* Official Mike Mindel Summary blog: www.webventurer.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge-3/
* Unofficial Thirty Day Challenge Action List: docs.google.com/View?docid=dfwbrpjr_25gmbwdw&pli=1

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Here are the full collection of 30DC videos:

• Thirty Day Challenge – Pre Season Starts Tomorrow
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 1
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 1 – The Toolbar
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 2 – Using ebay pulse
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 2 – Technorati
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 2 – Google Groups
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 2 – Google Hot Trends
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 3 – Market Radar (Part1)
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 3 – Market Radar (Part2)
• Thirty Day Challenge on YouTube
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 6 – Affiliates
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 6 – Google Trends
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 7 – cool Wordtracker trick
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 7 – Introduction
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 7 – Umbrella Phrase
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 7 – Phrase Research
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 8 – Traffic Proof
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 8 – Traffic Proof Part 2
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 9 – Intro
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 9 – Google Trends QandA
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 10 – Web Check
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 10 – Bloglines
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 10 – Google Notebook
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 10 – Golden Nuggets – Redux
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 13 – A Spoonful Of Content…
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 14 – Idol Marketing
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 14 – Idol Marketing – Part 2
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 15 – The Theory Of Traffic
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 16 – Tumblr
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 16 – How We Get Traffic
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 17 – The Challenge Hots Up
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 17 – Social Poster
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 17 – EzineArticle
• Thirty Day Challenge – Be Responsible – Day 19
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 20 – Social Bookmarking
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 20 – Educated Friends
• Thirty Day Challenge – Where Are We Headed – Day 21
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 23 – Conversion
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 27 – It’s about The Links, Stupid
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 27 – Google Alert!
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 28 – Link Analysis
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 28 – In Amongst It
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 28 – They said you’d never make..
• Thirty Day Challenge – Directory Submission – Day 29
• Thirty Day Challenge – Yahoo Answers – Day 29
• Thirty Day Challenge – Day 31

Niche Research Steps:

1. KEI analysis of keyword lists
2. Comparison by marketability and interest
3. Competition and targeted affiliate programs research

Web toolbox:

• http://google.com
• http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal/
• http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends
• http://google.com/trends/

An umbrella phrase picked was “how a computer works“. An untargeted niche with a keyword that doesn’t match both criteria.

Nevertheless this is a topic I can say something about. Besides from experience, I can say that persistence is a more valuable tool in your marketing arsenal comparing to a favorable competition environment.

After a little thought I decided to move my niche marketing blog from the initially suggested Tumblr.com platform to my NeoProfit home site, since my second niche ‘How to Build a Computer’ blog has been suspended for no reason and I don’t want this to happen with this one too. Now all the main steps will be documented and posted to where they are supposed to be from the very beginning at NeoProfit Circle.

I won’t torture you much: it’s a keyword research and optimization.

You’ve probably been told about Wordtracker or Overture and been sold varies good and not-so good keyword-research software programs gazillion times, so right now I’m going to 5 minutes of your time to share a gem.

You probably know about the famous Google keyword research tool:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordTool

What may not be so obvious to you is that Adsense and content publishers around the globe are actively using this invaluable research tool to estimate the niche market potential, advertisers’ competition, seasonal keyword bid fluctuations and search volume all just to determine the best keywords for:

• niche research
• niche demand/supply/potential
• SEO
• projected income

You can even browse through actual advertisers’ bids for any given keyword (or list of keywords) using another “Traffic Estimator” tool inside your Adwords account. It’s clear that as a content publisher you won’t get as much per click, but this information can tell you much about keyword competition, advertising budgets and a general level of market capacity and potential.

It’s like Reverse PPC Engineering for content publishers. The same goes for article marketers and SEOrs.

If you click on the second tab “The Site-Related Keywords”, you will see another dream come true for discovering new keywords, markets and hidden profits.

There you can enter any URL or text and get a “Google-filtered” list of related keywords. I mean keywords that provide any SEMer, SEOer or content optimizer with a targeted list of semantically related niche keywords optimized and hand-picked by the Google itself and given you on a silver platter along with the “good old” cost and ad position estimates as well as search volume and search trends. Use URLs of the top-ranking sites for your market and get exactly what Google considers semantically related keywords.

Pick these niche related keywords and run them though a number of tests in the “Keyword Variations” section, further determining their marketability and potential, depending on what project you are running this research for. As you understand, search engine optimizer and Adsense publisher puts different emphasis on the same keywords data.

P.S. If PPC advertising and PPC affiliate marketing is your main profit train, then in a couple of days I will have very exciting news for you and I do mean Very exciting.