How to Remove Page Links From WordPress Navigation Bar
I finally figured out how to remove page links from my WordPress blogs, and I even did it without using a Wp plugin. It only took a couple minutes and was really quite simple. If you’ve ever wanted a straightforward tutorial on how to remove a page link from the navigation bar, then this post should help you out.
For those of you who may not know already, I have zero coding and tech skills so I’ve never tried removing any of the page links from my nav bar before. But I just recently installed a Google Custom Search Engine on this blog and it required me to publish a blank page. Of course I didn’t want a link in the nav bar that went to a blank page so I had to figure out how to remove it.
Many WordPress themes are coded to automatically throw a link into the navigation bar as soon as you publish the page. However, sometimes you may want to create pages and not have the page link available or visible, like I did. This is how you can do it.
tip: You may want to save a copy of the original coding for your WP theme before you make any changes to it, just in case.
How to Remove Page Links from WordPress Navigation Bar
1. In your WordPress Dashboard, under appearance, click on editor.
2. Now look for the header, (header.php) and click on that. It should be on the right hand side.
3. You’re looking for a piece of coding that looks similar to the coding below. It should be almost exact and located near the bottom of the page.
4. Now you need to know what page or pages you want to exclude from showing up in the navigation bar and enter those into the coding. It’s not going to be the page title or what’s in the url. It should be a number. The easiest way to find the number for the page you want to remove is to go into edit page and you’ll see the number in the address bar: “?post=####” <<—– your page number.
5. This is the code you need to enter below: -the numbers will be replaced with your page numbers that you don’t want visible in the navigation.
6. Continuing from step 5, now enter that into the coding that you found in step 3, and hit save.
That’s it, you’re finished! Now you can create pages whenever you want to and remove the page links in the WordPress navigation anytime you want.
There are some WordPress plugins that you can install to do this too, “remove page link plugin wordpress“. It’s your choice, the plugin would probably make things much easier, especially if you plan on creating several pages in you blog that you want to remove the page link for. But it’s so simple to do it on your own that I didn’t even bother. The more plugins you have installed can decrease the speed and functionality of your WP theme so I only install the necessary plugins.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Feel free to leave a comment and please share this tutorial with others.
How to Transfer Blogger Blog to WordPress Easily
Some of the first blogs I ever created were on Blogger. This is a great place to create a blog, especially for beginners. I still like using them for certain type of sites, but not for my money makers. However, ever since I’ve had my own hosting, I wondered how to transfer my Blogger blogs to WordPress.org. I literally thought it would be to much trouble so I never even bothered before. It’s actually a really quick and simple process.
I’ll even show you how to transfer over from Blogger to WordPress, and keep your backlinks, pagerank and traffic. That’s if your Blogger blog is on it’s own domain name.
I make most of my sites now with WordPress.org. Why? It’s the best blogging platform to create highly professional sites or blogs quickly and easily. From their numerous plugins that allow you to add and change your site up without any coding. All the way to the endless choices of WP themes available. WordPress is just the way to go if you want full control over your blog and own all your content.
Just to be clear, WordPress.org is a self-hosted blogging platform. Meaning, you need to have hosting before you can install WordPress.org. I suggest you use Hostgator. They are leading provider for shared hosting and the best for WordPress blogs. Just about every tutorial I write is for Hostgator Hosting, since that’s what I use. But the steps below should be about the same even if you’re with a different hosting company.
How to Transfer from Blogger to WordPress:
1. Change the dns of your domain to your hosting
If you have your own domain name for your Blogger blog, then just follow all the steps below.
If you don’t have your Blogger blog on its own domain already, then skip these 2 steps. But you will lose pagerank, backlinks and traffic if you don’t put your Blogger blog on it’s own domain first while it’s still on Blogger. You probably want to put your Blogger blog on it’s own domain before you migrate to WordPress, give the search engines a few months to transfer everything over to your new domain, then follow the steps below. The regular Blogger domain looks like this, sitename.blogspot.com. And if you have your own domain name, then it would look like this, sitename.com.
If you purchased the domain name straight from the Blogger dashboard like the image above, then you domain registrar should be Enom. Whatever your domain registrar is log into your account like the image below and change the Name Servers of your hosting. You can usually find your namer servers for your hosting in the cpanel or in your email they sent you. Like for Hostgator, log into your cpanel and you’ll see a box on the bottom of the left sidebar with your 2 hostgator.namerservers.
2. Addon domain name
Now you need to go back into your hosting cpanel, click on the addon domains and add your domain name for your Blogger blog.
3. Install WordPress onto your domain
Install wordpress onto your domain name. Here’s a complete guide on how to install WordPress onto Hostgator.
4. Configure your permalinks
Now you need to configure your permalinks so you can keep your backlinks and your traffic. In your WP dashboard, under settings, click on permalinks and make your custom structure just like the image below.
5. Import Blogger blog to WordPress
Back in your WordPress dashboard, under tools, click on import and then select Blogger. Choose the blog you’re going to import and follow all the prompts to move your comments and posts over.
6. Correct the Permalink Structure
To make sure the permalinks (url’s) are exactly the same, since Blogger permalinks are a little different than WordPress, then you can install the blogger to wordpress redirection plugin.
