You can set up a website using free software like WordPress, but if it doesn’t quite meet your requirements, you can use a company that specializes in open source customization.

One can start by advertising on their website, with Google’s AdSense or BlogAds, among many other services. Consider your blog’s audience and you can aim for targeted ads properly, that would be of interest to your visitors. Google is free, but BlogAds takes a commission after linking you to the proper advertiser.

Another method to advertise your site is on social networking sites. Many people have a lot of followers and when you post a link, it can give a big temporary traffic boost.

You can also use your blog as a channel for other commercial web presences such as EBay.com to promote their products. Many companies provide this service. All you need to do is mention goods or services like perhaps, your skills in open source customization, in your blog and then that keyword can be linked to the 3rd party website where the visitor can then buy the product on his own, giving you a percentage in the process.

An alternative way that never hurts is to solicit on your website. Most web developers and website designers ask readers or guests to kindly donate whatever they can through PayPal or other means, thus keeping it secure, and up to the user to make up their minds how much they believe the website is of value to them. You’d be amazed how many folks out there don’t object to donating a few bucks, and how that can add up.

Take advantage of the blog to sell your own services and/or merchandise too. Be genuine in your writing about anyhing you wish to give an opinion on, but don’t forget to somehow link it to what you have to sell in addition. Leverage the benefits of your merchandise in the process of telling the reader about other options out there. Include off-hand references to your products so the reader doesn’t suspect the main purpose of the article is to sell your product, but rather to inform them casually that such a product is to be found and is somehow related to this topicwhich they are already interested in .

Once your network of sites increases, you may wish to hire a web development company who can help manage, maintain and customize your sites, maybe even bringing in community features like groups, events and forums.

Finally, use your blog to generate associations with your readers and potential clients. The associations you can build could feel personal to them since you really post those pieces yourself, and they can easily contact get in touch with you through the site. They will be more disposed to trust your recommendations as time goes on and in this manner purchase your items, or at least consider it anyway.

If you’re just starting out I would suggest you set-up a Blogspot blog. They are free and easy to monetize. Blogspot, also called Blogger, is owned by Google so setting up AdSense is really a snap.

The very best way (I think) to make money online is by setting up a hosted WordPress.org blog. It’s widely felt that a hosted blog gets more “respect” from the search engines (you want the search engines to like your blog!!) If you feel you can’t afford the $10.00 it costs for hosting than a Blogger blog or any of the other free platforms is the way to go.

Hosted or free you will need to create content for your new blog. The easiest way to create this content is to blog about a subject you know well, or are even an expert in. This will limit the amount of research you have to do (very time consuming!) and make your content creation flow quickly and smoothly.

Also in the first stages of choosing your niche you should try to get into your future visitors heads and figure out just what it is you’ll be able to sell to them. You want to make money right? Then as an Internet Marketer and blogger this should be your ultimate goal (and deserves a good deal of thought.)

So you want to work from your home and make some extra money online? There are many ways to accomplish this, but I think starting your own blog is the best way! This way you will have an online presents, and will have to do some writing, (which you had better get used to.)

Choose a niche you have a passion for and your visitors will see this and those that share your passion will become regulars at your blog-part of your online community. Then you work within this community to build relationships, perhaps partnerships, or joint venture opportunities, or at least sell them that “thing” they want and/or need.

Try to enjoy your time online, don’t get obsessive about it, just keep plugging away at it and in time success will come. Think about starting several blogs in different niches, so all your eggs are not in one basket. Who knows this could very well be the start of something big!

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Adsense was a gold rush for a lot of internet marketers in it’s early adoption however Google had to make several changes to improve the quality of traffic which resulted in a lot less profits for publishers. This was when phrases like “Adsense is dead” and “life after Adsense” were really common buzz words which no doubt you have come across on numerous occasions.

The strategy seemed to become less sites which offered greater quality content and a shift to promoting affiliate products and services and CPA opportunities. However the said warrior member recently went against the grain and adopted the following strategy.

