First off, I do not want to discount the 30 Day Challenge website, it’s great! However, I don’t have a lot of time these days. What I’ve done, is take the end objective from each day and summarized it. If you have a lot of patience, and want to insure this works for you, I really suggest that you just take the 30 day challenge and stop here. In fact, I am going to continue after the break for those who want to do it right…

This is by no means an alternative way of taking the 30 day challenge, nor am I, or any of my sites, or companies affiliated with the 30 day challenge. I was simply curious about it, and didn’t want to sink 30 days into something without a brief summary.

Enjoy.

The 30 Day Challenge, in 30 Minutes

Day 1: Carry a notebook around with you. Writing ideas down on paper is always a better option than using a tool or piece of software on your computer. Brainstorm three niches, for day 2.

Day 2: Grasp the understanding of what niche and micro-niche markets are. They use Market Samurai to identify quality keywords. Also, fully research at least 3 micro-niches you identified on Day 1.

Day 3: Use the SEO Matrix tool in Market Samurai to assess your micro-niches from Day 2, and to have picked at least one that meets the criteria in terms of traffic and page competition, that’s not too competitive from an SEO perspective.

Day 4: Using the new Monetization Module in Market Samurai, assess your micro-niche keyword(s) for commercial value and chosen 1 or 2 affiliate products associated with it for initial promotion.

Day 5: After using the Find Content module in Market Samurai to source content, you should begin writing unique articles of around 300 – 400 words, with the goal of creating between 7 to 10 articles over the next week. Use the Domains Bot site to identify an appropriate domain containing your theme keyword, register the domain and create a hosting account.

Day 6: Create your free WordPress Direct account. Install a blog on your theme keyword domain you bought. Add one keyword optimized article to your new blog and made it ‘sticky‘.

Day 7: Setup Google Analytics tracking on your blog, and add both a side bar ad and link in your first post using the Pretty Link plugin.

Day 8: Learn how ranking and indexing works, and the importance of the initial promotion of your site. Create a Traffic Bug account, and submit your domain URL (as a website), as well as the URL of your first blog post (as a related URL).

Day 9: Use the Rank Tracker module inside Market Samurai, you will setup tracking for the indexing and ranking of your blog for your target theme and category keywords, as well as the main URL of your blog, and the URL of your first article.

Day 10: Upload one of your unique keyword optimized articles to EzineArticles and another one of your unique keyword optimized articles to Scribd, with both articles linking back to your blog URL. Add the unique URLs of both articles to Traffic Bug and Rank Tracker.

Day 11: Create a Squidoo lens optimized with your theme keywords and also created your first keyword optimized HubPage, with both pages linking back to your blog URL. You will have also added the unique URLs of both sites to Traffic Bug and Rank Tracker.

Day 12: Using the tracking tools in Google Analytics, and WordPress Direct, assess your traffic and link stats. Using Market Samurai’s Publish Content module, publish a second article to your blog and submit the post URL to Traffic Bug, and add the post URL to Rank Tracker.

Day 13: Create blogs on the both of the free blogging platforms WordPress.com and Blogger. Each of these blogs will have a new, unique post in the form of an article that is theme keyword optimized, and the sites will have been added to Rank Tracker and Traffic Bug.

Day 14: Create a new blog on the free blogging platform Weebly. The blog will have a new, unique post in the form of an article that is theme keyword optimized, and will have been added to Rank Tracker and Traffic Bug. Read about Facebook Pages and how they function, and if applicable to your market or niche, create a Facebook Page as well.

Day 15: Create a Propeller account and bookmark at least one of your blog URLs (and your Propeller profile URL), and then added the Propeller bookmark to Rank Tracker and Traffic Bug. Also create a Posterous account, make a post on your Posterous blog that links back to your WPD blog, and added some services to your Google Reader account using the ‘Send To’ feature in settings.

Day 16: Revisit what you’ve done this week. Take advantage of the rest day to go back and revisit lessons that you either don’t understand 100%.

Day 17: Using Google Analytics, you assess the traffic coming to your blog. Using the WordPress Direct control panel, assess your Pretty Link click stats for the number of people clicking on your links, If you’re getting traffic and clicks but no sales, change out the ad using Market Samurai’s Monetization module.

Day 18: Read and learn about the Pareto Principle (otherwise known as the 80/20 rule).

Day 19: Create your Google Adwords account, and setup and activate an ad campaign with one ad group optimized for your main theme keyword and linked it back to your blog.

Day 20: Research the types of ads that can be created, how to interpret the data that is generated, and also created new ad groups and ads using your category keywords.

Day 21: Read up and see how Google’s quality score works. Run your ad campaign to try and meet what Google is looking for. Learn how to manage your ad campaign, revise it for better performance, and how to use the peel and stick method.

Day 22: Look for PPC opportunities, learn how to add content networks to your ad campaigns, and figure out how to use the Adwords calculator in Market Samurai to optimize your PPC advertising.

Day 23: Revisit the last weeks lessons, and learn about anything you didn’t understand

Day 24: Review lessons about analyzing your stats, and apply that knowledge to reviewing your own niche statistics. After reviewing your niche stats, make the decision to either continue in that niche, or to start again and research a new niche.

Day 25: If your blog is a “No Go”, change the ads on the blog to be dynamic ads that have a higher probability of generating some cashflow. Consider the potential value of your blog should you choose at some point in the future to offer up your blog for sale on a site like Flippa.

Day 26: Research the incoming keyword traffic to your blog using Google Analytics data, as well as researching long tail derivative and semantic long tail derivative keywords using Market Samurai.

Day 27: Read about Back Links, and how to use the Market Samurai Promotion module to create those back links. Make some comments or posts on a few sites for your micro niche, using the Market Samurai Promotion module to source appropriate sites.

Day 28: Read up on what constitutes an ‘authority back link‘, and you will also know how to use Market Samurai’s Promotion module to search for sources of authority back links. Use the Promotion module to research appropriate authority back link sites, created a few high quality comments for those sites, and submit them.

Day 29: Where marketers go wrong? What mistakes are made as a result? There is a lot to learn when developing your skills, and being aware of, and learning from the mistakes of others, will help develop your own awareness of best practice.

Day 30: Prioritize what areas you need to work on, and what you need to educate yourself about more. Realize, that in the last 30 days minutes, you’ll probably fail as a result of doing it all wrong because you chose to follow my summary instead of taking the words from the horses mouth.

Day 31? Day 32? Seriously? Just go take the challenge already…

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