Blogging Ultimate

Blogging to the Bank By Rob Benwell Copyright Information Information in this document is the property of RSB Global Trading (RSBGT). No part of this document may be duplicated, transmitted, resold or reproduced in any form or by any means without prior written permission from RSBGT. Unauthorized duplication of this material in any form is strictly prohibited. Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If you have any information regarding the illegal re-selling or duplication of this document please report it to copyright@bloggingtothebank.com for your reward. Disclaimer RSBGT assume no responsibility for the use or misuse of this product, or for any injury, damage and/or financial loss sustained to persons or property as a result of using this report. We cannot guarantee your future results and/or success as there are some unknown risks in business and on the internet that we cannot foresee. The use of our information should be based on your own due diligence, and you agree that our company is not liable for any success or failure of your business that is directly or indirectly related to the purchase and use of our information. Table of Contents 1, Introduction 2, How it all started 3, The 7 Step Blueprint a, Researching the selecting a market b, Creating your blogs c, Creating and placing ads on your blogs d, Getting content e, Blogging SEO tips f, Flooding your blog with targeted traffic 1, Articles 2, Press Releases 3, Forums 4, Comment Posting 5, Voodoo Blogging g, Creating the network 4, Results 5, Testing and tracking tips 6, Final words 7, Make money with this ebook Introduction First of all, I’d like to thank you for buying this e-book. My aim is to get you to take action and show you how to set up niche blog networks to become a super affiliate like me and earn a good income from affiliate programs, Adsense and even drive targeted traffic to your own sites. Before I get into the process of this method I want to lay some groundwork to make sure you don’t get confused by any of this information so first let me explain what affiliate programs, Adsense and blogs are. An affiliate program on the internet is simply where a website is selling a product and they will pay you a commission on every sale you generate from the traffic you send them. So all you have to do is send your visitors to another web page. Google Adsense is an advertising program run by Google. All you have to do is places some code on your website and ads will be displayed that are relevant to the content on your webpage. Blogs are short for weblogs which is just an online journal where you can post articles, news and just comment on anything you want. You can set blogs up for free by using blogger which is also run by Google. Now that I have cleared the basic understanding we can get on with learning about the process that I have been using for the last couple of months to earn up to $500 per day as a super affiliate blogger. How it all started The process I’m about to teach you wasn’t learnt from anyone else. I came across parts of this method by accident and just testing different things. It happened when I was trying to get one of my small niche product sites ranked in the search engines. I had been getting one-way back links for a month and had reached number one in MSN and number 6 in Yahoo for my main keyword but the problem was I was nowhere in Google. I decided to set up a free blog with links to my main site and put the RSS feed code on my personal Google homepage. By doing this I would get the Google robots to my site. I also went and got around 20 back links to the blog to get other search engine robots to it. Now a couple of days later I was checking my rankings in MSN and found that for my main keyword my blog was ranked number one above my main site. This blew me away. A free blog with 20 back links had out ranked an optimized site with around a 1000 quality one way links. I didn’t do anything except for watch the rankings over the next couple of days and it remained number one. I was going crazy, I knew I had something that could be big. I started creating other niche blogs promoting affiliate programs. I tested different blogger templates to see if there was a difference in rankings. I tested the keywords in the content to see if it made a difference. After a month I had a network of blogs getting traffic and then converting that traffic into visitors to my affiliate partners. Now let me give you the 7 step blueprint that I used and still use today. The 7 Step Blueprint to Become a Super Affiliate Using Free Blogs. Step 1 – Researching and Selecting a Market The first part of this process is to select a market that will be profitable. It’s no good building blogs around topics that aren’t going to make money. The first thing you need to do is go to Clickbank and look for affiliate programs. Because this is your first project you should start small and select a niche that isn’t very competitive. What you need to do is select 5 affiliate programs and note them down. To choose these five affiliate programs you need to look at products that pay well and have high conversions. To do this you look for programs which pay 50% or more. They must also have a percentage of over 60% in there referred statistic. This means that other affiliates are making money promoting this product. Now that you’ve selected 5 affiliate programs you are on to the next stage of research. For this you are going to need to download some free software called Goodkeywords. You can get it by www.goodkeywords.com . Once you’ve downloaded and installed the software please load it up and select the top option (keyword suggestion tool). Then you need to type your keywords that people will be searching for to go with each of the affiliate programs. E.g. for the purpose of this exercise I’ve chosen to select ‘Tropical Fish Secrets’ ebook to promote so my main keyword would be ‘fish’. As you can see from the results there is more than one keyword I need