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Launch of AffJet v2
We are really excited to announce that earlier this week, after lots of rigorous testing, we launched AffJet v2. We have given both the application and the AffJet website a complete facelift, to make it really simple and intuitive to use.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with AffJet, it’s an application for affiliate marketers which aggregates all of your affiliate marketing statistics in one place for easy network analysis and bigger profits.
Below are some screenshots of the new designs, and you can read more about the changes we have made, or try it our for yourself at AffJet.com.
Google Maps Free Alternatives
We love Google products much like why we love Apple here at Fubra (apart from those who don’t believe in the great Steve Jobs), they work and work well. But recently they made a change to their Maps API that caused us to rethink our mapping strategy drastically.
Since October, Google introduce a clause in their usage terms that states that if you do go over 25000 user sessions a day then they can start charging you a fee for use. Not such a big deal some may say and Google did note in their developer blog…
Based on current usage, only the top 0.35% of sites will be affected by these limits, meaning that the Google Maps API will remain free for the vast majority of sites.
On the usage statics from a post last year on their blog that means 1225 sites will be affected (probably more).
One of our sites, World Airport Codes, is one of those sites. I suppose it’s nice to be thought of as one of the 0.35%, but not so good that the costs of using Google Maps on this particular site would be more than it earns in advertising revenue.
So our search for a replacement started!
Furnish.co.uk – how we take payments for sellers but avoid legal liability
In case you haven’t heard of us, furnish.co.uk is a home interiors personal shopper. We take the hard work out of shopping for your home by pulling together the best and most stylish furnishings from across the web. We work with multiple “sellers” and list a selection of each of their products, every one of which is hand-picked by us. Take a look to find everything from modern furniture through to gifts for the home.
We offer several partnership options to sellers, but the one I’ll talk about here is where we sell their home furnishings directly from furnish.co.uk, just like a marketplace. For example, a customer finds a coffee table on furnish.co.uk from a particular seller, adds it to their basket, checks out and pays, all without visiting the seller’s own website. The seller is notified of this and dispatches the coffee table to the customer. We take a commission on the sale. Read the rest of this entry »
AffJet – Our Newest Addition
AffJet is the latest addition to Fubra’s catalogue of websites, and we wanted to tell everyone all about it!
AffJet = Better Affiliate Analysis
AffJet’s slogan summarises what AffJet is in three short words which is targeted at it’s market, but for those of you who don’t know what affiliate analysis refers to, here’s a quick introduction.
Affiliate marketing is a great way for websites to make money from their content and essentially, the process goes like this:
Site A displays links to Site B within their content, using a tracked or “affiliate link”. Every time a user on Site A clicks that affiliate link and performs a desired action on Site B (buys something, signs up for a service etc…), Site B gives Site A some commission as a little thank you!
Customise your URLs with the WordPress Permalink Editor plugin
Yesterday afternoon we committed another new plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory, which focusses on editing and rediecting permalinks.
Having recently discovered the need to fully customise the permalink for an individual post or page, due to some inconsistencies when migrating a site into WordPress. Read the rest of this entry »