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Blogging Book “Blogging Heroes”
Sixteen days six since my last post the longest time period since the start of my personal blog “geektalk” in February 2007. At the moment the family and I are in England again for a week visiting family.
Today at Bluewater I purchased my first blogging book “Blogging Heroes
Why? Many of you have asked the question why so few posts lately. At the beginning of March I started my journey into PPC marketing which includes; starting a niche site, learning the in/outs of Affiliates, PPC, Adwords and Yahoo publisher.
What have I learned? No matter what e-programs are stating PPC marketing is hard and in my opinion it has a higher failure rate than blogging. At the moment I have set up my niche affiliate site armed it with fresh content, affiliates, Adsense and a Adword campaign that is presently only bringing in thirty visits per day.
On my previous article I posted some great PPC sites worth taking a looking at. If you plan to take on PPC any time soon my advice would be to stay focus and keep a long-term goal in mind.
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72 Responses to “Blogging Book “Blogging Heroes””
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Give my love to Jolly old England…It’s been a long time since my last visit and I miss my sister ( we came to the USA 30 years ago and make trips back) I am looking forward to your review and picking up some tips!
I know how you feel. I’m also in launch stage of my new site thus some of my blogs are not updated that much.
Anyway, may I suggest that your “niche” blog only use one income stream. People either click on ads or click and may buy the affiliate product. If they have many choices, you lower the overall CTR.
That’s right decision when you just want well-defined thing.
A the end of the day 14 pounds it’s a normal price for the worth book.
What a time to be in England. And Greece in May too! I envy you.
I did read all the PPC articles and believe that I am wiser for it! Yes, the focus is clearer now.
About the book. Not to worry too much. With packing and forwarding charges, it would not be all that cheaper.
It has been a long time how are things. Are we going to have to wait another month before we here from you again? With your jet setting and vacations I when will you find the time?
Yes I know it’s been a while the PPC has been taking up my free time that I usually use for this personal blog “geektalk” and since this part of the site is not the major earner I feel my extra time is better spent researching a new area on the net I have yet to explore.
Jet setting: England: now, Greece: May, Spain: September – I will post some pics afterwards. As for England we celebrated my daughters 5th b-day this weekend and we had planned to go to Cambridge Friday to meet with a possible job connection but that just fell through so thinking we will just do our usual and have a night out in London – I’ll take a few snap shots.
Most of the time, I will buy from Amazon. Sometimes, their price is pretty attractive when on sales.
Congratulations on taking the step towards PPC. In my experience, most people either fail miserably or take off once they get the hang of it. It’s way too expensive to be “kind of okay” at it for very long.
“Yes I know it’s been a while the PPC has been taking up my free time that I usually use for this personal blog “geektalk” and since this part of the site is not the major earner I feel my extra time is better spent researching a new area on the net I have yet to explore.”
What PPC? Have you started another website?
Yes and I mentioned it last post:
http://jakeldaily.com/pay-per-click-affiliate-marketing/
i wanna learn but im not sure if i have the time… how much time does it consume on a daily/weekly basis?
~mike
In the world nothing is easy for the first time!
I have never made a dollar off of ppc, I tried for a while, I just gave up, lol. I like you sites layout by the way, its cool.
Good to have ya back. Keep up with the posting mate! I love your blog.
I always like your post.This is really cool.Thanks a lot for the post.
this is something I’d love to learn!
Goodluck
I love ur blog !
Congrats on going towards PPC. Hope youre having fun in England. I’m heading out there this fall.
Happy holidays in Greece. Next time make sure before buying any book you google it for the lowest available price.
Happy holidays in Greece. Don’t just give book review but also tell us about greece. Next time make sure before buying any book you google it for the lowest available price.
Hey congrats, you have taken the right step towards PPC. I think people either loose wretchedly or they succeed once they are off the way. It may be expensive but to succeed its a good way.
where i may download this book “Blogging Heroes” free?
Good old sunny England, the place to be in March…..
I’m in Swindon in the South West of the Country. Not much goes on here but we do have a claim to fame in the shape of the “Magic Roundabout”. You’ll know it if you ever drive across it.
Time you should be back posting? Looking forward to it.
any good recommendation for affiliate and ppc?
Have you had anyone ask you for a review copy yet? :p
Amazon is actually quite a great place to purchase books. Some of the less known books are going for below $10
I am trying to start my own blog and I was wondering where you got your theme from? Also, is there a forum that I can visit to learn how to up load the theme. I have all the correct files.
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along.I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Wish you a best of luck.
I have to thank you for the book. I am gonna collect that one.
What, no April Fool’s joke here? I’ve been making the rounds and it seems like half the blogs on the web have some kind of crazy April 1 post.
I’ve been thinking about getting into the PPC game, but as you note, the failure rate is high and the cost of entry is expensive.
