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Contents Introduction 1
Step 1 – Research Like A Boss 4
Does the niche have a large enough target audience? 6
Trending topics and niches 7
Keyword Research 8
Step 2 – Set Up In Style 20
The Domain Dillema 20
Phrase Match 20
Branding 20
Domain Criteria 21
Domain Registrars 22
HOST WITH THE MOST 27
Front Page 35
Name 35
PLUGINS & THEMES 36
Choosing a WordPress Theme 36
Finding Free and Cheap Themes 36
Customizing your Theme 38
IP Diversity 39
Optimal Adsense Ad Placement 40
Step 3 – Create Killer Content 41
Know Your Readers 41
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To Write or not to Write? 44
Writing your Own Articles 45
Take it off my Hands! I’m Outsourcing it 45
Forget Science Class – This Density Makes you Money 47
How Much Content is Enough Content? 49
How often do I post content? 50
ON-PAGE OPTIMIZATION 52
Step 4 – Take Your Traffic 54
Get Site Indexed 54
Submit RSS Feed 56
Submit Press Release 57
Guest Blogging 59
Video Marketing Campaign 61
Step 5 – Reap Profits, Rinse & Repeat 64
EXTRA MONEY GENERATOR #1 - FACEBOOK 65
Short-term Traffic Boost Via Facebook 65
Facebook Ads 66
Text 69
EXTRA MONEY GENERATOR #2 - FLIPPING 79
SUPPORT 82
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Introduction
Your everyday internet marketers have said it… The gurus have said it… Your mom may have even said it…
…Google Adsense is DEAD!
I have one word for all these people WRONG!
Adsense is dead to the people who completely screwed up the system
a few years back when they had one page sites, spammed them with crappy backlinks, and provided zero user experience
This completely forced Google to rethink their entire process and
change their algorithm I’m sure you’ve heard a thing or two about Panda and Penguin and you probably also have a few choice words for them as well!
I know it’s difficult, but think of these updates as a saving grace
“Why the hell would I do that, Ryan?”
Because the competition has been literally knocked off the face of the earth Those difficult niches a few years back to rank for are now wide open and anyone’s game
Think of it like this The housing market crashed from late 2008 up until recently It was then a buyer’s market Houses that were selling for $500,000 in 2007 are now selling for half that
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When you apply this to building Adsense sites, you are now able to go and claim that real estate How’s that for an analogy?
Here is the super simple 5-step process that is going to get your sites ranked in the top of Google
Step 1 – Research Like A Boss
Step 2 – Set Up In Style
Step 3 – Create Killer Content
Step 4 – Take Your Traffic
Step 5 – Reap Profits, Rinse & Repeat
Come on, tell me that doesn’t look like a piece of cake!
I do need a few things from you They aren’t difficult but it’ll make or break your success with this course
1 Read through the entire course I know, you may be a bit
impatient and want to jump around a little bit Don’t! If you want to skip the part about installing WordPress, that’s one
thing But don’t skip anything other than the technical stuff
because things have drastically changed in the past few years
2 Implement it Imperfect action is better than no action at all
If you don’t try, you don’t succeed
It’s the same when people say “I never win the lottery” and they don’t even play the damn thing! If you don’t implement what you learn, it is going to be tough to make money I am sure I don’t have to worry about that with you though!
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3 Ask questions I am here for you If it is some technical
question about your hosting or something, use the killer research tool called Google But if it is something Adsense related, submit
a support ticket at http://ryanmartin.zendesk.com and you’ll get
a response within 24 hours
See, that wasn’t so difficult, was it?
The only thing that I can’t stress enough is that you need to go out and give it a shot If Jerry Rice would’ve told himself “I just want to
be a decent player” then he would’ve just been a decent player
Instead he told himself “I want to be the best wide receiver of all
time” Guess which one happened?
It’s the power of positive thinking I want you to be optimistic and go out there and take charge with building your new Adsense authority
sites Now, keep reading and go kick some ass!
Times are changing and as long as you build your site around user
experience, you’ll be fine
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Step 1 – Research Like A Boss
There are two types of research we’ll cover… Niche research and
keyword research Let’s start off with niche research
This is the easiest step there is, but I am aware that sometimes people can have a hard time with it
The top priority you want to keep in the back of your mind when doing niche research is that you want to choose an
evergreen niche
An evergreen niche is a niche that has staying power and won’t likely be going away or having any major shifts in the foreseeable future
Let’s take a look at an example of what is NOT an evergreen niche: What if I built an entire site around the keyword Madden 2013? We may actually do pretty well from around September 2013 to early
February 2014 What about after that?
