Thirty Day Challenge

The Thirty Day Challenge will continue - You can access the website, and start your own challenge now!

The Thirty Day Challenge is the testing phase of building an internet business. The testing is free and 100% targeted.

Once you know that you have a niche with the traffic, and that the traffic converts, and is making you some money, you can expand your business by taking the following steps, each of which has a modest cost attached:

Steps for Expansion

• build your own site
• build a list
• create a product
• drive additional traffic with Pay-Per-Click (eg Adwords)

The five biggest mistakes you can make in the Thirty Day Challenge

• bad numbers - not enough searches or too much competition
• bad strategy - no way to sell (eg no affiliate products)
• not matching post title & headline with keyword
• putting affiliate links in too soon (wait until after you’re indexed)
• other Web 2.0 comptetitors - avoid Web 2.0 hosts where someone has taken your keyphrase

Use Directory Submissions to get more backlinks

Use the free directory submitter at IMWishlist, and the free RSS Submitter, RSS Submit Pro to submit your site and your RSS feed to directories

Answer relevant questions at Yahoo Answers to get more backlinks

1) Use the SEO for Firefox plugin to analyse the Yahoo backlinks of your competition sites, as well as their age and Google Page Rank - then aim to get links on some of the same sites as your competitors, and to have a greater number of relevant links

2) Use Google blog search to find relevant blogs where you can leave relevant comments that link back to your site/blog. Try to use a unique keyword combination for your links so that they’re easy to track.

3) Use Google to search for forums relevant to your topic, and join and participate in those that allow links in your ’signature’

4) Use Google to search for relevant pages to comment in Web2.0 pages on HubPages and Squidoo.

About the future of the Thirty Day Challenge:

The site will remain open, and will set up monthly challenge teams - people will be able to do the Thirty Day Challenge year round!

Stages of the Thirty Day Challenge:

1. Find a niche market with a low competition, high traffic keyword
2. Use free web2.0 hosting platforms to publish unique, keyword optimized content, that links to a product sales page (affiliate or your own)
3. Use social networking strategies, particularly social bookmarking, to publicize the content
4. If the conversion rate is acceptable (about 1 in 200), start getting additional backlinks to your website

Some sources of backlinks:

• relevant comments on relevant blogs
• reciprocal links