Affiliate Progress

I’m actually quite pleased with my affiliate marketing progress this last quarter. I am learning steadily, and forming a more closely focused strategy. Actual income is still very low, but that is also as expected because of the number of projects I’m restricting myself to and the need to develop those projects further.

Only one major fly in the ointment, which is Google’s refusal to expose one of my lovely new sites to the gaze of the general public. With so few projects for me to experiment with, this is getting a little annoying after four and a half months, but there is not too much to be done about it I guess.

So here is a brief run down of my achievements for this quarter, achievements against my 2010 targets, and new goals for Q3 and beyond. (more…)

As one of the goals of my latest project was to try and increase my AdSense earnings, I wanted to find a way of managing the adverts with minimal additional work as I add content.

Some WordPress themes have built in features for this, but as the theme I chose for my new blog was without them, I needed to find some other way of handling my AdSense ads within my content and sidebars. (more…)

It has been a hugely busy week for my offline work, and I can see it remaining like that for some time to come. So I was glad that I managed to get my new blog project that I discussed in my last post started over the previous weekend.

I just thought I would share a few details of what I’ve been doing so that it makes more sense in forthcoming progress reports. (more…)

For some time now I’ve been meaning to kick off a series of occasional posts linking to great stuff I’ve read online and also to let you know what I’m currently reading offline.

Hopefully you will get to read some inspiring and informative blog posts, and I will be able to find them again when I need them! I also get to shamelessly post some Amazon affiliate links, but we’re all grown ups here so I’m sure you’ll forgive me for that! (more…)

I have been kind of dreading looking back at my affiliate goals for quarter one of 2010. I laid out my goals in this post and although some are on target, I have added others that weren’t included, and had a change of direction regarding some others. But hey, that is part of what goals are set for. At least I can clearly see that change of direction by looking back at those previously stated goals. (more…)