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Thirty Day Challenge Podcast Released Today - November 30, 2007

November 30th, 2007 — Internet Marketing

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Ed Dale from the Thirty Day Challenge has just released a new thirty day challenge podcast. If you are interested in Internet marketing, Ed Dale’s podcasts are excellent.

Thirty Day Challenge

Ed’s podcasts are an extension of his Thirty Day Challenge Internet marketing program. You can learn a lot more about this program by reviewing my 30 Day Challenge Action List and this review of Thirty Day Challenge.

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10 Internet Marketing Forums To Make Money Online

November 26th, 2007 — Forums, Internet Marketing, Most Popular Articles

Reading and participating in Internet marketing forums is a great way to learn how to make money online.

As you might have read in my previous article blogging forums, participating in forums is a great way to get started making money online.

Internet marketing forums are the best means to get questions answered and become known within the internet marketing community. I don’t suggest that you participate in all of these forums, but instead pick one or two and become a valuable member.

The real power of forums is to become well known within the forums’ community. You want to establish yourself as a valued member of the community and an authority blogger. However, with these forums you can also just lurk around and learn a lot about Internet marketing.

Here are my favorite Internet marketing forums:

1. The Warrior Forum:

Warrior Forum

The Warrior Forum is a very friendly forum for Internet marketing and learning how to make money online. Many of these forums are rough places. Not for the sensitive types. However, I have never experienced this on The Warrior Forum. The people here are very willing to help beginners learn how to make money online.

2. Digital Point Forums:

Digital Point Forums are very active Internet marketing forums. Digital Point is a hub for people making money (or hoping to make money) on the Internet. I encourage you to check out all of the forums at Digital Point. The amount of information on these forums is absolutely amazing. This might be the most active Internet marketing forum.

3. The V7 Web Development Community:

The V7 Web Development Community focuses on Internet marketing, web design and blogging. V7 is a well established community with lots of traffic.

4. WickedFire Forums:

WickedFire does not have as much traffic as the Internet marketing forums listed above, but I really like the community. But be aware, the community is tough, but fair.

5. Thirty Day Challenge Forums:

thirty day challenge

This forum is focused on Ed Dale’s Thirty Day Challenge. This is a great Internet marketing program for people who are new to Internet marketing. You can find out more about the Thirty Day Challenge by reading my 30 Day Challenge Action List.

6. IM4Newbies:

IM4Newbies Forum

This is a great forum for people who are new to Internet marketing. This community is great for people who are absolutely new to this business. Newbies are always welcome.

7. NetBusinessTalk.com:

This forum goes a little beyond Internet marketing and making money online. Netbusinesstalk.com also provides forums for general business discussions.

8. High Rankings Search Engine Optimization Forum:

The High Rankings Search Engine Optimization Forum does not focus on Internet marketing, but it does cover a topic very important to Internet marketing, search engine optimization. This is an excellent forum for SEO advice.

9. The New Bloggers Message Board:

As you can tell by the title, this message board focuses on blogging. This is Garry Conn’s forum. While it is brand new, I know that it will be a great forum to make money blogging. Garry Conn is an Internet marketer that focuses on using blogs to make money online. In addition to checking out his forum, check out his great blog.

10. Clickbank Success Forum:

These forums are dedicated to achieving success with the affiliate program publisher Clickbank. If you want to make money online with affiliate programs this is a great forum.

If you know of other great Internet marketing forums, please tell us about them in the comments.

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30 Day Challenge Action List

November 23rd, 2007 — Internet Marketing

I have been a big fan of Ed Dale’s Thirty Day Challenge Internet marketing program. This 2007 action list is a step-by-step guide to get started in Internet marketing and making money blogging. Here is the 2008 Thirty Day Challenge action list.

Previously I had this 30 Day Challenge Action List on MMO Explorer, but have recently decided to move it to Newest on the Net where it is more in line with topics covered.

If you have not heard of the 30 Day Challenge, I highly encourage you to take a look at the Thirty Day Challenge and consider joining yourselves. It is an unbelievable beginners’ Internet marketing program.

One thing that I have been having trouble with is turning Ed’s lessons into actions. Therefore I have been using Mike Mindel’s blog to help me keep on track. Despite Mike’s great notes, I still needed an action list to keep me on track. Here is my action list. I will keep updating it as I continue my journey. I would like to thank Ed and Mike for their unbelievable work.

In addition to Ed and Dan’s Thirty Day Challenge, they run another unbelievable Internet marketing course called The Immediate Edge. If you like what you are learning in the 30 Day Challenge, please check out The Immediate Edge. The Immediate Edge website has lots of great information explaining the course.

