Rob Benwell has released Blogging To The Bank 2. I have the original Blogging To The Bank, and allthough there was nothing ground breaking in it - at least nothing that can’t be learned from a few of the better forums and blogs, I did think that it threw a few interesting ideas around.

Since Blogging To The Bank 2 is only costs $47, I though I would give it a whirl and write up a review here.

First off, the information in Blogging To The Bank 2 is not rocket science. So, if you are already making money from blogging, I would say that you do not need to buy this book.

However, I myself make my money from blogging, and am always on the lookout for new or variations on money making ideas that I use in my blogging - which is the reason that I bought it. And Blogging To The Bank 2 has enough information on this so that I am not going to request a refund

There are also some reasonable bonus items that attracted me to purchase it - namely the Article Submitter software, some PLR articles (always handy) and Blog Announcer Pro (not entirely sure what this is, but it looks interesting).

Ok. If you are fairly new to affiliate marketing, and you are able to follow through on using somebody elses strategy, then I can pretty much assure you that you will make money using the techniques outlined in this book. I know because I have several blogs that I have not even touched for a year and they continue to make money day after day. This is what Blogging To The Bank 2 is pretty much about. If you can get a blog earning money, then it is just a case of rinsing and repeating until you are making as much money as you need or want.

Blogging To The Bank 2 shows you how to:

1. Set up your webhosting
2. Install wordpress
3. Do your market research - getting keywords etc.
4. Creating and aquiring content for your blog
5. Marketing and promoting your blog to get traffic
6. Some basic Wordpress SEO techniques

Like I said before, none of this is especially advanced. But if you are an affiliate marketing newbie, it could take you several weeks to get this info from forums and blogs (And thats why I read E-books).

So take a look at Blogging To The Bank 2 and check it out further.

Link building is one of the requirements of building a successful website.

The higher the Google Page Rank, the better the link. The only problem is that getting links from a website with a high PR can be a little bit tricky.

But, if you want to know How To Get A Link From A PR7 Website, then it is really easy for the next 3 days.

All you have to do is write a ‘How To’ blog post and notify Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.

This is because Darren is running the latest Group Writing Project that has a ‘How To’ theme.

Darren’s Group Writing Projects are great. You get to participate in a really cool project that will get you a whole heap of traffic, you’ll find some good blogs that you never knew existed, and you will get a coveted link from his PR7 website.

It’s a no-brainer really.

Most of what I write here at Internet Wealth Master is generally about Affiliate Marketing and related subjects.

Affiliate Marketing on the internet happens when you promote somebody elses product and receive a commission each time someone buys that product after being reffered to the sales website by your affiliate link.

The most popular method of Affiliate Marketing is to promote other peoples products on your own website.

However, this is not the only way to do it, there are several other ways that you can do Affiliate Marketing - You can use Pay Per Click programs such as Google Adwords (see Beating Adwords and Wealthy Affiliate), Article Marketing websites such as Ezine Articles or GoArtilces, and classified ad sites such as US Free Ads.

How To Get Started With Affiliate Marketing

Here is a basic blueprint on how to get started with Affiliate Marketing:

1. Find a suitable product with an Affiliate Program.
2. Sign up for their Affiliate Program to get your Affiliate Links.
3. Set up your website, PPC campaign, or other form of advertising.
4. Promote their product on your website using your Affiliate Link.

Any questions? Please leave a comment and I’ll answer them as best I can.

Find out more about by browsing through the articles in my Affiliate Marketing category.

As you may be able to see, this is the first post for my new blog - Internet Wealth Master.

Coincidentally, Darren Rowse has started a new group writing project about writing lists for blog posts.

So I thought I would write my first post by taking part. My list is about How I Set Up Wordpress.

Now when I set up a blog, I have a checklist of stuff to work through which I use in an attempt to try and get it right first time.

Over the months I have found that as I refine this list, I can get a Wordpress blog set up pretty quickly.

So here is the list. I’ve tried to put it into an order of importance too!

1. Change Permalink Structure - This is very important for SEO. It tidies up your URL so that it is relevant to your content and easy for search engines to read. I set my permalink structure to /%postname%/ - Apparantly it appears more accessable to search engines if you do not have such a deep file structure like /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.
2. Set Wordpress Template - Next I will upload and select the Wordpress template that I want to use.
3. Configure Title Tag For SEO - This is more important than uploading your Wordpress template, but can not be done until you selected the template you want to use. To configure the title tag, you will need to hack the header.php file of your wordpress install. You need to find the line that will probably look like this :

   <em><title><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title></em>

   What I want to do is set the structure of this code to spout out something like this:

   The Post Name | About 3 or 4 Keywords About My Blog

   So I will change it to something like this:
   
   <title>
   <?php wp_title(""); ?>
   <?php if(wp_title(" ", false)) { echo " | "; } ?>
   My Blog Keywords
   </title>
   

   Substitute My Blog Keywords for the keywords of the blog.

4. Set the Blog Title - This is taken care of during the install, but I like to remind myself about it incase I want to change it
5. Set the Blog Tagline - I don’t always make the Blog Tagline appear on the blog, but it is something I like to check off the list so the I don’t get ‘Just Another Wordpress Blog‘ appearing anywhere by accident.
6. Delete the Default Page - and while I’m at it, I will get rid of the default post and comment.
7. Change Default Category - I always change my default category to something that is general and topical for the blog subject. If I set up a blog about cars, then I would probably change the default category to Cars.
8. Set Up Some More Categories - While I’m at it, I will set up some more categories now.
9. Install Plugins - Now I like to get tooled up with my favourite plugins. These include:
   • Better Feed (nice looking RSS)
   • Related Posts (increased stickiness)
   • Google Sitemaps (trying to make it as easy as possible for Google)
   • wp-notable (social bookmarking)
   • WP-ContactForm (easy contact form)
10. Set Text Box Size for Writing Posts - This is just a personal thing I like to do. I generally use the web interface to manage my blogs and I find that 20 lines is the perfect size for writing my blog posts.

And that’s it.

My check list does extend to some other stuff, but what you see above is what I generally do as soon as I have completed the Wordpress Install.

I’d be really keen to hear some of your opinions as I’m always on the lookout for improving my list. Please leave a comment