And if you are struggling with content, consider Instant Article Wizard.

To get started, sign up at http://www.weebly.com. You’ll need to enter a username, password and e-mail address. You can create up to five sites under your account. They do have a professional version, which costs $4.99 a month, if you want to build more. For purposes of the 30 day challenge, the basic account is sufficient.

Step 1: In the “Title Your New Site” box, enter your main keyword phrase and click enter.

Step 2: Click on the “Designs” tab and select a theme. You can use the predesigned templates as is or upload your own banner.

Step 3: Click on the “Elements” tab. This section allows you to add various content to your site such as text, videos, RSS feeds or Google adsense. You first want to add text so drag and drop the “Paragraph with Title” element to your page. Input your keyword phrase as the title and a keyword rich article. Hyperlink your keyword phrase to your WordPress blog.

Step 4: Go to “More” and drag and drop the “Feed Reader” icon to your page, underneath the content you added. Next, click on the RSS content box to get the “Element Options” toolbar. Enter the link to your blog’s RSS feed into the “Feed Address” field. Adjust the width to 100% so it fits the entire page. You can also adjust how many items you want to display on the page. Change the “Text” length to medium to show enough content to be picked up by Google.

Step 5: Click ”Publish.” Here, you choose your website address. Choose “Option A: Subdomain of weebly.com.” Enter your keyword phrase. If it is already in use, try a plural option or insert a dash (‘-‘) between each word of your keyword phrase. Click continue and your site is live.

Step 6: To add additional pages, click on the “Pages” tab. Click the “New Page” button and enter the title of the page in the “Page Name” field. Drag and drop the “Title Text” box into the page and input your title and article. Click “Publish” and you are done.

Next you want to customize your settings:

1. Change the title to your keyword phrase and include a brief description with the keyword phrase as well.
2. Select a theme.
3. Add a RSS feed for a source you actually own.
4. Under the directory tab, make sure the boxes are checked next to “Allow search engines to index your tumblelog” and “Promote me on Tumblr.”
5. Go to the advanced tab and click “Ping the Blogosphere.”
6. Click on the “Text” icon and “Add a Text Post” using your keyword(s) as the title. Hyperlink your keyword phrase so that it points to your WordPress blog. Click save and you’re done.
7. Bookmark the page.

Once you’ve reviewed your stats, take some time to right another article and do some social bookmarking.

As with Squidoo, you want to choose your main keyword(s) as your title and HubPage address. Next, add some additional keywords related to your niche as tags. After inputting this information, you will be taken to a screen that sets forth a few HubPages rules. Of particular note is the prohibition against spam and the requirement to provide “original” content on your page. After reviewing the rules, you can proceed to building your hub.

Some modules to include on your HubPage are your profile, an RSS feed, a photo and content. In your article, use a keyword phrase to link to your blog.* This link should be different from the site provided in your RSS feed. For example, the link in your RSS feed might point to your Squidoo page and the anchor text in your article might point to your blog. Be careful of including more than two links as your page may get flagged.

Once you complete and publish your HubPage, use Social Marker to bookmark it.

*Select to open the link in the same window because ultimately, you want your visitor to end up on your blog.

Discover the Squidoo Cash Machine

The first step in setting up a Squidoo lens is to register for an account. Next, click on the “Create a Lens” button. Select a title that includes your keyword phrase. Also pick a URL to match your keyword phrase exactly. For example, if your keyword phrase is “weight loss tips,” then simply put “http://www.squidoo.com/weightlosstips” as your lens URL. If that URL is taken, put a “1” after the keyword - “http://www.squidoo.com/weightlosstips1.”

Next, select the appropriate topic category. In addition to your main keyword phrase, you should add an additional four to five keywords. Once the initial setup is complete, you need to add at least three modules to your lens. For example, you can add an article,* RSS feed (with three to six headlines) and a text module with your affiliate product. Your RSS feed can be from your blog. Alternatively, you can use Market Samurai to generate an RSS feed based on your keyword phrase from various content sources (e.g., Wikipedia, Yahoo! News and Flickr images) and add that to your lens as well. When done, publish your lens.