It’s going to take a hard hit in interest, traffic, clicks, and your profit They are going to plummet faster than Lindsay Lohan after jail time
Now, let’s take a look at an evergreen niche:
The baby niche is a great evergreen niche For lack of better
explanation, people are going to continue to have children In fact, we’ve recently seen some of the highest birth rates in the US since the baby boomers from 1946-1964
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Let’s go through a quick checklist to see if this niche has good
potential:
Is this an evergreen niche or at least a niche that will make us a lot of money?*
Will this niche have good topics that I can write about?
Does the niche have a large enough target audience?
Is it viable to build a website around this niche?
*If I have the opportunity to make a lot of money on a
non-evergreen niche, I’ll typically take it If you have the chance to make a lot of money in a short period of time then it’s often times worth the risk
You should be able to answer yes to all four of these questions before you proceed and choose your niche Let’s take a look in more detail why these questions are
important We already covered evergreen niches so we’ll skip that one
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If I was targeting the medical niche, I would look at what types of articles I can write or have outsourced
There are thousands, so we’ll just stick with some popular ones:
Heart Health
Fitness
Skin Conditions
Medical Symptoms
I could go on for hours picking article topics in the health and medical
niches because there are TONS You should be able to do the same
thing with the niche you choose
Does the niche have a large enough target audience?
Having a large enough target audience is just as important as having good topics to write articles on Having a small target audience can literally stop you in your tracks This means little visitors and,
consequently, little to no revenue
Before you choose a niche, you should sit down and plan out who your target audience is Let’s continue with the baby niche
Let’s use an example for the keyword “Atrial Fibrillation Medications” Who are likely to be my target audience? These are the broad criteria:
Men
Married
Ages 55-70
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Why do this?
I like to get a feel for the people who will be visiting my sites If I narrow down my niche so much that I only get a handful of visitors each month, none of the other steps in this course will matter because
I won’t have the opportunity to make much money
You want to use your gut instinct of if you will have
Trending topics and niches
I recommend both evergreen niches and trending topics Sometimes they can overlap and you can actually have a trending topic that’s
inside of an evergreen niche Even better!
What exactly are trending topics you ask?
These are topics that are hot in the Google searches, the news, on Facebook, etc It’s essentially what people are talking about You can find current trends at Google Trends My only issue is that they only show one trend per day, so it’s a little difficult sometimes to find good trending topics to build an Adsense authority site around
Here are a few more good sites for trending topics:
TrendingTopics.org
Fox News
Trends Map
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Why should I choose trending topics?
Great question! There are actually quite a few benefits of choosing trending topics, and I’ll cover the most important ones:
1 People are talking about it so you know there is traffic to be
Imagine keyword research as the foundation of your house Let’s say you use a less expensive material that is prone to cracking What’s going to happen? You built everything else well and then it all came crashing down
In other words, keyword research is what our entire site is built upon, and you want it to stand strong… Not come crashing down!
