The first full month of the @AffiliateBlogs twitter account retweeting Internet Marketing Blogs is over the twitter account now has 901 followers. As promised here is what has been popular throughout June.

Top 10 Tweets via @AffiliateBlogs in June 2009

The two weeks since I automated Internet Marketing Blogs so that the rss is twittered via @AffiliateBlogs have been a bit of a bumpy ride, the service I use, Hootsuite, has crashed a couple of times and not quite been as reliable as I hoped but all in all things have gone pretty well, the twitter account has so far proved pretty popular and at time of writing has got 420 followers, from a peak of 453, no doubt some of the autofollow twitter tarts have now auto-unfollowed.

Anyway I thought I would share with you from the hootsuite stats the most popular tweets from the 1187 click throughs  since the service started, if you find this useful let me know and I will do a similar top 10 every month.

Top 10 Tweets via @AffiliateBlogs in May 2009

Recent additions to Internet Marketing Blogs

Big Idea Media – What’s the Big Idea?

George Marshall – Entrepreneur – one man one mission one million one year

Affiliate Doctors

Affiliate Marketing Awards – a4uAwards

Skimblog – by Skimlinks

Datadial Blog

LinkShare UK Blog

TechCrunch Europe

James Reddy – ReddyGo.co.uk

Justin Parks – Social Media and all that other internet stuff – Justin Parks is a paddy, get over it. He might sound nuts but really he’s a bloody genius (his words not mine).

Easy Content Units

For some time I have been pulling in the rss feeds from some of the very best UK affiliate marketing blogs and publishing them in an aggregated form on Internet Marketing Blogs, I set this site up simply for myself to use in January 2007 although I suspect one or two others do find it useful.

Last Saturday I decided to set up IMB with its own twitter @affiliateblogs, I mentioned it to my good friend Purple and he suggested automating the tweets by putting the rss feed through HootSuite, somewhat skeptical I took a look to see what was involved. It couldn’t have been easier to set up the account and plugin in the rss from IMB, maximum setting is 5 automated tweets / hour, so I put it on that, can always throttle it back if it seems too intusive or spammy.

Thats all there is to it, and so far it has gone pretty well, @affiliateblogs has picked up 300 followers in the week and at time of writing there have been 400 clicks through the twitter links.

The stats that Hootsuite provide are pretty good too here is the full week by click and location;

It also lets me know which blog articles have been most popular;

All in all a satisfactory first week, the jury is out whether I use similar automation on other projects but there is a fantastic potential, just hope Hootsuite keep an eye on their users to prevent it getting too spammy.

Ever wanted to submit your wordpress blog to a reader or blog service or even subscribe to someone elses blog, but felt that too much of it was off topic?

Well with wordpress it is possible to just submit or subscribe to the rss of individual categories.

All you do is navigate to the category you are interested in and add feed after the url.

For example;

Say on this site you are only interested in the Affiliate Marketing category

1. navigate to the appropriate category http://www.keithbond.co.uk/category/affiliate-marketing/
2. Add feed to the end of the url http://www.keithbond.co.uk/category/affiliate-marketing/feed and subscribe in your favourite reader.

Incidentally if anyone has a UK affiliate blog or a blog which is pretty general but does contain one category with an internet marketing / affiliate marketing slant let me know and I will add it to Internet Marketing Blogs which also has of yesterday has a twitter account @AffiliateBlogs which tweets new articles as they are published, this is set to a maximum of 5 per hour so you shouldn’t get over run although at busy times the odd one may slip through the net.

Another service to add the affiliate category of your blog to is the blogs section ofaffiliates4u.com simply click on the My Profile link at the top of the page and navigate to the blogs section and add your blog (or category) feed url.

Triple whammy today from Blue Chip Vacations (BCV) the specialists in self catering holidays in Devon and Cornwall who have an affiliate programme with Affiliate Window.

First of all their wonderful affiliate manager Elise Newman informed me that I had won a short break at the gorgeous At The Beach apartments in Torcross. Thank you Elise and Blue Chip.

Also today they announced a change in commission structure to 5% of the sale this was previously £20 per lead, a quick check through my stats reveals that this is a significant pay rise, enough to get me pushing the programme even more.

Thirdly BCV now have an affiliate blog, something I have long advocated that all merchants who are serious about affiliate marketing should have and which many of the most successful merchants now do, so check out the Blue Chip Vacations Affiliate Blog today.

I only started promoting BCV after chatting to Elise at A4uexpo in October but my efforts are already starting to produce a decent return, that is what affiliate events are all about, getting merchants and affiliates together and forging business relationships, so anyone who is undecided about going to events, thats includes merchants, affiliates, networks, management companies and agencies get yourselves to as many as you can you may be pleasantly surprised at the impact it has on your business.