HugePedlar’s Blog

I’ll be writing a proper article on this topic soon, but here’s a brief introduction to the topic of bluetooth marketing.

Most mobile phones these days are bluetooth enabled, meaning they can connect to ad-hoc short range wireless networks. Once a bluetooth connection has been established it becomes possible to transfer files from one device to another wirelessly.

With a laptop, a bluetooth dongle and appropriate software, you can go out into the world and transmit files to anyone in range (up to 100 metres).

Imagine going to MacDonalds and blasting out animated gif ads to all the kiddies’ mobile phones advertising a ringtone service. Or negotiating a deal with a local night club to send out ‘free drink’ ads to punters in the pub next door.

In the next article I’ll get into the details of how to set up your own bluespam equipment and how to get started with offline location-based advertising.

A little while ago I wrote about a new version of my eBay-Youtube-Adsense mashup script, here and here.

I won’t repeat everything about it here, except to say that it’s based on the free script I released last year and it uses Commission Junction product feeds as well as eBay and Youtube Adsense blocks. It also sports a different URL structure which improves SEO by creating deep links within the site (in fact a lot of my SERPs are getting double listing results because of this, one for the main page and one for a deep link).

I originally offered this new script as an early-adopter bonus for my Affiliate Mashup Store script.

I’m now offering it for sale on its own for $27.00.

If you’re interested in upgrading to the new script click here to learn more.

Holy shit I’m getting really annoyed.

My ADSL has been down since Monday morning. It’s now Friday. I’m typing this from the library.

I don’t have a business account so I can’t complain that I’m losing money, and my provider keeps telling me they’ll call me back when in fact they don’t.

Not only can I not do any work, I can’t do anything except sit around with my thumb up my arse. I can’t download TV shows, I can’t play games… I spent two days drawing pictures, but I can’t even show you because I can’t fucking upload them.

Bah.

In the world of affiliate marketing it’s inevitable that you’ll want to cloak your links to some extent.

‘Naked’ affiliate links at best look ugly, and at worst suspicious, so displaying a friendly url to your visitors is desirable.

Compare these two links, for example. Which looks better:

http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2747150-10378494

or

http://mediawebsearch.com/go/godaddy

Now it’s easy enough to create a redirect. You just upload a php or html file to your website with a bit of code including the destination url. Give the file an appropriate name and send your traffic through that instead of straight to the advertiser.

The problem with creating and uploading a file each time you want to make a new redirect is it’s tedious. You need to break out your text editor and your FTP program.

I don’t know about you, but I’m far too lazy for that shit.

So I built a tool to automate it all.

Now I just load a page in my browser which displays a form. I type in a name for my link, put the affiliate url in there, and choose the type of redirect (php or meta - one redirects transparently, the latter overwrites the referrer).

Then the script works it magic and generates a nice clean link like in the example above.

No need to edit files, create directories or use FTP. And I can do it from any PC.

And now so can you. I’m offering the script for free download.

Instructions are included. All you need to do is make sure you have PHP5 enabled.

Here’s the link:

http://scripts.hugepedlar.com/ezredirector.zip

Enjoy!

OK this is pretty cool, even if I do say so myself.

I’ve written a guide on how to earn money by promoting your own Affiliate Store.

The guide is a PDF file, and it contains affiliate links to my AMS product, which sells for $199.

I’ve created a tool for anyone to ‘rebrand’ the PDF with their own affiliate links. All you have to do is rebrand the PDF and distribute it however you want.

Give it away to your email lists, offer it as an opt-in bonus, share it on Limewire or BitTorrent, whatever.

Then when people click through the links in the PDF to my Affiliate Mashup Store, you’ll get $50 per sale.

Easy as that.

Go get your rebranded PDF guide at http://affiliatemashupstore.com/rebrander

I’ve been playing with Camtasia recently and managed to record a video of the Affiliate Mashup Store Admin Panel in action.

The video is about 10 minutes long and walks you through how to set up a catalogue, create category links, new custom pages, change themes and a bunch of other stuff.

The admin panel is pretty easy to use, but unless you’ve bought it it’s kind of hard to know what you’re getting. That’s why I recorded the video, so hopefully you can now see exactly how easy it is to create a 100-page affiliate store in a few minutes.

Check it out by clicking here.

The time is upon us.

The Affiliate Mashup Store is now available for purchase.

$199.00 gets you an unlimited site license to create content-rich affiliate stores with thousands of products and SEO-friendly pages, catering to multiple countries at a time and pulling product feeds from dozens of merchants as well as eBay listings and Youtube videos.

Go and get your store now!

I’ve been developing another script lately. This one’s a simple search engine for affiliate products.

The script itself is more an exercise in using AJAX (Asynchronous Jacascript And XML), which is a way of updating webpages without refreshing the browser.

Have a look at the script in action by clicking here.

It uses both the Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript frameworks, which make it ridiculously easy to add animations and AJAX calls… even for someone like me who doesn’t know shit about Javascript.

What’s nice about this script is that it dynamically updates the latest ten searches being performed while you watch, which is kinda cool.

I was planning on developing the script to sell it, and I may still do that, but for now I’ve decided to give it away for free to my Mashup Store subscribers. I’m sending out an email tomorrow morning with the download link, so there’s still time to get in on the list at http://affiliatemashupstore.com

Just a quick post here.

I’m giving out copies of the installation manual for the Affiliate Mashup Store tomorrow morning.

People have been asking what’s involved in setting up their own stores, so I figured the easiest way to explain it would be to hand out the actual installation manual… right?

You can only get it if you’re on my list, so head over to the site today and sign up.

That’s all!

In my last post I talked about my new mashup script which I used to create my Home Cinema Audio site.

I registered the domain name and created the site just five days ago and, looking through my Analytics account, it’s already hit Google UK’s first page for a handful of search terms.

The term ‘Panasonic SCPTX50‘ ranks in 4th place, and ‘ps3 cinema sound‘ ranks 3rd and 4th place… with over 4 million results! These may seem like obscure keywords, but they are actual searches people have made when they found my site.

And, just checking now, the phrase ‘cinema audio‘ is up at the top of page two, with 8 million results total.

There are a couple of important points here. 1) The site has only been live for less than a week, and I spent a total of maybe an hour promoting it (by way of linking from a few of my blogs and creating a Squidoo lens, nothing spectacular). And 2) Many of the search terms which are getting ranked are new to me… by which I mean the site is basically generating its own keywords. I don’t know what a Panasonic SCPTX50 is, but at least four people have visited my site looking for one.

And the way the script operates is that any search term entered into the site’s search box gets an automatic permanent link. It’s self-perpetuating. Plus, because it grabs news feeds on the fly, the chances are high that the very latest cutting edge gadgets will appear on the site, along with ebay and adsense links for them. So you’re likely to be way ahead of your competitors in terms of ranking for new products.