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		<itunes:summary>My experience in The Thirty Day Challenge</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Wicked Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This free traffic tool really is wicked &#8211; Wicked Traffic
This Is The Most Well Put Together Traffic Site with The Highest Converting Easy To Use Tools That I Have Ever Seen!
Really it has it all. Drop dead simple copy &#38; paste proven converting ads like Slide Ups, Sidebar Widgets, Videos that redirect, Excit pops, Banners, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>This free traffic tool really is wicked &#8211; <a title="Claim Your Free Membership" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Wicked-Traffic/">Wicked Traffic</a></h1>
<p><strong>This Is The Most Well Put Together Traffic Site with The Highest Converting Easy To Use Tools That I Have Ever Seen!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Really it has it all. Drop dead simple copy &amp; paste proven converting ads like Slide Ups, Sidebar Widgets, Videos that redirect, Excit pops, Banners, Buttons&#8230; You Name It They Have Got It along with Solo list emailing.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>THIS VIDEO IS 59 seconds long then you will be directed to the </strong><strong>Wicked Page for a FREE membership!</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><strong>Yes you will get an upsell which is a no brainer for anyone familiar with viral traffic tools but even if you are brand new you can just get the valuable Free Membership. Do yourself a favor &amp; check out the video (a copy and paste redirect video from the site).</strong></strong></p>
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		<title>Affiliate Article Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate Article Marketing with ezine articles
We are going to take a look at two ezine articles that are promoting products and likely doing well with their article marketing.
There is a trick to get some enlightening search results from google. I&#8217;m not going to paste the search string here because it is someones research into advanced [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Affiliate Article Marketing with ezine articles</h1>
<p>We are going to take a look at two ezine articles that are promoting products and likely doing well with their article marketing.</p>
<p>There is a trick to get some enlightening search results from google. I&#8217;m not going to paste the search string here because it is someones research into advanced google search. Plus I think someone is selling a piece of software that gets the operators &amp; wild cards for you to research ezine articles for popular keyword results.</p>
<p>You can also take some of these results to use the google external keyword tool to extract keywords from the articles you find. Then use a rank checker like <a title="rank checker" href="http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/">link assistant</a> to get the highest ranking keywords for the top ten (1st page of google). You will need to change some preferences at link tracker to do this.</p>
<p>Look at the advanced search tips for google. Wild cards are used in the string. After you see some screen shots below you may be able to figure it out with a little research.</p>
<p>Ok onto the examples.</p>
<p><strong>First up is this one:</strong><br />
<img title="Acai Berry" src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/aciaberry.jpg" alt="Acai Berry" width="423" height="72" align="center" /></p>
<p>Notice the views? 152,629 since Feb 16 2009. The headline is what captured viewers eyeballs tah were searching for Acai Berry.</p>
<p><strong>Here is the page. Note it is a pr 4/10</strong></p>
<p><a title="ezine article example" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Acai-Berry---How-I-Lost-30-Pounds-in-Under-30-Days-Using-The-Acai-Berry&amp;id=1998407">http://ezinearticles.com/?Acai-Berry&#8212;How-I-Lost-30-Pounds-in-Under-30-Days-Using-The-Acai-Berry&amp;id=1998407</a></p>
<p>Here is where the bio box links to:</p>
<p><a title="affiliate marketing example" href="http://www.hilarysweightloss.com/">http://www.hilarysweightloss.com/</a> also a pr 4/10</p>
<p>Finally the free trial offer from the page (I think this is a cpa program)</p>
<p><a title="affiliate squeeze" href="http://www.acaiberrydetox.com/offer/lp7no/">http://www.acaiberrydetox.com/offer/lp7no/</a></p>
<p>You can get the keywords from these sites using google external keyword tool by ticking the website content box and pasting the url ito the search box (then use rank checker).</p>
