Dear Blogging Enthusiast,
Blogging has become it’s own industry, with millionaire bloggers like Jeff Johnson and James D. Brown becoming IM superstars because of little more than the popularity of their blogs. The blogosphere is the fastest-growing sector of the internet, and even brand new blogs are capable of raking in dough.
It’s not necessarily even difficult — Joel Comm makes big, big money monetizing blogs with AdSense. Look at Arianna Huffington — she’s on TV two or three times every week!
Imagine what it would be like to vent your opinions about politics and pay-per-click — and do it from a beach on Aruba, because your opinion was worth that much to your audience! What would you do with that kind of money, authority, and freedom?
Getting there requires a little bit of style, a little panache, and a bunch of technical expertise. There are thousands of great writers with excellent personalities out there who simply never figured out how to get their blogs set up for maximum visibility — and thousands more who never got their blogs set up at all!
Don’t be a statistic — be a success. Start by getting all of the tools and knowledge you need to get your blog set up quickly, accurately, and for the the best possible visibility by using my WordPress video tutorial.
Video 1: How to Register a Domain Name.
Everything starts with your own domain. No one will take you seriously if your domain ends in “.wordpress.com.”
GoDaddy and NameCheap are excellent resources, and this video covers both as well as giving valuable tips on how to choose the right domain name for your blog.
Video 2: How to Get Web Hosting
You can’t do anything with your domain unless you have a host to keep your site live 24/7/365. Here, you’ll learn how to get the best deal on your web hosting service.
Video 3.1: Changing your DNS (GoDaddy Edition)
Unless you change your Domain Name Sever inside GoDaddy’s control panel, your host won’t ever see your webpage, so this is the next step for you.
Video 3.2: Changing your DNS (NameCheap Edition)
Unless you change your Domain Name Sever inside NameCheap’s control panel, your host won’t ever see your webpage, so this is the next step for you.
A Dose of Reality…
You’re at a massive disadvantage if you’re starting from scratch, especially if you’re making your own websites.
You’re either going to have to spend serious money getting a page professionally made for you, or spend prodigious amounts of time learning HTML and crafting a good-looking site.
Fortunately, there’s WordPress, which creates professional-looking, easy-to-manage websites in literally minutes…almost.
Even though they claim that WordPress is super easy to use, the truth is that there are details — many LAYERS of details — such that if you don’t have a professional blogger there to help you, you can waste WEEKS getting things set up the way you need them to be.
That’s not really any better than building your own webpage! But if you DO know what you’re doing…it’s a dream.
Without a guide to help them, part-time bloggers that have a few readers might be a few clicks away from a huge expansion in readership and not know it — that’s how complicated the depths of WordPress can be.
One mis-clicked setting or forgotten dialog box can mean the difference between a dozen readers and a thousand.
The problem is, by the time you’ve gotten things set up, you’ve blown through your momentum, you’re tired of dealing with all of the mistakes, and you’re playing catch-up with the other entrepreneurs (who had a solid WordPress guide to work from.) The fact is, if you try to jump into blogging without an edge, you’re just begging for punishment.
But there IS an edge ready for you to use it: this WordPress tutorial will show you everything you need to get set up and ready to blog in an afternoon.
The best part is that WordPress can be used to create a normal website as well, so this guide is cash money in the pocket of ANYONE who needs to create a site — any kind of site — of their own.
Video 4: How to Install and Use FileZilla (Free FTP Software)
FileZilla is a free and powerful tool that will get your files uploaded to your webhost with ease. I’ll show you how to download it, set it up, and get it connected in minutes!
Video 5: A Brief Introduction to Using cPanel
With the tools for cPanel and WordPress, you can get your WordPress blog up and running in less than a minute with a few clicks of the mouse.
Video 6.1: Installing WordPress Automatically Using cPanel
The easiest way to install a WordPress blog!
You’ll discover how you can get your new WordPress blog up and running in under 1 minute, with just a few mouse clicks..
Video 6.2: Installing WordPress Manually Using FTP
Installing WordPress manually is much more challenging than installing through cPanel, but there are few reasons you might want to try it anyway.
This video explains the four steps of using MySQL and FileZilla to install WordPress the hard way.
Live Your Dream…
Learn from my mistakes. I know how painful it will be for you if you don’t. That’s why I hired a team of professional videographers to put together a WordPress guide that’s THIRTY step-by-step videos long.
I knew NOTHING when I started my first site, so I asked them to make the videos for someone who knew nothing, just like I did.
There’s no geek-speak or boring diatribes here. Each video cuts to the chase, and offers clean, crisp, and accurate advice on every level of WordPress setup. This is the shortest, most effective way that I know to get a blog (or a static site) set up and ready to Make Money, period.
The startup time of a site can be a huge drain on it’s initial profitability — or it can be reduced to a day of easy work by setting everything up with WordPress, and taking advantage of the plugins, the Content Management System, and the SERP-friendly linking system.
And clever IMers will find that WordPress offers startling ability to provide automated income with a variety of methods of autoblogging. We’ll explain that art to you, as well.
Your dream of paying your bills by being an opinionated loudmouth (or a gentle, loving soul) are at your fingertips — and it all starts here.
Video 7: Getting Your New Blog Ready for Action
When you first start a blog on WordPress, it’s just cluttered with unnecessary junk.
Fake posts, fake comments, lame links, and more will see the end of their short reign as we clean it all out.
Video 8: Changing Your Blog’s Permalink Structure
This is where we really get into the meat of this lesson — the kind of stuff the part-time bloggers need just as badly as the brand new ones. WordPress’ default link structure sucks for getting good search-engine results.
