Create Your Own Website

Can you create a website from scratch?

David C — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:20:23 +0000

Can you create a website from scratch Of course you can I did it but it took a long time to acquire the knowledge to do it when you’re a newbie.
Trying to find information on the internet that will give you honest step by step information on how to make a website is hard, it’s out there but you have to do a lot of digging you get a little bit here a little bit their before someone tries to sale you something, now don’t get me wrong I have bought countless products online and was glad to give the money but the people that get my money offer me something of value.
Now I know people will tell you the money is in the list and it’s very important blah blah blah, it is important but it’s only a part of what you need for success online. There are three things you will need after you have created your site.
The first and most important thing is traffic in fact I think it’s more important than your website, but it’s a bit like the chicken and the egg which comes first, but without a website you will not need traffic, and without traffic you have no website you’re just another page on the search engines.
The second thing you will need is back links high quality back links, and what you will find is someone selling software to get thousands of back links in five minutes what they fail to tell the newcomer is that it’s spam, and everyone hates spam, more money down the drain you can get back links but it takes a little effort on your side.
The third thing required content unique content Google, Yahoo, Bing, all search engines love original content, better for seo.
Ok all that out of the way if I started again and knew then what I know now what would I do different.
I would choose my niche very carefully.

I would try to get a domain name that encapsulated exactly the terms people are putting in to their browsers by checking keywords, much easier to try and get ranked when you have they exact term in your domain name and title tags.

You will need hosting check in forums for the best ones I prefer Bluehost or Hostgator the help is fantastic when you’re just starting out.

Create your site to best suit the needs of the people searching in that niche; put 8 to 10 articles on your site for content. I would also go to Google analytics sign up for a free account place my code on my site and track its progress.

You should Ping your site, so the search engines index it and also every time you post another article.

At this stage you have everything in place, your niche picked domain name acquired, hosting purchased tracking in place, now you need a little traffic people will tell you do this do that try Adwords, try Seo, try Social Bookmarking, try Social Media, their all fine ways of getting a little traffic and when you master it a lot of traffic but when you’re starting out BUY SOME TRAFFIC! it helps get you noticed by the search engines.

At this stage I would start creating back links high quality back links and for those of you that don’t know what a backlink is, it’s your domain name on another website. It’s that simple.

Now the only thing you have to do is repeat the steps put content on your site ping it get more traffic and more back links, and watch your site rise inching it’s way to the no 1 spot.

Creating Your First Website From Scratch

David C — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:08:46 +0000

Creating your first website can be difficult when you’re just starting out.

So to make it easier, I wrote this book to show people a step by step process, in which to build

your very own website from scratch, by using all free tools.

The only thing that you will have to pay for is a Domain Name, and Hosting.

So if you like what you see in the preview below, and would like the rest of the book, just click on the link at the bottom of this post and pick up your Free Copy Now!

Introduction.

When I started as an Internet Newbie, I found there was a lack of texts that actually instructed me how to start my own website from scratch. Sure there were texts, and sites about starting a website, but most of them left so much of the necessary information out, it made it very difficult for the genuine internet newbie to get started. So I came up with an idea, what if I wrote an E-Book, which Instructed the Internet Newbie exactly how to get started from scratch. A book that gave illustrated step by step instructions, so that other newbie’s wouldn’t have to find out the long and hard way. A set of instructions, which enables even the most basic Internet User to Get Their Very Own Web Site Online Today! So here it is, follow the steps and you will have your first website on line in just hours, for little or no costs. Enjoy, and I hope you find the book helpful and the best of luck in the future, To Your Internet Marketing Success!!

David Carey

Section 1. Gathering All the Tools Required For Your Website.

I would like to get started, so I ‘am going to list out what you will need all of which, or most of which are free so we are off to a great start.

Domain Name

The first thing you will need is a domain name. It’s wise to take a moment at this stage to consider what name will best suit what business or niche you want to enter.

If you pick your own name like I did www.davidcareyonline.com you could enter any business you like. However if you would like to niche it down, let’s say you are into dog training, you could try www.trainingtipsfordogs.com for an example. What ever you decide you will need to buy your domain to get started.

