Hey everyone, due to popular demand we have added the payment plan so go ahead and sign-up right away!

http://www.BlogClassroom.com

WOW - the response has been amazing, please sign-up right away to get all the fast mover bonuses…

To read more about the course, CLICK HERE…

BLOG CLASSROOM

Remember, tomorrow at 2 PM ET (29th) - you know what’s happening!

But, before we end the PRE-course and get ready to work hands-on with our students during the main course, here is one more “traffic generation” video that should really get you full of ideas…

BIG Announcement In This Video…

Rosalind and I are doing something we’ve NEVER done before to PROVE to you how much faith we have in blogging and how GUARANTEED of a thing it is!

We’re REALLY sticking our necks out on this one - watch the video below and you’ll see…

Using Press Releases To Drive Traffic!

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Did you see what we’re doing tomorrow?! That’s the most ridiculous guarantee that we’ve EVER given anyone - THAT’S how much we believe in this project!

Leave us your comments!

I bet that question has crossed your mind a few times right? Well, I have your answer! Watch the video below to learn a lot more about what we’re doing on Tuesday, April 29th at 2 PM ET…

If you would rather READ what the video says, no problem, click here…

Leave your comments, thoughts and well-wishes below!

We’ve seen posts from some students as well as e-mail who are stuck on some details that are technical and very personal to their host account or their own set-up. Trust me, I’ve been stuck many times and still do till this very day - I’m 100% not technical and happy that way (no desire to become a programmer).

At the same time, I also don’t want to lose days trying to “play with things” to figure them out. For the last 4 years I’ve been using one site to help me hire very inexpensive help on technical matters (especially with Wordpress).

I actually get my entire blog installed with the appropriate plug-ins for as little as just $30-$40 from actual expert Wordpress programmers! To show you how to use the site (Scriptlance.com), I’ve made the video below for you…

Using Scriptlance To Find Inexpensive, Expert Help…

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Leave a comment below and let us know what you think! Especially let us know if you decide to post a project there to get some help and what types of bids you’re getting…

Also, just another reminder - April 29th - 2 PM ET … We’re going to have some TIME Limited bonuses, so make sure you get ready to come to the site at exactly 2 PM ET…

Ok, I HAD to post this because it really excited me to see it (also gave Ros and me a chance to “toot our own horn” a bit ; )

Debra, thank you so much for your kind words…

Here’s what she left as a comment in the post below…

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You all are in for just a treat! I took this class in 2006 and started my first blog.

The new class is going to be so much better than the one I took… and it was almost perfect back then.

Anik and Ros are worth every penny… but they never overcharge for the classes. This class will be worth so much more any amount they charge.

You will not only learn to build blogs… but you will be able to have profitable blogs!

Don’t hesitate… hit the BUY button as soon as you see it. This class filled up fast last time… and so many people want in this time it’s not funny.

All I can say is… I am going to take the class again. Why? Because I know that all the new information will rock my blogs to new heights.

Thanks for all you do Ros and Anik.

Debra
http://www.thatpainterlady.com

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Thanks again Debra!

Hey Everyone,

Here are all the download links - you ABSOLUTELY need to take time to go through these, amazing information shared. Especially Yaro’s interview, I learned so much myself - definitely listen to it!

The Webinar - 4/23/08 - Anik Singal & Rosalind Gardner

We had to split these into 3 files because they were so large - the entire 3 parts make up about 1 hour total.

Part 1 - Click here to download…
Part 2 - Click here to download…
Part 3 - Click here to download…

Yaro Starak Expert Interview - 4/24/08 - Anik Singal & Yaro Starak

Kick-butt interview! You absolutely need to take an hour and listen to it all the way through - listen to it twice actually, I did…

Click here to download the call…

April 29th Is Coming Very Soon!

Please mark your calendar for April 29th at 2 PM ET - That is when we will be launching the FULL 100+ Video course on blogging. If there is ANYTHING you can do with blogs, we’ve covered it in our course.

Lots of you have been asking questions about what’s in the course and I’ll send a detailed e-mail this weekend so you know exactly what’s in it.

It’s broken into 3 main parts:

Part 1: Over 100 videos to show you how to do everything from proper set-up, content production to over 18 solid ways to quickly generate traffic to your blog!

Part 2: 4 Weeks of LIVE Webinars with Rosalind and Myself where we go through all the main things you need to do to start a successful blogging business…

Part 3: I’m going to practice what I preach! I’ll be building my OWN blog ALONG side of you - you can watch me as I do it and I’ll even share my results with you!

