Here’s Roger’s review of David Bain’s 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan:

What You Get:

• 4 DVDs with 26 weeks worth of instruction
• 4 workbooks that reinforce the DVDs
• 8 Audio CDs with bonus interviews
• PDF files to reinforce interviews and instruction
• 10-Step Quick Start Guide
• Poster that outlines the entire program completely color coded

Admittedly, I was a little apprehensive when David Bain approached me to joint venture partner with him on the 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan venture as a lot of what David’s claimed to be offering was similar in scope to the SEO Bible’s intended content. After mulling it over for a bit, I remembered my own affirmation “why try to reinvent the wheel?” I’m glad I came to that decision.

The 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan is a robust product offering that incorporates business strategy, tactical how-to advice, and covers a wide array of internet marketing topics that should benefit anyone looking to learn more about this lucrative field. There are a lot of products that touch upon various aspects of the 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan, but I’m not exaggerating when I say this is what we were hoping to produce with the SEO Bible video and audio training package. Again, “why reinvent the wheel?” This is what was being developed behind the scenes, but I highly encourage you to get this package now. We’ll throw in our SEO videos once they’re complete, and you’ll get a copy of the SEO Bible eBook immediately upon purchasing David’s product through our affiliate link here:

Purchase 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan

Simply e-mail us a copy of your order number, and we’ll send you a copy of the eBook immediately then send you update links as the videos, audio files, and supplemental workbooks become available. We’ll even throw in the SMO videos (our next product) once they’re produced at no additional charge to you. How’s that for an offer? Hopefully one you can’t refuse.

Unbiased Product Review

Ok, as for the product itself. I’m impressed with the strategic overview David provides at the beginning. When a lot of marketers set out to create a web presence, it’s simply because a competitor is already ranking well for a certain term (SEO) or they think ranking well for a particular keyword phrase will lead them to oodles of traffic and increased sales. Reality doesn’t quite workout that way more often than not, and there are more things to consider beyond ranking well for a few keyword phrases.

The 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan does a good job with traditional SEO (if there is such a thing for a relatively young industry). SEO is just one piece of the puzzle though, and I’m grateful that David’s program delves deeper into a myriad of topics surrounding internet marketing including: social media, press releases, site architecture, blogging, RSS, e-mail, PPC, directories, article marketing, forum interaction, podcasting, video marketing, and analytics.

While it pains me to admit that David beat us to the punch with his product, he did so there’s no sense in pretending otherwise. Hat’s off to him for producing a quality product that covers a lot of ground in a well integrated package that should benefit those lucky enough to get a hand on the product for years to come. I highly recommend this package to internet marketers of beginning to intermediate skill levels. There is a lot to learn, and this is a fantastic place to start.

Well done David!

PS–this isn’t to suggest there isn’t something of value to be learned in our products because they compliment one another very nicely. I don’t want that to be lost in the shuffle.

While we’ve been promising you videos for a little over a month, and we haven’t forgotten that, we’re in the process of updating the eBook and the videos to contain quite a bit more on Social Media Optimization (SMO).  We believe this is the next frontier for SEO and traffic generation for businesses so we hope this strategy pays dividends for all involved in time.  Plus, we want to provide more value than our competitors.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out our report/eBook SEO 3.0: Business Implications, we encourage you to sign up for updates on the homepage so you can gain access.  It talks about SMO quite a bit and contains some tips that can help you generate a lot of traffic to your site quickly.

We’ve taken the liberty to upload a few pages to our products section that address areas of SEO that might be a sticking point for some of you like copywriting, blogging, web video, and article submission.

If any of these topics interest you, click on the hyperlink to take you to a sales page for the product. Let us know if you like any of the products or if you’d like to see others added. We’ll be reviewing quite a few products over the next few weeks that will help you with Internet marketing.

NOTE: we did not create any of the products (we’re affiliates). We’re trying to become a resource hub for those looking to learn SEO and Internet marketing.

In case you missed it, we released the eBook earlier this morning.  To get your hands on a copy right now, head on over to our products section at http://products.the-seo-bible.com.  We’re discounting the price by $20 for you early birds. 

Look for the videos and podcasts to be released in the next couple of weeks, and those that purchase the eBook prior to the other products’ release will get a nice discount on the other products when they become available.  We’re going to make it well worth your while to get the eBook right now. 

 We’ve received a flurry of sign-ups in the last couple of days so thank you to everyone who has jumped on board lately.  This will be a fun journey to search optimization success. 

Time flies doesn’t it! We’re already to FAQ 4 in our ongoing series. This one is a good one that I hope everyone reads.

Q. Why should I buy the SEO Bible instead of the SEO Book?

A. The SEO Book is a great product, and I’d highly recommend purchasing both products as we’ve read the SEO Book and believe Aaron Wall has done a tremendous job with his book. We also reference some of the free tools on Aaron’s site. Our product is more of a step by step guide along with videos to show you the way as you attempt to optimize your site to appear in the top ranks of search engine results. That’s not to suggest you can’t learn everything you need to know in the SEO Book, but we’ve tweaked The SEO Bible to quickly get you up to snuff on SEO and show you step-by-step the things we’ve done to optimize our clients’ sites in addition to our own.

In an ideal world, you’d purchase both products, but we realize it’s not an ideal world. If you want to quickly learn specific search optimization tasks and some of the theory behind them, our product offers that. Most people are visual, and our video series will show someone visually how to get up to snuff. Reading a book will eventually get you where you want to go, but videos will reinforce what you read so we believe our one-two punch will take you there quickest. 

We’re also bundling some additional products that will teach you other key concepts of internet marketing to increase awareness of your business and ultimately generate more sales.