I counted the pages and I wrote 9 pages of notes between the podcast and the presentation/videos from today’s lessons. There was sure much more than one lesson today. It’s more like a week’s worth of work, and we have 4 more days of lessons after today!!!
Key Issues - Ed’s Podcast
Rob Somerville has some video presentations today about how to keep and improve upon your phrases that pay.
Warning - use everything the 30DC has taught WISELY. That means no spamming! Let your sites, articles and links grow organically. Don’t go out after today’s lessons and put 100 back-links to your pages and products. If you do, Google will slap you. (Maybe this is why I’ve been slowing down. I don’t want my networking and back-linking to appear “spammy”).
Tumblrgate was a big shock to Ed. Tumblr was so small it couldn’t handle the volume of 30DCers setting up accounts and blogging on their site. Not only that, but enough real spam ended up on Tumblr from spammers cloaking themselves as 30DCers and wreaking havoc on all our efforts as beginners to succeed. Spamming is diametrically opposed to what we’re trying to learn and do on the the 30DC. We’re white-hat all the way here. Spammers used 30DC for black-hat marketing and spoiled it for the rest of us. Now many of us have had to back track, find a new hosting site and republish our content after our phrases were damaged in Google rankings by Tumblr blocking our accounts. Tumblr rightfully did this because they are too small to sort out the small amount of spam from all the good content. So they blocked all of us. There are 100,000 thirty day challengers, so even a small percentage is a large number of people.
Asshole-gate. Tumblrgate led to asshole-gate when one bright, but socially stupid, person published all 645 URLs from our tumblr blogs, thus publishing our umbrella phrases for the whole world to see and steal as they saw fit. Many of our phrases were stolen, too. At least one of mine was. I’d spent 20 days of research, writing and work only to have someone publish my umbrella phrase and someone else steal it. But no worries, if we keep working diligently and keep finding more and better phrases, we’ll beat the assholes in the long-run.
The “special sauce” talked about earlier in the challenge won’t be released because of the few bad apples. They’ve spoiled it completely for the rest of us. Our mentors can’t risk putting such a powerful technique into the hands of spammers. They don’t have enough control over the 30DCers to stop any spammers among us from abusing the technique and spreading it among themselves, so they can’t release it outside The Immediate Edge where you have to pay to be a member, and agree to their terms of service. They then have you by the nether-parts and can keep a lid on spamming. Even though 99.9% of us aren’t spammers, the 0.1% who are equals about 100 people, and that many spammers with free reign on this technique would do tons of damage in the internet marketing community. This is not an advertisement or request for any of us to join The Immediate Edge. In fact, don’t. We’re not ready for it yet anyway.
Where does the Thirty Day Challenge go from here? Instead of dumping the whole thing, the Thirty Day Challenge will be a continuous event. Anyone can start at anytime and do their challenge during any 30 day period they choose. It is best, of course, to start at the beginning of a month and join a Facebook team for accountability, but you can start at any time and go it on your own if you choose. It won’t be like the challenge this month. Training will be rearranged so starting at any point won’t matter. Why do it this way? To keep the TDC from causing its own marketing affect. 100,000 people all doing the same thing at the same time pushes the internet in a direction. It’s not natural and it will skew our results and what we learn. To avoid impacting the data ourselves, a continuous challenge allows lots of people to be doing the challenge, but not all will be on the same step at the same time.
Since the challenge will be on-going, we will get new lessons a few times a month, one being how to develop our own product. If you own the product you sell, you don’t have to share the profits. We’ll also have lessons on creating products and content better, easier, and cheaper.
Our purpose in the TDC is to learn the process and then build on it after the challenge.
The TDC forums will continue with very strict moderation. Our TDC blogs will also still be available. Forums are restricted to action. TDC is all about action, not discussing, not philosophizing, but doing; creating content, linking to a product, and making sales, and doing all the steps that entails.
Forums will also be used for sharing actual results. It helps us all to know what worked for someone else, so when you have results, share them on the forums.
Forum signatures will be restricted to your name, contact information a link to your blog (your main blog, not a niche blog).
There will be a video post-season on the power of Twitter.
For further information and great resource and free blog visit Michelle MacPhearson’s blog.
That’s it for the Podcast. I’ll start a new post for each part of day 27 lessons to keep them more organized and easier to find the notes.
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