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Make the Ultimate blogging theme more Ultimate by adding an auto scroll feature

elie — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:56:02 +0000

The Ultimate blogging theme is a really cool wordpress theme to have. it’s one of the best wordpress based theme I’ve ever found online yet. They recently released the latest version last month and I’ve got to say the new features was quite awesome.

one Feature which I liked a lot is the “featured posts slides” that they added to the theme. you can see what I’m talking about when you visit my blog’s home page. however, I was a little disappointed when I found out that the slides were not Auto scrolling.

Adding an Auto scroll feature would totally help a lot especially if you have lots of featured posts on display. The Numberings are not very noticeable either and that’s another reason why I’ve decided to add an auto scroll feature to the blog theme.

How to add an Auto Scroll feature on the ultimate blogging theme

What I did was I installed a simple javascript to the theme. here’s a complete step by step guide on how I did it.

1. download this file.

2. extract the zip file. after extracting the zip file, look for the file named “slide.js” and proceed to the next step.

3. open up ftp software and upload the script (slide.js) to “wp-content/themes/ubt-firstclass/ folder.

4. login to the wordpress dashboard (yourblog.com/wp-admin) and go to “editor” under the appearance tab.

5. on the ‘editor page’, go to “header or header.php” and add this code anywhere inside the tag.

note: change “your blog name” to your real url.

6. after you’ve done step 4, don’t forget to save your changes by hitting “update file”

Test it.

after doing all the steps above, you should be able to see the auto-scrolling in effect by going to your blog’s home page.

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OIO Publisher’s Click Me first before Paying Syndrome – How to cure it.

elie — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:17:29 +0000

OIO publisher is currently one of my favorite wordpress plugin at the moment because it’s very handy, easy to use, makes my life easier and best of all… it makes me money! but for every cool wordpress plugins, we all should face the facts that nothing can be perfect. There are still things that I didn’t like while using oio publisher and here’s one.

The Click me first Before Paying Syndrome is Turned on by Default.

one thing that I dislike about OIO publisher plugin is that it has this “click me first before buying syndrome” feature turned on. for all we know, and for those who are using OIO publisher, This is a Huge Factor to look at.

The Main reason why we are using OIO publisher is for the convenience of our website’s advertising. By having the “click me first before paying syndrome feature” turned on, it creates a lot of confusion especially to advertisers. and for some reason, it may also make you lose money. if you still don’t get what I mean, Checkout this video below:

How to Cure the Click me first before Buying syndrome

luckily, I was able talk to simon emery (the creator of the plugin) and he was glad to help me out with this problem. The Fix was to add a redirect to the paypal module which you can find in the wp-content/plugins/oiopub-direct/modules directory.

Simon made it easier for me by providing me a download file which I could just easily upload instead of editing the script. Here’s what I did to fix OIO Publisher’s click me first before buying syndrome.

1. Download this paypal.zip File that Simon emery Gave me. (don’t worry! it’s safe. =D)

2. Extract the file

2. Upload the folder to /wp-content/plugins/oiopub-direct/modules and overwrite the Paypal module.

3. Test it – and it works! :-)

note: this tutorial only works with paypal purchases since the redirect was only made thru the paypal module.

Here’s what happened after doing the steps above:

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I just Created my first WordPress blog. What’s next?

elie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:28:46 +0000

have you just Started your first blog and you keep on wondering what to do next? well, it’s one of the common problems new bloggers face for the first time they created their first wordpress blog. and for those who are just starting out their first blogging business, it takes them a whole book to learn these simple things.

That’s why I’ve written this posts. to provide a simple checklist for new bloggers who are just starting out their blogs. a checklist which if they’ve done everything written here, They can now just focus only on Generating content, marketing their blogs and of course – Make lot’s of money from it! =D

Get a Google account

Google accounts is truly a god send for all internet marketers and bloggers. without this tool, the internet marketing lifestyle wouldn’t be so much easier. if you don’t have a google account yet, be sure to sign up for one.

here are the main reasons why you should sign up for a google account. Make sure you have these Google services installed in your google account:

1. Burn your feed with Feedburner

be sure you burn your blog’s RSS feed with feed burner. if you’re running a wordpress blog, your blog feed address by default is http://www.yourblogname.com/feed (change ‘yourblogname’ to the actual blog url.)

the reason why I’m telling you this is for feedburner. on the first time you’re going to sign up for a feedburner account, Feedburner will ask you about your blog-feed address. and that’s what you’re suppose to give to them.

