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30 Day Challenge – Day 14

Create another 3 mini articles per phrase.

Find some affiliate products to test the market. We’re going to send traffic from our articles to affiliate programs to see if people will buy. The point is not to make a lot of money, but the point is to see if people will buy a product in your market.

Eventually, you should have your own product.

Look for affiliate products at:
Clickbank Marketplace
Amazon – You should be able to find anything here but they pay very little.

30 Day Challenge Day 14

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Got to go write,

Mike

30 Day Challenge – Day 13

Create 3 mini articles per phrase.

Start at Bloglines and look for interesting tidbits.

Make notes, or copy interesting info to Google Notes, or your favorite word processor.

Write the 3 articles in your own words. They don’t have to be perfect, or long. Write according to your own personality and try to have fun with it.

Get into the habit of doing this each day – this is really the “heavy lifting” of internet marketing. Later when you are making money, you can outsource it!

30 Day Challenge Day 13

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I’m off to getting caught up!

Mike

30 Day Challenge – Day 12

The Golden Nugget Method

Type phrase into Google – take top 10-20 sites and then make notes.
Anything that makes you go wow, or hum – that’s interesting – take note of it.

Join any mail lists on those sites.

You are filling your mind with knowledge about your phrase. As you do this your brain will start to subconsciously filter it and sort it. After taking a break, you will be able to come back and just flow in words.

Make active notes with Google notebook – read actively – make notes so your mind grabs it.

Read the Boron letter on http://thegaryhalbertletter.com

30 Day Challenge Day 12

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Okay, I’m off to do some reading,
Mike

30 Day Challenge – Day 10

Get your phrase decided upon. You may want to take two keyword phrases on different topics.

If you can only find keyword phrases that are 30-40 hits a day, you may need to go these keyword phrases, but you may need to work 4-5 times as hard to get to 200 visits a day.

Go to Google, input your keyword phrase and look for web 2.0 properties – like Squidoo, ezine articles, go articles. If there are Web 2.0 sites listed, you can still use the topic, but it may be more difficult.

Learn about your topic.

Go go Google and search on your keyword phrase with quotes, click on news. You may not find any documents. May need to be more general.

Add this feed to bloglines to be kept up to date on phrase news. Do the same for Google Blogs.

We are now in the “learn about your topic” stage.

30 Day Challenge Day 10

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We haven’t had any new lessons this weekend, and have been given time to get caught up.

I’m looking forward to day 11.

Until then,
Mike

30 Day Challenge – Day 9

The 30 Day Challenge Day 9 was a slower paced day. I think Dan wanted to give people a day to find new niche ideas and keyword phrases after many reported to the forum that none of their keyword phrases appeared to be any good.

Dale did have a warning about throwing away some of those ideas. Even though the ideas may not get a huge number of daily hits, some of those keywords may be productive enough to start with, and remember our goal – $10.

Dan spoke about numbers today, and stressed he likes to use worst case numbers.

The magic number is 200 – worst case numbers assuming a low conversion of 1 in 200.

Say we get 50 visits per day, and make a sale every 4 days. Assuming you’re selling an affiliate program that makes you over $10 per sale, you’ve met the challenge.

I may need to go back and look at a few of those phrases that I threw away.

Ed also gave some good tips on how and where to come up with new ideas.

30 Day Challenge Day 8

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Again, I’m a day behind on my blogging. I hope to be caught up by later today

Until next time,

Mike

This post should have been done yesterday, but yesterday’s information was so eye opening that I spent my time using this new information instead of updating this blog .

Yesterday we learned something very, very cool.

We started using Google Trends to determine how much actual traffic our ideas would be getting.

http://google.com/trends

Google Trends is nice, but there are no numbers on the graphs so you really don’t know for sure how much traffic your idea keyword would get.

Through the 30 Day Challenge we learned of a way to compare our keywords to a base keyword that has a consistent amount of searches each day. With knowing the base keyword daily traffic, we were able to compare our ideas to the base keyword on the graph. This gave us a much better idea of how much traffic our ideas would generate. This is great!

The only bad thing, is after putting all of my keywords through the tool I discovered that none of my idea keywords were any good! Even though Wordtracker showed at least 80 searches per day on each one of the them, the Google reality is that none of them would actually get more than 20-30 searches a day from Google.

So, I had to look for more ideas and keywords.

Many others in the 30 Day Challenge had to do the same. The forum was alive with people stating none of their keywords looked good. Some were discouraged. Not me!

I would like to know that my keywords will not work out before I put a lot of work into them. And, once I have find a winning keyword phrase, I know I can be confident that it will get enough traffic to be worth while.

I think I found a pretty good keyword phrase.

30 Day Challenge Day 8

An eye opening day for sure! Stay tuned for day 9.

It’s still not too late to get started on the Thirty Day Challenge, but hurry.

Mike

30 Day Challenge – Day 7

Moving from idea notice stage to idea judgement stage.

First, I have a quick video comment about this whole 30 day challenge.

Start with the one you feel in your gut is the right one.

This the competition stage.

Enter your idea words into WordTracker
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com

Note the number of searches. You want to further investigate words with daily searches at 80 or more.

Enter the plus 80 search phrases in broad match into Google. Look at the number of results.

Then try the exact match with quotes. Notice the number of total results.

Cool Trick:
Go to Google.com and click on the Preferences link next to the search bar.
Now scroll down to the Number of Results. Set this at 100.

Now do exact match searches (with quotes) from Google.
Now scroll down to bottom of page and click on the last number under the Goooogle at the bottom of the page. At the bottom of the page you will see something similar to this:

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 524 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

This number, in this case, 524 tells you how many websites have the same exact phrase you are searching for. The lower the number the better for you.

You are looking for keyword phrases of less than 25-35K Google exact matches with a fair amount of traffic, 80-100 searches on keywordtracker.

This is really good stuff, if you are not involved with the 30 Day Challenge yet, you need to get involved now. If you wait too much longer you will fall too far behind. Remember it’s FREE!!

Day 7 Training

Okay, I’m off to keyword/phrase/idea research.

Mike

30 Day Challenge – Day 6

Still in the noticing stage and not judging anything.

If your market research is correct, you will not have problems getting traffic.

Go to Google and do a search on your 7 ideas adding the word “affiliate” to the end. Take a note of whether there are affiliate programs/products for the ideas or not.

Then do some Google Trending on your 7 ideas.
http://google.com/trends

That’s all for today. Remember no judging, just noticing.

Until next time,

Mike

Recap – Last time we looked for ideas and then needed to whittle them down to 7. Just get ideas – several ideas. You may find that one of the 7 doesn’t work and you have to back to your list, or do another 7 list.

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com

Using Wordtracker

Task – Go to wordtracker and search on you main keywords for your 7 main ideas to get an idea on the number of searches.

This Wordtracker tool gives you the approximate daily searches for the term.

Copy and past all of the phrases to a text document and save the document.

The 30 DC toolbar gives you the top Google Adwords ads for your search terms. Look at some of the top ads.

You may find some review sites, they mainly rely on clicks on Adsense ads etc. – You are looking for sites with sales letters selling a particular product. You are looking for competition because that means there is a market.

Competition is good because there is money to be made and you are just going to out market your competition.

Task – Google the main phrase and look at the ads for your seven ideas.

30 Day Challenge Day 3

It’s not too late to get involved with the 30 Day Challenge, but you need to hurry and get signed up – it’s free!

Okay, I’m off to look at the Wordtracker and Google data for my 7 ideas!

Mike