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As you’ve probably heard, Google has gone away from the AdWords keyword tool and have moved to the keyword planner The keyword tool is still available at the moment, so I’ll go over both tools
Here is my opinion on the keyword tools, and you can choose which one you want to use (while the AdWords keyword tool is still active)
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
This is the old keyword tool that
we all know and love You type in your keyword and it gives you the competition, search volume, and cost-per-click (CPC) for your keyword and related keywords as
This will give you a similar one-word keyword and then related
keywords based off that I am sure that sounds a bit confusing, so let’s take a look at an example
I typed in the keyword Atrial Fibrillation Treatment One of the ad group ideas is Ablation This shows me 71 new keywords – all with the word ablation in it
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This is pretty useful if you want to find quite a few ideas for keywords
to write articles on
Click here to visit the Google Keyword tool **Please note this tool may no longer be available If it is still available and automatically takes you to the Keyword Planner and you want to return, simply click
“Go Back” in the yellow box at the top
I highly recommend signing up for a free account so you do not have any limitations
1 The first thing we do when searching is to make sure that
“Exact” is selected under “match type” This gives you the
number of results for the exact match of your keyword and no other combinations of it Also, under “Advanced Options and Filters” select your country and language Lastly, select the
checkbox that says “Only show ideas closely related to my
search term”
2 Enter your search term in the “Word or Phrase” box and hit
search i.e “Atrial Fibrillation Symptoms” If any of the columns
do not show up, like CPC for example, select “columns” and
check the box next to that particular criterion
3 For your criteria, you need to look at the Local Monthly Searches and not the Global Monthly Searches This will give you a more
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accurate representation of the keyword potential Refer to the above table if you forget the criteria you are looking for
This is great to get a quick look at search volume of a keyword
However, the CPC is a little bit of a misleading number In fact, it’s completely misleading The CPC that shows in the results is for the search network and not the content network like we will be targeting The search network is when you see ads on the search page of Google, and advertisers pay more for these spots The content network, on the other hand, contains ad spots on web pages like ours, and
advertisers spend less on these ads
Type in one or more keywords
Lastly click search
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On the left menu, click on “Contextual Targeting Tool” Type in your same search parameters and you will get a CPC that is a little more realistic This CPC is what we will use as a basis for our
determinations
Because this shows us the content network CPC instead of the search network CPC, we can be assured that we are a bit closer to the actual CPC I compared the CPC that the contextual tool shows to the CPC I
am actually receiving from Adsense and it is pretty close to 68%
The Results
This is what you’ll see when you search for a term in the Google
Keyword Tool:
Competition:
This is a little bit misleading The higher the competition the better!
This is the competition level for AdWords (the people who bid on
search terms) When this is higher, it means more people are bidding
on the keyword and you have a better chance of getting more traffic
Global Monthly Searches:
This is pretty self-explanatory but it is the monthly searches globally
If you don’t have a country selected, this will be the same as your
local monthly searches
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Local Monthly Searches:
These are the amount of monthly searches for the country you
selected For example, I selected the United States, so these are the amount of monthly searches in the US
Google Keyword Planner
Here is a look at the all-new Google Keyword Planner It is pretty
similar to the Ad Groups portion of the Keyword Tool we looked at a second ago
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Click on “Search for keyword and ad group ideas” and this is what you’ll see:
You don’t need to include a landing page or product category Simply put your keyword in the “Your product or service” search box and it will bring up the results
It will default to the tab of Ad Group Ideas, but if you click Keyword Ideas at the top, it will be similar to the old keyword tool
If you are seeing certain words in the keywords you don’t like, simply add that term in the Negative keywords under Targeting and it will not show any keywords with that word
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What do I do with all this information?
Great question! So we have the information we need before we
proceed, but we need to know the criteria for moving to the next step
Searches
These criteria are probably a bit different from what you’ve seen
before, and they are also different from anything I’ve ever taught!
Why the change?
You have probably seen a million times that your keyword should have
a CPC of $1.00 or more and local monthly searches of 1,000 or more This worked great a few years back, but isn’t necessary these days These criteria I just mentioned were back when people were building micro-niche sites with 5 or 6 pages You wanted to have the main keyword your site was targeting to have a lot of searches and a decent CPC
You also wanted your main keyword to match your domain (exact match domain) and you would rank higher Any secondary keywords
on my site would likely rank lower than the same keywords on
someone else’s site if it was their main keyword and they had an EMD
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Because Things Change
Domain authority has become more prevalent in the recent past This means that your site isn’t only ranked for content and on-page
optimization but also the authority of your domain in Google’s eyes For example, if I have a 100 page authority site with high domain authority, and another site is just created and we posted the same quality article on each site – the 100 page authority site will rank
higher every time
Now days, you can have secondary articles on your site that rank well for keywords It no longer matters if you have an EMD and it’s
actually something I no longer recommend We’ll talk more about domains in a bit
We Need More Research
Please note that these criteria are only for us to be able to move onto the next step and doesn’t mean that we should actually pick these keywords They may be good, but we need to delve in a little deeper
to be able to tell for sure
If you haven’t yet, please install SEO Quake:
(http://www.seoquake.com) Type in a search term into Google: For Example, “Lose 10 Pounds”
Let’s get this over with quickly: I want you to forget everything you’ve heard about the number of competing websites It is completely
irrelevant to our search process We care about the top 10 spots on
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Google Our goal is to be on page one for our selected search term, so
why should we worry about competing sites 10,000 spots back?
