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Six Figure Blogging Table of Contents Introduction to Six Figure Affiliate Blogging .............. 4 About the Author & Six Figure Affiliate Blogging My 12 Month Case Study to Profits The Concept of “Six Figure Affiliate Blogging” Introduction to Affiliate Marketing ........................... 8 What is Affiliate Marketing? How Affiliate Marketing Works Understanding Affiliate Pay Structures Using Affiliate Networks to Make Money Blogging Game Plan .............................................14 Choosing Your Blog Topic? How to Find a Profitable Blog Topic Going Live With Your Blog ......................................20 Setting Up Your First Blog & Web Hosting Why You Need a Custom Blog Theme Standing Out from the Crowd Proven Methods for Free Traffic Generation Proven Methods for Paid Traffic Generation Killer Content is Still King Making Your Blog Profitable ..................................35 How Bloggers Make Money from Blogging Top Earning Blogs Real Life Blogging Examples Finding Advertisers for Your Blog Breakdown of a Profitable Niche Blog How AsSeenOnTV-Products.net was Redesigned Using Wordpress for Lead Generation Zac Johnson 2 Six Figure Blogging Blog Monetization Tips .........................................53 Understanding How Readers View Your Blog Convert New Readers into a Mailing List Improve Ad Sales with a Blog Media Kit Grow a Twitter Following While You Sleep Taking Your Blog to the Next Level ..........................58 Replicating the Process Outsourcing Your Blog Content Creating Your Own Product Buying and Selling Established Blogs BONUS: Six Figure Blogging Interviews ...................64 JEREMY SCHOEMAKER of SHOEMONEY.COM JONATHAN VOLK OF JONATHANVOLK.COM GARY VAYNERCHUK of WINELIBRARY.COM IAN FERNANDO OF IANFERNANDO.COM DANIEL SCOCCO of DAILYBLOGTIPS.COM DAN SCHAWBEL OF PERSONALBRANDING.COM JOHN CHOW of JOHNCHOW.COM JIM KUKRAL OF JIMKUKRAL.COM ADII PIENAAR of WOOTHEMES.COM MARKO SARIC OF HOWTOMAKEMYBLOG.COM JOSH MULLINEAUX of UNIQUEBLOGDESIGNS.COM SYED BALKHI OF WPBEGINNER.COM BRIAN CLARK of COPYBLOGGER.COM MURRAY NEWLANDS OF MURRAY NEWLANDS.COM TIMOTHY SYKES of TIMOTHYSYKES.COM GIDEON SHALWICK OF GIDEONSHALWICK.COM AL CALRTON of COOLEST-GADGETS.COM YARO STARAK OF ENTREPRENEURS-JOURNEY.COM DAVID KLEIN of PURPOSEINC.COM DAVID RISLEY OF DAVIDRISLEY.COM JOEL COMM OF JOELCOMM.COM CARL OCAB OF CARLOCAB.COM NEIL PATEL OF QUICKSPROUT.COM MICHAEL DUNLOP OF RETIREAT21.COM SHAWN COLLINS OF AFFILIATETIP.COM BONUS: Resource Directory ................................. 135 Zac Johnson 3 Six Figure Blogging Introduction to Six Figure Affiliate Blogging Introduction i to Six Figure Affiliate Blogging Zac Johnson Six Figure Blogging About the Author & Six Figure Affiliate Blogging My name is Zac Johnson and I’ve been an affiliate marketer for nearly 15 years. I first started when I was in high school, pushing traffic and sales to Amazon.com, and quickly found myself in the affiliate marketing industry. There are a lot of affiliate guides floating around, so I decided to create a guide with a different perspective, using affiliate marketing in conjunction with a blog to generate over $100,000 a year in sales and commissions. While I’ve been making a living for almost 15 years as an internet marketer, I started blogging less than 3 years ago. I started my own blog at ZacJohnson.com to share my stories, spread awareness and talk about what I love doing... making money online and teaching Author, Zac Johnson others to do the same. This “How to be the Next Six Figure Affiliate Blogger” guide isn’t about creating a blog on affiliate marketing, or Years Online: 15 getting lost in the “make money online” get rich schemes. Instead, it’s about finding a blogging niche and using affiliate marketing to Years Blogging: 3 generate revenue from that blog. Let’s talk some numbers. When I first started ZacJohnson.com, I Blogging Income: >$100k never planned for it to explode and become another six figure a year project, but with massive work, branding and dedication WWW: ZacJohnson.com to the site, it became just that. My bread and butter is still in the affiliate marketing game. Through this free guide, I hope to inform you about both affiliate marketing and blogging... taking them both to the next level and give you a winning business model. If you are to walk away with anything from this guide, you must understand that if your business is online, you can work virtually anywhere in the world as long as you have a computer and internet connection. No longer are you limited to hourly wages and a 5 day work week. With the winning combination of affiliate marketing and a successful blog, you can be earning money 365 days a year. Remember, it only takes $273.97 per day to make an extra $100,000 per year. Don’t quit your day job just yet... but how hard would it be for you to invest your time and efforts to make an extra $28 a day ($10,000 extra a year)... while building up a small business on the side? Get ready... I’m about to walk you through the process of how I brought ZacJohnson.com from a blank page domain name sitting around for a while, to a six figure a year blog… and how you can do the same. Zac Johnson 5 Six Figure Blogging My 12 Month Case Study to Profits When I first went live with my blog at ZacJohnson.com, I decided to go with a very clean design and had no on site advertising. The beginning months of your blog are important for building up readership and focusing on content. For the first few months, there wasn’t much traffic to the blog, so there was no point in trying to find advertisers for the site. Instead I concentrated on building up readership, authority and my branding. The blog went live in March 2007, but I didn’t start trying to make a profit with the site until December 2007. It was in Dec 07, when I decided to launch a 12 month case study on the blog’s revenue performance. The first month, in which the blog went profitable, it earned $1,261.81. Before the end of the 12 month case study, the blog was already topping over $6,000 a month and is now earning over six figures a year today. A full break down of revenue earned during that 12 month case study is shown below. From December 2007 