Not the format or community, the content sucks is less than perfect.

I thought the thirty day challenge was going to be a review of the fundamentals of making money online. You know, here’s how to get content online, how to use affiliate ads, how to know what visitor stats matter, here’s x amount of ways to monetize a page, best way to build relationships in a niche, best practices for keeping good in google, etc.etc.

I was very wrong.

After 10 days they have people chasing their tails around in circles trying to come up with magic formulas of how google trends results look compared to number of search results (for instance).

If there is any leverage to be found by finding inefficiencies between the number of perceived searches (google trends) and the competition (google total results) this has long ago been exploited by script kiddies and the like.

This has so little to nothing to do with “market research” or making money online in my opinion (and I’m sure many others).

But some people actually make $10 with these techniques?

Well, if you let 5,000 people loose on the internet to make money I’m sure some will do it by accident, however this isn’t indicative of a great training program.

I would wager that instead of having people look at random equations of searches/search results for days on end that by simply having people write 3 articles per day on a topic they are interested in for 30 days you would have more success stories.

My simple equation mixed with some good fundamentals on link building and relationship building would result in each member having a website with 90 unique pages at the end of the month and a favorable standing in their niche community. I say this simple exercise would have a greater result than the hocus pocus of using goofy equations.

Lighten up Dude!

The girlfriend said I should just keep quiet about finding the teachings lame (keep the peace) but I didn’t think that would be fair to the people who read this blog for the challenge updates or the folks on my 30dc team. Presumably you do so for my opinion.

So things are very light, just keeping it real ;-)

And…

I don’t regret promoting the challenge, (my blog points out the happening stuff in this neck of the woods, and the challenge was pretty happenin), and I’m only saying the training content is lame.

Many of the people have been amazing and I’ve met many great contacts through the challenge.

But, I think the training of magic search equations and “parasite seo” (which is what it’s called when you use another site to rank your affiliate content) is certainly not the least bit useful for anybody that wants to make money online for more than 30 days.

Nothing personal to the trainers either, they both seem like nice guys, I just don’t like the content of the training.

If my updates on the challenge cease you know why.

(ps, if you want to learn real fundamentals of earning money online I highly recommend this blog by problogger who is also doing a challenge this month)