Review: Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank 3.0

Rob Benwell has just released his third version of Blogging To The Bank and are you thinking whether to get it? If you are, this post can help you to make a better decision.

What Is Blogging To The Bank 1.0, 2.0 and now 3.0 All About?

Basically the gem of wisdom that this three versions are teaching you and me is how to set up a money making niche (of your choice) blog with a step-by-step blueprint with contents like:

Blogging To The Bank Version 1.0 (included in the bonuses with version 3.0):

The 7 Step Blueprint like:

• Researching the selecting a market using ClickBank
• Creating your blogs using Google’s very own Blogger
• Creating and placing banner and Google Adsense ads on your blogs
• Getting content by writing article yourself or for a small fee
• Blogging SEO tips by optimizing your targeted keywords for the MSN search Engine
• Flooding your blog with targeted traffic from Article Marketing, Press Releases, Forums, Comment Posting and Voodoo Blogging (a black hat method)
• Creating your blogging network by interlinking all your blogs

with a number of areas to test and track like your blog template, Google Adsense, linking, Banner Ads and Blog Copy.

Blogging To The Bank Version 2.0 (not included in the bonuses with version 3.0)

Blogging To The Bank 2.0 is created because Blogger has started deleting blogs (due to overrun and existed purely for money making), thus making Version 1.0 irrelevant.

New content is included on top of those in Version 1.0 like:

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How To Start Your Blog Right With Problogger (The Book)

Are you starting your blog right today to make sure you can blog your way to a Six Figure Income?

Do you know you can get your blog started right with Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett’s ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income?

If you have not gotten this book, you better do so as soon as possible. This book can be a bible to getting your blog right.

So what is the first key pointer to getting your blog right?

Niche Of Your Blog or The Title Of Your Blog Is Important

One of the key starters to get your blog right is to make sure you get the right title or the right niche of your blog. This is very important if you are to make it big! If you set it right in the first place, you will be able to blog better and you can be blogging your way to a six figure income.

Reasons being:

• Your readers will first look at the title (niche) of your blog, decide whether to continue reading the posts and if they do, does the post relate well to the title (niche)? If not, high chances that your readers may leave and never to return.
• You will be passionate about what you will be posting and you have topics to blog.

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Explaining The What, Why and How To Your Worthy Readers Or Clients

Part of what you need to do in online marketing is writing good advertisements (or blog posts) to promote your products or services.

If you are promoting an affiliate product and using the Ads provided by the vendor - my suggestion is to stop using or to modify the major bulk of content provided to your writing style. The reason is that you are not the only affiliate promoting the products so don’t let the duplicate content affect your search engine ranking.

So if you feel that you are not good in writing your own advertisement or product reviews, here is a worthy guide that you can follow when you are writing your next money-making advertisement. This guide is adapted from a book by Jeffrey Gitomer - Little Green Book of Getting Your Way: How to Speak, Write, Present, Persuade, Influence, and Sell Your Point of View to Others (Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Books).

Your Guide To Writing A Worthy Advertisement

When your worthy readers, subscribers or clients open your next email or on a search link to one of your blog posts with an advertisement or product review promoting your “next big product”, most of these people have one thing in common thinking - they’re skeptical and will start to consider whether the next 2 minutes are worth their reading and further exploring to what you are offering.

They have a lot of questions in their mind that they hope they will be able to get an answer from your posting. Questions like:

• What is this product or service that you are offering to me? Try to explain the product in few words. If you have to explain the main benefit in a lengthy paragraph - you’ve killed your readers!
• Why will this product or service work for me (this time or as compared to other competitors’ similar products)?
• Why do you want me to do this (use this product)? You can explain that the techniques of yester-years are no longer valid and this product are inline with the latest.
• What are you trying to accomplish? This question may sound weird, and a typical answer is you want to make money, this will be a no-no. Rather you can make use of this advertisement to promote yourself as a professional. Remember provide value first! Money will come later!
• What will this mean to me (after using this product)? Remember to highlight the benefits like e.g. saving time in running your online business and having more time for your family and yet still having a better income than before.
• How will this effect me (as compared to before)? You can talk about the technical features of your products like e.g. being able to automate the contents so that your website always look updated.
• How do I win? Humans are competitive in nature and do not wish to lose out to others. Highlight your most important benefit that will make your readers (make them imagine) feel that they are going to be the next winner!

