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Why is my blog not successful?
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I need to run a business. How do I set up a blog/website?
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Now that I have decided a domain name,what next?
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What about setting up a host?
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What is wordpress?
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How do I monetise my blog?
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Is email list important?
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How can I design “an ebook cover” without the help of designer for free?
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Is there any reliable software to create ebook cover instantly ?
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My videos look unprofessional and unattractive.what do I do?
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Traffic? How can I drive traffic?
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How do I write the ebook content?
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How can I write good content?
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Plugins that millenniumincome.com uses and considers very important.
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What problems will I most likely face when I setup my blog/website?
Why is my blog not successful?
Simple -They Are Bloggers, Not Internet Marketers.
The number one reason I feel that bloggers do not make money by blogging is because they are bloggers and not Internet marketers.
Most bloggers know how to blog. However, very few bloggers know how to market their blog, so they end up with a blog that is read by only close friends and family members. You can have the best blog in the world but if nobody reads it, what is the point?
After watching, come back right here!
I need to run a business. How do I set up a blog/website?
A website and a blog are usually the same thing.
Lets start with ABC’s and know the difference between a blog and website…A website is static while a blog is dynamic. A blog has post and content keeps changing and is refreshed. They are somewhat like magazines that are published often and content being updated.
Domain selection:
When you select a domain name , Check to see whether the domain name you select, or the use you make of the domain name, infringes legal rights of any third party. I urge you to investigate it, sometimes it can be a big problem.
Keyword selection:
So do I need a keyword in my domain name? Really it’s your call and take! I have written an article
http://www.millenniumincome.com/keyword-domain-name-a-king-mere-jack/
Go through it and be enlightened….
In my opinion it doesn’t matter much. Google, coke, pepsi, Apple, yahoo,G+ are just bizarre names which have become brand household names. Did they have a keyword – NO! Such is the power of advertising that they are now keyword themselves! So search engines essentially follow people – not keywords exactly! Content is still king!(Its better to have keyword in your content.There it helps!)
Keyword research is both difficult and tricky. The only way to effectively refine your list is to test it in practice.
GOOGLE KEYWORD TOOL:
Use Google keyword tool to find keywords.
Search volume of top 10 keywords should exceed 100,000 searches per month. If you look at a niche with lesser competition,its easier to get top 10 search engine rankings and be on the first page for Google search.Your competitor may have already tested the keywords and chosen the best ones that both generated good traffic and converted. I do not suggest relying on their keywords completely. But if you take time analyzing and comparing several of your competitors’ on-page and off-page keyword targeting, you can make your list much better.
Keyword Researcher is a powerful weapon for any internet marketing. It helps you discover keywords that can send hundreds of free visitors to your site each day and get front-page rankings in Google for high-traffic keywords in weeks or days.
Now that I have decided a domain name, what next?
You can start a blog for nothing by setting up a free service like WordPress.com or Blogger.com, but then the blog is not in your control and its unprofessional. Some ad networks will not accept a site unless it has its own domain name. If you do it right, having your own domain and web hosting won’t cost you anything because the income the blog generates will more than offset the cost.The last thing you want to do is build up a blog with Blogspot, get a ton of back links, and then have to move it to its own domain and start over. Most free web hosts impose advertising on your website. This is done to cover the costs of providing your site the free web space and associated services. Some hosts require you to place a banner on your pages, others display a window that pops up every time a page on your site loads, while still others impose an advertising frame on your site. Some people hate a pop-up window, other webmasters dislike having to stuff banner codes onto their pages, and many people cannot stand an advertising frame – which may cause problems when you submit your website to search engines. That’s why free hosting is not recommended. It’s just not professional.
To register your domain, go to a website called HostGator. Always choose domain ext as .com, .net ,.org which are popular…stay away from .info,.c, .tv…
- The domain name shouldn’t be tooo long…
- Easy to type in search without being mis-spelt
- Don’t use dashes in domain
- It shouldn’t be complicated to type. Just use common sense…
What about setting up a host?
