Who else is really tired of all the ‘guru’ products on the web these days? It seems like everyone has written a course, an ebook or some other product that ‘guarantees’ making you successful. The reality is though, most of these courses are a waste of time and money – but finding which ones are worth while can be really hard work; and all of us have been taken in by a product that ended in disappointment AT LEAST once. AffiloBlueprint however, was not a disappointment.

First off though, let’s talk about what AffiloBlueprint actually is. Created by Super-Affiliate Mark Ling and his Affilorama team, AffiloBlueprint claims to be a complete formula for creating successful affiliate sites. In the first release of the course last year, Ling actually used this formula to create a site in front of a live audience – a site that in turn ended up generating $500 per in profit! In this latest release, Ling goes over that same methodology, but with an improved format and more in-depth lessons.

What really is this ‘formula’? The whole idea of AffiloBlueprint is that you can create multiple sites, in any viable niche you like, by using the same process over and over again. This means you can create a whole bunch of small $50 per week sites, and then just build up your income by building a whole bunch of sites. Then, as Ling explains, if you reinvest some of that money back into the sites in the form of building content and SEO campaigns, you can very quickly accelerate your earnings into the thousands a week – just by starting with a few $50 a week sites. This is got to be one of the simplest, but yet most believable methods I’ve seen for creating this level of income through affiliate marketing.

So what is covered in the course? AffiloBlueprint is a 12 week program with 55 video lessons. Starting out with how to find a profitable niche and market research, you’re taken through picking keywords, creating content, building a website, search-engine-optimization, creating newsletters, analytics and troubleshooting (the troubleshooting lesson is brilliant!), and pay per click. So as you can see, pretty comprehensive!

One of the only downsides with this product is that, with all the information it has, you could be tempted to rush through or skip parts. Don’t do it! Everything in this course is there for a reason, and if you follow it as it is laid out, you will almost certainly be able to make a successful site.

AffiloBlueprint also comes a custom made Wordpress template, so if you haven’t made a website before, you can just use a template created by affiliate marketing experts to build your site. It is obvious that Mark Ling has gone to a lot of trouble to make this product as newbie-proof as possible. Everything is really clearly explained and there is no assumption of knowledge, so if you’re just starting out, this product if for you. If you do have some experience with affiliate marketing however, you will still find the systematic structure of AffiloBlueprint useful. This could be what you need to build up your income or fix your under-performing sites.

All in all, I highly recommend AffiloBlueprint as one of the best affiliate educational products I’ve seen. Ling is only making it avaliable for one week so they can offer customer support, so I would get in quick. Visit the AffiloBlueprint website here

Whats Inside: AffiloBlueprint Course Breakdown

• Week One: Market Research
  • Finding a profitable niche
  • Introduction to keywords and how to do niche background research
  • Building a keyword list
• Week Two: Getting content for site
  • How to get content for your site
  • A look at one of Mark’s articles
• Week Three: Setting up your website
  • Choosing and registering a domain and setting up web hosting
  • Building a basic website in XsitePro
  • Building a basic website in Wordpress, adding articles
  • How to upload your website (XsitePro)
• Week Four: Website Design
  • Tidying and designing your website
  • Working with the Wordpress Theme
  • Creating a header in Paint.net
  • How to insert a new header in WordPress
  • How to lay out your article pages
• Week Five:
  • Introduction to SEO (SE rankings with TT, web stats)
  • On-page SEO fundamentals
  • Writing product reviews
  • How to create a review table
• Week Six: SEO Link Building for Beginners
  • Introduction to off-page SEO
  • Article and directory submissions + AMA
  • Week Seven: Newsletters
  • Introduction to newsletters
  • Newsletter strategies
  • How to add your newsletter series to Aweber
  • How to add a newsletter box into your site, and how to format it to make it look appealing
  • Thank you, confirmation pages
  • How to create redirects (in XsitePro)
• Week Eight:
  • Introduction to Web 2.0: Squidoo and Twitter
  • The “Money Pages” backlink strategy
  • RSS and the “Mr K” backlink strategy
• Week 9: Advanced web tweaking and tidying:
  • Google Analytics
  • Basic Tracking
  • Popovers
  • Siloing
  • Troubleshooting lesson
• Week Ten: Pay Per Click One
  • Introduction to PPC
  • Keyword research for PPC
  • Using Traffic Travis to find profitable keywords for PPC
  • Setting up an AdWords account & starting a new campaign (& adgroups)
• Week Eleven: Pay Per Click Two
  • Creating landing pages for PPC
  • Writing ads for PPC (Copywriting, URLs, Wildcards, etc)
  • Setting everything in motion
• Week Twelve: Pay Per Click Three
  • Conversion tracking
  • Split-testing ads
  • Bidding strategies
  • Content network strategies
  • Other networks other than google
• Advanced Covert Strategies Videos

