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30DC for the UK

30DC for the UK

Adapting the techniques of thirtydaychallenge for the UK market
Linda
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Isha (Marysia)
You may have had emails in the last 2/3 months from Commission Junction UK &/or from Affiliate Window, telling you that amongst other things their new guidelines include: "Affiliates must not use a mechanism whereby users are encouraged to click to interact with content where it is unclear or confusing what the outcome will be: For example: [...]...
or confusing what the outcome will be: For example: [...] Opening the merchant's site without making it clear that this will occur". Affiliates contravening the code will be flung out. I quickly went through my posts unlinking all the keyword-to-affiliate-merchant links. How can we get around this? Are our 30dc sites now defunct? - Isha (Marysia)
Would love to have your comments on this issue. Affiliate Window & Commission UK are prolly the biggest UK-based affiliate organisations in the UK. If you're signed up to them, I wonder what you've been doing re your affiliate links in your blog posts? - Isha (Marysia)
The US have now caught up of course (FTC). Seems that the UK got there first... - Isha (Marysia)
Isha (Marysia)
This looks like a good UK aff network: http://shopzilla-publisher-blog.co.uk/ Seems more user-friendly than Digital/Affiliate Window. And they seem to have some good tutorial videos http://www.youtube.com/user... Shopzilla US is only open to sites that have an established US clientele. Anyone using either of them? Lisa? Andy? Linda?
Isha (Marysia)
Remember Ed Dale's 3-day Manchester seminar http://www.tubbynerd.com/ComingH... just €497
I'll be there. Who else is going? - Lisa
Me :) Hope to get chance to chinwag w/you Lisa. - Isha (Marysia)
Isha (Marysia)
Remember to visit the London meetups thread on the 30dc forum if you live in/near London. A few of us had a great meetup today in the Barbican Centre.
Mark Hill
Hey Folks, I am a fellow UK 30dcer, Just started this year, missed the live sessions as my mate told me about it end of August, pleased to meet you all
Welcome Mark! - Isha (Marysia)
Isha (Marysia)
If you're ever thinking of going to a London meetup, you might find this handy: http://www.geofftech.co.uk/tube...
Linda
unprofound.com : royalty free phototography project - a public domain stock photo collaboration - http://www.unprofound.com/
very nice photos NO restriction on use & free - Linda from Bookmarklet
Linda
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looks interesting - maybe better than crazy egg? - Linda from Bookmarklet
Andy Roberts
barbican1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
barbican1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
I was there last sunday but no one showed up. - MayC
according to Tim, there might have two people there who thought nobody else turned up. - Andy Roberts
Linda
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just in case anyone isn't using WPD & needs it - Linda from Bookmarklet
John Bergseth
Hi all! Do I have to sign up for this group anywhere to join?
You just subscribe to the group, and join in. Welcome! - Andy Roberts
Andy Roberts
Fwd: #30DC Meetup in London. Sunday 2nd Aug. 12:30pm. Barbican Centre @nrocy @Toranika maverick18 @BarbaraFox @aroberts http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/forums... - http://twitter.com/crazyti... (via http://friendfeed.com/andy-ro...)
Ken Lee
Thanks Andy. I just watched the 30dc London meetup video Tim,Isha - very good, would recommend that people watch this both parts.
Isha (Marysia)
Here'is the video of part of the London meetup that we had last Thursday. Courtesy of Tim Brennan and Maria. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Here'is the video of part of the London meetup that we had last Thursday.  Courtesy of Tim Brennan and Maria.
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Here's the thread where Tim explains about the video: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Isha (Marysia)
Like the video very helpful.Wish you all well in this years challenge - Ken Lee
Ken Lee
Have just found this from the forum, looking forward to this years 30dc
Not long to go now Ken. - Andy Roberts
Linda
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Wonderful tool for getting ideas for posts - great for brainstorming, article creation etc. - Linda from Bookmarklet
Steve Williams
I hope that Ed Dale covers Google Wave in this years 30 day challenge..........
Unlikely I'd have thought, it's not out yet. On the other hand talking about what might be big in the future is a popular activity. - Andy Roberts
Yes but the API and sandbox for web developers using Google Wave is out now and I am working on it. It manybe too complex for 30DC? It is due for release end of this year. http://code.google.com/apis... - Steve Williams
Steve
"Invalid Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator" - Isha (Marysia)
Link updated - thanks Marysia! - Steve
Andy Roberts
Image Editing lesson 2 : The Clone Tool /DARnet Andy Roberts/ - The second video tutorial in this series ... http://distributedresearch.net/blog... Putting the second video out as a blog post now.