2. Set up your Google Analytics account

Google analytics is by far the best web tracking tool available online and it’s probably one of my most favorite google products ever. it will track your site’s stats like the number of your website visitors, where your audience are from, your biggest traffic sources, top keywords that brings the most traffic to your site and quite frankly a whole lot of information regarding to the activity of your website.

Google analytics is not just a tracking tool. there are more Features in it that you should be able to discover by trying it out yourself. but if you’re just starting a blog, I don’t recommend you to focus in it too much. the reason behind this is because you can get addicted to checking out your blog’s stats too much and actually forgetting about your blog.

3. Gmail

Gmail is probably the best choice when it comes to Email accounts. it’s very easy to use! you can also promote more of your brand by creating a POP3 email account and integrating it with gmail.

4. webmaster tools

Google webmaster tools is mainly used by website owners for SEO purposes. Sign up on google’s webmaster tools, Add your website and Provide the xml sitemap of your site. (you can easily create an xml sitemap for your site by using a plugin called Google sitemap generator.)

you should also Set-up your Preferred domain using webmaster tools. I explained how to do it on one of my posts – “6 Seo tips to create a search engine friendly blog”

5. adsense (optional)

if you want to make money online, you might find your success on Pay-per-click sites like the infamous Google adsense.

if you haven’t heard about adsense – What this program does is that it places Contextual ads relevant to what you’re blogging about. you make money each time one of your visitors clicks on these ‘ads’. so, if you’re looking for an easy way to start making money by blogging, google adsense is probably the easiest way to start.

Create a Sitemap For your site

Creating a sitemap for a site is probably the hardest thing to do specially if your blog already has hundreds of posts. But thanks to two wordpress plugins, Creating a sitemap for your wordpress blog has never been so much easier.

to create a sitemap for your site, install these two Plugins on your blog, follow the rest of their instructions and you’ll be good to go. (install Google xml sitemap first)

Get a Paypal account

a paypal account is very important especially if you’re into making money online. Almost 80% of my online earnings are paid via paypal and 97% of the time, I make my purchases using paypal instead of my credit card. paypal in my opinion is by far the most Secure and easiest way to send or receive money online. and I just can’t imagine anyone trying to make money on the internet without having a single Verified paypal account.

Make your Blog Search engine friendly

While having a Google friendly theme Like the Ultimate blogging theme could make your blog the most search engine friendly blog on the internet, There are still loads of ways that you can do to Improve your off-site optimization by following some of my SEO tips to make your blog even more seo friendly.

Create Pages for your blog

while Frequently creating blog posts to your blog is crucial, you should also take in consideration adding these simple pages on your blog’s nav-bar. if you still have no idea how to do it, Check out this video. inside the video, I’ve talked about creating pages and navbar items using the ultimate blogging theme and wordpress menus. WordPress menus is a recently added feature by wordpress. if you want to learn more about using wordpress menus checkout this video tutorial by Don campbell.

1. Create an About me page

Readers would love to know a little information about you. it will generate trust and would also build relationship along the way – which is one of the whole point of blogging. to build connections!

on your about page, write something about yourself, about the blog, and basically anything that describes you and your blog.

2. Contact Page

let your readers know that you’re accessible. on your contact page, Provide ways to let people contact you.

3. advertise page (optional)

very Important if you like to sell private advertising on your blog. an advertise page makes it easy for potential advertisers to buy advertising spots on your blog. you can also make selling ad-spots on your blog a whole lot easier by installing useful plugins like OIO publisher which automates the process.

Get a Customized Logo Design

Getting a Customized Logo design for your blog is just as important as using a WordPress premium theme. both of them plays a major part on a blog’s branding. if you’re one of those ‘gifted artists’ who can crop good looking images on photoshop, then it’s a good idea to create a logo design for your blog.

