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

HamDune said:

Hmm... you're right. It looks like this feature has been disabled!

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Jaykub said:

Hey crashed, since u r a bit more experienced in SEO i wanted to ask you how i can filter out all other adsense keywords with a lower CPC than 1 $!

I cannot find this feature on the google keyword tool anymore :S

edit: another question -

the google keyword tool says that your three keyword project only has round about 46 monthly local EXACT searches, so how come you are trying to rank for keywords like this??!

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First question about the keyword tool... To access the CPC for the keywords you are searching for you need to be logged in with a adwords account - just signup to adwords you don't need to add any money etc. Then go back to adwords tool...

In terms of me trying to rank for a 46 monthly search keyword... You are assuming I am trying to rank...
However you have missed that I also rank for related keywords... And I am not even trying.

Day 7: Drunken Rambles and Twitter Traffic...

First of all I would like to apologise for any typos in this post. I am fresh home for the clubs and have probably had to0 much to drink (I love Fireball Whisky - its a whisky with a cinnamon twist!)...

Today I will be talking you through several things, hopefully I do not get in trouble for giving too much in this post but meh, I blame the drink! I have also started using a short url service for my links as I would like to track how many people are clicking, on what and from where to help me improve the future posts in the challenge. If it is an affiliate link I will state that it is.

My Fair Affiliate Link Policy

When you click on an affiliate link I may earn a commission, this does not affect the amount you pay, or your need to pay. 99% of the services I am using in this challenge are free, some may offer a paid upgrade however that is completely at your discresion and not required for the challenge (unless specified). Occasionally it may be that I have arranged a special deal with the owner/provider of that service; in this case the only way you may get the deal is to use my affiliate link or referral code. I will always try to state if that is the case.

I am not here to make money from the challenge, I am here to get you making money from the challenge. I do spend around 6-8 hours (or more) working on every single post in the challenge, and would appreciate you using my affiliate links as this also helps me calculate how many people are actively following the challenge. And hopefully once you have started earning you may see the value in upgrading on some of the services.

The Mindset...

Tonight I've spent out with some good friends, however I decided that I should share with you some basics behind my mindset.

1. Believe that you deserve every $ that you earn, unless you believe you deserve it you will never earn to your full potential. You are not getting money for nothing, you are getting and deserve money because you are taking action to get it. If other people do not want to take action, they do not deserve it...

2. Respect yourself, I know how easy it is to spend money, how easy it is to just sit there working to earn that money. With money comes a good life, but if you forget your life then money will get you nothing. I came home alone tonight; this is partly because I intended to write this post, and partly because the thrill is in the chase.

3. Dedication. Even though I have stumbled home, I have done my 50 situps, and 50 pressups before I have got into bed (yes I am writting this in bed)... I know that sometimes it seems like a lot of work, but you rarely get anything for nothing... If you do not want something enough you will never get it!

Now with that out of the way... Today we are going look at how we can leverage the power of twitter.

How we can use Twitter...

Twitter is easily the second (if not the most) influential social network around, and we have out account all the way from Day 1. Now that we have our site with some decent content it is time to look at building up our traffic...

Personally though all of this can be done manually, that takes time and dedication, and I like things done for me. That is the reason I am going to introduce you to two new tools, that both are free (though a professional upgrade is avaliable).

Tool 1: Get More Followers...

There's no point using twitter, if no one is going see our tweets. Our first step today is to learn how to get more followers. To help with this I have found some free software that will help us do this.

