Poor Paris Hilton, always famous for the wrong things. November 21, 2003 give or take a few days, sticks in my mind.
That’s the day that an unknown socialite called Paris Hilton became famous around the world. On the day her video went on the Internet I had a page of her that was the number one result in Google for the search term “Paris Hilton”.
My bandwidth was costing me £100 each day alone and I thought I’d have to close my site as I received 125,000 daily visitors. However, lots of people were wanting to cash in so I charged them $500 a day for a text link on the Paris Hilton page.
This was my first real introduction to affiliate marketing. I removed the existing affiliate dating adverts and replaced them with $50 download links (which were available free elsewhere.) Thankyou Paris!
I received an automated email saying that I’d been suspended from the Astley Clarke affiliate programme.
“You have have been suspended from the Astley Clarke affiliate
programme. Please do not respond to this automated email …”
I don’t know what I or my site have done to upset those who run their site. They didn’t even have the manners to explain their actions two weeks on. Shop Codes moves on at fast pace without them.
Jewellery merchants continue to perform well, with the Silvertime 10% Exclusive Code and Christopher Ward watches promotions proving popular. Though I have got one page stuck in the dreaded Google Supplemental index. Despite updating the Jewellery.tv page with an Exclusive 10% discount offer, it hasn’t been spidered since “28th Feb 2007 09:50am”. Jewellery.tv are relaunching their site soon so I’m promoting that shop hard on the site to try and squeeze it into the main listings.
