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Both my tumblrs have been suspended. Bum. I thought they were quite good.
Actually it’s quite exciting, a real learning process for everyone. But a pain to have to recreate the content from out of Google cache. I nipped over to ezine and changed my pending article, although apparently you can edit teh bio after it’s published anyway. I’ve set up a couple of blogs elsewhere but not sure if Google likes the domain so much.

Trying to think of all the web2.o services I’ve tried out over the past three years or so, to find a good substitute.   I was getting to like tumblr quite a lot.

Superglu? 43things?

Criteria are

*getting the keyphrase into the URL

*not having a policy which bans affilate links or any commercial use

*Tagging or seperate pages with permalinks

Tumblr blogs rankings after 36 hours:

• niche1 phrase search: 28
• niche2 phrase search: 27

Ed’s got a bit stressed over some bad practices happening, with resulting bad press on the blogs.

I wrote on the 30daychallengeblog:

I suppose if anybody puts on a free course about Internet Marketing, and then gets people to join Facebook etc where things can go viral pretty easily, then it’s always going to attract the sharks circling around where all of this juicy groundbait has been thrown out.

But Web2.0 is not a set of tools, it’s an attitude.

Keep putting out the white-hat philosophy message Ed, and it will keep the heart of this community on the right track. I’m reading that people are falling in love with their community already, and that’s a strong indicator.

Maybe also a warning that it’s a wild wild world out there, and that world overlaps with us, at least at the fringes.

One of my tumblr articles still hasn’t appeared, but the other one is now at position 28  for phrase search after  18 hours. It’s had a bit of socialposting so hopefully it will creep up.

Socialposter has one site where all of today’s posts are of tumblr blogs which are almost certainly part of the 30day challenge, so that’s fun. I voted them up and added as friends within the tumblr dashboard. They all seem to have found phrases which are potentially more lucrative than mine!

What else.  Oh yes, I’ve submitted an ezine.  It was tricky working out whether to sign up as myself  or as the author, and the video didn’t help much by using an example where the reviewer  is the same person as the product.

I’ve used up a lot of my copywriting now, so I’ll have to get some more written over the weekend. It’s also tempting to spend too much time just checking Google to see if the ranking has improved!

Last night I wasted an hour adding feedburner stats to the themes in tumblr, when today there’s a video which shows an easy way to add google analytics.

learning, learning.

Off to check the forum now.  Have a great weekend

Before I turned in last night I dugg and stumbled my two tumblr blogs. Then I lay in bed wondering whether Google will pay me an overnight visit.

No such luck, but never mind.

In the morning I decided to organised Firefox sessions so that I can switch between the two seperate projects more easily. I still prefer Camino really, but Firefox has some benefits as well. That’s one of the things I will be able to take away from the 30daychallenge at the end.

Then I checked out Facebook, and pondered what to do about our dead group. I’ve sent a group message to individual team members inboxes on Facebook which says the following:

Ok, this is a message to all members of the thirtydaychallenge team which is called “30DC for mac”. The team is comprised of people who joined 30DC late, or didn’t have a team earlier so it may be kind of hard to catch up in some ways, but we really do need to have a functioning team, get to know each other and be able to trust each other for mutual support with our niches.

So please come on over to the group discussion area and say hello or something to break the ice. There’s just myself and Linda there at the moment, and for us there’s no point in carrying on like that. We’re going to need a lively group and so will you if you are ata ll serious about the challenge. If perhaps you have actually dropped out of the challenge, then you’re missing a great opportunity but it does require some application. Maybe other priorities took over, anyway If that’s you then we need to know so please leave the group now and maybe we’ll see you next year.

Everybody else, it’s nearly the weekend so we can relax and maybe catch up if necessary. It’s the exciting time now when we are publishing our tumblr blogs, netscaping then and watching to see if they ranked on Google. How’s yours doing? Fun!

If that doesn’t get any response by Monday we’ll close the group down and try and start again with a different approach.

So what’s on for today – three videos, one with Ed getting overexcited, one tutorial about how to post to 25+ social bookmarking sites at once, and one I haven’t watched yet on submitting an ezine article.

On the subject of social bookmarking, is using SocialPoster doing it the way the internet works? It’s a long way from what was the original intention of the first social bookmarking sites – Furl and delicious. Why does the internet need dozens of such sites anyway? And why don’t they all just provide a different interface into the same database?

Quite a long day really. First there was the fallback to tumblr, then the sudden introduction of thirtydaychallenge WordPress MU blogs, but without really explaining what they are for.

So anyway, I’ve set up two tumblr blogs, added three items of content to each and links to clickbank products. Then I set up this blog here, with the Welsh language theme Cwbrick. Yaki

Added a few comments to the forum, and added the feedburner stats to the tumblrs. Not written quite enough new content, but plenty of adaptation. Oh, and I found the TDC island on Secondlife too.

Enough for one day!

I’ve just been to Wuranga Island and there was nobody there.

By this stage we should all have narrowed our topic niches down to two keyphrases and begun writing short pieces of lightweight copy. Three pieces per day on each keyphrase, making six mini articles to be produced on top of the learning and community activities. Phew.

I’m using Google notepad and docs as suggested for one of them, and so that’s a learning curve itself, just to get the workflow streamlined. The web based Gnotepad has its advantages, but it can be a bit clunky as well. I made a blog post about one of my niches and it has risen to page two on Google already, so it will be interesting to see how the tools suggested for 30DC fare against that. I just made one adjustment, so it should be one page one tomorrow with a bit of luck.

I’m not sure about these affiliates selling nothing but hyped up documents, but then I asked on Facebook if anybody ever buys electronic reports and got a responses in the positive.
Our team isn’t getting started very well though. Eight people have joined but nobody is joining “in” yet.

Ed says you’ll never get rich selling stuff from Amazon and that’s very true indeed!

Here’s the rather convoluted way I contrived for measuring the red line against the blue one in photoshop.

I suspect the low tech piece of card method might have been quicker and just as accurate, but I’m not clever enough to think anthing so elegant as this:


Originally uploaded by eddale

While waiting for the next announcement about an announcement I’ve been busy upgrading wordpress blogs, reading news, twittering and facebooking and also found a really useful online training course to take part in. It’s called the “Thirty Day Challenge” and takes place during the month of August, about internet marketing and it’s free.

The challenge itself is to earn a first $10 in 30 days, without spending any money, using a combination of traditional marketing theory and web2.0 tools. If you can learn these techniques then it is hoped that you can apply them on a larger project, longer term bigger scale afterwards.

I admit I was a bit skeptical at first, but after three days catching up and taking in the resources I can vouch that there is some good quality information and advice, sound theory and enjoyable learning to be had through enrolling on this project. You’d have to be quick though since it started a week ago, and be prepared to put in the rest of this week catching up.

I’ll be using this blog to write about my progress so if you want to hear how I get on you’d better subscribe now.

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