Do you want to make a little more money?  If so, one of the best ways I have found for doing so is to make money online making niche blogs.

Niche blogging is when you make a blog focused on a very narrow topic.  The goal for this niche blog is to provide great, exhaustive content surrounding this niche.  Since you are focusing on a narrown topic, you will not have to write that many articles.  Simply provide great information about the niche and then move on to your next niche blog.

Today I read a great post from Garry Conn about niche blogging.  In this post Garry describes exactly how you can make money online making niche blogs.  Go read his article at Make Money Online Building a Blog about Gardening.

If you don’t already read Garry’s blog, I highly encourage you to do so.  Garry is a master at building niche blogs and making money online with adsense.

For those of you following the Thirty Day Challenge and my Thirty Day Challenge Action List, I have updated the action list through Day 9.

Day 9 of the Thirty Day Challenge focused around getting backlinks to your website. This is hugely important to the success of your site in getting search engine traffic. Google, Yahoo and MSN use backlinks as a way of determining what content is worthy of listing higher in their search engine results pages. The more backlinks you get the higher you site will be listed.

Ed Dale has provided a lot of good tips to finding places to get links back to your blog. You will learn a lot by watching this Thirty Day Challenge Day 9 video.

As I have been progressing through the Thirty Day Challenge 2008 and updating the Thirty Day Challenge Action List, I came to day 4. In Day 4’s lessons, Dan Raine has shared a great video on how to write articles that sell.

Learning how to write articles that sell is an often overlooked skill by beginning Internet marketers. We spend a lot of time how to find niches, how to find keywords and how to set up websites, but we forget that without good sales copy we will never be able to reach the maximum sales for our niche.

I have found in my Internet marketing journey that the number one thing you must do to succeed in Internet marketing is to create lots of content. The more content you create, the more products you promote, the more sales you will make. You need to have tons of hooks out on the Internet to increase your chances of catching sales.

However, the second most important lessons is learning how to write articles that sell. If you really want to learn how to make money online, you need this skill. Watch the following video to get a glimpse into the sales copy creating process of one of the best Internet marketers.

Twelve months ago Newest on the Net was born in large part out of my experience with Ed Dale’s Thirty Day Challenge.  And for this, I am very thankful for Ed Dale and his team at the Thirty Day Challenge.  Prior to the 2007 Thirty Day Challenge, I had a blog that focused on massively multiplayer online role playing games, MMOExplorer.com.  But, after participating in the Thirty Day Challenge, I fell in love with Internet marketing, social media, and blogging.

When I first heard about the Thirty Day Challenge, I had never really thought about Internet Marketing.  However, as I continued through Ed Dale’s Internet marketing course, I became obsessed.  This obsession led me to create the Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2007.  Originally this action list was posted on my MMO Explorer blog.  Since then I moved it to Newest on the Net where it really belongs.  Here is the link to the Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2008.

While I would like to tell you that I earned $1 during August 2007 from the Thirty Day Challenge course, I can’t.  While a tried very hard to earn my first dollar online, I wasn’t able to do it in August of that year.  I was kind of disappointed and decided to turn away from Internet Marketing and focus on learning how to blog.

In the meantime, without me knowing it, my sites that I created during the 2007 Thirty Day Challenge were working for me without me doing anything.  In November or December, I happened to check my Clickbank account and saw that I had made 4 sales totaling over $100.  I couldn’t believe it.  The work that I had done during the Thirty Day Challenge actually made me money.  From this point on, I became obsessed with Internet Marketing again.

Since December 2007, I have made thousands of dollars online.  I owe my start to Ed Dale, Dan Raine and the rest of the 30 Day Challenge team.  I can’t wait to follow this year’s challenge.  Please subscribe to Newest on the Net, so that you know when updates are made to the 2008 Thirty Day Challenge Action List.

Welcome to the Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2008. This Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2008 is designed to give you a step-by-step guide to completing Ed Dale’s Thirty Day Challenge Internet marketing program. This is the second year for this action list. Here is where you can find the Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2007.

If you are not familiar with the Thirty Day Challenge, you are in for a real treat. You can sign up for this incredible free Internet marketing course here. It is the best Internet marketing program I have ever seen. And, it is FREE!!

Now back to discussing this 2008 Thirty Day Challenge Action List. One of the problems that I have with the Thirty Day Challenge is turning Ed’s excellent videos into actions. I watch the videos, learn a lot, but in the end don’t really know what to do. This action list is designed to help you to always know what you need to accomplish each day of the course.

For those Thirty Day Challenge participants who are not subscribers to Newest on the Net, please subscribe to my RSS feed so that you always know when I have updated this Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2008. Without further adieu, let’s get started.