For those Thirty Day Challenge participants who have subscribed to MMO Explorer, please subscribe to Newest on the Net. I promise to keep following the 30 Day Challenge.

Thirty Day Challenge Action List

STEP 1 - Setting Up Firefox: Download and Install the Following

Check out Mike Mindel’s blog for descriptions of each Firefox extension.

STEP 2 – Join the Following Social Sites

STEP 3 – Setup Skype

STEP 4 - Leverage the Power of Social Networking - Start Using the Tools Ed has Shared

Stumble Sites that you like using your StumbleUpon Toolbar. For example you could Stumble this site or any of the following pages
http://mmoexplorer.com/62/does-your-wife-hate-your-mmorpg/
http://mmoexplorer.com/59/wow-the-mmorpg-killer/
http://mmoexplorer.com/51/the-agency-just-another-mmo/
http://mmoexplorer.com/40/top-10-world-of-warcraft-podcasts/
http://mmoexplorer.com/28/top-6-everquest-ii-podcasts/ I digress
Add RSS Feeds that you want to read using Bloglines
Bookmark sites you want to read again using Del.icio.us
Post notes about the page using ScribeFire
Sign up for Skitch
Sign up for Flickr
Upload images to mySkitch or Flickr
Download Snagit
Download Camtasia
Sign up for Jing

STEP 5 - Install the Thirty Day Challenge Toolbar

Thirty Day Challenge Toolbar - By the way I can’t install this for some reason

STEP 6 - Day 1 Action Items

Write down niche market ideas (not product ideas)

Think about sub-niches - Mike’s Examples: Niche: How to Trout Fish Sub-niche: How to Trout Fish Using a Spinner in a Stream

Mike Mindel defines a niche market as,

“The ideal niche market is one where there is an interest from a small but sizable group of individuals (niche market) and no one is fulfilling their needs”

STEP 7 - Day 2 Action Items - Find 7 sub-niches

Use the following sites to brainstorm niche markets and sub-niche ideas,

STEP 8 - Day 3 Action Items

Use Wordtracker and type in each of your 7 sub-niches.
Copy and paste the wordtracker results into a text document for each of your 7 sub-niches.
Perform google competition analysis by typing each niche market into google. Are there other people advertising products in this sub-niche?

STEP 9 - Day 6 Action Items

Go to Google and type in your sub-niche + Affiliate.
Look for whether your sub-niche has affiliate programs
Look at right side of Google to see who is advertising for this phrase
write down affiliate programs for your sub-niche
Go to Google Trends and type in you sub-niches. Just observe the traffic

STEP 10 - Day 7 Let the Judgment Begin

Find Umbrella Phrases for each sub-niche.
Find a phrase match with below 25,000 - 30,000 competing pages
Find a phrase with 80 or more searches per day

STEP 11 - Day 8 The Judgment Continues

Using Google Trends, compare your umbrella phrase with male yeast infection.
Select an umbrella phrase with at least 80 daily searches and page competition below 30,000

STEP 12 - Day 9 Google Trends Redux

Using the steps above, go from 7 niches to 2 niches

STEP 13 - Day 10 Down to Two

Type your exact phrase match into google and make sure that there are no Web 2.0 properties.
Research your two topics using google news and google blog search
Take notes on your topics to gain knowledge of these areas
Join related groups in Facebook, Google Groups, Myspace, Yahoo.

STEP 14 - Golden Nuggets

Google you keyword phrase.
Take notes from 10 - 20 of the sites that google presents in the search results
Joining the mailing lists for those sites
Subscribe to the RSS Feeds
Join the groups on Google Groups, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, etc.

STEP 15 - Day 13 Content, Content, Content

Create three articles for each of your keywords (6 articles total)
Put your keywords in the title and first sentence of each article

STEP 16 - Day 14 Affiliate Time

Write another three article for each of your keywords (6 articles total)
Join Clickbank affiliate program
Join Amazon’s affiliate program
Find and join other affiliate programs (See Mike Mindel’s List of Affiliate Programs)

STEP 17 - Day 15

Write another three article for each of your keywords (6 articles total)

STEP 18 - Day 16 It’s Traffic Time…

Create Tumblr blog (tell a story and link to you affiliate product) [NOTE: TUMBLR HAS BEEN DELETING 30DC BLOGS. I SUGGEST USING A DIFFERENT BLOGGING PLATFORM]
Write another three article for each of your keywords (6 articles total)
Don’t post all of your articles on your blog.
Save some of the articles to post on new blogs that you create for your keyword.

