Many of my compatriots have posted on their blogs reflecting on the last decade or year and very good reading it is too here are some of them:

• CantBarsed.com 10th Anniversary Year! Joe Connor
• Surviving A Decade Of Self Employment Jason Dale
• Goodbye to the Noughties and a New Life in the Teenies… Nadeem Azam
• What a difference 10 years makes… J Lil (aka James Little)
• That’s All For 2009 Folks – What will 2010 Bring? Kirsty McCubbin

For me this is not a time for reflection, the Noughties were ok to me well actually a bit of a rollercoaster ride, however, as one top astrologer put it on New Years Day, they have tweeted their last tweet and updated facebook for the last time, and you cant phone, text, email or skype them, they are gone forever.

Now looking forward to the Teenies (is that the accepted term?) what will they bring, undoubtedly for all of us, a whole world of new changes and challenges on so many levels both personally and professionally.

On a professional level I am going to start by building on the foundations our dear friend the Noughties left behind, 2009 was all about consolidation, I ended the year spending 90% of my time on the few sites bringing in the majority of my revenue rather than wasting time on dead ducks.

The main focus this year will be on building up the brand of Fashion Style You which is now over 2.5 years old and steadily growing month on month (google willing).

Aside from that I am going to remain flexible while continuing other projects and collaborations which have proved fruitful in the past I will also be looking for new opportunities, possibly selling a few sites but above all moving forward.

The Noughties Have Updated Facebook For The Last Time

Here is the latest update from the @AffiliateBlogs twitter account which automatically retweets from Internet Marketing Blogs .

The twitter account currently has 1005  followers which I am happy with as we reached a peak of almost 1200 then twitter culled a load of spam accounts which dropped the total back below the thousand.

This is what has been popular throughout July.

Top 10 Tweets via @AffiliateBlogs in July 2009

Four new blogs have been added to the mix recently.

The Marketing Mix

BFG’s Blog – Affiliate Stuff – Random blurb from BFG 9000

Messy Desk = Busy Mind

SEO Chicks – The SEO Blog with attitude

July’s Most Popular Tweets from Internet Marketing Blogs

I’ve added a few new blogs to the mix at Internet Marketing Blogs over the past couple of weeks, thought it prudent to share them with you just in case you want to add them to your own rss reader instead.

Darrell Freeman’s Internet Marketing Blog

One Man Went To Mow (by Peter Anderson)

Connect – Digital Marketing Expertise from iCrossing

I’ll Shut Up Now

Blue Chip Vacations Affiliate Blog

Hardcloud Affiliates Blog

fwitter – not facebook or twitter just Frank Pauls ramblings

If you like what  IMB has to offer please follow on Twitter too at @AffiliateBlogs you may just catch something you have missed.

New on Internet Marketing Blogs – July 09

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

June’s Most Popular Tweets from Internet Marketing Blogs

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

May’s Most Popular Tweets from Internet Marketing Blogs

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.

Automating Internet Marketing Blogs Twitter using HootSuite

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.

Submitting just part of a WP blog to a feed reader or blog service

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.

I’ve won a weekend break with Blue Chip Vacations and they are paying all affiliates more money too

Further to my recent spring clean of Internet Marketing Blogs I have now fixed the RSS as the handful of people who have subscribed can testify.

Better still for those who prefer your communication to land in the inbox I’ve added the facility to get the Latest News by Email.

Sorry for the shortness of the post just thought it may interest some of you, if not no worries.

PS: anyone at the A4U Glasgow Roadshow on Wednesday who fancies a chat over a beer, just give me a shout

Get Latest Internet Marketing News by Email

I have spent the last couple of hours spring cleaning (spring is always late in Yorkshire) www.internetmarketingblogs.co.uk

It doesn’t look any prettier but hopefully is a little faster, a major overhaul is long overdue however the guy who wrote the script has gone into hibernation.

In order to speed things up I’ve culled all the rss feeds that were not parsing correctly, I’ve also changed the default view to the last 40 articles rather than 3 days, that way the page doesn’t get inordinately large on the busy days and dwindle to a few posts on the weekend.

I am pleased to be able to say that the Networks and Merchants sections have nicely filled out in recent months.

If you are included in the mix on Internet Marketing Blogs, or simply like what you see, it could do with a bit of link love

Anyone who would like their UK internet marketing related blog included just get in touch, I’m not too hard to get hold of.

Also if anyone would like to sponsor Internet Marketing Blogs UK give me a shout, I’m sure we can come to an arrangement.

Spring Clean for Internet Marketing Blogs UK