My site is hosted over HostGator and I highly recommend them. Each of their shared Web Hosting plans includes 24/7/365 support, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and a 45-day money-back guarantee. A live support which is more than excellent. It’s remarkable!
One of the main reasons why you need to host with HostGator is that they have a built in plugin called Fantastico which allows you to install WordPress with one click. Any problem-they have quickinstall too! Install the latest free version of WordPress with 1-click through QuickInstall. Gone are the days of struggling to set up wordpress.
What is wordpress?
WordPress, this is what will help you run your website, this free software will allow you to add, edit and delete pages on your website. You also have a choice from over different blog designs, free plugins,widgets and free themes that will allow your website to do different things. WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or installation without altering the information content.
And guess what..you don’t even need to install wordpress on your own if you find it complicated, just contact customer support of hostgator over live support, and they guide you or they even do it FOR YOU! just tell them!
They don’t charge any additional price for this and have a great customer service. Also don’t forget to ask them to change your website url to either- say http://www.millenniumincome com or www.millenniumincome.com…..whichever way you like it.
Theme:
Finding the right theme can be very difficult. There are thousands of free themes though none would fit your expectation perfectly. A WordPress theme can be very difficult, and confusing to understand the proper functionality and then implement if you don’t know the technology. You have to install themes yourself and then evaluate them one by one. That’s where OptimizePress steps in. My blog uses it..The results are for you to see! I had to pay a small one time amount and it’s been worth it! I just wouldn’t have it any other way.
If you are completely new to setting up a site, follow the OptimizePress tutorials which you will get access to after you are a member.They have a great tutorial library. Around 40-50 tutorials so that you don’t falter, A great customer care if you do -:). It will teach you to completely set up your site. How to setup your first page,your first menu,your first post,creating categories,setting up SEO for better rankings -yes that too! You can easily take your first baby steps with optimizepress, and ask as many questions to their staff about anything! It’s the best in business for all professionals to create sales,sqeeze or launch pages. I have even tweaked it,you can see that.
So let me list again all the steps you have followed:
step 1: Choosing domain
step 2: Installing host and Theme .
step 3: Now you will Install the Plugins. ( keep moving down, They are listed below.)
How do I monetise my blog?
Please don’t stick just with google adsense, the key to monetizing a blog is to run as many advertising products as you can get away with while still providing a good user experience.
Chitika, kontera, affiliate marketing….there is a lot to explore.
Affiliate Marketing is my top recommendation after recursive affiliate income and direct ad sales, because if you can find a good product to sell, even if it doesn’t pay out recursively, you can still make good money.You can promote clickbank products, amazon etc…Contextual programs like Google AdSense, brokering services that pay by the Impression. RSS feed advertising and paid reviews are not good because the amount of money you make is directly related to how many posts you produce.You may as well use these services as long as they don’t impact your other, more stable monetization, but I would not want to become too dependent on them.
Is Email list important?
Ever heard of backend marketing?
Once you have an email list, the opportunities to market to your subscribers are numerous. You could apply affiliate marketing and sell other people’s products, or release your own products or services. Use your email list to provide more content to strengthen relationships with your audience, and you have another communication channel and valuable business asset.
A popular blog with an email list is a great online marketing system to generate leads and convert customers. Using this tool you can establish credibility, conduct market research and develop a powerful personal brand. If you need an email autoresponder to manage your list investigate AWeber.
How can I design “an ebook cover” without the help of designer for free? I wish to gift it for free to my readers when they optin to my newsletter (Aweber form).
For this purpose for my readers I have a special post – Read my post where I teach you to design ebook cover in three simple steps. follow the steps.
http://www.millenniumincome.com/ebook-cover/
People who don’t have access to paint.net can use some other software too like photoshop or paint brush. Just be careful of the dimensions. It should look like an ebook cover!
Is there any reliable software to create Ebook Cover instantly- without me knowing paint software & photoshop? I am not creative. I don’t have time.
You can absolutely create stunning 3d ecover graphics in one click, and you don’t need any photoshop, or painting software. I recommend eCover Creator 3D by James Dyson. It’s just a simple drag and drop process. No skills required at all. A simple sweet editor that will allow you to create professional covers – shadows, lighting, background everything you possibly need. You can add great effects to your cover! This software gives you mind blowing results and everything that you envisioned is right there, laid out before you- as real as it can get!