There you go.

These are the common questions that one may have. If you can think of more, feel free to adapt and expand on this guide. You may also realize that by answering most of these questions in your advertisment - you may get a lengthy post. So the next challenge for yourself is if you can shorten your writing by emphazizing on the essence of what you want to offer.

If you are into a good read and want to learn more on enhancing your persuasion skills, check out the Little Green Book of Getting Your Way: How to Speak, Write, Present, Persuade, Influence, and Sell Your Point of View to Others (Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Books).

My Blog Readability Test

Come across this interesting website - what it does? It shows the level of education required to understand my blog.

Glad to know that my blog only requires guys who have Junior High School Education to understand what I am typing.

If you are interested in this kind of site, it would be good to know that the basic nature of this site is very viral. If I am not wrong, you will be clicking on the banner above to check out the reading level for your own blog and posting the result as well.

Guess what? You have just helped to make the website famous! If you can use the same idea of that site on your own site, it’s a matter of time your site will become famous as well!

How To Gauge If You Are A Pro In Your Niche

Do you read over the past posts (advice and suggestions) in your blog or do you know what you have ever posted 1 year down the road?

One of the advice that many successful markters will give to new online marketers will be to concentrate on your niche and blog often on that niche.

And, to be able to blog often, you have to learn how to give advice and suggestions in your blogging. From there onwards, you will slowly build up your traffic and subscribers. That’s where you also build your fame and can result in good monetary sense. Agree?

So one of the ways to gauge, I believe, whether you are a professional or expert in your niche is if you do read what you have posted and most importantly using what you have posted as a reference.

For example, I have ever written a post on how to write articles to drive sales and traffic and articles, as many marketers would strongly recommend, article marketing is one of the good tools to use in your online business. So whenever I do write an article and I want to use a good template to gauge - I can use my post as a reference.

So what does this mean to you and to others? Simply put, if you preach what you says and use what you know, other marketers will pick it up and have better perception of you as a professional in your niche.

Remembering, blogging is not just posting for others to enjoy. Blogging what you know, can be a good reference for your own as well.

Learn from what you have posted and you can be a better professional!

Google Is Releasing Numbers For Your Keywords Research

Google - the big Daddy of search engine, has just upgraded their Keyword Research Tool and I am liking it!

Some of my uses for Google Keyword Research Tool

I like to follow the success of some of the famous blogs like Alvin Phang’s GatherSuccess, John Chow and Carlo Cab.

By using the Google Keyword Research Tool, you can roughly gauge which keywords Google is ranking them in the search engine.

Next, after you know the keywords, you can follow their Posting Style, how they post and get ranked.

Then you can do your own routine research for your own blog to see which keywords are slowly being picked up by Google.

Google Keyword Research Tool - The Past

I must say, the Google Keyword Research Tool is a very handy tool indeed. After a few months of blogging and trying my hands on “making money online”, now my blog is being picked up by these keywords. *Pat on my back*

Definitely, putting my blog into this genre, is like a continuous battle of who is the best online money maker.

So using the Old Google Keyword Research Tool only tell you which are the keywords being picked up but you do not know which is the best keyword (= blogging direction) to use as what you see, are just colored bar.

Google Keyword Research Tool - The Present

With the recent upgrade by Google, I am seeing a grin on my face. Why? As you can see below:

Google is showing numbers! Now not only do you have the information of which are the keywords being picked up, you can now slowly narrow down to better research stuff like:

• The Same - Which Keywords are low in Advertiser Competition (meaning keywords not being widely used)
• The New - The Approximate Search Volume for last month and overall. This information can let you know the growing trend of keywords and which is the better choice.

This new feature is also widely raved about by successful internet marketers in terms of Affiliate Marketing. They are happy that now they can know which keywords they can use for their Adwords or Pay-Per-Click campaign without being in heavy competitions with others.

So if you are into Keyword Research, enjoy this new feature by Google Keyword Research Tool.

Exploring More Into SocialSpark.com

Remember my blog post on “Join SocialSpark Today and Make Some Cool Money Tomorrow!” If not, it’s ok, in general this is a very innovative website that you can make some cool money with the Opportunities.

