Internet Income Lessons

I was first introduced to Wordpress after taking the Bloggers Paycheck course by John Yeo who showed me that Wordpress is by far the best blog platform that you will use if you are looking to make money blogging or start an internet business.

While it is true there are many other blogging tools, if you really want to establish yourself online and make money. Wordpress is by far the platform of choice.  

Why?

As an open source platform you have access to 100’s of free themes for your site.  You also get literally thousands of free plugins. Plugins are tools that assist in greating great blogs be it assisting with back end tasks or additional user tools. 

Wordpress is also a state of the art platform with many big name companies using them, such as The New York Times and CNN.

Let me tell you a secret, you can also blog from your iphone!For someone that failed to make a profit using PPC as an affilaite with iPhone offers this was the best aspect.It does not matter where I am as I can update my blogs simply from my iPhone.I blog everwhere, the train, airport, the beach, anywhere I want to add to my income with the right message and information at the right time.  I am always in contact with my readers.

Ready to start a blog?You should keep in mind that you have to know what your passion is. You many struggle to produce good content which will affect the longevity to keep blogging and make money.

Let’s briefly look at installing wordpress, the easy way.The first thing to do is register a domain name. That is the easy part. There are a lot of domain registrars out there. I use Planetdomain.com, simple and straight forward to use.

I don’t use their hosting for my sites though. I use another excellent provider that allows unlimited, disk, bandwidth and websites. All very important if you end up with a online empire across many sites and niches.Then get FileZilla. This free FTP program is essential to upload themes, plugins and widgets to your new blog sites.

With everythihng set-up. Simply log into the cPanel of your hosting provider.  Within cPanel there is a tool called Fantastico, this is a utility that has a lot of scripts that you can install for your webiste such as ecommerce, forums etc.  But the one we want is Wordpress.

You will see a lot of options, don’t let that worry you, Wordpress with be under ‘blogs’ usually under the second header.Very simply, click Wordpress and ‘New Installation’.Take note of the admin name and passowrd, these will be needed to be able to post to your blog through the wordpress admin section.

Your blog is now up and running!The following should be done straight away.

Log into the admin area and delete the “Hello World” post and any other posts/ comments wordpress installs. Simply go to ‘manage’ then posts and delete.

Go to Manage’ and then ‘Pages’ and click on ‘About’.  Change the about information to your own.

Head over to wordpress.org.org and click on the menu item ‘extend’ and then ‘themes’.Select on of the free themes that you would like, download it and extract to a local file.

Open your FTO program of choice and place in your relevant FTP details. Find your theme that you downloaded and extracted and upload to wordpress.  Note that the file path is. Public_html ->wp-content -> themes.

There, you are now complete and ready to start blogging and generate traffic.  There is a lot more to using wordpress then simply posting.  There are a lot of plug-ins that really enhance your site and can add a lot to user experience, everything from social bookmarking tools, automatically insert adsense to postings and many more.

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