You have likely heard of Ed Dale’s 30 Day Challenge, as it is now in its third year, but if you are not in the business of making money from your blog you may not have taken too much notice. I suggest you do consider joining in even if you are not interested in the money making aspects of blogging; because of the resources and tools you will learn about which are useful to all bloggers. Over 30 days Ed presents a series of video tutorials (with transcripts) with the aim of showing how to make money from blogging. Easy to understand step by step instructions are given for participants to follow. To accompany the videos there are forums to answer questions and provide support. Joining in a Challenge group is a good idea to develop a closer support network with a smaller group of fellow participants. Each group has its own forum. There is even a browser toolbar available to make it easier to follow the challenge.
Although I have not ventured into online money making I have joined the 30 Day Challenge for the second time. I was newer to blogging the first time round and learned a lot about blog promotion, social networking, blogging tools and search engine optimization. Knowing that new content is produced for each Challenge and that the tools available to us rapidly increase and change, I felt that I would again benefit from participating. There is no pressure to follow each step rigidly and if you cannot find time to view the daily offerings you can catch up another time.
The Challenge actually starts/started on 1st August but it is not too late to join in. There are some recommended “pre-season” preparation activities which are useful in their own right. Not being patient enough to watch videos I read the transcripts of these so that I could pick out areas that I thought may be new to me. This time round the use of the Flock browser is being recommended and there are guides to help you get started with it. I am close to moving over to Flock from Firefox and will do so once I have configured it with my favorite extensions. At present, I always have it open alongside Firefox for its social networking, Flickr and YouTube tools.
I followed Ed’s example by creating a Google Subscribe Link for Sueblimely. You can subscribe via the “Add my expertise to your Google web searches” in my sidebar. Here are the FAQs for Google Subscribe Links if you are interested in creating your own.
You can join up by via my 30 Day Challenge Refferal Link or via the 30 Day Challenge site directly and find me in Team Lightening There are prizes to be won for those with the most referrals. I don’t expect to be anywhere in the running for these but it would be good not to have a referral point value of zero 
The Thirty Day Challenge certainly looks interesting. Good luck with that!
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I’m interested to join. I actually see this in a forum but since it was not thoroughly explained i was not able to give time to check it. Now I will definitely join because of your post.
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I think it is worth joining it!!
Good luck with the plan – I am sure you can achieve this.
I joined up a few weeks back but haven’t logged in since it started.
I was worried when I thought you weren’t gonna renew your domain
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Sounds like fun stuff. As you mentioned, even if one is not much into monetizing, the knowledge gained about optimization and such might be valuable. I know I am learning a lot now and the enjoyment from the knowledge is worth far more than the pennies earned. Thank you.
I agree with Rraj – even if there is no chance to win it still very worth it for learning experience. I’ve never heard of Flock, I will have to learn more about that.
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Im up to the challenge…sounds good to me!!
id join for sure…I love this type of info!!!
I think the challenge is a new way to learn for all bloggers, newbies and pros. Thanks for sharing about it and I will surely join.
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It looks challenging to me but I prefer to read the transcript this time..
Looks like a neat thing to join, it never hurts to learn a new thing or two
I’ve got the promotion part down – the making money is a lot harder for me!
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Good luck for all of those who have joined – I hope you gain new knowledge and even learn how to make some money too.
I participatd last year and did ‘ok’…but I made a lot of worthwhile contacts for future endeavours.
In general, I do not like Ed’s style of teaching and I do not reccomend it…but the information he offers is free and can sometimes be valuable, so you have nothing to lose by getting in and looking around.
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I have never done this challenge before…I did sign up once but personally I don’t find it all that useful
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The challenged sounds good. I never done any challenge before as well and hopefully i will learn a new lesson from this. Thanks for sharing.
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I participated in the challenge last year and am participating again this year. It is one of the best Internet marketing tutorials for beginners.
If you are looking for a step-by-step guide to help you through the challenge, please check out my link above. I have written a Thirty Day Challenge Action List to help you stay on task.
Regards,
Fred
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The 30DC is awesome free information. I’m the opposite of you where I don’t bother with the transcripts (or the forum or the blog or the dot tv site) but just the videos.
There is a wealth of information to learn how to make money online. It starts off with affiliate marketing to test the market and then suggests making your own product.
You also get a great market/keyword research tool. It’s free for 40 days and then just the keyword research part of it remains free.
Great post. Thanks for the KeywordLuv.
I joined a few months back but for some reason I stopped receiving updates so now I have no clue what’s going on there.
30 day challenge was great I have to say
I joined last month but has stopped receiving updates also!
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Sounds like fun stuff.
Although it might not be super important for everyone to monitize, it is an extremely value skills to be able to optimize sites and improve rankings… extemely valuable, in my opinion.
30 day challenge as a concept is very effective. It helps the brain/mind to start a process of learning new skills. I read about this challange before, but now I’ll take a deeper look on it. Thanks.
Thirty Day Challenge is just excellent. Using their teaching, I got #1 in Google within minutes (of submitting my new web site) using my niche keyword and within #10 using little broader keyword. Both using broad match (ie, without quotes). Great!
Very interesting post – Might be old news, but it was new to me. Thanks.
I love the 30 Day Challenge, I got my parents involved with it, and they have learned alot about making their first dollars online =D
Till then,
Jean