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Day 14 - 2009 30DC

Friday, August 14th, 2009

The Day 14 Training Content is online!

In day 14 we are continuing our focus on building pages on Web 2.0 sites and linking back to our blog today specifically from a Weebly and Facebook page.

Caro introduces you to another free blogging platform, Weebly. Caro takes you through the signup process for Weebly, and gives an overview of how easy it is to signup for Weebly and setup a Weebly blog. Caro then takes you through how to add another new theme keyword optimized article to your new Weebly blog, using the Weebly editor which has a very simple drag and drop interface. Lastly, Caro takes you through the process of adding your Weebly blog to both the Rank Tracker module in Market Samurai and Traffic Bug.

Ed introduces you to Facebook Pages, outlines how to use them and why, and gives some examples of how to use them to complement your marketing and branding efforts. Using Ed’s own Facebook Fan Page as an example, Ed shows you how they are constructed, and what kind of content you can put on them.

Ed then takes you through the process of creating a Facebook Page, following Facebook’s own step by step guide to settting up the page.

By the close of Day 14 you should have  created a new blog on the free blogging platform Weebly. The blog will have a new, unique post in the form of an article that is theme keyword optimized, and will have been added to Rank Tracker and Traffic Bug. You will have a greater understanding of Facebook Pages and how they function, and if applicable to your market or niche, you will have created a Facebook Page as well.

More to come,

Ed

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Day 13 - 2009 30DC

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

The Day 13 Training Content Page is up and available.

Today we look at two more Web 2.0 sites, specifically the free blogging platforms Wordpress.com and Blogger. We show you the correct way to use them, which is to always create great quality content that people will be interested to read, and how to optimize the blogs for best effect.

Michelle introduces Wordpress.com and outlines the differences between it and your own hosted Wordpress Direct blog. Michelle takes you through the signup process, including optimizing your blog domain and title. Michelle also covers setting up the blog for publication by creating your first post, which will be another theme keyword optimized article to ready for publication, and making some changes to your blog once it’s live to optimize it further.

Caro introduces you to Google’s free blogging platform Blogger. Caro takes you through the signup process for Blogger, and gives an overview of what information the Dashboard for Blogger contains, including your profile. Caro then takes you through a very similar process to Wordpress.com in creating your blog title, blog URL, and creating your first blog post using another unique article. As with Wordpress.com, Caro demostrates how to optimize your article and blog for your theme keyword.

Lastly, Caro takes you through the process of adding your Blogger blog to both the Rank Tracker module in Market Samurai and Traffic Bug.

By the end of today’s lessons you should have created blogs on the both of the free blogging platforms Wordpress.com and Blogger. Each of these blogs will have a new post in the form of a unique article that is theme keyword optimized, and the sites will have been added to Rank Tracker and Traffic Bug.

How are you getting on with the new publish content module of Market Samurai? Amazing is all I can say.

Ed

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Day 11 - 2009 30DC

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

The Day 11 training content page is live.

Continuing our focus on Web 2.0 sites this week, today we will be looking at Squidoo and Hubpages.

Day 11 - Continuing our Web 2.0 week in the Thirty Day Challenge, is the next two sites we’ll be using to publish to during Web 2.0 week is Squidoo and HubPages.

Caro introduces you to Squidoo, and shows you how to create a keyword optimized lens, from which you link back to your blog. Caro takes you through the sign up process and how to get started using the service to create your first lens.

Caro also outlines some of the key features of a Squidoo lens that are important to include, such as having at least 3 modules, allowing comments, including the RSS module, and ensuring that your content is unique.

Michelle introduces you to HubPages, and takes you through the process of signing up for an account, including some tips to creating an account with keywords and details related to your micro-niche.

Michelle then shows you how to create a Hub, including tips on how to include your theme keyword when naming your Hub, choosing a topic, adding tags related to your keyword phrase, ensuring that your Hub meets the HubPages guidelines, and how to best name capsules when creating your Hub. Michelle then demonstrates how to create links back to your blog inside the main content area of your Hub.

After completion of today’s lessons, you will have created a Squidoo lens optimized with your theme keywords and also created your first keyword optimized HubPage, with both pages linking back to your blog URL. You will have also added the unique URLs of both sites to Traffic Bug and Rank Tracker.

Creating pages on Squidoo and Hubpages is easy and fun.