through November 2008, the blog made over $48,000 in profit and I had spent less than a few hundred dollars on small ad testing to bring in new traffic. Web hosting costs also weren’t an issue, as I was hosting several of my other sites on the same server. The main sources of revenue for the blog were from on site advertising and network referrals. You can view each month’s full report and breakdown in my “Blog Earnings” section on ZacJohnson. com. ZacJohnson.com 12 Month Case Study Report December 2007 - November 2008 Total Earnings: $48,759.78 $7,000.00 $6,000.00 $5,000.00 $4,000.00 $3,000.00 $2,000.00 $1,000.00 $- Dec-07 Jan-08 Feb-08 Mar-08 Apr-08 May-08 Jun-08 Jul-08 Aug-08 Sep-08 Oct-08 Nov-08 Zac Johnson 6 Six Figure Blogging The Concept of “Six Figure Affiliate Blogging” Everyone wants to live the American dream, and become a millionaire! That’s how it used to be… now people are just looking for a job and want some financial stability. I created this guide book not only to help newbie bloggers, affiliate marketers, and you will learn everything Through this guide, from how to setup your own blog, to putting your established a new revenue stream blog on autopilot and creating that brings in money month after month. established entrepreneurs, but also for anyone who never fully understood the power of blogging and how to many money online. Through this guide, you will learn everything from how to setup your own blog, to putting your established blog on autopilot and creating a new revenue stream that brings in money month after month. I will also be covering the basics of affiliate marketing, which will be the backbone to your blog’s revenue. When you see read the title of this guide and see “Six Figure” mentioned, this may blow some of you away and think it would never be possible for you. Instead of looking at the big number, break this down. There are 365 days in a year, and your blog will be working for you every day of the year. This means your blog would only need to generate $273.97 per day to be making $100,000 a year. Depending on where you are currently at, becoming a six figure blogger isn’t you’re your immediate goal should be. Yes, it is possible to make a few extra hundred dollars a month, or even create a new six figure revenue source… but not without immediate action and dedication! Blogging is one of the slowest and hardest methods for generating money online, but at the same time it also has very low start up costs and if built correctly, can become of the most stable business methods around. Whether you are a newbie, or experiences online marketer, this guide has something for everyone… and hopefully inspires you to become the next Six Figure Affiliate Blogger! Zac Johnson 7 Six Figure Blogging 1 Introduction Introduction to Affiliate Marketing to Affiliate Marketing Zac Johnson Six Figure Blogging What is Affiliate Marketing? Without affiliate marketing, my blogging success would not have been possible. When I first started making money online, it was through earning commissions on Amazon.com and sending new visitors to their site. Back in the day, when I referred a customer to Amazon and they made a purchase, I would then earn a commission on that sale. Jump ahead to 2010 and affiliate marketing has expanded like crazy and is making more people more money than ever. With over a decade of experience, stories of success/failures and a passion for affiliate marketing, that became my gateway into starting my own blog. Without the passion and interest for writing about my blog topic, I would have had a much harder time becoming a prominent voice in this industry, and the blog would have probably failed. affiliate marketing is the backbone In short, of many successful blogs how and businesses make money online. In short, affiliate marketing is the backbone of how many successful blogs and businesses make money online. This guide was created for the use of both blogging and affiliate marketing. Before jumping into creating your own blog, you must first understand the basics of affiliate marketing. How Affiliate Marketing Works In the past how did companies measure return on investment for their advertising methods, such as billboard advertising and TV commercials? It wasn’t easy. No longer are companies putting all of their advertising dollars towards billboards, print and television and just hoping for results. Companies have now been turning their advertising budget towards affiliate marketing and the internet. With affiliate marketing everything is tracked, companies can tell exactly what the return on their advertising investment is. Who bought what… when, where, how and sometimes even why. Zac Johnson 9 Six Figure Blogging The diagram shown below explains how affiliate marketing works among the customer, affiliate and seller (often referred to as “merchant”). Let’s use a popular online book store’s affiliate program as an example. As a blog owner, I write a review about a wonderful book I just read. I can either place a link in my review directly linking someone to the book seller, in which case they (the book seller) receives full credit for the sale, or I could join their affiliate program (if they have one) and become an affiliate of the book seller. As an affiliate, you would earn a commission on all referred sales or actions taking place on the merchant’s site. Once approved by the merchant, I can now log into my affiliate area and generate an affiliate link to any product on their site. Instead of direct linking to the online book store, if someone visits my site, clicks on my affiliate and makes a purchase, I would earn a commission on that sale. With affiliate marketing, you never have to handle any orders, deal with customer support or billing, and most importantly there is no inventory. Everything is tracked online and as an affiliate, you are paid weekly or monthly depending on your preferred affiliate program or network. While maybe over simplified a bit, this is why affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to run a business and how anyone can start making money online without needing to spend thousands of dollars on staff, inventory or even an office. Zac Johnson 10

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