May 2008 Review

The month started with me being nominated as a finalist for the Affiliate Marketing Awards for best blog of 2008. I did'nt win, but that wasn't a shock.

During May we saw that it looked like that the powers that be are looking to step in to protect consumers from online advertising where its not obvious who's behind adverts or stunts. Be careful what you're doing is the watchword!

I posted a comment about the views of Jeff Molander which I now see as being consistent with my views on the unfettered use of voucher code sites. The debate continued.

I commented about why my sites aren't beautiful but aim for them to be a tool of getting people from the search engines to the right merchants as quickly as possible.

A post that may have annoyed some was about how I choose networks. I'm sure I need to review this now.

I exposed some of the keywords that people use to find this blog. There were some pretty strange ones.

Previously I discussed working jointly with affiliates on my sites and now I mentioned doing the same with merchants. Some just didn't get it. And some still don't get SEO.

I also commented how online journalists were turning into pure revenue generating (I want to swear).

The post I enjoyed the most was showing the long tail of one of my sites.