… I bumbped into the 30DC (Thirty Day Challenge) these days and watched pretty much all the videos. I won't completely level it as it has some common sense parts good for beginners but it also has a lot of problems. And they don't practice what they preach.
The 30 Day Challenge is a thirty day bootcamp for SEO beginners aimed to make their first 10 bucks online. Obviously it's all about A Product, Wordpress and Social Link Building so, a bad start for beginners. I'll disect a bit what I've seen in the videos I had the heart to watch.
During all the videos they have for download you will find some predominant marks:
The course is free but they want your emails. Expect to receive the spam, products' pushing and hype you everyday … from them also.
These guyz are Australians and live with cangoroos in their back yard. And their English is entertaining for the least. One of them recommends himself as Guru Bob.
If you said:
You can do keyword research with your browser but I will use this tool as it makes life so much easier!… it's ok. But saying it like you virtually can't do keyword research without that tool: that's obvious product pushing. Sometimes, less explicit pushing works better. The tool is not that bad but it's so slow. They mentioned it does something my tool does in less then 45 seconds … in 10 minutes. Wtf? I don't wanna grow old in front of the computer.
This is not something to teach beginners if you aim for ranking and not getting indexed. Social bookmarking gets you indexed, but won't rank you in even the least competitive markets. You'll get the initial ranking bump and then you're in for the hard times. I'd go for other lessons for beginners. Old school link building. Aiming for pages with less then 250 links on them where you can actually get some PR flow: Link Building 0.1.
But Link Building 0.1 takes a bit more time for beginners.
After I analyzed their linking patterns I realized they comment spam. And not manual but automatic stupid comments. This is what you teach beginners? Or is it the 'do anything to rank' and lie about how you ranked method? You tell me!
Look at this fucking queer. This video, with this almost epileptic individual with yellow teeth and obsessive compulsive disorder having a live stroke repulsed me so much it made me wanna punch something. If someone acted like that in my face … I'd shut him down, violently. And YouTube comments call it funny. Wtf is funny about that? Is this today's humour? x|
His face still haunts me in my sleep.
It's quite an interesting watch in how not to make such a tutorial but has some common sense tips made for pure beginners. This video tutorial will show you what product pushing really means and how gurus(BOB) take advantage of noobs on their way to success.
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