Or, you can go to step 6 here, moving from blogger to wordpress and download their WP plugin instead.
7. Last steps
You are ready to work on the design and layout of your blog. You can install a new wordpress theme under appearance in your WP dashboard. And if you’re using Feedburner, make sure you update your primary feed so people from Blogger blog will be redirected properly.
Now it’s time to kick back, start writing, and enjoy WordPress to the fullest. There’s no better blogging platform out there, and you’ll probably wonder why you didn’t migrate your Blogger blogs to WordPress earlier. If you have any tips or suggestions about transferring over from Blogger to WordPress, then leave a comment.
Make Money Online Creating Mini Niche Sites with WordPress
Today I want to share with you a pretty basic way on how to make money online creating mini niche sites with wordpress.org. Some of my most profitable sites were created using these same exact methods. Checkout this article if you need more information about what WordPress is.
This is a great way for anyone new to internet or affiliate marketing to make their first dollar. After a little experience, you could easily produce a few of these mini niche sites per day and make quite a bit of extra money at home!
I like using WordPress for mini niche blogs because it’s a simple, yet effective way to make quick landing pages that look professional and they rank well in the search engines. If you’re already using WP to blog then why not make some extra money by spending a little time every week creating a mini niche site. Unless you’re already a successful blogger, these mini niche sites will probably end up bringing you more money than you’re blog does, easily.
Let’s get started…….
I’m not going into details or anything like that, I’m going to quickly go over the basic procedures. If you need some extra help, or don’t fully understand everything I’m talking about, then checkout some of my “popular posts” on the sidebar to the right or leave a comment.
1. Find a good affiliate product or service that pays out pretty well. I’ve found that clickbank products do quite well, but actually just about any good affiliate offer can work well too.
2. Look for a good domain name that’s relevant to your affiliate offer you chose. Also, choose a name that will help it to rank well in the serp’s.
3. After your domain has properly propagated over, install WP onto it. Should be as easy as a few clicks through your control panel. Depends on which hosting you have.
4. It’s time to find and install a relevant WordPress theme. I have a ton of premium themes but I also use the FREE Wp themes as well. Just depends on the affiliate product I am creating a niche site for. You may want to checkout this affiliate theme, which allows you to quickly and easily create just about any niche site using WP.
5. There are many different formats that you can use to make your niche site. I prefer the review style because it’s quick, simple and converts quite easily. Now there are two different types of review styles that are best. The “single review style” where you do a review and only write about the affiliate product you chose. Show the value of the product and the benefits for purchasing the product or service. Actually owning or purchasing the service or product first will make your review more believable and convert better, but not absolutely necessary.
Then there’s the “multiple comparison review style”. This is where you would choose usually 3 affiliate products that are all similar. Let’s say you are using a health niche, choose 3 products that help people lose weight. You do a little review and show the value of all three usually in a ordered list from #1 being the best product and the product you actually want them to purchase. All the way down to the #3, last product. This style allows your visitors to compare similar products and gives you a higher chance of making a sale. Trust me, it works!
Other than writing compelling content that presells your affiliate offer, it helps to add any relevant visuals. Like videos, images, background theme, header image and even banners from your affiliate product.
Another thing many affiliates like to add is a “optin-form” (giving your visitors something FREE if they sign-up like any relevant ebook or report will increase sign-ups) this will allow you to stay in contact with them and hopefully make a purchase with you later on.
6. Now it’s time to get traffic to your WP niche site that you just created. Here’s a plus for this type of site, you can get organic traffic to it via the search engines, bookmarking on social media sites, blog commenting and articles. Also, these type of “mini niche sites” can do well for Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising for certain keywords. Google Adwords is my favorite ppc program.
TIPS – the more value and insight you provide, the better. Also, don’t make your niche site look like a sales pitch. The more natural (meaning not just trying to make a sale thru your affiliate link) it looks to the reader, the better it will convert.
If you’re a internet or affiliate marketer already, you probably made dozens of these niche sites using WordPress. But for the new bloggers who use WP already, but never made a mini niche site, should definitely give this a try and you should be able to make some extra money on the side. I’ve found creating and marketing these type of sites can help sharpen your internet marketing skills, which you can also implement on your blogs.
What to Write About in a Blog – How to Create Killer Content
One of the first questions a new blogger asks is, what to write about in a blog? I had the same question when I was a beginner, and it’s actually one of the reasons that kept me from creating a blog in the first place. I want to share some ideas and tips on how to create killer content for your blog or website, that have helped me.
What knowledge do you possess and what can you leverage right now?
When you are first starting out, you should think of your skills, (writing it down would be even better) hobbies, passions, connections and knowledge that you already have that you can leverage for your blogs content. This will give you ideas on what you could or may want to write about for a blog. The more you know about something, will allow you to be more credible when you are writing your content about your chosen topic. This will allow you to look like an expert right off the bat, without having to do to much research first. However, choosing something you are interested in but don’t know to much about can work too. Maybe you have sources and connections that can teach you more about your topic and give you insight.
