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No, im not going to talk about the George Clooney movie, but rather about about a blog named Affiliate Confession.

Affiliate Confession is the brainchild of network marketer, Alan LeStourgeon. It is essentially a personal blog which takes a completely honest look at all of the issues surrounding making money as an affiliate marketer. In his blog, Alan gives his tried and true opinions about real ways to make money with network marketing instead of boasting about unattainable, unrealistic income like many other popular bloggers. Affiliate Confession is a blog for the regular Joe who wants to dive into earning money online legitimately, minus all the scams and immoral marketing tactics.

As of October 2007, Alan has successfully managed to build his earnings to a steady $2000 to $2500 per month. Through his hard work and dedication he has learned many of the tricks of the trade and passes them back down to you through his posts on Affiliate Confession.

Updated daily, the blog covers a broad range of topics including: advertising, affiliate programs, Clickbank, Commission Junction, eBay, ebooks, Google Adsense, MLM, pay per click, traffic and more.

Affiliate Confession holds frequent contests to reward its readers. The current blog contest which runs until February 18th is for a free bottle of Nubody Organic Health Multi-Vitamins, a $40 value. Entering the contest is a breeze; just subscribe to the Affiliate Confession RSS feed and add the blog to your favorites on Technorati.

Taking The 30 Day Blogging Challenge is one of Alan’s most popular posts. Here he proposes that serious bloggers need to challenge themselves by committing to making at least one blog post per day for 30 days straight. The 30 day challenge is just one of the many honest ways that Affiliate Confession helps encourage readers to get serious about blogging, getting traffic and ultimately earning a decent income.

Pros

1. The blog offers completely free advice, plain and simple. As a reader, you will not be scammed into buying ebooks or products that are misleading.
2. Affiliate Confession lays everything out there without the sugar-coating and lies used by greedy marketers whose only interest is making a quick buck off of their readers.
3. Since the blog is updated on a consistent, daily basis with informative posts, there is always something fresh and interesting to read.
4. Contests are friendly, fun and anyone can participate.

Cons

1. Like any normal human being with feelings and wandering thoughts, Alan does tend to stray off topic from time to time with posts containing personal ramblings and even healthy dining tips and recipes. These oddball posts are by no means a terrible thing (they are actually quite entertaining), they just have nothing to do with network marketing!
2. The design is crap. At first glance I saw that it was an unbranded free theme and my first impression was that it was yet another crappy blog. Affiliate Confession should have a professional design done if Alan wants to stand out as the blogger who teaches affiliate marketing.
3. Alan’s landmark posts are not visible to the new reader. My blog converts a lot of subscribers because they can quickly and instantly see my most powerful posts and how much they will benefit them. Even if a first-time reader visits my blog on a day where I have an off-topic post, they will still have a good chance at converting. On Affiliate Confession, the only landmark posts shown are the ones with the most comments, and that is only displayed on the bottom right of the footer! You should make a featured posts area above the fold in my personal opinion.

If affiliate marketing interests you, go check out Affiliate Confession.