Affiliates4u.com is the heart beat of the UK affiliate scene. What was once just a forum is now a forum with added “2.0″ style functionality.  Users can create communities, to bring affiliates together on common interests. There’s a great blog aggregator which pulls in feeds from top UK affiliates and gives the users the chance to “back” or “slap” blog posts.

The forum is frequented by the most respected names in UK affiliate marketing, as well as representatives from the major networks which makes it an ideal place to keep up to date with the latest promotions, incentives and very often groans about the actions of networks or their merchants.

Affiliates4u has also been responsible for putting together well attended get togethers, including the recent very successful A4uExpo.

Find out more by visiting Affiliates4u

Bumpzee started life as an blog aggregator set up by affiliate legend, Scott Jangro. His useful list of affiliate blogs also had the ability to “bump” cool posts, so that better posts got a wider audience. This was a great idea and he rebranded it as Bumpzee. It started with just an Affiliate Marketing community and has now grown to include communities on all kinds of subjects. It’s very well populated with affiliate marketing blogs from across the globe, and cleverly tracks comments on blogs too so as not to draw discussions away from the original blogs.

It does seem perhaps not as well used as it once was, with many posts doing unbumped, but Bumpzee is still a resource well worth checking out to keep up to date with the best affiliate blogs.

What do you think of Bumpzee? Leave a comment and share your thoughts.

Buy.at are one of the top affiliate networks in the UK, and have come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years with the signing of some really top brands.

Merchants you will find on Buy.at include: 3 Mobile, Carphone Warehouse, GAME, Butlins, John Lewis, Expedia, HMV, Nokia, Laterooms,  T-Mobile, Waterstones, Marks & Spencer, Match.com and National Lottery.

At the time of writing, Buy.at is straddling two affiliate interfaces. An older, less impressive one, and a slightly more snazzy “V3″ . Neither seem perfect but both do the job.  Buy.at’s control panel does quite helpfully tell you the referring URL for your clicks, but unfortunately not for your sales. Like most networks though, you can insert unique identifiers into the affiliate link to track where your sales have come from.

Cool extras include a downloadable widget which runs on Yahoo’s Widget service to keep you to up to date with your earnings. You can also access your earnings data with web services, making it easy to develop your own interface for getting stats however you like. I have a nice text only stats page which I can get to from my phone.

I definitely regard this Newcastle and London based network as a must have in my affiliate arsenal. You can find out more by visiting Buy.at

What do you think of the Buy.at network? Please use the comments section to leave your thoughts…