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Blogging to the Bank Review

July 15th, 2006

Blogging to the Bank reveals a system for building a network of blogs to promote affiliate products and earn Adsense commissions. It provides examples of blogspot.com blogs, which had ranked on the top ten search results pages of MSN search for certain keyword phrases.

The sales-letter for this ebook had testimonials from a few popular Internet marketing gurus. I don’t agree with everything these gurus say about it. I also think the sales-letter was a bit overboard on describing some of the contents.

I think you’ll need to have some basic knowledge or experience with Internet marketing techniques to figure out how to apply the system that is revealed. Let me tell you why.

It advises you to put Adsense ads on your blogs and Clickbank product reviews. However, it skims over the details on how to sign up for Adsense or how to setup your Clickbank affiliate links. That tells me the author is writing to someone who is already familiar with these programs.

The Adsense tips it gives are very basic. It tells you not to have a border around the ad so it will blend in with the blog content and not appear to be an ad. You probably already heard about that tip a thousand times.

It devotes more pages to show you in screen shots how to create a blog on blogger.com, than it does to the juicy blackhat techniques such as creating massive blog networks or automating the posting of blog comment spam.

The author refuses to believe leaving an automatically posted unrelated comment containing links to his own sites on other people’s blogs isn’t consider spam. However, in an update report he also provides, he seems to have changed his thinking about this. He changed his strategy to making automated comment spam posts only on his own blog network (I’m not saying you should try any risky techniques, but the author does mention them).

The system in this book relies on the creation of thousands of blogger blogs. The network of blogs will link back to the blogs that carry the Adsense ads and Clickbank product links you are promoting. The network would be impossible to create without the help of software that will create all the blogs and automatically post comments to them.

You’ll have to purchase the blog account creation and posting software separately. However, I wouldn’t buy the software he recommends.

The book also shows you several common ways to get one-way links to your blogs. But believe me, these are methods you already know about and have probably already tried.

The book gives the urls to the actual blogs tested with this system. I’ve made a search for them in Google.com and they are still there. However, they don’t rank as high as they once did from the time my version of this ebook was purchased (3/14/06). For example, one of the blogs had a #7 spot on MSN for a particular keyword. Today, 7/13/06, it is in position #79. Another blog was #9 for a certain keyword phrase, but today it can’t be found within the top 100 search results.

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