Reviews

You or may not be aware of who Charles Floate is, but seeing as you are reading this post; I will assume that you have a basic idea about who he is.

For those of you who don’t know, I will give you a brief overview below.

But for this intro, I will just say that the Charles Floate Affiliate Course is by far one of the most interesting courses I have ever bought, (and I have bought a lot…I just love spending money:P).

However, does interesting = good?

Check out the full review below…

If you are a complete beginner, I would not recommenced spending money on this course. It is aimed at slightly more intermediate to advanced affiliate marketers.

That doesn’t mean that beginners won’t get any value from it; but rather some of the modules and language can be confusing without prior knowledge.

This course Will NOT teach you about the basics of setting up a website or the very basics of affiliate marketing…so be aware of this before deciding to purchase.

The bottom line is a resounding yes…but with some caveats.

You can see in the cons column, some of the issues with the course revolve around the price, the end result it focuses on and it not being so beginner friendly.

However all of these issues are not really big deals when you dig a bit deeper.

So to that end, I will start with the price:

Let first address the elephant in the room here…the price.

So what does it cost?

$499

That is how much it costs and there is no way around it…that is pretty expensive!

However when you start to stack up what you are getting, the cost is not so bad.

As said and as I will go into more detail in a moment; this is not for those of you just starting out, and this is kind of aimed at people already making some money and willing to reinvest part of it to get a deeper understanding of some of the more specific details regarding making money online.

This is another one that can be also a positive, but for my purposes I will take this a con of the course.

I say this because my main aim with making money online is that I really want to be able to create a long lasting income source that I can use as a monthly income of sorts.

You see ever since I read the 4 Hour Work Week, I somewhat changed my goals. I would obviously love to tap in my password into an ATM machine and see millions of $$$, but I also live that very frightful thing called, “The Real World”!

So to that end I have made it my mission to be able to do pretty much what I want, when I want and how I want. I have decided that a certain amount per month is sufficient for me to achieve this goal. I won’t disclose that amount because it my own personal goal, but it is 5 figures and not as much as you may think because I live in Laos which is substantially cheaper than the West.

I can hear you saying right now, “that’s great and all Harry, but what the fuck are you talking about!?”.

Well apart from asking myself that same question everyday; the point I am trying to make is that my goal isn’t getting lump sums of cash throughout the year. I have a family and need the security of a monthly amount.

This course is very heavy with flipping, (not exclusively and you certainly don’t have to flip the site at the end of it, but that is just the impression I get).

As you can see, this really isn’t actually a bad thing about this course and I really want to stress that it is just my opinion.

You guys may be chomping at the bit to flip your sites and if so great, I say go for this course and you will get absolutely everything you want.

I appreciate that the previous section may sound pretty negative, but I wanted to get that out of the way first because actually, most of the benefits are really positives depending on how you look at it.

Let me explain:

There is a lot of information here. Seriously a lot and you can tell that some serious work has gone into creating it. 

It’s a very polished product and one that you will get value from.

It would be great if it were slightly cheaper, but overall I would say that this is probably the right amount. It also has the effect of weeding out any tire kickers, the type that buys a course, reads it then proceeds to do nothing!

This will hep Charles in the long run because if you are willing to spend nearly 500 big boys on a digital course; you can bet your fucking arsehole that you are going to do something with the info. When you end up succeeding; you will give him a good review!

There is very interesting aspect to this particular course that sets it apart from others and something that makes it potentially the most useful.

It has 3 kind of sections, that you can follow and an overall game plan that will help you to succeed quicker and get greater profits.

He teaches you how to be whiter than white, getting a nice clean back link profile and just basically being a good boy or girl.

The reason for this section is so that you can eventually flip your site for a higher amount.

Downside being that it takes longer and involves outreach, which is good or bad depending on just how antisocial you are.

This is a way to make your tier 1, incoming links look clean as a whistle. But fucking those links in the rear end is some dirty, fucking power that supercharges them.

Benefit is that it can be quicker, but make no mistake, this method is not easier than the white method, just different and requires a different skill set and a different amount of capital to produce.

Again, this is not an easy method, but can be very quick if you do it right.

This is not a sustainable way to earn online nowadays and even Charles himself makes this clear. However it can get you some money to get started on a more sustainable, long term money making endeavor.

The thing is, sites that use PBN’s or have used a link building campaign, generally sell for less and can be prone to penalties.

Hell, every damn site can be prone to penalties to be honest, and some whitehat sites also get punished in the inevitable mass dredging that the big G does.

However, if you can move toward the white you will be better placed to weather the storms that periodically arrive.

This course actually promotes the use of link building (done in a smart way), to get you ranking. Once you rank, you can start to acquire natural links and slowly remove all of the links that you built unnaturally.

I don’t know of any other course that does this.

So the question that you are really after, is if it is worth the money.

Now if you decide to buy through this website, I will get a commssion.

However I have bought this course with my own money and am currently absorbing all that it has to offer, (as well as rearranging an existing website of mine based on its principles).

I have no issues with saying that this course is well worth it.

As I have stressed throughout this review; it won’t really be useful for complete beginners, but if you have already stared to make a bit of money online, this is the course for you.

In fact you don’t even need to have made any money because you can do the churn & burn method to get some capital.

However you really need to understand certain aspect of SEO before you spend nearly $500 on it.

So if you are everything I have described, you need to get this course and if you follow its teachings; you will achieve more.

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These plugins help to reduce the size of the images on your website. Images take a lot of time to load and the larger they are, (file size), then the slower your website will run.

If you enjoy fiddling about with settings and the like, then Ewww is a good choice, but if you just want to plugin and forget, Smush.it is going to be the best option for you.

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It also has a very small learning curve and it is super easy to jump into without much effort.

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From the same people as Thrive Content Builder, this is their email generation plugin.

Basically works by giving you loads of options to create pop-ups, landing pages, widgets and loads more.

If you are worried that you don’t know how to make a pop-up or landing page etc, don’t worry because there are many templates to choose from. Just replace the text with whatever you want and you’re away!

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Very simple to install, easy to set up and a breeze to start getting some organic shares to your website.

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It does everything and it’s a bit of a Swiss Army Knife of plugins, so to speak.

It has both free and paid for options, but I only ever use the free options and have never needed to upgrade.

Out of all the features, I use:

• Heat map – Lets you see where your readers are clicking
• Content aware – Shows you how much of your content people are reading on average
• Image share – Puts those little sharing icons in your images when people hover over them
• Share buttons – Lets you have a nice looking, floating social sharing option
• Scroll box – can use to either collect emails, or to promote your Facebook page

There are loads more but those are what I use on a daily basis  

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The most useful feature, though, is the “Site Stats” option whereby you can see your traffic and some other details.

It is a bit like Google Analytics, but more friendly to use and gives you a very nice overview of what is going on with your traffic.

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Especially useful for longer posts, you just add in a simple shortcode at the start and you’re away!

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So there you have the top 10 plugins that I use on my website all the time, some paid for but mostly free.

You don’t have to go mad with buying loads of fancy things when you are just starting out but you will have to be prepared to spend some cash if you want to get serious.

My suggestion is to start off with the free options until you start making a small amount of money per month, then you can invest in some super tools to really boost your earnings to the next level!