Review: 30-Day Challenge

	“Outstanding step-by-step internet marketing video course”
	Price:	Free!
	Link:	30 Day Challenge

Overview:

The Thirty Day Challenge is a (get ready for it…) 30 day email course designed to walk beginners step-by-step through the process of researching a niche, then setting up, SEO optimizing, promoting, and monetizing a website.

The actual challenge is to find a suitable keyword and go through all the steps to generate $1.00 in ad revenue. Let me be clear, this is the best free resource for beginner internet marketers IF you can tolerate sitting through 10 hours of video, and are ok with not having a good source of reference material to fall back on afterwards.

Pros:

Now, I consider my search engine placement skills to be pretty damned advanced at this point, and I learned a TON of new things from this email series (most notably, the importance of social bookmarking sites, and using Squidoo and Hub Pages to generate high page-rank inbound links). If you have no idea what I’m talking about in the last sentence, no worries, Ed and the gang will walk you through everything you need to know.

The best part is that once you get your first email, you can view all of the video lessons immediately by going to the site.

Make notes on the Squidoo and Hub Pages videos and include them in the Off-Page SEO tab of your binder. (huh?)

Cons:

I’m not a huge fan of video, and I find it a pain to sit through a half-hour clip when I can scan a document in 10 minutes and get the highlights. Ed and the gang are entertaining to watch, but video is still a drawback in my book. Each video page includes a transcript, but it is not a suitable replacement for the videos. Another drawback is that it is hard to create reference material from videos. If you want to revisit the material, you have to re-watch the video. Bummer. If these guys were to write a book, I’d be all over it even at $200. Unfortunately, the videos are the best we can do for now.

Where to Get It:

Non-affiliate link: 30 Day Challenge