Well - this is my first post so I might as well describe what I am doing first. I thought that a really good way to chart the progress of our challenge to make £10,000 profit a month using Affiliate Marketing would be to report thoughts in a blog.
I'm not sure if using Blogger is the right thing to do or not - I know that a lot of affiliates love the Wordpress software but I am not sure if this applies to the hosted Wordpress blogging thing too. Anyhow - I have used Blogger in the past and kind of know my way around it so this is why I have looked at it.
As part of the set-up on both Blogger and Wordpress you have to opt for a template (or theme). Although this blog is not intended to be the route to our internet millions - we may as well make some money out of it from the odd bit of Adsense advertising. With this in mind I wanted to use a theme where the design can easily accommodate Adsense or other banners.
Making Adsese appear on a Blogger blog is as easy as anything but I do think that there should be more options on the template options - they are all pretty much 2 column and do not offer much scope for ad banners.
On the Wordpress blog there were many more template options - the downside is that you cannot mess with designs on Wordpress unless you upgrade to the CSS edit option - it is dead cheap but then you are into doing CSS stuff - we can do all this but I'm not sure it is the best use our time. I think you can buy templates for both so maybe we can look at this in the future.
I would have expected that Blogger would be loved by Google (what with them owning it) but I have to say other small blogs we have built using Blogger have not done that well on Google - maybe this is a lack of links and content issue? At the recent A4UExpo, Kieron Donoghue said ‘Google just loves it’ when talking about Wordpress so that is a pretty good recommendation.
Anyhow I think, on balance, a Blogger blog is the best thing for us - quick and easy to set up as I know how to use it - leaves more time for learning more about Affiliate Marketing and to reach that magic £10,000 progit!
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