Welcome to Day #2 of your 10 day Niche Blog Challenge.

Hope you had enough time to finish your Day #1 tasks.
It’s the toughest - and now that you’re past the biggest
hurdle, things will get easier… and more fun!

Today, you’ll start developing your authority site
network - by tapping into the power of social bookmarking.

Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about ‘Tag and Ping’. Perhaps
what was being debated on forums convinced you it’s all
a lot of bull.

Well, maybe it is - and then again, maybe not!

I spent TEN DAYS putting various elements of the process
into place to build my own authority site network to help
promote my various websites over the months to come. And
I strongly recommend it as a strategic decision.

Best of all, it will only take you a few minutes, so there’s
very little to lose. Are you ready? Let’s get cracking!

For the first stage of this project, you will create accounts
in 3 different social bookmarking sites. These are:

DELICIOUS - http://del.icio.us

FURL - http://www.furl.net

BLINK LIST - http://www.blinklist.com

On each of the 3 services, you must first create a new
account (Tip: Use a valid email address, as you will
need to confirm your account by responding to a message
they will send you)

Done? Great. Now, here’s what you’ll do next…

Into each of the 3 services, you will enter these links
as your ‘bookmarks’:

1. Your own blog link from Blogger.com
http://______ . blogspot.com

2. Links to 20 other participants in the challenge from this
directory - “10 Day Blog Challenge Directory”

(on this page, look for YOUR link. Then, add ALL the other
19 links in YOUR group to the bookmarks in your account)

3. Links to the Children Heart Foundation and CHD Awareness
website:

http://www.CHDinfo.com

and

http://www.EzineMarketingCenter.com/blog/

Step by step, this is what you’ll do…

For DEL.ICIO.US, once you are logged in, click on the POST
link. In the form field for URL, type in the first website
link.

Click SAVE.

On the next page, fill in the rest of the form. For the
‘DESCRIPTION’, you can use the title of the webpage.

You can leave the field named NOTES empty.

In the box labelled TAGS, copy and paste the keyword phrase
for the site you are linking (on the directory page, this is
the same text that is the title).

Click on SAVE - your entry will be saved.

Repeat this for all the links (URLs) in your group.

Special Note: For the Children Heart Foundation link, please
use the following details:

= = =

URL:
http://www.CHDinfo.com

DESCRIPTION:

Congenital Heart Defects Awareness

(or)

Help Save a Child With Heart Birth Defects

TAGS:

Congenital heart disease, heart birth defects, Dr.Mani

= = =

Finished? Great. Now, go to the next service (FURL) and
repeat the same steps.

Then do it one last time on BlinkList.com

Why should you bother doing this?

Because you’re tapping into the power of LEVERAGE!

Wazzat?

Look, you are spending time and effort to put links to
around 25 sites in your social bookmarks.

Sure, it’s hard work. But look at the upside.

20 OTHERS are putting links to YOUR site into THEIR
social bookmarking accounts over the same time!

This means, instead of your site showing up just on the
one del.icio.us or Jots or BlinkList account, it will
be visible on TWENTY of them!

You helped another participant by placing their links in
your account - and received far greater value, in fact a
multiple of 20 times, by helping someone else.

If you ‘get’ the deeper philosophical principle involved
in this mutual assistance, you’ll gain ever greater
benefits from everything you do online!

By the way, that’s all for today’s task. Hope it was
simpler than Day #1.

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.