What’s All the Excitement About Blog Classroom Anyway?
April 29th, 2008 by 
Amit
When I last spoke with Anik Singal he was absolutely shocked with the success of the free Blog Classroom pre-launch course.
They’ve had over a 1000 comments! People are following all the free blog classroom videos, putting up their own blogs, and getting TRAFFIC right away.
I decided to check out what all the commotion was about.
Let’s get one thing straight , I’m skeptical about any product that claims to show you how to blog. When I first started SuperAffilatemindset.com I didn’t know squat about blogging.
Anik encouraged me to check out the free course and the outline of the full course that he and Rosalind Gardner had put together.
All I can say is that I’m completely blown away by the depth of material this course covers. I’m embarrassed to say that the Blog Classroom course covers a lot of material that I don’t know, but stuff that I SHOULD KNOW!
I can’t wait to go through Blog Classroom myself, I know I will learn a ton!
I actually learned about social media and blogging from Tom, one of my top advisers and partners. He actually setup SuperAffiliateMindset.com, helped me setup the all the social networking widgets, etc, etc. I learned a ton from him, and without his help this blog would not be where it is now.
Most people don’t have a blogging and social media expert at their finger tips to hold their hand and show them what to do to get a successful blog off the ground. That’s where Blog Classroom comes in.
Here’s just some of what Blog Classroom includes :
- Easy to Follow Step by Step Instructions on Exactly how to Setup, Customize, & Launch Your Blog
- How to Get a Avalanche of Highly Targeted Traffic to Your Blog
- How to Make Start Making Money from Your Blog, Even a Full Time Income Stream! As I showed you in a previous post, you can make a killing as a blogger.
- Detailed, Easy to Follow Answers to Every Possible Technical Question You Ever Had About Blogging. No Joke, this is a REALLY Comprehensive Course!
A lot of you have been asking about how to setup landing pages and Google Quality Score friendly affiliate sites. We’ll if you start a WordPress blog (which is what Blog Classroom shows you how to do) and add ppc landing pages to it, BOOM, you’ve got a high quality affiliate site up and running.
So if you want to discover how to quickly build an affiliate site that won’t get slapped by Google, Blog Classroom will show you EXACTLY how to do that. (Now make sure you have a customized Wordpress template and lots of unique relevant content on your blog or you’ll still get slapped - again Blog Classroom shows you how to customize your WordPress template as well).
Before you sign up for Blog Classroom I need to tell you about a exclusive bonus package I’m putting together with Andrew Wee.
SPECIAL BONUS FOR GETTING BLOG CLASSROOM THROUGH MY LINK
Top Blogger Andrew Wee, and I are putting together a HIGHLY exclusive bonus for the top 30 people who sign up for Blog Classroom through our link.
The first 30 people who sign up will get access to a live 4 part Advanced Blogging Strategies Webinar Series. For the first time (and most likely the last), Andrew and I are going to reveal our most closely guarded secrets :
- Little Know & Unorthodox Techniques to Quickly & Easily Explode Your Blog Traffic
- How to Create a Fanatical Reader Base that will come Back to your Blog Again and Again, and Tell Other People about Your Blog.
- Why Most Blogger Fail and How to Avoid Falling in This Trap
- How to Leverage Your Blog for Massive Profits & Not Just People Clicking on Adsense Ads
Andrew and I do not currently have plans to release this as a product to the public, this may be your only chance to get your hand on this information. We are opening this up for 30 people ONLY, so act quickly!
Sign up for Blog Classroom now and get access to Amit & Andrew’s Advanced Blogging Strategies Webinar Series.
Email your sales receipt to amit [at] superaffiliatemindset [dot] com to receive a sign up link for Advanced Blogging Strategies.
PS Based on the overwhelming number of people who signed up for the free blogging course after my post about Blog Classroom last week, the 30 seats for our Advanced Blogging Webinar Series will sell out FAST. So hurry!
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I was hugely turned off when I saw that blog classroom pre-course offered. Their assignment - Sign up with Digg and Onlywire - WTF. Even a 4th grader would know that. Setting up a wordpress blog is no rocket science. Its easy as 1-2-3. I hope that there are some quality tips offered later in the course.
As far as I can say, if you have quality content - and know how to utilize social media, quality blog commenting, little seo - you don’t need any course. This just another way of ripping off people!
Hey Anik.
I was one of the first to sign up to blogclassroom. I did so 5 minutes after it went live, through your link. I hope I’m part of the first 30; I sent you an email with a screen shot of the billing page. Surprisingly they didn’t send me a receipt (not very professional) or confirmation and I am following up with them on that.
