Step By Step Tutorial On How To Build An Online Business
Overview
The objective of this tutorial is to help you build a successful online business.
- Learn how to make money online
- Finding a good platform
- Finding your interest
- Building your first website
- How to attract visitors
(Throughout this course, you will be completing certain tasks, so go through this at your own pace!)
How To Make Money Online
Affiliate Marketing is proven to be one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to make money online.
You don’t need to own a product, you don’t need to own an actual store, you don’t need to deal with shipping and handling, and most importantly, you don’t have face to face interaction.
You basically earn money by promoting the product or service within your niche.
Once you are successful in this business, you can potentially make money while you sleep!
The Reasons Why You Want To Start An Affiliate Marketing Business
- You DON’T have to own the product or service!
- You DON’T need to have any prior online marketing or business knowledge.
- The startup cost is VERY LOW and can be absolutely FREE.
- You DON’T have to own an actual store.
- Unlike standard sales, you have ZERO physical contact.
- You DON’T have to ship the product!
- You DON’T have to deal with customer service.
- Your Website will work for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Complete These Tasks Before Continuing
***(Sign Up for a free account with Wealthy Affiliate)***
Sign up is simple, all you will need is Create A Username, Password, and have an Email Address. We will also be utilizing their resources, tools, and certification courses to continue on with our lessons.
***(Create Your Profile Page And Meet The Community)***
Wealthy Affiliate has over 900,000 members from all over the world. You’ll want to properly introduce yourself because the people you meet in the community will help guide you toward success.
After the creation of your account, you will start to receive followers and messages from other members. Most people are seasoned affiliate marketers, so it doesn’t hurt to stay in touch with everyone.
You will also receive a message from me shortly after to help get you started!
Without further ado, let’s get started on the first lesson!
Lesson One
Congratulations on making it this far! By now, you should have registered your very own FREE membership account for Wealthy Affiliate.
Certification Course: Wealthy Affiliate offers a certification course to help get you started! It is the most comprehensive course you can find on the internet! I was able to learn how to do everything as a beginner with ZERO experience.
Refer back to my website and any completed courses on Wealthy Affiliate if you get stuck. I offer lifetime support to everyone! (I work alone, so response time can vary!)
Don’t Be Overwhelmed By The Term NICHE
In this lesson, we will talk about what a niche is with some examples! This is very important, so think carefully and write it down on a notepad.
What is a Niche? A niche is a group of people. They are also people you want to target with the use of your website.
The people who visit your website are looking for information! Whether it is to learn a new skill, review on a product, or find recommended products. Your job is to provide helpful information.
Niche Example
✵Let’s say your niche is about how to make money online!
You’ll want to educate your readers by informing them about a service or method on how to make money online.
Bonus: Here are 5 niche markets that will always make money!
But keep in mind, your job is NOT to force someone to buy anything. Instead, I want you to recommend. You also want to be completely honest because credibility is very important. (DON’T BE A SCAMMER).
If Apple Inc. is known for deceiving their customers, would you trust them?
Read This Before Choosing Your Niche!
Do you have a passion for your niche? This is very important because your website is now based off of this niche. You want to be able to write quality content, so if it’s something you have no interest in. You will have a hard time developing contents for your viewers.
If you don’t have any interest in your niche, How are you going to solve problems for your viewers? How are you going to offer them advice?
You also want to be specific with your niche! You don’t want to choose something very broad. Let’s use clothing as an example.
There are so many types of clothing: You can narrow it down to something more specific, such as baby clothes! – This can be used to cater to the audience who just had a baby!
Learn how to find your niche by Clicking Here.
You can also use Google Trends to see the popularity of your niche by Clicking Here.
Complete These Tasks Before Continuing
***Go Through The Certification Course on Wealthy Affiliates on CHOOSING A NICHE***
Lesson Two
In this lesson, we will use the information provided in Lesson One to build your first website! This will be the foundation for your success online!
Don’t worry if you are new to building a website! You will have your very own website built and hosted on the servers in approximately 30 Seconds!
Check out the article about building a website with Wealthy Affiliate
Step #1
First, you want to log in to your Wealthy Affiliate account > Websites > Site Builder. Wealthy Affiliate gives you 2 free websites to start building!
Step #2
As a free member of Wealthy Affiliate, you can create 2 starter websites with the .siterubix.com domain. Wealthy Affiliate also gives you access to the worlds most advanced website platform in the world.
You can register a domain, but you will have to purchase it on an annual basis! However, by purchasing the domain, it belongs to you. Example: www.smartaffiliatehub.com
In the future, you can easily MOVE a free .siterubix.com button to a registered domain ( the one you own) using the “Premium Only” MOVE feature.
So, by all means, start off with your free websites because you can move it to your own domain in the future as a premium member.
Step #3
You will now have to choose a domain! This is very important because this domain name will represent your online business. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will use the FREE domain.
You don’t want a domain like www.123Makemefree456drinksometea.siterubix.com
Now, pull out your notebook from Lesson One and check what your niche is. If it’s about basketball shoes, you can try something like www.basketballshoesanddeals.siterubix.com
Step #4
Choosing a design for your website! As a free member, you can choose up to 12, handpicked quality designs. There’s no universal theme, so choose something that fits your niche!
Don’t worry if it’s not something you want down the road. This can be changed at any time via the administrator panel.
Remember, the first impression matters especially on the internet. If your website doesn’t look professional, people will not stay to read your content.
Congratulations, you have just created your very own website!
Personalize Your Website
Now that you have your website up and running, the next step is to personalize it! Following the steps and ask if you get stuck, please let me know!