My videos look unprofessional and unattractive.what do I do?
If you are creatively inclined you can make good videos. Camtasia software should give you a push, But even camtasia cannot beat the advanced technology that we have today for making videos! So Much waiting to be discovered. It holds true specially for videos. There is a lot out there. Make a one time investment and try this something out. See if you like it! Go to OptimizeYourVideo.com Lifetime Access or Discover How To Optimize And Publish Your Videos For Maximum Response! It will surely help you. Most of the people who create videos for business, use technology or professional help for the special effects that you see like pop ups, back ground triggers etc…otherwise it’s not possible.
I will explain it better to you. I have created 2 images … see it below?
Matter of factly- if I didn’t use softwares these images wouldn’t see light – however creative I am.The 1st image has used 3 frames and the 2nd image 2 frames and a lot of work. Videos also work frame by frame. Now for a Good Video it needs many graphical effects, many frames that you can’t really achieve without special software effects. It would take ages.
OptimizeYourVideo.com is your one stop for all that you need under one roof, the beautiful animations, lights, graphics etc. You already have inbuilt ready to use tools and it’s designed specifically to solve your problems.
Traffic? how can I drive traffic?
read: http://www.millenniumincome.com/passport-backlink/
It teaches you how to create backlinks. Just remember if your blog is new then just go for slow backlinking strategy. If you use wrong means Google will sandbox you and you go down in search rankings. You can submit 5 articles the 1st day.
10 articles the 2nd day
15 articles the 3rd day, keep incrementing by 5 and so on for a week.
Around 100 links are to be submitted per week.That gets you traffic and better search engine rankings. Stay away from getting spammy links. Repeat the same formula for 2 months. After 2 months 10-15 links a day can be submitted. When you submit articles to directories,Remember ezinearticles is strict and requires original articles, the rest can be a bit of changes here and there through article spinning( use The Best Spinner). Squidoo and Hubpages more recently have also been getting more and more strict with the content that is posted on their sites. Submit links to digg, reddit, StumbleUpon, and pictures to flickr. Normally it does take around 2-3 months for a blog to pick up,Google takes time to understand you are a trustworthy site. Also it depends on your site content, how good and purposeful your blog is. Not all blogs will pick up pace, but you should ask yourself how you can improve it and not be disheartened.It’s the same path for all!
You can also submit videos to youtube and top video sites like vimeo, dailymotion etc. The TubeMogul video upload site currently supports over 25 sites, including YouTube, Blip.tv, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Yahoo Video. TubeMogul works with the best video sites out there, They used to provide 150 launches with their free account.(sorry to inform you the free service is no longer free with tubemogul). Traffic Geyser offers you services at $97/month. unfortunately not many free alternatives out there.
Remember not all links are powerful. Its better to have quality links than quantity.
Use twitter, facebook, linkedin, Pinterest to drive traffic once you have a blog, do maintain a profile over these sites AND BE INTERACTIVE. They will help you get followers and drive traffic and are great business if you use them correctly. Lately Google pays a lot of attention to social media as well, and it’s not just about backlinks. Backlinks alone don’t decide your positioning in search results.It’s also about the amount of time people are over your sites, user behavior, and if
Content is king – at the end of the day no amount of links will help if you aren’t focused over quality.
You can choose to get paid traffic as well – Advertise with Google AdWords ads to boost website traffic and sales in search results. Study the different PPC, CPC..whatever they offer, BE SMART ENOUGH TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT KEYWORDS…which don’t cost too much and at the same time have good search volumes(They have the facility for finding that out).
These things take some time, but then that’s how real businesses are setup..Be insightful, keep learning and changing your ways, your skills – with the changing technology. Use all your gifts and creativities, Have faith in your abilities!
How do I write the ebook content?
Read: http://www.millenniumincome.com/the-secret-book/
http://www.millenniumincome.com/writing-ebook/
How can I write good content?