• 1. More sites focusing on tightly themed niches or micro niches
• 2. Focus on popular products which can be found on sites such as Amazon, Ebay and Walmart (more likely to receive a greater RPC)
• 3. Greater emphasis on low competition keywords which have decent levels of traffic
• 4. Some of his greatest earners are sites with less than 30 pages, some sites with only one page are making $2-$3 a day
• 5. Builds 4-5 sies at a time and gets them ranking within a week
• 6. Content is always product descriptions
• 7. Relies exclusively on article marketing purely for back links
• 8. Occasionally ranks in the top 5 for keywords with no back links
• 9. Achieves up to a 75% click through rate

Just to add my 2 cents, the main key here which I believe is still rather under utilized is going after the low hanging fruit. It’s so tempting to go after that keyword which gets 500 to 1,000 searches a day rather than focus on the one which gets 50 – 100. You will have to do far less work to rank for those long tail keywords and spend more time building sites rather than building back links.

Also make sure your sites aren’t spammy, create good quality content which adds value for your visitors otherwise you may find your sites don’t hang around for long in the SE’s.

I am going to put this method to the test and see what sort of results I can come up with

Have you heard the phrase, “plan your work then work your plan?” Well, aspiring Work-At-Home Moms (WAHMs) need to do this, too. I can’t imagine any successful online guru saying, “Well, one day I sat down and started typing some stuff and the rest is history.”

When I retired at sixty-two I supplemented my Social Security by working odd jobs. My check wasn’t going far and soon even part time work dried up. Employers wanted younger people who would work for less. The Internet was going to have to be my only redemption.

And you know, that’s how it turned out. Even though I don’t know a lot about hi-tech stuff I’ve been able to steadily build my business. The system I use has all the technology needed but it quietly works in the background. My business keeps on growing and the great thing about it is age or gender play no part in it.

I’d imagine if you’re a typical mom you’d be searching for a job or business that suits your particular situation, right? Do you use your computer in your search? Most moms use their computers to surf, email or to shop online. They miss the fact that the solution to their work problem is lying right there under their finger tips. Their computer.

Still wondering what kind of business you could start? Every mom has experiences, interests, hobbies and passions. You all have knowledge that someone else does not. You are communicators!

What do you do when your child is having a school problem? You get the answer and help him. When your home needs a paint job you ask your friends and neighbors who did a good job for them and who they’d recommend.

So how does all this relate to working at home? Well, let me ask you a few questions. Do you use the Internet? What do you use it for? How do you find the information?

That’s right! You go to search engines like Yahoo, Google or AOL. We all go to the Internet for solutions and information. When you find what you’re looking for online you usually stay there for awhile, too. What does this all amount to? By way of answering, I’d like you to consider something YOU really enjoy doing.

Let’s say you are crazy about scrap booking. Did you know that you could build a fantastic website based on that theme? You could write about all your ideas on the subject and share it with others. Now ask yourself, what are just three things that are related to scrap booking.

1. The Materials

2. Special Scissors

3. The special way that your assemble them all

Your knowledge of scrap booking makes it easy to build web pages on this topic. Now, there is another lady scrap-booker who needs new information on how to assemble photos. She goes to her computer, brings up Google and starts her search. She finds a few sites about the subject but one who’s description stands out from the others interests her. She clicks on the link and it takes her to YOUR website.

Your copy is concise, friendly and upbeat. The lady finds it easy to understand and it meets her every need. She feels good about herself in her accomplished search and is relaxed enough about it to visit your site every once in a while because she knows it’s where she can find everything she wants to know about scrap booking. Later she returns and purchases a pair of those special scissors you have for sale. Now, do you understand why I asked you to consider one thing that you’re passionate about doing? That’s a website waiting to happen.

Busy moms everywhere are finding a little time in their busy schedules to build their own online businesses. They just do a little here and a little there as they can squeeze in the time and before they know it they are WAHMs with their online businesses.

I highly encourage all you Moms out there to consider an online business because it can satisfy all your needs; time, money and kids.

The places you can use to attract members differ depending on which niche you have selected. In the Internet marketing niche, you can go to high traffic forums such as the Warrior Forum, Digital Point. These are the best places to look for members and advertise what you have to offer. Forums in other niches are a little more sensitive to advertising, so you’ll need to check with the individual rules and regulations of each forum you’re interested in.

The most common manner to use Forums commercially without paying for the privilege involves using some net etiquette. We suggest that you register, read a few existing posts to get the flavor of the conversations, then add to the ongoing conversations without leaving a signature. Just comment meaningfully.

