I got myself a three pack of BlogProfitz. I dunno if you folks have checked this deal out but I am fairly impressed with it. It comes from the good folks who brought you StoreStacker. Only this time they have taken all the work out of creating an affiliate product site. It was super simple to set up with a couple of my blogs. I used one of the canned WordPress themes and figured it would end up looking like shit and I would have to muck around with it. Honestly I figured it would look like a mess after posting the products. Only it didn’t. It looked super clean.
What you do is set up an existing or new blog site within the Blogprofitz dashboard. The only thing you have to do is host and configure a WordPress blog. You set up the blog name and user name and password. You have to set up a wad of categories for all your products, videos, feeds and articles to get posted to. You go into the dashboard and set up the various affiliate programs that you want to pimp. So if you have IDs for Crapbank, CJ, Overstock, eBay and Amazon you’d simply add them in to your dashboard.
Then you set up a rule to use. If you were going for Amazon junk you’d go through the menu to set up what products to pull. Then you’d tell it what blog and category to post to. You could set up a rule to post Crapbank garbage in one category and Ebay trash in another category. Or dump it all into one category.
You can still post your own articles as normal, or post articles from their content database of over something like 14K articles. I hear the quality is suspect. Rewrite them if you choose to. You can drop videos and RSS feeds by setting up a rule for those as well. Your site can get quite large.
Unlike StoreStacker, Blogprofitz handles the posting so you don’t have to muck about with a cron job. Apparently their system kicks off every hour. In the BP settings you’ll indicate if you want postings every however many days. I’m going to see how every day works out with Ebay and Amazon.
Kick back and think of the potential. If done right this can be a money making monster that you have very little to do with. And talk about long tail keywords. Did someone say duplicate content? Nah, I don’t think so. The individual product blog post might be duplicated but the main blog page has many potential variables. They provide a plugin that only posts snippets of the posting on the front page. You simply provide the “read me” variable to link to the full blog post.
I’m giving it a whirl. A trial pack of three. I should have bought when it was cheap so now I get to pay $19 a month. Yep it’s a monthly fee. But damn, surely I can make $20 a month on one blog, much less 3.
Interesting though, I just went to one of my blogs and hit the “previous posts” link at the bottom. It listed the previous posts I did but the product posts that were posted remained at the top of the blog…as they should.
So dig it. This is how I am using the product. Tell me I can’t build a friggin monster site with little to no effort. So I added one of my blogs to the system this afternoon. I had something like 20 posts already added to the blog. Pretty boring with crappy Adsense that didn’t do much. Now I’m posting Amazon and eBay products to the blog. All the while I’m adding quality articles via Article Marketing Automation when something relevant comes through that system. I don’t have to write articles for the blog because someone from AMA or the BP content club will do that for me. I don’t have to worry about the monetization as I set that up and it is pulling from ebay, Amazon, CJ, Crapbank, Overstock, PayDotCom and Affiliate Bot. I can add relevant RSS feeds and videos easily. And after 20 minutes (or less, depending if the WP blog is already set up) I have a relevant and thick affiliate site that I don’t have to do much more than get links for if I choose. Because there is a good chance that when Bing and Google start indexing all those posts I am going to start bringing a whole lot of traffic in via very long tail keywords.
And by the way, if you use PLRPro‘s PGB and are rocking the WordPress option things could get even more interesting. You’ll post up 40 articles for your blog, add it to BlogProfitz and start pulling products. Yea, I think I’ve developed a new love for blogs. This is smokin’. Tell me how I’m wrong. Collect your thoughts and I’ll wait for you in the comments.
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I’m still not crazy about touting affiliate products because you don’t own the product so, for example, there’s no opportunity to sell the whole ball of wax somewhere down the road (the same reason I like a hosted WordPress blog over a Blogger blog).
BUT: can we build out the math a bit more? “now I get to pay $19 a month. … But … surely I can make $20 a month on one blog, much less 3″ Would you spend $19 to make $60 a month? If it works, is it scalable to generate some real money (my definition: $10K/month net)? Are there enough PLR articles to auto-populate 500 blogs? Sounds like a lot of work, but only if you’ve been so mesmerized by the “Big Names in Internet Marketing” that you believe their claims that “you can make $1M in 24 hours”.
Good luck – seriously. I’ll be very interested to read how this experiment plays out …
Hmm, automated site building means 99% of my time can be spent getting backlinks. Backlinks=traffic=money.
My brain was so fried when I read this post the first time that I didn’t get it. I read it again and for some reason I had a vision of lying on a beach in the tropics somewhere. The feeling passed quickly, but I’m still intrigued. The sample stores on their pitch page look pretty good.
Splork,
I bought Firepow 2.0 this morning. Based on what I’ve read it looks promising. (but don’t they always just after you’ve read the sales page?)
The fact that there hasn’t been a huge hyped-up launch (ie. PPCBully 2.0) and barrage of emails also drew me towards it.
I’ve even taken the Firepow Pledge via Twitter. This is quite amusing and a nice way to start make you feel part of the family instead of just another signup.
I look forward to hearing your progress with BlogProfitz, and I will endeavour to share my experiences with Firepow.
Interesting article. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Definitely curious, keep posting updates please.
Made a small Amazon sale this weekend. The amount is nothing to get excited about. The fact that a sale came through on a shitty blog is. I just checked Google. Before I added this blog to Blogprofitz I had around 20 listings indexed. I now have 201 listings.
The jury is still out on this. You still have to get links though the updated content is pretty much taken care of.
Splork: You recommend Bookmarking Demon under tools you use. Whenever I have manually posted my links to bookmarking sites, all I ever get are nofollow backlinks. Do you get dofollow backlinks from some sites? Or what is the benefit of BD if you do not get dofollow links?
Thanks for anything you can share,
Dave
It has a mix of nofollow and dofollow. I never paid attention to nofollow and do follow. I take whatever backlink I can get. You never know how other search engines besides Google handles the no/do follow tags. You never know how people are going to find your site. And it’s too much trouble to segregate out only the “good” links. I use BMC and BCD the same and post to all sites regardless of whether I will get credit via the search engines.
Hello Splork,
Although this post is 1 year old, I would like to get your feedback from blogprofitz since it is something I’m considering to register. Have you had good success with it since last year?
I would appreciate if you could do an update for your success on this product.
Thanks
I quit using it. Hated monthly payments. Good for new folks I guess but I can’t really say I’d recommend friends and family to go for it.