It isn’t easy putting money on the line when you can realistically expect that, at best, it will be a good learning experience.
Maybe I’ll check out that book, though finding concrete advice on these sorts of things is often difficult given all the variables.
That’s odd. I would have expected that Google would consider those characters spam and filter them out.
I wonder what else could be done with this…
But I’m not going to be the one to try:)
I always like your post.This is really cool.
Here’s how to be a blogging hero:
Tell big lies about how much you’re making with your sites until you get famous enough so it becomes true.
Congrats, and good luck on the book.
If this book worth £13.99 from your point of view – don’t worry about “$5.00 on Amazon”
Yup, it was a sunk cost from the moment you got your wallet out!
Paul
“I am trying to start my own blog and I was wondering where you got your theme from? Also, is there a forum that I can visit to learn how to up load the theme. I have all the correct files.”
The theme base is called “White Space” by Brian Gardner but I have been modifying it for a year now so this theme is custom now and not available for free anywhere on the net.
I am really so curious to see the book with me. Thanks for writing the book.
I am also trying affiliate marketing. I think best affiliate networks are industry giants such as Commission Junction or LinkShare, because they are most successful and experienced.
To be honest, I don’t think any book is going to be complete, not for a few more years – 2? 3? I don’t know. Certainly, there is the first generation of bloggers, who did this out of passion, sharpening a new tool, and some of them deserves a statue in the Bloggers’ Hall of Fame, if there ever will be one.
After the first wave, came the second line, of those who wanted to profit as much as possible from something that has been done before; some of them came with revolutionary ideas, too, but their importance is lesser.
A book on these heroes may want to focus on the personalities behind the scene, rather than on their paths to success. Because that’s what we want from heroes : their lives. Their recipe for success has been reworked since then, but their experiences are the same.
I’d love to hear your opinions on the book, the *subject* of this post
Good luck with the PPC but I hope you spare some time for your blog also
Problogger just came out with a book of his own. I haven’t read it yet but I have ordered one. It is about $19 on Amazon.
This is a very good news.Thanks a lot for sharing.
Oh..Really?Is any online edition available?Please let me know.
Is there any special website for the book.Please let us know.It seems to be interesting.
This looks like it may be good. Good luck putting it together!
Thanks a lot for sharing this good news. It seems very interesting.
I’m looking forward to the review.
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I have never made a dollar off of ppc, I tried for a while, I just gave up, lol. I like you sites layout by the way, its cool.
My co-workers mentioned this thread and I wrote to them I truly enjoyed it! Thank you for the share.
really liked coming upon your story, I’m absolutely interested in reading more of your threads
I think am going to look for the Blogging Heroes because I want to be a serious blogger too and get into PPC and so on..all i need is time. Thanks for sharing
Good luck in PPC marketing. Google adwords is especially a difficult beast to play with. But ofcourse once you get the process down the rewards are great.
Hey Jason & Kelly,
Always work hard and maintain Blogging Hero and best wishes for PPC.
Hi, interesting threat. most of my shopping especially electronics and books is amazon.com.
Your site is so nice. Esperially it is nice as visual.
Will post some pictures soon of the new LR2 and maybe some pictures of Leeds England since I will be over there next week!
It isn’t easy putting money on the line when you can realistically expect that, at best, it will be a good learning experience.this is something I’d love to learn! I’m absolutely interested in reading more of your threads.
It’s very interesting. Nice story, I didn’t expect that.
Thanks for your information.
Well done…
I Didn’t realise blogging could go so deep as much as having a book to read about it, great recommendations, I will be reading these books most definitely.
That’s right decision when you just want well-defined thing.
A the end of the day 14 pounds it’s a normal price for the worth book.
Cliched as it sounds, its all about providing meaningful content. All too often everyone jumps on the bandwagon in hope of quick bucks. But the question everyone should really be asking themselves is: how am I providing value to the process? If it’s an opportunistic leap at an identified niche, then the business is not sustainable and you’ll have to reinvent yourself over and over again.
yeah i been trough that..about wanting something so bad you dont want to check anywere else and just buy it..anyways you got it.. good luck with you blog..
hey… that’s nice blog… it remembers me of my school days.. thanks…. hope u’ll keep
doin it…!!!!
“13.99 but I checked later on at Amazon and the book has actually gone on sale for only $5.00.”
) so now you know that having any kind of impulse to shop – go & check Amazon first 
PPC..higher failure rate than blogging. <- definitelly. mainly because blogging is free or close to free (in terms of real cash), in case of PPC you have to have pretty damn good prooven business scheme to break even .. still worth trying! (and learning experience + market intelligence one gets form running PPC makes it totally worth it – even if not much successful itself)
i would love to travel trew england.. it must be fun .. really love your blog.
Yeah New England must be a great experience to see!
In respect to PPC marketing, you can really drill a hole in your pocket quickly. For now, I’m playing it safe.