Just been looking through my stats and I was pleased to see that I’d recorded two high value sales for Debenhams Flowers last week. One person spent £204.48 and another £67.50 on the same day.

Unfortunately, the Debenhams Flowers affiliate programme has been closed on TradeDoubler for four months so the commission reads £0.00. Looking further back at my stats, they were ironically the only two sales I’ve made for that programme.

So, I’ve set up my Gmail filter and sorted all emails that contain the word “closing”, “closure” or “closed” so that they appear in their own folder. I’ve currently got 90 emails in that folder going as far back as September 2006 with the most recent being “Hayes The Florist” received today.

Now, I can go through each of these and set a 301 redirect to an appropriate page. For Debenhams, I’ve simply redirected the Debenhams Flowers page to the main Debenhams page (affiliate scheme on affili.net). Or if I know I’ve got a high revenue earner in the same field I could redirect there too.