<p><strong>Lets look at one more:</strong><br />
<img title="Sex Position To Conceive" src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/sexposition.jpg" alt="Sex position to get boys" width="424" height="90" align="center" /></p>
<p>18,167 views since June 13 2009. Nice</p>
<p><strong>Here is the article</strong></p>
<p><a title="top 5 sex positions to concieve" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Five-Best-Sexual-Positions-to-Get-Pregnant-Fast&amp;id=2472031">http://ezinearticles.com/?Five-Best-Sexual-Positions-to-Get-Pregnant-Fast&amp;id=2472031</a> a pr 3/10</p>
<p><strong>Here is the bio box link</strong></p>
<p><a title="example affiliate article marketing" href="http://www.17mininfertilitysecrets.com/">http://www.17mininfertilitysecrets.com/</a></p>
<p><strong>Studying some of these can help you with article marketing success ezine articles is a good source for research.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Tom<br />
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		<title>Are you blogging the 2009 30dc</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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If you are blogging about the 2009 thirty day challenge &#38; plan to update your blog regularly as you go through this years challenge just leave a comment below and I will add you to the list of 30dc bloggers
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<p>If you are blogging about the 2009 thirty day challenge &amp; plan to update your blog regularly as you go through this years challenge just leave a comment below and I will add you to the list of <a title="30dc bloggers" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/more-30-day-blogs/">30dc bloggers</a></p>
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		<title>30 Day Challenge Day One and Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Daddy what is a niche &#38; why are you looking for them?&#8221;&#8230; from my son
Well it&#8217;s actually day three.
Amazing content as usual. If you did not know anything about niches, niche research, where to go what to do&#8230; you do now. If you think you know all there is to know about niche research you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;Daddy what is a niche &amp; why are you looking for them?&#8221;</strong>&#8230; from my son</p>
<p>Well it&#8217;s actually day three.</p>
<p>Amazing content as usual. If you did not know anything about niches, niche research, where to go what to do&#8230; you do now. If you think you know all there is to know about niche research you will still learn  from these lessons.</p>
<p>The resource pdf&#8217;s were excellent sources and will be something to keep near by beyond the thrity day challenge. Happy to see Shopping.com was included, it has given me more than one good niche.</p>
<blockquote><p>Getting the niche right &amp; the seo is the sink or swim. I have often lept before learning or completely researching a niche, sub-niche. Don&#8217;t make that mistake. This part is crucial.</p></blockquote>
<p>This part in the side bar of day two is extremely critical. At least it has been for me. It was the first thing I stuffed up in earlier challenges.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Handy Tip</strong> &#8211; Your &#8216;theme keyword&#8217; describes the overall theme of the website you will create, and the &#8216;category keywords&#8217; describe the different categories of information contained in your website. The &#8216;theme&#8217; and &#8216;category&#8217; keywords should be <strong>semantically related</strong> and should meet the page and traffic competition criteria. (SEOT&gt;80, SEOC&lt;30,000). This is an important distinction to understand. Credit to the <a title="Amazing free online marketing training" href="http://thirtydaychallenge.com">Thirty Day Challenge</a></p></blockquote>
<p><a title="semantic keyword research" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=semantic+keyword+research&amp;sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1B2GGFB_enUS231&amp;aq=t">Semantic Keyword Research</a> is something to look at.</p>
<p>Today is all about search engine optimization &amp; the SEO Matrix.</p>
<p>Off to the lessons.</p>
<p>Tom</p>
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		<title>1800Tom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing what people can do with wordpress themes these days.
They can look like statics sites, sales pages, squeeze pages cpa landing pages. You name it. There is a theme or plugin for almost everything.
This theme called wiggle emulates a google design with it&#8217;s blog psot and ads. An interesting design.