AffiloBlueprint Top Ten Features

• Easy to follow structure, with each week broken in to task-specific modules that progressively build on each other. Contains over 40 step-by-step video lessons.
• Takes you through the process of building a profitable affiliate site, from market research and choosing a good niche, to SEO, PPC and monetizing your site. Mark proves the formula with example websites (in fact in the first AffiloBlueprint it was recorded live as Mark made a profitable website from scratch in front of a live audience, this time it isn’t taught ‘live’ so as to better organize the training for the users).
• No assumption of knowledge, all video lessons explain everything you need to know, even if you’ve never built a website or done affiliate marketing before. What’s more there’s a fantastic troubleshooting lesson. Analyze your under-performing site with this step by step process to locate and fix underlying problems.
• Custom designed Wordpress template for creating your first affiliate site. I can’t emphasise the value of this template enough. This is easily worth the price of AffiloBlueprint all by itself. It is great for newbies and advanced marketers. It allows you to easily create Affiloblueprint-style websites and also the pay per click landing pages and monetization. And it comes with unlimited licences. XsitePro lessons. How to use this great software package to create successful affiliate sites.
• One month of free access given to the brand new, recently upgraded Affilorama Premium product. This contains full access to Affilorama’s valuable software tools, plus a new online magazine each month, plus a quality intermediate-advanced interview with an internet millionaire each month on a specific topic.
• Repeatable formula. You can use AffiloBlueprint to create one site, then use the exact same process to create another site in a different niche (Mark teaches how to uncover profitable niches in the course). The process can be easily outsourced too.
• How to create a highly profitable newsletter series. Several strategies for maximizing the revenue potential of your newsletters. Mark has over 1.5 million people on his niche mailing lists and reveals his extensive expertise about how to gain lots of opt-ins and how to best structure your newsletter sequences.
• How to use analytics and web statistics to track your progress and make small ‘tweaks’ to ensure your sites are operating at their best.
• Discover exactly how Mark uses pay per click so that you can ramp up your revenue from AffiloBlueprint-style websites to the next level… without burning through too much cash in the process.
• Covert Affiliate Strategies videos. This is for intermediate to advanced affiliates so they can ramp up their earnings to a whole new level. This short but powerful collection of videos is easily worth the price of AffiloBlueprint just by itself.

Visit the AffiloBlueprint website here

For a Short time, Mark is also offering two massive Bonuses

Bonus 1: Affiliate Extreme System (Sells for $197)

$119,427.95 in just 2 weeks in affiliate commissions. And this is just one of several of Mark’s clickbank accounts! Find out how he did it here so that you can earn EXTREME affiliate commissions for yourself!

You get this massive Bonus Free with AffiloBluePrint if you decide to join later.

Visit the AffiloBlueprint website here

Bonus 1: Affiliate Extreme System (Sells for $97)

This bonus is a 1:30 hour video Mark Ling completed with a super affiliate that wishes to remain anonymous (Mr “G”). Mark grilled him on affiliate marketing and how he uses it to make over $1.2million each year. Some of the areas they covered included:

• How to find profitable niches
• How to get more traffic to your website
• His special methods of getting piles of quality incoming links
• How to monetize your site for maximum conversions
• And a lot more.