to target. I can also target a few other keywords like; tropical fish, aquarium fish, saltwater fish and freshwater fish. On the right you can see the number of searches these keywords get per month. You need to be aiming for keywords over 10k. So now you may be able to cross one or two affiliate programs off your list. The last part of the research is to make sure your not trying to compete is a very competitive market. E.g. you don’t want to waste your time trying to get top rankings for keywords like internet marketing that has around 100 million other sites competing against you. Put your keywords and search on MSN as this is where most of your traffic will come from first as it updates the fastest out of the search engines. After searching for the keywords look at the number of competing sites in that market. You are looking for markets that have fewer than 20 million sites competing. Even better if under 10 million. Taking this we can see that the ‘tropical fish’ is a good market as it has only got 5 million sites competing. After this final stage of research you should have narrowed it down to one or two markets. You should have a good affiliate program to promote in a market that isn’t too competitive and that will provide good traffic. You need all these 3 elements for this method to be successful so take your time and do the research right as this is where you will succeed or fail. Step 2 - Creating Your Blogs So you have a market that looks profitable and now you need to create your free blogs. There has been lots of discussion about whether blogger and wordpress and which one is better. Well in my experience you need to have a Blogger Blog. I don’t know why but it just seems to work a lot better so head on over the www.blogger.com and fill out the form to get an account. So you now have an account and you can set up your blogs. You need to set up a new blog for each of your keywords. For my example this means I need 4 blogs creating each with the keywords in them. Next you will need to choose your blog template. I haven’t tried every template but I have had most success with ‘Dots’ and ‘Minima’ Here are the blogs I created: http://tropical--fish.blogspot.com http://aquarium--fish.blogspot.com http://saltwater-fish.blogspot.com http://freshwater-fish.blogspot.com You can see that I used an extra – in the top two blogs. This is because the single – was taken. Once the blog is created you will need to post right away. You need to put the keyword in the title and then in the copy a couple of times. This is just a first post. You will post an article and then a product review over the next day. IMPORTANT: Never post more than 3 times in one day to one blog because your account may be suspended so you can’t post again to it and may even be deleted. I’ve had this happen to me and it’s not good having a blog deleted that was ranked well and making money. Now the next part of creating your blogs is to set the blog up right. Now your Blogs are created and set up to be search engine friendly. When you post to your Blog it will be pinged automatically (tells the search engines it’s be updated) Step 3 - Creating and Placing Ads on Your Blog Now that you have a functioning blog, you need it place advertising on that blog so you can earn money. Now traditionally you would let advertisers come to you and charge them to place a banner or text like on your blog. Today things are much simpler. You can get a cut of Googles earnings by placing Adsense on your blog and you can place banners of good converting affiliate products where you wish. I personally have had much better success with related affiliate programs than I have had with Adsense. Because of this I always place a banner at the top of the blog and then Adsense down the side. First let’s place the banner on your blog. If you go to the affiliate program for your chosen product. They should have a choice of a few banners for you to choose from. However some affiliate programs don’t so you will have to make your own or just place a text link to that product. Now when creating your own banner, it doesn’t have to be anything fancy or a piece of art. You need to design a banner that will help sell the product. Here are a couple of examples of banners I have created to sell the ‘Tropical Fish Secrets’ ebook If your affiliate product didn’t have a banner and you had to create one, you will need to host that banner on some web space. This can be done on an existing domain or for free. Just search Google for free web space or free web hosting to find companies that offer this. Now its time to place the banner on your blog. Here is the code you will be inserting if it wasn’t provided with the affiliate program. Then go into the settings of your blog and select template. Scroll down and insert the code and then click preview to make sure the banner shows up correctly. Then select save. Next you need to place your Adsense code into your blog. To do this we first need to get the code from Google so go and log into your Adsense account and click on Adsense for content. Then we need to select the type of ad banner we want. I change these and place different ones on different blogs but the most common one I use is the 160 x 600 Wide Skyscraper. You also need to make your ads blend into your blog for a better click through rate. Take the boarder off as this screams ‘Advertisement’ and will lower your click through rate. Then once you have designed your Google ad, click on the code and it should highlight. Copy this code and copy it into note pad or simple text editor. This will save you from logging into your Adsense account every time you create a blog. Go into the template section of your blog again and place the Adsense code in the appropriate position. Click preview again to make sure it displays and then save. You now have a money earning blog. QUICK TIP: Your Google Adsense ads may not display relevant ads for up 24 -48 hours but should after that time. I normally find posting around the