I've been impressed by the way Rob Benwell's Blogging To The Bank 2.0 takes a step by step approach to showing how to make blogging pay.

So much so that I'm going to pay for 27 minutes of my Advanced Blog Coaching for anyone who orders the book through my affiliate link: Blogging To The Bank 2.0

With the coaching you can get help on any of these topics:

• Choosing your blog topic
• Using the free hosts (Blogger or Wordpress
• Choosing a host for your own blog
• Setting up Blogger
• Setting up Wordpress
• Choosing and editing templates
• Using blog widgets
• Choosing and using Wordpress plugins
• Collecting email subscribers through Feedblitz
• Collecting RSS subscribers through Feedburner
• Creating good content
• Blog SEO
• How to attract more readers
• Using Google Adsense
• Setting up and Using Web 2.0 features
• Squidoo
• What to put in the sidebar
• Making money with your blog

Whether you buy through me or someone else I'm sure Rob's no nonsense guide will help you improve your blog.

One caveat.

As I said in my previous post...

If you've written more than 200 posts in a year and you're currently making more than $100 per month from your blog you'll know almost everything Rob explains.

That said, I still managed to get some nuggets I'm using right now!

I thought I'd better let you know what's happening because I've not posted for a couple of days.

I've been working on setting up and making prettier the new Manchester Bloggers blog in Wordpress.

There's a lot you can do with it and Wordpress has so many plugins that really help you improve the reader's experience.

So the Manchester Bloggers blog has been sucking up quite a quantity of my time.

Rob Baker (from ArtisanMC) is also posting to the site but had to deal with a heavy cold, followed by not being able to get in to post because I'd used a capital letter in his username.

Go post something now Rob!

What's Coming Up?

Well, I'm glad you asked me. I've got a few book reviews that are bubbling under:

• Six Disciplines For Excellence (Gary Harpst)
• The Obvious (James Dale)
• Bright Marketing (Robert Craven)
• How To Get To The Top (Jeffrey Fox)

I'm also writing a review of Monday's episode of Tycoon.

So sign-up for the email feed and you'll be getting those, and more, over the next week or so.

Rob Benwell has provided an e-book that reads well and will certainly benefit most bloggers.

Rob sets out 5 blogging commandments that are key to making money with blogging.

During his explanation on how to set-up and make money from your blog Rob notes that Adsense plastered sites wont make money. They just turn people off.

He also points out that whilst "cheating" the search engines can make your blog visible it's also not a practice he encourages for a longer-term blog.

As you'd expect Rob first emphasizes the importance of market and keyword research and then explains how to pick the best affiliate programs for your chosen market.

He underlines the importance of owning your own domain, although you can of course use two blogging platforms free of charge: Blogger and Wordpress.

Rob walks you step by step through the process of setting up a blog that is better than your average templated blog.

Rob notes his secret weapon to keep the new blog filled with useful content. Because after all content is what attracts traffic, the life blood to monetize your blog.

Monetizing Your Blog

Rob recommends two methods of monetizing your blog.

Tools Links

Of course someone who's been running blogs for a while had access to a number of tools. You get links to the tools. In fact while I was reading this book Rob emailed to say that he was putting more tools on the site as a bonus. One of which allows you to find dead blogs.

What do you do with dead blogs? Rob explains in detail in Blogging To The Bank and is worth the price alone for me.

Blogging Commandments

He also gives 5 blogging commandments that you must follow to give your blogs the best chance of being seen and read.

Other Reviews of Blogging To The Bank

Rob Benwell has cleverly provided 2 pre-written reviews to help affiliates say something about Blogging To The Bank.

I noticed a spelling mistake (yes I can be that sad sometimes) in one review and Googled it and found 7 lazy bloggers hadn't bothered to change it in reviews they posted.

That said the pre-written reviews don't say much. Which is a shame as I'm sure there's more that Rob could have put into the reviews without giving out his secrets.

Summary

In summary this book is aimed firmly at the beginner and advanced blogger alike.

If you've been blogging for more than 2 years you'll be aware of a number of the techniques that Rob describes. But you'll almost definitely find, as I did, that there are several things you kind of knew about and hadn't realised how much it could help pour in the cash into your blog.

