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Comment Kahuna Update Released

Mike Law — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:28:22 +0000

Comment Kahuna is a highly recommended tool in any internet marketers arsenal and best of all it is free! It makes it easy to find blog posts, articles and Squidoo pages related to your market which you can add useful comments to with a back link to your site. Back links are the lifeblood of any site wishing to generate traffic from search engines and it is a good idea to make commenting part of your daily routine. The latest version of Comment Kahuna will find WordPress blogs related to your market with the CommentLuv plug-in installed. The CommentLuv plug-in is one which you have probably come across where when you leave a comment on someones WordPress blog it will add a link to your latest blog post at the end of your comment automatically which is really effective at getting direct traffic to your blog. So what are you waiting for go get it www.commentkahuna.com

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 12 – Setting Up A Hub Page

Mike Law — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:01:20 +0000

Today is basically the same as yesterday however this time you will be creating HubPages www.hubpages.com rather than Squidoo lenses. They both work in a similar fashion however you have to keep links to a minimum on HubPages as they have more stricter policies to stop spamming. Do not use the same content as you used on your Squidoo lens, make sure you rewrite it so that they are unique. This will ensure that both your Squidoo lenses and HubPages will rank well in the search engines.

Don’t forget to social bookmark all of your content!

How To Create A Hubpages Site

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 7 – Tracking And Analytics

Mike Law — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:32:48 +0000

Day 7 is all about setting up tracking so that you can monitor what promotional strategies are producing results and what aren’t. We can also find out what keywords people are searching for in the search engines to find your site which is very useful information. Yet again Google come to the rescue and provide another free tool which is as good as most paid tools called Google Analytics

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

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/wealthon/public_html/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php:11) in /home/wealthon/public_html/wp-content/plugins/exec-php/includes/runtime.php(42) : eval()’d code on line 12

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!

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 6 – Publishing A Blog

Mike Law — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:43:10 +0000

Blogs are a great way for new people to internet marketing to get a site up and running and easily add content without having to know HTML. Search engines love blogs as they come well configured right out of the box. WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms available and as it is free is an obvious choice for The 30 Day Challenge. In fact you are looking at a WordPress blog right now as I use it on this site in conjunction with Joomla which is a free open source content management system.

You have two options in regards to using your own hosting account which allows you to have your own domain name such as yourdomainname.com or using the hosting provided by The 30 Day Challenge which would look something like yourkeyword.topicster.com

Registering a Domain

If you are serious about starting an online business it is highly recommended to purchase your own domain. It only costs around $10 a year to register a domain so it isn’t going to break the bank and over time that domain will increase in value providing you continue to promote it. You also have full control over what content you add to your site and don’t have to be concerned with having your account deleted and losing all of your content if it is hosted elsewhere.

It is recommended that you add your main keyword to your domain. For example if the niche you are targeting is ‘titanium golf clubs’ then your domain name should be something like titaniumgolfclubs.com. If the domain you are after is taken do not add numbers i.e. titaniumgolfclubs123.com or dashes titanium-golf-clubs.com because that looks spammy to the search engines. Try something like titaniumgolfclubreviews.com or toptitaniumgolfclubs.com. Lastly don’t try and stuff too many keywords into your domain because that also appears spammy.

www.namecheap.com is the service I use to register my domains.

Hosting Your Site

Once you have your own domain you will also need to find somewhere to host your site. Hosting varies greatly in price depending on how much information you wish to store and how much bandwidth your site is going to use. Fortunately to run a blog you do not need a lot of space or bandwidth therefore a basic plan is perfectly OK. You can also upgrade your account at any time if you need to.

The hosting service which Ed recommends is www.hostgator.com which I also have used and highly recommend. The $7.95 a month plan is the recommended plan as it allows you to host as many domains as you wish however like I just mentioned you can go for the $4.95 plan if you only wish to have one site and upgrade at any time to add additional sites.

Installing and Configuring WordPress

Now that you have your domain and host set up you will want to install WordPress. You can install WordPress yourself by using Fantastico which you will find in cPanel or you can use the service which Ed recommends called WordPress Direct. The advantage of using WordPress Direct is that it installs several plug-ins and makes optimizations to WordPress which would otherwise have to be done manually. It also comes with 1,500 themes which you can choose from which again saves you from having to find and install it yourself.

The free subscription of WordPress Direct allows you to install up to 3 blogs and the paid service allows you to install up to 15. Most 30 Day Challengers wouldn’t require more than 3 blogs as you only need one per niche market therefore the free service is perfectly fine.

Today’s Videos

Awesome Software And Domains

A video showing you how to register your own domain name.

How To Setup Your Own Hosting

Dan goes through the process of setting up your hosting account at Hostgator.

Install A Blog With WordPressdirect

Ed shows how to set up a WordPress Blog using WordPress Direct.

Add Content And Publish Blog

GuruBob shows how to add content to your WordPress site installed with WordPress Direct.

Summary of Day 6

WordPress is a great blogging platform and has been pretty much the industry standard system for affiliate marketers due to how well they perform in the search engines and the ease of use. If you are serious about starting an online business then I highly recommend getting your own domain and hosting account.

See you on day 7!

30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 5 – Getting Some Content

Mike Law — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:03:22 +0000

To promote your affiliate product(s) you will need to create content about your niche(s). This allows us to write blog posts and submit articles which will then be indexed by the search engines and hopefully result in some traffic. Today introduces a new feature of Market Samurai which will locate content related to your keywords to help you create your own content. Also if you subscribed to Google News feeds and/or Google Alerts then you should already have some info which you can create some content on.

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!