Extras, Extras!
If you need a couple more reasons to get your hands on Blogging To The Bank 2.0 right now, consider these: Article Assistance, Blog Announcer Pro. Those are two bonus software jewels that Benwell throws into the package when you download BTTB2.
Now, you probably know that some information sellers like to cram their offers with dozens or even hundreds of bonus “gifts” to entice you to buy their product. It often turns out that the bonuses are, to put it bluntly, crap. That’s not the case here.
These programs can help you automate two of the more tedious blogging-related tasks, freeing your time to create content, which of course should be at the heart of your efforts.
Article Announcer equips you to blast your articles to dozens of article directory sites at the push of a button. Writing and submitting articles in your particular niche–with a link back to your site, of course–is one of the top free ways to get traffic.
Since getting my copy of BTTB2 a few days ago, and then creating this blog, I’ve already made use of Blog Announcer. Basically, it gives you a one-button mechanism for letting the world–or at least the world of blog directories–know of your blog’s existence. You just fill in the basic information about your site, such as title, URL and your contact information, and then it goes to work submitting that information on auto-pilot. Neat.
Now I should note that there’s a third piece of software in the BTTB2 package, one which Benwell probably should have left out, to be blunt. It’s called Blog Hunter and I think it’s supposed to find Blogspot blogs that have been deleted by Google for alleged spamming. Since some of these blogs still have traffic coming to them, the idea (according to Benwell) is to start up new blogs by re-using the deleted names. Blammo! Built-in traffic.
Unfortunately, Blog Hunter doesn’t work–at least it didn’t for me, and other reviewers say it doesn’t work for them either. It simply crawls a bunch of pages and then comes to a stop, flashing an error message. According to what I’ve read elsewhere, this is because Google changed some indexing algorithm, effectively rendering this software inoperable.
There are several other bonus files (non-software) in the BTTB2 bundle, which I’ll talk about at a later time.
Despite the Blog Hunter dud, the two working pieces of software that Benwell supplies–Blog Announcer Pro and Article Assistance–really make BTTB2 a useful package as well as an educative one.
I hope this helps you if you are trying to decide to purchase Blogging To The Bank 2.0. Please leave a comment if you have any thoughts about the software in Benwell’s package, or about automated blogging-related software in general.