I just wanted to add, most successful bloggers online started off writing about something they have a passion for. It’s pretty easy to get burned out really quickly if you are just trying to make some quick money online. Blogging and making money from a blog can be a lot harder than it looks.
It doesn’t really matter if you can write or not. The more you practice (what better way than by writing in your own blog) and the more you read, the better you’ll become. I totally sucked when I first started blogging, just read some of my first posts on this blog. The more I blogged and read other blogs, I now actually produce some decent content.
Choose one niche or topic
If you don’t have experience as a blogger, then starting your blog off in one niche or topic would be best. Once you’ve narrowed it down to a small list of things you are either interested in or already have knowledge about, it’s time to choose one for your blog. Staying within one topic will help you to get visitors that are interested in the same things and then you can start building a community for your blog. Your blog should also show up in the search engines faster for keywords related to your niche.
Make sure it is a niche or topic that will give you plenty to write about and expand. For instance, this blog “mathewday.com” is about internet marketing and ways to make money online. There are a ton of things for me to write about, all the way to blogging to affiliate marketing.
Unless you purposely want to make a small targeted niche blog with maybe only a few pages for one specific thing. You could also create a personal blog, where it’s more like your journal of rants, opinions and thoughts.
Your first blog posts should include…
You need to remember you are writing for other people, not yourself. Create ORIGINAL and VALUE in your content that others would want to read and share. In your writing, make the person feel as though you are talking to them or like your telling a story. You want to affect your readers in some way through your writing, inspire, help, humor, teach, vent and share your personal experiences. Let them get to know the real you and your personality. Being creative and doing something totally different or in a different way, will get you attention and traffic. Think outside the box.
When you are first beginning your blog, you should begin by adding content that explains what your blog is about. Start adding structure to your blog, you need to build the foundation with Pillar Articles. This would include longer posts that outline your expertise or research for a specific topic. The content should be timeless, informational, factual, and attract other bloggers to link to you as a reference.
If you want to be successful with your blog, you need to take ownership and act as if you are an expert in your field. Do whatever it takes to get there, research, network, learn, experiment, until you have the confidence to become an authority figure in your niche. Now it’s time to put in the work….
Motivation is going to eventually be the #1 factor on whether you continue to add content to your blog regularly and whether you reach success with your blog. I found what works for me is to write down a list of achievable goals you want to reach and when you want to reach them by. Also, write down things that motivate you or why you do anything in Life. It could be for your family, yourself, God, your kids, just to be the best dam blogger in the entire world, or etc….
It also matters on the type of blog or niche you choose to write about. For instance, if it’s a humorous blog, then starting with funny posts right off the bat would be ok.
Ideas to Create Killer Content
- Write informational and helpful posts about your topic.
- a tutorial on how to do something
- a factual post about your niche, include references
- throw in some humorous posts once in awhile
- Start a little controversy by disagreeing with something a expert wrote about in your niche and sharing your view point on the matter.
- Case Study showing what you did, how you did it and what the results were.
- Add something personal about you, anything, it’s your birthday, your kids, latest event you went to, etc…..
- debunk a myth on your topic
- compiled list of several resources and references on just one thing pertaining to your niche
- a list of resources, explaining a little about each one
- list of helpful references and links
- list of helpful ideas, tips and tricks
- the latest buzz in your niche
- you can do a review on just about anything
- product or service review
- something you just learned
- sharing your expertise
- giving your opinion or looking at something at a different angle and sharing your thoughts
- look at your competition and see what they are writing about, good way to get ideas
- write posts for the beginners
- write posts for the experienced
- share your latest experiment or experience
- compile a post with links to your best articles
- write about your failures or what not to do
- a post that inspires your readers
- answer a question from one of your readers
- link baits – posts specifically made for getting backlinks to your blog
- do extensive research on just one particular thing and write about what you learned and found, include references
- write about your success and how you achieved it
- Allow others to Guest Post on your blog
- an interview with an expert or authority figure in your niche
- answer a question someone would be looking for
- do a collection of posts from other bloggers all on the same topic with small descriptions and links to them
- latest current events for your niche
- compare two or more things together and show their likenesses and differences
Don’t forget to add some video and images to your blog too.
Include Keywords and SEO
While writing your content for your blog, make sure you are implementing the correct on site SEO, adding keywords to your titles and throughout your content. Go here if you have no idea what I’m talking about, learn how to get traffic to your blog for FREE and about SEO.
How often should I write?
Just about everyone has a different opinion on this matter. However, I’ve learned that the search engines, like Google, will start to love and visit your blog more often if you post regularly and often. I don’t think posting daily is necessary but if you can keep up with it, then do it. I suggest adding a new post at least once every few days and then sticking to that routine.
I hope this article helps and gives you ideas on what to write about in a blog. What are some things or ideas that help you to create Killer content?
11 Ways to get Unlimited Amount of Free Traffic to Your sites
A common question, especially for new internet marketers and bloggers is, how to get web traffic to your website or blog for FREE? I decided to write a short post on the best ways that I get FREE traffic to my sites. Even though I also get a majority of my traffic from PPC with Google Adwords, it’s not really a recommended method for beginners trying to increase their traffic, so I only listed FREE methods that I and just about every other successful blogger or internet marketer uses too.