STEP 19 - Day 17 Share Your Blogs and Articles with the World

Install Social Poster.
Place Social Poster Bookmarklet onto your Firefox bookmark toolbar. This makes it easy to social post a website that you like.
Social Poster your blog and blog articles using Social Poster. Bookmarking your content helps you to get listed in Google and helps your ranking within Google.
Register with each of the 40 social sites that Social Poster lists.
Write another three article for each of your keywords (6 articles total)
Create an Ezine Article relevant to your keyword.

Day 18/19 Weekend No Lessons

So Catchup!!

Step 20 - Day 20 Ethical Social Bookmarking

Always practice ethical social bookmarking.
Continue to explore social bookmarking sites. Check out Socializer 2.0.
Don’t worry about hosting your own sites at this stage. This stage is for testing!!
Don’t put the same article on more than one site. Google will give you a duplicate content penalty.
When writing your articles, put your exact umbrella phrase in the article title, first sentence and last paragraph. This is very important to get ranked in google.

Step 21 - Day 21 The Big Picture

Today Ed gave an overview of what we are trying to do here. While this does not hit into the action list format, I think that it is important that I give a brief summary of the most important points of the big picture.

Product is not that important at this stage.

This is a testing phase.

Main goal is to set up various website using umbrella phrases to drive around 200 visitors per day to our affiliate page. With 200 visitors to our affiliate product, you can expect a sale a day.

Eventually we will substitue the affiliate product with one of our own.

Once you know your conversion rate, then ppc advertising becomes a great way to make money.

Create three more articles.
Add another Web2.0 property to your arsenal of content sites. Check out Mike Mindel’s list of Content Sites.
Only post content that you haven’t used before.
Social poster your sites and your team members’ sites (if the content is good)

Step 22 - Day 22 Let’s Test; Let’s Track

Track the number of visits to each of your websites by installing Google Analytics and/or Statcounter.
Use the TDC Stats Tracker to track the number of people clicking your affiliate links on your websites.
Test different affiliate products in your niche to see which sells better.

Step 23 - Day 23 Conversion Time

Keep using different blogging platforms until you reach 200 visits to your money page a day.
Therefore, today add one more platform.
Work on creating good copy for your blogs.

Step 24 - Day 24 Are you getting traffic?

Monitor your stats. If you are getting 200 visits to your money page per day, then move to conversion.
If you are not gettign 200 visits to your money page, create another cluster to drive traffic to you money page, or decide to discontinue with that keyword.
You need 200 visitors per day to your money page (probably your affiliate program).

If you like this action list, please subscribe to Newest on the Net. I will continue to update this 30 Day Challenge Action List.

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Finally Broke Into the Top 100

November 11th, 2007 — Internet Marketing

I wanted to let everyone know that Newest on the Net has finally broken into the Top 100 Make Money Online blogs. I think that I started at around number 146, but now I am sitting at number 86. I have a long way to go to reach number one, but I am moving in the right direction!!

I also noticed that several of my favorite blogs have also moved on the list. I encourage you all to check out these great blogs. While some of these blogs are well established, most are up and comers. It is exciting to see a blog at this infancy. So check out these great blogs.

Vandelay Design is now sitting at number 12.

CashQuests.com is now at number 13.

Entrepreneur’s Journey is now at number 14.

Garry Conn is now at number 31.

Caroline Middlebrook is now at number 35.

Pat B. Doyle is now at number 65.

Etienne is now at number 72.

Daily Moolah is at number 76.

Rich Gilcrest is at number 84.

The Writers Manifesto Blog is at number 96.

Dazzlin Donna is at number 98.

Marco Richter is at number 127.

Thomas Sinfield is at number 141.

FabNet Revenue is at number 226.

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Courtney Tuttle’s Internet Marketing Group Writing Project

October 21st, 2007 — Internet Marketing

Last week I participated in Courtney Tuttle’s Group Writing Project. I want thank all that have participated. I submitted my article titled Ultimate List of Free Blogging Platforms. There are some great articles on Internet Marketing in this list. I encourage you to check them out.

Getting Traffic To Your Website
Creating A Prospect List For Bloggers by Maki
Finding Blog Topics That Will Bring You Traffic by Sean
The 25 Best Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog by me
How To Increase Traffic To Your Website by Frederick
How To Get Instant Free Traffic To Your Blog by Bruce
How To Stay Visible Inside Of 70 Million Blogs by Ken
Blogging In Real Life by Theda
Why Back Links Work by Paul
How To Optimize Your Blog Images For Google Image Search by Etienne