Thirty Day Challenge

Starting to look at how to get traffic:

• You want your site to be indexed in Google, because 50% of search traffic goes through Google.
• Black hat strategies do not provide real value to the searcher - better to use white hat strategies.
• A new web site has no reputation or trust, so a new ‘money site’ will not be attractive to Google

To start getting traffic to a new web site you need association with:

1) a site that is liked by Google, has user generated content, tagging, and will link to you (sounds like a Web 2.0 site to me!) - postnote: looks like its Tumblr - see TDC Day 16

Wow! theres a new free WordTracker tool based on the Thirty Day Challenge Techniques. And did I say, its free? Have a look at the new WordTracker GTrends

Ok, back to the new tasks:

Today, research & write three new articles for the umbrella keywords

Then start to research affiliate programs for your two niches. - check out Clickbank, Amazon, and other affiliate networks.

• You’ve found your niche markets
• You’ve done all the keyword research
• You’ve narrowed the markets down to two
• You’ve researched those markets

Now its time to make use of that research, and write three short articles for the ‘umbrella keyword’ you selected for each of your two niches.

Use your RSS feeds from blogs, Google news, etc. Read them in Bloglines

Clip interesting paragraphs in Google notebook, then export them to Google docs to turn them into an article.

TDC breaks for the weekend - phew! - But there’s still stacks of niche market research to do.

Day 10 introduces another filter - check the top 10 results for your keywords, to see if there are web 2.0 sites in the top 10. Best to avoid keywords where there are already web 2.0 in the top 10, and stick to keywords without web 2.0 sites in the top 10. Why? so that you can use the advantages of web 2.0 without any serious web 2.0 competition.

Then it shows how to research your niche markets - use Google News, Google Blog Search, Google Groups, etc. Subscribe to the feeds in Bloglines. Use Google Notebook to take notes.