If you read my last post you’ll know I had a great experience with my web host recently, helping me out of a technical mud bath I was drowning in. I got a comment from Mark over at Mark Unemployed who’s heard of some horror stories with iPower. I also got a couple mails sharing my joy with EUKHost.

But how do you know whether you’ve got a good host or not when you sign-up? In reality, it’s very difficult to know, but the old adage you get what you pay for seems to make sense. If you pay peanuts you’ll certainly get monkeys.

So I want to try something out here. If you would like to name and shame a hosting company that’s wronged you, feel free to add a comment here, or send me an email and I’ll post it up. The only requirement is that you can substantiate your grumbles, otherwise it’s just plain old slander.

Alternatively, if you want to wax lyrical about your host, as I did about EUKHost, then again add a comment or send me an email. Any claims of greatness need to be proven though. As a bonus to the host and to you, I’ll happily add in any affiliate links as well.

So, go on, name and shame, or wax lyrical. Do something for the blogosphere and internet marketing community! Act now or forever hold your peace.

I’ve been having problems adding new posts to my blog recently. Each time I published a post with an image or hyperlink it wasn’t added to my site, which as you can imagine was infuriating.

I hit the forums and Wordpress support, but couldn’t find a solution for a non techie like me. So the last resort was to contact my host tech support line, which because of the ridiculously low cost of my hosting I’d figured would be non-existent.

However, to my surprise I got a quick answer (not from the free phone number though) from what sounded like somewhere in India. Within three minutes the problem was fixed! It was something to do with a security update on the server apparently.. your guess is as good as mine.

So, despite me buying on price, it seems my host is indeed the class act it promises to be. If you need a new host or are just getting setup I can heartily recommend EUKHost.

They are UK based and their basic package is £22.99 per year which includes:

- 200MB disk space
- 2GB bandwidth per month
- Unlimited domains and sub domains
- MySQL and PHP
- Unlimited email addresses
- 24×7 phone, email and live chat support

This is cheap and quality so don’t be shy. Check them out!

I had a good long conversation with the support guy and I’m confident as my internet marketing business grows, these guys will be easily able to accommodate my needs. Nice!

(I am not being paid for this promotion, it is on the back of a great customer support experience.)

Anyone who’s been working on internet marketing projects will almost certainly be looking at affiliate marketing as a means of making money. Perhaps the most common affiliate scheme is with Amazon. I’m sure you’ve seen this dozens of times, where people review a book on their blog and post it up with a link to Amazon.com. Amazon will then pay a commission should someone click on the link and buy the book.

If you haven’t seen this before, here’s an example:

A great book I’ve recently read is David Ogilvy’s ‘Confessions of an Advertising Man‘ You can buy it here.

Of course, if you now click on that link and buy the book, which by the way I strongly recommend for anyone who has to write advertising or sales copy, then I’ll get a kick back. It’s not rocket science.

But it seems to make any money from affiliate marketing you need to be fairly sharp about it and there are lots of pitfalls. I can’t find a better article than this one posted on e-zone’s Clickbank, Affiliate Marketing and more blog called ‘20 Reasons Why You Will Never Live Off Your Affiliate Income!’

If you want to find out what you might be doing wrong, or get some ideas for squeezing more out of your affiliate programmes, check it out. There are some great points for newbies and established marketers also.

There are so many opportunities for turning your blog into a “money making machine”. Paula Mooney lists a load she’s been using and how successful they’ve been on her blog( ). Paul’s made $6k in 3 months, so it clearly works.

I’ve recently come across another that may be interesting called Bloggerwave. Basically you get paid for writing an article on your blog - easy right?

Well yes actually. If you write a blog, then being given a topic to write about and getting paid sounds easy. And it is. All you have to do is register your blog and assuming you meet certain criteria for traffic, PR etc, you should be able to get started.

To be honest, the idea is great, but the site is a little problematic and there a host of errors that make me wonder if this project is lacking funding. But generally being an optimist I’m prepared to give it a shot.

Check it out here: Bloggerwave