Thirty Day Challenge Update: Day 1 and Day 2
Over the weekend I completed the Day 1 and Day 2 lessons. I have learned so much already! I’m really excited to do the rest of the challenge.
Day 1 was primarily focused on gathering ideas. The first lesson provided some basic groundwork for how to approach website creation if your goal is to make money. I’ll give you a hint: you don’t create your product first. A valuable lesson.
The rest of Day 1 gave a lot of information on how to generate ideas using freely available and easy-to-use tools, plus a downloadable PDF with over 50 helpful links. These tools will all help you brainstorm different topics you might be interested in pursuing further. I have yet to fully explore all the tools and links provided, but I already have several ideas to research further. If none of them pan out, or whenever I’m inclined to do some more research, I can go back to the resources presented in this lesson and I’ll probably find many more interesting ideas.
I took the handful of ideas I generated on Day 1 into Day 2, which was the best primer on Keyword Research that I could have found. Ed Dale, Guru Bob, Dan Raine and all the other amazing people at ThirtyDayChallenge.com are teaching a new, very powerful, still-in-beta tool (Market Samurai) which is going to be an amazing help.
But what really shined for me was the video tutorial of how to do manual keyword research using Google. This quick video gave me the exact 2-step process I needed to know to wrap my head around keyword research. This isn’t a difficult subject to learn, so if you already know it, you probably won’t find anything new here. But if you’ve been intimidated by keyword research in the past, I highly recommend this video.
I haven’t even installed the Market Samurai tool because I want to make sure I fully understand how to do the manual research first. So I created a quick and dirty spreadsheet, opened up 2 browser tabs, and started entering keywords. This is an excerpt of my results.
Keyword Research Made Easy
You can see that I searched for a lot of different phrases. The highlighted rows indicate the “sweet spot” of my market research - adequate search volume combined with a fairly low number of competing pages.
Remember: I didn’t know anything about keyword research before I started this lesson, and now I have a couple of ideas to move forward with. I have already learned enough from the Thirty Day Challenge for it to have been a more than worthwhile investment of my time. I am really looking forward to Day 3.
Have an action-packed day!