Read:http://www.millenniumincome.com/creating-rich-web-content/
Plugins that millenniumincome.com uses and considers very important:
Inside wordpress admin panel: Go to plugins >install plugins and type the plugin name to Search. Choose the plugin you desire,click over the link and then Activate it.If you wish to deactivate, first take a backup of your blog (It’s better always).You will now find your Plugin in Plugins>installed Plugins. Here You can read about each plugin by clicking the link visit Plugin site in the description category. The setup for the plugin is pretty simple to understand and implement. A video,writeup or something to guide you will always be in Dashboard>Settings>Plugin. How to setup can also be found at the related Plugin site. If you still cannot follow then type your plugin name in search at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/. Choose your plugin from the search results carefully and read the Description, Installation, Screenshots, Stats, Support….etc.
You can also read about the different wordpress plugins at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ and find plugins suitable for your site. Make sure the plugin is maintained, and has a good download and ratings.
Simple automated backups of your WordPress powered website.
This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking.
Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam.To activate akismet don’t forget to signup for the API key.
The highest rated and most complete WordPress performance plugin. Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. To set it up refer the post Settings for W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin (The settings are very important to speed up your blog)
The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.
millenniumincome uses OptimizePress which already has the most popular SEO functions and google analytics inbuilt, so you won’t need to install those plugins if you use OptimizePress – unless you wish to experiment.
They are used to minimize automated posting to blogs, forums and wikis, whether as a result of commercial promotion, or harassment. A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot. It works well with Akismet Plugin.
What problems will I most likely face when I setup my blog/website?
This is for people who use optimizepress
- Make sure that you keep all your pages public. Otherwise you cannot set up menu (it won’t work). With optimizepress the settings are so well organised and integrated that if something is wrong..then its you!
- W3 Total Cache tells me page url cache not working?
In general >page cache >page cache method enable use disc: basic. If disc: enhanced is chosen you will get page url cache not working. But the fact is, it’s always better to to set “Disk :Enhanced” for relieving server load. Read my post and get the perfect solution to this: http://www.millenniumincome.com/w3-total-cache/
- Why does my aweber form not work – 404 error?
Thank you page should be never private. It stops aweber code from working.
Make sure your thank you page url and success page url is correct…Thank you page is the page your reader lands at immediately after optin. Success page is when the reader clicks the email in his inbox and subsequently lands up over your blog. Remember to add ?setuser=1199 after the / ( forward slash).
Example: http://www.millenniumincome.com/req-confirmed/?setuser=1199
The mails which are a part of launch funnel will all have ?setuser=1198 added to url after / .
Make sure when you login to aweber – webforms >settings >in facebook integration: Enable Facebook registration form should not enabled.
(If you still have problems and you don’t use optimizepress most likely you will need to make a .htaccess rewrite).
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In seo settings of yoast plugin for wordpress seo don’t forget to sign up for webmasters tools in dashboard. Otherwise google won’t index you quickly.
In google webmasters tool when you add your site map, You have to add sitemap behind say http://www.millenniumincome.com/ sitemap
So the part http://www.millenniumincome.com is already printed and you simply add the remaining url behind it. If you get an error make sure you have set the url right.
NOTE: Please apply for the IEC CODE – imports exports code which you need for any kind of trade online. Just search for “Application Form for Issuing Importer Exporter Code Number (IEC)”. Call them up and ask them what documents are needed. Fill the required form for your country, or ask some agent. Within 15 days to a month you should have it. Basically it’s just a license and for a lifetime.
THESE ARE JUST A FEW BASICS TO SET UP A BLOG!
I am sure a lot of you see web sites and wonder how they are setup? so this is how it goes!
I hope if nothing you are atleast enlightened to the do’s and don’ts of the world of internet blogging and you have the picture of some technical aspects to it. Its interesting to know Behind the scenes of a website setup and If you take the initiative to build it, you absolutely can. If you are new to it, be prepared to give it time and commit mistakes too. When you can’t understand somethings, you just read well, and do things patiently..It works.
If you feel interested in taking up a course and guidance then check out How to Start a Blog That Matters. you should like it!
Thanks
Mickey!
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