However, if your like me – I suck at creating beautiful images. you can simply outsource it. The quickest, cheapest and easiest way to do this is through a service that the friends over at logonerds is offering. They create Brilliant logo design for a very affordable prize. if you’re looking to save a little bit of time and want a cool logo for your blog, logo nerds is a good choice to go. for under $40, you can get your own customized logo design.

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How to Start a Blog and Make Money Blogging

elie — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:52:53 +0000

This is a FREE Step by step Coaching tutorial which also includes videos on how you can start your own blog right now and make money from it. What you’ll also discover and find out here are what most so-called “internet gurus” will teach you from a $97 ebook..

for your reference, Feel Free to bookmark this post. “CTRL+D” ;)

Starting a blog has become one of the most popular way to make money for people who wants to build a solid long term income. I strongly believe that everyone needs a blog and everyone simply have to take advantage of the opportunity on what blogging can give to an individual.

Blogging is a business and business is an investment.

if you want to make money blogging, You have to keep in mind that blogging is not a “get-rich-quick scheme.” blogging for all I know is a long term investment. you will not make money instantly. not unless you are someone who is rich and famous like Brad Pit or Britney Spears (which could generate thousands of visitors to their *new* blog instantly).

but of course, if you do it right, you can walk away from that job and be free!:-)

below is a step by step Guide on how to start a blog and make money from that blog.

Decide to start today

TODAY. No, not tomorrow, not next week, and not next month. Tomorrow always feels “safe” because you’re not having to make a decision. The power of today is that you make that commitment to yourself. And that is the first step to success.

This step is the most critical one, and it’s where most people get stuck. Don’t dream about doing something. Just get up and do it.

- dan and jenifer
blogsuccessjournal.com

if you really want to be successful on making money on the internet, the key is to take action… but it’s not all just about taking action… it’s also about taking THE RIGHT type of action.

the first thing you have to do is to decide what you want to blog about or pick a niche for your blog.

tip – Pick a Profitable Niche

notice that I inserted the word Profitable. since this post is about Starting a blog and making money from it, there’s no point if I tell you to pick any niche you want to blog about. if you want to make money from your blog, You have to make sure that The topic that you are actually blogging about is PROFITABLE. (although I think almost every niche is profitable) :-)

How to check if your niche is profitable

Decide What you Want to Blog About

Choosing the right niche for your blog is perhaps the most important choice you can make BEFORE starting a blog. Choose the wrong niche, and it’s very unlikely you’ll ever succeed.

to help you decide on what to blog about, you should probably
ask yourself these questions:

1. What Are The Things I love doing? – think about your hobbies and interests. stuffs that you love doing the most. something that you are passionate about. if you are not passionate about the topic, chances are you are not going to stick to it.

2. Does The Niche’s topic expand? – make sure that the niche you will be blogging about covers a wide range of topics that expands so you would actually have a lot to blog about.

3. Would I do this for free? – if you answered yes, then you had found your topic. people who blogs only for money seldom succeeds.

How to Start a Blog

you can start a blog right now by registering for a Free account on blogger.com or wordpress.com. They are the most popular blog sites on the internet. however, I don’t recommend you starting your blogs on these sites since there are many limitations and the worst part about it is that…

You don’t own your blog – they do.

if you create a blog on these sites like for example, “blogger.com” which is owned by google they have the power to delete your blog whenever they want even without notice. to simply put it, I recommend you to buy your own domain and start there.

The Best Place To Start a Blog is From a domain that you own

having your own domain name makes your blog look more professional. while it may not make you a pro-blogger, the advertisers will take you a lot more seriously. some ad networks don’t accept sites unless it has it’s own domain name. it’s better to get the domain name at the start than down the road. the last thing you want to do is build a blog on blogspot, get a ton of backlinks, pagerank, alexa and technorati rankings and then have to move it to it’s own domain and start over

-John chow
johnchow.com

1. Buy a domain name

The first thing you want to do when you had finally decided what to blog about is to buy a domain for your blog. The best place to buy one is at godaddy.com. all my domains are registered under godaddy since their service is good and the way they charge for the domain is really cheap. and I made the domain price even more cheaper on the video I made for you. ;)

if you don’t know how to buy a domain name yet, check out my post “how to buy a domain name” I made a video guide for you to follow there.