New: Complete Guide to Traffic
Killer Content – Yeah, this is pretty much a no brainer, I had to add it in here somewhere. I’ve learned from my experience that Content is really where everything begins. Without original, valuable, engaging and high quality content, then there’s really no reason to get traffic in the first place. No one is going to read it, suggest others to read it, or link to it as a source/reference. Great content even for a 500 word landing page (lp) is crucial because you need to pre-sell your visitors by engaging, connecting with them and that’s pretty much all done through your content. Killer content, just by itself can lead to a ton of targeted traffic to your websites from visitors letting others know about it.
SEO – Search engine optimization consists of several things. It basically means optimizing your website and content so people can find it on the Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. The search engines will probably eventually be your #1 source of FREE targeted traffic.
How do you get your website on the front page of the Search Engines?
- Keywords (KW) – are very important because this is how your website will show up on the front page of the search engines or search engine results pages (SERP’s). When you “Google something” the words or phrase you entered would be considered keywords or a “keyword phrase”. Now there are “keywords” and there are “Long Tail keywords” (consist of 3 or more words and creates a “keyword phrase”). Now long tail keywords will have less competition and will be much easier for a beginner to get on the front page of the search engines. “Long tailed Keywords” will bring in targeted traffic because they are searching for something in particular, not just using a broad keyword. A competitive KW like “Money” would be very hard to get on the front page of the serp’s, but a “long tail keyword” like “make money at home for beginners” has much less competition and would be so much more easier to land your site on the front page for that search term. You need to make sure you are adding the keyword or long tailed keywords throughout your content, but making it look natural and not forcing your KW’s all over. Adding no more than a 5% keyword ratio to regular words in your content, and make sure you use them in your titles.
- Backlinks – The more backlinks you get from other relevant and high PR websites will give your site more authority and credibility from the search engines. This will help move your site closer to the front of the serp’s. Include the keywords in your “anchor text” (words used in link) for your links pointing back to your sites, which will give your website more authority for those keywords, and help boost your site to the front page of Google for those KW’s.
Social Media – This is the Hottest method of getting traffic, currently. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon and etc… can bring a lot of traffic quickly and for FREE. The social media sites are so powerful and effective because people spread information virally. It takes just one person to visit your site or blog and they could start a chain reaction from telling their friends on social media sites. Make sure you get your best articles/sites bookmarked in some of the popular social media sites, and make it easy for your visitors to do the same with “bookmark buttons” and apps. Becoming a Authority figure, being helpful and interacting with as many people as you can, will greatly increase your fan base or follower count. Obviously the more loyal followers the better for your business.
Communities – Networking and engaging with other like minds is crucial for success online. This will also lead to targeted traffic from referrals and recommendations from others who know you. It will also give you connections and open opportunities that you may have never gotten before. There are so many different communities out there, just join some and get involved. Social media and networking sites are great places for you to join, blogging communities, forums etc… Some examples: squidoo, hubpages, blogcatalog, mybloglog and Linkedin.
Viral – Getting traffic virally is just smart and effective marketing. One of the best ways of doing this is by creating a Ebook or Report and giving it away for FREE. People will most likely tell others about it and it just keeps on spreading like a wild fire. Just make sure they clearly know who you are and what you’re main sites are in the ebook/report. This will also allow you to build a list quite easily with a high quality ebook.
Article Directories – Are great to get traffic and backlinks to your websites. Just write some relevant and beneficial articles with keywords in your anchor text for your links pointing back to your sites. Probably the most popular and powerful article directory is Ezine Article’s, but here’s a sweet list of dofollow article directories for ya to use.
Blog Commenting – Works like a charm, if done correctly. Make sure you are leaving helpful and beneficial comments on relevant blogs. Engage the blog owner with what you thought about the post or add relevant feedback about it. Not just “good post”. Become a regular to the blog and leave comments often and on as many blogs as you can find that are relevant. Some of the Blogs are Dofollow and you get PR juice from the backlink from them.
Forums – Not only can you learn a lot from a forum and network with others, but most of them allow you to leave a signature or a link to your websites at the bottom of every reply or thread you leave. Give helpful advice, ask good questions and people will click on your signature and checkout your sites. Here’s a sweet dofollow forums list.
Guest Posting – This method alone could put you and your website on the map. If you get approved to guest post on the right blog, and given the right audience, then you’ll be engaging readers that probably would’ve never found your site. Not only does guest blogging give you a ton of exposure, but also gives you some nice backlinks from a relevant site. Guest blogging is very popular right now. Usually the popular blogs will have a page or link about how to guest post on their blog. If they don’t, then it doesn’t hurt to send them a quick email and ask. Use high quality, original and valuable articles for a guest post, but at the same time make sure it compliments their blog. You want to use your best articles for guest blogging, especially if you get on a authoritative blog for your niche.
Press Releases – There are several good FREE press release sites. Here’s a whole list of them FREE Press Release distribution sites. Press Releases will allow the media to learn about your websites, product or services, quickly. Write in a more professional and informational format for your press release. Not in a review or sales page style.
