Weekend over - first week

So this is really the first week of getting on the affiliate bandwagon. Lets see what we got planned so far.

A lot of progress with our ArticleGOLD affiliate mod today and we should be able to launch it tomorrow. The idea is to be able to show affiliate banners of our choosing for each article. This will make sure that the ads we shown on the article page is targeted but I am still skeptical because most of our visitors are looking for information rather than purchasing. ArticleGOLD gets around 1600 uniques a day so we’ll see what kind of results we’ll get soon.

I will put the affiliate banners in a new column on the right I think. Not the best position but I don’t want to change ArticleGOLD too much at the moment as its bringing in around 25USD a day through Adsense. Be interesting to see how the Adsense is affected too after putting in the code.

I also want to see the effects of a PPC landing page. So sometime this week I’ll find a good product, write a page and throw some money at it. Need to do some more reading on that though so I don’t waste much time and money. Any suggestions from pros would be well appreciated.

My other developer is working on another project and he won’t be able to join our affiliate bandwagon for a couple of months yet. The data feed script that we have outsourced is going around in circles, need to think of how to get that moving.

Its time for more reading so until tomorrow.