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[wrc1010]

I am working on implementing Clickbank as well in a few days possibly.

Mike

Will i still get the special discount?

[Faith]

Will i still get the special discount?

I cannot work coupon codes through clickbank unfortunately. Email me at support.

Mike

[BrianK]

Hi Mike… bought your Auto Blog 2 this week and have gone through all your videos and teachings at least once. Wow. I learned a lot. We are going through the second time now. Each time, something else clicks!

My husband (Phil) & I purchased the Master Mage program from Greg Jacobs on 5/28 and we are in the 30 day free look period. We need to cancel by 6/28 for a full refund.

Our host is their recommended ‘Coolhandle Hosting’. We have 6 sites up and we are getting very little traffic (less than 10 hits/day and dropping!) Our sites are:

AL-GARYA.NET
BARANGAYFRANCES.COM
BINCHITRAVELS.COM
EMRYLDADVANTAGE.COM
HEALTHINSURNACE.info
topdecorationvalues.com

We have most of the affiliates set up; not EPN or Overstock yet. We are NOT making any money at all after 20 days. We are internet junkies but we are real ‘Newbies’ to blogging. We are determined to learn this though before we grow up!

Now that we have gone through your program, we wonder if we need Mage. What are your thoughts?

May we make an appointment to talk to you on the phone? We’ll call on our nickel, anytime that is convenient for you.

Susan Adamczyk
Tallahassee, FL
850-942-5850

[Faith]

Nobody "needs" Mage to succeed. I was doing well with auto blogging well before I ever even heard of Mage. It is just a really nice to have set of plugins. The system teaches you the wrong way to do things and I think they know it too. So it depends on how much money you have to spend because the ability that the Mage Plugins give you to mix content is great, but WP Robot 3.10 is right there with it now. I use their plugins quite a bit, but not in the traditional "Mage" methodology. I use the template tags and posting template to create posts and sometimes I add the Mage Plugins in to things like ReviewAZON or EZ Empire Builder. It just gives you a lot of options for content.

I can't decide for you, but this program was built to help you succeed without having to break the bank on one tool if you can't afford it. I know you bought into a system, but the system does not work. I actually might rewrite it for Greg, but that depends if I can find the time.

Mike

[evgeniynik]

Hi Mike… bought your Auto Blog 2 this week and have gone through all your videos and teachings at least once. Wow. I learned a lot. We are going through the second time now. Each time, something else clicks!

My husband (Phil) & I purchased the Master Mage program from Greg Jacobs on 5/28 and we are in the 30 day free look period. We need to cancel by 6/28 for a full refund.

Our host is their recommended ‘Coolhandle Hosting’. We have 6 sites up and we are getting very little traffic (less than 10 hits/day and dropping!) Our sites are:

AL-GARYA.NET
BARANGAYFRANCES.COM
BINCHITRAVELS.COM
EMRYLDADVANTAGE.COM
HEALTHINSURNACE.info
topdecorationvalues.com

We have most of the affiliates set up; not EPN or Overstock yet. We are NOT making any money at all after 20 days. We are internet junkies but we are real ‘Newbies’ to blogging. We are determined to learn this though before we grow up!

Now that we have gone through your program, we wonder if we need Mage. What are your thoughts?

May we make an appointment to talk to you on the phone? We’ll call on our nickel, anytime that is convenient for you.

Susan Adamczyk
Tallahassee, FL
850-942-5850

Susan,

Since you posted all this detail I'm going to assume you'll be receptive to a "tough love" opinion. So please take the following advice as a brutally honest opinion that should save you time, money, and effort, okay?

I looked at all your sites and, after waiting forever for them to load, I can only characterize them as examples of "things that might be semantically related but really aren't although some of the results are strangely humorous". Ouch! I hope the sting of that doesn't hurt too much.

Seriously, though. A post titled "Safety Pad" on a "Good Health" site (located at www.barangayfrances.com because that's the kind of domain name one would expect for such things?) that discusses "Using a Trampoline Safety Pad For Worry-Free Bouncing" with a video of a teenage boy talking about getting some girl to bounce back to his "pad" (or something like that - I couldn't sit through the whole video to actually figure it out) is followed by ads for a "Naturepedic Waterproof Fitted Crib Pad" and "Mechanix Wear MKP-05-600 Knee Pads, Black, Pair" and "Viking Hot Line Stainless Steel Panel Phone with Armored Cable and Stainless Steel key pad".

If you try hard enough you can almost figure out the logic that brought those elements together. It's almost like an advanced artificial intelligence system with an extremely refined sense of humor. (If you aren't laughing till it hurts at this point you need to read the previous paragraph again. Hint: the condom ad was too obvious so it got filtered out by the system - not wanting to go for the cheap laughs.)

