I've bought several of these kind of things before. Have you? I shelled out $97 for a program that promised to show me how to siphon millions out of Google Adwords/Adsense using the arbitrage method. It was a dog. I did my dough. Then I bought another program called TrackbackSpider which promised to get me thousands of legitimate trackbacks using my selected anchor text. This one was $97 a month so didn't come cheap. I tried it for a couple of months and I'm really not sure if it did me any good or not. It may have worked the opposite as my Google PageRank went down from PR3 to PR2. But who would know? I used to be PR5 before Google went apeshit about a year back and cut everybody's rank. PageRank means bugger-all anyway. Its links that count - quality on-topic anchortext links preferably.

I bought another program called TrafficGeyser that gets your crappy video on to the first page of Google and the other search engines in as little as ten minutes. It works but it too costs $97 a month.
Anyway...where was I? Oh yeah...I'm about to buy Commission Blueprint. I'm skeptical but I'm willing to give it a bash for a month or so (truth is my 97 year old Aunt died this year and left me a small inheritance).

What's in the package? I've done my due diligence (well I hope I have) so I pretty much know what I'm about to get. The first thing I found out is that this program is not for beginners. That's O.K. - after three years of working online I've made enough mistakes to have learnt a few lessons. I know all about buying domains/hosting/basic html/PHP/how PPC works/Google Adwords ecetera ecetera. The second thing is its obvious you need to spend a bit of money to make money. Apparently Commission Blueprint recommends you budget at least $500 for each campaign you create.

I got the following from someone else's review of Commission Bullshit...I mean Blueprint, so I can't vouch for the veracity of it.
The first thing talked about is how to select the right Clickbank products to advertise with PPC on Google Adwords. Clickbank Affiliate Programs are picked based on their actual payout for affiliates and their overall gravity - as Clickbank explains -

some affiliates prefer to promote very popular products that attract lots of affiliates (high affiliate gravity), while others prefer to promote products with less advertising exposure (lower affiliate gravity)

Commission Blueprint gives you an Excel spreadsheet with a formula already embedded which shows you if you can make money from the programs you select. All you do is import the information from Clickbank to know if a program has profit potential.

SEO and Keyword Research is critical, apparently, in this program. They provide a spreadsheet for importing a few critical values in that will help determine what keywords have potential for converting for your Clickbank programs. Commission Blueprint recommends you only use 10-20 high payoff keywords to start your Adwords campaign.

Then there's a section on keyword conversion tracking that separates each keyword into its own ad group with its own ad. Here's where they recommend you buy SpeedPPC - an Australian product (like me) BTW. Speed PPC will create all of your ads, the ad tracking, the keyword groups, campaigns, landing pages, and more and do it for you in 15 minutes for as many keywords as you want to use.

They say Commission Blueprint (cheesy name huh?) creates your landing pages - the page you send your customers to - optimized for a high Google Quality Score. (If your ads, keywords, and landing pages do not relate to each other properly (in Google's eyes), you will not get a good Quality Score and this will affect your PPC cost per click amount).

OK. So get in, buckle up and get ready for the ride. I'm hoping to blog my results of Commission Blueprint here daily.

Malcolm Lambe is an Australian living in Paris with his French wife and two small children and trying to make a living online.