2. Host your Domain – get web hosting

a domain alone is not enough to start a blog. you need to get hosting to it. :-) you should also make sure that your blog’s webhost is reliable, Secure and responsive.

for hosting, I recommend hostgator since their service is simply on top of the line. and you get to host your website for as little as $0.01 Cent on your first month. (i taught you how to do it on the video)

if you don’t know how to get hosting for your account checkout my post “how to get hosting on hostgator” be sure to change the name server of your domain when you finally bought hosting for it.

3. Install The Best Blogging platform on your website – WordPress.ORG

When you had finally got a hosting account from hostgator, the next step should be installing wordpress software to your domain. if you don’t know how to do it, I made a Simple guide on this blog, check out the post at “how to install wordpress blogging platform”

4. Install a Good Theme for your blog

if you don’t know how to install a theme for your blog, checkout my post – “how to use ftp software and install a blog theme on your site”

qualities you have to look for for a WordPress theme:

The looks. – Does it look good?
easy to use – is it user-friendly?
Search engine Friendly – is it SEO Friendly?

The Looks

in my opinion, having a good theme is crucial when it comes to blogging. since your blog theme represents your personality and how people will see you.

to simply put it… – your theme describes YOU. if you have a bad looking theme, chances are people might not trust you by just judging from your blog’s theme.

SEO Friendly and Ready

a blog theme plays a big part on Search Engine optimization. be sure your getting the most out of your blog theme by having the qualities needed for seo.

Easy to use

The one of the best thing I liked about the theme that I am using right now is that it’s very user-friendly. in fact, it’s very user-friendly that I don’t even have to edit a single code or do any tweaks to it.. it’s just simply install- and go.

the good news is, there’s already such a blog theme that exist… and it’s the

Ultimate blogging theme – the exact same theme I use from this blog. it simply looks good, easy to use and best of all it’s SEO friendly. (the author of the theme is actually on the Frontpage on google for the very competitive keyword “make money online”.

Which simply proves… the theme itself really works. and it cost real cheap too. for only $67 you get a copy of the blog theme and make your way making money blogging… if you want to learn more about it, you can check it out here. – Ultimate blogging theme.

- Features, stuffs to like and how to use the ultimate blogging theme – (coming soon)

again, if you still don’t know how to install a blog theme, I taught you how to do it at my post on “how to use ftp software and install a blog theme” ;)

5. Get to know how to use WordPress a little bit and Publish your first post

“a little bit” cause it’s what you’ll really need to learn which is really very easy. all you have to do is learn how to post, accept comments, and install some plugins etc.

WordPress Video tutorials – (coming soon)

6. Send Traffic to your Blog

There are Hundreds Of ways to send traffic to a Website. The best thing to do really when you are just starting out is – not to care too much about your traffic but instead, focus on Writing / creating quality content for your blog which would actually Bring you visitors the first place – the traffic would come naturally.

how to gain and build traffic to a website (Coming soon…)

The Best Places to gain traffic to a blog:

Search engine
From an Email List
Referring websites
Directly Visited your site

Make Money online – The Formula

The Simple formula on making money online:

MYTH - The formula on making money on the internet is Traffic…

Traffic = Money… WRONG!

it’s Traffic + Conversion = Money .

You will not make money online with crappy traffic alone. you also have to make sure that your blog, website or something that you are selling on ebay is actually converting well.

Traffic by the way is “the Number of visitors a website receives daily”.