topic and then re-publishing the blog helps to speed things up. Step 4 – Getting Content Now you have a blog that can make money you need to add content to your blogs so when the search engines robots crawl your blog they will index you for your keywords in your content. Now to get your content you are best to write two pieces at least. You need to write one article of around 400 words. This article should be keyword dense meaning that you place keywords that you want to rank well for. E.g. For my ‘tropical fish’ article I will place the phrase ‘tropical fish’ in it a few times. I will also place key phrases in it like ‘tropical fish care’ and ‘tropical fish information’ as then you will rank well for these words as well. You can write the article yourself or you can outsource article writing for around $5 per article at www.rentacoder.com or www.elance.com. When getting articles wrote have 10 done at a time as people will not just want to write one or two articles. The next piece of writing should be a product review of the product you are an affiliate for. This has two advantages to it. The first is that it will help pre sell the product and increase the conversion rate of the traffic you send to that website. The second advantage is that Adsense tend to pay more to review sites as people bid more on those keywords. Because your site has a review on it, the ads will pay higher amounts. You are best to write the product review yourself. Sometimes you can find one already done for you which is great because it means less work. If not just write a general review of a couple of hundred words saying the product is great, has a guarantee etc. You can pick out a couple of benefits from the sales letter to help you. Now you have your content you need to post to your blog. Post the article first and then one or two days later post the review so that it is at the top of your blog. In the next stage you will see tips on how to post your article to get maximum results Step 5 – Blogging SEO Tips Now what makes your blog better than the other blogs on the same topic. That’s what the search engines will be asking and you need to tell them. There are things you can do to let the search engines think this. This is the same as a websites on page optimization. Tip 1 – When posting your article you need to put just your keyword in your title and then link back to the blog. Tip 2 – Place the title of the article at the top of the body and make your keyword bold Tip 3 – After your article, the last word on the post should be your keyword so please just place it down at the bottom under your article. Tip 4 – Make sure every link into your site is for your keyword. This is called anchor text and without doing this you will never get a site or blog to the top of the search engines. Here is the code you need to use: KEYWORD So for me this would look like; Tropical Fish Tip 5 – Link to your blogs from each other. Before posting your article and review post to your blog linking to your other blogs with a short message. I will post once including all the links to my other related blogs Tip 6 – To save time, use the same article for content on all of your blogs. All you need to do is change the keywords. E.g. instead of ‘tropical fish’ it would be ‘aquarium fish’ or ‘saltwater fish’. This works great and will save you a load of time. If you have lots of blogs you could write two articles to make the content more unique but I have never had a problem with duplicate content. Tip 7 – To get indexed faster you can submit your RSS feed to ‘My MSN’, ‘My Yahoo’ and your ‘Personal Google Homepage’. Step 6 – Flooding Your Blog with Targeted Traffic Now you have a blog full of relevant content that is promoting an affiliate product you get paid on and you also have Adsense down the side that pay you every time a visitor clicks on them. All you need now is traffic and lots of it. Most of your traffic will come from the search engines natural listings. The first search engine to pick you up will be MSN which is where you will concentrate on because it is the easiest search engine to dominate. It updates daily and still provides good traffic. Yahoo will pick you up next and it is a little harder to get good ranking but is still very doable and worth the little extra work because it can provide more traffic than MSN. To get good rankings in Google it can take up to six months because of the sandbox and even though it will provide the most traffic, it is very hard work. Some people devote 60 hours per week trying to get into Google and trying working out there exact algorithms but to me I just don’t find it worth it. For the traffic you get you will get more to make another blog and get it ranking well in MSN and Yahoo. Now if down the road you get a good place in Google, then that is a bonus. So how do you get top positions in MSN and Yahoo? There’s no rocket science or magic miracle. It is just down to on page optimization. E.g. telling the robots what your site is about. The other part is off page optimization which is getting back links to your blogs and lots of them. The number and quality of back links is very important and to get a site to the top it can take thousands of good back links. But I have discovered that with blogger blogs you can dominate the top spots with very little. I am not exactly sure why this is but I’m 100% positive that everyone who knows this should be taking full advantage of this factor. Another factor with back links is that one way back links by far outweigh reciprocal back links. Search engines are rating one way links to your blog very highly so it is essential that these are the links you get. So you know you need one way back links but I’m not going to tell you how to go and get a few back links. I’m going to show you how to get thousands of back links in very quick time so you can crush the competition in no time. I’m going to detail many methods below that will get you lots of one way back links. Some of these are ethical and others are