Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................5
Why Do You Need a Blog?....................................................................................................7
What to Blog About................................................................................................................9
The Make Money Online Niche.........................................................................................9
What About Other Areas?................................................................................................10
Register a Domain Name.....................................................................................................12
Hosting Your Blog.................................................................................................................14
Name Servers Linking Your Domain Name & Hosting.....................................................16
Setting Up Email Accounts in cPanel...................................................................................18
Installing Wordpress.............................................................................................................20
Setting SEO Friendly URLs.................................................................................................22
Replacing the Default Blog Theme......................................................................................24
Uploading Your New Blog Theme....................................................................................24
Activating Your New Blog Theme....................................................................................25
Enhance Your Wordpress Experience With Plugins............................................................27
Uploading a New Plugin..................................................................................................29
Activating a New Plugin...................................................................................................30
Using Your Blog as a List Building Tool...............................................................................32
Integrating Aweber to Your Blog......................................................................................33
Persuading People To Join Your List...............................................................................35
Uploading This Report to Your Hosting...........................................................................35
Getting Started With Wordpress..........................................................................................37
Creating a Post................................................................................................................37
Creating a Page...............................................................................................................38
Categories.......................................................................................................................39
Blog Roll...........................................................................................................................39
Further Help.....................................................................................................................40
Producing Content...............................................................................................................42
Your First Blog Post.........................................................................................................42
Keep Blogging!.................................................................................................................43
There is NEVER Nothing to Blog About........................................................................44
Driving Traffic to Your Blog...................................................................................................48
Commenting on Other Blogs...........................................................................................48
Twitter.............................................................................................................................49
Article Marketing..............................................................................................................52
Social Media....................................................................................................................52
Search Engines................................................................................................................54
Making Money From Your Blog............................................................................................55
Want to Make Money? Then Sell Things! .......................................................................55
An Introduction to Affiliate Marketing...............................................................................56
Creating Your Own Products...........................................................................................57
Your Blog is a Sales Funnel.................................................................................................59
Contacting Your List.............................................................................................................62
Basic Email Template......................................................................................................63
Email Checklist................................................................................................................63
Further Help.....................................................................................................................65
Summary.............................................................................................................................66
Final Thoughts.....................................................................................................................69