Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2008

5 Aug, 2008  |  Written by Fred  |  under Internet Marketing

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
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20 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. Annie  |  August 5th, 2008 at 8:51 pm #

    Hey Fred!

    Nice Action List. Keep it up. This will be handy the further we get into the challenge.

    Good luck this year!

    ~ Annie

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  2. Dave Davis  |  August 6th, 2008 at 3:53 am #

    Best of luck with the 30DC Fred! Thanks for the mention too!

    PS: You have a new subscriber.

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    Many thanks for this. I’m loving the challenge and Market Samurai is mindblowing!

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  9. SteveH2008  |  August 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pm #

    Hey Fred,

    Thanks for putting your action list together this year. It’s a big help for the countless many who are running behind, myself included. We’re definitely off to a mind-blowing start. Best of success to you throughout the challenge and beyond.

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  11. Mike  |  August 13th, 2008 at 6:03 am #

    just tweeted this fantastic resource – thanks so much Mike!!

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  12. Fred  |  August 13th, 2008 at 6:36 am #

    Mike, Thank you so much for tweeting this for me. I am having a hard time promoting it this year due to not being able to add a personal blog to my Thirty Day Challenge forum signature. I really wish they would change this policy.

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  13. Hamish  |  August 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm #

    Mike,
    Brilliant. Just what I was looking for without having to do anything myself. Keep up the good work.

    Hamish

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  14. Katherine  |  August 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pm #

    This was VERY helpful. Thanks for posting it! I stumbled it so I could find it easily again. :)

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    Best of all is that the community is still going strong 3 months later.

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    Fabulous job! I have completed the pre-season and am on Day 1. Your Action List is going to be a very helpful resource for me.

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  19. Randy  |  August 12th, 2009 at 1:24 pm #

    Thanks for the action item list and the extras you’ve added.

    One question – You’re saying that you purchase a domain name and now have a web site. Has there been any activity on creating the web site yet or just the blog site?

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  20. Barbara  |  October 22nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm #

    I love this list! I come back to it time and time again. But what happened to the links that help you configure Flock? I always come back to your site to set up Flock whenever I download it to a new computer…

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