2008 Thirty Day Challenge Action List

STEP 1 – Setting Up Flock: Download, install and setup Flock Internet Browser

1. Download Flock
2. Setup the Flock Preferences as shown here
3. Setup a Google Reader account
4. Speed up Flock by following the instruction here
5. Install the Google Global Flock extension
6. Install the Google Notebook Flock extension
7. Install the SEO for Flock extension
8. Install the SearchStatus extension
9. Install the StumbleUpon toolbar (please note – If you are interested in learning more about StumbleUpon, read 65 Must Read StumbleUpon Articles)
10. Install the Thirty Day Challenge Toolbar

STEP 2 – Sign up to Twitter

Follow me on Twitter
Follow Ed Dale on Twitter
Follow Dan Raine on Twitter

STEP 3 – Learn to Use Twitter in Flock and Install Twirl

1. Read instructions on how to use Twitter in Flock
2. Install Twirl

STEP 4 – Learn How To Set Up Google Reader and Google Alerts

1. Read these instructions for setting up Google Reader and Google Alerts
2. Subscribe to Newest on the Net so that you know when this action list is updated.

STEP 5 – Learn How To Use StumbleUpon

1. Read these instructions for using StumbleUpon
2. Add me as a friend on StumbleUpon

STEP 6 – Subscribe to Ed Dale’s YouTube Channel

STEP 7 – Join FriendFeed

1. Join FriendFeed
2. Add me as your friend in FriendFeed
3. Add Ed Dale as your friend in FriendFeed
4. Join the FriendFeed Thirty Day Challenge Room

STEP 8 – Day 1: Start Brainstorming Niche Ideas

1. Come up with 5-10 niches that interest you
2. Use Amazon.com’s magazine and newspapers section to come up with niche ideas
3. Remember the “small is better”
4. Subscribe to the Google Alerts for your chosen niches

STEP 9 – Day 2: Market Samurai

1. Download Market Samurai
2. Realize that for Internet marketing a niche markets and keywords are the same thing
3. Find keywords that are used by a lot of people, who are looking to buy something, and not a lot of competing pages for that keyword
4. Find keywords with the following attributes:
   a. SEO Traffic (SEOT) > 80 searches a day
   b. SEO Competition < 30,000 competing pages
   c. Adwords CTR > 2.00% (this means that it is a buying keyword). Adwords CTR is just used to prioritize your keywords.
   d. Look at the keyword’s OCI percentage. The higher the percentage the more likely that the keyword is a buying keyword. OCI is just used to prioritize your keywords.
5. Narrow down your niches to a few keywords meeting the above criteria.

STEP 10 – Day 3: Determine the SEO Competition

1. Determine SEO Competition of your keywords
2. Find a keyword that you believe that the SEO competition is low enough that you can compete for the number 1 ranking in Google

STEP 11 – DAY 4: Finding your affiliates products

1. Find 2 affiliate products within your niche that you can promote
2. Learn how to write articles that sell by following Dan Raine’s Writing Your First Copy guide
3. Learn how to create Amazon affiliate links
4. Join Picnik
5. Learn how to resize images and edit images with Picnik

STEP 12 – Day 5: Research your niche

1. Research your niche. Find articles about your keyword using sites like Ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, google blog search, and google news.
2. Find enough content so that you can write 5-10 300-500 word articles about you niche.
3. Write a few of your 300-500 articles. You will be using this content throughout the Thirty Day Challenge.

STEP 13 – Day 6: Publishing a Blog

1. Find an available domain name with your keywords in the name. You can use nameboy.com or namecheap.com.
2. Consider signing up for web hosting with Host Gator
3. Check out WordPress Direct for creating a WordPress site
4. Create a self-hosted WordPress site. Consider using WordPress Direct, Fantastico or Simple Scripts to help with the installation of WordPress.

STEP 14 – Day 7: Learn how to track traffic and click throughs on your blog

1. Install Google Analytics on your Blog
2. Create trackable affiliate links using TDC Statcounter
3. Insert your trackable affiliate links into your blog content

STEP 15 – Day 8: Social bookmaking increases your web presence and Google search engine results pages positioning

1. Use socialmarker to bookmark your content. I actually like SocialPoster.com better so try that one out too.

STEP 16 – Day 9: Get more backlinks to your website

1. Find relevant groups at Google Groups
2. Find relevant forums that you can leave your link in your signature
3. Find relevant Squidoo pages for your keyword by typing the following into Google – your keyword site:squidoo.com
4. Make good comments with your anchored text link in each of these websites. Become part of the community at each of these sites. Do not spam them!! ADD VALUE!!
5. Get a few links a day
6. Find out if your site is ranked by Google by typing the following into Google – site:yourdomain.com

STEP 17 – Day 10: Thirty Day Challenge Free RSS Submission Service

1. Submit your site’s RSS feed to RSS feed directories using the Thirty Day Challenge Free RSS Submission Service

STEP 18 – Day 11: Promote your site using Squidoo

1. Create a Squidoo lens about your site
2. Socialmarker your Squidoo lens

STEP 19 – Day 12:  Promote your site using Hubpages

1. Create a Hubpage page about your site
2. Socialmarker your Hubpage page

STEP 20 – Day 13:  Analyze you traffic using Google Analytics

1. Focus on what keywords your traffic is coming from
2. Understand who is referring traffic to you

Day 14 Note: Deleted due to Tumblr deleting 30DC sites

STEP 21 – Day 15:  Promote your site using Weebly

1. Create a Weebly page about your site
2. Socialmarker you Weebly page