I have to say I also wasn’t impressed from what I’ve seen so far. While I have a lot of respect for Anik and Ros I’m not convinced from the sales page this course is worth the money.
I started ranting here so much I stopped and turned it into a full blog post:
http://www.sitesalary.com/blog/blog-classroom-shocking-stats-anik-singal-rosalind-gardner-as-blogging-mentors/
I can say that Social Networking is great for bloggers starters and I am a little bit skeptical about those type of course (Still). Few months back I made a case study about how to make money online in 3 months and I covered everything about how to start a blog and the marketing strategies, look at it here:
http://www.googlelady.com/504/how-make-money-online
Amit, do you think is worth buying a product which you can learn it for free?
“How to Get a Avalanche of Highly Targeted Traffic to Your Blog”
LOL! that’s a good one.
Any suggestions for good resources for article submission/ marketing and blog submission?Thanks.
@Dolly before doing Article Submission and Blog submission you should know at least the basics for example:
- Do not submit the same article that you publish in your blog taht will be known as duplicate content.
- Do Not submit your blog to directories that are not well-known. There are some directories that are known as Bad-Neigborhood. An example of a good directory is Yahoo! directory, DMOZ (Which Seems too difficult to submit your blog because there are not so many editors, even Googlelady that is from 2005 is not there what a mess!) and BOTW also is another directory (recommended by one of the Google workers).
Dolly: I agree with googlelady’s first point, but I disagree with the second. Submitting your sites to smaller website directories (different to article directories) will not harm your site - otherwise we’d submit all our competitors sites to those directories. Worst that can happen is they get discounted. In fact I reccomend submitting to a lot of sites - just use a unique description each time or dupe content will just get the links discounted.
With article marketing the main issue is avoiding duplicate content and using article marketing to actually promote something that is actually profitable, rather than just anything.
Some basic info here to get you started:
http://www.sitesalary.com/blog/affiliate-article-marketing-guide-earn-100-a-day-in-60-days/
Oh and GoogleLady - I loved your case study. Inspired by you I might do the same later this year and set myself a challenge of how fast I can get a brand new blog to 10k/month.
I agree with most of what’s been written in the comments thus far. I signed up and was very unimpressed with the suggestions. Digg and the like are suggestions that did well for getting spikes of traffic about 4 years ago. Today, they’ve proven to get a bunch of traffic that doesn’t stick around. The only thing that will do is increase the cost of your hosting. It’s worthless traffic.
This kind of crap that comes out like this makes me think of creating my own “classroom” and talk about stuff that came out last year. I’d be 3 years ahead of these guys.
@Jason Green: It will not harm to submit your site to smaller directories but also will not affect anything just wasting time. I will recommend to first submit to recommended directories and then smaller ones after your site is indexed in Google. And about the case study… Thanks
@GoogleLady: My experience has shown that the smaller directories do help , but a unique description and varied anchor text (usually done by altering your site title slightly) is absolutely crucial.
Admittedly some are worthless - but I usually get about 250 recognized backlinks from submitting to 500 smaller directories, and it helps my sites get indexed a lot quicker and pushes up rankings.
It is of course only one strategy and should be used alongside many other strategies.
@Jason, That is really quite impressive because tested it with the case study and some of them till now (After 6 months) still not showing any benefits. Can you email me with those small directories that you submit so I can check it out and see if some of them I didn’t submit?
Hey GoogleLady,
Sent you an email using the contact form on your site to touch base.
Jason
Hey Jason,
Thanks for the email I will test them all and see how it goes.
Thats crazy money to throw at something which can be figured out if you spend 30mins a day reading popular blogs.
I wonder if we would’ve heard even a squeak, if this same content was launched by a nobody.
Thanks,all. Googlelady,Jason,Nate. Much appreciated.
Amit,
I used your link to subscribe. Did you get my email?
Richard
p.s. as a few others also mention … it is quite a lot of money and we will have to give them a chance to proof that they are worth the money. I give it a try, they have a 60 days 200% money back guarantee. So nothing to loose.
@googlelady: very informative piece of work you have delivered on your site .. THANKS.
richard
Anik’s ppc classroom was a joke. Poorly mismanaged, but the worst part was where he was always running around defending gross errors. I don’t care how much affiliate knowledge he has. I would never take part in another launch of his.
I was just in that last one for the tool since it was suppose to be so excellent (it wasn’t) that I figured it would be cheaper than paying a coder to do from scratch. I was genuinely sad for those who shelled out that money to get worse information than was available on this and other blogs.