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Blogging for Profit vs. Affiliate Marketing: Case study#1

Some of you have some decisions to make. You’ve got your blogs up and running and now you’re like, “Ok, what do I do now?”. If you’re just looking for an outlet to express yourself, which there’s absolutely nothing wrong with, then there’s absolutely nothing you have to do. Just keeping posting away to your blog at your liesure. However, if you’d like to begin to profit from your blog, especially in these rough economic times, then yes, a few decisions will have to be made. These decisions are nothing more than getting a business plan together. Whatever you decide to do in life, you should have a plan.

It’s no secret that people make millions of dollars through their blogs due to advertising dollars. Remember an earlier post where we visited Buisness Week? Good Lord! They’re making thousands of dollars a month dissing a celeb or adding captions to pictures of cats? That’s right and they are. So the question is… Do you come up with your own ingenious blog idea and hope it takes off or do you build a blog using an affiliate marketing strategy where your whole blog is either devoted to one affiliate product or numerous products like a top ten hottest affiliate earners blog?

Lets study a super hot representative from each camp.

In this corner, wearing the grey fur, getting more than 1 million page hits a day and earning over $5,600.00 a month: ICanHasCheezburger.com i can has cheezburger Blogging for Profit vs. Affiliate Marketing: Case study#1 . This is a blog where silly photos get matched up with even sillier captions and guess what? People love it! They absolutely adore it. This blog was launched in January of 2007 by Eric Nakagawa. Eric is quoted in the article as saying, “If you hit a niche and you can build a community, you might not have a $1 million idea, but you might have a $10,000 or a $100,000 idea.” Anything wrong with that I ask? I think not. According to Technorati, Cheezburger is now ranked #13 on their Top 100 blogs list. Not too tabby, I mean, shabby due to the fact that Technorati is currently tracking some 113 million blogs these days. Just one more little bit of trivia in case you were wondering, Cheezburger utilizes the WordPress blogging platform.

And now, in the far corner, a robot that never sleeps, with an estimated conversion rate of up to 30% and coming off of bragging rights with a ClickBank gravity of 742.92, a 60% cut of $149. (which is $89) and 20% 0f $69.95 recurring every month! Introducing the unbelieveable FAP Turbo Forex Robot. Now you’re saying what the heck is Forex? I’ve heard it before but… Well, here it is. Forex is short for the Foriegn Exchange with the exchange being the different currencies used around the world. In other words it’s simultaneously buying one currency and selling another. In today’s economic predicament, Forex is on fire! Please take a moment to watch this short video explaning how FAP Turbo taps into this market using a robot. Just so you know, these ‘robots’ are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet that save humans time and money.

Click here to read more about FapTurbo!

Now there’s no doubt about it that this particular Forex robot FAP Turbo works. It’s documented by ClickBank and the numbers speak for themselves. Not only does the program itself work, by making people thousands of dollars a week in trading in the foriegn exchange, but it’s making the people promoting it, the affiliates, big money as well. So how do we get a piece of this pie while it’s still hot? You start an affiliate blog. Get a webhost account, get a domain name, get a blogging platform such as WordPress. Write about the product, back up the product with facts not just really cool flash animation. People will see right through that. Get a ClickBank account and then incorporate FAP Turbos hoplink into your new blog. If you don’t want to go through getting a web hosting account and a domain name, then just grab a free blog from WordPress.COM instead of WordPress.ORG. The only difference is that at WordPress.COM ‘wordpress’ will be in your blog. In other words your new blog’s URL address will look like this: www.yourblogname.wordpress.com.

In summary, I love the idea of creating a really super popular blog and watch it take off into the blogosphere so it can make thousands of dollars in advertising dollars while I sleep. I’m also not opposed to affiliate marketing either as long as, I repeat AS LONG AS, there’s an actual product that actually works and you’re not just selling the hype .

Which ever route you decide to take, I’m with ya, and I wish you the best of luck! Send your success storys in today! We all would love to hear from you!

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2 Responses to “Blogging for Profit vs. Affiliate Marketing: Case study#1”

Dale says:

December 23, 2008 at 10:26 pm

You have a great blog here, with some helpful information for us fellow bloggers. Thanks!

FapTurbo sounds like a good product to promote, but, unfortunately, I am an American living in the Philippines, and ClickBank does not accept affiliates from the Philippines! Which is really unfortunate, because if you follow the Philippine Peso, and the US Dollar, there are trends, and money to be made in ForEx.

Could you do a post on why 3rd world countries, like the Philippines, are being discriminated against, by such institutions as ClickBank, and what those of us who live there can do?

Thanks, Admin Dale
Samar.Expat2Phils.Com
Iamare says:

December 23, 2008 at 10:44 pm

Thank you, Dale
That is unfortunate, with ‘fortune’ being the keyword there, or lack of, due to the lack of participation of major companies in what they perceive to be third-world countries. This is not the first time I’ve heard of this and I would love to do an indepth post about it. Please subscribe so you won’t miss the post. Let’s see what we can dig up.