“Blogging To The Bank” by Rob Benwell is currently taking the world by storm after its recommendation in the Warrior forum.
The sub-heading is “How to earn $516.53 per day as a Blogging Super-Affiliate.” If you could do that, that would certainly give you a very decent amount of money; you’d be looking at annual earnings of US$188k.
Rob’s writing style is refreshingly down-to-earth. He begins by explaining what AdSense, affiliate programmes and blogs are. He then reports on how he stumbled upon the technique by getting his main blog with about 20 back-links ranked higher than his main site with about 1000 back-links for a specific keyword that his main site was targeting in MSN.
Then follows a seven-stage process to earning money with free Blogger blogs. In the first stage, he takes you through researching and selecting a market. He tells you about some free keyword-analysis software that will help you with this goal. He explains exactly how to find well-searched niches with little in the way of competition.
The second stage is all about how to create blogs using Blogger. He selected Blogger because he found that these blogs work best for getting listed quickly. He advises you on how to avoid getting your blog suspended, as many Blogger blogs are removed if they look like their main purpose is to get listed in search engines. Most importantly, he tells you about the appropriate settings to use in your Blogger blog.
The third stage details putting ads onto your blog. He shows you how to create banner ads if you need to, and how to insert them into your blog.
Stage four reveals how to write articles for your blog so that they will be picked up by the MSN and Yahoo search engines (he concentrates on these as it is easier to get listed in them than in Google), and tells you how to subcontract this stage of the process if you’re not very good at writing.
Stage five is an introduction to the internal search engine optimisation you need to do to get ranked highly in the search engines, and is probably sufficient for the purpose. He teaches you how to write the articles with the search engines in mind, but also with the proviso that people will be reading the articles so they must read well.
Stage six talks mainly about the external optimisation that you need to do; how to get links back to your blog, and similar. Some of these techniques are legitimate, above-board optimisation strategies; others are termed “black-hat” and will get you into the search engines quicker and possibly with a higher rank, but may also get you removed from the listings when your site is discovered. He does tell you that this is the case.
Stage seven basically tells you to “rinse and repeat,” so the process is really a six-stage process. He does tell you how to check on your rankings in the listings, but that’s fairly obvious.
You also get a list of 1,000 highest-paying AdSense keywords, and an update that details a very sneaky way of getting lots of relevant back-links to your site!
In my own opinion, I have found it easier to rank for keywords in MSN than Google, but for some reason I don’t get anywhere with Yahoo. This may be the reason that Rob uses Blogger blogs; perhaps it’s generally a problem to get ranked in Yahoo if you’re using WordPress as your platform. I can certainly see potential in the technique, but I also see that you are at the whim of the search engines. You need to be careful to research the topics that you can list for, in my opinion. Having said that, with the volumes of searches he discusses, I believe that US$500 per day is certainly possible using the techniques, but you will have to work hard at it! If you’re interested in Blogging To The Bank, here is the sales page.
David Thomas, The Affiliate Marketer
