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30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 15 – Setting Up A Weebly Site

Mike Law — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:48:51 +0000

If you are wondering what happened to day 14 it seems to have been pulled from the thirty day challenge. I believe day 14 was about setting up a Tumblr blog but unfortunately we seem to have had a deja vu from last year where Tumblr deleted everyone’s blogs. Because sites like Tumblr and the many other hosted blogging and site building systems are subject to spam they can have very strict guidelines. In the case of Tumblr they do not want people to be using their service as a marketing tool therefore it’s best to ignore their service and move on, there are so many alternatives that it isn’t a big deal.

Day 15 is about setting up a Weebly site. You will start to see over the next few days that it’s all about putting up as much content as possible all over the internet pointing to your own site. By putting content on well established “authority” sites and linking to your own site you are building a lot of trust with the search engines therefore improving your rankings.

Setting Up A Weebly Site

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 13 – Using Google Analytics To Check Your Blog Stats

Mike Law — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:54:49 +0000

Day 13 is another relatively short day but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be doing anything. Every chance you get you should be researching your market and creating unique content on your blogs, Squidoo lenses, HubPages or wherever and then bookmarking your content.

Ed just does a quick overview of Google Analytics and how you can monitor your traffic. Google Analytics can tell you a wealth of information and is an extremely powerful tool. The best way to learn how to use it is just to spend time pushing all the buttons and seeing what they all do. Some of the important things you will want to look at is the search traffic data and what keywords people are typing in to the search engines to find your site.

Think about this, if you are getting traffic for a particular keyword and you are ranking say 26 imagine what would happen if you managed to rank in the top 10 considering only 2% of people click on the second page of results.

A good idea is to check the sites ranking above you for those keywords using the SEO tool for Firefox and determine if you think you can outrank them. Look for sites no older than 3 years with few back links as they will be easy to out rank.

If you aren’t receiving traffic and your site is indexed then you may need to re-evaluate your keyword and target something with less competition. The worst thing you can do is keep promoting a keyword which isn’t performing. Don’t be afraid to go back to the drawing board and start your market research again.

If your site isn’t indexed then you need to get more back links, it’s as simple as that. Building a Squidoo lens and social bookmarking it should get your site indexed in 24 – 48 hours max.

Using Google Analytics To Check Your Blog Stats

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 10 – 30DC RSS Submission

Mike Law — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:58:04 +0000

Today is a day off…sort of. The only thing required today is to submit your blogs RSS feed using the TDC RSS Submission service www.thirtydaychallenge.com/members/tools/rsssubmit.php

The tool is simple to use you simply enter the URL of your blog, your feed URL and your main keyword. You can also add secondary keywords in the tags field and a short description which should also include your keywords.

Another tool I use for RSS Submission is called RSS Submit, you can find out more about it here www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html

Submit Your RSS Feed To RSS Directories

Wealthontap.com Has Been Reborn!

Mike Law — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:19:39 +0000

It’s been a long time since I posted here and have decided to breathe some life back into this site. I have been working on building niche sites with Joomla specifically concentrating on web 2.0 type community and review sites. Even though this site doesn’t receive a huge amount of traffic, only makes a few sales here and there and the domain name isn’t brilliant (it was the first domain I ever purchased and I really had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea that 18 months later I would be working full time as an internet marketer) it is now reasonably well aged and has decent PR so I thought it was worth trying to put it to better use, only time will tell!

This is now the third face lift this site has had, originally it was an “out-of-the-box” PIPS site which was my introduction to the world of internet marketing. It still uses the original PIPS newsletter however I will probably create my own in the near future.

The current design is called Populous and will be familiar to those who use Joomla and more specifically are members of the Rockettheme template club. The main site is built using Joomla 1.5.4 and this blog has been upgraded to the latest version of WordPress 2.6 prior to that I think it was 2.1 so was well due for an upgrade. Upgrade went relatively smoothly however I had the category issue that a lot of others had and considering I seem to have accumulated a lot of categories was a bit of a pain.

Since the theme was designed for Joomla I had to create a version for WordPress which I did using the Sandbox theme which is great for creating your own WordPress designs without having to build the theme from scratch. I removed all plug-ins and started again from scratch as they were all out of date. Here is a list of all current plug-ins running on this blog.

I also plan on adding the Random Posts plug-in as well as the Auto Social Poster plug-in and one other which has unfortunately just slipped my mind, oh thats right the Google XML plug-in which can be submitted to the Google Webmaster tool I haven’t done all that much research into the tool yet.

Perhaps in a future post I will list the Joomla plug-ins which I am running also.

I plan to make this site a review type site where I will research as many tools, memberships, ebooks and anything else related to home businesses and internet marketing as possible. I have already started to map out the sections of the site and as you will see I have a lot of work ahead of me!

Each opportunity, product or service will have a comment section where people who have used the opportunity, product or service can leave their own review and give it a rating. The goal is to provide people with an unbiased, honest review to aid them in making their decision.

That’s all for now I will be posting again soon once I have some content up to hopefully encourage people to leave their own reviews, I will have to come up with some incentives for top reviewers.