The Challenge 2007-2011

Link: 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 the Thirty Day Challenge.

Ed showed us how to navigate the service via the Dashboard, how to analyse the site usage, and how to find out the meaning of definitions used by Google Analytics.

Handy Tip - The crucial thing to look at when reviewing your analytics is the keywords report. These are the words that people type into the search engines to find your site.

Link: 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 how to create a hub page for our niche keyword phrase

Hub Page Essentials

• publish your first article,
• link to the URL and RSS feed of your blog,
• bookmark it using Social Marker.

Handy Tip – Don’t bookmark your site to all services at once when using Social Marker. Doing too much at once can get your site seen as spam.

Finding 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 be asked to update again to add the Content Module

The content Module has added some more content sources for article research. Remember this is research tool not an excuse to copy and paste willy-nilly cart-blanche. Check the source site for term and conditions on using the content found on them.

How 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 importance of making your Squidoo lens as keyword optimized as possible.

Squidoo Essentials

• Author Bio: Use main keyword phrase as author, write topic releted bio and upload a topic related photo
• Intro Module: Upload topic photo and insert niche article
• RSS Module: Add WordPress Direct Blog RSS Feed
• Amazon Module: Add Product link image

Building 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 copy and paste plagiarism.

Today we look a creating content and using Market Samurai to research content for our articles.

Lesson 1: How To Build A Squidoo Lens

Today we got a treat with Caro presenting a daily lesson, giving a feminine touch to the 30DC. Caro shows us how to build a Squidoo Lens.

Lesson 2: Finding Content Using Market Samurai

Rest 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 Service

Link: Using The Thirty Day Challenge RSS Submission Service – 6:28mins

Today Dan introducesd us to the 30DC RSS Submission Service. Dan explained how to use the service, and how it adds our site’s RSS feed to various feed submission services and directories on our behalf. This saves us a huge amount of time.