After a day or two or when others comment on your comments, go back into your profile and add a sig that includes only one of your web properties. Keep being a good citizen by commenting and answering questions, then perhaps later, add another web link ( if you wish to ) inside your forum signature. This sig is written automatically underneath every comment that you make, so 20 comments per day on 10 sites gives you 20 more ways that people can find your site and your material.

In addition to using sig links and creating special offers, you can broker JV deals with the forum owner, or purchase banner ads. The point is that forums are a hotspot because this is where members in your niche hang out.

Other options include advertising with a pay per click engine like Google’s Adwords. You will be able to target chosen keywords. Picking keywords consisting of just one word is typically too broad to do much good and the commercial intent of most one word keywords is far too low to be useful for a membership site. Try using 3 or 4 word phrases that have low competitiveness and anywhere under 1500 monthly searches. Pay Per Click is a good option because you can pretty much get feedback right away to see if your sales letter is good enough to convert.

Seo is definitely an area that you will want to focus on. For organic search results sales pages can rank for certain phrases but more often than not content-based pages do a lot better for your desired search terms. For that reason, you should create articles that relate to the niche that your membership website focuses on. Have these articles link back to your sales page, because they will be search engine bait and can help you get more members.

Take the opportunity to use other blogs as hosts for your article content. Article syndication has a fairly good record and it is possible to get both the benefits of those who look at the article directories, and those times where your article itself ranks highly in the search engines for your desired search terms.

Some of the best things in the world are free and the web has a few of these too. Free sites such as Digg, Blogger.com and WordPress.com are the best free website builders available. These can be used to quickly and easily create webpages that can direct potential clients to the conversion page. This type of marketing also has the additional benefit of getting back links to your website from sites hosting your content.

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This method of making money online is both popular and profitable. Many people who used to hold on to regular jobs while dabbling in internet marketing to earn extra income have long since quit their day jobs and enjoyed the benefits of earning online through info product marketing. But how does one create information products?

Here are 5 simple and easy to follow steps in product creation.

Step 1 – Niche Identification

In this first step, you browse around the internet looking for opportunities. The goal is to find out what people are talking about and see if in their discussions there arise any problems or questions which need some sort of solution.

Think about a topic you are interested in or may have some knowledge about.

Then go to forums that are related to these topics and dig down by searching for certain keywords related to the topic. You can also go to Yahoo Answers and do a search for keywords related to the topic and see what sort of questions or help Yahoo Answers users have been posting about.

Step 2 – Market Research

In this next step, the goal is to see if people are spending money on information products in this niche.

Take those same keywords you were searching for in the previous step and go to Google and do a search for those keywords. Take note of which keywords had plenty of AdWords ads on the upper portion and right portion of the search results page. A keyword which has at least 10 or more ads is a good sign, if people are advertising on the keyword, then there must be money to be made from that keyword. However, you should also check each of those ads to see what is being advertised. If there are no information products being advertised, that can be both a good and bad sign, and you can find the answer to this in the next step. If however there are other info products advertised, then this is a good sign that this is indeed a profitable niche. Also note what kind of products these are; whether they are free reports, ebooks, audio or video.

Step 3 – Direct Survey

This is a step where a lot of information products go wrong because the product creators are quick to make conclusions based on favorable results of the previous two steps.

Take research a step further by actually creating a survey and driving AdWords traffic to a survey page. Be sure to use the keywords that you used in the previous steps, as this will also give you an idea which keywords your potential customers will be most receptive to when you promote your information product later on.

This step is to further support the results of your previous steps. In the survey you can ask your respondents specific questions that relate to their problems or questions about a certain topics, what format they are most receptive to (ebooks, audio, video, etc), and other telling questions that will help you structure your information product.

Step 4 – Product Creation

This is the step where you put together your information product to meet the needs of the persons you have surveyed. You can put together this product yourself if you have personal knowledge about it, or you can simply have it outsourced by people who are experts in this field in places like guru.com, Elance or other sites where you can find experts on the field that you can tap to produce your product with your own input based on what you have found in your research.

Step 5 – Making it Available

Now that your info product is ready, you have to put the product on the rack for buyers to see it. What this means is, you have to put the product on a website created specifically for this purpose. With a good amount of promotion and advertising, you will be on your way to earning a decent passive income from your information product.

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Another tip on Adwords is to run two separate ad groups one for the search network and one for the content network, the reason being is that your CTR for the content network will be extremely low which in turn will ruin your search network CTR.