Visit the AffiloBlueprint website here

Select Your Niche and Generate Traffic

If you have followed our suggestion and have started in a niche that you have a passionate about, all this will flow out naturally.  The passion drives the knowledge and desire to communicate and your passion will come across in the way that you write.  You will find your natural voice.

But how much should I post?  This is a question that I get often, but there is no ONE answer, post as often as you feel you have something you would like to communicate.  This also depends on your niche.  One of my niches is about a particular horse race that is only on once a year, in November - The Melbourne Cup, so December to about August there is not a lot of activity for me but September - November things really start to pick up and I can be posting 3-4 times a day as news on horses, odds, form, jockeys, trainers etc come to hand.  In short you should be posting a least, absolute minimum, once a week, any less then this, you really need to think about if you are going to have the longevity to ensure your success.  Personally I post a least once a day, to one of  blog site, minimum.  But as mentioned it all depends on what is happening in that niche.

I always like to work through an example.  So lets say you have just started a blog on your favourite niche Dogs, specifically Border Collies.  What I would do right at the start is sit down and complete a full list (brainstorm) of all the possible articles and postings that you could possibly make about Border Collies. Example:

• Selecting your Border Collie Puppy
• Which Color is right for you?  Does it matter?
• Pro’s and Con’s of a Border Collie (i.e you need to give them a lot of exercise)
• What you need in a Show Dog (write an article from a Show judging point of view)
• How to train your Border Collie for Agility Competitions
• How to train your Border Collie for Fly Ball racing
• Complete history of the Border Collie
• Famous Border Collies through history

There are plenty more that I am sure you could think of, especially if this was a topic of interest.  Now you have a good start on the next 8 days, or at least 8 weeks of blog posts. You could also break these down into parts so that each topic has two posts etc which would spread out your blogging.

Just ensure you keep posting.

Also, be creative.  Blogging is not just about doing some research and sitting down and writing post after post after post.  Remember this is something that you are passionate about.  So in our example, perhaps you go to Dog Shows, perhaps you show your own Border Collies.  Take photos and video of the show, post them online, write a report.  Perhaps there is a National Show or State Show that you could go to and complete a live update and post to your blog with photo’s.  With services and sites like Twitter and Cover It Live you can be very creative and offer an immense amount of value to your readers.

So get those creative and blogging juices flowing.  But remember blog posts +traffic = income.  Keep doing the first one and the rest will come naturally.

Speaking of income, this post was, and is, about how to make money blogging.  So Ian, where does the money come from?  I’ve done the right thing and have posted regularly for about one month on Border Collies and have generated a nice amount of traffic about 1000 visitors a month, people are being interactive posting comments and asking questions, which has provided even more ideas for future posts.  Things are going well.  So where does the money come from?

Income Streams for Bloggers

Advertising Programs

The most obvious place to start is with Advertising Programs.  The most common and easiest way for a blogger to earn money online is via contextual ad programs, with the market leader being Google’s Adsense which I am sure you are already aware of.  There will be an article down the track on maximising revenue with Adsense so stay tuned.  There are however a few new players in this space which many bloggers are using successfully Chitika’s eMiniMalls, Widgetbucks and Text Link Ads.  We also have two other majors in Microsoft’s MSN Adcenter and Yahoo’s YPN

Then we can get into a whole host of smaller players Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, DoubleClick, Tribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, Pheedo, TextAds, Bidvertiser, Fastclick and Value Click.

My advice here is to select one or two that you are comfortable with that so that you can roll out across all your blog sites which will assist you in agreegating your revenue into one place.  The worst thing to do would be to sign up for all these programs, you will simply lose track of it all and allow it to become an administrative nightmare.  Personally I use Google Adsense and Text Link Ads.

Affiliate Programs

This is I think the best way to make money blogging.  Why?  Because the affiliate programs that you allow in are specific to your niche, you get to decide and the payouts are much higher then that of simple contextual ads.  This is important, especially for small niches.  If in our example we get no more then 2000 visitors a month, which is not that hard to obtain, we want to ensure that we maximise the revenue from those readers.