So, let’s keep focus on a manageable number of competition: 10 Our
goal is to beat out however many competing sites there are and land
on page one of Google for our search term
Pictured above, with my fancy artwork, is what I believe to be the five
most important criteria to assess competition Let’s take a look at all
five of these in more detail
Title: The most important thing to look for in the title is if your
exact search term shows up in the title If you take a look at the
first result in Google, it says “Lose 10 Pounds…” Websites rank
better if they have the exact keyword match in the title
Now, take a look at the third result It is “Lost 10 Pounds…”
Although the title has a fairly close match, it is still not the exact
Title URL
Description
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match Always make sure that the title for each one of your web pages has the exact match of the keyword you are targeting
URL: Although this is becoming less of a valid screening item, I still believe there is some merit to using it In the past, the root domain with the exact keyword match would rank better than if the root domain was different from the keyword i.e
http://www.lose10pounds.com would rank better for the keyword
“lose 10 pounds” than
http://www.weightloss.com/lose10pounds.com
Google’s recent changes have been leaning towards domain
authority – meaning a page can still rank well for a keyword even
if it is not well optimized if the domain has credibility I believe there is little difference at this point in comparing a root domain with a keyword match compared to domain authority without the match, and we constantly see both ranking well in Google
Meta-Description: This is one of the most overlooked items when screening for competition and even optimizing our own websites This is similar to the title in that you want to look for the exact match of the keyword in the description
Notice that none of the top three results have the exact keyword match of “Lose 10 Pounds” This, in conjunction with other
metrics passing, would be a good sign
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Pagerank: This is what Google ranks individual web pages (not websites) based off their credibility The higher the rank (from 0
to 10) means typically the harder it will be to rank against this particular page (all other things being equal)
I typically look for a Page Rank of 3 or below Some keyword research tools like SE Cockpit use a different metric: Moz Rank This is what SEO Moz uses for ranking web pages and domains Many people believe that Moz Rank is better than Page Rank
because Moz Rank measures to the tenth instead of a whole
number and also will rank the domain authority
Inbound Links: This is the last of the screening criteria and it measures how many individual links all over the internet are
pointing back to this particular web page If you click on this on the SEO Quake toolbar, it will take you to where you can see the individual links I always look to see if the links are relevant
first For example, if http://www.dogtraining.com points to
http://www.skydiving.com, it is not a relevant backlink
The number of backlinks has little meaning now – as Google’s
algorithm takes more into account the relevancy of each individual link I look for numbers below 50 and, if any higher, with non-relevant
backlinks
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Step 2 – Set Up In Style
The Domain Dillema
Choosing a Domain Name is the next step to dominating the Adsense world There are a couple choices you have when choosing a domain names… Phrase Match vs Branding Exact match domains are a thing
of the past and you want to stay away from them
Phrase Match
A phrase match domain is one that contains the entire keyword but the keyword doesn’t make up the entire domain An example for our keyword of Atrial Fibrillation Symptoms would be a domain of
http://CommonAtrialFibrillationSymptoms.com
The only potential issue with this domain is that it is a bit long
Sometimes this is unavoidable, especially with medical type websites Longer keywords can still rank well in Google, but if it is bugging you then check out the other domain method below
A well branded site I noticed in the heart niche was
http://www.AFibbers.com The site is pretty hideous as far as the
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theme goes, but the branding is good and it’s a name I’ve
remembered throughout the entire keyword research process This means that other people would likely remember it as well and visit it more often
You really want to come up with a name that is memorable It’s better
if the domain is directly related to the subject and keywords of your site so people are associating the brand with your keywords
In other words, you don’t want a domain like AFibbers.com to be a site about unicorns Just use common sense with it and you’ll get the hang
of it very quickly
Domain Criteria
I only recommend using com, net, or org domain names Forget the hype of any of the other domains like info, mobi, or biz Although they are generally less expensive, they also will not perform as well as the top three studs in that category
There are some other criteria that I try to abide by when picking a domain name These are:
Do not use more than one hyphen (-) in your domain name
Preferably, I try not to use any but this isn’t always possible if you have your eyes set on a particular domain
Use 3 words maximum in your domain name If it’s a com
domain, you can squeeze a fourth word in there but I would go above that unless your competition is very weak
Don’t just go out and buy a domain off a whim Make sure you have researched it enough to know it is what you truly want
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Think of it like a boyfriend or girlfriend before you marry them and do your research!