1. Goto http://rfurl.net/tweetattacks
2. Click to close the page, it will show a box offering you a special offer. Click Cancel to stop it closing and accept this offer. This is the free software that we want to use.
3. Click Open as we want to install this software once it is downloaded. When it finishes downloading we want to copy the files out of the zip to our desktop.
4. Open Setup and go through the process just clicking Next at each stage.
5. Find the Tweet Attacks icon on your Desktop and click it to open it.
6. You need to register, enter your name and email address and click activate. Wait for the email to arrive to confirm your activation (usually takes minutes...). Click the confirmation link...
7. Open Tweet Attacks again, it will say an update is avaliable. Click Update Now and let it do it's stuff...
8. Goto the Manage menu, and select Twitter Accounts. Enter your twitter username, and password. Click Save and Close.
9. Goto the Switch Module menu and select Account Statistics. In the left menu click Reload Accounts, and then Update Statistics.
10. Goto the Switch Module menu, and click Follow/Unfollow. Select your username in the Account list, then in the Task menu select Follow from search result. In the Parameter enter a keyword related to your niche (I used football). Click Start Tasks to start following people related to your keyword, let it run a couple of minutes and then click Stop.
11. This is something you need to do over the next few days...

The video is here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy034qcbbk4

Note If you know how to limit how many people are followed at one time in the free version feel free to let me know and I'll update the post!

How to Automate Tweets...

I like being able to set a site up, and leave it to run itself whilst I do more important things. One of the best free tools you will find online for twitter allows you to schedule you tweets in advance. When you combine this with the ability to schedule posts in wordpress you have an all round winner. I don't think any more explaination is needed here.

Whats even better is you can add as many twitter accounts with the same account on this website making it a one stop twitter manager.

1. Goto http://rfurl.net/autotweet (or if you don't want to use my affiliate link google SocialOomph).
2. Click Register, fill in your details, do the captcha and click Register.
3. Goto your email and find the confirmation email, open the confirmation link to confirm your account.
4. Sign up their email list if you want to get sales emails... Or click Login and enter your username and password, and click Login.
5. Goto Social Accounts on the menu, Add New Accounts, and then click Add Twitter. Login to twitter or click Authorize when asked. Click Authorize App.
6. Click Save when you arrive back at the SocialOomph website to save your account.
7. Goto Scheduled Updates on the menu and then click Schedule New Update.
8. Enter the update you want to post, it must be shorter than 140 characters. Once you have done this you specify when you want the tweet to be posted; either by x amount of time after the last tweet, or by putting in a date and time.
9. You need to schedule at least one tweet for every post you have schedule in wordpress... In addition also add some other tweets at appropiate times such as "It's great to be home, work today was crazy!" to be posted in the evening etc... This makes it look more personal and real...

The video showing you how to do this is here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqI7AuvloCg

I have only touched on the power of SocialOomph here, if you have spare time have a look at some of the other features that you can use!!!

Summary

Today we have started our traffic generation for our site, each tweet sends visitors in the direction of our site. And also gives us another backlink to our site improving our search engine rankings.

I know Day 7 arrived late, so you can expect Day 8 to follow very shortly where I will be doing a question and answer like post covering some common things that have been asked. In addition I have also added the first competition to the blog... Can't say I don't look after ya!

Day 8 will be here in a few hours...

scubadiveman said:

As a curiosity, what domain + web hostin you are using?

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I am currently using WH blogger blogs, tied to a cloaked redirector, pushing affiliate pages in an iframe through short urls with all of my owned money pages in a tab exploit. Not exactly white hat for the challenge, but the challenge has been excellent. Nice , to the point, and well written.

243< I wonder why these numbers are showing up in all of my posts?
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quick question, how many people should we follow per day and for how many days. Thanks!

achokshi said:

quick question, how many people should we follow per day and for how many days. Thanks!

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Ummmm, I said let it run for about 3 minutes which works out at following 40 people a time. I am going cover unfollowing in 2 days which is how long I recommend following people for without them following you back.

In terms of that you also need to make sure your twitter account has more than just 1 tweet, make it look busy but don't fill it with random content!

As far as "having at least one tweet for each post" goes, are we supposed to link our twitter to our blog so everytime a new post comes up we automatically tweet the url and title of the new post? There is a plugin for that but is that what you mean, or just random tweets like "dinner was really good" or someting?

