Since I’m behind on posting my progress on this blog, I can warn you. Don’t use Tumblr. We were all kicked off for “spamming” or for “inappropriate content”. They didn’t like all the traffic we brought the site. Use any of the blog sites posted on Mike Mindel’s blog, except WordPress. WordPress doesn’t like affiliate links and blogs being used for search engine optimization (SEO).
The race starts today for the first person who can set up their blog(s) and potentially make a sale. This is the day the rubber hits the road.
Traffic Video (Ed’s overview):
- Watch Rob’s Tumblr blog video
- Put up content from all the writing we’ve been doing, Tell a story
- Link to affiliate product and don’t stress
- Write 3 more pieces of content per umbrella phrase, do this daily from now on
- Tumblr is our gorgeous, intelligent friend
- Netscape and Social Poster (social posting sites) are our attention-getters
Visit the forum and post to the sticky thread “I got ranked” when you get ranked. Post when you put your blog up and how long it took you to get ranked.
Read: “How to go from free to paid in 3 paragraphs”
Rob’s Tumblr Blog Video:
Our desired result is a good ranking in Google – at least in the top 10, top 5 is better, #1, 2, and 3 are the best.
Google updates its ranking calculations minute-by-minute, continuously, so you’ll see variations nearly every time you do a search.
Google Search –> Search Results –> Visit to your site –> Clicks thru to money page –> makes a purchase –> you earn a commission
To get this flow chart to work, you need this flow chart to work:
Your Tumblr blog or site –> Social Poster –> high Google search ranking –> puts your site in the top 10 –> someone can see your site –> they visits your site.
Go to www.tumblr.com and sign up.
Our Tumblr site URL will be the words in our phrase exact match: http://sausagemakingtips.tumblr.com or http://sausage-making-tips.tumblr.com or use underscores or dashes and underscores or two words together with a dash or underscore between them and the third one. The best is your phrase all together.
Rob likes Tumblr because there’s no distracting sidebars to divert attention away from your content.
- Put your phrase in your blog title
- Put your phrase in the first sentence in the description
- Put your phrase in the first paragraph of your posts and bold it.
- Scatter your phrase throughout your copy
- Put the last instance of your phrase in your copy in italics or bold
- Make two posts, a short introductory post and a longer, detailed post
- Put your affiliate link in the text of each post.
- Use a text link so it doesn’t interrupt the flow of your writing. You’re not there to advertise the product, you’re there to give someone a value-added experience and to click through and buy if that’s what they were looking for.
- You can enhance the look of your blog by clicking on the Goodies button
You don’t want Google getting any wrong ideas about what your blog is about when it’s bots crawl your blog. That’s why you highlight and keep using your phrase throughout your copy.
Dan Raine’s Video – 30DC Blog Site is up
Powered by WordPress. Sign in with your 30DC login info and go to blogs.thirtydaychallenge.com
Set your blog URL as follows:
http://blogs.thirtydaychallenge.com/joubess/%postname%
This takes out extraneous information when you URL comes up.
My Catch-Up To-Do List:
- Find some affiliate products for my phrases
- Search umbrella phrases and read at least the content of the top 10 (top 20 is better)
- Set up my 30DC blog to point to this blog