You can see it here [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s amazing what people can do with wordpress themes these days.</p>
<p>They can look like statics sites, sales pages, squeeze pages cpa landing pages. You name it. There is a theme or plugin for almost everything.</p>
<p>This theme called wiggle emulates a google design with it&#8217;s blog psot and ads. An interesting design.</p>
<p>You can see it here <strong><a title="1800 TomWorld - Local News Photo's Audios &amp; Commentary On The Coming Change Hardships Crisis In This New World" href="http://1800tom.com">1800Tom</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Squeeze Page Templates &amp; List Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Building Your Subscriber List
Arrive here from a search for free squeeze page template? Just click here to get the one pictured to the left. It will be in our free members area &#38; includes Private Label Rights.  Want a bunch of really nice ones you can use &#38; resell? Click Here
One of the many [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><img title="Squeeze Page" src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/Squeeze250.jpg" alt="Squeeze Page" width="250" height="271" align="left" /> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Building Your Subscriber List</strong></span></h3>
<blockquote><p><strong>Arrive here from a search for free squeeze page template? Just <a title="Free Squeeze Page Template" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Free-Squeeze-Page-ebook/" target="_self">click here</a> to get the one pictured to the left.</strong> It will be in our free members area &amp; includes Private Label Rights.  Want a bunch of really nice ones you can use &amp; resell? <a title="Graphical Optin Templates" href="http://only4bucks.com/index5000.html">Click Here</a></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>One of the many mistakes I made when starting out was &#8220;failure to capture subscribers&#8221;</strong>.</strong></p>
<p>For years I sold &#8220;info&#8221; products, websites, affiliate sites and so on at ebay. Eventually I opened an ebay store &amp; sales took off. The cross merchandising function for auctions (related products from my store could be displayed at the bottomof all my auctions/products) really gave things a boost.</p>
<p>I missed out on capturing BUYING customers by not having a capture form on thank you pages, by not having a free gift link in auctions and in my store. Not to mention possible related sales from suggesting companion products on the thank you page and emails. A simple form to alert people to new items or hot deals could have done wonders.</p>
<p>If you are selling your own product or affiliate products you need to capture subscribers who may want more information. Hot deals list, newsletters and so one are great ways to do this.</p>
<p>An account with Aweber or Get Response will easily pay for itself as you build your list and deliver them quality content along with gentle recommendations to affiliate or your own products. If you go the newsletter route remember they want a newsletter not a sales pitch from every contact with them.</p>
<p>A list of 10,000 subscribers is an awesome thing. No seo or ppc to reach peole already prequalified to some extent for your products &amp; expertise. Naturally not everyone will even open your email or click a link inside but a certain percent will and a certain percent will buy.</p>
<p>This can be done for any niche be it on bearded dragon lizards <img src='http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  or marketers looking for tools and resell products.</p>
<p><strong>Capturing the Lead</strong></p>
<p>For these example I&#8217;m going to use stuff from the IM niche&#8230; products like PPC ebooks, Guides, Templates, Scripts, Link Cloakers, Membership Scripts and the like.<strong> </strong>For this years challenge I will be doing the non recommended, copmetitive, saturated &amp; incestious IM niche. I have never done this in the 30 day challenge. I the past it was things like Bonsai trees, container gardening, Exotic pets&#8230; and thats what I recommend. Much easier than the &#8220;Sleazy Traditional Email List Internet Marketers&#8221; niches as Aaron Wall of SEO Book so mistakenly noted as he painted everyone who sell an ebook with the same tainted brush.</p>
<p>So&#8230;</p>
<p>Your going to need a squeeze page and an autoresponder. The auto responder service will provide the code to capture leads and automatically respond to them once or with a series of emails like an ecourse etc.</p>
<p>For video you will need to make one and upload it to YouTube or host it on your own domain using a flv player. You can find these free just google it. To edit the video Windows Movie make found on most windows machins will work fine.</p>
<p>Squeeze pages run the gamut from Double Your Dating simple test squeeze page to the gaudy ones. Video squeeze pages are very popular now and convert well. Frank Kern &amp; the Stomper Net crew have excellent ones, as does the thirty day challenge and Paul Myers.</p>
