Creating Tenerife.co.uk

Yesterday was a big deal for us, we had a baby!

As you may have seen, our latest site tenerife.co.uk was launched publicly with a very nice article on tnooz.

Almost a year after acquiring the domain and about 8 months since we started working on it, it’s always a great feeling when a site goes “out there”.

As explained in the tnooz article, the aim of the site is to provide more in the way of information for our visitors than the price-orientated sunshine.co.uk site, while leveraging the domain to rank well in the search engines.

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Greg’s DVD Box Sets

Following on from one of my previous posts, Frank’s Underwear, I thought I’d occasionally blog about affiliate sites that impress me. Hopefully, “occasionally” will mean more than once every eleven months, fingers crossed.

I was at the Affiliate Doctors panel at last years London a4uExpo and was hugely impressed by one of the sites the panel reviewed.

I spoke to Greg Findley (@gregfindley) at the time and he’s since taken on board the recommendations of the panel, continuing to develop DVD Box Sets (dvdboxsets.co.uk) into a great example of a price comparison site. I sent Greg a few vague questions to get an idea of his journey which I hope you’ll find interesting too! Read the rest of this entry »

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Offline News

From knocking up websites in my spare bedroom, it’s been an interesting  journey over the last few years. This week saw another landmark moment, with the purchase of offices for sunshine.

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Think Visibility II

Another great conference from Dom and the team at Hodgetastic. There’s write ups from other attendees here – http://www.thinkvisibility.com/previous/sept-2009/reaction/ and on http://www.conferencecalendar.com/think-visibility/

This time round I had the pleasure of speaking at one of the sessions, sharing the “Holiday Watchdog Story”. It wasn’t as terrifying as I thought, quite enjoyed it really and hope my audience did too. There’ll be no sharing of the presentation or video online though, you had to be there . Read the rest of this entry »

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We’re Still Here!

What have we been up to? Since we launched sunPress last October, we’ve been pretty quiet here, keeping our heads down. Even our Barbados incentive was pretty much left in the hands of those lovely people at Affiliate Future.

Well, we have been keeping ourselves busy, here’s a few of the things we’re working on – Read the rest of this entry »

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