Mid February in 2006 I released a short 37 page ebook called Blogging to the
Bank detailing my success with blogs and how I was using a simple 7 step
system to build a blogging empire.
I had no idea how popular the ebook would become hitting the Clickbank number
1 spot and staying in the top 20 for around 12 months. All of a sudden thousands
of people were using the system and having huge success with it.
It wasn’t uncommon for me to open my inbox to tens of success stories with
subject lines similar to these…
“Top 5 In MSN In 9 Days”
“Earned $350 In Commission This Week”
“Climbed To The First Page Of Yahoo This Week”
“Got My First Affiliate Sale”
And so on.
However with the success came the downside.
This was that Blogger became overrun with blogs that were purely there to create
money. Now my ebook didn’t help that problem but it wasn’t the sole cause of it.
Blogger went crazy and started deleting blogs, both good and bad
While everyone else was up in arms about this I turned it into some huge
paydays. I had software built that would go out and find these deleted blogs that
still had good search engine rankings. Then I’d go register them, stick some
content and ads on them and sit back and watch the commissions and adsense
income role in.
I only shared this software with coaching clients and close friends. Releasing it to
the public would make it useless because too many people would be picking up
these ‘Hidden gold’ blogs.
People used this software for months profitably but a few months a go Blogger
changed making the software not effective anymore.
Prior to this, over the last 6 to 9 months I’ve been testing existing software and
working with programmers to develop new cutting edge software. The main aim
was to automate the blogging process and grow profits every month.
What I discovered shocked me!
After testing all the fancy software, even my own it came clear that automated
blogs don’t deliver long term profits. I gave you the example on the webpage of a
recent test I did using some software and my new method.
The automated software blog dried up while the blog created using my method is
still going strong.
Now there’s nothing wrong with automating some tasks blogging requires but
forget the fully automated ‘earn ten thousand dollars at the click of a button’ type
stuff. Most doesn’t work short term never mind in a few months or years down
the line.
The only way to have long term blogs that produce results for months to come
are to follow the 5 blogging commandments.