I’ll show you how to improve your natural search engine traffic with a few simple changes.
Video 9: How to Customize Your WordPress Dashboard
Your WordPress dashboard starts out a clunky mess. Fortunately, like almost everything in WordPress, it’s customizable — and I’ll show you how to set it up for maximum efficiency.
Video 10: How to Create New Posts in WordPress
The muscles that WordPress’ skeleton lets you flex, posts are the heart of every blog.
I’ll show you how to use the WYSIWYG editor to craft, format, and publish your killer content. I’ll also show you how to post content automatically using the “timestamp” element.
Video 11: How to Create New Pages in WordPress
New pages are separate entities from your regular blog posts, but they are equally important. Video 13 gives you instructions for setting up new pages, arranging them however you’d like, and fixing their settings to match the rest of your blog.
Video 12: How to Use and Format Images in WordPress
Pictures are critical for any blogger to master. Without pictures, your readers lose interest and you end up with a long list of “too long; didn’t read”s.
This video will teach you how to upload pictures to WordPress and use the WYSIWYG editor to format them, put captions on them, and more.
These videos will help you get your site running and market-ready in no time — and I’m so sure of that, I’ll back it up with an iron-clad, no-questions-asked money back guarantee.
It’s simple — if you’re not satisfied with the videos, for any reason at all, contact me within 30 days of your purchase, and you’ll get your money back. I want this to be an easy investment-in-your-own-future for you to make.
So take your “thirty day trial”, witness for yourself the powerful tools we provide for any blogger, would-be or current, and decide whether it was worth the investment. It’s brain-dead simple, and WordPress sets up so fast that you’ll have to seriously slack off in order to not see profit before the guarantee expires!
Video 13: How To Install Plugins Automatically
WordPress is famed for its plugins. If you learn nothing else about WordPress in your attempts to market your site, learn this one lesson. Inside is information on finding and installing plugins without messing with FileZilla or other tools.
Video 14: How to Upgrade Plugins Automatically
Constantly upgrading your plugins as they get revamped is a pain in the butt. Fortunately, you don’t have to spend a lot of time or energy on it — I’ll show you how to get it done with a few clicks.
Video 15: How to Delete Plugins Automatically
If you’ve gone a little crazy — and we all do at first — downloading and adding plugins to your blog, don’t stress.
This short video will show you how to get rid of the extra without unnecessary effort.
Video 16: How to Upload and Install Plugins Manually
No question, you need to know how to get plugins the “old school” way, too, because not all plugins are available for automatic installation — including some that marketers consider pretty important to get your blog ‘out there’.
Video 17: How to Upload and Install Themes Manually
Themes are the easiest way to set your blog apart from everyone else’s. There are thousands of themes out there, and I’ll show you how to find them, get them, upload them, and activate them.
Video 20: Getting and Using Gravatars for Your Blog
A Gravatar is essentially a ‘face’ that you can put in your blog comments, making it easier to establish your presence and develop a long-term relationsihp with your readers.
Video 21: How to Upgrade WordPress Using cPanel
WordPress upgrades it’s software all the time, so if you blog for any length of time, you’ll have to upgrade. cPanel offers a quick and easy way of getting it done.
Video 22: How To Upgrade WordPress Automatically Using The Dashboard
Even easier! If you’re willing to give up a tiny bit of control, you can also upgrade WP through it’s own dashboard. Let me show you how.
Video 23: How to Install and Set-Up Windows Live Writer
Live Writer is an incredibly versatile tool that allows you to write content, save drafts, and publish to your blog even when you’re offline! This is THE secret of many a professional blogger, and I’ll show you where to get it and how to set it up.
Video 24: How to Use Windows Live Writer to Write Content
This video is 8 minutes of densely-packed information on how to use WLW to write content, insert and edit images, and publish to your blog, all from the convenient setup offered by Windows Live Writer. This is a HUGE video, even for your long-time bloggers!
Video 25: Installing New Plugins in Windows Live Writer
The best part about Windows Live Writer is that, like WordPress itself, it offers crazy plugins that make it possible to pull off magnificent stunts like imbedding YouTube videos directly into your blog posts within WLW itself. I’ll show you how to find and install these amazing tools.
Video 26: How to Create Backups for Your WordPress Blog
Eventually, every server must fail. Make sure that you won’t lose everything when your server does the dip by regularly backing up your blog. I’ll show you how to back up your blog onto your PC OR your Email address, and how to schedule it to back up automatically in the future.
Video 27: How to Edit WordPress Theme CSS Styles
Your Cascading Style Sheet, or CSS, allows you to get even further inside your blog’s theme and make unique edits to ensure that no one has a blog like yours. It’s a pretty simple thing, actually, that you can do from your WP Dashboard. I’ll teach you the most important things you need to know to make CSS edits successfully.
Video 28: How to Create a Static Front Page in WordPress
If you want your blog to have a more static front page, perhaps to make it look less like a blog and more like a sophisticated Ecommerce website, this video will show you how.
Video 29: Introduction to Getting a FeedBurner Account
Feedburner is a crazy powerful tool for getting eyes on your blog. It allows you to publish feeds to your blog, so that your readers are constantly updated on your posts without having to remember to go back and click on the website every day. I’ll also each you important steps to optimize your FeedBurner usage.
Video 30: Redirecting Your Default RSS Feed to Feedburner
There’s one last critical step: you have to go into WP and make sure it’s programmed to use your FeedBurner account instead of it’s own default RSS feed. I’ll show you how to make the changeover without losing any RSS subscribers you might already have.