30 Day Challenge 2008
Day 14 – Setting Up A Tumblr Blog
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Link: Day 14 Introduction – Ed Dale Today Dan introduces you to a service called Tumblr and shows you how to sign up for Tumblr, and then set up your first Tumblr site correctly. Sensitivity is required with this one. Those who did the 30 day challenge will remember the Tumblr Tumbling we all took [...]
Day 13 – Assessing Your Blog Traffic
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Link: Day 13 Introduction – 1:03min Today Ed took us through the important process of analysing the results we’ve been receiving from Google Analytics. Assessing Your Blog Traffic – Ed Dale Link: Using Google Analytics To Check Your Blog Stats – 8:33mins Setting up Google Analytics on your site was covered on Day 07 of [...]
Day 12 – Setting Up A Hub Page
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Link: Day 12 Introduction – Ed Dale Today Caro took us through the process of setting up a Hub page to get some more off-page authority for our blog. How To Create A Hubpages Site – Caro Link: Create a HubPage – 21:28mins Using the content list you generated in Market Samurai, Caro showed us [...]
Day 11 – Lesson 2
Monday, August 11th, 2008Finding Content Using Market Samurai – Guru Bob Link: More Content Sources in Market Samurai – 8:13min GuruBob takes us through an important update to Market Samurai that helps you find even more content for your niche. If it was possible, Market Samurai just got even cooler. When you start up Market Sumurai you wil [...]
Day 11 – Lesson 1
Monday, August 11th, 2008How To Build A Squidoo Lens – Caro Link: Create A Squidoo Lens – Link to your Blog and Socical Bookmark – 17.29min Caro took us through the process of signing up to Squidoo, building a Squidoo lens, linking it to your WordPress Direct blog, and then finally social bookmark it. Caro also explains the [...]
Day 11 – How To Build A Squidoo Lens
Monday, August 11th, 2008Building a Squidoo Lens and Finding Content Link: Day 11 Introduction – Ed Dale Building quality content pages pointing to our blogs builds authority backlinks. Squidoo is one of the tools we use to do this. Creating quality content using existing content is one of the quickest ways to do this. This does not mean [...]
Day 10 – RSS Submission
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Rest Day… or is it? Link: Day 10 Introduction Video – Ed Dale Although day 10 is a rest day for the Thirty Day Challenge, they still have something special for us, another free tool to help us in the challenge. An RSS Submission Service for our niche blogs. The Thirty Day Challenge RSS Submission [...]
Day 9 – Lesson 2
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Find Out If Your Site Is Indexed – GuruBob Link: How to Find Out if Your site is Indexed by the Search Engines – 4:42mins To check that your site has been indexed: go to Google Search, enter site:yourblogURL as search term. If your site has been indexed, the indexed pages will show as results. [...]
Day 9 – Lesson 1
Saturday, August 9th, 2008How To Get More Backlinks – Ed Dale Link: Introducing Yourself to the Neighbourhood – 14:22mins There are a couple of ways to find out where our neighbours hang out. One is Google Groups, another is Squidoo. To find groups associated with your niche: Go to Google groups and enter your niche key phrase as [...]
Day 09 – Backlinks And Indexing
Saturday, August 9th, 2008How to Get More Back-links and Indexed by Google Link: Day 9 Introduction – Ed Dale Yesterday we announced out brand new blogs to the world using social bookmarking, today we start to get to know our neighbours and introduce ourselves to those in our niche neighborhood. We want to become friendly with the natives [...]
Day 8 – Lesson 1
Friday, August 8th, 2008Using Social Marker – Ed Dale Link: Bookmarking Your Blog With Socialmarker – 14:23min There are many Social Bookmaking sites and because of this a number of Bookmarking Service Sites have been created. Basically they launch a script that allows you to quickly bookmark a number of social bookmark sites quickly and easily. Some of [...]
Day 8 – Social Bookmarking
Friday, August 8th, 2008Social Bookmarking With Social Marker Link: Day 8 Introduction – Ed Dale Today Ed introduced us to social bookmarking services and explained why we need to use them. Social bookmarking service sites are a bookmark sharing service designed to let people know about sites you think are good or are interested in. They’re also the [...]
Day 7 – Lesson 3
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Adding Tracked Links To Your Blog – GuruBob Link: Add Tracked Links On Your Blog – 9:01mins There are several places to add your 30DC tracked link in you blog Site Offer Widget Change link to product image from Affilaite link to tracked link Change “Click here to get your copy today” link to tracked [...]
Day 7 – Lesson 2
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Tracking Affiliate Links – Dan Raines Link: How to Track Affiliate Links – 6:53mins The Thirty Day Challenge Stats Tracker allows us to track the slipperiness of our copy. By using the tracker for our affiliate links we can see how many clicks we are getting to our product page. Combined with Google analytics we [...]
Day 7 – Lesson 1
Thursday, August 7th, 2008How To Set Up Google Analytics – GuruBob Link: How to Setup Google Analytics – 6:10min There are many tracking programs both free and paid but for our purpose and relative ease of use nothing beats Google Analytics. It has been integrated into WordPress Direct and starts tracking immediately once you have loaded your code [...]
Day 7 – Tracking And Analytics
Thursday, August 7th, 200830DC Stat Tracker And Google Analytics Link: Day 07 Introduction - Ed Dale Today is all about tracking and analytics. Measuring and testing enables us to optimize our results. One of the best things about business on the internet is that you can test, track and measure everything. The information we obtain from tracking is [...]
Day 6 – Lesson 4
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Add Content And Publish A Blog -Guru Bob Link: Add Content to Your Blog – 16:28 In this lesson we add our first pieces of content to our new blog and then publish it. The beauty with WordPress Direct is that you don’t have to go to your WordPress Admin, you can do everything from [...]
Day 6 – Lesson 3
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Install A Blog With WordPress – Ed Dale Link: Install A Blog With WordPressdirect – 16:27min For those who haven’t installed a WordPress blog on their own hosting won’t realize how leading edge WordPress Direct is. It’s not that difficult to install a blog using the Fantasico service in your Hostgator cPanel or even doing [...]
Day 6 – Lesson 2
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008How To Setup Your Own Hosting – Dan Link: Hosting Your Own Blog – 13:39 Although the 30 Day Challenge is a free course to teach how to start your own online business there are times when it pays to invest a little money. This is optional and isn’t required but recommended. Having your own [...]
Day 6 – Lesson 1
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Awesome Software And Domains – Dan Raines Link: Awesome Software And Domains – 14:13mins It is important to have a domain name that is Search Engine optimised with your main keyword phrase. This helps tell the search engines how relevant your site is to the keyword which will effect your page ranking and ultimately your [...]