Conversion is simply “how active?” the visitors Responded to an offer from a website which could be signing up for your email list, Clicking your adsense ads, Buying your products etc…

example Scenario –

you are selling an ebook on your website for $10
that website of yours generates around 100 visitors daily.
everyday, 30 out of those 100 people who visits your website buys the ebook that you were selling.
you make money. (made $300 a day or $9000 that month)
That’s conversion. :)

How To Make Money From a Blog – Monetize Your Blog

After you had successfully started your blog and Generated your First contents for it, it’s time to monetize your blog and actually make money from it.

below are the best ways to make money from a blog

1. Ask for Donations

you Can choose to accept donations and it’s a pretty good way to start. you can easily Create a donation button with paypal and place it in your blog. just make sure visitors can see it. The trick on asking for a donation is to let visitors actually KNOW that you are asking for donations.

Tip – Do not just post the “paypal donate button” but instead, Place a different image if you can and add a simple text / tagline like “hey, like my blog? Buy me a beer!” or “buy me a coffee” (stuffs which cost not more than $1)

if you’re having fun making money with donations, you can also consider having an Amazon wishlist to post on your blog. There’s a chance that someone like Bill Gates (one of the most richest man in the world) would see it and actually make one of your wishes come true. ;)

2. Sign up for Ad networks

ad networks like Google-adsense is probably the most popular (but not the best) way to make money from a blog.

List of ad networks:

google.com/adsense
Kontrera.com
Infolinks.com
Bidvertiser.com

the idea here is to sign up for an account with one or all of these ad networks and install a Code that they will give you to your website. they would then automatically Place ads that are related to your site’s content and when visitors of your site actually Click these ads, – You Make Money.

The thing you want to do when you decide to monetize your blog with ad networks like google adsense for example, is to make sure you place the ads accordingly and place it where visitors would actually click on it. which would give you a high CTR (click through rate)

you also have to consider The colors of the ads. it would Would work very well if the colors blend on your site and looks like part of your site’s content.

3. Endorse or sell Someone else’s Products / services – be an Affiliate

an Affiliate is basically someone who Recommends / endorse someone else’s product and Get’s a Cut of the money made from a sale.

How to be an affiliate

sign up for an account at Clickbank.com or any Site that’s accepting affiliates
Find a product to promote on the market place Related to your Blog’s niche
Don’t forget to Generate your affiliate link (hop link)
promote it on your blog and recommend them to your readers / visitors.

There are many more affiliate Companies. but the most popular are clickbank.com, paydotcom.com and e-junkie.com

Thousands (if not millions) of People had already made a Fortune by simply being an affiliate on clickbank and other affiliate companies. I don’t blame them cause for me, Being an affiliate is one of the Best ways to be Successful on making lots of money online.

The proper way to do affiliate marketing on a blog

Placing affiliate banners on your website is not enough. There are two Great ways to maximize your affiliate earnings. these are Capturing your visitors email address using aweber and Having this “Review / recommended page” on your blog.

Capture leads with an autorespoder

The main reason why you want to do this is to build a relationship with the customer and at the same time, Recommend more products to him overtime.

Recommends page

you want it easier for your visitors to see what you are actually endorsing for them. and at the same time, Give them value by giving them a Coupon code or a discount from a product you are promoting. and that’s when the “recommends page” takes in place.

4. Accept Paid Reviews

you can also make money from your blog by accepting sponsored reviews on your site. you can do this by either contacting potential advertisers (or them contacting you) Related to the niche that you are blogging about or by simply Signing up for an account on websites like payperpost, Reviewme, Sponsoredreviews etc…

popular bloggers Charge around $500 for just a single 200 words review.

5. Create your own product and sell it for profit

This ones a no brainer. you simply create your own product like an e-book for example, and sell it on your website for profit.

when you have your own product and your into this “internet marketing thingy” you obviously have a big advantage on the pack.

6. Sell Advertising Space on Your Blog

This is probably my most favorite way on making money from a blog since not only you get the money on the spot but you totally keep 100% of your advertising revenue.

Why sign up for google adsense or Promote affiliate links when you could keep 100% of the profit?

OIO Publisher Direct is probably the best plugin to have when it comes to selling advertising spot on a blog. all The transactions on my blog are handled by OIOpublisher.