Domain Registrars
A domain registrar is an online company that you can purchase
domain names from The first thing you want to do is search for the domain name to see if it is available If it is, you can typically snag a domain for around 10 bucks or less
I recommend only two registrars – GoDaddy and Namecheap I like both and have used each of them depending on the deal I can get on domains I’ll let you in on a little secret I use to choose which
registrar I go through and then I’ll give more details on both:
Go to FatWallet.com This is a deals site and has coupons for thousands of different business – one being GoDaddy
If there are any good deals that make the domains cheap, then
by all means purchase the domain from GoDaddy
If the domain prices from GoDaddy with your coupon code are
comparable to NameCheap’s prices, then go with NameCheap Why?
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I’ll explain here:
The great thing about GoDaddy is that you’ll likely find better deals than NameCheap If you check the site I told you on the previous page, you can score killer deals on domains As of writing this, they have com domains for $2.59 each!
You don’t find deals like that very often A few months ago, I even
purchased a domain for $1.59 What a score! Normally the price is
$9.95, so you can see why I get so excited about this Quite often there is percentage off coupons as well If you are purchasing bulk domains, this can help ease your expenses
At this point you are probably wondering why in the heck I would recommend two
different domain registrars, right?
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I recommend NameCheap when the price is comparable to GoDaddy’s Price Why? It’s simple – because NameCheap offers free Whois Guard for a full year with a purchase of a domain
This service is so anyone can’t pull up your domain in the whois
database and know exactly who owns it, your address, your email, etc
It helps protect you from scammers and spammers who are out to
take your money GoDaddy does not offer this service free and it runs you something like $6.99 per year per domain
Purchasing Your Domain
Purchasing the domain through either registrar is a simple process
GoDaddy – visit GoDaddy.com
Insert your domain here and click search
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After this, all you have to do is add your personal information along with your billing information and you are all set to go That was
almost too easy, wasn’t it?
Click Add
Continue to Registration
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NameCheap – visit NameCheap.com
Registering a domain at NameCheap is just as easy as doing the same
at GoDaddy This is one of the easiest steps in this whole process of building an Adsense authority site
Insert your Domain and click Search
Click Add to Cart and then Register
it Done!
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HOST WITH THE MOST
Just like with domain registrars, I also prefer two different hosting providers These providers are HostGator and HostNine For different reasons, one can be better than the other Let’s take a look at these in
a little more detail:
Hostgator is my “go to” hosting company I’ve been using them for many years now and haven’t had a problem I currently have a VPS (Virtual Private Server) with them and love it
About 8 months back I strayed from Hostgator to test another VPS through WiredTree I kept my Hostgator account, but moved all my sites over to WiredTree The price was less expensive and the stats were actually better on the server I rented The main problem I ran into was that the sites ran slower and videos loaded painfully slow
I ended up doing a test where I used a default installation of
WordPress on both accounts and hosted the same video The
Hostgator video loaded in around 3 seconds compared to 37 seconds
on the WiredTree VPS Unacceptable!
After this small snafu of leaving my one true love, I quickly switched all my sites back to Hostgator
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Hostnine is also a terrific hosting company Their pricing structure is almost identical to Hostgator Whether to go with Hostgator or Hostnine heavily depends on what type of hosting account you are looking for
If you are looking for shared hosting, VPS, or
a dedicated server, I highly recommend Hostgator However, if you are looking for reseller hosting, Hostnine is the way to go
Hostnine offers something most hosting companies don’t – area
specific hosting For example, if you are selling or giving away reseller hosting to someone in the UK, you an specifically choose the individual reseller account to be in the UK
Why is this good? I thought you’d never ask! If we use the scenario above and someone from the UK tries to visit a website hosted here,
they will have faster load times Why? Because they are loading a site
hosted in the UK while also living in the UK
With the same scenario except using a different hosting company, the person visiting the site would have to visit the site hosted in a
completely different country This will drastically increase load times of websites which, if you didn’t know, is part of Google’s algorithm for ranking websites
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DOMAIN & HOSTING INTEGRATION
Now that you have a domain and a hosting account, it’s time to
integrate them Your domain name and hosting account have to work together or people won’t be able to get to your site If they don’t get
to your site, you don’t earn any money
GoDaddy
Log into your GoDaddy.com Account
Hover your mouse over “All Products” and again over “Domains” and click on “Domain Management”
