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Learn How To Blog Before You Pay For Hosting
Aug 8th
If you’ve been online for any time at all, you know how popular blogs are. If you have a hosting account with Cpanel and Fantastico, you can easily get a WordPress blog set up.
If you’ve never blogged before, and it’s all new to you, getting used to how your blog works can be a challenge. The default themes are pretty dull, so you’ll probably want to install a different theme. And there are a lot of plugins available that can further add to the effectiveness of your blog.
It can be kind of confusing at first. If you already have hosting, then I will repeat myself and tell you to set up a “test” blog so you can learn how it works.
If you don’t have a hosting account, then you can still get started with blogging by signing up for a free account at blogger.com or wordpress.com. There’s no reason to spend money on hosting until you’re ready for it. And with these free blogs, you can learn a lot.
Don’t worry about making your blog look professional, or worry that your posts won’t be very good. What you’re after is the experience of posting to a blog, so that when you set up your own site and blog, you’ll be ready.
They don’t have to be long. 300 words is plenty. If you want to use PLR articles, that’s okay too. This is just practice for now. (Don’t use PLR articles on a blog you’re trying to get traffic for).
Try writing reviews of products from ClickBank or Amazon. You can get an account for free. This way, you can practice putting links into your posts. And you can add images to your post as well.
Again, don’t worry if your posts don’t come out right the first time. This is for training. If you get it right, who knows, you might make a few dollars in commission while you’re learning.
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The Trouble With Most Review Sites
Jun 27th
Yesterday, I wrote about how affiliate review sites were a popular way of generating sales. And about how you needed to stand out from the crowd when it comes to your own review site if you’re going to have a chance at making a sale.
Today I experienced the frustration people experience when they are searching for reviews on a product.
I was trying to decide between 2 FTP software apps. Both are well known, but I wanted more information about each program. Each sales page promised that their product was the best, but I wanted to read from others who had used the software.
I went to Google and entered the name of the product followed by the word “reviews”. I started going through the web site listings. What I found was that after reading the first couple of reviews, the rest started looking almost alike.
The review pages listed the features, told how good it was, and had an order button. In most cases, it was just the sales page reworded. So after about a dozen different web site views, I stopped and entered the second product.
The results were almost the same. Almost all of the review sites were telling how great the software was and how to order. No comparisons to other software or reasons why this software was better than all the rest.
The only bright spot was the download sites such as download.com and tucows.com where there were editor ratings and user ratings.
The lesson here is that if you want to get the click on your review site, you can’t do what everyone else is doing. Of course, if you take the time to create a review page for a product, you think it’s good and you think people should buy.
But if your page is just a rehash of the sales page and it’s similar to the other pages out there, don’t hold your breath waiting for your commission checks.
That’s why I told you about The Conduit Method, and why I want to mention it again. This report is all about setting up review sites. The idea is to review products related to each other on each site. For example, if you are selling anti-virus software, you would set up a separate page for each product, and maybe include a few articles.
The Conduit Method lays out an important twist to traditional review sites that you probably haven’t seen before. It relies on free search engine traffic, and the traffic you get is buying traffic, not freebie seekers.
Save yourself a lot of wasted time setting up review sites the traditional way, the way most people do it. Click here to get your copy of The Conduit Method.
