Become a Super Affiliate Blogger

I was chatting with Gobala Krishnan last week via Skype and he told me about the launch of his new affiliate marketing system which is aimed at bloggers. For those who haven’t heard the name before, Gobala is an internet entrepreneur who has a wealth of knowledge on affiliate marketing and blogging. His Wordpress Adsense System has proved to be incredibly popular and his Easy Wordpress community is one of the largest Wordpress focused websites on the net. His latest product is called Super Affiliate Blogger and he was kind enough to provide a copy for me so that I can review it for all of you

Super Affiliate Blogger

Super Affiliate Blogger is a system which uses the WordPress blogging platform as a CMS to build content driven sites to make a good profit using PPC marketing. The package costs $97. At first glance this does seem like a lot of money however you need to realise that this isn’t just an ebook you are purchasing, you do get a lot for your money.

The package includes :

• Super Affiliate Blogger Main Guide (PDF)
• Super Affiliate Blueprint (PDF)
• “Copy and Paste” File
• Bundled WordPress Plugins Only
• 10 Super Affiliate Pro Themes
• “Cute Links” Link Tracking System
• “Opt-In Forms Manager” System
• EWP Keyword Generator

The ‘Super Affiliate Blogger Main Guide’ is the main part of the system. The other items are tools which will help you use the system online. I will talk through each part of the package below to give you a better understanding of what you are getting for your money.

Super Affiliate Blogger Main Guide (PDF)

The Super Affiliate Blogger Main Guide eBook is the heart of the system and includes a whopping 217 pages. The guide teaches you everything you need to know about building a blog for profit. Put simply, this guide was wrote to show you how you can make money using the WordPress blogging platform as a CMS and shows you how to effectively market your blog using Pay Per Click (PPC) marketing.

Here are the main sections in the eBook :

• Looking at the bigger picture
• The ultimate WordPress crash course
• Building your first WordPress blog
• On-Site search engine optimization
• Off-Site search engine optimization
• Affiliate marketing crash course
• Choosing the best affiliate programs
• Using landing pages for PPC traffic
• Tracking and cloaking your affiliate links
• Building a massive opt-in list
• Building great niche blog content
• Outsourcing content development
• Building massive traffic & readership
• Tag and ping secrets revealed
• The social bookmarking trend
• Conclusion & recommended resources

As with most eBooks which are WordPress related, the first few chapter show you how to setup and install WordPress on your hosting space. These sections are obviously targeted to beginners however in this book it specifically shows you how to set your blog up to work with this system eg. with static pages etc.

After the introduction chapters the eBook quickly changes it’s focus on how you are going to make money with blogs. There is a lot of emhpasis on keyword research, both on your blog and in your PPC campaigns, and it shows you the research you need to do so that your marketing is profitable. There are also tutorials on how to build links via link exchanges and directory submissions. The eBook then explains how you use PPC sites like Adwords to market your new blog and make it profitable.

I was incredibly impressed with this eBook. I have been working on the web for 8 years now. 6 years ago I ran an affiliate site and forum which reviewed affiliate networks and I would say that generally speaking I understand how affiliate marketing works. However, although I have used PPC to promote sites I have to admit that I still do not know enough about the subject and in many respects you could call me a newbie when it comes to PPC marketing. This is one of the reasons why I got so much from this book. The book walks you through how you successfully market a blog with PPC campaigns to turn a profit though these techniques could be used with many different kinds of websites.

With 217 pages, I’m surprised this eBook isn’t being released in paperback format as the quality is very high. If you are looking for a way to make money through the web then I believe you would learn a lot from reading this eBook.

Super Affiliate Blueprint (PDF)

The Super Affiliate Blueprint eBook is a 7 day worksheet which can be used after you have read the main guide. The 21 pages include a checklist of everything you should be doing on each day of your first week of your blogs life. This is a nice addition and I’m sure it will help those who were still not sure what to do after reading the guide, it basically walks you through every single step of the system.

There is also a ‘Lazy Mans Guide’ at the end which shows you how you can speed up the process if you are willing to pay some people to do some of the work for you.

“Copy and Paste” File

This is just a very small text file which is to be used for reference. It includes the a note of the permalink structure you should be using, adsense section targeting and a list of sites you can ping to get your articles and posts noticed.