How to sell advertising on a blog (coming soon…)

7. Sell Your Blog

when your blog had finally grow and built up a great community, built great articles in it and successfully made it popular (or even if you haven’t done those things written) you Can Sell your blog.

Sounds crazy but it Surely makes you money. this is also known as the term “site flipping” (i think)

There had been someone in the blogging world who had actually sold his blog for $15 million dollars.

you can check out the buzz at Problogger’s blog which happened last october 2008 – http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/10/02/1-man-blog-sells-for-15-million-dollars/

How to Automatically Create backups For Worpress – Video

elie — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:39:41 +0000

backups are really important and you will regularly be asked by wordpress or any service you use with your wordpress blog everytime you install or update something on your server. this is very crucial specially if your blog is making you money.

until just today, I’ve learned from john chow’s How To Automatically Backup Your Entire WordPress Blog that backing up the entire database of your blog is not enough, there are other parts of the blog that should be backed up as well.

Automatic WordPress backup Plugin

Automatic WordPress Backup is the ultimate backup tool for WordPress. The plugin will back up your entire WordPress site and not just the database. Backups are stored on Amazon S3 for maximum flexibility and reliability. Other features include:

Captures your ENTIRE site (WordPress database, themes, plugins, uploaded files and settings files), which means minimal downtime if you need to restore.
Totally automated backup means you spend more time getting stuff done and less time fighting your tools.
Minimal configuration. Set it and forget it.
Manually trigger backups so you can have some peace of mind before you install a new plugin or a WordPress update.

Here’s a video on how to install and use it

How To Pick a Niche and Check if it’s profitable

elie — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:38:32 +0000

I would like to share with you a short video That I found on youtube which is very helpful when it comes to picking the right niche market especially for people who are just starting out on internet marketing.

The idea is to get to know yourself and what you’re passionate about. in the video, they surveyed about 5 people and asked these questions:

if you were to write an article at your favorite magazine… what would it be?

Do you think you could write a lot of content about it?

When I first started blogging, I really didn’t care about SEO, Analyzing my competition, or even think about if the niche I am blogging about and the products I am actually affiliated with is profitable. and to tell you the truth, back then I really didn’t know shit about any of them either. :P

I have no knowledge about SEO, Analytics and heck. I didn’t even Care even if I make money from the blog or not. all I did was, splat Google ads in it, write something useful related to the topic and post on the blog frequently.

one of my first blogs ever (Neobux basics) is the blog I’m talking about. it’s a solid proof that any niche you pick as long as you are passionate about the topic, Chances are it will be Profitable.

Over time I learned about keyword research and SEO, implemented it on Neobux basics and the next thing I know, I was generating around 300 visitors daily and was making about $30 a month from that blogspot blog alone. it’s not much but it’s still worth as an extra gas money on my pocket. plus I get to learn from it and implement what I’ve learned on My main blog, elie-palima.com. :)

if I had been more serious about Neobux basics before, it could have had the potential to make atleast 3 figures monthly. but for the record, “it’s not too late.” ;)

you can say that I just got lucky, since the niche I was talking about had no competitors at the time and it was really easy Ranking on the search engines for my keywords. and I can’t imagine why.. :D

now, Neobux basics is almost dead, I’m trying to revive it by posting atleast once or twice a month. but still, I’m very proud of it since it’s my first blog ever and I learned many things from it along the way.

How To Find a niche

First of all, you should follow what is said on the video above… and like you’ve seen on the video, ask yourself these questions… (I only add up question #2)

1. if you were to write on a magazine.. what would it be? and do you think you can write a lot about it?

2. Are you willing to do it for free??? if the answer is yes, then you had found the topic.

“people who only blogs for money seldom succeeds”

Pick a Good keyword

grab a piece of paper and think about phrases “keywords” that you think people will type in google or other search engines to find your website or blog.

when you finish writing about 3-6 main keywords, proceed to the next step.

How to Check if a niche is profitable

like I said before, I think almost every niche is profitable… as long as you enjoy blogging about it, then you’re probably be well on your way from making money from your niche. However, to be really certain that the niche is profitable, you have to be sure that there is a DEMAND for it on the “market” the internet market. here are 4 ways to do it.

