TDC Day 23: Day 23 Introduction Video (TDC, Video, PDF)

TDC Day 23a: Wordpress Direct Content Software (TDC, Video, PDF)

1. If you signed up to Wordpress Direct, then check out “Manage Content Software” feature that allows you to auto-post content from sites like YouTube.
2. You shouldn’t do anything with this feature yet though – just look at it.
3. If you’re not using the Wordpress Direct service, you don’t need to do anything! (Just read the podcast transcript below.)

TDC Day 23b: Podcast with Ed and GuruBob (TDC, PDF)

1. Remember that the Thirty Day Challenge is about testing a market – it’s about making your first few dollars online to see that the market is profitable.
2. If your test market isn’t spending (or there’s not enough traffic) – it is no reflection on you.
3. You need to find another niche.
4. There are still plenty of niches with the >80 SEOT and <30,000 SEOC criteria in Market Samurai – if you’re not finding them, Rob suggests going back to the Day 2 videos and going outside of your comfort zone.
5. Also Rob notes that it is normal to move up and down Google’s search rankings. Point is if you turn up under a “site:yourdomainname.com” search, then you are in Google’s index and you can go back up again. If you were in the index and then have completely disappeared, that is cause for concern as you might have been banned. However, it is unlikely that this will happen as you will have had to have done something really bad! If you are banned, there’s little you can do – just move onto another niche.
6. According to Rob: “Our technique works 99 percent of the time, which is to submit your RSS feed to the RSS directories using TDC RSS Submission Tool, social bookmarking, building some Web 2.0 pages in Squidoo, HubPages and Weebly. Eventually Google should find its way to your site. When it finds its way, it will index you. Occasionally, it doesn’t happen as quickly as we expect it to happen, which is 24-72 hours. The only thing I can suggest is to build more links from different sites so that Google will find its way to your site.”

Because our Summary was over 25,000 words and was taking forever to load – we’ve split it up and posted them according to the date they were originally allocated to – ie over August 2008 – it’s easiest to access all of them from the Thirty Day Challenge 2008 Summary page.

Note the quick links to the originating Thirty Day Challenge page (TDC), the relevant YouTube video (Video) and the transcript (PDF) for your convenience to help you access the study materials.