Hitwise reveals the rise of the “Maximising Consumer” and latest UK internet shopping trends.
Posted by Karen Clayton as Affiliate Marketing, Online Advertising
Latest Hitwise data (August 2009) reports a significant 47.5% uplift in UK internet searches for discount voucher terms over the last year (July 08 – July 09). Interestingly however, actual visits to specialist voucher websites have decreased by 5%, whereas traffic to retailers for the same keywords has increased by more than 10% from 28.2% […]
Why you should combine SEO and PPC efforts to dominate search rankings
Posted by Azam Editorial Team as PPC, Search Marketing, SEO
Your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and PayPerClick (PPC) efforts should go hand in hand. You are sacrificing traffic if you aren’t targeting customers in both areas: • 80% of the time searchers go to the organic results first • 65% of search traffic goes to the top ten search results • 60% of searchers click […]
Seconds Out, Round 13!
Posted by Azam Editorial Team as Online Advertising
This week sees the 12th anniversary of the founding of Azam Marketing and I’ve forced myself to switch off Outlook for the first time in a good many days to script this blog post to thank everybody who has contributed towards us being able to stick around for all those years. I couldn’t possibly name […]
Awin Affiliate Network’s Darwin Interface – An Evolution Not A Revolution
Posted by Azam Editorial Team as Affiliate Marketing
The eagerly anticipated Darwin project has finally been unveiled after weeks of teasing by affiliate network Awin and a wide range of guesses from the affiliate community as to what form it would take. Darwin, it now emerges, is the name for the new Awin affiliate network’s administration area. The beta release was demonstrated to […]
British Online Entrepreneurs Announce New Fund for Digital Start Up Businesses
Posted by Karen Clayton as Business
As popular BBC Two TV series Dragon’s Den returns to our screens on Wednesday 15th July, some of the UK’s best known online entrepreneurs have announced the launch of a new investment fund to assist digital start up businesses. With the online industry continuing to prove its worth during these difficult times, this news is […]
Steak 10k Charity Run in Memory of Former Affiliate Director Peter Banham
Posted by Azam Editorial Team as Affiliate Marketing, Events, Life
“Dear Friends of Steak, Please join us at the ICA café from 11 am onwards for a fantastic raffle, post-run refreshments, and congratulatory pats on the back, all in the memory of Peter Banham to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. If you aren’t able to make it, but would still like to show your […]