Jamie Carruthers

Wine Offers – live!

Jamie — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:30:20 +0000

Another new site, Wine Offers is now live. Aggregating discounts from the big online wine retailers such as Majestic Wine, this site will save you money just in time for Christmas!

New site is launched!

Jamie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:46:17 +0000

Just a quick note to say I’ve just launched a new site, Bib Shorts. It is an affiliate site focusing solely on promoting cycling bib shorts through Wiggle, the online cycling retailer.

Testing dynamic content with Google Website Optimizer

Jamie — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:36:54 +0000

I bought a lousy book on Google Website Optimizer (Sybex’s Always Be Testing) which seems to tell me very little about how to use GWO how I want.

I wanted to implement a dynamic element to a site I have started to test – namely an order summary on a shipping page of an e-commerce store.

Of course, because GWO is javascript powered, any dynamic code (I’m using PHP’s Smarty but the same goes for any serverside language) will not be rendered because JS is interpreted clientside. You can only use HTML/CSS and JS as a variation.

After some thinking (admittedly I should have come up with a solution a lot quicker than I did), I realised I could add in my dynamic order summary code in to my Smarty template file as normal, then in my GWO variation just add some CSS to hide it:

Some new domains

Jamie — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:36:14 +0000

I recently bought some new exact match domains, such as Chocolate Fountain, Bath Toys and Running Trainers.

Not sure if I will do anything with them yet, but I can’t help but snap them up when I find them!

The Great Frog is live…

Jamie — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:01:18 +0000

My friend Reino has recently launched an e-commerce store for his infamous jewellery brand, The Great Frog.

Launched in 1972 by his Dad, Patterson, TGF is credited with creating the original skull ring and has supplied jewellery to the likes of Metallica and Iron Maiden.

Take a look around the site!

Topman Discount Code

Jamie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:07:58 +0000

Whilst purchasing some plain white tees online from Topman, I thought I would see if I could find any discount codes to save me some money.

I found a few old ones that didn’t work but I eventually found a code for free delivery which worked and saved me £4!

Here t’is: STYLEMAIL

How competitive is the gift sector?

Jamie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:18:51 +0000

Well, I’m about to find out. I’ve just launched a new site, Unusual Gifts – a blog with various unusual gift ideas for everyone.

I know this is a competitive sector, and I intend to update daily (easier said than done!). I will post an update with how I’m getting on soon.

James Bond Watches: a new site is born

Jamie — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:21:10 +0000

I’ve been working on a new site recently, James Bond Watch. It is a brief history of the watches worn by James Bond 007 throughout the series of films, from his original Rolex to the James Bond Omega Seamaster he has been wearing for over a decade.

Who searches ‘Pages from the UK’?

Jamie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:21:24 +0000

Google.co.uk users get an option Google.com users don’t when searching. That is to restrict their search query to ‘Pages from the UK’.

I never use it myself, but I came across a Hitwise article that mentions that 14% of UK Google searches have the option selected. So, if you operate in the UK and your site doesn’t appear under a ‘Pages from the UK’ query, you could be missing out.

A new domain to play with

Jamie — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:20:48 +0000

I just bought the domain Undelete Files to play with the Google exact match domain bonus and see if a lite site can outrank some heavy weight competition for the target keywords with just a few links.

I will post updates here soon.