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Here is yet another brilliant summary of the 30 DC by 30 Day Challenger “Web Architect”. 30 Day Action List

Wish I knew who you are David…

Thirty Day Challenge Action List

This action list was originally started by mmoexplorer I haven’t seen it updated since day 20 so I thought I would display my own version. It is complete and it has a bunch of additional material added to it, most from the 30 Day Challenge forum, and a little bit from things that I have read about elsewhere. We have had a ton of fantastic people post exciting additional information to the forum, everything has their original author listed next to it. It will continue to be updated as material is released after the official part of the 30 Day Challenge and when I find something interesting that would help with our challenges. If you have anything additional that you would like added here feel free to let me know!

Thanks,

David

Important Sites for the 30 Day Challenge:

Ed, Dan, Rob, and the team’s site: The 30 Day Challenge

Must Read: The Gary Halbert Letters

Mike Mindel’s Blog: Summaries, Diary, Articles and Tips on One Page

Pre-Season Summary

STEP 1 - Set Up Firefox; Download and Install the Following:

Firefox (If you are new to firefox check this out: firefox tweaks and thank Mindy Koch)
Del.icio.us Toolbar
SEO for Firefox
Google Notebook or Evernote
ScribeFire
SearchStatus
StumbleUpon
Twitterbar
Sharaholic

Check out Mike Mindel’s blog for descriptions of each Firefox extension.
STEP 2 – Join the Following Social Sites

STEP 3 – Setup Skype

STEP 4 - Leverage the Power of Social Networking

Stumble Sites that you like using your StumbleUpon Toolbar.
Add RSS Feeds that you want to read using Bloglines
Bookmark sites you want to read again using Del.icio.us
Post notes about the page using ScribeFire
Sign up for Flickr
Upload images to Skitch or Flickr
Download Snagit, or Jing for PC, Skitch for the mac

(Check out Mike Mindel’s How I Do My Flawless Screen Captures)

STEP 5 - Install the Thirty Day Challenge Toolbar. Thirty Day Challenge Toolbar
STEP 6 - Day 1 - A Magnificent Symphony Of Four Parts

Write down niche market ideas (not product ideas)

Think about sub-niches - Mike’s Examples: Niche: How to Trout Fish Sub-niche: How to Trout Fish Using a Spinner in a Stream

Mike Mindel defines a niche market as,

“The ideal niche market is one where there is an interest from a small but sizable group of individuals (niche market) and no one is fulfilling their needs”

STEP 7 - Day 2 - The Getting Of Ideas

Find 7 sub-niches

Use the following sites to brainstorm niche markets and sub-niche ideas: ( thank surferduuude for many of these)

If your interested in more here is a very long list on Rob Taylor’s Blog.
STEP 8 - Day 3 - The Getting Of Stats

Use GTrends and type in each of your 7 sub-niches.
Copy and paste the GTrends results into a text document for each of your 7 sub-niches.
Perform a google competition analysis by typing each niche market into google. Are there other people advertising products in this sub-niche?
Extra: still having problems finding a niche? Read this thread and Mike Mindel’s blog entry So What is a Niche Market Anyway?.

Day 4/5 Weekend No Lessons

Research sub-niches and catch up with the pre-season if you haven’t already.

STEP 9 - Day 6 - Noticing, Not Judging

Go to Google and type in your sub-niche + Affiliate.
Look for whether your sub-niche has affiliate programs
Look at right side of Google to see who is advertising for this phrase
write down affiliate programs for your sub-niche
Go to Google Trends and type in you sub-niches. Just observe the traffic

STEP 10 - Day 7 - It’s Judgment Time - Part 1

Find Umbrella Phrases for each sub-niche.
Find a phrase match with below 25,000 - 30,000 competing pages
Find a phrase with 80 or more searches per day

STEP 11 - Day 8 - The Most Important Day Of The Challenge

Using Google Trends, compare your umbrella phrase with male yeast infection.
Select an umbrella phrase with at least 80 daily searches and page competition below 30,000.

STEP 12 - Day 9 - Just To Make Sure

Using the steps above, go from 7 niches to 2 niches.

STEP 13 - Day 10 - And then there were two…

Type your exact phrase match into google and make sure that there are no Web 2.0 properties.
Research your two topics using google news and google blog search.
Take notes on your topics to gain knowledge of these areas.
Join related groups in Facebook, Google Groups, Myspace, Yahoo.

STEP 14 - Golden Nuggets

Google you keyword phrase.
Take notes from 10 - 20 of the sites that google presents in the search results.
Joining the mailing lists for those sites.
Subscribe to the RSS Feeds.
Join the groups on Google Groups, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, etc.

Day 11/12 Weekend No Lessons

Catchup Time!

