Social Media and Technology Podcast

Nick Wilson has a social media and technology podcast at Communicontent.com. We're going to have a listen to see what we think.

Heatmaps from crazyegg.com

Ad placement can make a lot of difference to site conversions, so if you want to get heatmaps showing where your site visitors are clicking, try crazyegg.com.

Elite Retreat

There has been much discussion in the SEO communities about the value of the Elite Retreat organised by Shoemoney and co. We checked out the site, and found the biogs an interesting read, and you get a useful insight into the techniques people use to make money online, like for instance, Shoemoney's "Coke Theory" (if you sell coke, you can make money out of Cherry Coke, Diet Coke etc). From this we found Lee Dodd's EarnersForum.com and his blog www.forumtrends.com, which we will be taking a closer look at.

The Big Boys of Affiliate Marketing

If you are interested in knowing how much money the big boys of affiliate marketing are earning, then StrayGeek tells us what he knows. If you are interested in becoming an affiliate yourself, then try our UK Affiliate Marketing resources page to get you started and consider signing up with Google AdSense.

e2save now has an affiliate blog

Mobile phone merchant e2save now has a blog to keep affiliates up to date at:

http://www.e2affiliateblog.com/

This should prove really useful, thanks guys :)

Web Directories Worth Bothering With

We've just been listening to the latest episode of Net Income, where Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz.org joined Shoemoney and Andrea. In this, Shoemoney recounted how Matt Cutts once said the only web directories worth bothering with are:

dmoz
Best of the Web
Yahoo Directory

A bit like Shoemoney, we can never get into dmoz *sigh*.