not so ethical but it is up to you to decide what you want to do. Do you want to be Mr. nice and do everything everybody else is doing or do you want to step outside the box and become an aggressive marketer, taking over the search engines and earning more than everyone else. Method 1 – Articles A good way to get back links is by submitting articles to directories. It is free, quick and is very ethical. You have already written at least one article so this should be the first thing you do. You can submit it to a handful of directories or you can submit it to hundreds using software. I personally submit it to a couple of the main ones manually and then use a service called Article Marketer which submits it to other smaller directories and submission lists. Using this method alone I have been able to gain around 50 to 100 back links from just one article. From this you can see that it is very powerful especially if you had 5 or 6 articles to submit. The articles you submit must be original though and can’t be duplicates of one another. E.g. I can’t use the one ‘tropical fish’ article and submit it 4 times with just different keywords. Here are the best places to submit your articles: www.goarticles.com www.ezinearticles.com www.ideamarketers.com www.contentdesk.com www.isnare.com/login.php www.articlehub.com/add.html www.articlealley.com You can also use Article Marketer which is a paid service and I recommend using it to save you time. Just click below for more information. http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/articles.html Method 2 – Press Releases Writing and submitting a press release sounds like hard work but it can be very easy. It is another 100% ethical way to get back links. The best place to submit your press release is to PR Web. This is the only service I use but here is a list of the top 3. www.prweb.com www.prfree.com www.prnewswire.com You can submit your press release for free or for a better service you can pay. For this method I would just use the free option as it can become quite expensive to submit 5 - 10 press releases per week. There is also software now to submit them to many sites. I have not personally used this but have heard good things about it. Please click below for more information on this software. http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/pressreleases.html Method 3 - Forums Gaining back links by posting on forums can be a very ethical way to get links but only if it is done the right way. Don’t go spamming forums with a ton of links especially if you want to show your face again. There is no need to over use forums as it is easy to do it the right way. All you need to do is join relevant forums to your topic, create your signature that will appear every time you post and then post your article you wrote earlier. You could also ask a couple of questions. Doing this will give you a few back links from not much work. The idea is that you have your blog link and anchor text in your signature so it is just posted automatically. People will take far better to this method than you posting links in your post. In many niches there are many forums. You could just pick the top 10 and post a couple of questions to each. Answer a couple more questions and there you have just gained yourself 40 one way back links from around an hours work. To find forums on your subject just search for “Niche Topic” forums. WARNING: The next two methods I am going to tell you about are for serious marketers online because they have caused a few unhappy people and some of these people have now started calling this spam and wrong. I do not believe it is spam as spam is unsolicited commercial email and this has nothing to do this email. You need to decide if you are a serious marketer and want to make money or want to be Mr. nice and try not to upset anyone. Method 4 – Comment Posting Recently this has been used widely with a few software applications making in an automatic way to gain hundreds and even thousands of back links with the click of a few buttons. What you do is search for related blogs to yours and post a comment with a backline in it on those blogs. The comment can be just generic i.e. Nice blog. I will keep reading. Please take the time to visit my blog about ANCHOR TEXT As you can see, it is nothing harmful. It is in fact a pleasant comment that most people won’t mind. The power becomes extremely powerful when you use software to do this automatically and to find hundreds of blogs at a time to post to. I have tried a couple of pieces of software and one stands out far above the others. This is Blog Submitter Pro V Search. You can find out more about this great software by clicking below. http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/comments.html The software is very easy to use and more powerful than any other software I have used. It is updated very frequently which is great because it leaves you always in front of everyone else. Method 5 – Voodoo Blogging As you can tell from the name it is frowned upon by some but I can bet any money that these people have never used this method because of the power it possesses. I call it Voodoo Blogging because I first came across this method when using the software ‘Voodoo Blogger’. This software enables you to create thousands of blogger blogs almost automatically. You can create random blogs, blog clusters that are around a certain topic and you can also post to all these blogs at a click of your mouse. Just imagine this. You create 3000 blogs using this software and get them indexed in the search engines which is very easy. You then just create a new set of blogs or a new website. Within a few minutes you can post an article or just a quick ad to all these blogs which will give you an instant 3000 back links. From doing this you will rocket to the top of MSN. Within a couple of week Yahoo will rank you high and even Google might take note when they update. To find out more about Voodoo Blogger please click