<p><strong>Lets look at some examples.</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Long copy sales page squeeze &#8211; </strong>Paul Myers has one of the very best news letters available. His content generally blows away any $47 ebook you may have. I am suprised he does not charge to be on his list. So while your there you should go ahead and subscribe. His is the best newsletter I have evr subscribed to. have a look at this pr5 squeeze page. <strong><a title="Talk Biz News" href="http://talkbiznews.com/">http://talkbiznews.com/</a></strong> You need some copy writing chops to pull this type off. Notice he has an optin form above the fold, in the middle and at the end.</li>
<li><strong>Video Squeeze Pages</strong> &#8211; How about the thirty day challenges? Very nice. <strong><a title="thirty day challenge" href="http://thirtydaychallenge.com ">http://thirtydaychallenge.com</a></strong><strong> </strong>all above the fold<strong>.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Stompernets Video Squeeze &#8211; </strong>I could not find there squeeze page online but it was similar to this having an optin form to the right instead of links to more videos. While yor there this is Great Content well worth watching <strong><a title="Stomper Net 2" href="http://www.stompernet.net/goingnatural2/">http://www.stompernet.net/goingnatural2/</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>Frank Kerns Video Squeeze Page &#8211; </strong>Mass control went off the ricter scale. A video squeeze page was the pre launch sign up &amp; pitch. I could not find it online.</li>
<li><strong>The Simple Video Squeeze Page &#8211; <a title="Simplae Video" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Mind-Control/">http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Mind-Control/</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>Simple Text &amp; Graphic Squeeze -  <a title="Squeeze Page Free" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Free-Squeeze-Page-ebook/">http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Free-Squeeze-Page-ebook/ </a></strong> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>&gt;&gt;&gt;</strong></span> You Can optin in on this one if you want to get the squeeze page &amp; report with plr rights from our free membership site at http://tomdean.net <img src='http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> <strong><br />
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<li><strong>Simple Free Report Squeeze &#8211; <a title="Special Report" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Special-Report/">http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Special-Report/</a></strong></li>
<li><strong>Simple Text Squeeze &#8211; </strong>The Double Your Dating squeeze page is probably one of the most copied squeeze pages around. Can&#8217;t find it online but here is an example of a simple text squeeze page<strong> &#8211; <a title="Free Simple Squeeze Page" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Free-Simple-Squeeze/">http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Free-Simple-Squeeze/</a></strong></li>
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<p><strong>Ways to build your list with squeeze pages </strong></p>
<p>Giving away a free report or limited sample of your info product through your site, forum signatures &amp; free ebook sites (google these) is effective. My first list of 1,200 came from a forum sig and a listing in the free ebook section of a forum.</p>
<p>Giving away a product your niche can use to resell or build their list. These reports can also be made viral by including some of your links in them. This has worked very well for me. Offering admission to a free members area like <strong><a title="Free PLR ebooks Graphics Websites" href="http://tomdean.net">http://tomdean.net</a></strong> works well.</p>
<p>Using a squeeze page to gain access to your product sales page can sometimes be very effective when done right.</p>
<p>Adding a squeeze page to your thank you (download) page for product updates, newsletter etc.</p>
<p><strong>Get a sampling of easy to edit squeeze pages</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be posting a direct download of some squeeze pages for you in the Resources page of this site in a day or two. I will also post a link to a nice package I can&#8217;t give away but the price will be dirt cheap <img src='http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  this one will include some nice vertical squeeze pages designed to be used in the sidebars of blogs or can be pasted into a sidebar widget. It&#8217;s quite nice.</p>
<p><strong>A look at a squeeze page funnel</strong></p>
<p><img title="Squeeze Page" src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/squeezepagechart.jpg" alt="Squeeze Page" width="425" height="301" align="center" /></p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Tom</p>
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		<title>How To Cloak Affiliate Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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When doing affiliate marketing you will want to cloak or redirect your ugly affiliate links.
Here are several ways to do this including our quick free desktop software for cloaking/redirecting links.
