I love blogs. I can set one up and within 24 hours start seeing organic traffic from the search engines.  I even set up a theme template with some pre-filled info and it’s funneling traffic to me from Google!

But blogging requires you to know a few details about how to set it up.  You can’t just go to Blogger.com or WordPress.com and start blogging because then THEY are in control of your marketing – not YOU.

Blogs help you develop a following, so I have started digging into any and all info I can about increasing my efforts in this area.

There are two guides I’ve read to date and I enjoyed both. The first one that got me started was DELETED. Note: I was giving a review for Blogging to the Bank but recently my links going to his site took my readers to some other products he had posted on the same page. I consider this bait and switch and I’m not liking it. So probably to keep his gravity up, instead of buying a new domain per product initially and setting up a new CB account, Rob simply takes his old product to a new domain, and sticks some other product up on his site so as an affiliate, I’m unknowingly sitting there promoting some new product that I know nothing about.

If you know ME, you know I don’t promote unless I’ve personally tried it, so I feel scammed. I’m removing all references to Rob and his products due to these unethical practices.

The first one I should have read was the BOA guide. Let me tell you WHY I like the BOA method. First, these two people took a group of Beta testers and had them using the system before they released anything.

I’ve said this with my eBook Empire guide – it’s important for marketers to take ordinary people and have them see how easy it is so they can work out any kinks before slapping up a sales page that says it’s easy.

Anyway, BOA does what I like to do – tell the reader literally step by step (not just saying that) how to set up a blog. Do this, then do that. It’s what all newbies need.  I hate that product owners often say stuff like, “edit your sidebar.” Um, okay – how do I do that exactly?”

If you need the basics to blogging, BOA’s your guide.

Now – the SECOND guide I should have read was Blogging to the Bank.  It’s for the more intermediate to advanced blogger. Someone who has it all set up but now wants to start profiting from it.

If I had to ONLY buy one, if I was a newbie, I’d go with DELETED due to the marketer engaging in bad business practices.  Blogging can be very lucrative – it’s like a one-stop shop.

You don’t have to have any other web presence on the ‘net to do your business, although you should – but it can sell your products, affiliate items, and have a subscriber area all in one place, not to mention it can help you earn AdSense revenue. You can even have a membership blog if you wanted.

They’re very powerful. And this ends my lecture/spur-you-into-action rant of the day
Tiff