Bundled WordPress Plugins Only

All of the plugins included in this download are available elsewhere on the net for free however it’s handy to have them included in the download. All you need to do is upload them to your WordPress blog and install them. The plugins chosen are all add ons which help your blog gain more traffic or save you some time.

10 Super Affiliate Pro Themes

The themes are included to make things easier for you and to save you time hunting for a suitable design. It’s a nice addition to the package however I believe that marketing it as 10 themes is very misleading. All 10 themes are essentially the same except they have a different colour scheme and heading.

Checkout the screenshots below to see what I’m talking about. The 1st screenshot shows the Travel theme, the 2nd screenshot shows the Mobile Phone theme, the 3rd screenshot shows the Dating theme and the last screenshot shows you the Celebrity theme.

As you can see, there is no really major difference between any of themes other than the header. I’m sure some people will appreciate not having to change the design much however I would have preferred 2 or 3 unique themes rather than 1 theme in 10 different colors.

“Cute Links” Link Tracking System

The Cute Links WordPress plugin is a fantastic addition to the package. The plugin allows you to cloak all your affiliate links. It also lets you see how many times the link has been clicked and what pages the links are being clicked on. I have installed it at BloggingTips and I have to say it is one of the most useful plugins I have added to my blog in a long time. I’m kind of annoyed at myself for not adding something like this until now as it really helps you see what pages on your blog are getting the most click throughs.

All in all the CuteLinks plugin is a great inclusion which I am sure you will all find very useful.

“Opt-In Forms Manager” System

The Opt-In Forms Manager is another WordPress plugin which is included in the package. The plugin is used to help you build an email mailing list. Opt-in email lists are a good way to make money and is the main focus of chapter 9 in the main guide. There are many commercial emailing scrpts available on the web however I was still pleased to see a script included in the package (and one which integrated with WordPress). I’m sure that some people may decide not to use an opt-in list on their ‘Super Affiliate Blogs’ but it’s there for them nonetheless.

EWP Keyword Generator

The last item in the package is the EWP Keyword Generator. This script will greatly help you with your keyword research. All you need to do is input one keyword into the software and it will generate the most popular keywords related to it and show the results through Google, Yahoo and MSN (though it didn’t seem to be showing Yahoo figures for me). You are also able to export the data in the csv format for future reference and research (eg. you could open it up in a spreadsheet and add your own notes to each keyword).

Here are the results I got for inputting the keyword ‘Blogging’ :

It’s not a script which is full of features but it’s handy nonetheless and should help you decide what keywords you want to target.

Overview

The most common question bloggers ask is How do I make money through blogging?. It’s the reason why many of you work on your blog day in day out and I’m sure it’s the reason why many of you subscribe to this blog too.

The reality is there are countless ways to make money from a blog and there are many products available which show you ways to do just that. In my opinion Super Affiliate Blogger exceeds over other products because of it’s structured instructions. It clearly explains what you are doing and why and provides all the tools you need to achieve your goal. All the tools which are included in the package complement the main guide so I suppose you could look at Super Affiliate Blogger as an all in one solution. Many eBooks show you how to make money using scripts and services which are not included in the purchase which is why I don’t think it is fair to compare this product to them directly.

So the question I am sure many of you are asking is Does this system work?. Well, thats a question I can’t answer just now as the product was only recently launched. I got access to the product about 5 days ago and in that time I have read the eBook over and tried out the WordPress Plugins. There is an incredible amount of information to digest in the eBook so I have found myself going back to it a few times, particularly for the PPC marketing material which I am still wet behind the ears with

To answer that sort of question efficiently perhaps you would need to spend a few months using the system and tracking your results however I don’t believe that you should look at the product in this way. Yaro Starak posted a review of Super Affiliate Blogger this morning and made a great point

I will be straight with you – I can’t tell you whether this system will work for you, but if you don’t have a system yet and you are still in the learning and testing phase, this is something you can try and may just turn out to be a winner.

If you visit the sales page of the book you can sign up and download 2 chapters from the eBook for free. The chapters included in the sample are :

• Chapter 7 : Using landing pages for PPC Traffic
• Chapter 9 : Building a massive Opt-In list

I encourage you to download the chapters so you can get an idea of what the main guide is like (the sample has 34 pages in total). If you have any questions about Super Affiliate Blogger please leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer any queries you may have

Link : Super Affiliate Blogger

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 and filed under Reviews
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