A dozen people so far have taken up my One Page A Day challenge, which is just great! The challenge officially starts tomorrow, which is why this post is labeled “Day 0″. At this point all the challengers should be thinking about (and even writing) the content they’ll post and where they’ll post it. I already have some ideas (and no, my “OPAD Day XX” posts won’t count for my contributions) and am looking forward to getting them out.

Don’t forget that each day I’ll be posting an “OPAD Day XX” post on this blog. Challengers should leave a comment in each of these posts (except today’s) with a link back to the content they create for that day. You don’t have to do it immediately, as I know it sometimes takes time to get things approved if you’ve decided to (say) submit an article to EzineArticles. As long as you have a comment in each of the February OPAD posts by March 10, you’ll be OK. Remember, if you finish the challenge you get a prize!

Tailor your links for maximum SEO effectiveness. Don’t just say “I posted some content at http://dkfjdkf.com/blah/whatever”, create a topical, keyword-based link with an <a> tag, as in:

My content today is an article titled <a href=”http://yoursite.com/how-to-prevent-farting”>How to Prevent Farting</a>.

This gives your link added oomph.

Good luck!

P.S.: Last day to buy PLRSiteBuilder at $67, tomorrow the price goes up…

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AdSense publishers live and die by their content. I’ve been a bit delinquent myself lately over not creating enough new content for my sites, so I thought I’d challenge myself.

For the month of February, my challenge is to create at least one page of new content each day. And to give the challenge some teeth, I’ll document the results here. I’d also like to open up the “One Page A Day” challenge to you, my readers, by offering prizes to those who take up the gauntlet.

OPAD Rules

The rules for the One Page A Day (OPAD) challenge are simple: you must create one page of new content for each day in February. Since 2008 is a leap year, that’s 29 pages of content.

A “page of content” is defined as at least 200 words of new content: a web page, a blog post, an article, or even a comment. If you use PLR content, you have to substantially rewrite it, otherwise it’s not much of a challenge.

To entice you to participate in this challenge along with me, I’m offering a free copy of Uncommon AdSense to everyone who successfully completes the challenge. One of the winners will also win a copy of PLRSiteBuilder. There are additional restrictions to win a prize, however:

• You have to register with me by leaving a comment on this blog entry. You have until February 8 to register, since I realize not everyone reads this blog on a daily basis.
• You must create at least 29 pages of new content throughout the month, even if you register late. In theory, you could do it all on February 29th, but I wouldn’t recommend it. I’d prefer to see content done one a steady, daily (or nearly so) basis.
• Each page of content you create must be public so that I (and others) can verify that you’re actually creating content. (If it’s an article, you’ll need to post a link to it after it’s been submitted to a directory and approved by the directory, which may take a few days.)
• Each day in February I will post an “OPAD Day XX” post on this blog. You must add a comment to each of these posts linking to one of your new pages of content.
• If you succeed in creating the appropriate pieces of content, send me an email by March 10. I will verify that you created content for each day of the challenge and linked to it from the appropriate posts.

Please note that I reserve the right to remove links and/or comments that are spam and/or that violate AdSense policies and/or are otherwise questionable. All decisions in this challenge are mine alone. This challenge is null and void where prohibited by law. Winners will be announced on March 15.

I realize this is a lot of work, which is why I’m giving prizes to everyone who finishes. There’s an additional benefit, however: links from my blog do not use “nofollow”, so you’ll get a PR boost for any links you submit here. I’m hoping all of this makes it worth your while. Plus you’ll have all that great new content to attract visitors!

I have no idea if anyone will take me up on this challenge, but I’ll be doing it myself. Start thinking about your content now!

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Per popular demand (and I’ll need it myself eventually), I’ve updated the SEO Siloing WordPress plugin to handle the new category structure in WordPress 2.3 and up (the taxonomy). The plugin now works in all 2.x versions of WordPress. Download version 1.2 of the plugin and simply copy over the existing seosiloing.php file in your plugins folder. (You should deactivate the existing plugin first, of course, copy the new one up, and then re-activate it.)

You can see the new plugin in action here on an older WordPress. Well, you can’t really tell the difference, can you? OK, try this page, which is running on WP 2.3.1.

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Eric Giguere is the author of several printed books and knows a thing or two about content monetization. Subscribe to his AdSense blog today and never miss any of his insightful comments. And the not-so-insightful ones, for that matter.