How appropriate that Kieron Donoghue ordered this ReviewMe review for his blog about affiliate and Internet marketing. As you may have noticed, I’ve been getting more and more into affiliate marketing and it has been accounting for a ever increasing share of my monthly blog revenue. When done correctly, affiliate marketing can be one of your biggest moneymakers. Any new resource that can help improve affiliate earnings is welcome. And Kieron’s affiliate marketing blog does just that.
Who Is Kieron Donoghue
According to Kieron Donoghue about me profile, Kieron is the following:
My name is Kieron Donoghue and I run UK Offer Media Ltd. My official title is Director but that sounds too serious and grown up! I thought it would be fun to post a daily (well hopefully daily) blog, writing about my experiences in New Media and more specifically Affiliate Marketing. I’ll include some personal stuff too, probably about my other passion, music.
Kieron specializes in making money online through websites that push affiliate deals. Some of his sites include Broadband Providers, Cheap Mobiles, Credit Card, Health and Beauty, Jewellery, Loans and UK Offers. You can see a more complete list of Kieron’s affiliate sites on his blog, here.org.uk.
Does Kieron make money from these sites? Here’s a print out of his December to January bank statement showing he made about $140,000.
The Blog of Kieron Donoghue
The Kieron Donoghue blog has been around even longer than this blog. It was started on April 4, 2005. In those early days, Kieron would end his blog post by telling what music he’s listening to. He still does that to this very day.
Kieron has done a good job on keeping his blog updated. There’s usually at least one new blog post everyday and on days when there isn’t one, Kieron will post two or three posts the next day to make up for it. Some of his recent posts that affiliate marketers would be interested in include:
- Shoemoney sells affiliate site AuctionAds, but for how much?
- Affiliate Marketing Lookalikes
- Easy method of gaining quality backlinks and building a database of users
- Communicating effectively with affiliates – 5 golden rules
- My first 24 hours on Facebook
- How long does it take to make money with a blog? A real life case study
- Stop messing about for goodness sake – just do it!
- Google AdWords Landing Pages – how to build a page that won’t get banned, with examples
- Real life examples of business pitch emails – good and bad
- When afilliates drink too much….
- How to get started in Affiliate Marketing
Kieron discusses many different affiliate networks in his blog but nearly all of them are UK based – not surprising since he lives in the UK. However, the advice he dispenses is timeless and applies to all affiliate marketers and not just UK ones. He uses his own affiliate sites for many case study examples.
Monetizing Kieron Donoghue
Kieron waited a long time before monetizing his blog. As a matter of fact, Kieron didn’t offer advertising on his blog until February of this year.
Are you interested in advertising on this blog? Traffic levels are increasing on a daily basis and I am currently number 4 for Affiliate Marketing in Google and number 3 in Google UK results for Affiliate Marketing.
In addition to direct banners, Kieron runs Google AdSense under each blog post. However, you won’t see the Google Ad on the front page. Kieron can improve AdSense performance by adding it to his home page. At his stated ad rate, Kieron is making $1,000 per month from here.org.uk, plus whatever Google AdSense and that buyat banner brings in. That’s very good income level for a blog at his size.
To attract more direct advertisers, Kieron needs to increase the traffic to his blog and increase his RSS readership. This review should help him do both. I’ve added Kieron’s blog to my Google reader (he offers a full feed RSS). Anyone who has a $300,000 a month PPC budget is definitely worth checking out.
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First Here!!!!
I’ll catch up with you sooner or later!
Luck oni
Affiliate marketing is working well for me too. But only after hard work and error and trial.
If you want to see my daily progression:
BlogaDollar.com
Greetings from France John.
Wow…..$140,000 is big……
Visit Kieron Donoghue’s Blog after this comment
I agree with using affiliate marketing. I do better with it than I do with Google AdSense.
U means Adsense CPA
it’s time like these that give me motivation. It also makes me very jealous
Ya this is a good motivation to everyone
Good job, Kieron! Keep it up!
great stuff!
wow,$140,000!
Great man.
wow nice blog. I’ve seen it before, but never really read his posts. pretty informative!
This is EXTREME making money… I’m shocked…
It good to read about those generating income by networking, expecially blogging. Keep up the great accomplishments, see you there! Your Success, http://www.Houseofhancock.com
Nice looking site!
never heard of that blog let me check it
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Hey John,
Just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration. Keep up the good work.
James
My question is how much did he spend to make that 140,000k?
There is a thread over at sitepoint from about a year ago. If I remember correctly the statement above (which is UK and in £’s) is just 1 page for the monthly bank statement. I think he mentiones how much he spends, but it’s been a year or so since I read that post at sitepoint.
Remembering back to Kierons sitepoint thread, I think he spends something like $300,000 to make $140,000 profit. So he gets back roughly $440,000 each month..
I think he spend a lot time to make it
Lucky One:D
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Awesome review John! Very informative.
I have followed Kierons progress for a couple of years nearly. I have nothing but respect for him.
He’s a great guy to try and follow.
G
Great review, couldn’t be more related to making money online.
And congrats on passing the 7,000 RSS readers.
Wow 7100 ++ RSS readers!!!!
Pretty cool site, I’ll definitely be checking it out.
Not only does he have a cool name, his blog is great!
Congratulations on hitting the 7,000 reader mark john
Very nice looking site! Impressive income from it as well
There’s no shame in getting sold something is there?
Because I’ll admit, I was sold into subscribing to this guy’s feed.
Damn you John Chow! Damn you!
While I haven’t even touched affiliate marketing, mostly because I can’t think of what I could honestly promote with passion, it’s nice to have another resource to read through about the topic should I get an idea or two.
I agree. I am waiting until I find something I would want to buy before going into slinging affiliate deals.
DevDad
Cool
Great blog and solid information from a guy who obviously knows what he is doing!
I saw that same statement like a year and a half ago.
I read a review about him a few weeks back on Jane’s blog.
thanks john I have some affiliate marketing sites so this blog will be useful for me
I like some of those domains Kieron owns. Must be worth a few quid.
Just wanted to thank John for his review and everybody for their comments. Cheers!
Hey good review! I subscribed.
Wow!
Great Post! Great Blog!
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Thanks for the review. I will check out his site.
Kieron is one more subscription on my RSS reader.
thats a great site you’ve got going there!
I could invest $3000 per month and share profit 50/50 if you teach me how to make that money. But I expect it being only profit and not loose.
Can someone help?
Since my last posting, I have checked out Kieron’s site. Very well done!
I’ve been reading his blog for ages, he tells it straight up and could in some be considered like the Shoemoney of the UK
This post here – http://www.here.org.uk/2007/06/google-adwords-landing-pages-how-to-build-a-page-that-wont-get-banned-with-examples.html – on landing pages is a must to read for any AM!