30DC for the UK

Hi Marysia, I've used afwin since March this year and regard them as one of the main UK affilliate networks. As long as you are serious about making sales for using some of their merchants you'll have nothing to worry about. If you just want to try out an untested phrase, then I suppose the £5 upfront fee is there to see if you can be easily put off. If you earn less than £25 in a month, the balance *is* carried forward. So I'd suggest paying the £5 by debit card and having a go. Payment to you can be by BACS into a bank account so not having credit card shouldn't be an immediate problem, it must be difficult to buy some things online though. - Andy Roberts

Thanks, Andy, for your really helpful reply! I'll go ahead with them then. I don't have any probs buying things online using Paypal. I like the security of it. However, all UK sites recognise my debit card, which is a Maestro card, and lots of non-UK sites do too. The only time I was unable to buy something it was an IM site - which I thought hilarious! :D - Marysia

What about the clause: "7.3 DWL reserves the right to charge a monthly administrative fee if in any six month period, the Affiliate does not earn a CPA or CPC and the Affiliate does not log into or access its section on the Service Website" - do you know how much the monthly fee is? I'm a bit concerned because I still feel new to all this and am only able to work at it a few hours a week while I find my profitable niche(s). - Marysia

It's ok - I found what I needed (in fact that admin fee is irrelevant). I got it via a really useful forum: affiliates4u.com/forums/affiliate-window - Marysia

"Adobe AIR has released an update to the Adobe AIR platform. DO NOT UPGRADE... yet The upgrade causes a major bug inside Market Samurai where no keyword traffic data is able to be retrieved. The engineers are working on a solution to this right now. But right now, avoid upgrading to Adobe AIR version 1.5 until a Market Samurai update has been released. Brent" - Linda via Bookmarklet

On a more serious note. Andy - that is the exact problem I have been having. Yet it seems strange other people in the UK are not having the same problem. Must investigate more. - laprensa66

Sorry, which problem is this related to? Thanks for the pooktre link - I've seen it before once but it's very inspirational. - Andy Roberts

Andy, Lindas comment on your post down below pretty much answers the problem I was having, which sounds similar to yours. - laprensa66

In Market Samurai Settings for Google, there's a drop down menu for selecting a region or else "All countries and territories". I initially set this to UK. After testing with several keywords with which I'm familiar, the results - particularly in the new competition analysis module - don't match those from a google UK search at all. Then I found that changing the setting made no difference at all. Checking against a Google.com search is closer, but after one particular search I became convinced that Samurai is working not only on google.com results but also using &GL=US to specifically retrieve results geared towards the US. - Andy Roberts

Interesting Fran, maybe it's niche specific. Mine are currently 80 +% UK traffic. - Linda

I've been using the Market Samurai this morning as a refined suggestion tool for coming up with potential phrases within a broad area, then cross checking some of those that survive the filters against the manual method. This has thrown up 4 ideas so far, none of which is really all that promising, so I feel I need to generate a few more yet before I start thowing them all away! - Andy Roberts

Chris - this is no help to you, but I've been finding there's a pretty good correlation between Market Samurai and Google.co.uk if MS is set to UK. - amanda

I find there's not a very good correlation between google.co.uk one minute and the next. MS is just another snapshot, sometimes accurate of the trend, sometimes not. - Andy Roberts

Many thanks Amanda and Andy.I thought there may be some bug in the software. Glad that is not the case. Up to day 4 and finding the coursse very useful. Complete newbie to Seo and IM. Finding out a lot! - laprensa66

Just wanted to say hi to a fellow Scot! Glad you're enjoying the 30DC so far :) - Louise Allan

I'd be interested. Email waltervst@googlemail.com - Walter van Straaten

I'm interested Sansfaim@gmail.com - Sandy

I'd be interested too! hojomo9@gmail.com - Howard Moorey - Howard Moorey

I'd be interested if it was in Oxford - Marysia

Hi David - where are you geographically - there may be a meet up nearby?! - Howard Moorey

HI Howard I am in Northumberland I live close to Newcastle upon Tyne Thank you for your response. - David Mc Donald

Due to popular demand, next Sunday at 2.00pm London UK 30DC meetup at the Pembury Tavern. Informal meeting but limited to 40 so please sign up at upcoming to indicate genuine intentions. - Andy Roberts via Bookmarklet

Date: Sunday October 5th Venue: Pembury Tavern, Hackney - Andy Roberts

if you want to target anyone outside the eu then definitely not that. Personally I would go with .net or find alternate .com though I'm not sure on the science behind it and how much effect it has - Daniel McClure

Thanks. - Nathalie

I have one .eu domain hosted with servage.net in Germany but I'm not impressed so far. - Andy Roberts

“Thanks I think I will go for the .net. Do you think that keywordkeyword.net is better than keyword-keyword.com?” - Nathalie

"the mistake of trying to replicate an American business model over here in the UK, when we just don’t have the appetite for it. I’ve just finished reading Click Here To Order by Joel Comm and was massively disappointed with it. I was hoping for inspirational stories of people who have made their living online but instead the book was full of anecdotes from “Master List Builders” and so called “Internet Gurus” who seem to do nothing else but sell the idea of how to make money online. None of whom seem to actually have any of their own ideas or real online business models they just repackage the same crapola over and over again and then sell it to our gullible cousins via God-awful sales letters and eBooks. In my experience this type of stuff just doesn’t wash with us." Interesting blog post from a UK affiliate marketer . - Linda via Bookmarklet