Also make sure you keep your keyword groups very tight,

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Finding Keywords For Your Adwords Campaign

Add Keywords To Your Adwords Campaign

Points to not from this video are that when split testing you do not need to switch an ad on or off to ensure the best ad is displayed as mentioned in the video as Google automatically displays the ad which has the highest CTR. You simply need to add as many ads as possible and Google will do the rest.

Also mentioned in the video is to simply add the broad, phrase and exact match of your keyword however that is not necessarily going to give the best results. If you have your keyword entered as broad match then Google will display it for keywords which it believes are related to your keyword which may not convert well therefore it\’s best to start off with exact match first and then try phrase and broad match if you have success.

I would recommend spending additional time learning about the nuts and bolts of Adwords rather than just jumping right in because it is important to do it the right way otherwise you will find yourself spending money on keywords which aren\’t going to convert and also paying too much per click.

The best advice I can provide in regards to Adwords is to start off with a small budget and keep your keywords highly targeted. The more targeted the keywords are to your niche the more likely you are to generate a sale. If you are successful with your highly targeted keywords then you can start to experiment with broader keywords.

One of the leading experts in running successful Google Adwords Campaigns is Perry Marshall. He has a free 5 day course on his site www.perrymarshall.com

Getting Started With Google Adwords

Article marketing is one of the most widely used techniques to drive direct traffic and build links. There are literally thousands of article directories on the internet so there is a lot of potential to obtain a heap of back links. You can submit your articles manually or you can use article submission services which automatically submit your articles for you.

The top 3 article distribution services are

1. Unique Article Wizard

2. Article Marketer

3. iSnare

If you are anything like me you are probably starting to find all of this content creation time consuming and tedious. Luckily there are many affordable “ghost writers” who will write articles for you on virtually any topic. You can find writers on www.guru.com and www.elance.com

Another tool which creates articles for you is called Instant Article Wizard which you can find out more about here www.instantarticlewizardpro.com

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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

The first place to go is Google Groups www.google.com/groups where you can locate groups specific to your niche market.

To find forums related to your niche simply type your main keyword into Google with forum appended. For example if your niche is ‘golf’ you would type ‘golf forum’ in to Google.

The key here is to add value to whatever discussion you are participating in, if you spam these sites you will have your accounts banned and will be wasting your time.

A tool which I recently posted about called Comment Kahuna finds blogs and Squidoo lenses related to the keyword you enter which can comment on.

The other thing taught today is how to find out if your site is indexed which is simply a matter of typing ‘site:yourdomain.com’ into Google.

If your site is indexed it will come up in the results, if not you will get a message saying “Your search – site:yourdomain.com – did not match any documents.”

It can take some time for your site to be indexed however by building your back links the time will be reduced.

Today’s Videos

How To Get More Backlinks

How To Find Out If Your Site Is Indexed

Some believe that social media is going to become more popular than traditional search engines because of the fact it is voted for by humans therefore more reliable. Although search engines, Google in particular, are constantly making huge improvements to their search results they are a long way off being able to observe what a human can. Perhaps Google will start to factor in human submitted content to tools like Google Reader in it’s search results, if it is not already.

The advantage search engines have over social bookmarking sites is that they can process far more information whereas social bookmarking sites are limited by the amount of people submitting content. The majority of people who use social bookmarking sites are generally tech savvy people who all fit a similar demographic therefore you may find a lot of great content on the iPhone but very little on fishing tips. However as more and more people use social bookmarking this will become less of a factor.

Anyhow the search engines are definitely paying a close eye to social bookmarking sites and put a lot of trust in content which is listed there due to the reasons I just mentioned. This is why it is so effective at getting new content indexed. You will notice that social bookmarking sites rank extremely well and your bookmarked content will often outrank your own site especially if it is a new domain.

Social bookmarking is only one method you will be using to promote your site so don’t be concerned if you are not ranking on the first page of Google right away, the first objective is to get your site indexed then you can focus on increasing your rankings.

Something which is extremely important to know and was not mentioned by Ed in today’s training is that if you only bookmark pages on your own site then your account’s will be banned. Social bookmarking sites are highly susceptible to spammers so have very strict guidelines in place, in order to avoid having your account removed you need to use it as it was designed not as a self promotional tool.

