submit to search engines – installed but not submitted as I want something in all categories before I do that

Not very productive on the affiliate marketing side but I own another site with another webmaster and I do all the technical stuff and a few weeks ago we decided to transfer to another server and to wordpress to get higher in search engine, they insisted they would be more proactive on the site once it was transferred, were they? No, I completely wasted my time and I am feeling rather bitter about it actually. Hours that could have been spent on my own sites that have more potential and I dont have to share completely waste it, I’ve completely officially had it with the site and the person in question. Lesson of the day – Dont join forces with other people, you will end up doing all the work yourself.

I have hired a writer for BOB, they are going to write a column based on the products featured on BOB and work on a 25% profit share, using click refs 25% of any revenue gained from affiliate links on their post will go to them. I think this has more advantages than hiring writers by post basis. For a decent article it would cost £5-10, would a single article ever produce £10? If one article therefore produces £100 in commissions and the other 9 earn £0, it would have only cost me £25 for 10 articles, if they all earn £100 each (doubtful but being hypothetical) then yes, it would cost me £250 rather than £100 for the 10 but if the writer is bringing me a huge boost in revenue then dont they deserve that £150 extra? /end ramble.

Daily Aims – 17th March 2010

- Do a page with the merchants listed on it
- Do a post for each category
- Put all the offers from the merchants I am working with that have emailed me this week on the site
- Submit the sitemap

It’s also time to consider ways to promote the site and decide which one I am working on next.

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