Archive for August, 2009

Day 26 - 2009 30DC

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

The Day 26 Training Content page is live.

By now you will have made a decision to move forward or not in your micro niche. Today covers using Google Analytics and Market Samurai to perform further keyword research to find more semantically related keywords that you can use to publish optimized content to your blog.

GuruBob explains how finding more keywords that are relevant to your micro niche allows you to publish more content to your blog, and this in turn increases your blogs exposure to potential traffic in your micro niche. GuruBob outlines the process of researching more keywords for your micro niche using Google Analytics.

Anthony introduces two more keyword types that we can research for our micro niche, long tail derivative and semantic long tail derivative keywords. Anthony explains the concept of the ‘keyword tree’, and how the relationship between your theme keywords, category keywords, and both the long tail derivative and semantic long tail derivative keywords works.

Anthony then demostrates how to research both types of long tail keywords for your theme and category keywords using Market Samurai, with different filter and search settings.

After completing Day 26’s training, you will understand how to research the incoming keyword traffic to your blog using Google Analytics data, as well as reseaching long tail derivative and semantic long tail derivative keywords using Market Samurai.

Speak soon,

Ed

Day 25 - 2009 30DC

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

The Day 25 Training Content page is up.

Today is all about your options if you arrived at the decision that your niche was a ‘no go’ after following the Day 24 lessons. There are plenty of ways to turn all of the work you’ve done in creating your blog, into an asset or a return on your investment.

Anthony takes you through the steps in getting yourself a Google Adsense account, and explains in details how Adsense works and how to benefit from it. Anthony also clarifies the difference between Google Adwords and Google Adsense

Using Market Samurai, Anthony then shows you how to replace your affiliate ads on your blog with Google Adsense and Amazon ads. Anthony details the entire process for you, including how to create the look and feel of the ads on your blog.

If creating dynamic ads for your blog to generate revenue is not something you want to do, Ed shows you how you can make some money from your existing blog by selling it. Ed introduces the service Flippa, which is a site for buying and selling websites. Ed demostrates the service, and gives some examples that demonstrate what is possible, and offers some tips on on how to get the most out of the service.

Marty shows you how to use Wordpress Direct to transfer or migrate your blog if you wanted to sell it, or how to build up your blog and expand its coverage. Marty also outlines how to setup your blog using features within Wordpress Direct to either sell the blog as self publishing, as well as help you easily build up a blog network of your own to target your niche, all from within one administration panel.

After completing today’s lessons, if your blog is a “No Go”, you will have changed the ads on the blog to be dynamic ads that have a higher probability of generating some cashflow. You will have also considered the potential value of your blog should you choose at some point in the future to offer up your blog for sale on a site like Flippa.com.

Speak soon,

Ed

I’m EXCITED!!

Monday, August 24th, 2009

I truly had no idea.

I sat down to record my Day 25 video to show you guys what you can do with a blog that doesn’t work.

I think you will be floored!

If you’ve followed the steps setting up your blog with WPD and Market Samurai and given it a bit of Traffic Bug Love your never going to believe how profitable failure can be!!

DO NOT MISS DAY 25


Day 24 - 2009 30DC

Monday, August 24th, 2009

The Day 24 Training Content page is up!

Day 24 - Today is go, or no go day. Based on all of the data, numbers and stats, it’s time to decide if you have a niche that is worth pursuing or not. It can be an understandably very emotional day, but you need to look things from a big picture perspective. With the tools now available to you, and the techniques you’ve been taught so far this month, there is plenty of time to catch up and keep going with a new niche.

Ed talks you through the process to follow in making a judgement call on whether your niche is a go, or a no go, based on the statistics collected. Ed also defines what a ‘go’ situation is, and what a ‘no go’ situation is, based on ranking, traffic numbers, clicks on your ads and of course sales. Ed also outlines the importance of not making any decisions before you have had enough time to generate the appropriate amount of stats.

Just getting this far is a major achievement. If you find that you will need to start again, you will soon discover that the process is far quicker than the first time through. The Thirty Day Challenge is laid out over the course of a month in order to teach it at a managable pace. Once you know how to do it, the entire process can be followed in a matter of days.

After the completion of today’s lessons, you will have first reviewed Day 17’s lessons about analyzing your stats, and then applied that knowledge to reviewing your own niche statistics. After reviewing your niche stats, you will made the decision to either continue in that niche, or to start again and research a new niche.

Speak soon,

Ed

The 2009 30DC KIVA Charity Auction - Begins Now

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

You’ve read the blog posts… you’ve seen the YouTube videos…

… well it’s now on like Donkey Kong… The 2009 30DC KIVA Charity Auction.

There are a bunch of great items up for grabs again this year; with all the proceeds going directly to our KIVA Charity account.

Some of the awesome items available include:

Ed Dales’ Dominiche Course

Pete William’s Unleashing The Power Of Publicity - Workbook + 7 CDs

The Pocket Pod

Panasonic LX3 Digital Camera

The Pod

Thirty Day Challenge PLUS Lifetime Membership

and the very exclusive:

FrankKernSexTape.com T-shirt

You can check out all the items on our eBay page:

30DC Auction on eBay

As Ed says.. Bid Hard and Bid Often. It’s all for a good cause….Kiva.

Speak Soon,

Pete

Thirty Day Challenge TV Show Cancelled Tonight

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Very Sorry,

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Tonight’s (Sunday night) TV Show has been cancelled.

Really sorry for the late notice.

I’ll let you know when the next European and US Versions will be here and via email

Ed


Day 23 - 2009 30DC

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

The Day 23 Content Page is live.

Today is a proper rest day, and gives you the perfect opportunity to either take a day off and relax, or catch up on training content or action steps you haven’t had time for yet.

Ed and Michelle have also recorded a special edition of Internet Marketing This Week, which is a free weekly podcast that talks about news and issues in the internet marketing world.

This week’s edition of IMTW covers the latest industry news this week, and talks about conversion, a very timely topic for the Thirty Day Challenge.

Day 23 is the perfect opportunity to back and revisit what you’ve done this week. Take advantage of the rest day to go back and revisit lessons that you either don’t understand 100%, or didn’t have time to study in detail the first time.

We also have another Mindset Lesson With Karl - Today Karl talks about what other people think, and why you shouldn’t care at all. It’s your life, and only you can find your own happiness.

Don’t forget the next 30DC Tv show at 8.30 pm EST Sunday night on Ustream at:

http://www.thirtydaychallenge.tv/

Speak soon,

Ed

Day 22 - 2009 30DC

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

The Day 22 Training Content page is now available.

Today covers Google’s content network, advanced pay per click techniques and estimating your optimal cost per click using the Market Samurai adwords calculator.

Pete outlines how the content network works and demonstrates how to include the content network in your ad campaign, with a detailed walk through and some tips for getting the best performance.

While being outside the scope of the Thirty Day Challenge, Pete also gives you an idea of what is possible using some advanced techniques available using Google Adwords, as well as some other PPC opportunities with the likes of Yahoo, Bing and Facebook.

Anthony demonstrates the use of the Adwords calculator inside Market Samurai to optimize your cost per click with Google Adwords ad campaign. Anthony explains how the use of the Adwords calculator helps you determine what your maximum cost per click, minimum conversion rate, and minimum profit per sale need to be in order to be profitable.

After completing today’s lessons, you will have greater understanding of the PPC opportunities available, you will know how to add the content network to your ad campaigns, and you will know how to use the Adwords calculator in Market Samurai to optimize your PPC advertising.

Tomorrow is a rest day so enjoy.

Ed