below. http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/blogging.html The Ultimate Power of Methods 4 & 5 I am going to reveal to you a secret method I have been using to get great results combining the use of Blog Submitter Pro and Voodoo Blogger. Step 1 – Spend a few days creating 400 blogs per day using Voodoo Blogger. This should take around 2 hours per day. Each day after you have created the blogs you should post to them with a back link to your niche blogs. Step 2 – Now you around 1200 blogs, copy and paste them into a text file and save them. Step 3 – Run Blog Submitter Pro and upload all of the blogs to post a comment to them. Then set it to only post to these blogs. Step 4 – Start Blog Submitter Pro and leave for a couple of hours. This is a very simple method but what this does is take all of those newly created blogs and ping them to over 50 different services. This will speed up getting those blogs indexed in the search engines. Within 7 to 10 days MSN will be indexing them and then in a couple more weeks Yahoo will be doing it. Now you have 1200 sites linking back to you for any keyword you want. Does that sound great! Well it gets better because now all those blogs are indexed and you should have carried on creating a couple hundred every few days. Here you will have 2000 blogs indexed. Now you just post an article with your back links in it to these blogs using Voodoo Blogger and your new site or blog will be ranking high within 48 hours. Once you have this set up, you can just create new niche blogs and explode your income. There will be no need for articles and press releases just a few clicks instead. Step 7 – Creating the Network Now you have a few successful niche blogs. You must repeat the process and create a large network of these blogs which you can even interlink to get higher rankings and take on more competitive niches. I have created a good network of sites but I am only just getting started. I haven’t been doing this for years. Just a couple of months and already my income is rising faster than I can count. For this example I used in this ebook (tropical fish) I could go and create more blogs on any keyword over 5000 searches per month. This would enable me to totally dominate this market in the search engines. Once you’ve got the hang of it like me you will soon see that you can start creating 5 blogs per days and doing what you need to get them ranked. If you tried hard I’m sure it would be easy to create 20 or even 30 blogs per day. I just like to take it easy. IMPORTANT – You didn’t think I was going to give you the examples of one of my projects without giving you some results. Here are screenshots of my positions in MSN for the blogs I created. These were taken just 12 days after first creating them. This was the first time I checked my rankings so they could have been there for a few days already. I’m sure these will increase in the next couple of weeks as well. Other keywords like ‘tropical fish care’ etc are also ranking very well. Testing and Tracking Tips Now because this method of marketing is quite new it is open to lots of testing and improving. I haven’t had time to test everything and I’m sure things can be improved. I will be doing some testing myself and will inform you of the results. In the mean time here are a few things you could test: 1, Blog template – Could increase conversions or rankings in the search engines 2, Google Adsense – You could try putting different types of Adsense on your blogs and you could try changing the position of your Adsense ads. 3, Different ways to get back links – you could try getting back links in different ways as there are always new ways to get back links. 4, Banner Ads – Try testing the difference between text and graphic banners at the top of your blog. You could try different colors or words. 5, Blog Copy – Try testing the sales copy on your blogs. See if you can pre sell the affiliate product better. This could give your income a serious increase if it works better. These are just a few factors that can improve your income. There are many more so just test anything you can. You may not wish to test much as if you have success with this method you will just keep wanting to grow your network but think of it like this. If you have 20 blogs and you improve the conversion rate of your blog to sell one extra product per day. Then take into account that your commission is $20. This would be an income rise of $400 per day just from a slight increase in conversion rates. Final Words I hope you have enjoyed this ebook and I would love your feedback on it so please just email me at feedback@bloggingtothebank.com The first thing you should do now is take action. Don’t just let this ebook gather digital dust like all the other stuff you already have. Just follow the 7 step blueprint and you too can become a blogging super affiliate like me. Please make sure you sign up to my premium newsletter. If you have not done so then click below. http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/thankyou-signup01.htm Make Money with This Ebook Why not sign up as an affiliate of this ebook and earn 60% commission. I have made it easy for anyone to have success with my affiliate program from experienced affiliate marketers to total newcomers who have never generatored a sale. You can promote it using Pay Per Click Advertising like Google Adwords and Overture or you can simply ad one of my banners to a spare space of your blogs when you have created them. Another very good to promote this ebook is to add one of the ready made signature ads to your forum signature and post quite often. I have found this to be a great way for free advertising. If you want to do a little more work you could write a review and place it on a website or blog and then promote that link using the methods above and in this ebook. For more information on becoming an affiliate please go to my affiliate page by clicking below. http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/affiliates.htm