Talk soon,

Ed

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Day 10 - 2009 30DC

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

The Day 10 training content page is live.

For most of this week you will be creating pages on Authority Web 2.0 domains to get backlinks to your blog and hopefully some natural traffic as well. Today we will start with EzineArticles and Scribd.

Caro introduces you to the site EzineArticles, and shows you how to write a keyword optimized article, that you then link back to your blog. Caro takes you through the sign up process and how to get started using the service to submit your first article. Caro also gives some important guidelines on how to ensure your article gets approved, from the quality of the article, making sure your article is over 250 words long, and that your links are best suited to go in the resource box.

Michelle introduces you to the site Scribd, and takes you through the process of signing up for an account. In order to get the best use out the service, Michelle also outlines what you need have in your article to get the most benefit in linking to your blog. Michelle then shows you how to add your document to Scribd, add a category, add your tags related to your keyword phrase, and a short description of your document.

Lastly, Michelle demonstrates the last important step for both EzineArticles and Scribd, which is to add your URLs from each site to Traffic Bug (as a related URL to your main blog URL), and also to Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker.

By the end of Day 10, you will have uploaded one of your unique keyword optimized articles to EzineArticles and another one of your unique keyword optimized articles to Scribd, with both articles linking back to your blog URL. You will have also added the unique URLs of both articles to Traffic Bug and Rank Tracker.

Speak soon,

Ed

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Day 5 - 2009 30DC

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

It’s day 5 and the training content page is live!

On Day 5 we cover 2 very important topics being creating unique content and getting and hosting a domain.

Ben explains the need for unique content that is both appealing to the search engines as well as visitors to the site, and how the Find Content module in Market Samurai can find sources that meet those criteria. Ben then demonstrates how to use the Find Content module to find popular or authoritative reference material to use as a source to create your own specifically optimized content for the keyword you want to rank for.

Caro provides some sensible guidelines on the ethical use of source material, and gives overview on how to take source content from the Find Content module to create your own unique articles.

Guru Bob introduces the next stage of targeting your micro-niche, which is getting yourself a domain name. Think of the domain name as an asset, or a house, owning and hosting your domain means that you have control over it at all times. GuruBob explains ways to ensure that the domain you register has your theme keyword in it. There are a few methods to consider, like the priority preference of .com, .net, .org, and using hyphens or prefixes and suffixes. Using Domains Bot, you can search for name alternatives find.

After researching the available domains containing your theme keyword, Nez takes you the process of registering the domain name and setting up a hosting account using Hostgator.

Objectives For The Day - 1. After using the Find Content module in Market Samurai to source content (for both theme and category keywords), you should begin writing unique articles of around 300 - 400 words, with the goal of creating between 7 to 10 articles over the next week.

2. After using the Domains Bot site to identify an appropriate domain containing your theme keyword, you will have registered the domain and created a hosting account with HostGator.

An of course we have another Mindset Lesson With Karl - Today Karl talks about why you should “say yes more” and how you can use these 3 simple words to change your life. Karl encourages you to say “yes” more and see what opportunities this brings into your life.

A big day…stay focussed and you’ll get through it.

Speak soon,

Ed

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30DC Pre-Season: Downloading Files and Google Groups

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Hi Gang,

Caro McCourtie has recorded 2 more videos for the 30DC Pre-season which are up in the Training Centre now.

The first video is on downloading files and is really only for newbies who are still trying to figure out aspects of accessing and downloading files from the internet.  All you experienced users out there probably won’t need to watch this video.

The second video is on Google Groups.  It is a fantastic service for organising group communication and is therefore a tool you might consider for helping you all to manage communication within your 30DC teams this year.

Speak soon,

Ed

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30DC Pre-Season - Google Docs and Skype

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Hi,

Over the last few days we have published 2 new 30DC pre-season videos in the Training Centre from Guest presenters.

The first is on Google Docs kindly prepared by Eugene Ware from Noble Samurai.  Google Docs is a fantastic resource which offers you Office application functionality (word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool) in your browser.

The second video is on Skype from our very own Caro McCourtie.  Skype is invaluable for a number of reasons the least of which is to able to make voice calls to any computer anywhere in the world for free.  The other reason we love Skype is the ease with which people can setup a conference call which makes it a perfect fit for participating in a team during the 30DC.

Well those videos should keep you busy for a while but there is much more to come!

Ed

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