[Journal/Method/spoonfeed] The 'Crashed Challenge' 30 Days to Money...

[mademymoney]

Then go out and try generate some traffic while you wait, instead of pestering "crashed" to hurry up.

 

[crashed]

Pre-Day 13 Task...
While you wait you can get started on Day 13... Try and find a free product (or create your own) that you can give away that is related to your niche/subject. There are loads of free Master Resale Rights and Private Label Sites out there, just find one with a product you can use....

 

[Rollie]

Crashed, I misses the call from Adam, because I was in class at the time. Now I called him twice and left a message, but looks like He is a hard to get dude. Hopefully everything goes well at the end.

 

[flc735]

Yep what nightxowl said up there ^ regarding the roses... I hate subdomains... They just scream spam

so are you recommending making "15" individual sites or 1 parent site with something other than subdomains for each of my tiny niches (red roses, green roses ect...)?

 

[marcgenesis]

Another 0.06$ from adsense... and some clicks on my CPA offers - no conversions though.

 

[flc735]

this may be a better way to put it. say im copying your football website, should i do what you did. make a football site and go after the niche keywords at one article per keyword, or could i benefit more by making individual sites. one that targets just "football scoring techniques" and then another completely separate website that targets just "yellow card rules" and so on...

the second option is more work, obviously. but can i benefit more that way? could my keyword targets become more efficient with this greater specialization of each site?

there is a reason why im being so particular here.
my parent keyword has about 30 different 'tiny niche keywords' i could go after. but about half of them are already dominated. the other half are easy targets right now. thats why im thinking about these multiple small lazer targeted sites so i can stay out of those big sites way

*i am a 2 month noob. i could just be worrying about things that i dont really need to worry about

 

[marcgenesis]

so are you recommending making "15" individual sites or 1 parent site with something other than subdomains for each of my tiny niches (red roses, green roses ect...)?

One website. In wordpress, if you set it up like crashed says to, you will get something like this :

www.rosesarered.com/2011/06/green-roses-are-blooming-again/

 

[crashed]

Second option is bad for google as they are cracking down on sites made just to make money.

By diversifying a single site it makes it more an authority site so has better standing in google. Just think if someone wants to know more about something else related, and you have it right there on your site. I would recommend that you split your topics down into different categories though

 

[flc735]

Second option is bad for google as they are cracking down on sites made just to make money.

By diversifying a single site it makes it more an authority site so has better standing in google. Just think if someone wants to know more about something else related, and you have it right there on your site. I would recommend that you split your topics down into different categories though

thanks bud. this was the type of answer i was hoping for. this was a bit of a road block for me the past week, now i can march onward

I would recommend that you split your topics down into different categories though
^i really cant. to put my actual keyword list in perspective, it would be like making a site targeting "kicking the ball" and then going after KWs like 'kicking with your right foot', 'kicking hard with your right foot' and 'kicking soft with your right foot' ect... ect...
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one more question, i added this to my last post as an edit so you may have missed it
"my parent keyword has about 30 different 'tiny niche keywords' i could go after. but about half of them are already dominated. the other half are easy targets right now."
so as far as the 15 keywords that are already dominated, should i still cover them to cater to my targeted traffic even though there is no chance i will be able to rank for them?
ex: they come to my site for green roses info (an easy target), but its highly likely they will also want to know about blue roses as well. although, blue roses would be too hard to rank for since it is already dominated.

should i bother to write a heavily dominated "blue roses" article (and 14 others) or would the time it will take to cover them be better spent elsewhere for my site?

 

[crashed]

Day 13: Locked and Tweeted...

Ok, now that we've been growing our twitter accout we should hopefully have a few decent followers. Today I would like to expand on the use of twitter for traffic generation and interaction. I know a lot of people have been looking at link building, and some even trying to use automated tools.

Today does not have video yet as I have no time to edit them, however I will add them in later on at somepoint

Another look at Tweet Attacks

Now that we've been using tweet attacks for a little while lets take another look at how to get best results. There are some features that I did skip over in the first post, however they have come up in conversation since so I feel it's only fair I share them with you all.

1. Follow People That Follow...

Say your niche is football, wouldn't it be great to follow the people that follow the top footballers? Well you can, in the Tweet Attacks task list just select Follow People Following, and in the parameters box type in the persons username.

2. Control How Many People you follow at once...

Generally on new accounts it is best to limit how many people you follow at one time. When you are in the Follow/Unfollow module (where it has your task list) if you look on the left you will see a Limits box. Generally there is a low and high number and Tweet Attacks will randomly select a number to follow between these. For newer accounts I recommend following a max of 100 people at one time, with a minimum set to around 30. I know its slower than using the maximums, but you stand a lot less chance of getting your account banned.

How to get people to interact (AKA Bribery)

Now i've been preaching about social traffic and how we can get our readers to do our advertising for us. This is what I like to call a snowball effect however, it needs to be given a bump to get started.

Today we are going look at how we can encourage our users to interact, and the easiest way is to offer them something special...

You can write a special report or training guide for your subject niche
You can find a special report or training guide for your niche
Whilst offering something unique that cannot be got anywhere else is best, it also takes most time and is most expensive. Feel free to create your own special report, video, or product however for this tutorial I will be using a freely avaliable product.

What we will do is create a special hidden download page on our site where the user will be redirected to after completing an action to download this special report or product.