A method I use is to bookmark new content which turns up from Google Alerts and throw in a few bookmarks to my own sites here and there but the key is to keep it to a minimum.

Today’s Videos

Bookmarking Your Blog With Socialmarker

Just the one video today which explains how to use Social Marker www.socialmarker.com which semi automates your bookmarking.

Summary of Day 8

Nothing surprising about today’s training, social bookmarking continues to be an effective tool for getting indexed just make sure you use it the right way!

See you on day 9!

You will also learn a method for tracking affiliate links using another service provided by The 30 Day Challenge team. You can access it by going into your 30 Day Challenge dashboard and scrolling down you will see a link on the left hand sidebar titled ‘TDC Stats Tracker’ or clicking here www.thirtydaychallenge.com/tracking/viewtrackers.php

All you need to do is click the new URL button and paste in whatever affiliate link you wish to track. You will then be provided with a URL which looks like this http://locatereviews.com/2052517237 which will redirect to your affiliate link location. You will then be able to track how many times the link has been clicked on.

I use Google Analytics to track my affiliate links which provides more data and also allows you to use URL’s which match your site such as yoursite.com/more-info/affilliate-product.php rather than locatereviews.com/2052517237

To do this you need to create a text document on your computer and use the following code

Replace the link http://www.domain.com/affiliate-link with your affiliate link and replace UA-000000-0 with your Google Analytics ID.

Save the document as affiliate-product-name.php

You then need to create a directory(folder) on your site called ‘go’, ‘more-info’, ‘review’ or basically whatever you like and upload the file into that directory. You should now be able to load the file in your browser and it will redirect to your affiliate link.

Today’s Videos

How to Setup Google Analytics

A video showing how to set up a Google Analytics account and configuring it on your WordPress blog.

How to Track Affiliate Links

How to use the The 30 Day Tracking link tracking system.

Add Tracked Links On Your Blog

How to add your links generated by The 30 Day Challenge link tracking system to your WordPress blog.

Summary of Day 7

Tracking is an essential part of any online business and provides you with extremely valuable information to help your business succeed.

Google Analytics is a great tool which I use on a daily basis to keep track of how my sites are performing and as it’s free it’s perfect for people starting out on the internet.

For those getting itchy feet we should now be moving on to the promotional stage where you will start to learn how to generate traffic to your WordPress blog and hopefully make some sales.

See you on day 8!

Ed introduces a new tool from, yes you guessed it, Google, which allows you to easily make notes straight from your browser. The tool is called Google Notebook and you can get a plug-in for your browser here http://www.google.com/notebook/download

The goal for the day is to start writing some articles about 300 to 500 words long for each of your keywords. The more content you write the better but as a guide try and create at least ten articles.

Today’s Video’s

Find Article Content Using Market Samurai

GuruBob shows you how to use Market Samurai to find and analyze content on your keywords which you can then use to create your own content.

How To Write A Article

Ed shows you how to convert the content you have gathered so far using Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google Alerts and Market Samurai into your own content.

Summary of Day 5

As an experienced internet marketer I can tell you that becoming efficient at creating unique content is extremely useful as the more content you have the more traffic you can generate providing you are targeting the right keywords.

If English is not your first language or you really struggle to write content for whatever reason you can hire a ghostwriter to create the content for you.

See you on Day 6!

Ed’s method to test a market is to locate an affiliate product(s) related to your niche. There are dozens of affiliate networks where you can find products to sell as well as going directly to companies.

• The first step is to go in to Google and type in your main keyword for your niche followed by affiliate. So for example if I wanted to find affiliate products related to golf I would simply type in “golf affiliate”.
• Next you can go to affiliate networks to find products and here is a list of affiliate networks which you can join.

  PayDotCom
  ClickBank
  Shareasale
  ModernClick
  LinkShare
  Affiliate Fuel
  Commission Junction

• You can also become an affiliate at Amazon www.amazon.com. Amazon commissions are quite low but as Ed points out in the video we aren’t interested in how much we can make only that people are actually buying products in your chosen niche market. If people are buying your recommended affiliate products then that the provides the opportunity of creating your own product and making 100% of the sale price rather than 5%-15%.
• One place I don’t think Ed has mentioned so far is eBay which is another great place to discover niche markets. You can also become an eBay affiliate and promote any product that is on auction. Again commissions are low however their are millions of products in just as many niches being sold on eBay every day. To become an affiliate for eBay you need to join Commission Junction www.cj.com

So your job today is to find some products you can promote to test your market.