We can’t believe the exposure it’s already getting, we’ve now had well over 850 comments on this blog! Over 400 individual blogs submitted - we WILL have very limited space when we launch, so please make sure you come to the site at exactly 2 PM ET on Tuesday, April 29th…

More information and details about the course coming very soon! But as you can see, we don’t hold anything back and we’re just getting started

Yaro is truly one of the smartest bloggers I have ever had the pleasure of speaking to. Here are a few things to know about him…

1. He has over 27,000 Feedburner subscribers!
2. Ranks on page #1 for “Entrepreneur”
3. Has done over 1,000 posts!
4. Gets close to 1 MILLION page views a MONTH

Again, like I said, one of the most brilliant bloggers out there. Well, I (Anik) have him on a FREE interview tonight for everyone to hear just how he did it…

By the way, he reveals some really neat tools/sites/services that he likes to use alongside his blog.

We will also talk a lot about monetizing blogs…

There is VERY limited space on the call, so first come first serve at the following number:

Dial-In: 616-883-8400
Pin: 487608912#

The call WILL be recorded and releases tomorrow in case you are international or cannot dial-in for any reason. Also, if the line is full when you try, we apologize, try again in a few minutes or just wait for the recording tomorrow…

See you on the call!

So, the day you were all waiting for - It’s time to start talking about TRAFFIC generation strategies. In total, we are going to discuss at least 18 strategies with you on April 29th when we launch. Today, specifically, here are 2 VERY easy ones (free) that are fun to start with.

The best part here is that not only are they free - but they are IMMEDIATE.

Are they going to make you millions? No.

Are they going to generate thousands of visitors? Not right away (in due time, maybe).

Are they a great way to start? Heck yes!

Video #1 - Immediate Traffic - Digg.com

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Video #2 - Immediate Traffic - OnlyWire.com

Click Here To Play Video…
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Your Assignment Today:

1. Sign-up For Digg.com and Digg one of your posts…

2. Sign-up For OnlyWire.com and all the other social bookmarking sites - Bookmark at least one of your posts.

To re-cap, here are links to the other lessons if you have not done them yet - get to work!

Lesson 1 - How to install your wordpress blog…
Lesson 2 - How to prepare your blog for the search engines…
Lesson 3 - Generating Traffic Through SEO (Long-Tail Keywords)…
Lesson 4 - 2 Techniques To Help Generate Content…

LEAVE A COMMENT with your thoughts - We Wanna Hear!

Just a quick post - we have very LIMITED space and are already close to filling up the registration. As you can see, there are TONS of students here and we highly recommend that you NOT miss this Webinar.

Register here:

Wednesday - 8 PM ET
Free Webinar with Anik and Rosalind
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/135337343
Attendee: (616) 883-8055
Access: 572-496-511

Once we “sell out” of registration, we will close it. Please register right away…

What Are We Talking About?

–> We’re going to spend some time going through the most frequent questions we’re seeing.

–> Traffic Generation Strategies

–> Power of Web 2.0 (I’ll even give you a peak inside the BC launch)!

Do NOT miss this one!

Alright, we get this question a LOT and I find that many are afraid of blogging because of this one intimidating question…

“What am I going to write about? I don’t know how to write…”

If you think you’re not a professional writer - PERFECT - blogging is the perfect fit for you. Trust me, I’m no professional writer, but I still manage very successful blogs.

On April 29th, we’re going to release a large video series (blogging A to Z), in that Rosalind and I will go through over 9 strategies that we use regularly to come up with great blog content.

To start, here are TWO of our favorites:

Video #1 - Generating Blog Content Material Doing What You Already Do - It’s EASY!

Video #2 - Using “Google Alerts” To Spark Unlimited Post Ideas…

Click Video To Start Playing…
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Your Assignment Today:

1. Make ONE sticky note somewhere, a book, magazine, article, website - anything you typically frequent that has good content that gives you good ideas.

2. Sign-up for at least ONE Google Alerts right away.

To re-cap, here are links to the other lessons if you have not done them yet - get to work!

Lesson 1 - How to install your wordpress blog…
Lesson 2 - How to prepare your blog for the search engines…
Lesson 3 - Generating Traffic Through SEO (Long-Tail Keywords)…

LEAVE A COMMENT with a link to the new post you make. We wanna see!

It’s that time again, time for us to push forward and learn the REAL power of blogs.