There are lots of domain registrars, and it does not matter where in the world that business is based. I recommend www.hostgator.com or www.bluehost.com , particularly Blue Host as they have an on-line chat facility. What this means is if you get stuck or have any problems, you just type your problem into the online chat area, and help is there in an instant. Take a good look at the different companies, and what they are offering and what you can afford to get started, but try not to get stuck on the technical side of it just yet.

Web Hosting.

After you have picked a domain name, you will need web hosting. Every single website needs hosting, the price of web hosting varies from company to company but it’s normally between 6 and 15 $ per month.

This is a crucial part in creating a website as it will host your domain name / website name and park it until such time as you need to launch your website to the World Wide Web.

Sometimes domain registrars will offer you web hosting. You do not have to get web hosting where you purchase your domain, but as a rule it is much easier to keep track of everything. As I said I always recommend www.bluehost.com as the help if required, is second to none.

NB*Make sure that you put your hosting details in a safe place, as you will need them when we get to the FTP part of the book.

Web Editors

There are thousands of different web editors. This is the piece of software, which we will be using to design our site. Some of the most popular are Dreamweaver or FrontPage, it can be quite expensive when you’re only starting out, and so for the purpose of this Book I will be downloading Kompozer.

So go to kompozer.net and download kompozer. When you enter the site you will see this.

Click on the download, this will appear press ok.

1. Click ok then extract all files.

The next thing you will see is this.

Just click extract. This will happen.

When it’s finished it will show all the files in that folder, now we want to create a shortcut

to our desktop so Right click on the kompozer icon a dropdown menu will appear scroll down to

where it says send to. Another dropdown menu will appear scroll down and choose

desktop ( create shortcut ).

That’s it you have successfully downloaded from the internet.

It’s simple when you know how, but it’s sometimes the little

things that no one explains that leave you stuck when learning something new.

Many Thanks

David

PS. Here is your link How to Make a Website

The Rapid Income Creator System

David C — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:10:54 +0000

Rapid Income Creator by John Carter is one of those money making internet products that comes along only every once in a while that makes you say, “Ah Ok, why didn’t I think of that?”

It’s obvious that John has done his homework here and truly created what seems to be a truly hands-off PPV affiliate marketing system. Rapid Income Creator combines professionally and PRE-BUILT created landing pages, specifically designed for PPV traffic, plus “copy and paste” demographic research so members don’t have to guess or spend time doing the work to build campaigns. Better yet, the way the program is set up, there’s no need for you to even have a website of your own, as the landing pages are fully hosted.

If that wasn’t enough, John went ahead and added dummy proof PDF reports on PPV and advertising so anyone could understand it. And to top it off, Rapid Income Creator also boasts a traffic resources section that even makes many veteran online marketers blush. There were a ton of new money-making traffic networks and advertising venues I haven’t even heard of.

My honest review of the product was that I was a bit surprised at how simple it was. Every step of the way the program was laid out in a way that anyone could come in and understand. It wasn’t heavy with tons of stuff to read and absorb. The content John Carter gives in Rapid Income Creator is integrated into the program into actionable steps.

So every step of the way, you are learning by doing. Taking specific actions and getting a result. I have to admit that John does throw in a few documents to read though, but they’re super short and easy to understand. The control center user interface inside Rapid Income Creator is truly designed as a dummy proof system. If you can count, then you can use it. No guesswork involved.

On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the best I would give Rapid Income Creator a 4.9 for quality. I didn’t give it a 5 because every product can be improved slightly. In fact, I hear that John has some secret improvements coming up that makes Rapid Income Creator even more valuable.

I’m trying to get in on his private list right now and will let you know what I find out when I do. Rapid Income Creator is so far a lot more than I expected, which is a good thing considering all the B.S. programs and systems in the marketplace.

I also gave this program it a 4.5 for its money making potential, because John does not go into how to make a large income with it, but does teach how to make a few hundred a day with it. I give it a 4.9 once again for content because not only are the campaigns set up for you, you also have top shelf resources that even I wish I knew about. Rapid Income Creator is a surefire program that is going to do very well online for a lot of people. How long will these methods work? Well John has plans on making that indefinitely.

John Carter is one smart guy and I won’t be surprised if he soon becomes a regular household internet marketing name! Rapid Income Creator is one of the better products I’ve written about in a long time.

