So i started a review blog a while back. In the last 30 days it has made $444.52 USD. This, at the time of writing, equates to $618.25 AUD. This is totally profit as i do not pay for any traffic to the blog. It almost pays my rent!

Oh look at that, as i was writing i just made another sale for $16.56. For a product ive never made a sale in too wtf. rad.

Anyway, it took a little bit of time and a i went thru a bit of drama with one particular post, but now i am reaping the rewards.

Review blogs are EASY.

You might be thinking that i just write up any old crap about a product and post it, well you’re wrong. I think the secret to a good review blog is to have plenty of negative reviews too. So _buy_ the product or even ask for a review copy so you can _actually review_ the thing.  If someone visits your site and checks out a few reviews and they are all beamingly positive 5 star reviews then i dunno about you, but i would probably think its all a load of crap.

I will continue to write up reviews for things and keep building the site up. Hopefully within a few months it can actually totally cover my rent and then some! What do you think might happen if i have a couple of these running? Hmmm.

Good.

Hi! Long time no write. Sorry to all my millions of readers for the lack of posts. But as I have said before on here somewhere, i aint no writer.

Just something that has popped up again lately after i started to promote a new product. This product is in the gaming niche and if you are a bit of a nerd then you can find all that it tells you for $0 on the net (like pretty much all ebook packages but anyway). Being in the gaming niche there is a good chance that some hardcore gamers might find your review or whatever and proceed to try to tell you how much of an arsehole (I’m an aussie that’s how it’s spelt) you are for selling something that is freely available with about 10 seconds of pretty elementary Google…ing. (Googling?).

This happened again (has happened on many a youtube video) yesterday and continues today, when my review site was posted on a pretty high traffic gaming forum. When i checked this morning i had 7 comments waiting to be moderated and each and every one of them had some very colourfull language and a thoughtful link to a website where you can download everything for free.

I was kind of expecting this so in my review of the product i actually stated that you can indeed find all this info for nothing if you are prepared to look. This package actually is quite a nifty little bundle which offers quite a bit more which hardly anyone noticed it seems, but i think this is what saved me from more defamatory comments.

So i guess the point of this post is to remember, if you are promoting questionable products, don’t just copy the copy that the publisher offers you in their affiliate tools section, paste into an email or blog post and hope for the best. Have a think about what kind of people are likely to read it and how they might react. Not everyone is a stupid internet newbie and when they find you they will let you know which in turn can harm your sales if every one reads those comments.

Keep comments on but keep them moderated. Comments are an important part of blogs as they can offer testimonials on the products that you promote. I do sometimes let a few negative ones through but i like to respond to those and reassure anyone else that its not all a load of bullshit.

And especially when one of your blog posts makes it onto some high traffic forum of some sort.

On my personal blog long ago i posted about a certain contact laxative known to UK residents. Today again it took off on a motorbike forum. Funnily enough it is mostly motoring forums that pick up the post! must be something to do with sitting on their arses all day!

Finding something that people can relate to and or find highly amusing can benifit you in getting bucketloads of free traffic. Just keep your finger on the pulse and you might find something to blog about.

You might have noticed that I installed the CommentLuv plugin a little while back. This plugin extracts the latest blog post of the commenter and links it in with their comment. This is a good way to let your commenters get some extra traffic from people who are reading your blog comments. What most blogs dont do which I will do for you, is install the dofollow plugin. This disables the rel=nofollow attribute in comments which means the commentluv links not only get you some extra traffic but also another backlink to your site!

So comment away! gain some extra linkage and lets all help each other! *group hug* *spew*

Keeping your blog updated with regular posts can sometimes be quite difficult. I think once the initial excitement of a new blog wares off it is often one of the hardest realizations that you have to keep your blog going.

Some days you might be on a roll and find it easy to come up with new topics but other days it is just too hard. Lately i have been a little slack on the updates as you might have seen, truth is i think i have just been a little busy with a few other projects. So how do i motivate myself to keep on going?

I spend a good portion of my time reading RSS feeds of other blogs. Not just Internet Marketing blogs, but all sorts of blogs. I think if you just stuff your brain with nothing but IM then you might just go a little bananas. This not only takes your mind off the pressure you’re feeling but also gets your creative side of your brain ticking away. Of course don’t waste all your time reading other peoples stuff!

Researching is what i do most of. Even tho i have been doing this IM thing for a number of years you can never stop learning. So once you have learned something new why not tell people about it? Your blog is there to inform people and the best way to do that is by researching and keeping up with the latest news and techniques, your readers will reward you by commenting and subscribing to your feed and even telling others about your site.

Every once in a while it is nice to throw in a post that might be completely unrelated to your blogs theme. This is good to keep things interesting and not just down to business. Good for not only you but also your readers.

You are allowed not to blog! This is your blog so you are in charge (unless of course you aren’t in which case you should be blogging yourself right now!). Don’t try to post so many posts a day this can only stress you out and can even affect the quality of your posts. So don’t rush things, if you cant think of something good or you are not happy with it, leave it until you think it is ready to go or you have another good idea. WordPress has drafts for a reason!

Speaking of drafts, if you think of something, just an idea, then GET IT INTO THE DRAFTS! Dont sit on it or forget it! Get it down, just a little scribble post and save it so you can come back to it later on.

So there are quite a few ways and everyone will have their own techniques. The important thing is to remember to not freak out and just keep going at your own pace.