Affiliate Marketing, Star Wars, Transformers

My first Affiliate Window Payout

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Today I had my first payout from network AffiliateWindow, who I’ve only been with now for a few weeks. This is a very positive start because it took me months to get my first Adsense payout in 2003, and even longer to get my first Amazon payout back in 2000.

Maybe I’m better at launching with new networks, maybe Affiliate Window have better potential. Whichever the case I’m very pleased with the performance of the network and encourage anyone who’s interested in making some serious money online to give AffiliateWindow a try.

On a related note, one of my best performing merchants is Toys R Us, so if the guys at the nation’s favourite toy store are interested in keeping affiliates sweet, I’m very into Transformers and Star Wars.

Just a hint!

General, Rants

An email of support from Nick, Cardiff

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I’ve received a nice pleasant email for a change (seriously, this doesn’t happen often) from a Nick, from Cardiff, in relation to my house.

i just wanted to say i felt really sorry about your house and the fact your locked out of it and i also wanted to say that ( in a totaly non cocky silly way im 100% with you and think your 100% right) you should watch about telling everyone on the internet the house is empty and reading out the full address online and that you work on all week days incase someone breaks into the house knowing its empty.

You seem to have enough problems and i just dont want you having another one such as a real squatter who decides to move into your house over christmas for instance hope you get it all sorted out if you dont 1 thing you can do is. Phone a locksmith ( tell him you lost the only set of keys to the house and you need him to break in so you can get in they normaly will do this as long as you have some form of id showing you live / own the address letters ect and of course pay him and get him to change the locks once inside just basicaly pretend you have been locked out of your h! ouse should be fine. then when your father in law comes round make sure you have a banner in the window saying FUCK OFF in 3 foot high letters.

Merry Christmas Nick from cardiff

Thanks for that Nick!

I do have access to my house now but I can’t do anything with it unfortunately. I was all prepared to buy it from ex-wife until she decided to get greedy, meaning it will be repossessed on January 21st. To be honest if it gets squatters I couldn’t care less. They would be entering illegally though because as I understand it they can’t break and enter, only use a house that has a window or door left open.

Though of course the way the law is in the UK I’m sure they’d have all of the rights under the sun and would be protected by social workers, legal aid and all of that fuzzy liberal bullshit designed to protect those who can’t be bothered working in this fucked up Country of ours.

I hate the UK, I really do.

Thanks for your support though Nick.

Affiliate Marketing

eBay say ‘OI, PPC affiliates… NO!’

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eBay today announced they were changing the rules for their PPC affiliates.

Unfortunately, from 1st February 2008 we will no longer compensate for Paid Search traffic from Google, Yahoo or MSN, if directly linked to an ebay.co.uk page. After this time, any earnings from revenue or ACRUs generated through direct Paid Search will be reversed. This applies to the UK affiliate programme only.

This doesn’t affect me but I know a few people who will be severely put out by this. I wonder why it’s only the UK that’s affected?

Humour, Podcasts, Rants

Mr Daz phones Parcel Force

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You might remember the efforts I made in the last week to get a parcel delivered by Parcel Force. They were supposed to phone me back on Monday but couldn’t be arsed.

You might also remember I mentioned how awful their auto voice recognition software was and that I thought I was in a Fonejacker sketch? Well today I phoned them, and just to prove a point I went through their voice recognition system to show how bad it is.

Eventually I got through to what they pass off as a human and to my surprise they had no record once again of me having phoned. This one’s a hoot.

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Google, Internet, Rants

This site may harm your computer

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My DVD Reviews website, WhatDVD.Net was hacked today, again. This is becoming a habit, and mostly down to the fact that it’s a bloody Windows hosted website. Anyway, that’ll change soon enough, but the fact remains it was hacked and once again I had to restore the database from a back-up.

Problem is, due to the fact that WhatDVD.Net is so successful in Google (Page 1 for ‘DVD Reviews‘) it gets indexed several times a day, and was indexed with the hack in place. Google has read the code on the site and flagged it up as potentially unsafe.

DVD Reviews

The message it flags up is ‘This site may harm your computer’… nice eh? My readers will love that. Considering the traffic WhatDVD.Net gets from Google this is causing quite an effect.

When you try to click through to the site you get this message.

May Harm small

Luckily you can request Google re-evaluates the website through Webmaster tools, but what a load of messing around because of some cock hacking the site. What did it achieve?

Tossers.

Rants

Parcel Force are incompetent, who’d have guessed

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Just  when I thought I couldn’t find another incompetent company, along came the morons at Parcel Force. I ordered an electrical item online last week and missed the delivery at home. I was left with a Parcel Force card saying that my item was in Manchester sorting office, which was miles away from where I live so I phoned them up.

This is where the fun starts. I went through the worst voice recognition software program I’ve ever experienced, it was so bad I was convinced that it was a Fonejacker call. “Please say your house number”

Seventeen… “You said… Sixteen… is this correct?”

Fuck me.

I eventually got through to a human and was assured that my parcel would be delivered to my local Post Office for the next day so I could collect it on Saturday, just now. Guess what? That’s right, it wasn’t there.

I just telephoned them again and some obnoxious Manc woman told me that my parcel hadn’t been sent anywhere and they had no record of my calling them.

Again, this is why I record my phone calls.

She said she could get it sent to my Post Office for Monday, which of course as I WORK is no use to me. That’s why I called them last week so I could collect it today.

I asked if I could have it sent to my work, but alas they won’t send it to an SK10 postcode.

Finally she assured me that a supervisor would phone me on Monday. I seriously doubt that, but we’ll have the old phone recording software on standby just in case.

As for the parcel, I doubt I’ll get that in time for Christmas now. Unlucky, but not unexpected.

General

I share a birthday with Porn Star Taylor Rain

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Taylor RainI just found that my favourite porn star, Taylor Rain, shares a birthday with me. This is fate I tell you, we’re meant to be together.

We were both born on August 16th, though I’m 5 years older. I found this out on Taylor’s Wikipedia page, where I was also sad to learn that she’s retired from the field.

A day of many ups and downs indeed, much like Taylor’s average working day.

Taylor, if you’re reading this (because I know you’re a big fan of MrDaz.com) get in touch now and we’ll get together for lunch sometime. Maybe a joint birthday party in August?

Humour, Rants

Now I can’t say the word Pikey?

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According to the Metro today, ‘Pikey’ is now a race hate word. What’s the bloody world coming to when I can’t call someone a Pikey twat, or a thieving Pikey.

A gardener is thought to have made legal history after being convicted of racially aggravated harassment for using the word ‘pikey’.

Lee Coleman repeatedly used the term, a derogatory reference to gypsies and Travellers, in a drunken outburst over a nightclub entry fee.

This is a sodding outrage. I really feel for the gardener who was obviously victimised for simply stating the truth about some Pikey.

So much anger, so little time