Before we do that - if you have not started yet - start now, already over 200 students have submitted their blogs to us!

Lesson 1 - How to install your wordpress blog…
Lesson 2 - How to prepare your blog for the search engines…

Next order of business - I’ve made THREE videos for you today, please take the next 20-30 minutes, close your door, turn off your phone and go through them all (and do Assignment #3).

The 3 videos below are:

1. Why Blogs? AND What Videos Are Coming This Week…
2. PROOF - The Power of the Long-Tail (My own stats)
3. Assignment #3 - How to write for the long-tail keywords…

So a big question we’ve heard is “Why blogs? or “What’s the difference between a blog and a website…” - I decided to make a little video to explain better - I also talk about all the neat videos we have planned for you THIS week (before the big day April 29).

Video #1 - What’s Coming Next & Why Blogs?

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Video #2 - MY OWN PROOF - Blogs & Long Tail Keywords

This is a blog I started on February 19, 2008 and have done a total of 58 posts on - no more than 20 minutes a day. I have done NO marketing (except two things that I will show you on Wednesday).

NO - this is NOT a gazillion million visitors - but look at how AMAZING of a start I have, ALL because of long-tail keywords & blogs…

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Video #3 - Assignment #3 - Finding Long Tail Keywords…

This is quick video that will show you a quick way to find long-tail keywords. Your first assignment is to write your FIRST post using a long-tail keyword you find…

Click Video To Start Playing…
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LEAVE A COMMENT with a link to the new post you make. We wanna see!

Note: Tomorrow’s video is going to talk about the difference between BLOGS and WEBSITES and why exactly blogs are so powerful…

As promised, here are 3 more student blog reviews - this time you get to hear from Rosalind! Take it away Ros…

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Donna’s Meditation Retreats Blog
http://telemeditationretreats.com/blog/

Donna started this blog in February of this year and has made 18 posts already. Good work, Donna!

What I like about this blog is that Donna has realized the importance of relationship-building early in the game, most notably through installing both a newsletter signup form (she’s using Aweber) and lets her readers subscribe through a Feedburner feed.

I also like that you’ve made good use of Categories which makes it easy for your readers to access information on a specific topic.

In that vein, you might want to consider removing the ‘Articles’ category (too unspecific) and either move those articles into their appropriate topic categories, or creating Pages from their content.

We’ll be covering the distinction between Posts and Pages during the course, but for now suffice to say that Pages consist of static material that is of high importance on your site.

Too… I’m wondering why, after such a prolific start, no posts have been made yet in April? By it’s very nature, blogging is most effective from a traffic generation standpoint when we post regularly.

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Tricia’s Sunshine Rewards Blog
http://sunshinerewards.com/videoblog/

Tricia started her Sunshine Rewards blog on an already established site on April 1st, 2008 and has been posting every 3 to 4 days.

What I like about Tricia’s blog is the seamless integration into her existing template and I LOVE the fact that she’s video blogging, doing both product endoresements and videos of a more personal nature such as asking for reader support in her participation during the 17th Race for the Cure in Indianapolis. Fantastic!

Real people love and trust other real people far more than they do corporations, so Tricia is definitely on the right track here.

What I might suggest here is that Tricia consider adding more categories to her blog, such as Health & Beauty, which would be a great category under which to put the acne clearing device video.

Too, to make the blog more noticeable to viewers who arrive on the non-blog homepage, is that she place a link to the blog in the top navigation.

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Steve’s Buy and Sell Cars for Profit Blog
http://buy-and-sell-cars-for-profit.com/blog/

Steve started his blog on the first day of the course and I see that he’s already made a post and changed the header background colors… cool!

What I really appreciate about Steve’s work is that the first thing he tackled was his ‘About’ page, something many webmasters often neglect.

I would suggest adding your photo to that page, Steve, or if you’re shy, have a charicature made that identifies you throughout the site. We want people to know that Steve is a real person.

Steve mentions in his first post that he ‘changed hosts for my site www.Buy-And-Sell-Cars-For-Profit.com recently and dumb me didn’t realize that I would lose all my previous blog posts’. Steve, you can incorporate articles from the original site into your new blog, they’re all still there.

Lastly, the category topics should be distinct from one another, as you might get penalized for having 4 categories that all contain some form of ‘buy and sell cars’.

Likewise, posting one entry to all 4 categories may result in duplicate entry penalties — something we want to avoid and will talk about more during the course.