1. Create your product, or find a product that you have giveaway rights to.
2. If you need to upload it to your site, goto the Media Menu and click Add New. Click Select Files and select the product file. After it uploads goto the Media->Library option and click Edit on the file you uploaded, it will give you a File URL. Copy this for the next step...
3. Goto your wordpress and create a page called Thank You, change the URL to something random like /download83rjfsfjks893r. Write a quick thank you note on this page, and then add a Link saying download now and using the File URL that you previously copied.
4. In the Exclude Pages from Navigation box untick "Include this page" so that it is essentially hidden.
5. Save the address of this page for later.

Borrowed Tweets

Well, I found this service the other day and I thought it was a awsome idea. In fact I thought it was so good I contacted the owner to see if I could arrange a special deal for you all... And I was successful, if you follow the instructions here to sign up you will get 500 free TweetPoints!

NOTE: You need to have 25 followers in your Twitter account before you do this!!!

1. Goto http://rfurl.net/bt
2. Fill in your details, in the Coupon field enter "crashed" (this is to get your free credits) and click Create.
3. You should now have your 500 tweet points, now the beauty of this service is that you use your points to get other people to tweet for you. And you can earn points by tweeting other peoples tweets.
4. What we will do is use this with the TwitItAway setup so that we can drive more traffic to our product giveaway which then increases the number of followers you have...

Now you have a Borrowed Tweets account, we will come back to use this in a bit once you have your TwitItAway product page ready...

TwitItAway.com

This is a service I originally was planning to launch in 2009. The initial inspiration came from the giveaway sites where you join the site and people get a product from you free for joining your list (more on this in Day 14). However after writting the code I decided I wanted to keep it to myself... Now however I've spent some time making it multi-user just for the people in the Crashed Challenge. I am sure you have all seen Paywithatweet... And you may be asking what makes TwitItAway different...

• The user also follows you on twitter so you build your list to market to in future
• There is a Market place allowing you to browse the entire range of products avaliable
• To get your product/giveaway you can require the user to tweet your link as well

Now this is brand new so there may be a few bugs, the public marketplace functionality needs finishing and it doesn't look as pretty as it will once I get my designer to wave his magic wand. However I wanted to put everything twitter related into the same post to keep things easy for you.

1. Goto Twit It Away http://rfurl.net/tia
2. Click Register, fill in your details and put in your Twitter account name.
3. You will now need to activate your account, this demonstrates the simply awsome power of this system... You click, new window opens so you can log into twitter, and then it'll check that it is the twitter account you signed up with, follow @twititaway, and send a tweet about the crashed challenge.
4. Now you should be taken to your Product Dashboard, click Add Product.
5. Enter your product name in the Title box, select a Category (if you have suggestions for categories let me know!), enter a quick witty summary of what your product does/is using 250 letters. Then type a more detailed description. In the More Info URL box enter your website address, and in the Download URL enter the address of the secret Thank You page you created earlier. Click Add Product. I am manually reviewing these atm to make sure it is not abused until I can write some more code so it will be about 12 - 24 hours before it is activated in the marketplace.
6. Click Get Code to get your unique product page link, you can then use a URL Shortner like ?http://bit.ly to shorten and cloak this.
7. Now you need to click Edit Tweets and add a couple of tweets. I would recommend that in one you link to your site, and in the other you use the URL Shortner link to your unique product page.
8. Wait for these to be approved by me...

The beauty of this is once someone "Tweets For It" on your product, they advertise your link to their followers now if one of their followers does the same you'll start a snowball effect

Summary
Now that my coding marathon is nearly over (apart from finishing the market place functionality and making it look pretty) we should be back on track. Hopefully from today you can see just how powerful twitter is, in fact I intend to tell you tommorow just how many visitors came to TwitItAway just from the tweets that you guys posted when Activating your account. I am personally going promote this website as well over the next few weeks, so you can expect to see your followers and traffic grow!

Day 14 will follow on from this shortly...

 

[t0mmy]

i may be missing something here mate but...... the free giveaway product, how are we to get people taking this should there be a visible page on our site about it or will this all be done threw your site?

 

[crashed]

I am going cover this in Day 14 as it is stuff you can only do once your product is approved on TIA. However we are going better than a page and should see greater conversions

 

[t0mmy]

sweet looking forward to it

 

[_Java_]

This is for newbie

 

[neeganate]

$1.70!
How exactly does adsense work, off of my first 2 clicks i made 0.41 cents total. Then on my third click I got up to 1.70?!

 

[m0nster]

$1.70!
How exactly does adsense work, off of my first 2 clicks i made 0.41 cents total. Then on my third click I got up to 1.70?!

Advertisers pay google when Someone clicks on their ad. If there are a lot of ppl wanting to have a ad for those keywords, it drives the price up (economics - less supply, greater demand, higher prices) higher price, higher CPC for you. Not all ads are gonna have the same ads same CPC always

 

[bnsly]

great guide crashed, gonna start following it after i get my niche. btw are you active on skype? because i added you so we can talk about something

 

[AInfil]

getting Invalide invite code btw at borrowedtweets crashed

 

[crashed]

Fixed... Removed the Invite code from the link as I forgot earlier when I moved the post onto here!

 

[mademymoney]

Sweet! Another 66c on adsense This is purely for social media traffic as I am not ranking anywhere for my keywords