Blogging to the Bank 3.0 review
One of my major problems in trying to make money is taking action. I get overloaded with information. I get excited about the possibilities of making good money. Then I sit and do nothing. Fail.
Well today I was texting back and forth with my friend who just stepped into the world of blogging for the first time. She had set up a blog about her journey losing weight on Blogger. I was trying to explain to her how she would make money with Adsense but unfortunately, she wasn’t quite getting it.
I also texted her about a middle aged woman who created CooksRecipe.com. This woman makes between $10k-$40k off that one site. Fricken amazing! I’d be stoked making $1k a month LOL. I took a look at that site and it wasn’t a mind blowing website. It wasn’t ugly. It had pictures of meals and links to the categories. I checked out a few recipe pages and it only had the recipe, a few banners and good ole Adsense.
So it renewed my interest in the handful of sites that I have. The landscaping one has to wait until my husband gets his license. It’s pretty much going to be a portfolio with contact info. No adsense. The personalization is sort of on the back burner until I can get my lazy ass into gear and draw artwork that will be suitable for sale. The adult site isn’t acceptable to Adsense due to its adult content. The bay area site is also on the back burner until I’m ready to tackle a monstrous content site.
So that left me with my personal blog, this site, my mafia wars site, the unschooling site and that’s about it.
I opened up Blogging to the Bank 3.0 which is the latest ebook by Rob Benwell.
After the intro, he quickly talks about the 3 biggest changes in big money blogging. Funny to say, he only stated 2 out of 3. Oooops. Next he talked about the “5 blogging commandents of 2009“.
Next Rob talks about market research. This is usually where my eyes glaze over and I get real bored. Why? Because either I get bored or what they talk about is way over my head… or both. I did appreciate that he dropped a link to a website which allows you to make free keyword searches. You type in a keyword and it will list other keywords and phrases that are relevant.
Step 2 discusses hosting and domains. I pretty much skipped over this step because I’ve had domains and hosting of my own for many years. I also glazed over when Rob explained how to install a blog for the noobs. I already knew how to do that.
But I took that moment to go over to my active blogs and do basic SEO. Yes. Lazy. I know. Thanks for reminding me, Rob.
That’s where step 4 came in: Optimizing the blog. I learned something about permalinks which I implemented in almost all my blogs.
I’m not big on writing all kinds of informative articles. Which is why plr and free article directories are great for that. Unfortunately, 2 of my blogs focus on topics that are rarely if ever seen in the directories. Poop. More work for me.
Step 6 discusses promotion and backlinks. That requires a good amount of work and patience that I rarely have. Then Rob talks about using web 2.0 strategies to get your blog more traffic.
Overall good book.