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Welcome to Day #1 of your 10 day Niche Blog Challenge.

Today, you’ll take the first step - and create your blog.

Step #1 - Pick a niche

This can be anything you like or know or feel will work.
There are many different ways to choose a profitable
niche, but I won’t get into details here.

You can find some valuable material about picking a
niche on the ‘Niche Marketing Forum’ here

Once you’ve chosen a niche to use in the 10 day challenge,
do some basic keyword research to find the top keyword
phrase in your chosen niche.

A useful tool for this is ‘Niche Bot‘

Take note of the top 5 to 10 keywords or phrases in your
niche, ranked by popularity of search and degree of
competitiveness. For more details, check out the forum
mentioned above.

Step #2 - Set up your blog

I strongly recommend you use Blogger.com for this 10
day project - but if you insist on using another blog
software, I can’t stop you

Why Blogger.com?

Many reasons. But most important is because I’m going
to give you a ready-made Adsense template for Blogger
that has brought me a high clickthrough rate on Adsense
ads in the past.

(NOTE: Adsense revises the ‘Terms and Conditions’ often.
Please check with them and see if the proposed template
fits their criteria and is in accordance with the rules.

While every attempt is made to ensure that the template
I give you is compliant with the rules at the present
time, I DO NOT ACCEPT responsibility in case anything
you do with your blog leads to a problem with Google’s
ToS and any consequences to your Adsense account.)

By using that same template on your blog, you too can
enjoy the fruits of all my testing and tweaking.

Also, the pre-done template includes links to other
sections of the project - and if you create your own
template, you’ll have to make sure all these are also
duplicated on your blog too.

How to set up your Blogger.com blog?

First, go to http://www.Blogger.com

If this is your first time there, take a few minutes to
and do the QUICK TOUR. It will give you a nice overview.

Then, register for an account and set up your blog.

You’ll have to choose a blog title and your preferred
blog address. Try and get your primary keyword in both.

Choose the ‘Minima’ template, the first one on the top left.

Then make your first post - just a short test message
will do.

Step #3 - Register Your Niche Blog

We require that you REGISTER your newly created niche
blog so that you may enjoy all the search engine
benefits that come from the linking and promoting
strategy I will be implementing ‘behind the scenes’
for this project.

Once you are registered, your blog will be added to
the directory of sites participating in this ‘challenge’
- and be featured on a page which will get links from
many high traffic and high PR sites.

To register your niche blog, please click here

In the form, type in your Blogger.com blog URL (typically
http://______ . blogspot.com ), your primary keyword, and
a short 30 to 50 word description of your blog.

Click on the SUBMIT button below, and then, on the next
page, CLICK ON THE BUTTON to complete your registration.
This last step is important - please don’t miss it!

Step #4 - Get your Google Adsense account

If you already have a Google Adsense account, you may
use it (maybe set up a ‘channel’ specifically for this
project to track progress)

If you are new to Google Adsense, you’ll see a short
tutorial about it within your Blogger.com account. Go
through it to understand the basics.

You can even apply for an account right from there, and
since Blogger.com is owned by Google, you’ll almost
instantly be approved - and get your code to insert
into your blog.

Step #5 - Customize Your Blog Template

In earlier versions of this program, I gave members a
copy-and-paste code for the blog template.

However, Blogger has now changed structure, so this is
no longer possible.

On the positive side, it is now easy to customize your
blog template from within Blogger.com itself. Here’s
how to get your optimized blog template:

- From your Blogger dashboard, click on the TEMPLATE
tab

- You will reach the page to ‘Add and Arrange Page
Elements’

- Click on any one of the links labelled “ADD A PAGE
ELEMENT”

- From the pop-up window, select ADSENSE (click the
ADD TO BLOG button)

- In the new window that shows up, you can customize
the Adsense block for best results. You can try your
own combinations. I have used this:

a. Format: 250 x 250 Square
b. Colors: Title: #999999 and URL #5588aa
(leave the others at default setting)

- Click on SAVE CHANGES

- Then, CLICK AND DRAG the block you just customized
and DROP IT in the main blog post panel, above the
section labelled BLOG POSTS

- Repeat this process ONE MORE TIME - so that you
have TWO 250 x 250 Square Adsense blocks in the
main blog content panel, ABOVE the blog post content.

- You may add a third Adsense block to the SIDEBAR,
at the top (I like to make this a 160 x 600 Vertical
Wide Banner)

ONE LAST THING:

To help spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness
through your 10 Day Blog Profit Challenge blog, you
need to do one last thing.

Once again, click on the ADD A PAGE ELEMENT link.

In the pop-up window, select HTML/JAVASCRIPT and
click the ADD TO BLOG button below it

On the next screen, type this into the TITLE box:

“Help Spread Congenital Heart Defects Awareness”

Then, in the bigger box below, copy and paste this
code ‘as is’:

This is how the finished template will look:

That’s all, you’re done. Click the PREVIEW button
to see that everything looks ok, and then click on
the SAVE button.

Now, when you view your blog, you should see the changes
you just made reflected on your blog. You should have
Adsense ads showing up, and a HELP SPREAD CHD AWARENESS
button on the right side of your blog.

If everything looks ok, GREAT. If there’s a problem, like
your Adsense ads not displaying correctly, PLEASE WAIT.
It sometimes takes a few hours for the ads to show up.

If things still don’t look good after a while, you can
either repeat the process to make sure you haven’t made
any mistakes, or post a note on the blog to seek help.

Step #6 - Add a Stats Counter

To help track how well your blog is performing, here’s
where you can get a web page counter without paying for
it… Statcounter.com

Install it on your blog, so you can see how your visitor
count grows over time.

That’s all for today. Sorry if it took a little longer
than an hour, the other steps won’t be as difficult

Take a well deserved break today - and we’ll meet again
tomorrow for the next step.

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.