Associate Programs Newsletter #281

CONTENTS:

1. Blogging all the way to the bank
2. How URLs can affect top search engine ranking
3. How to avoid duplicate content filters
4. Article directory shares AdSense revenue
5. Coming soon: Where to get truly unique articles
6. How to build a virtual real estate empire
7. Thought for today: What to cherish

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1. Blogging all the way to the bank
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Rob Benwell's new ebook, Blogging to the Bank, is intriguing.

Rob earns up to $516 a day from a network of blogs.

What's intriguing about this is that he's not a longtime blogging guru. He's been blogging for only a few months.

He didn't learn the process he uses from anyone else.

"I came across parts of this method by accident and just testing different things," he says.

In one experiment, he found he got a blog with 20 links to it to outrank an optimized website which had 1,000 links to it.

Surprisingly, he uses and recommends Google's Blogger.com software - because it works - and also a no-cost keyword research tool.

To back up his claims, he shows you four of his blogs and also shows you two of his high-demand key phrases that rank highly.

I checked. Yes, his blogs DO appear in the top 10 in MSN for high-demand phrases.

For one phrase (using quotation marks) he's No.6 out of 774,216 pages. If you search without quotation marks, he's beating millions of pages.

What's more, he's doing this with a NEW blog. I checked the profiles of four of his blogs. They were all launched in January this year.

Rob uses AdSense and affiliate links and has much better success with affiliate links than AdSense, perhaps because of the way in which he selects affiliate products.

For his traffic, he concentrates on MSN and Yahoo.

"Some people devote 60 hours per week trying to get into Google and trying to work out their exact algorithms," he says.

As far as he's concerned, his time is much better spent creating new blogs which get found in MSN and Yahoo. If the blogs eventually get into Google, he regards that as a bonus.

In Blogging to the Bank, he describes three ethical ways to get hundreds or perhaps thousands of one-way links to your site. This is all good, solid stuff.

However, his traffic generation methods No.4 and No.5 are - to put it mildly - controversial. You probably won't want to use them. They look awfully risky to me.

As a partly reformed perfectionist, I can't help looking at Rob's blogs and seeing typing mistakes, grammatical errors, design flaws... The blogs look, well, rushed.

The whole process he's developed seems too darn simple - but it WORKS. He shows you the results to prove it.

It's fascinating that he does it using free Blogger.com software, without buying domain names, without buying web hosting, without buying advertising.

Rob's ebook is a very quick read - only 39 pages. It includes screenshots showing you how he sets up a blog. There's no fluff.

If your online results aren't as good as his, I strongly recommend you check out what he's doing. It's a cheap way of getting revenue coming in fast.

http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/blogging

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2. How URLs can affect top search engine rankings
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A very important factor in Rob Benwell's blogging success is the way he chooses the URLs for his blogs, although he doesn't discuss this in depth.

If you get Rob's book Blogging to the Bank, before you dive into blogging you need to read a vital article in Planet Ocean's latest Search Engine News newsletter.

The article, by John Heard, is titled "How URLs Can Affect Top Search Engine Rankings... and everything else that's nice to know about them too".

As the Planet Oceans guys say, this is a "must-know" strategy. "When all else is equal, the top rankings and click-throughs go to the sites that get this exactly right."

It's the most comprehensive article on URLs I've seen, covering in depth the use of keywords in domain names, in filenames, in directories.

John tells you how to do it - and how to avoid overdoing it.

He also closely examines keywords in subdomains and the use of hyphens in URLs - two topics you need to know about if you're planning to follow Rob's advice and create a network of blogs.

The Planet Ocean guys are THE experts in search engines. They do their own research and experiments. I've been a subscriber for years and always eagerly read each monthly newsletter. Their advice helps me get thousands of visitors a day to my sites.

Subscribe to the newsletter here to get expert tips that will give you the edge on your competitors...

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