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A message to all our students - feel free to participate! Help your fellow students by giving them advice…

We’ll be back tomorrow with a video from ME this time (Anik) - I’ll talk about the difference between blogs and websites and why BLOGS take the award in our opinion.

Well, I have to say - Rosalind and I are very proud, the response has been incredible - over 150 blogs submitted and still climbing! The best part is that many of you (if not most) have actually taken the time to get STARTED (so you didn’t wait for tomorrow). As promised, here is the next lesson AND the next assignment…

Getting The Search Engines To Love Your Blog…

In order to teach you how to optimize your blog for the search engines, we HAD to make 2 PRE-videos (total of 3 videos) - so we basically had to break it down into more steps. Today’s video watching may take a bit more time, but the overall steps are pretty easy. So, turn off your e-mail, put your cell phone on silent, close the door and start learning and implementing right away…

Video Part 1: How To Download Plugins And Upload To Your Blog…

Step 1: Click here to play this video - It will open in a new window…

Video Part 2: Setting Up The Right Permissions w/ FREE FTP Software…

Step 2: Click here to play this video - It will open in a new window…

Video Part 3: The 4 Easiest Ways To Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendly!

Step 3: Click here to play this video - It will open in a new window…

Homework Assignment #2…

If you still have not done Assignment #1 - you know we were not kidding. Don’t fall behind, do it right away and you can easily catch-up. The assignment today is that you need to get your blog SEO ready - download and install the appropriate plug-ins and make sure you have activated permalinks, etc…

In the video, Rosalind talks about a PING list you need - click here to get it!

Leave a comment below and tell us about your progress!

NOTE: We’ll be releasing another video - “The 4 Steps To Making Your Blog SEO Friendly…” tomorrow - so look for that! Today, I’ve decided to sit down and review 3 of the blogs that were submitted on our first post…if you want your own blog reviewed - well, watch this video where I have an “ethical” bribe for you! Click Here… Here are the 3 I chose today, here they are (we’ll also let Rosalind chime in to give her comments and she’ll review a batch soon…). By the way, I randomly chose some different style blogs so as to get some diversity in the reviews (no offense if yours was not chosen, it may very well be later!). Submit your blogs in the comments! - Click Here…

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ThinkPadToday.com I’m very impressed! It seems you’ve had this blog up for a bit and have been working on it - great! The best way to get blogs to work for you is persistence and tons of posts and of course time… A few things I really like... 1. The blog is also about a very specific niche… 2. You’re using specific product names in headlines - this is great for SEO 3. Re-done template (not the standard) - gives it some flavor 4. VIDEOS!!! I saw youtube videos inserted - that is great. A few things to think about: 1. You seem to be only linking to Lenovo - I doubt that they have the best deals, what about doing some price comparison and linking to multiple merchants? 2. Ebay affiliate program may work well here - think about using one of their widgets besides your posts - worth a test! Overall, let’s just work on marketing and more traffic!

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DatingTips247.com Another nice blog with a custom template. You should note that a blog in this niche can really take off in the “social world…” This blog is in a very active niche that even Rosalind has tons of experience in and has obviously a great living in… A few things I like: 1. Nice long posts - great search engine food. 2. The titles are catchy and short - good for the social wold. 3. The Love meter - yea, very addictive - everyone should place catching things like this! A few things to think about: 1. Better job displaying affiliate offers on the side bar - you have TONS of space there. 2. Think more about LINKING to affiliate offers IN your post - converts much better. 3. Add social media (like Digg, etc…) - We’ll be talking about that shortly…

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SuperFreeStyleMotoCross.com/blog/ Here is one of our NEW students who was motivated to install yesterday - GOOD FOR YOU (applause!). Now, of course since this is a brand new blog, tons of things to do over time - no problem, we’ll get through all of it… Hopefully this blog will motivate some others as well… A few things I like: 1. Neat topic - nice niche. 2. You thought fast and got adsense in there … Always monetize! Going forward: 1. Try to commit to at least 1 post a day (especially in the beginning). 2. If you really insist on Adsense, WRAP the text around it and make it a bit smaller - it’s not user-friendly the way it is right now. 3. Other than Adsense, any other monetization ideas? 4. Watch tomorrow’s video so we can get you SEO’d up…

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GREAT start! Seriously, koodos to you and ANYONE else who has taken the time to get their blogs installed. ALRIGHT - well, more where that came from…if you want a chance at getting yours reviewed, watch my little “BRIBE” video! Now, seriously - there is NO tomorrow, go install your blog