Thanks

achokshi said:

As far as "having at least one tweet for each post" goes, are we supposed to link our twitter to our blog so everytime a new post comes up we automatically tweet the url and title of the new post? There is a plugin for that but is that what you mean, or just random tweets like "dinner was really good" or someting?

Thanks

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Use SocialOomph to schedule it to tweet like 5 minutes after the date/time you scheduled your post to be published. Mix this up with random tweets at appropiate times...

The reason we are not using the wordpress plugin are:
1. This does not have the ability to add other random tweets into the mix.
2. The more plugins we use on the site the slower it runs...

Crashed or anyone else I have two small questions.

I am adding pages on my website but somehow they are getting alphabetically arranged. And I do not want it like that, I went on the setting section and updated by time but still they are the same. My theme Cleanr 0.1.2 by Chandra Maharzan. simple and basic

And on crashedchallenge website there is a page called tasklist. where he has arranged everyday with a link which opens in a new page. How can I do this?

virtual.indiano said:

Crashed or anyone else I have two small questions.

I am adding pages on my website but somehow they are getting alphabetically arranged. And I do not want it like that, I went on the setting section and updated by time but still they are the same. My theme Cleanr 0.1.2 by Chandra Maharzan. simple and basic

And on crashedchallenge website there is a page called tasklist. where he has arranged everyday with a link which opens in a new page. How can I do this?

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In pages you can specify a order for the list to appear in that starts at 0 and works it way up. In the page list if you hover your mouse over the page there is an option called Quick Edit that appears. You can then use this to set the order of the pages.

I have just made a normal page, and then each day add a new line of text to it. If you select the text, click the Insert/Edit link button in the editor (it looks like a paperclip), I use the Select Existing content to find the page I want to link to. And then tick the box "Open link in new Window/Tab".

Thanks for the next step, have use your link because your teaching us a lot and would thanks you for that.

Got a Question, will u in the futur ask us to make backlink or not?

Here are some stats from the blog I'm running for this challenge, got already some visite from facebook fan page and google keyword.

I am also doing well on the views

Visitors - Total: 71 Last month: 65 This month: 9 Target this month:421

and i havent done any boosting yet

Ive had my domain 3 days now and ive so far got:

visitors yesterday 41
visitors today 24

total visitors 62
pageviews 96
spiders 67
feeds 2

Average : 10.1 Visitors, 13.7 Pageviews, 9.6 Spiders, 0.3 Feeds by day

target visitors this month 1078


So pretty pleased with how things are going at the minute for a noob

yeah done well, your estimate views are well highher than mine! why is that?
maybe because you had yours for less time?
pm me your site and ill send you mine id like to see what it is youre doing not to steal obviously! i wouldnt do that, we're all friends here haha!

Sorry if you already stated this but, why don't you put the advertising here and privacy policy page more out so more people can see it? Am I hurting myself just leaving them there based on statistics? or is it just because the average person isn't looking for this?

edit: Nevermind I missed the ender of update 4. Thanks!

Subscribed

Guys stop writing subscribed and thank you. There is a thanks button on the right below each post and on the top of the thread there is a thread tools button. When you push that you can see the subscribed button, just push that.

Think about this? It is already 7 days and we have 8 pages here. Imagine a poor noob like all of us comes on this thread in the future. He will have to go 100 of such pages to read if we just keep writing thank you and subscribed.

Just like the Op we all have to contribute in keeping this thread as clean as possible. Think before you post.

With Malice to none.
Cheers!!

virtual.indiano said:

Guys stop writing subscribed and thank you. There is a thanks button on the right below each post and on the top of the thread there is a thread tools button. When you push that you can see the subscribed button, just push that.

Think about this? It is already 7 days and we have 8 pages here. Imagine a poor noob like all of us comes on this thread in the future. He will have to go 100 of such pages to read if we just keep writing thank you and subscribed.

Just like the Op we all have to contribute in keeping this thread as clean as possible. Think before you post.

With Malice to none.
Cheers!!

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Thanks man.

I hope my stats are good and there are already 2 comments on my blog

Wow, that did sound really stupid.