"A recommendation for your website - include recommendations ICANNBritish consumers trust online recommendations and reviews more than any other advice, according to new research from Avail Intelligence. 69% of those surveyed trust user recommendations – and 61% have even made purchases entirely based on them. Over half of those surveyed (56%) appreciate the unbiased nature of user-generated feedback, while almost a quarter (24%) find star ratings useful. Avail Intelligence" - Linda via Bookmarklet

They are putting the monthly price up once the 14 day offer runs out (or sooner), but if you sign up now (for $1) and decide to stay in, then you'll keep the original price. As Ed and Dan say, you can just read everything then walk away if you like. But I urge you to take a look if you are serious about IM. I'm still going through 30DC (started on Aug 1 but life got in the way) but the stuff inside IE puts stuff in whole new light (and I now have even MORE respect for Ed and Dan) - Dominic Goucher

Thanks for the tip, Dominic - Marysia

I'm now no longer able to attend this meeting - Marysia

Thanks for suggesting the Pembury Tavern anyway. Could be a possibility for the First Sunday in October meetup. - Andy Roberts

I'd be interested. Email waltervst@googlemail.com - Walter van Straaten

just went to look at this site, clicked the link for "Wi-Here lists free locations in the UK - To show all hotspots, just leave the form blank and click 'Show me the hotspots'." and my antivirus detected a threat trying to access my pc so be careful with this site. - Wayne Brewin

Hi Isha! I'd like to do it again - let me know where and when for all future meets & I'll aim to make as many as I can! Cheers, H - Howard Moorey

I see that link now Wayne. To see the free wifi places I didn't click on it, tho - I just scrolled down until I saw England (my country) & the towns & venues are listed below that. Thanks for the information - Marysia

Hi Patrick, I'd be very keen to meet up! In Cheltenham, but haven't found any others this way yet. Twitter me (hojomo) if it's any easier! {Hello Isha!} - Howard Moorey

James, How far "up North" did you have in mind? I'd be up for the Midlands. - Walter van Straaten

would be up for a meet in the midlands, depending on days and times etc and maybe as I earn a bit more online will be able to travel further, to london or north? - Wayne Brewin

No Frann, you're not alone up here. I'm in Livingston. - Louise Allan

Kevin Darkus put me on to this. Thanks Kevin - Marysia

this went really well - we had Tim Brocklehurst, Kevin Brown and Martin Avis there :-) There will be another one next month. Same place/time - not sure on the date yet. - Robert O'Callaghan

"If a person visits only one page on your blog and then goes away (using the 'back' button, shutting down the window or clicking through your affiliate link), Google will tell that this person stayed at your blog 0:00 minutes, even if she stayed there for a day (the same is true for the last page a visitor looks through on your blog). Google needs two clicks to evaluate time, so do not worry much about this number. People from search engines might find an answer and clicked away, while the SU tribe might look for entertainment and clicked through several pages on your blog. Track your affilate link click-throughs." - Linda via Bookmarklet

whats the su tribe? - Frann Leach

su tribe = StumbleUpon.com users - thefluffanutta

Maxine - start with pre-season and just work through the daily training bit by bit. If some of the concepts don't make sense then re-watch the training. The forums can be a bit daunting but most questions you might have will have been asked before, so do a search to find what you need. Also, you may want to join a team to you can support each other and help each other with the tougher stuff. Good luck! - Lisa

You don't need to understand the process or read all the information in order to get started. Taking the plunge and implementing small actions regularly is the best way to way to learn more about it all, I think. Conversations help too :-) - Andy Roberts

To be honest, you don't have to go at it full pelt like we all did, so maybe you have an advantage. otoh you might find that you need to go at the same speed as we did to keep up the momentum. The first 4 days are fraught, it gets a lot easier after that. - Frann Leach

Hi Maxine - hey that's great. I'm just on day three of the challenge - what about you? - James Ward

Hi James I'm on day 1- still!! I am still busy setting up flock etc, as they say "its all greek to me" at the moment. I am new to the social websites. Are there many more members in Yorkshire? - maxine

The sign-up page where you put your credit card details doesn't seem to be encrypted & doesn't seem to have paypal. Any ideas? - Marysia

The London Meetup last week was really great, and I for one would love to make it a regular event, say once a month. As for a venue, I know that the British Museum's Great Court is open until 11pm on Thurs, Fri, Sat and they have a coffee shop and lots of seating. I made a post in the forum too: http://www.thirtydaychallenge.... - Tim Brennan

I prefer Sundays really, as suggested before. How about the Coach and Horses on Greek St ? - Linda

Many of the small teams will be diminished by now so organising wider meetups for UK 30Dcers is a great idea for the coming months. Some of us who made it to Piccadilly today will be keen to try and pursue this, even if its only a dozen or so that can make any one specific day. I suggest October, maybe the first Sunday. - Andy Roberts

first Sunday of the month seems good to me - Marysia

I support the idea of first Sunday of the month - nice and predictable. Unfortunately, I'll be in Spain this time, sorry! - Dominic Goucher