Check if There are People Searching For it

use google adword keyword tool and check if the main keywords for your niche is actually getting enough searches.

Adword tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

if you see over a hundred thousand searches for it, then it’s a good sign that the niche is profitable.

Check The keyword Competition

like what I said above, my neobux PTC niche had been profitable for me since the competition back then was very low. The lower the competition, the higher chance you will make profit on a given niche.

Pick a keyword / niche for which the competition is high, then there’s a small chance to make money from your niche.

Go to google.com and search for your keywords. then look how many people are talking about it. if there are over 20 million results with it, it’s one of the signs that there’s a huge competition going on with the niche…

for example, if I type in the keyword “make money online” (a very good keyword by the way, lots of advertisers, million searches a month, but the downside is… it’s too saturated. too much competition already.)

the keyword “make money online” has over 151,000,000 people talking about it. and it’s a bad sign

if you probably haven’t noticed yet, this blog of mine is on the “make money online niche” which is a very competitive niche. not only the niche it self but also the keyword itself, “make money online” is a very though keyword to rank well for.. me being stubborn as ever, I tend to stick to the niche and get on with it. even if there’s a lot of competition. :)

Use a tool to help you out

a great thing about this is that there are actually tools that I found to handle these kinds of stuffs and it’s the SEO elite an the keyword elite softwares by brad callen. there are more tools available online but these tools had proved itself to people.

(I haven’t used them though, But I heard many great things about the product) I’m planning to buy one in the future, but for now, I’ll handle things “manually” lols.

Check if there are Potential Advertisers

go to google.com and once again, search for your main keywords. Check if there are any advertisers.

if you type in “get rich quick” or “make money online” you’ll see many advertisers bidding for those keywords.

this a good sign… but still alot of competition.

Check if there’s a product to promote as an affiliate

Go to clickbank.com or paydotcom, and browse on their market place. and take a look if there are potential products that you can promote related to your niche.

How to use FTP and Install a WordPress theme | start a blog and make money

elie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:13:04 +0000

The 5th step of the coaching series – “Start a blog and make money” a video is available for you to watch below.

After you had successfully installed WordPress blogging platform on your domain, now is the time to install a good looking theme. and we are going to need an FTP software for this.

there are lots of good FTP softwares around but I personally use Core FTP Lite. it’s a free software available for download so there’s no need to worry…

you can download it here: http://www.coreftp.com/download/coreftplite.exe or just simply search on google for the keyword “core ftp”.

FTP softwares btw are softwares used to upload files from your computer to your desktop or vice-versa, download files from your website to your computer.

anyways, after you had successfully downloaded the file, install it on your computer and you’re good to go. ;)

Open up the file and this is what you’ll see:

Just type in the required information. all you’ll need to fill up are the site name, host/ip/url, username and password area. after that’s done just hit hit connect and you’re ready to upload a theme for your website.

on the video I’m going to show you, I used the Ultimate blogging theme as The example theme that we will be using for this tutorial. if you don’t have the UBT yet, I recommend you getting one since it’s the best theme I found online so far, and good price too!

you can however download a Free WordPress theme just about anywhere on the net by simply google-ing it. but I would always recommend the ultimate blogging theme for you to use since it’s very user and google friendly plus it looks good so you might as well get one. ;)

Check out UBT here: http://www.elie-palima.com/ultimatebloggingtheme

after that’s done, Watch the video below on how to install a wordpress theme using ftp:

here’s a full screen version of the video:
http://www.elie-palima.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/THEME/THEME.html

here’s a summary of what I did to install the theme:

downloaded core ftp
installed core ftp and configured it on my computer
downloaded a theme (in this case, I used “UBT” ultimate blogging theme)
Uploaded UBT to – public_html/wp-content/themes directory
Logged in wordpress control panel by typing “http://mydomain.com/wp-admin
Activated UBT on my wordpress control panel

after you had successfully installed a blogging theme on your blog, now is the time to get to know about how to use wordpress a little bit. which I am going to talk about on the next lesson on how to start a blog and make money.