Once you’re logged in, you should see something like the picture below↓
At first glance, this might be a little overwhelming, but it’s easy like riding a bike. You just need to mess around with it(:
Now, you should locate and click (Plugins)! This is where you install the essential add-ons for your website. I want you to follow the picture below and click activate.
On the left-hand side, you will see many options! I want you to locate Pages, Comments, and Posts.
Click open them and you will notice there are prewritten default pages, comments, or post. You should delete them and in the near future, you can add your own content. Make sure to click preview changes before update/publish!
You now have access to creating content on your website! Now that you have your website set up, I’m going to go over some of the most commonly asked questions for website building!
How To Create A Menu On Your Website
Steps To Move Privacy And Disclaimer To Your Footer
1) Open a page (any page – you’re not going to save it)
2) Type the words PRIVACY|DISCLAIMER at the bottom of the page.
3) Select the word PRIVACY followed by “add link” and add the URL to your Privacy page. Same for DISCLAIMER.
4) Now, change the view from “view” to “text” from the tabs at the top.
5) Look for the code where you’ve just added those words and links.
6) Select the whole string – everything
7) Right Click “Copy”
8) Now go to where you enter your dashboard (yes, you can leave the page you’re currently on – just make sure you have the copied text available)
9) Look for appearance and find widgets. Once you see widgets, click it.
10) Look for “footer” – Drag and drop the available widget called “HTML”
11) Paste the code from step 6-7
You should no see PRIVACY|DISCLAIMER in your footer and they will be hyperlinked to their respective pages.
Complete This Task Before You Continue
Review the lesson course for Setting Up Your Own Website! Video Tutorial is available!
Lesson Three
In this lesson, we will go over how to gain traffic to your website! By now, you should have your niche website up and run. Before we can even talk about gaining traffic to your website, you want to make sure you have quality content.
Definitely, contact me if you want some feedback on your website! It is done manually, so it’s first, come first served.
First, we will talk about SEO, search engine optimization. This is very important in terms of generating traffic!
Google searches alone accounts for 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. That is a lot of searching, not including other popular search engines.
Your goal is to get your website ranked on the popular search engines such as Google, yahoo, bing, etc. Why do you want to be ranked on search engines?
Website Rankings = Targeted Traffic = Revenue!
Do you remember earlier in Lesson Two, we talked about enabling 2 plugins? One of them being the All-In-One SEO Pack! Now, we want to set up our SEO through its general settings.
You want to click on the general settings to get started. You want to make some changes within!
#1 – Home Title – This will not show up on your actual website. This will be the displayed title when you get ranked on search engines.
*You want this title to relate to your website!
#2 – Home Description – This is your opportunity to let potential viewers know, what your website is about and how it can help them!
Make sure you update the options once you’re done! Note: You don’t have to upgrade to the PRO version!
The purpose of doing the above is so your website is ready for the search engines once you start posting more contents to your website.
Keywords to Optimize SEO
Google and other search engines are always looking for relevant websites, so you want to make sure your website contains contents are relevant to your niche!
One way to do that is by applying keywords to your blog, preferably the first sentence or paragraph of your post. This will allow the search engines to see the relevance of your topic when it gets indexed.
Keyword Research Tool
The keyword research tool is a very important aspect if you are looking to be successful in online marketing! This tool will give you an idea of how popular a keyword is and how many competitions are out there. For example:
This will give you an idea of what is a good keyword for your website! The lower the competition the better since you are a beginner that has a new website!
As a Free Member, you have access to 30 searches. Full Access Keyword Tool comes with the Premium Membership.
OR
Check out my FULL review of Jaaxy Keyword Research Tool by Clicking Here.
Social Network
If you haven’t reached out to your social networks then you should start doing that now! These are people who you have a connection with.
I don’t recommend focusing too much on ONE social media because what happens if it becomes unpopular?
Highly Recommended: Sign up for a Google+ account if you haven’t already done so. Use this to broadcast any updates on your website.
Make Contents Visual – Easily Shareable – Informative – Respond To People Who Comment
Learn more about using Social Media for your website by Clicking Here.
Advertising
There are many forms of advertisement! As a matter of fact, what you did above is actually part of the advertisement and it costs you ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
However, there are other forms of advertisement that can also generate organic traffic. However, I only recommend this if your website is somewhat established. If you already have blogs and decent traffic from the above methods.
Google AdWords is a great place to start! They are a PPC or Pay Per Click advertising platform! You can sign up by Clicking Here.
What you do is, you enter relevant keywords for your website and placing a bid. I recommend something like $5.00 per day to understand how it works. Your advertisement will be distributed by Google to relevant websites to give you exposure.
This is an example of spending money to make money!
When someone clicks your ad, Google will automatically deduct the amount you set and you will pay Google after 30 days or when you reach your threshold of $350.00
Example: If your max bid per click is $1.00, that means $1.00 is the max you would pay per click on your advertisement.
Once you’re established, there is a way for you to make money instead! It is the counterpart of Google Adwords called Google AdSense.
You can learn more about Google AdSense by Clicking Here.
I blog regularly, so make sure you double-check my website whenever you have time(:
Complete These Tasks (:
***Updating General Setting on All-In-One SEO Pack***
***Register For A Google+ Account***
***Inform people about your website through Social Media***
***Checked Out Article About Getting Your Website Search Engine Ready***
***Checked Out Wealthy Affiliates Traffic Breakdown***
If you have any questions regarding this lesson, please let me know and I will do my best to assist you!
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