Yesterday I Digged (Dugged?) my blog page. I'd Digged/Dugg a few sites before, but I'd say I am rather new to Digg overall - I hadn't used it much or looked at it much before the 30 Day Challenge. Shortly after I dig/dugged my site I saw a spike in my traffic - in fact it quadrupled my traffic yesterday. Wow. Now I was excited.

Ok. So maybe I got a little overzealous, maybe I should have researched it a little more - but come on I just quadrupled traffic by a single Digg. It was like walking a kid into Toys R Us and handing him a hundred bucks. I went through and Digged and Dugged different pages on my site, as well as my other sites. If 1 Digg had that kind of effect - imagine the traffic I was going to get now - I started planning the upgrade for my hosting account to handle the massive amounts of traffic I was going to be swimming in.

This is a screenshot of what Digg looks like after you get banned:




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I'm a procrastinator. If there were a Procrastinators Anonymous, you'd hear me in the front row, "Hi, my name is Patrick..." So I was reading one of the many excellent blogs that I've found because of the 30 Day Challenge, and Income Hero was talking about Increasing StumbleUpon Traffic. Cool, I'd like to do that. Here's something that caught my attention:

So the strategy that Jimmy suggested me to use, is really simple — as
soon as you get Stumble account stumble as much as you can. If you see
a site that you like at least just bit rate it “Thumbs up!” and write a
short review of it. Make sure that you rate at least 60-80 pages that interest you.

Ok, let's try that. 3 hours later I think I may have Stumbled Upon virtual gold. Some of the sites I came across were simply incredible. Here's a gem. Or how about this artist turning movies into prints. What? You just have to see them. I looked at these user submitted transparent screens for a while and thought about doing my own until I forgot about it because I stumbled upon this how to guide. I mean really, doesn't that answer a lot of questions you've had?

I finally stopped after I spent 45 minutes on Pandora. I mean seriously - I think that might be replacing iTunes for awhile.

So now - it's about 2 and a half hours until the start of day two, and I still haven't done my homework for the 30 Day Challenge to generate a niche list. Luckily for me I had my google notebook open so I could take notes while I stumbled...let's see what we've got.


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In the spirit of the 30 Day Challenge, I've decided to run my own challenge here.

The 30 Minute Challenge

The Goal: To go from making $0 dollars online to $3 dollars in 30 minutes.

What's it cost? Nothing silly. Duh. It would suck to have to invest $5 dollars to make $3. That leaves you with negative 2.

What do I need? Well, 30 minutes, oh...and a keyboard. And a PayPal account if you want to be paid.


The Process

1. Sign up at Associated Content.

No. It doesn't cost you anything. By signing up you are just basically registering as a Content Producer (Writer). You can view the Associated Content FAQ. Basically - AC pays you to write and article for them. They're able to do this because they publish your article and make money from the advertisements with the article. Here's an example of one of my articles: Free Vegas: Sin City on a Budget. That's actually my first article I wrote and I made $7 bucks for it. So why $3 only? Because that's the lowest payment I've received for an article. I average about $4.75 per article.


2. Submit an Article.

Write about something you know a lot about. Something you are passionate about. Maybe a hobby or something you enjoy doing. You can write about anything - but think of it like building niche sites on the web - the narrower the better. This is because AC is basically building a library of information, so if you write about something that they don't have a lot of, you'll receive a higher offer than for something they have a lot of content on. Or. Or, try to put a unique spin on something. Perhaps you have a how to guide for something. Really, you can write about anything. If you need some more ideas, browse around the site and get a feel for what's on there.

I spend about 20 minutes writing an article. Do what's comfortable for you. Longer if you need it, or shorter if you think can whip it out quickly. Just remember, you're going to make a few bucks on this, but don't spend 6 hours trying to write an article - because you might be trying to hard. Remember, this should be an easy process - I'm thinking 30 minutes max. A quick exercise in quality article production in a timely manner.

3. Leave a comment here that you're taking part in the challenge and I'll list the participants with links at the end of this post.

After you write the article it takes AC 2 to 4 days to review it and come back at you with an offer. You can accept or not if you think you can get more someplace else. My thoughts are take the money - AC pays more than most places available like this. A day after you accept the offer, the money will show up in your PayPal Account. It's that easy. In the meantime, leave a link here in the comments that you're taking part - I'd like to link to all the articles written once they're published (they do have a page view bonus on how many times your article is read which means you could potentially make a lot more than the initial 3 - 7 dollars).

Oh yeah - and after you submit your article, don't publish it anywhere else like your blog - because AC does search to make sure it's original content and not taken from someplace else. After it is published you can post it on your blog or wherever (just submit it as non-exlusive, that's what I do).

4. Good Luck!

And if you have any questions about Associated Content please leave a comment and I'll answer as best I can.







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