Pinging - A pinging service like Ping-o-matic, which is FREE, let’s multiple search engines and services know that you just updated your blog or added new content. The popular sites like Technorati, Sphere and many others, will be pinged every time you update your content and people at these sites will be able to read your latest posts. This is automatically done if you use WordPress. It’s under writing in your WP dashboard.
Those are my top FREE methods for getting unlimited amount of targeted traffic to my websites and blogs. Please share any other methods or sources that I’ve left out that helps bring FREE targeted traffic to your sites.
How to Easily Create a WordPress Blog with Hostgator
Here’s a post on how to create a WordPress blog with hostgator hosting, easily. I wanted to show how simple and easy it really is to have your very own professional looking blog in a short amount of time. I had just setup another blog the other day, which only took me a few minutes, and I was thinking about how intimidated and confused I was when I first tried making my own blog. Most beginners don’t realize how simple and quick it really is to setup your very own blog or website using hostgator and wordpress.
Why Not use a FREE hosted blog?
Yes, there are several places to create a FREE hosted blog, but there are several disadvantages of not having your very own “self hosted blog” on your own domain name. With a FREE Hosted blog, you are sharing their hosting and domain name. That means they can have complete control over your blog, so making money from it will be tough, or not even allowed. You won’t have a control panel for you to have complete access over your sites or be able to see all your stats. It’s very unprofessional, it could get taken down at any moment, and many won’t take your website seriously. Make sure you consider these things if you are planning on creating a online business, or making real money from your blog down the road. A “FREE hosted blog” url will look like this, mathewday.blogger.com instead of www.mathewday.com.
Having your own “self hosted blog” means getting your own domain and hosting plan, which if you use the coupon code below, you can get started for only 1 cent today! There’s endless opportunities and reasons to have your own domain and hosting plan. You’ll be in full control, the owner, empowering, a wise investment, and there’s multiple ways for you to monetize your own sites and blogs.
The basic 3 things that you will need to create your own blog are, a domain name, hosting plan, and a blog platform. A domain name is the url like for my blog it’s mathewday.com. Hosting is where your blog is being stored at and allows the public to see it on the internet. Blogging platform will allow you to design, build and add content to your blog easily and quickly.
Why use WordPress (WP) the #1 blog platform?
WordPress is the simplest and fastest way for anyone to create professional looking blogs or websites with the least amount of effort. WordPress.org is for “self hosted blogs” only, which means you’ll need to get your own hosting and domain first. Don’t worry, I have listed the exact steps you need to take below, which is a very quick and simple process. WordPress is the #1 blogging platform used by newbies and the Top Professional Bloggers alike. You don’t need to know any coding, programming or be a designer to have a awesome looking blog. WP uses plugins, which allow you to add just about anything to your blog without messing with the coding. Changing your theme, design, or layout, can easily be done with point and click. Oh yeah, WordPress is 100% FREE, all you need is your own domain and hosting plan.
Why Hostgator (HG)?
Hostgator is the #1 hosting company with millions of domains being hosted. They’ve received numerous awards and is the most dependable company I’ve ever used. You can host unlimited websites on one hosting account. WordPress can be installed with just a few clicks using HG, and this is the hosting I use as well. I changed over to Host gator a few years ago when I started having problems with my old hosting company and I couldn’t ever get in touch with their customer service. Everyone was telling me to changeover to hostgator, especially for WP blogs. Their customer service is intelligent and the BEST I’ve ever dealt with. They have 24/7 live support, or you can contact them by email and phone. They make everything very easy for beginners with all their tutorials, forum and their easy to use Cpanel- it’s where you’ll be able to have full control over your websites or blogs. Very inexpensive pricing and features that can’t be beat. With prices starting at only $5 dollars a month, but I’ve got some coupon codes and discounts for you to use below.
Here are the basic steps below to Create your WordPress blog with hostgator
First off, if you don’t have your own hosting or want to transfer from your old host to HostGator then Click Here first and get a HG account. You’ll have to choose a domain name for your hosting account if this is your first one with them. Choose a domain name that either will be the name for your blog, brand name for your business or you can choose to just use your own name, like I did for this blog. One of my hosting accounts with HG is under this domain name “mathewday.com” but I have like 20 other domain names under this one hosting account. I suggest you get at least the Baby Plan which allows you to add unlimited websites or domains, plus all the other extras like, free transfers, FREE templates, site builder and much more. Choose whatever plan that best suits your needs.
I know of 2 Legit Hostgator discounts or coupon codes that still work currently. The first coupon code will be added automatically when you choose a plan and it takes off 20% from your entire hosting purchase. Choose a plan and look on the lower part of the site, see the code? You’ll only get the 20% off one time, so you might want to pay for more than 1 month. The other discount takes off $9.94 from your hosting plan purchase, enter coupon code mathewday1 at checkout, which will allow you to get hosting for your first month for only 1 cent.
Now, for those of you who just opened a new account with HG it’s going to take a little time for your domain name servers (dns) to propagate properly before you can see your site/blog online. Also, you’ll get a email with details on how to get into your Cpanel (control panel). This shouldn’t take to long and if you have any questions about it just talk to your HG support and they’ll let you know the status.