Next, you are going to need to log into your hosting Cpanel and get your nameservers Cpanel is typically accessed (if you are using
shared hosting) at www.yourwebsite.com/cpanel You should’ve
received a username and password when you signed up for the hosting account Check your email for this information
Once logged in, scroll down and look towards the left side of the
screen until you see “Name Servers” There will be two and they’ll be
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something like ns1.hostgator.com and ns2.hostgator.com (the
numbers and domain will change depending on many factors like
which host you are using)
Copy these name servers and paste them into the GoDaddy screen below Make sure you have “I have specific nameservers for my
domains” selected or this will not work properly If you forgot how to get to this screen, scroll to the previous page and you’ll see it there
It typically takes 48-72 hours for the name servers to propogate, so be patient It typically happens within 2-4 hours but things can be odd at times I’ve had it where I can see one of my sites but a friend ½ mile from my house can’t After 24 more hours, it worked fine
NameCheap
Setting name servers using NameCheap is pretty similar to using
GoDaddy Let’s run through it really quick:
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Next, you need to select the domain name(s) that you’d like to change the name servers on
Now all you have to do is enter your nameservers into the field just like you would’ve with GoDaddy (see 2 pages back)
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INSTALLING WORDPRESS
Installing WordPress, like setting up your domain name and hosting, is one of the easiest steps in this entire process Even if you aren’t
technologically inclined, it’s still a pretty simple process
First, you are going to need to log into your Cpanel I explained how to
do this in the hosting section Next, see if you have Fantastico De Luxe available under the “Software/Services” section If not, your
hosting company should add it for only $1 or $2 per month
Click Here
Then Here
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Click New Installation
Enter Admin Nickname, email, site name and Description
Choose your domain to install WordPress on
These will be your login information that you use to access WordPress
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Logging into WordPress
All you have to do to log into WordPress is visit admin Next, just enter the username and password that you created when you set up WordPress, and you are set to go
www.yoursite.com/wp-Customizing your Settings
Permalinks are how each page shows as a link after your root URL
For example, a page titled “Atrial Fibrillation Symptoms” on a website
of www.AFibbers.com would typically show up as
www.AFibbers.com/atrial-fibrillation-symptoms However, this is not the default permalinks setting for WordPress, so we need to change it When logged into WordPress as an admin, click on “Settings” on the left navigation bar Next, click “Permalinks” In the box next to
Custom Structure, enter /%postname%/ It should look like this:
Select “Save Changes” at the bottom and we are done customizing permalinks
If you fail to do this, it will show up as something like
www.AFibbers.com/pageid=1249 Which one looks better to you?
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Front Page
Depending on how you set up your site, you may choose to either
have your recent posts on the front page or have a static page It is entirely up to you which option you choose We typically use the front page for our most
recent posts If that is
the case, then you want
to go into your
WordPress settings and
change your front page
to recent posts Simply select “Settings” from the left navigational menu and select “Reading” Select the box that says “Your Recent Posts” On the other hand, you can choose which page you want to display on the front page (i.e http://www.lose10pounds.com) by
selecting “A Static Page (Select below)” and then choosing the page
Name
You also want to change your username to a random name and
change your name to your actual name or a pen name so when you create a post people will not see something like “Admin”
To change the name that appears when you make a new post, simply click “Users” inside WordPress and then you can edit your name by filling in the “Nickname” box
Changing your username is beneficial in case of a brute force attack where someone is trying to gain access to your site It makes it nearly
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impossible for a brute force to be successful if they don’t know the username or password
PLUGINS & THEMES
Choosing a WordPress Theme
Wordpress is almost like that ’69 Camaro and Wordpress themes are like that slick looking paint job You don’t really want to drive around
a completely rusted out and nasty ’69 Camaro, do you? There are hundreds of thousands of custom Wordpress themes out there – some free, some not Here are some themes that we have used and never plan to use any others unless someone comes up with something even more amazing
Finding Free and Cheap Themes
My favorite place for inexpensive WordPress themes is
www.themeforest.net They have thousands of Wordpress themes that start at $1 You can find some pretty good ones here for a few bucks
If you don’t want to spend any money, we would recommend
searching the Warrior Forum or even searching Google for free
Wordpress themes There are tons out there They will mostly have limited capabilities but free is free! You can simply visit
www.wordpress.org and find yourself a bunch of free themes, there are more than 10,000 themes available for free