You will need to be able to upload (ftp) a file to your domain to do this. Links to the webs best free ftp software &#38; [...]]]></description>
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<p>When doing affiliate marketing you will want to cloak or redirect your ugly affiliate links.</p>
<p>Here are several ways to do this including our quick free desktop software for cloaking/redirecting links.</p>
<p>You will need to be able to upload (ftp) a file to your domain to do this. Links to the webs best free ftp software &amp; a tutorial are included in this post.</p>
<p>First here is a quick video on using our affiliate link cloaking software. The download link is right below the video.</p>
<p><a title="How to cloak affiliate links" href="http://screencast.com/t/9CbgFTfIm" target="_blank"><img title="Free link cloaker" src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/linkcloaking.jpg" alt="Free link cloaker" width="400" height="293" align="middle" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Free Affiliate Link Cloaker</strong></p>
<p><a title="Free Affiliate Link Cloaker" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/LinkCloaker.zip">http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/LinkCloaker.zip</a></p>
<p>As shown in the video we have converted our affiliate link from:</p>
<p><a title="Keyword elite" href="http://digiweb.bryxen4.hop.clickbank.net/">http://digiweb.bryxen4.hop.clickbank.net/</a></p>
<p>to&#8230;</p>
<p><a title="Affiliate Link Cloaker" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Keyword-Elite.htm">http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Keyword-Elite.htm</a></p>
<p>&amp;</p>
<p><a title="Best Affiliate Link Cloaker" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Likes-Keyword-Elite.htm">http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Likes-Keyword-Elite.htm</a></p>
<p>Another way to do this is to use an online cloaker like this one:</p>
<p><a title="online link cloaker" href="http://sparechangeprofits.com/plr-cloaker/">http://sparechangeprofits.com/plr-cloaker/</a></p>
<p>The nice thing about this one is you can use it from anywhere you have an online connection and even if the site disappears it will still work.</p>
<p><a title="online link cloaker" href="http://tinyurl.com">http://tinyurl.com</a> is another online cloaker but the site will need to be up &amp; active for your links to work.</p>
<p>To use an ht.access solution which works quite well see this online tutorial <a title="how to cloak affiliate links" href="http://afreelinkcloaker.com/">http://afreelinkcloaker.com/</a> the tutorial can be downloaded from the top nav bar.</p>
<p>Here is a simple php redirect code that is reliable. Simply copy and paste this code in notepad then save as index.php &gt; make a folder on your domain using filezilla such as Likes &amp; upload the file to the folder. Replace the url &gt;http://tomdean.net&lt; with the url you want to redirect to.</p>
<p>&lt;?php<br />
header( &#8216;Location: http://tomdean.net&#8217; ) ;<br />
?&gt;</p>
<p>Here is an example in use:</p>
<p><a title="We Like This" href="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Likes">http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/Likes</a></p>
<p>Below are the download links for Filezilla &amp; the tutorial on using it.</p>
<p><strong>Download Filezilla</strong></p>
<p><a title="Free FTP Software" href="http://filezilla-project.org/">http://filezilla-project.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>Filezilla Tutorial </strong></p>
<p><a title="How To Use Filezilla" href="http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/documentation/">http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/documentation/</a></p>
<p>One last thing&#8230; if you don&#8217;t want to pay for a software program that tracks our links like this one <a title="Cheap Link Cloaker with Tracking" href="http://56a0a5ndsqmydmdhonw4bmzmdr.hop.clickbank.net/">Link Cloaker with Tracking</a></p>
<p>you can use google analytics or our favorite <strong><a title="Best Bree Link &amp; Visitor Tracking " href="http://getclicky.com/116890">Clicky</a></strong> a free service that will track one domain and includes a wordpress plugin to use on your blog that makes things super easy.</p>
<p>Here is a screen shot of the Clicky Dashboard (note to track Twiter links you would have to upgrade to a paid account $4.99 monthly).</p>
<p><a title="Get Clicky" href="http://getclicky.com/116890"><img title="Awesome Website Traffic Analyzer" src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/clicky2.jpg" alt="Awesome Website Traffic Analyzer" width="424" height="289" align="middle" /></a></p>
<p>Hope this helps,</p>
<p>Cheers &#8211; Tom</p>
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		<title>Keyword Research for Blog Post Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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If you blog and use the all in one seo plugin for Wordpress you can get some quick keywords to paste into the keyword section of the plugin. You can also use the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a short video on using the google external keyword tool to do some quick research  &#8220;before&#8221; you make a blog post.</p>
