Wordpress Goldmine is practically in a class by itself. What I mean by that is it is truely helpful and will teach you how to make money online. It is first and foremost a treatise on profitable internet marketing and secondarily a blog instruction course. This e-book and continuing video course is definitely not the usual rehashed drivel. This author speaks from experience.

Either the e-book or the video series could stand by itself as a complete course. The combination of the two with the forum make an unmatched value.

The five section e-book provides you with in-depth information about not only the processes needed to build your own sites but also what kinds of sites you can create. Live site examples (with URLs) guide you. That is not seen in other, similar products. Mark Thompson, the author, has broken it all down into the following easy to understand sections to make it easy to follow.

Section One looks at the ways of building your WordPress blogs. It takes you through all the steps of setting up and getting your blog running in very little time. You’ll learn theme and plugin installation as well as basic blog promotion.

Section Two of the book starts you with content and the different kinds to use in your blog. Mark covers everything from using PLR (Private Label Rights) articles to original content written by you or others. You’ll find a way to get unique content posted to your blog regularly and at no cost.

Section Three is the money section. In my opinion, you’ll be repaid for the product many times over using what you learn in it. Mark explains, clearly, the ways to monetize a WordPress blog. He tells you in depth how he made $20,000 with a single blog post. The plan in this book is realistic. Others are not and will tell you that you’ll be raking in many thousands of dollars in just 30 days. You’ll find those plans not achievable. There’s no pie in the sky here. Follow this plan and you’ll be earning an extra $1,000 per week by year’s end.

Section Four shows you the various ways to promote your sites. There’s an easy to follow diagram with a list of sites that, when used as described, make the difference between success and failure for your sites. This section is second in importance to only the monetization section.

Section Five teaches you the ways to promote your sites using Web 2.0 to drive them to high rankings and compete more effectively against all competitors. Some may find this section a little formidable at first, but Mark warns at the start that you need to have mastered the other ones before you move on to this one.

I spent a lot of time telling you about the book. Now it’s time to take a quick look at the videos.

A paragraph about each video is going to make this review overly long, so let’s let the titles provide the explanation of each.

Video 1 Choosing a Domain name
Follow Up Video 1 Ranking

Video 2 Choosing a Product
Follow Up Video 2 Converting an existing site to WordPress

Video 3 Setting Up a WordPress Blog
Follow Up Video 3 Using Clipmarks and Twitter

Video 4 Tweaking the Blog
Follow Up Video 4 The Jigsaw Video

Video 5 Promoting Your Site
Follow Up Video 5 BayRSS and EPN

Video 6 Checking Stats
Follow Up Video 6 Free Research Tools

Video 7 Datafeeds Part 1

Video 7 a Datafeeds Part 2

Video 8 Social bookmarking tips

Video 9 Round Up Monetization Methods

Video 10 The New Admin Area in WordPress

Video 11 Tracking Your Promotion

Video 12 Quick Research

Video 13 Creating Headers

In addition to the 20 videos above Mark provides these three step-by-step video series. In one Mark builds an actual money making site.

February Step By Step
Build an actual money making site as you watch

March Step By Step
Advanced Article Marketing

April Step By Step
Builds two digital products

The WordPress Goldmine e-book is 127 pages long, and is accompanied with over 20 videos. The e-book and vidieos are updated as things change (for example, the version of WordPress). In addition to the e-book and videos you have access to a very lively forum.

I don’t think it matters whether you are a complete beginner or have years of internet marketing experience under your belt, you’re going to find advice and tips in all of the three parts of this product that will help make money online. If you plan to buy one only e-book this year, this should be your choice.

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