I spent most of the day working on my second tumblr site and getting my team to give it a review. I’m in Google now but my phrases are not ranking as hoped. One phrase is at 121st position and the other is at 84th position. The team did help with social networking but it appears I might not be able to get Google to rank me higher. At least I’m in Google?

Today’s teaching told us to use Social Poster and to write an article for ezinearticles.com. Ed put up a video showing how surprised and happy he is with the results so far. Some people are getting sales already and I’m happy for them.

For me, the biggest lesson learned in the 30 Day Challenge is that you need to take advantage of the web 2.0 social networks. The tagging, digging, and submitting you do will directly affect your ranking. The second lesson: you need a team of people to help you out. Yeah, sure, you can create 5000 fake names but it’s way too much work.

My advice: get on a team NOW. It’s the only real help you’ll get. If your team has a bunch of flakes that won’t post or help out, find another team.

Today the proverbial rubber hit the road. All the work with phrases and mini-article writing will be put to work on a tumblr social site. Before today, I’d never heard of tumblr and honestly, I was a bit miffed. I even posted on the forums asking the “why” behind using something like tumblr.

In my mind, I was already thinking “keyword empire” and I didn’t see how using something as trivial as tumblr was going to further my cause. After reading some of the responses and giving it more thought, I’m more comfortable about it. I’m thinking that if anything comes from the tumblr pages, I’ll just move in with something substantial on my own domain and blog site.

In the back of my mind, I think that if you applied the same tactics to your own domain/blog, you’ll get the same rankings.

I spent a good chunk of time setting up two tumblr sites. I would post them but I don’t want Google to index my blog back to those sites. Following the instructions, I set them up with the keywords in the site name, title, and in a post. For one site I’m affiliate linking to Amazon and the other I’m using Clickbank.

After getting stuff set-up, I let the challenge team members know about it and hope to get some web 2.0 assistance. My first site made it into Google within six hours. Not bad. I’m not seeing any organic traffic yet, so the jury is still out. I’ll be monitoring things closely and give updates in later posts.

The challenge is at the midpoint and we’ve covered important ground to date. Today’s training discussed good sites and why they help us rank well in Google. The key is to use such good sites to our advantage in the low competition keyword phrase market. Good web 2.0 sites allow the user to write content, create tags, and will happily link back to our site.

The best thing to come of the 30 day challenge to date is the team component and making friends. Today was a good example where one of our team members in the challenge pushed the button early due to current events that he wanted to exploit. He posted a quick note on facebook and I was able to help him out with getting some web 2.0 loving.

Having teams and expanding that base through facebook will be a HUGE help moving forward. Regardless of the amount of personal success in the challenge, if you can make good friends and keep them after the 30 days, you’ve gained tremendously.