If we get 40 affiliate sales from these customers (2% of 2000) at $30 in commission we’d generate $1,200 for the month.  Compare this to contextual links from Google.  Lets say we are only getting $0.50 - $0.75 per click through, our click through rate might be higher then our 2% conversion, let’s say we have done well in the way to position our text ads and in our niche we are getting 5% click through, we’d only end up with $50 - $75 for the month.  We are letting money slip through our fingers, as those customers while clicked on the Google ad on your site, probably went off and purchased another product.

Go back to our affiliate sales example, let’s say we’ve been doing this for about 1 year and now we have 5 specific niche blogs that we are running, blogging regularly and are simply a reflection of things you are interested in.  Border Collies, Car Restoration, Fly Fishing, Mountain Bike riding and Baseball.  Five very specific niches, if they are each doing 40 sales a month you could be generating $6,000 per month.  This type of scenario is very achievable and now you can live the life you want.

There are large affiliate partners like Amazon, ClickBank, LinkShare and Commission Junction down to literally thousands of smaller partners.  I’d stick with the major ones and personally I’d start with Clickbank as there are no entry requirements and no minimum sales quota’s and hundreds of options  Then I’d start to look at Commission Junction and Linkshare where you can start earning commission on household brands like Macy’s, Footlocker etc.

Digital Assets

What does this mean?  Well this is a fancy way to say, if you cannot find an affiliate product to sell or do not like what is on offer then create your own.  There is an ever increasing number of bloggers that promote their own, ebook, audio or video program, course or tele-seminar.  You can to.  Perhaps you have very specific information that you have collected over the years and there is little assistance online, you may have just found the Goose to lay your Golden Eggs.  Create your own product and start to sell it online, you get 100% of the money earned.  Even better, if you have a great selling product you can use Affiliate programs in Clickbank to get other people to sell for you.  Now you will start to leverage the work of other people and increase you income dramatically.

Lets go back to our example on Border Collies.  You decide that you want to start to offer your own complete “Border Collie Training Manual”  You create a 56 page ebook with everything from selecting your puppy, considerations, toilet training, grooming, fun activities to do etc.  You also include 12 video tutorials on things like obedience, toilet training, the same things that were in your ebook but with video and finally a 30 minute tele-seminar recording of your interview with a Border Collie breeder.

Previously you were getting $30 per sale at 50% commission, now you sell your own program for $60 and get the same results, you have just doubled your income!  But that is not all, you have learnt a lot over the last 12 months about Blogging and how to market online, and you include a once-only offer that has additional course material.  Such as, How to Train your Border Collie for Fly Ball, How to Train Your Border Collie for Agility events and How to get started Breeding Border Collies etc.  This upsell is an additional say $24 and you get 20% uptake on this back end offer. You just added another $192 in sales.  You also have these individual modules available for sale on your site at $19 each and also get unique sales just on these items.

I hope that you are starting to get the picture on just how massive a simple niche like Border Collies could be all from a minimal reader base.  This is specifically how people are making $10,000+ a month online, starting with their passions, learning the methods, being creative and building their future and the great news is that you can start today.

But we are not quite finished with our How To Make Money Blogging and Income streams just yet.  Let’s now have a look at:

Blog Network Communities

As blogging has become more and more numerous so have the opportunities for bloggers to earn an income from their blogging activities simply by writing for and with others.  There are many blogging networks out there, simply Google Blogging Networks, which will pay bloggers to contribute to other sites.  Note this can also be a way that you can get content onto your site while you are away enjoying your overseas holiday.  I’d view this simply as a last resort myself, I’d prefer to spend time writing on my own blogs, knowing that at the end of the day I am contributing to my own success, not assisting another blogger or network to get all the rewards.  It is however another revenue stream and lets face it in today’s economy might be a great option to keep things ticking over.

Donations

Hey, it works.  Simply having a donation box or tip jar on your site can allow people to donate money to ensure that the content they have come to love continues to get produced.  This is particularly so if you have managed to build a connection with your readers, they are personally and emotionally attached and want to ensure that you continue to do well.  This of course would absolutely depend on the site you have.  I could not in good conscience have an affiliate program where I knew I was making $1,000 a month in sales AND a donation option.