How to install WordPress on hostgator
Once you have access, log into your cpanel for your HG hosting, scroll down and click on the Fantistico De Luxe icon in the software/services section.
Now, once your in, look on the left hand side and you’ll see all the different scripts you can install onto your domain. Click the wordpress link, then click on the new installation link and now choose what domain name you want to install wordpress onto. Fill out “Admin access data”, this is what you’ll need to access your WP dashboard, so remember this name and password. Fill out the “Base configuration” with the name you want shown for your posts that you write, email address and your website’s domain name for your blog. Click install if everything looks correct and then enter a email for them to send this information so you’ll have it just in case you need it in the future. Now you’re done and just installed WP on your new domain.
After you’ve installed WordPress onto your domain name, enter the domain name into your address bar and checkout your new WordPress blog. Now look for the “Meta” section on the right sidebar and “login” to your WP blog. This is where you’ll be able to get into your WP dashboard and add content, change things around and change your theme/template with just a few clicks. Enter the admin nickname and password you previously created when you were installing wordpress onto this domain.
Once you are in your WP dashboard scroll down and look on the left for the section that says appearance. Now just click on “add new themes” and you’ll be able to find new themes or layouts and install them with a few clicks. Or go to this site for WordPress themes reviews to checkout some of the popular themes available.
How to install WordPress if you already have hostgator hosting, but added another domain
This is the same steps you would take if you already had hostgator hosting and just added a domain to your hosting account. If you purchase another domain name with hostgator, remember to first change the dns for the domain to your hostgator servers after purchasing, and do a addon domain in your cpanel. After you do those two things, then you can add wordpress onto it just like above.
Now all you need to do is add content, SEO, and work on getting traffic to your blog. I know you’ll be happy with hostgator hosting and with wordpress. Honestly I barely have made any money online with my FREE hosted blogs, but once I got my own domains and used wordpress, I’ve created a real online business and do this full time now. I hope my tutorial on how to create a wordpress blog with hostgator was helpful and not to hard to follow. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment, and please share this post with any others who it may help.
Video – Installing WordPress using Hostgator Hosting
I found this video that explains everything above pretty nicely and maybe a bit easier to follow. Hope it helps.
10 Proven Ways to Make Money Online – Beginner to Advanced
The 21st Century has opened the Doors Wide Open for entrepreneurs and marketers alike to make nice incomes from the comfort of their homes, online. But what about for the rest of the world who aren’t computer savvy?
With the widespread of internet users growing each year there never has been a better time to Earn Money Online and make money on the internet even without any Prior Training or Experience.
There are so many reasons why Making Money Online is becoming so ever popular from all walks of life. But mostly, it gives just about anyone a shot at becoming their own boss, making a nice side income, becoming a public figure, more free time, financial freedom or practically whatever you want to achieve from it.
If you have a little ambition, work ethic and imagination then you just may soon join the millions who already make money at home online.
I listed ten ways to make money on the computer by skill level 1 being the easiest and 10 the hardest
1. Online Surveys and Data Entry – This is probably one of the easiest and fastest ways to make some extra side income on the computer. Pretty much you’ll take surveys for companies, preview and try new products, shop, give opinions in focus groups and do data entry. Some people are making good money doing this but most just supplement their incomes with this method. CashCrate is (100% FREE to join) and quite easy to make money from, and here are two other similar places you may want to checkout as well Global Data Entry and Survey Scout, which charge a small amount for membership. All three companies provide you training, and all the resources you need to get started.
2. Writer – One thing all internet companies and marketers need is content. With the internet booming, makes it easy for writers (beginner – expert) to make easy money on the internet. Almost everyone with a established blog or website hires someone to help or write all their content.
Including; writing articles, press releases, content for their sites and etc…. You can also earn money online by writing for hubpages , eHow and squidoo. It’s really Simple, FREE, and Fun to do. All you do is write articles and get paid a small percentage from ads they put on them. If you were interested in freelance writing checkout these places Freelancewriting, digitalpoint and put up a ad or reply to one.
3. Google Adsense – Have you ever wondered what all those ads on some websites are or come from? You’ll usually see a “ads by Google” near them. You make money by placing these ads on your site or blog and when people click on them you will make a small amount for every click. All they need to do is click on them. NEVER click your own ads, you will be banned for life from Google. It’s really easy to start up.
If you are new to this then go here to pick a place to make a FREE website or blog and then join here Google Adsense, FREE to join as well, then just start writing about things you are interested in and correctly place the ads on your site. They should automatically match relevant ads to your content.
4. Social Media – This has grown immensely, just like the internet has in the past few years. It pretty much involves networking, helping/sharing info with others who are interested in the same thing. I will tell you right now, this method for making extra money at home will be more successful and more productive with experience, But there are many newbies in “social media marketing” SMM that are earning money daily.
If you don’t have experience then you should start off with Twitter. I believe it’s the easiest Social media platform to earn money online from. Getting twitter software like Tweet adder will greatly help you make money faster and grow an army of followers.
5. Affiliate Marketer – Market other people’s/companies products or services and make money for your successful efforts. This is one of my favorite ways to earn money online. I also do everything else on this list or have done in the past as well. All you need to do is signup and join a program. You will be given a unique url which will track all visitors and sales that come from your special link/url. Why is affiliate marketing so popular?