Check out Rapid Income Creator Here

How To Find Products For Affiliate Marketing

David C — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:54:19 +0000

So you are wanting to find products for affiliate marketing that will get your wallet full? That is what most people are wanting to do the tough thing is knowing what to sell. There are things that may get you excited about selling or you think are just great products for some niche that you are targeting but it may not do much for you. While it is important to focus on a product that you have an interest in so you can establish some credibility easily, there are some other things that you have to pay attention to. You want to find hot products for affiliate marketing? Look around.

If you want to know what to sell, look for the things that are selling good already. It may take a bit of research to find out what things will be good to offer as products for affiliate marketing.

First, you need to be able to identify and understand the need as well as understand how best to satisfy it. The customers you are wanting to offer products for affiliate marketing to have certain expectations and needs they would like to have met. It is your job to find these out and make it available.

The needs that the consumer has is the bare minimum that they must have in the product or service. It is the cake. The icing on the cake would be the expectations that they have. It is the extras. A need would be a car. An expectation is that it would have good gas mileage. A need would be to lose weight. Being happy while doing it would be an expectation. For many, finding a program that will help them stop smoking would be a need but the expectation would be the price. The need has to be addressed fully and the expectation should be met if at all possible. That could make the difference between getting and losing a sale.

Another thing that you have to consider when looking for products for affiliate marketing is the level of competition that your particular product has in the marketplace. Look at the overall market and see if you have a legit chance of being competitive. See how your product competes with others in the niche.

When looking for good products for affiliate marketing you need to gauge the level of interest in that niche. Is it a big market? Is it a buying market? How much are they willing to spend and does your product or service fit in that range?

Also, look at the level of success that others are having selling that product/service. When you are trying to find a good product for affiliate marketing, you want to sell something that people are actually having some success with. If the level of sales are high and/or climbing, then you may have something worth putting your energies into. If sales are stagnating or tapering off, it would be worth it to look elsewhere as demand may be dropping for some reason or the marketplace has reached the peak of interest that they will have in it.

Just because you have a product that seems like it will sell incredibly well doesn’t mean that it will. When wanting to break into a niche, make sure that you do good research on products for affiliate marketing so you will have success.

David

Want To Set Up Affiliate Marketing Programs

David C — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:38:54 +0000

One of the things that many who want to see an increase in sales will do is set up affiliate marketing program for their product or service. It can be a great way to build sales in a very cost effective manner. If you have a product or a service that will meet a lot of people’s needs and expectations and you have researched that the market is good for it, then you will have no problem getting it going.

So what do you need to set up affiliate marketing programs? After the product or service is ready to hit the market, you need to decide on software that will handle your affiliate program. A quick search on Google will reveal several options.

You also have to decide to hire an affiliate manager that will handle the recruiting aspects as well as tracking progress, paying out commissions and maintaining relationships with the affiliates. This is something that is easily outsourced. Just make sure that as you are preparing a budget in th set up affiliate marketing program that you take into account the manager.

If the above sounds a bit complicated to you, you may want to work with an affiliate network. The better ones like ClickBank, Commission Junction, and LinkShare as well as some of the more popular ones will take care of most of the managerial aspects. They will probably have affiliates looking for products to sell and will take care of making sure that they follow guidelines, track sales, delivers the tools needed, and will also take care of paying the affiliates for you.

Another aspect to consider in set up affiliate marketing is the commissions that you will be paying out. Commissions can be anywhere from 5-6% to 50-60% depending on the nature of the product or service. Largely, the lower the overhead is, the greater the commission can be. It will be less profit per sale than if you were trying to do it all by yourself but if you have a small army of very willing and well commissioned affiliates the number of sales will be far beyond what you could ever do on your own at a very fast pace.

Another thing that will have to be considered in your set up affiliate program is tracking cookies. This is seen as a nuisance by some customers but is essential to helping reward those who send business your way. Each affiliate will have a tag number of some sort that will identify each visitor to your website as someone that they sent. This is useful for tracking sales. Not everyone will buy the first visit they make to your site. They may wait a day, a week, or sometimes even a month.

