Affiliate Classroom 2

Affiliate Classroom 2 Review

The original Affiliate Classroom debuted several years ago and approximately 70% of the graduates of that program say they had all the marketing resources they needed to make money online. Affiliate Classroom 2 is an improvement and calls itself an online university for affiliate marketers. Created by Anik Singal over a two year period, the training course provides step by step blueprints on how to make money online using the tools, techniques and templates that Anik uses to earn millions as an affiliate marketer.

Everything you will need is included in your membership fee. If you really want to be successful with this program you need to do the following things:

• Decide which success track you want to follow
• Commit to one course at a time so you can focus more efficiently and manage your time and efforts more effectively
• Realize this is the beginning of a pathway to online success and is not the destination. The destination is earning a living online not just getting training.
• At Affiliate Classroom 2 there is even a student ranking system that measure your progress throughout the entire course and provides you with a report on your success.

Training Courses

Once you join the program you will have immediate access to all of the available training courses. Affiliate Classroom 2 is promising over 250 training courses available by the end of the first year. However, they are no slackers even now because there are 62 Courses being offered at launch covering the following topics:

1.      Affiliate Marketing – this section includes everything from the basics to advanced business models such as:

• Is Affiliate Marketing Right for You? If it isn’t, don’t you want to know immediately before you waste your time and money on something you don’t really want to do?
• What Affiliate Marketing Is and How It Works
• Affiliate Business Models
• Paid Search (PPC) Affiliate Business Model
• Natural Search (SEO) Affiliate Business Model
• Email (Opt-In) Affiliate Business Model
• Content Affiliate Business Model
• Comparison/Direct Sales Affiliate Business Model
• Community/Membership Affiliate Business Model

2.      Legal and Ethical Considerations – this section provides you with “must know” information so you do not get into legal or ethical trouble as a result of just plain ignorance of the law covering:

• Legal & Ethical Issues in the Affiliate Industry
• Email Ethics and Spam Legislation
• Business Entities & Tax Considerations

3.      Monetization - obviously the goal of setting up an affiliate site is to generate income. This section shows you exactly how to do that by discussing:

• Earning Commissions, CPA, and Other revenue sources
• Finding Products
• Finding Products that Fit Your Niche
• Niche Research & Selection
• Niche Research Tools: Free & Paid
• Merchants & Networks
• Finding & Evaluating Merchants
• Working with CPA Networks
• Working with ClickBank & Similar Networks
• Monetization: Choosing Affiliate Offers
• Monetization: Negotiating Commissions

4.      Affiliate Websites – this section at affiliate classroom 2 provides step by step training on how to setup your affiliate website the right way.

• Getting Started: Infrastructure, Tools, and Budgeting
• Building a Basic Website in HTML
• Choosing a Domain Name
• FTP, CPanel, and File Management
• Website Content & Copywriting Basics
• Copywriting – Articles & Blog Posts

5.      Traffic Generation – without traffic to your affiliate website, it is impossible to make any money so traffic generation is one of the most important topics in the training. The following topics are covered at affiliate classroom 2:

• Traffic Basics: Types of Traffic
• Traffic Basics: Keywords & How They Affect Traffic
• Traffic Basics Metrics & Stats
• Free Traffic: Basic Models and Overview of Methods
• Free Traffic: Natural Search
• Free Traffic: Blogs and RSS
• Free Traffic: Opt-in and Email
• Paid Traffic: Paid Search (PPC)
• Paid Traffic: Ezine Advertising
• Paid Search: Principles and Best Practices
• Paid Search: Keywords, Bidding, and URLs
• Paid Search: Campaigns and Quality Score Issues
• Paid Search: Landing Pages and Websites
• Paid Search: Testing and Optimizing
• Paid Search: Intro to AdWords
• Paid Search: AdWords Campaign Setup

6.      SEO Basics – search engine optimization is one way of getting free traffic from the search engines. But, to do so, you need to know the rules and how to use them effectively, affiliate classroom 2 teaches you.

• SEO: Overview of Best Practices
• SEO: Keyword Research – Basic Methods
• SEO: On Page Factors
• SEO: Off Page Factors
• SEO: Link Building

7.      General Marketing – No matter how great your website is, you still need to market the products you are promoting.

• Blog Business Models
• Content Marketing: Article Marketing
• Blog Marketing: Overview of Best Practices
• Blog Directories
• Web 2.0 Marketing: Overview of Best Practices
• Social Bookmarking: Why and How
• Viral Marketing: Video
• Email: Autoresponders
• Email: Incentivized Lists and “Squeeze” Pages

At affiliate classroom 2 these first 62 courses appear to be a very good basic curriculum that will get you up and running and hopefully making some money online in a fairly short period of time.

Student Resources

In addition to all of the courses at affiliate classroom 2 there is a plethora of resources available to the student so that they can learn as much as they want to learn such as:

• Online Training material
• Private Tutoring
• Articles
• Bonus Content
• Case Studies
• Downloadable materials
• Checklists
• Guides
• Interviews
• Audio and video presentations
• Tip Sheets
• A Glossary
• Milestone Questionnaires
• Searchable content database

The keyword search results will suggest other materials related to the topic for you to check out.

Marketing Tools

Affiliate Classroom 2 has also provided an excellent suite of tools for students to use to generate keywords, track traffic and even a tool for organizing passwords. The classroom toolbox includes the following tools:

• Google Match Type Tool
• Key Phrase Multiplier
• Long Tail Keyword Generator
• Adwords Ad Writing Tool
• Keyword List Cleaner
• Geo Keyword Generator
• PPC ROI Calculator
• Tiny URL
• Page Rank
• Traffic Tracker
• Datalocker – organizes passwords
• Hosting-included Website Builder

Networking Community

The community at affiliate classroom 2 is designed for serious affiliate marketers that are looking to build their resume, find people to joint venture with as well as earn commissions. The forum provides:

• A Community home
• A Messaging system with an inbox and the ability to send and receive messages from other students
• A Friend request system with the ability to view friends

Conclusion

Affiliate Classroom 2 is an excellent training course for those who want to start a profitable online business or bring their existing business to the next level. If you are pressed for time or are more comfortable using self-paced individualized training, then this is the program for you. Affiliate Classroom 2 is designed to be flexible enough to fit and schedule and learning pace. I highly recommend it.