In the last post we discussed mostly Niche Research, but we’re going to advance beyond the basics here to discuss other details for setting up new websites and a little bit on promoting them.
Important:
Stay focused if/when you work your way through these tutorials and videos linked to on this page. Most of what you want to accomplish for niche research, setting up websites, and yes, even learning how to get traffic can be found out for free. If you know that what you’re being told isn’t tripe, hype or B.S. then you can rely on freely given information to help your business.
So let me just say that the videos linked to below are good content, reviewed by me, and you don’t need to buy anything just yet.
Watch and learn, literally….
Moving forward, I assume you’ve done some homework/research, have decided on a niche and have a good keyword-rich domain name, so we’ll go in to some detail on:
- How to generate Keyword lists
- How to generate LSI-related KW lists
- Site planning, design and optimization
- Install WordPress
- Install Plugins
- Install Themes
Let’s Go…
#1- How to generate keyword lists, how to plan your site content, how to structure your site
This video is 67 minutes long and the first 20-30 minutes is introductory stuff, the rest is pretty good information. Click here to watch the video then come back here if you have any questions, no need for me to repeat what someone else is saying, right? Especially if we’re both pretty much saying the same thing….
#2 – How to find LSI thematically relevant keywords
Here’s another golden nugget freebie. This report (click here to get download it) will show you how to use a free tools to reverse engineer the top ranked sites and generate keyword lists that will help you rank easier and faster. If/when you combine this with the information in the video linked to above, you’ll have a pretty clear understanding on how to rank well in the search engines.
#3 -Registering Domain Names, Getting Hosting
Video – Register domain with NameCheap, it’s cheaper than GoDaddy, easier to work with, has coupons every month, easy funding of Namecheap account with PayPal.
Video – Get hosting account with Hostgator - you can bargain hunt to find a better deal possibly, but Hostgator has live chat, 24-hour support, does weekly backups of all your sites
Video – Transfer DNS from domain registrar (in this case it’s NameCheap) over to your web hosting. You need to do this if you want your site to be live, and hosted by your web hosting. I highly recommend against using domain registrars to host your websites, especially GoDaddy hosting.
NOTE: What this does is in newbie speak is it tells the world that your domain name is live and well and is hosted over here (in this case it’s Hostgator’s DNS servers. If you absolutely need to know what DNS servers are, here’s a good explanation of it…
(1) Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses
. Because domain names are alphabetic, they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4. Source
#4 Installing WordPress, Installing and using Plugins, and Themes
NOTE: Why WordPress? Because once it’s installed it’s the easiest way to publish content, manage that content, and create a good looking site (using freely available themes)
Video: How to install WordPress in 2-3 minutes in Hostgator cPanel using Fantastico Deluxe
Video: How to install WordPress – just a general video in case you don’t use Hostgator
Video: Install WordPress Plugins Automatically
List of free plugins I have on most of my sites: All of these are easily installed from within Admin Panel and no FTP is required
- 404 SEO Plugin – redirects dead links to keyword relevant post
- Akismet – Anti-SPAM plugin, comes installed with WordPress, you need to get a key for it via link provided in Admin Panel. Use this in addition to Spam Karma
- AllInOneSEO or Platinum SEO – SEO Plugins that help optimize your posts for the search engines
- Comment Luv- encourages comments, comment management plugin
- Contact Form – make it easy for people to contact you privately
- Cross Linker – good for sales AND SEO… hyperlink certain words and link to posts on site or affiliate links
- FollowMe (Twitter) – sidebar graphic that encourages people to Follow you on Twitter
- Google XML Sitemaps- creates sitemap for your blog
- Post Teaser – displays “read more” or “continue reading” after XX # of words in a post
- Robots Meta – good SEO plugin for managing DoFollow, NoFollow attributes on site
- RSS footer – adds links to your RSS feed snippets, forcing RSS-scraping auto-bloggers to link back to your content when they scrape it.
- SpamKarma – advanced anti-Spam plugin
- Subscribe to Comments – emails commenters when additional replies/comments were made on something they subscribed to, good for keeping the conversation going and letting your commenters know when you’ve replied
- Targeted Subscribers – My first plugin, read about it and download it here
- TweetMeme (Twitter)- Essential for getting your content posted out to the Twitter-sphere
- What Would Seth Godin Do – Encourages RSS readership
- WordPress Automatic Upgrade -you need this to automate the constant WordPress version upgrades
- WP 125 (Manages Banner Ads)
- WP Super Cache – supposedly makes your blogs load faster
- Yet Another Related Posts – displays related content at end of posts
Plugin I don’t use but a lot of others use:
Feedburner – for building and managing your RSS readership
Video: How to Find and Install Free WordPress Themes to make your site look beautiful
#5- Basic site promotion techniques to get your site noticed, indexed, crawled etc…
Video: How to Add Your Site To Google Webmaster Tools
Video : How To Submit Your Website to Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engines
Video: Submitting Your Website to DMOZ, the Open Directory
Video: How To Submit Articles to EzineArticles [ezinearticles.com]
So there you have a list of videos that will help you:
- Do in-depth keyword/niche research
- Generate keyword lists
- Register a domain
- Get web hosting
- Transfer DNS from registrar to web hosting
- Install WordPress, install plugins, find and install themes, and what plugins to install
- Some basic site promotion techniques
Any questions? Let me know 
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Most of what you want to accomplish for niche research, setting up websites, and yes, even learning how to get traffic can be found out for free.
@8gb sdhc card, correct, but who do you believe?
And how valuable is freely given content?
That’s what people are thinking, all you can do is point the way