Other than making money, do you know that SocialSpark can help you to keep track of the visitors stats of your site. Simply take a look into this link:

>> http://socialspark.com/blogs/affilicore-com

From that page, you can note roughly your Alexa Rank and RealRank (this is part of SocialSpark technology of ranking your site with them)

That page also features your latest blog post - good for your readers.

More to it, click on the “view demographics”, you can see which search engine is sending you the most traffic, the most clickable links in your site (to help you monitor which style of writing suits your visitors) and how about Demographics values like Percentage of Male or Female visiting your site and the age group.

From the values there, I can safely say that most of you, my valued readers,

• Are from the United States,
• Majority of you are males,
• Are between 25-34 (a youthful community)
• Most of you have been clicking my links that link to DealDotCom and to Ewen Chia’s Free Website Builder.

So, if you are a blogger and will like to improve on your blog, get into SocialSpark.com and utilize their technology to provide you with the necessary information on your efforts.

Using Google Analytics For Blogging Topics and Automated Money-Making System.

Are you one of those bloggers who face Writers’ Block frequently or do not have a specific direction on how your blog should go?

If you are having these problems… How about Using Google Analytics (Free Program) to help source some valuable ideas/topics today? 

You can even use this as an automated money-making system to help you become a Guru, earn some nice dough promoting affiliate products and your own!

How good is that?

What is Google Analytics and How To Take Part?

Google Analytic, as simple as it is, is a tool offered by Google to help webmasters or bloggers like you and me to help track and monitor your traffic and visitors to your sites.

If you are using Google Adwords, Google Analytics is a by-far the best companion for it.

To learn more about the features, click on to understand better… And to sign on, if you are owning a Gmail Account, use that email address to sign up, it’s that simple.

Upon signing up, be ready to copy and paste the codes offered to your web template and wait for at least 24 hours for the first batch of keywords to appear.

Once you are ready… this is what you need to do after you sign in…

• Look to the Sidebar and Click on “Traffic Sources then Keywords”

• From there, you will see some nicely-colored charts and way below, you’ll see the meat - the keywords that others are using to get to your site.
• As seen above, you can see that in the typical month of June, some readers are getting to this blog via the 10 long-tail keywords. And the #1 keyword is “make money online forum” - which could mean that some readers are interested in finding forums that can teach them how to make money online (which is a problem and they need a solution!)

Once you have this kind of information in mind, it’s time to get cracking and put your thinking hat to use - be the expert in your niche - Provide some useful resources, marketing techniques, software, eb00ks  and target on this.

Repeat this process, get a hand of it and there you have it:

• Lesser Writer’s Block Syndrome
• Better Focus and Sense of Direction for your blog
• A chance to be a solution-provider to your blog readers and make some money from it.

DealDotCom is Giving Away 25.5% Discount Off Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging

DealDotCom’s Deal Of The Day is giving away 25.5% Discount Off Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging System.

Alvin Phang’s current site is offering the system at $47, DealDotCom is giving away to you only at $35 (did I hear a wow somewhere?).

What can you do with the US$12 savings? You can give it to me… or donate to charity (there are more hungry people out there now due to food shortage)… or pamper your loved ones to a few good movies (The Trailer for Iron Man is pretty good…)

Ok, I will talk to you like a businessman, you save this US$12 with your bank, earn some small interest out of it, meanwhile, get this System and make even more money online out of your improved online business! After that, you thank me!

>> Click Here To Read My review of Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging System.

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How To Add Adsense, Adbrite, Bidvertiser Ads Between Your Posts (Blogger Template)

Do you know that there can be good money to be earned (based on earnings from CPM) just by having Ads between your blog post?

If you are using Blogger long enough, you will know that there is an automated option for you to add Google Adsense between your posts. (Layout > Page Elements > Blog Posts > Edit > Check on Show Ads between Posts > Add in your Publisher ID and you are good to go!)

*Hint: A good Ad Layout based on my own findings between Small Banner (468 x 60) and Medium Rectangle (300 x 250), shows that a Medium Rectangle Ads can fetch you a high CPM - please do have Show banner option turned on to enjoy this.

With these small tips on hand, as a long term blogger and to make money online through Multiple Streams of Income - you will know that you cannot just depend on Google Adsense alone. You need to diversify to many alternatives like AdBrite, BidVertiser and so on.

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