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An awful lot has happened in the last eight days.

I took a break from posting as I'm just seeing NO fruit for my efforts !

I still can't even find either of my blogs in the search engines, even if I use VERY specific keywords!

So I decided to backtrack and do some more study before spending a huge amount of time blogging for no good reason.

During this time I have discovered two resources that I am currently investigating

1. Jeff Walters
Rapid Niche Websites (RNW)
www.rapidnichewebsites.com
(US$197 AUD$262.30)

• This first one turns blogs into high-performing websites and makes the blog look like "normal" web pages
  I've yet to fully explore this one as it's quite expensive, given my lack of income from my endeavours so far.

2. Joel Comm
Virtual Real Estate (VRE)
www.instantadsensetemplates.com
US$277 (AUD$368.81)

• The second supplies pre-optimised Google Adsense templated web sites

NOTE: This one took a while to load (even at 512Kbps) as there are 13 THIRTEEN video product/site-references and a very long sales letter.

Neither of them will help in choosing a rich niche but I guess that's the real secret isn't it !

A third and perhaps the most important find was when I came across Allan Gardyne's article "Affiliate Program Tutorial"

Allan has (in his words) been "Earning a good living from affiliate programs since 1998. "

Allan's whole site is a mine of information for newbies.

• MOST importantly he links to a (free) 193-page e-book by Ken Evoy called the Affiliate Masters Course.

Basically I cannot begin to describe how helpful these two resources have been to me, even if I haven't yet started to benefit from them financially. They have change my thinking.

You HAVE TO download, print-out, and read-for-yourself, as I just don't know where to begin with praise or comment for the insight I have gained from these resources.

The two resources have (a) helped me understand that it is normal that a new blog may go through a phase of upto eight weeks with no apparent presence on the web, before starting to get some visitors and comments and links and the-like.

(This has renewed my hope !)

And (b) Ken's whole approach is that where most people aim for a 1~3% return from their Affiliate Marketing, most of those he trains get between 5 and 10% and occassionally upto 20% returns !

He bases this on PRE-selling through information-rich sites rather than DIRECT sales links, and teaches that spending the time up-front is MOST important. It's NOT a race against time it's, about GETTING IT RIGHT - UP-FRONT and not wasting a whole lot of energy further down the track.

Oh and yes, I've been working with my daughter on getting her own web marketing under-way. I'll blog about that in my next post as the kids have just come down looking for me to make them their breakfast.