Remember that using affiliate marketers will give you much greater chances of success than if you were on your own and the better you take care of them, the better they will take care of you. If you can remember that in set up affiliate marketing you will see your product or service’s sales fly high.

David

What Is A Pay Per Click Affiliate

David C — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:56:07 +0000

What Is A Pay Per Click Affiliate

Originally most affiliate programs were pay per click affiliate programs where webmasters got paid to send people to an affiliate link. This would be most preferable to webmasters, just to get the potential customer to the website and get paid. Most affiliate programs have begun preferring cost per action because there is more profit to be made on their end. Finding pay per click affiliate programs has been harder to do but still not an impossible task.

It is understandable why pay per action affiliate programs would be preferred by many businesses. With pay per click, there is still a risk involved. You have to make sure that the title and ad itself is written in such a way that it meets all the website’s guidelines that can be pretty strict. You also have very limited space and you have to make sure that you have just the right keywords. If you happen to catch someone who isn’t exactly interested in what you are offering and they click through but don’t buy, you very well may have wasted that money.

They have to decide about how many click throughs convert into sales and that can be an pretty inexact science sometimes. Because of the risk and the potential cost involved and that smaller businesses may have a very limited advertising budget, they will often decide to go the much safer route and use an affiliate program in which they only pay for actual sales.

There are still pay per click affiliate programs to be found and most of them can be found in networks such as the Commission Junction. As with most affiliate programs, you will want to use networks such as that just so you can investigate what programs work and which ones do not. It will also help you keep track of clicks and payments received and will keep track of multiple sites for you.

The bulk of the pay per click affiliate programs are going to be things like online dating, casinos and other situations where they are likely to be making money off of anyone who comes to their site. If you can find a program like one of these that fits the type of site that you want to have or is something that you are comfortable with, then these pay per click affiliate programs are for you.

If you can work to get a lot of traffic to your website then pay per click affiliate programs can be incredibly profitable. Most accounts with affiliate marketing directories are free so there is very little cost involved there.

If you do decide to try a pay per click affiliate program you are going to have to work on getting a lot of traffic. The amount of money that you make per click is very small. In many cases it can be less than a dollar. In cases where there is a decent dollar amount per click ($5-10) there may be a high demand for people wanting that one so there could be a lot of people chasing after those few dollars that is in many advertising budgets.

It will take a lot of work to have a pay per click affiliate program that becomes successful but, as with everything else in internet marketing, the more you do it, the easier it becomes.

Success is just a click away.

David

Efforts At Affiliate Marketing Failing

David C — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:50:08 +0000

If you find yourself asking “Why are my affiliate marketing efforts not working?” you aren’t alone. Anyone can make an affiliate marketing program work and become successful at it but there are several things that you need to make sure of to be able to find success.

Your efforts are going to need a program promoting something that I am interested in. My affiliate marketing is going to need something that is high quality catering to a growing market. My affiliate marketing efforts are also going to be well paid if they are successful.

If your affiliate marketing is going to be successful, especially if you are relatively new to affiliate marketing, you need to be promoting something that you have an interest in. It helps if you are passionate about it or at least coming with a good background in the field pertaining to the product or service. The reason is, you are going to have to find some way to connect with those who would be interested.

To be credible and effective, you are going to have to know what those interested in it are really wanting to know. If it is something you are interested in you are going to know all the right words. You are going to know who, what, where, when, why, and how. You know the questions to ask and you know what the right answers are that are going to give them confidence. You also know how to look for what really works.

My affiliate marketing efforts are going to need to be promoting something that is a high quality product or service. First it will help you feel good about what you are doing in offering the people who have needs something that will actually help. You don’t want to have people returning what they buy but you want to have them returning to you. If they see that you are going to be pointing them towards something that they can trust, they will look for your guidance more. Look for products and services that have favorable testimonials. Sharing these will help bring credibility.

The good affiliate marketing program that will help you be successful will be something that caters to a growing market. Find a wave and ride it .Find something that works. Just try to find a wave that isn’t dissipating. Look at the things that you are most interested in and see what has the largest number of people interested in it. Look for markets that are expanding.