You don’t have to worry about anything except making sales thru your unique affiliate link. That’s about it. Everything else will be handled through the owner or a third party for transactions. Beware of joining some programs that don’t pay you after you make sales. It’s happened to me before and I was “steamed” but here’s a few of my favorite programs that are reliable, trustworthy and have a ton of products More Niche, Clickbank affiliate program, Paydotcom and CJ.
6. Selling your Services and Freelancing – Do you have any skills or knowledge you could share and make money on the internet from? This could include but not limited to SEO services, coaching, writing, selling/making websites or just about anything people need help with. Easy way to startup a little independent business on the side or Full Time Income. This is pretty easy to start. All you really need to do is checkout some freelance sites and reply or post your service. You could use sites like craigslist, sitepoint, elance or “digital point” like mentioned in #2.
7. Blogging – According to the Wall Street Journal 1.7 Million “Americans make money blogging” and more are added to that number daily. This isn’t just a Hobby anymore and the cool thing about it, especially for newbies, there’s many good programs that help you earn money blogging. This isn’t as easy as it looks. Trust me, but with proper knowledge, experience and diligence you’ll be able to become successful. Here are two legit fast track programs FREE Blog Profits Blueprint and Make Money Blogging that will guide you along the right path.
8. Ebay – I think just about everyone has bought or sold something with Ebay. This was one of the first ways for me to make some extra money online. It takes some experimenting and research but pretty much self explanatory for getting started but making good profit will take some effort and having Good Products to sell. You can sell just about anything on ebay. My two tips would be, use good keywords for your ad, especially in the title and find good wholesale companies to find popular products. Here’s my favorite site to Find Hot Ebay Wholesale Products to make more money with Ebay.
9. Start your own Business/E-commerce site – since the boom of the internet, starting your own business online or having your own E-commerce site has given many people an opportunity to live the dream. You can pretty much have any kind of online business or E-commerce website. Many people start their own Ebook, SEO, graphic design businesses all the way to stay at home moms who own their online stores that sell t-shirts and crafts. With little overhead, a virtual store open 24/7 and entire world as your store front this is a great way to make money online. Here’s a great program SiteSell to help you create a successful internet business, all in one.
10. Internet Marketer – Pretty much combines all or any of the ways of marketing and making money on the internet. This field is highly competitive, always changing environment and very challenging. But not impossible, I know of Kids who Make More Money than their own parents ever dreamed of making and Grandparents who Make Money on auto-pilot Comfortably in their Homes. The risks can be great but the rewards may be far greater.
They now have actual college degrees you can get for internet marketing and there’s online programs that train and coach you but come with hefty price tags. You could also do what millions have done before and that is learn on their own from trial and error but most will give up within a few months from frustration or run out of money just from experimenting.
You could find an inexpensive fast track program that guarantee you results but most are full of B.S. and really don’t teach you much but here’s one of the few Internet Marketing Fast Track Programs that works and may just be right for you.
I hope you got some new ideas and insight about the ways you could earn money online. Just make sure you don’t try to take on to much at one time or it’s very easy to get overwhelmed. If you have the will and determination and know that this is what you want to do, then you should find success. The skills and knowledge will come later along your journey. I’m living proof of that. Do you have any other suggestions or ideas to Make money on the internet?
How to Make Money with clickbank Affiliate Program (Part 2 of 2)
You should have now already joined “Click Bank”, gotten familiar with their website and tools, picked out 1 or a couple products in their marketplace and today will be the day you’ll learn how to Make Extra Money at Home with Clickbank Affiliate Program (Part 2 of 2) . I hope you are excited and ready to Make Money on the Internet with CB and for some of you, today will be the day you start your very own Website and Business.
Missed Part One? …..Go Here—->> Make Money on the Internet with ClickBank Affiliate Program Part 1
Now you need to make a website or landing page for your products that you chose. This will have information or reviews about your clickbank products using your unique affiliate links. This will ultimately direct the visitor to the actual cb product where they will be able to purchase the product.
For this tutorial, you will learn to Make a landing page – simple, usually one page website that will presell your CB products. It’s the first page people see when they find your website. They are quick and simple to make, but one of the most effective methods to make extra money at home with click bank affiliate program.
One of the ways you can see your competition once you choose a Clickbank offer is to just Google the name of the CB offer you chose and ad review at the end of it. This will also give you ideas on how to create a click bank landing page.
I wouldn’t ever copy another website or especially the content. Search engines especially Google, doesn’t like duplicate content. Original content that you wrote is always best and plus, usually all the sites will have copyright protection.
Tips on making your website:
As you saw there’s basically two popular ways to make your landing page that work well.
- One product review – You do a review or informational site on just one product.
- Multiple product review – Usually best with 3 different items but all in the same niche. Example: niche – make solar panels, then make a landin page with 3 different Click bank choices that teach how to make solar panels. Rate each product as best to worse like some of the example’s listed for you above.