Andy Roberts
Consumers are slowly learning how to cope | Trends | Marketing Week As attitudes to the recession shift from fear to acceptance, marketers would be wise to follow the spending patterns set by consumers as they establish coping strategies. - http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/consume...
Consumers are slowly learning how to cope | Trends | Marketing Week  As attitudes to the recession shift from fear to acceptance, marketers would be wise to follow the spending patterns set by consumers as they establish coping strategies.
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thanks for this Andy - interesting stats - nudgeme
Linda
Anyone managed to set the new rank tracker module of Market Sam to fetch UK results yet? My project is UK based in MS but the ranking info fetched is google.com, so not much use. Is there a way to adjust it?
just been on the MS forum & someone else having similar issues. They're on it, so knowing the MS guys it will be sorted soon! - Linda
Link to forum thread please? - Andy Roberts
Andy Roberts
Meetups in London Thread on the forum: http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/forums...
Andy Roberts
I've recorded a series of five screencast tutorials about basic photo editing using a Mac. What's the best thing to do with them?
I'm glad you like the question, but does anybody have any suggestions? - Andy Roberts
Well, I been thinking about it at the back of my head today, & a couple of things: 1. find some decent keywords, put up a blog, & either sell them on the back of a free teaser or they (or 1 or 2 of them) could be the free teaser to get them into your blog. Depends how valuable you think they are: you could give away one or 2 & charge for the others (I've been making notes on one of Eben Pagan's homestudy seminars today http://tinyurl.com/qk4nfx - Isha (Marysia)
Pagan's video is v good by the way, & if you've not seen it could give you some ideas that would answer your question. 2. Find someone whose blog/site gets good visitor numbers in a related (but not competing) area & ask to do a post or an offer on their blog, & you'd tell the readers that they can get the tutorials on your blog. - Isha (Marysia)
What we don't know is how long they are, what you think they're worth, what your intention was behind making them etc. So not sure if either of those suggestions actually fit your reality? - Isha (Marysia)
3. Hunt around the internet finding out who & where are crying out for just that sort of tutorial. I'm reminded of the mantra of the 30dc, something about not having the product before doing the market research. 4. If you think they're good (you might like to verify that by getting someone to go through them) then perhaps Clickbank? - Isha (Marysia)
Some good suggestions there, along the lines of what I'm grasping towards. I'm not sure what these kind of tutorials might be worth so I'm going to have to test it somehow. Keyword research has been underway but the specific niche is untested. I think I need to write a step by step plan now. Meanwhile, thanks for the ideas and I'll send you the plan and videos if you like. - Andy Roberts
Yes, this is going about it backwards but there was a reason - I was stuck offline so it was the best I could do with my time. At the worst, I have content for five blog posts but feel I should be able to make more of it. - Andy Roberts
I don't have Mac but thanks for the offer. Agree, you could make more of it. - Isha (Marysia)
I've posted the first video on my blog to see what happens, there's also a list of what's covered in the remaining 4 vidoes - Number 1 is not the best one http://distributedresearch.net/blog... - Andy Roberts
Andy Roberts
30DC starts again in 2009 with the pre-season in June. That's only about three weeks away. Teams?
Andy Roberts
Meet Up - West Midlands UK Sat 21st Feb - http://www.mutterz.com/general...
Looking forward to seeing folks - feel free to just turn up and join us... - flaminglacer
Enzo Vullo
Hitwise Intelligence - Robin Goad - UK: Twitter enters top 100 sites; UK traffic has trebled already in 2009 - http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-g...
flaminglacer
West Midlands Meetup Sat 21st Feb - Details here - http://www.mutterz.com/general...
Isha (Marysia)
Reminder: the UK's Inland Revenue deadline for filing tax returns is January 31. The postal deadline has long gone and any tax returns not yet filed must be filed online by Jan 31.
OUCH <grin> - Gordon Martin from twhirl
Yes - system changed in 2008. Ouch indeed. But at least it puts an end to the IR pretending they've not received posted returns for those of us who leave things till the last minute :) - Isha (Marysia)
This is for what year? - Frann Leach
The tax return covering the IR tax year 6 April 2007 to 5 April 2008. - Isha (Marysia)
The Queen's a pal of mine and she said I don't have to bother with that stuff. - Tim Brennan
Lol Tim, can you please put in a word for me? - Isha (Marysia)
Isha (Marysia)
London meetup is 29th Jan 6pm far end of British Museum's Great Hall. - http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/forums...
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