STEP 15 - Day 13 - Let’s Get To Work

Create three articles for each of your keywords. (6 articles total)
Put your keywords in the title and first sentence of each article.
Extra: there are some fantastic Copyrighting tips in the forum by Trevor Crook:

Copywriting Tip No: 1
Copywriting Tip No: 2
Copywriting Tip No: 3
Copywriting Tip No: 4
Copywriting Tip No. 5
Copywriting Tip No. 6
Copywriting Tip No. 7
Copywriting Tip No. 8
Copywriting Tip No. 9
Copywriting Tip No. 10
Copywriting Tip No: 11
Copywriting Tip No: 12
Copywriting Tip No: 13
Copywriting Tip No: 14

STEP 16 - Day 14 - Making Money American Idol Style

Write another three article for each of your keywords. (12 articles total)
Join Clickbank affiliate program.
Join Amazon’s affiliate program.
Find and join other affiliate programs. (See Mike Mindel’s List of Affiliate Programs)

STEP 17 - Day 15 - The WHY Of Traffic

Write another three article for each of your keywords. (18 articles total)

STEP 18 - Day 16 - It’s Traffic Time

Create a blog. (See Mike Mindel’s List of Free Content Platforms)
Write another three article for each of your keywords. (24 articles total)
Don’t post all of your articles on your blog.
Save some of the articles to post on new blogs that you create for your keyword

STEP 19 - Day 17 On My Command - UNLEASH HELL!!!

Install Social Poster.
Place Social Poster Bookmarklet onto your Firefox bookmark toolbar. This makes it easy to social post a website that you like.
Social Poster your blog and blog articles using Social Poster. Bookmarking your content helps you to get listed in Google and helps your ranking within Google.
Register with each of the 40 social sites that Social Poster lists.
Write another three articles for each of your keywords (30 articles total)
Create an Ezine Article relevant to your keyword

Day 18/19 Weekend No Lessons

So Catchup!

STEP 20 - Day 20 - On My Command - Give Hugs!

Only ask 4 or 5 people to social bookmark.
Continue to explore social bookmarking sites. Check out Socializer 2.0.
Check out this insane list of Web 2.0 Sites go2web20.net
Don’t worry about hosting your own sites at this stage. This stage is for testing!!
Don’t put the same article on more than one site. Google will give you a duplicate content penalty.
When writing your articles, put your exact umbrella phrase in the article title, first sentence, and last paragraph.

This is very important to get ranked in google.

STEP 21 - Day 21 - The Big Picture

Write another 3 more pieces of content for each of your keywords (36 articles total)
Add one more web 2.0 property to your whole strategy. See Tip #17 - Decent List of Free Content Platforms.
You must use fresh content on each and every platform you choose.
You must use fresh content even if you setup the same keyword on different platforms.
Responsible social bookmarking by yourself and your team.
Extra: Read Mike Mindel’s So What is Quality Content Anyway?
Extra: Sites to check that content is original

STEP 22 - Day 22 - On Testing And Tracking

Set up tracking to track visitors coming in to your pages with Google Analytics or Statcounter
Set up tracking to track visitors leaving your page and going to the affiliate page with TDC Stats Tracker
Record the stats in a Google Spreadsheet

STEP 23 - Day 23 - To Convert A Mockingbird

Use todays lesson - S.U.C.C.E.S and create a new article on another platform (three is ideal, but my preference is four). If you use four different platforms (content holders e.g. blog, wiki, lens) hopefully you will appear four different times in Google. The more you appear the more chance you have of getting traffic.
Rent Made to Stick from the library and read it from cover to cover.
Extra: more about the S.U.C.C.E.S principle and the Made To Stick Blog.

STEP 24 - Day 24 - Traffic - Go Or No Go

Is your niche cluster getting 100, 200 keywords a day? If yes, move on to conversion.
If no, create another cluster.
If another cluster doesn’t help, jump niche and start again.
If you have to start again, don’t worry. People have made their $10 inside of a couple of hours.
Your goal is 200 targeted visitors per day to your affiliate program.
Read interesting information about click through rate at Red Cardinal
If you have any questions about clusters check out this post.

Day 25/26 Weekend No Lessons

Big weekend to decide whether you should jump niche, time to catchup!

STEP 27 - Day 27 - The Missing Link

Continue with what you are doing, do 3 articles for each of your keywords, keep sites fresh.
Use other Web 2.0 sites related to yours to create 1 way backlinks to your site. As a rule of thumb do no more than 3 a day to any one URL. Look in Search engines, RSS Directories, and Blog Directories for potential sites. Some examples are: Craigslist, Yahoo Answers, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, and DMOZ.
Setup Google Alerts to update you when it finds new links specified by your criteria e. g. your user name or blog title.

STEP 28 - Day 28 - Link, Link, Link To My Lou

Find backlinks in Yahoo using link: www.domain.com e.g. link: www.thirtydaychallenge.com
Use link: www.domain.com -www.domain.com to avoid including web pages inside the domain itself which isn’t helpful in our pursuit of backlinks.
Extra: check out cooliris Firfox tool here.

STEP 29 - Day 29 - Links And Mistakes - The Penultimate Lessons

Review the 5 biggest mistakes and make sure you aren’t doing any of them.
Submit sites to AddUrl.nu
Use the free directory submitter from Internet Marketing Wish List to get your site added to directories.
Use the RSS submit tool to submit your site to the RSS directories.
Here is a post from Income Hero that has listed 263 Article Directories it would be worthwhile to submit to them as well.
Continue improving your sites

STEP 30 - Day 30 - Where Do We Go From Here?