- Your CB product should have affiliates resources for you to use like banners, links graphics and etc… it will usually look something like this found at the end of the description found in the marketplace: “www.yourCBproduct.com/affiliatesignup.html”
How to make a Effective landing page for your clickbank products:
Now there’s a few ways of doing this for free or with a little money. The thing about using these FREE Website Platforms below is that they own your site so you won’t have the same freedom as to having your own website. Meaning, you are using their hosting and they control your sites. I don’t mean they will go in and change your actual website but they can ban or close it if they don’t think it’s appropriate.
They control what is and isn’t allowed. For instance, like squidoo doesn’t allow many of the clickbank products and they will close your site or ban you from their service. Example of a banned site: http://www.squidoo.com/maverick-money-makers Squidoo and Hubpages are the most strict. The others listed below are more lenient. It’s so much easier to appear on the front pages of Google in the search engine results pages (serps) if you have your own domain and host anyways.
How to pick out Keywords
You need to spend some time picking your key-words or phrases, they will make you or break you. Go here to learn more about Keywords (exact words people enter in search engine) are very important and you will need to find and use the right ones. If you don’t, you’ll never make it on the front page of Google organically or without paying money. Only choose keywords with less than “75,000″ results with quotes around your key words. The lower the number the better until you are more experienced.
Put quotes around the keyword or phrase like this “your key-words” into google search engine. This will allow you to see your competition for those exact words. Take the Quotes off and redo it. A lot more results come up, right. Without them, you will get results for every site with similar words.
After you found a few good keywords or phrases (Make sure you use the best words in the title’s) now you will need to scatter these words you chose throughout your LP or site. A good ratio is 6% key words to regular words in your content. Also, put your main words in the beginning of your first paragraph.
How to Pick a Good Domain Name
Picking out a Good Domain name once you choose a website platform for your landing page. If you had looked at the example’s I showed you above then you probably noticed that all their domain names had the “Click bank product name” somewhere in it.
Example: “www.your-cb-product-reviews.com” If you put the name of your CB product in your domain then it will be easier to get on the first page of Google, so think about a good name before you make your final decision. Another alternative is to pick a name that will go with your niche or market.
Make a FREE website or blog below
I have listed the best places to make a Free website or blog. In order from the most powerful to the least. You gotta remember to pick a good domain name but if you are serious about making money on the internet then you should get your own hosting and domain.
For Serious Entrepreneurs and Internet Marketers Only!
Now if you are actually SERIOUS about Making Extra Money at Home and are looking to do this potentially as a Full Time Job or want to make the Most Sales Possible from Affiliate Programs like Clickbank then you need to have your own Domain Name and Hosting.
You will have 100% Full Control over your websites or home business. You don’t have to worry about being banned or what you write about. It’s not nearly as complicated as you may think.
You don’t have to be a Webmaster or know a lick of html. When I got my first hosting and my very own website, I didn’t know squat about html or making a website. With hostgator, it has been very easy to make websites and blogs with little or no html or website knowledge. Also, the older your domain is the more valuable it will be in the future. Earlier you start the faster you can become successful with a Legit Internet Business and you’ll be able to make extra money at home sooner than you thought.
It is also one step closer to becoming a successful internet marketer, to be successful in this field you gotta be All In 100% or it’s going to be a frustrating journey for you. You will eventually need to get your own hosting and domain so you can start branding yourself and company anyways. This will allow you to make multiple websites, landpages or even be able to start a blog, like this one.
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Resources that will help you make more money at home with clickbank
- Build a Successful Online Business
- Ultimate Website Builder
- cb-analiytics.com
- Easy html tutorials
- digitalpointforums
- Buy Professional images
- Ezine articles
- Free images
Landing Page Format and Key things to Have on it:
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Title –
Make sure you use Most Important Keywords here, eye catching and Gets attention
Introduction
Brief description of your site, what’s it about etc….use good keywords near the beginning and make it build up to your main points. This is where people will either stay on your site or leave and not come back.
Main Body
Make it Informational and detailed. This is where you will write about your product, service, solution to a problem and etc… Make sure you presell and show the benefits of what your product can do for them. Use pictures, graphics, charts and videos here also. Don’t forget about keywords. Also, Create a Sense of Urgency to “make them take action”
Closing
Brief summary of what you talked about and closing comments on your product. Add some keywords here also.
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You need to write articles about your Click Bank products leading them to your landing page. Make sure you use Ezines listed for you in the resources above. They are the most powerful and make sure you use keywords from your LP on your articles, especially in the title. Put a link back to your website at the bottom of your ezine article. Use Key-words for your link as well.
If you need to see examples just go to ezines and look at some articles. Now the more articles and backlinks to your web site, the better and more powerful it will be. Go here for Plenty of Resources and learn How to Get Backlinks to Your Site
For those of you who need more help with “How to Make an Effective Landing Page”, I will be writing a post very soon just on this subject. But experiment with and try out what I have written in the two posts “How to Make Money with Clickbank Affiliate Program”
Those of you who read and reread both of these posts, used the resources and my advice, then you are on your way to Make Extra Money at Home whenever you want to. Better yet, you now may have the opportunity to quit your day job or go part time in the near future and live the Dot Com Lifestyle.
Good Luck!
