Promoting Your Blog

By Biz Stone

Blogger Application Settings

Blogger itself has an array of settings, many of which work to your advantage in this endeavor. This first grouping is quite simple and just requires that you sign in to your Blogger account and flip a few switches.

help.blogger.com

Day 13 - Assessing Blog Traffic

ASSESSING YOUR BLOG TRAFFIC - Ed (and a special sleepy guest) take
you through Google Analytics. He shows you how to navigate the
Analytics Dashboard and how to find out which keywords are bringing
traffic to your site.

The video runs just under 10 minutes.


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Day 12 - Build a HubPages Site

HOW TO BUILD A HUBPAGES - Caro takes your through setting up a Hub Page. She also shows you how to publish your first article on the site, link the URL and RSS feed to your blog and bookmark it.

The video runs about 20 minutes.


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Day 11 - Build a Squidoo Lens

HOW TO BUILD A SQUIDOO LENS - Caro makes her 30DC video debut! She shows you how to sign up to Squidoo, build a Squidoo lens, link it to your Wordpress Direct blog and social bookmark it.

FINDING CONTENT USING MARKET SAMURAI - GuruBob walks your through an important update to Market Samurai. Now you can use this tool to help you find even more content for your niche.

The videos run about 25 minutes.


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Day 10 - RSS Submission

THE 30DC RSS SUBMISSION SERVICE - Dan introduces the 30DC RSS
Submission Service and shows you how to use this time-saving
service tool to add your site's RSS feed to various feed submission
services and directories.

The video runs a bit over 5 minutes.


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Day 9 - Backlinks & Indexing

HOW TO GET MORE BACKLINKS - Ed shows you where to find forums and discussion groups in your niche and the right way to contribute their conversations to build more backlinks to your site.

FIND OUT IF YOUR SITE IS INDEXED - Guru Bob explains getting into the search engine indexes and what steps you can take to get your site indexed more quickly. He also shows you how to find out if your site has been indexed.

The videos run about 20 minutes.


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Day 8 - Social Bookmarking

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING - Ed explains how social bookmarking lets people know about sites you're interested in and how you can use its power to take you a step closer to earning your first dollar.

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Day 7 - Tracking & Analysis

HOW TO SET UP GOOGLE ANALYTICS - Guru Bob introduces Google Analytics and helps you set up an account to track your blog statistics.

TRACKING AFFILIATE LINKS - Dan shows you how to use the Thirty Day Challenge Stats Tracker to track the affiliate products you're testing on your Wordpress Direct blog.

ADDING TRACKED LINKS TO YOUR BLOG - Guru Bob is back and shows you how to link your Wordpress Direct blog with your sales offer and your articles.

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Day 6 - Publishing a Blog

There are four videos in Lesson 6:

AWESOME SOFTWARE & DOMAINS - Dan explains the advantages of owning your own domain name and shows you free options for hosting your blog.

HOW TO SET UP YOUR OWN HOSTING - Dan details how to set up your own independent hosting to give your new blog that extra push.

INSTALL A BLOG WITH WORDPRESS DIRECT - Ed shows you how to create your own SEO optimized blog with just a few mouse clicks using fantastic service called Wordpress Direct.

ADD CONTENT & PUBLISH A BLOG - Guru Bob brings it home and shows you how to get your first article up on your blog and how to insert your chosen affiliate product link.

The videos run just about an hour.


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Day 5 - Getting Some Content

FINDING ARTICLE CONTENT - GuruBob reveals another great feature of
Market Samurai: the Find Content module. He walks you through how
to use the tool to find content relevant to your target keyword.

MAKE YOUR OWN CONTENT - In this video, Ed shows you how to become a
Newsmaster. You'll learn how to collect news relevant to your
target keyword from a variety of sources (using his favorite,
Google Reader) and turn it into content that is uniquely yours. Ed
also explains the Attribution Method for creating content fast.




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Internet Marketing Glossary

Anchor Text Analysis -
Backlinks -
Broad Match - search results that contain either 'Internet' and/or 'marketing'
Content Authority -
Deep Links -
EPC - Earnings Per Clicks
Hub Pages - are another Web 2.0 way to build off page authority for your blog.
Key Words
Key Words (Long Tailed)
Page Aurthority -
Phrase Match - search results that contains 'Internet marketing'
Pingback - are a common feature in most blogs - it's the way that blogs talk to each other when one blog links to another. (Often, they're mistakenly called a "Trackback")
SEO - Search Engine Optimisation
SEOC - SEO Competition
SERP - Search Engine Results Pages
Social bookmarking services
Squidoo Lens -

Day 4 - Finding Stuff to Test & Sell

FINDING AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM - Ed introduces affiliate programs.
He shows you how to find the many products and services available to test your market to see if the buyers are biting.

WRITING YOUR FIRST COPY - Dan tackles copywriting, and shows you
how to take an existing piece of copy and turn it into a short "slippery" summary.

CREATING AMAZON LINKS - Here Dan shows you how to create a unique affiliate link for any of the thousands of products available on the Amazon site.

MANIPULATING IMAGES - In the last video, Dan walks you through how
to use a free web service to resize images to upload online.
The videos run about 50 minutes total.

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Guide to the Thirty Day Challenge