Today’s Videos

Finding An Internet Affiliate Program

A quick video on where to find affiliate products

Writing Your First Copy

Dan gives some tips on writing your first small piece of ad copy to promote your affiliate products.

Creating Amazon Affiliate Links

Dan explains how to create your Amazon affiliate link for whichever products you wish to promote to test your market.

Manipulating Images With Picnik

A tool which is going to be released for 30 day challenger’s is going to be released in the next few days (day 6 I believe) which is going to require your affiliate link from the previous video, a short bit of unique ad copy about the product and an image. This video shows you how to use a free online edit imaging tool called Picnik www.picnik.com to get your image of your product ready.

Overview of Day 4

Testing your market with affiliate products is very effective and some internet marketers make a lot of money simply promoting affiliate products and services however a lot of internet marketers would agree that having your own product is far more profitable for obvious reasons.

Dan mentioned a new function which I am assuming is going to be added to the Market Samurai tool, perhaps the ‘Publish Content’ function which will take the info collected above, compile it, and post it to a blog, maybe?

Today’s Videos

SEO Competition Using Market Samurai

This video explains how you can obtain a lot of crucial information on the top 10 ranking pages for a particular keyword you are interested in targeting using the Market Samurai tool. Data includes off page factors such as domain age, PageRank, Alexa Rank, Page back links, domain back links, .edu and .gov back links, DMOZ and Yahoo Directory and on page factors such as keyword in title, URL, description and heading tags as well as Google cache age.

SEO Competition The Old Way

In this video Ed goes through the original method for analyzing competition using the SEO tool for Firefox.

Overview of Day 3

Analyzing competition may be a bit overwhelming for newbies due to the amount of data which needs to be processed. Don’t let this put you off just concentrate on the main factors such as sites less than 3 years old, fewer than 100 back links to the page, less than PR3, no authority sites such as eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc and you should have any problems ranking on the front page for your chosen keywords.

I think I can smell some Google Knols cooking in the upcoming videos

See ya on day 4!

Today’s Videos

What To Expect In The Thirty Day Challenge

Ed talks about how crucial it is to research your market before promoting or creating a product. In fact the product comes last in what Ed calls “a magnificent symphony of four parts”. Which are market research, keyword research, traffic generation and finding or creating products.

Recommended Setup For Thirty Day Challenge

A quick overview of the tools which will be used in the 30 Day Challenge including the 30 Day challenge toolbar, Flock web browser, Stumble Upon, FreindFeed, Twitter, Twhirl, Google Reader and YouTube.

The Getting of Ideas

How to use Amazon to find ideas and keep up to date with your market by subscribing to Google News RSS feeds using Google Reader and using Google Alerts.

Overview of Day 1

Amazon is a massive “encyclopedia” as Ed calls it of products sold in every market imaginable. A good place to start is in the non-fiction books and the magazines section. You can guarantee if there is a book or a magazine on a subject then there is a niche which you can capitalize on. At this stage you want to find as many niche ideas as you can and Ed recommends finding niches which you have some interest in as they will be easier to work with.

It’s a good idea to try and find small niches as it will be easier for you to compete in rather than trying to go after the big ones such as ‘weight loss’ where there is intense competition.

You can keep up to date with your choosen markets by using Google Alerts www.google.com/alerts by simply enterting in the main keyword for your market and your email address. You can set how often you want to be emailed about any new content and you can also set up a rule in your inbox so that emails are automatically sorted for each niche.

You can also go to Google News www.google.com/news and enter your main keyword then you will get a list of the latest news related to your market which you can then subscribe to the RSS feed of these results so that you can easily keep up to date as new content is added. RSS feeds are an internet marketers best friend as it makes it much easier to manage and process large amounts of content from multiple sites all from one location. That location is Google Reader www.google.com/reader

To subscribe to the feed enter you main keyword into Google News search and either click the little RSS icon in your address window or in the left sidebar you should see a link which the name RSS. Simply right click and copy the link then go over to Google Reader, click add subscription and paste the link and click save.

It’s a good idea to create folders for each niche so that you can keep everything nicely organized.

That’s about it for day 1, feel free to subscribe to our feed to keep up to date with the rest of the challenge.