TDC Day 27 - Overview, Backlinking
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:
- Find a niche market with a low competition, high traffic keyword
- Use free web2.0 hosting platforms to publish unique, keyword optimized content, that links to a product sales page (affiliate or your own)
- Use social networking strategies, particularly social bookmarking, to publicize the content
- 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
- article marketing (eg EzineArticles.com)
- Press Releases
- Directories
- Yahoo Answers
Avoid:
- link farms
- irrelevant websites
- sites not indexed in Google
- gambling & porn sites
- duplicate content
and DON’T SPAM
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You can use Google Alerts to track your topic and your backlinks (see second video)
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