Hugh Durkin - Affiliate Marketing & SEO
An affiliate marketer, seo, and internet marketing professional. This is my blog.
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News has been circulating over the weekend about the Yahoo! disposal of Kelkoo, and now some of the finer details are starting to seep through. Seems that Yahoo! got rid of their price comparison shopping site for around €100 million – quite a hit on the €475 million they paid for it in 2004 (but surely they made some profits from it in the meantime?). But why sell now? Bit of bad timing, no?
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If you look at Youtube, you’ll notice it’s gotten wiiiiiiiiiiiiider! As mentioned on their blog, Youtube have proclaimed:
“We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience. And don’t worry, your 4:3 aspect ratio videos will play just fine in this new player.”
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There is increased, heated debate about the future of advertising online. Each and every time I get my copy of NMA delivered through the door, I read articles by ‘experts’ who say PPC is the next big thing, display advertising is dead, and affiliate marketing is a dirty game packed full of dodgy coupon code site owners, and inexperienced buffoons. Everyone seems to be fighting their own corner, and forgetting the reality of digital advertising – PPC, CPA, and display advertising compliment each other, and always will.
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Last year, for the craic, I bought a mate of mine the 2008 Ryanair Charity Calendar. Printed in aid of charities like the Simon Community, the 2009 Ryanair Calendar is ready for ordering and is sure to sell out again. What a great idea for a great cause – my mate loved his last year, but truth be told I bought it just to have a peek myself. I’ve ordered a 2009 one for the office already. Bleedin deadly. However, some females are up in arms against the thought of such objectification of women, notably Aoife Finneran from the Herald.
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Whoops! Incidents of an accidental nature are few and far between at Ryanair, especially seeing as they carry around 60 million passengers a year. However it all went a bit tits up today at Rome – Ciampino, as a 737 coming in to land suffered multiple bird strikes. Totally unavoidable, and a freak accident. Pilot managed to get the plane back on the ground, but here’s a piccy of the bloodied aircraft. Messy! I wonder if O’Leary has issued orders to scoop up the dead birds remains for their inflight meals?
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When you have a network of websites, and a contact form on each one, it’s inevitable that you’ll get some total crap now and again. Todays stonker came in the form of an email from an American dude whose name and contact details i’ll keep private for his dignity, but i’ll post the contents of his pointless email here. For the record, he emailed Fashion.ie, a website we have with a female readership.
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In the last two days i’ve had several of my friends on Bebo send me excellent messages saying that i’m appearing in loads of funny videos from a url that looks not unlike youtube, but totally isn’t. Seems that some hacker / spammer types have managed to break through the security threshold at Bebo and wreak havoc on some users accounts. Yet another reason to move my interweb social activity to Facebook methinks…
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I’m constantly hopping around between WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal, trying to figure out which suits particular projects best. Drupal has been promising for some now, but in terms of ‘out of the box’ functionality, it has been limited – on the flipside Joomla! components can be a bit ugly and hard to manipulate, and WordPress is nice and lean, but very limited in scope. Increasingly too, i’m giving more and more thought to post-install considerations, like who the hell can I turn to when things go wrong?
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Many things are to blame for our global ‘recession’. One of them – in Ireland at least – has been the endless vanity splurge for home buyers. In the past five to ten years we have turned into a nation of people hungry to own our own property, at whatever cost. This in turn has ramped up assumed demand, therefore prices, and the end result for some people is a not so good situation where they’re in negative equity. Thank fuck i’m not one of them. But what else causes unease and uncertainty in markets, causes panic in various economies, and puts pension investments – and other funds from the pockets of every day earners – into jeopardy? Stupid stock trading, that’s what.
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Finally my iPhone arrived today (even though o2 managed to do a little bit of a boo-boo and bork up the delivery address). It is amazing. I don’t think i’ve ever picked up a device, out of the box, and managed to find my way around it as quickly and easily as I did with the iPhone. It just makes sense. If there is one tiny flaw to the whole iPhone experience, it is actually the necessity to sign up to the App Store and create an account – with credit card details – to install free applications for your iPhone.
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