<p>If you blog and use the all in one seo plugin for Wordpress you can get some quick keywords to paste into the keyword section of the plugin. You can also use the best search to competition keyword to use as the page title (title tags) and in the blog post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.screencast.com/users/TomDean/folders/Jing/media/00d3e7f2-5be9-45b3-913b-144ad5e14657" title="Click to play"><img src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/squeezepagevid.jpg" title="keyword research video" alt="keyword research video" align="middle" width="425" height="269" /></a></p>
<p>As an aside the post titled handwritten signature generator is on the 1st page of google for the search term &#8220;handwritten signature generator&#8221; no quotes, not that it does this blog any good. This is mostly due to the keywords &amp; title tags. Google shows stats of 92 searches a month for this term. There were 102 uniques to that post in 5 days&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyway using the right title and description is important in how your post appears in the index. See how that one apperas below.</p>
<p><img src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/Handwrittensig.jpg" title="google index" alt="google index" align="middle" width="424" height="63" /></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll get the squeeze page post up tommorow. Just wanted to get this up since everyone will be posting away soon.</p>
<p>Tom<br />
<a href="http://www.specialreportclub.com/amember/go.php?r=720&amp;i=l5">Private Label Rights Business Reports</a></p>
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		<title>30 day Challenge Preseason Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pre-Season]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well all the preseason training has been viewed. I skipped a few I&#8217;m already versed on. Our group Accountability partners has 14 members and a facebook page with a little activity. Looks like most members are fairly experienced. Hopefully there will be more interaction as the 30 day challenge proper kicks off.
Still fooling around with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well all the preseason training has been viewed. I skipped a few I&#8217;m already versed on. Our group Accountability partners has 14 members and a facebook page with a little activity. Looks like most members are fairly experienced. Hopefully there will be more interaction as the 30 day challenge proper kicks off.</p>
<p>Still fooling around with niche ideas or maybe applying this years challenge to an existing profit stream.</p>
<p>Really thinking about applying this years 30dc to*GASP* Internet Marketing as in selling resell products to people looking for resell products like PLR (private label rights), ready to sell MRR (master resell rights) products etc.</p>
<p>Here is an example. There is no live buy button on these pages&#8230; just an example of a solid resell rights product that can typically be picked up for very little.</p>
<p><a href="http://only4bucks.com/Dynamic-Copywriting/reprint-rights.html" title="Dynamic Copywriting Resell Rights">Dynamic Copywriting </a></p>
<p><a href="http://only4bucks.com/Dynamic-Copywriting/reprint-rights.html" title="Dynamic Copywriting Resell Rights">Dynamic Copywriting with Resell Rights </a></p>
<p><a href="http://only4bucks.com/Dynamic-Copywriting/articles/" title="Copywriting Adsense Site">Dynamic Copywriting Article Adsense Site</a> (drives traffic to sales page).</p>
<p>These type of products that can be resold still have a decent search volume and do sell although competition is pretty heavy &amp; the market seems to be a bit incestuous. However with the number of people coming online looking for make money products there is still a decent market.</p>
<p>How to type products and videos sell well. Templates &amp; squeeze pages sell well, list building products sell well. Wordpress themes paticularly with plr sell well. You can imbed your links in the footer and give them away.. instant backlinks.</p>
<p>Building a subscriber list (email marketing) can be very effective. Giveaways of genuinely useful tools with  info on how to use them can be used effectively by giving them a viral element.</p>
<p>Anyway something to look at.</p>
<p>In the next post there will be a link to download a solid pdf on making effective squeeze pages along with a squeeze page and how to use the product to list build. This will let you see the process  in action. No worries, no optin to get  it. Just an example of a viral list builder.</p>
<p><img src="http://mythirtydaychallenge.com/images/squeezepagesc.jpg" title="free squeeze page" alt="free squeeze page" align="middle" width="424" height="395" /></p>
<p>Tom</p>
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		<title>Personal Branding</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice read on personal branding.

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