And that was just ONE blog post on one of the sites. On your baseball site the top post is for soccer shoes. Really? "Choosing Your Soccer Shoes" is the "Emryl Advantage" for the game of baseball? Who knew?

Bottom line: these sites will never make you any money.

I would get a refund on Mage while you still can, research a new niche and buy a new, sensible domain, and follow the rest of Mike's program. Live and learn.

Just my two cents worth. Apologies if I offended - that wasn't my intent.

Best wishes,

Pat

[Kohgsobgds]

Mike how much is the monthly fee for the members forum?
Some people have asked me.

[golden1]

Mike how much is the monthly fee for the members forum?
Some people have asked me.

The Member Forum is only available to Auto Blog Blueprint members. No additional options are available.

Mike

[aseraatins]

Susan,

Since you posted all this detail I'm going to assume you'll be receptive to a "tough love" opinion. So please take the following advice as a brutally honest opinion that should save you time, money, and effort, okay?

I looked at all your sites and, after waiting forever for them to load, I can only characterize them as examples of "things that might be semantically related but really aren't although some of the results are strangely humorous". Ouch! I hope the sting of that doesn't hurt too much.

Seriously, though. A post titled "Safety Pad" on a "Good Health" site (located at www.barangayfrances.com because that's the kind of domain name one would expect for such things?) that discusses "Using a Trampoline Safety Pad For Worry-Free Bouncing" with a video of a teenage boy talking about getting some girl to bounce back to his "pad" (or something like that - I couldn't sit through the whole video to actually figure it out) is followed by ads for a "Naturepedic Waterproof Fitted Crib Pad" and "Mechanix Wear MKP-05-600 Knee Pads, Black, Pair" and "Viking Hot Line Stainless Steel Panel Phone with Armored Cable and Stainless Steel key pad".

If you try hard enough you can almost figure out the logic that brought those elements together. It's almost like an advanced artificial intelligence system with an extremely refined sense of humor. (If you aren't laughing till it hurts at this point you need to read the previous paragraph again. Hint: the condom ad was too obvious so it got filtered out by the system - not wanting to go for the cheap laughs.)

And that was just ONE blog post on one of the sites. On your baseball site the top post is for soccer shoes. Really? "Choosing Your Soccer Shoes" is the "Emryl Advantage" for the game of baseball? Who knew?

Bottom line: these sites will never make you any money.

I would get a refund on Mage while you still can, research a new niche and buy a new, sensible domain, and follow the rest of Mike's program. Live and learn.

Just my two cents worth. Apologies if I offended - that wasn't my intent.

Best wishes,

Pat

I looked at the topdecorationvalues site and was greeted with a colon cleanse posting? That seems to be a decent keyword rich domain that would be a great site if it had useful info and products related to interior design, drapes, window treatments, etc...Having a colon cleanse and weed detox post on the front page is a dead give away to users and SE's that the site does not offer useful content. If that is what the Mage teaches...I would get a refund as well. Go through The Blueprint a few times and take detailed notes along the way. Save these sites and when you compare them to the ones you built after following the Blueprint...You will be proud of your improvements. Best of Luck with your next group of sites BTW.

[Teergorib]

@suzy
let me try to offer one constructive comment.

Whether you decide to keep mage or not, you need to decide on your sites focus and choose keywords appropriately.
You may have been told to keep your keywords broad and wide so you get maximum content, but that is the wrong thing to do in "niche" marketing.

For instance, your home decorating site, which is allegedly about making a home homely, your keyword seems to be "home"
Unfortunately this pulls in "home insulation" "home medics" "home insurance" "home wood rot" and anything else.
Currently the home page is about coffee makers, so I guess that had home in it somewhere too.

I presume the home insurance site is broken because the home page has no article and then everything else is one "item" per post. aka it is not integrated content.

Anyway you need to totally re-think your keyword strategy. Mage or not.
And I am also unclear on your niche strategy either.

So I suspect the reason your traffic is so low, is because the search engines have little idea what your site is about, or if it does, can then not find the content to match it.

As an ABB member, you already know the training available on this topic.

peter

[bobsherman]

Here is a very informative set of statistics on WPMage..... reasons why Auto Blog Blueprint is SO attractive in comparison.

Update - Had to remove this link as Greg Jacobs of WPMage suspended my WPMage account for showing images of polls I took on the WPMage members forum. I got rid of the pictures so I could gain access back to the WPMage members forums since I did pay $900+ dollars for my membership...

Kev