After publishing your lens, use Social Marker to bookmark the page.

*Note: you can check the originality of your article/lens by conducting a free search at Copyscape.

Resources:

Copyscape – http://copyscape.com
Market Samurai – http://marketsamurai.com
Social Marker – http://socialmarker.com
Squidoo – http://squidoo.com

• Blog URL;
• Feed URL;
• Main Keyword Phrase;
• Additional Tags separated by commas; and
• Brief Description of the Blog (make sure to put your main keyword phrase near the beginning of the description).

When complete, click submit and you’re done.

Another good place to join community discussions is in forums. You can do a search for forums in your niche using the following search query: keyword(s) + forum. Most forums allow you to create a profile and include a keyword-specific backlink pointing to your blog in your signature file. You should note that the highest authority forums will be listed in rank order in the search engine results.

There are also several Web 2.0 sites where you can leave comments, such as Squidoo. To find related pages in communities like Squidoo, use the following search query: keyword(s) site: squidoo.com. Again, the sites with the most authority, will be listed in rank order. Target these sites and leave quality comments along with a keyword-specific link that points back to your site.

To add blog comments to the mix, Comment Kahuna is a free software tool that helps you identify and leave comments on high authority niche blogs. Head on over to their site and register your copy now.

Once you’ve done some social bookmarking and commenting, check to see if your blog has been indexed. This can be accomplished with the following search query in any of the search engines: site: yourdomainname.com. If your site shows up in the search results, congratulations, you’ve been indexed.

Your efforts at social bookmarking and commenting have resulted in:

• Getting your sited indexed by the search engines; and
• Building quality backlinks that point to your blog with your keywords in the anchor text.

SocialMarker is a free service designed to reduce the time and effort to bookmark your site. The first step is to go to the site and drag the SocialMarker button to your bookmarks toolbar. This provides easy access to the service when you are ready to bookmark content.

Put Your Bookmarking On Autopilot

Second, go to your blog and click on the blog title to bring up the actual page of your article. Then click on the SocialMarker button. SocialMarker will populate the Title and Link (URL) boxes. You will need to type in a brief description of your article in the Text box and your keywords in the Tags box.

Third, it’s time to select the social bookmarking sites you want to submit to. While you can certainly use all the services available, you get more bang for your buck by spending some time and researching the sites that best fit your niche. That said, there are a few that work well for most sites. These include Propeller, Digg, Del.icio.us, Twitter and Stumbleupon. Once you select your social bookmarking sites, press Submit at the top of the page. Also make sure to register for all the sites you want to use for bookmarking.

Once you press Submit, SocialMarker will take you to each of your selected bookmarking sites. At the bottom of the page will be your bookmark details, which you can drag and drop into the appropriate fields of each site. After you go through each bookmarking site, you’re done. Now sit back and relax. Within 24 hours or so your site should be indexed.

Next is stat tracking for your selected affiliate program. The tool, TDC stats tracker, can be accessed through the 30 Day Challenge members area. Simply copy your affiliate link and go to the TDC Stats Tracker. Click on “New URL” and then input the destination name, destination description and paste in the affiliate link. Next, click “Add A URL” and a unique tracking URL is generated.

After generating your unique tracking URL, go to the WordPress Direct control panel. Under “Ads And Banners Setup,” insert the tracking URL using the link button. If you want to add the link to your post, it’s recommended that you hyperlink no more than two of your keyword phrases.

By the end of the Day 7, Challengers are expected to:

• Set up a Google Analytics account.
• Add the Google ID to their WordPress Direct settings.
• Set up a tracking link for their affiliate product.
• Add the tracking link to the Sale Offer Widget and also no more than two times into the article on their blog.

Once lessons two through seven are mastered, Challengers should be able to complete the blog set up and testing phase in about two days.

Day 8 of the 30 Day Challenge will begin with promoting your blog.