I discovered the Blogging To The Bank ebook because some “big time” internet marketing guy gave a rare review of this blog and ping plus affiliate program marketing system a good review.
Here’s the official introduction of Blogging To The Bank…
Rob Benwell claims to have gone from zero to $516.53 per day in affiliate commissions without spending a single penny on advertising.
The story started a couple of months ago when Rob set up his first blog. He set it up because there was a lot of talk about blogging been the future of the internet. He set it up. Got a few backlinks, 9 in fact and then left it.
A week later he checked his position in the search engines and he had a #1 ranking for the main keyword. He was receiving a ton of visitors. He also had a few other #2 and #3 positions for other keywords.
He looked into it and was shocked to see he had out-ranked sites with thousands of backlinks. He told me he was so excited that he couldn’t sleep and spent the night up trying to figure out why this was happening.
He looked at everything different he had done with his blog that others were missing. He set up others blogs which included ads for affiliate programs and followed this method with a few little tweaks here and there.
He now claims to have “cracked the secret code” to getting a ton of free traffic and keeps setting blogs up on a weekly basis. He told me he expects his affiliate checks to double or even triple in the next two months.
I am willing to learn any alternative method to using Google AdWords to bring in free and long term source of incoming traffic to my web site so this was something I was looking for. I am quite fed up of paying the almighty money sucking Google AdWords and playing the “quality score game”. Blogging To The Bank could potentially save me a lot of money in the near future and beyond.
Before I go into details about the Blogging To The Bank system, I would like to point out what I feel is the biggest disadvantage of the system presented in Rob’s ebook.
First of all, I would like to applaud Rob for trying to be as fluff-free and hype-free as possible with his ebook. The Blogging To The Bank ebook was an easy read. I completed it in less than 15 minutes. The problem is, the linking strategies he is trying to explain in the ebooks sound a bit confusing. I still don’t quite get it after reading the ebook 3 times. Maybe I should re-read those sections to see if I missed out something earlier on.
The best thing about the ebook is that Rob actually uses a real life example of some of his blogs. You can check out the blogspot.com blogs he mentions in his ebook and they really rank well in MSN.com.
The Blogging To The Bank system has more advanced techniques on “flooding your blog with targeted traffic”. Rob covers the easy stuff like setting up Blogspot.com blogs and what to post to these blogs in great detail. In fact I was very impressed with the “SEO” instructions on how to select a keyword with less competition and how to use that keyword phrase in your blog links and post content to highlight those keywords you want to rank high for.
But when it came to advanced stuff, I feel that they were not explained in great detail. I couldn’t figure out how to implement Methods 1-3. Methods 4-5 are “black hat” SEO techniques while Methods 1-3 are “white hat” SEO techniques. Methods 1-3 can be done at low cost if you are skilled writer. If not, you’ll have to know how to outsource your writing jobs effectively to make it work. Methods 4-5 require additional software that could set you back an additional $300 + to make it work.
I think I know what Rob is trying to achieve with his system but it will take me a few weeks to figure out how to use the tools in Methods 4-5 and interlink my blogs to generate enough traffic. You see I am still unsure about the linking techniques Rob described in his ebook. If he doesn’t reply to my questions, I’m going to have to “bump around” a bit to find out how to do it the hard way.
I give the Blogging To The Bank ebook a 3/5 overall rating. It could have been improved if the areas I mentioned were covered in greater detail. Those are critical parts of this system and to vaguely go through them will stear a lot of readers in the wrong direction. Get this book to profit with the “white hat” SEO techniques Rob described in his ebook if writing is your thing. Get this ebook if you hate to write and/or hate to hire someone to write and don’t mind spending some money on the tools Rob recommends to make this system work.
I will personally test the Blogging To The Bank system to see if I can make a profit with this way of generating traffic. I will report back on my progress in my blog in the near future. In the meantime, please check out my blog and ping blog to read some of the blog generator reviews. *Hint* Rob uses one of the blog generators mentioned in my reviews to generate his blogs.