Resolutions, Learning Guitar & Review Websites
Happy New Year Guys 
In this post: Resolutions, learning guitar and review websites
Have you made any resolutions for 2012?
I don’t usually make New Year Resolutions – if I want to do something or stop doing something then I don’t wait until the New Year to fulfil it, I just get on with it there and then.
But it just so happened that for Christmas, my eldest son wanted an electric guitar (which he duly received) and I found myself picking it up and attempting to play it multiple times during the holidays.
So I decided for myself that over the next 12 months, I’m going to learn to play the guitar – I don’t have my own yet but my son has kindly agreed to let me borrow his to practice on. In exchange, I bought us a copy of Jamorama (an online guitar course) to help us with our studies.
I’ve been practicing for about 2 weeks now and can play 7 chords (although the F Major chord is proving to be a bitch lol).
A few minutes ago, as I was practicing, I thought to myself how blessed I was to be able to learn to play the guitar during the day when most folk are at work in their 9-5 jobs. I guess that’s the major plus of being a self-employed Internet Marketer – a combination of being able to choose the hours that I work along with being able to earn cash when I’m not working gives me a lot of free time to pursue my interests.
And that, in my opinion, is what life’s all about. Doing stuff you want to do and not being bogged down with stuff you don’t want to do (like working for ‘the man’),
Anyway, enough about the Internet Lifestyle and onto a few details of a quick and dirty project I’ve been working on…
As I said I purchased the Jamorama Online Guitar Course through Clickbank and this puts me in a prime position to review it so I set up a new website: Jamorama Review, which does just that.
I’ve provided visitors with a review of the beginner guitar course plus a few related posts that may be of interest to them and interlinked the pages to each other. I’ve also done a little SEO and targeted the keywords Jamorama Review and Jamorama Reviews.
At the moment, it sits in around 60th place for these keywords and hopefully with a little more work it will push closer to the number one position. If anyone purchases the course after clicking on my link I get 20 quid.
To be honest, I’m not spending a whole lot of time on this website. I’ve spent around a tenner and six hours work on it and now I’m just adding a little content each week and seeing what happens.
I love writing about my new interest, so the time I’ve spent on it doesn’t seem like work at all.
I’ve found review sites to be a good source of income in the past (provided it ranks on the first page of Google) because people that visit them are already halfway towards buying. They just need a little push in the right direction and this can be achieved by assuring them that the product is great value.
The crux is that ranking a review site (in my experience) is a bit hit and miss because a lot of Internet Marketers have the same idea. Many will put up a review site without even reviewing the product, which I think is a little dishonest but I’ve done it myself before so I shouldn’t really judge others 
Nowadays, I only review stuff that I know a fair bit about because then I don’t feel guilty about it afterwards (I’ve no idea how scammers can stop their conscience hurting when they pull the wool of the eyes of others).
Google does have a little trouble separating the wheat from the chaff when it comes to review sites and I’ve often found myself ranking below some crappy website that only has an affiliate link to the product.
But that’s part of the fun of Internet Marketing
Bye for now,
Danny
