30 Day Challenge In Hindsight

Have you heard of the 30 Day Challenge? If not, it is a training session that is free that walks you through making money on the internet. Or so they claim. I faithfully went along with them on their journey this year and found that it is not toooo bad for a rank beginner or if you are looking at finding some new tools to use.

One tool they relied on is Word Press Direct. This is supposed to be a Search Engine Optimized blog. Now even tho it has some problems, if you know how to edit the templates you can make it work very well. The good thing about it is the auto posting where it pulls content from different sources to put on your blog. You choose. As is the case everywhere, templates may not be very good and so you either have to fix them yourself or go get one that works. This is a problem with the whole CSS world of templates. They break very easily. Also AdSense does not work on WPD for some reason. It displays ads but I never saw the impressions in my account at Google.

Now one thing about blogs, if you want to get the attention of Google, maybe using Google's blog (this one) would be the better choice. I think I will do a test and put my TDC blog onto Blogger and see what happens. In the meantime if you want to see my TDC blog it is http://salads.brighterplanet.org

Probably the most vexing thing about TDC (Thirty Day Challenge) is their insistance of no links except to some stupid social thingy. Okay, I can see wanting to limit affiliate links but they go overboard. Do like a lot of discussion boards are doing, put one board for people to post affiliate links to their heart's content. Put a time limit on how often they can post so they don't go crazy. Like once a day or week.

But here are a whole bunch of people trying to follow along and you can't put up a link to your project so others can see it and critique it (in a constructive way). To me, part of market research is testing your advertising etc BEFORE going big time with it. Having built websites and been involved in marketing them for a very long time, we ALWAYS had people come in and test the sites and make comments and critiques. These people were a mix of potential customers and just surfers. So by limiting people in the TDC to doing it on their own, there is a fantastic chance of failure.

Okay, enough for this post. I'll go into things the TDC people failed to talk about in my next post.