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Good old Ed Dale is back with thirtydaychallenge.tv.
URL redirects you to http://www.justin.tv/eddale where you can see past live shows footage, and watch new live as it happens. Ed found yet another way of reaching the masses in a such a cool way. The great thing is that anybody can do it with a single computer and a webcam.

The only thing you need to figure out is what to say to your viewers, and Ed is doing a great job in sharing valuable info on Internet Marketing. He spoke about upcoming Thirty Day Challenge 2008, cool software tools for video broadcast such as CamTwist for Mac. A few shameless promotions of his and his buddy’s IM programs didn’t hurt, the rest is just a pure 100% Internet Marketer inspiration.

Live shows are on each week, and if you want to be informed when is the next one, you can sign up to thirtydaychallenge.com newsletter.

I warmly recommend it!

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A lots of us from Thirty Day Challenge have our blog pages deleted by tumblr, and perhaps you’ve tweaked it to your likings, and now can’t remember how, like I don’t. The google cache comes to rescue! If you click here you’ll see How to become a wedding planner 30DC test page, that is erased like every other. So just enter this into google search:

cache:howtobecomeaweddingplanner.tumblr.com
(replace ‘howtobecomeaweddingplanner.tumblr.com’ with your lost web page’s url)

And if you are lucky, your page will be shown so you can save your work… but hurry up, Google Cache doesn’t last forever.

Yipiiii! The cash is in my Amazon affiliate account. Not much, but it proves wonderfully that 30DC 2007 works like a charm! The success is even greater knowing that the sale was made from tumblr blog that existed only for 2 days!

Now, silly me, I’ve never used Amazon’s affiliate program before, so I’ve been checking my account at https://aws-portal.amazon.com/ instead on https://affiliate-program.amazon.com . I could have easily won the challenge first, and not know it at all till today

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but it seems that digg.com is onto suspending 30DC related accounts as well. Looks like this years 30DC has such a huge impact that we’re easily noticed by even major web2.0 platforms, and characterized as spammers. Shame, ’cause I know that it’s an everyday practice of most SEO people to ’scratch your back if you scratch mine’, or ’share love’ as Ed said it much sweeter.

One of my teammates noticed that his IP is banned by digg, and as I logged into digg, I saw this:

This is a brand new account of mine that’s been suspended so I know exactly when I used it and what for:

- Created 2 stories for my 2 R.I.P. tumblr blogs + 1 experimental story
- Gave diggs to a couple of my 30DC teammates

It might be that this is not at all the reason for account suspension, my guess is that maybe I’ve accidentally used Social poster twice to digg same stories. Maybe the sole use of social poster is not OK with digg, and is reason for suspension.

Now, I tend to look at 30DC as a big experiment and a place to learn a lot, so I’m not upset by downers that happened in the past few days, neither should it bother you. I just hope that we’re all able to carry on ’till the end of challenge, and receive knowledge that Ed & Co are so generously sharing.

I would like to hear your experience, anyone else’s digg account ‘burried’ forever?

Update: Read this cool article that explains what might be a problem here: How to Get Banned by Digg

Hi all,

By now the tumblr tumble is an old news, so nothing much to say about that. It’s a downer, but not a stopper.

What I’ve found interesting in google analytics of one of mine 30DC tumblr pages was that someone used allinurl:tumblr as a search in google to get to my page. What does this mean? It means that someone listed all 511,000 indexed pages that has word ‘tumblr’ in its url. If this was another moment in time I’d say fine, somebody likes tumblr people perhaps, and went through all tumblr blogs this way, but right now it seems that someone is fishing on fresh key phrase ideas. Woohoo! Good for him! I hate to see somebody doing this, but I think that Ed & Co should have provided 30DC contestants with alternative web2.0 hosting platforms/blogs. Lots of alternatives that came a bit late by Mike Mindel: Tip #12 - IMPORTANT - It’s the Process NOT the Platform

We wouldn’t be such an easy target for spammers, and wouldn’t provoke tumblr to tumble us I think, but we’ll go on now… two days wasted, two keywords per person, max, potentially too

The actual article page is already number 5 in google search for “how to make wind chimes”! This is fast! And the broad phrase match (without inverted commas) is No24 in 1,870,000 competing webpages! How’s that for a 15 mins of work and a couple of hours of waiting!

It’ll be interesting to watch my server log to see how many people are coming to the website searching for the actual topic. Once again: Sorry you guys searching for info on making wind chimes for taking away your time!

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Hey guys, just wanted to let you know of some curious fact’s on my
little “how to make wind chimes” experiment. It’s been a couple of
hours since the original post, and we are now in page 2 of google
results, that is No.12 and No.15… BUT… but not with imventurer.com
website. Instead, we’re 12th with Digg - How to make wind chimes experiment and 15th with How to make wind chimes experiment (reddit.com).

Those are the firestarters Ed is talking about in 30DC Day15 and they start it quickly I may tell you!

My
guess is that since imventurer.com as a new domain doesn’t yet have the
refresh cycle those big site have, and are not yet trusted by google
100%, so we’ll see when the original blog post “how to make wind
chimes” will appear in google. Another guess is that when it does, it
will be on first results page. Fingers crossed!

Technorati Tags: how to make windchimes, seo experiment, update, internet marketing, seo

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This pic is just so cool, I had to share it with you:

It’s a screenshot from Day 15 30DC video.

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I would like to try this how to make wind chimes experiment, so forgive me for this article all you guys that are actually trying to find info on making wind chimes. If you want to learn how to make wind chimes “How to make wind chimes” is the right place to go.

Currently we are No 27 on google search for this particular keyphrase. This was one of my favorites, but as it turned out, G-trends saved me a lot of trouble dealing with this niche by telling me there isn’t much traffic there.

I guess I’ll check on my progress in a couple of days, and I’ll keep you posted. Now don’t worry, I’m not going to make 6 “How to make wind chimes” articles here as Ed suggested, just this one, so I’ll see how this experiment goes.

Keep an eye out: How to make wind chimes google search link.

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Now, perhaps you’re reading Mike Mindel’s blog at www.webventurer.com . If you don’t you should. Go there and hit that orange RSS button, cause it is really worth it. In one of his posts he showed us something funny. He ranked for most of his research keyphrases that he uses for thirtydaychallenge niche drill in the top Google search results! And he only wrote an article on niche research, not even optimizing the page for particular keyword. Spooky!

The same thing happened to me. Check this out:

* seaglass windchimes 2nd place
* sea glass windchimes 4th place
* “how to make wind chimes” affiliate 1st place, and somebody actually clicked to my site

I am looking at my website logs and these are all real people that used google to type in those phrases.

This is the true power of niche marketing. If the niche keyphrase is carefully chosen, you can’t loose, even if your SEO stinks bad.

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