Also make sure that the compensation will be worth the marketing efforts. You may want to put a lot of energy and time and maybe some good money into promoting the product or service but if it doesn’t pay out a good commission, it may not be worth it. Finding something that is really going to reward my affiliate marketing efforts will make me want to work harder. This will also help bring my affiliate marketing efforts more success. Here are a few places to start.

To your success

David

shareasale.com

flexoffers.com

linkconnector.com

revenueads.com

MAKE MONEY ONLINE

David C — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:31:31 +0000

Picking Articles for Your Niche Site

Pick the articles for your niche sites very carefully to ensure that you are able to successfully get traffic and gain profit from these sites. If you are going to try and utilize free website content articles, then it may be difficult for you to find ones that have your exact keywords, so you may have to either make revisions to the articles (which may not be allowed on some free articles) or base your keywords on the articles that you find (which could leave you with very competitive keywords that would take a lot of time or money to attain a high ranking for). If you are going to buy content, make sure that you let the writer know what your niche keywords are and what your specific your preferred keyword density and placement are. Remember, the wrong articles can leave you with little traffic and very low search engine rankings if they do not fit in properly with either your niche or with keywords that are easy to attain high rankings for.

David

Find A Job Stress Free.

David C — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:21:12 +0000

Stress-free Job Hunting Guide

Hunting for the perfect job for an individual requires time, effort and knowledge.

For stress free job-hunting, every individual must first consider the following pointers before starting your job hunting process:

1. Know what type of job you would like to apply for. Gate crashing job fairs that offer work not related to one’s degree or work preference would be a waste of time.

Consider your interests, preference of work location and job shifts (to be especially considered by professionals who have family members to take care of). If all these fit the category of the job opening available, it would be best to proceed with the application process.

2. Prepare possible needed documents or career portfolio. Have several copies of your resume, transcript of records and any certifications ready for immediate submission if needed.

3. Know where to look for job postings. There are various forms that offer listing of jobs. Below are some of these sites:

3.1 Internet. One of most widely used searching options is the Internet. Aside from the fact that browsing the Internet for available jobs is less time consuming than personal appearances to inquire at the offices, this can also be the least expensive form of job hunting.

You would not need to buy newspapers to browse through the ads for vacancies nor spend gas money to go to the offices.

Not only local or national vacancies can be browsed through the net, international job openings could likewise be easily accessed by the user, thus, offering one a much wider perspective in choosing the right job.

3.2 Newspapers. One of the most commonly used searching medium. Local newspapers advertise jobs that are within an applicant’s commuting distance. Available jobs are usually printed on a regular basis.

3.3 Career or Job Centers. These usually offer jobs for ages 16-18 and rarely above 21 years of age. Though fully loaded with vacancies, it caters mostly to the younger applicants.

Job listings are frequently updated; therefore regular visits would ensure the applicants of new job postings.

3.4 Periodicals or magazines. Professionals are best advised to look for jobs on magazines since employers that would want to hire the same would advertise on such journals.

3.5 Offices. Most offices have postings of job openings on their Vacancy Boards. Applicants may directly go to the office to look for vacancies and then directly submit the resume or other pertinent documents to the respective division that receives such documents.

Best of luck

David

Make Money Online? Blogging For Profit?

David C — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:22:05 +0000

Blogging for Profit Begins With a Long Term Plan
Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons. Often,bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging. The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it.
To succeed at blogging for profit, the main thing that you will need is a large readership. The higher your traffic, the more advertisers will agree to pay you.However, cultivating the regular visitors that you will need in order to make a profit isnt easy. As more and more blogs appear each day, having a great idea or awonderful writing style is no longer enough to get attention. You need to be able to market your blog effectively.
Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing their project. To be certain, updating as often as you can is a great way to keep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog search engines, and once your readers know that you update frequently they will return to your site on a regular basis. However, it does not matter how often you update if nobody is reading your page, so don’t skimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to your site. To make your dreams of blogging for profit a reality, try decreasing your number of posts and using some of that time to draw new visitors by setting uplink exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blog community, and following other established modes of winning traffic.

Of course, even if you are a marketing genius or have a really great idea for a blog, success is not going to happen overnight. Building the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time, and in all likelihood it will be at least several months before you are able to turn much of a profit. Try to stay committed to your blogging project during this initial rough period.To stay motivated, set goals for how often you will update and how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your plan.

David