I would perhaps use the donation option if you were blogging about the plight of youth homeless, reporting on displaced children in war zones.  Something were a percentage of funds donated went to XYZ charity.  You could also just have a general all encompassing blog and build a great readership in the tens of thousands, and simply ask for support to continue their enjoyment.  One of the best known bloggers who used donations to get full time was Jason Kottke of kottke.org who through the generosity of his readership was able to quit his job and become a full time blogger.

Blog Flipping

Essentially the process of selling blogs.  There are resources like Site Point Market place that allow people to sell blogs and other sites.  Many of these sites are in the early stages of their life.  Some people can make good money taking a site that is essentially a shell, adding the right ingredients to it, traffic, getter SEO etc, some affiliate programs and then re-sell it down the track for 10-100x the initial purchase price. Think of real estate flipping, buy a property, fix the bathroom and add some landscape gardens and re-sell.

I would not recommend for a first time or novice Blogger, best to learn and ensure you know how to do these things yourself before taking on such projects.  It can however be a lot of fun.  You can also find a lot of ideas for your own blogs and potential niches by simply searching through the various listings, sometimes I jump on there and get a “I never thought of selling that before” type of moment.

So there you have it, lots of great material to get you started to turn you blog into a money making machine.  This of course is just the start, I am sure as things develop and time goes on we’ll see new and unique ways for bloggers to make money from their passions.  Things like Twitter are just starting to take off and I am sure we have not seen or heard the end of this new phenomenon.  But that is no excuse not to start today.

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As I had not read or purchased any product that told me the right way to set up PPC campaigns, I just did it. For reference it was unlocking the iPhone. Every time I uploaded a campaign, Google would block it due to headline issues. I am 100% surprised my account was not banned.

But that one sale got me excited. If I can do it once with zero understanding of how to correctly setup PPC campaigns, what would happen if I took the time to learn how to harness my passion.

I decided that if I was willing to spend $200 on a Google Adwords campaign then a $67 course on how to make money blogging was well worth the money. Lucky for me the very first course was Blogging to the Bank.

It showed me how to setup a blog correctly, how to find a niche that was profitable, but I still missed the golden rule, finding niches that you are also passionate about. If you have no interest in ballroom dancing for instance, then it is going to be constant chore to write about it and produce great content that will keep people coming back to your site. I didn’t understand this secret until much later.

I was never into blogs before I purchased Blogging to the Bank. I thought to make money online I had to sell a product or use PPC to sell some other persons product where they make all the money. With all my new found information and the knowledge of how to set-up the perfect blog to generate money, I still failed.

Not really an uplifting statement for people that want to make money with blogs right? Well, let me explain.

I forgot the golden key to making money online. I forgot that passion, which by the way is free, is the key to ensuring you make money with a blog.

I set up between six and seven websites all as blogs in an attempt to 100% just make money. The first followed my failed PPC campaign with Apple iPhone. The second was on how to make money with PPC. Man, I didn’t even know how to make money myself!

I thought I did, I could get traffic, but little in sales. The third was on Forex Trading as I had just completed a forex trading course and thought given I was interested in forex I could help others. While I did make some money, $3 a day is not really going to cover the bills here in Sydney.

Then that magical moment hit me and I didn’t even think of it. My wife said to me.

“Instead of wasting your time on all this stuff you know nothing about, what about writing something you know and never shut up about.”

So I did. I had actually been thinking about doing a blog on the Melbourne Cup for ages, but just never thought anyone would be interested. How would I make money out of a horse race, when the likes of Google will not let Adwords be used for gambling type sites and affilaite programs through PPC. The good news was I found plenty of CPA networks that do.

I registered, www.themelbournecupguide.com and started blogging. I didn’t care if zero people read it. It was about me and writing about something I had a real passion for. As a wrote the blog something amazing started to happen.

With everything I learned over the last two years about making money on the internet all kinds of things came out naturally. I produced a lot of unique content, I outsourced design and some articles. I created my own Melbourne Cup Guide for purchase, implemented Adsense automatically, added in CPA campaigns, started to capture leads on people that purchased the ebook and lots more

Sure, at the start I was not making much but when I saw how much traffic I generated I finally realised the potential of blogs. Find a niche that you are interested in AND has high advertising value.

