Banking On The Blog

In case you’re wondering: That little gold star/”TruBlog” logo (see just below and to the right of the $100 bill in the header graphic at the top of the page) brands this site as one that provides its readers with original content. It is a “true blog,” as opposed to one that is filled with scraped, RSS-fed or otherwise borrowed/swiped content.

This is the first blog to be awarded the TruBlog logo … since I created it myself. If the idea proves popular, maybe I’ll start certifying other sites and letting them display the TruBlog gold star–if they qualify, of course.

TruBlogging: Essential blogging at its best.

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Rob Benwell is an Internet phenom. A couple of years ago the then-20-year-old turned the affiliate marketing world upside-down when he released his Blogging To The Bank e-book.

Blogging To The Bank was a blueprint anyone could follow to create an empire of interlinked blogs to sell affiliate marketing products, such as those on Clickbank and Commission Junction.

Following the release of Benwell’s book, Web marketers–including an army of newcomers–went crazy churning out marketing blog after marketing blog, mostly using free services such as Google’s Blogger.

Predictably, the Web quickly filled up with (mainly) useless spam blogs or splogs. And almost as predictably, Google began deleting blogs right and left.

Practically before anyone knew what was happening, the much-hyped blogosphere came perilously close to turning into one of the Internet’s “bad” neighborhoods–a place no one wanted to go. Or at least to gaining the reputation as such.

Benwell, of course, doesn’t deserve the blame for all of that, which likely would have happened anyway. But it’s conceivable that his wildly popular little e-book helped accelerate those negative trends in blogging.

Needless to say, the methods taught in Benwell’s first Blogging To The Bank book no longer work. If you happen to get your hands on it, take my advice: Don’t even try.

When I saw that Rob Benwell was back with another Blogging To The Bank, I snorted. I figured he had just updated a few paragraphs here and there, maybe added a so-called “black hat” tip or two, and now was trying to milk a dried-up cow for a few more splashes of moohlah in the Benwell bucket.

Was I wrong.

On a friend’s recommendation, I finally forked over for Blogging To The Bank 2.0. Read all »

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Here’s a tip: If you have bits and pieces of old, abandoned or barely started web projects hanging out all over the Web, do some housecleaning before launching something new.

That’s what I’ve just done. And it feels good, lemme tell you.

Here’s what I did:

1. Reviewed all my Web hosting and blog accounts, and decided which sites I really wanted to keep (not many!)
2. Deleted all other sites, even some that were still pulling in a couple of dollars here and there
3. Redirected my domain names (except for the couple of “keeper” sites) to Sedo.com for parking

This had many benefits, but the biggest one is that it cleared my mind for launching my new blogging endeavor.

I’ve cleaned out those little nags in the back of my brain that were keeping me worried, at some level, about stuff left undone … or, worse, leaking money (in hosting fees, for example).

Furthermore, I’ve vowed not to spend as much time as I used to on trying to come up with the perfect web design. Similarly with tweaking … tweaking … tweaking. And trying to plug in every bell and whistle you can put on a groaning web page.

For Banking On The Blog, I found a clean, simple design that will allow me to focus on writing and posting. And, if I decided to launch additional blogs, I plan to re-use this same basic design.

Keep it simple. Got it!

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Clever, huh? Banking On The Blog is a play on the phrase, “blogging to the bank,” made famous by Rob Benwell.

Believe it or not, the phrase “banking on the blog” did not show up in a Google search at the time I created this blog. We’ll see if I can claim the brand now!

I also thought of “banking to the blog,” but that didn’t make much sense. How can you bank to a blog? Banking on a blog is comprehensible, though — especially if you read “banking” to mean “making money” or “relying [on] for income.”

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Welcome, all!

I have been making money on the Web for several years. I am currently using eBay, the Amazon Associates program, domain parking (at Sedo.com) and affiliate marketing to create multiple sources of income. I am also trading stocks and currencies online.

So far, none of these has allowed me to quit my day job, which is my goal and quite likely yours too, since you are here.

This blog is primarily to record my new ventures in creating income through blogging. It will track my experiments in monetized blog-mastering using the blueprint laid out by Rob Benwell in his Blogging To The Bank 2.

Blogging To The Bank is an excellent guide to using blogs today to make money and create a steadily growing income flow. For long-term value, it is much better, in my opinion than his original Blogging To The Bank. I’ll say more about this later.

Also, for those who are interested, I’ll have something to say about eBay selling, forex (currencies) and the other online money-making ventures I am pursuing. I hope this information will be useful to you if you are seeking to make either extra or full-time income on the Web.

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