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His blog has really advanced in terms of slickness, content and readership by the looks of his feed count. Mark’s also a keen video blogger, and advocate of video blogging in general, and has pledged to create 365 videos in 2008!

Subscribe to the blog at 45n5.com for a consistently entertaining and thought provoking read.

I’m not a fan of the DirectTrack platform that it runs on, but it’s worth using despite that. I used to get an email when a sale came through, which was a useful feature and meant having to log in less, but that doesn’t seem to have worked for quite a while.

The fact thate OneNetworkDirect  can monetise your traffic wherever it comes from makes it great if your traffic isn’t from just one country.

Visit OneNetworkDirect. They also maintain a regularly updated blog which is always nice to see from a network.

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

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.

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…

Shawn’s affiliate marketing blog is filled with useful insights into affiliate marketing from this industry veteran. He also often does video posts and sneeks in the occasional song which makes it extra entertaining. Shawn will often put up blog posts and videos in response to questions he has received from newbies etc.

Shawn Collins’ affiliate blog is a great resource, and also check out his YouTube channel.

I don’t enjoy using the interface at all. It’s clunkly, not intuitive and makes basic tasks difficult. Even finding a merchant to join can be an arduous process. On the plus side, they do some useful stuff like video interviews with merchants to help you understand their proposition.

Our verdict is: if you’re a travel affiliate, sign up. If not, have a look at their merchant list before deciding if it’s worth bothering. Visit Affiliate Future for more information.

Both informative and entertaining, the podcasts are well worth a listen. Visit Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

InternetMarketingBlogs.co.uk is a useful affiliate resource!