For a website like www.themelbournecupguide.com to generate over 9,000 page views two months after launching was fantastic. Even better I knew I had unlocked the key to making money online.

People came to my website, loved the information, left comments, purchased my ebook and requested more information. The only problem I had was that the Melbourne Cup only ran once a year. What if I had a blog that people were interested in 365 days a year! Then we would really have blog money coming in the door.

That was the key. Finding profitable niches that I was passionate about AND were not one off events. I am hoping that I can show you how to make money out of what you are really passionate about.

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Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Master Blog Profits, the website that is dedicated to showing you how to make money online and more specifically how to make money blogging.

You may already have a blog and want to know how to make it profitable, or you might be just starting out and need to know the keys to turn an idea into one that generates a full time income.

Where do you start?  What do you do?  Well, we provide the answers and if you cannot find them here, simply drop us an e-mail via the Contact page and we’ll answer it for you.

You should start by taking our FREE 6 part mini course, just sign up through the form on the left hand side.  You will also get the latest information on blogging after the 6 part mini-course has completed to ensure your blog grows and grows.

Let me start by saying, if you do not have a passion for what you are going to blog about then it is going to be a tough struggle.  I have seen a lot of bloggers, some of them close friends, start a blog with the intentions of making money online and giving up their normal jobs, only to get frustrated and throw it away when they are just about to see the results come through.  It may be cliche, but quiters never win and winners, never quite.

If this sounds like you, then I 100% know what you are going through.

You see, I actually found the secret to ensuring you succeed online.  It does not have as much to do with Search Engine Optimisation, Google, PPC or even CPA methods as all the guru’s would make us believe.

They have to tell you this stuff so that they sound like the experts and know something you don’t, so you have to purchase their products.  Now, before that gets out of control, they are important and you need to know and implement these technique.   There is one thing they miss.

The real key to succeeding at making money through blog sites is, passion.  If you start with somthing you are passionate about and love then the result will naturally follow.  One of the first lessons I learnt from Bloggers Paycheck is that you must write and create pages for people first, then SEO etc, and if you write with passion, people will pick that up and you will great a loyal following.

When I first started out with trying to make money online I was involved with every single affiliate program out there, mainly network affiliate programs.  You know the type, sign up for this program and recruit X many people, build a team and you get a commission on how much your team buys etc.  Please!  That was not for me.

I kept going however, I knew that there was more then my 9-5 job that was actually more like a 7:00am-8:00pm job!  I kept looking to see what made other people on the internet successful.  I read heaps of stuff and signed up to anything and everything, spending a lot of money looking for MY answer.  I have not actually calculated the total amount that I have spent, but I 100% know that is was worth it, simply becuase of the experience and education I now have.

The only problem was however, once I went through all the courses there was one key missing, one thing that all the ‘how to make money’ online courses missed.  And that is…

Passion.

I can show you the way to implement the right blog tools, what works for SEO, how to set-up PPC campaigns to ensure high quality scores to get clicks and sales.  I can show you how to generate traffic through article submission and create link backs through social networking and forums.  I have never created a produce that shows all of this information.  I am to busy making my own money and the products that I do recommend here will show you how to complete all these aspects, and they are keys to success, but not THE key.

I do have a FREE 6 part Mini-course that covers the basics so you can see if blogging to make money online is for you.

On this website you will find a lot of resources that have dedicated themselves to explaining the concepts like SEO, article marketing, link builing, traffic generation and do so in great detail, Rob Benwell makes $90,000 per month through blogs!

What I want to ensure you understand is that the why of blogging for money is just as, if not more important, then the how.  I have purchased everyone of the courses mentioned, in fact many more that are not listed.  But these guides are the best of the best and if you follow their steps you can succeed to generating money from blogs.  But my question is how much of that will matter if you don’t really care or have an interest in your content?

But, the most important aspect is not the course material of how to do xyz, it is why!