My recommendation? Get Blogging To The Bank 2.0 and implement Rob's methods because I know they work as I've used some myself.

The bonuses Rob gives are all very worthwhile themselves. The dead blog finder software is the one I'm going to look at in detail next. So I'll see you then!

That's right I've been a busy bee (bee, get it? One of the symbols of Manchester).

I've created a blog called Manchester Bloggers to give Manchester a chance to express itself, rather than through those doughty organs of state and newsprint.

Anyway, it's a chance for us to show Manchester in a variety of different guises, one's we'll find out as we go along.

It's only got one post on it at the moment. But comments are welcome (hint, hint).

And I'm also looking for contributors to the blog to really help make it interesting.

So check out Manchester Bloggers.

I am so annoyed!

And for 2 reasons...

Feedblitz Form Failure

Now this first reason probably isn't Feedblitz's fault.

I was giving you the opportunity to sign up for fresh updates as my reviews for Blogging to the Bank and its bonuses are posted when I discovered that the form to sign up wasn't working.

Arghh!

How long had it been stopped?

Oh the agony. Readers, maybe even you, turned away at the subscriber door. And for who knows how long?

I suspect it all went belly up when I converted the blog to the new Blogger blog.

In the end I logged back into Feedblitz and discovered they now had an email sign-up widget that integrated directly with Blogger!

So yet another widget got loaded into the bloated form of my blog.

Ah well, it's sorted now so you can sign up for updates over on the top right column. Try subscribing, it's fun to get post details by email rather than having to visit the site.

Heck I even signed up myself so I can attest to its reliability and it's a spam-free service too thank goodness!

"Blogging To The
Bank Review"

The second reason was I had several unplanned events that prevented me from sucking the content out of Blogging to the Bank this morning as I'd planned to do the review.

A second Arghh!

So now it's radio silence while I continue reading "Blogging to the Bank" and trying out what Rob Benwell suggests.

Review coming soon....

"Blogging To The Bank 2.0" is a fine example of a human trait that bloggers and a lot of folk on line demonstrate.

Human curiosity!

And guess what? I'm a fine example of that trait in action.

I managed to resist the temptation to buy the first edition of Blogging to the Bank. Because of course I thought I knew it all.

I Know All About Blogging!

Or do I?

After all Blogging to the Bank is meant to show you how to create a blog, write posts for a blog, get outsourced posts, articles, links and then in due course m0netize it. So I thought I knew it all.

In the end though I had to buy "Blogging To The Bank 2.0" just to see whether there's anything I'm missing.

So I'm going to write a review of it.  In fact as it it comes with some interesting bonuses I'll review those too in another post.

And if the report and bonuses contain lots of stuff that I or your average Joe Blogger would know the review will be more warts than your average review because I'll be annoyed at forking out for things I know.

By the way, the bonuses include:

• Ready Made Blogs
• Powerpoint slides
• Article Assistance
• Blog Announcer Pro

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I've just read a nice article on blog marketing by Lee Odden. In his post he gives "25 tips for marketing your blog".

Including Lees and to make 35 tips in all I've added a further 10 wrinkles for blog marketing:

26. If you've never blogged before try it out first using one of the many FREE services such as Blogger or Wordpress before deciding to invest in a paid service

27. Always use an offline client (such as Elicit, there are others) to prepare your blog posting. It means you have control over your posting and you don't lose it if your blog site goes down, or you lose network connection

28. Spell check each post

29. When you've posted re-read it and don't be afraid to re-jig the post to make it read better

30. As always remember that the Internet has a long memory. Anything you say can be reviewed long after you wrote it. If you've something controversial to say write it in draft and review it the following day. If you're still happy with it post away.

31. Use interesting headlines and remember that some feed readers cut off the headline after so many characters

32. Always post assuming you're being read and don't assume you're not being read because you've no comments

33. Provide extra resources like links to files and books for your readers

34. A specific niche blog is going to attract a lot of that markets online readers

35. As with web sites content is king. With no good content your blog is spam and may get visited but nobody will link to it and you will get no subscribers to it

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