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How to Install WordPress Themes

By on July 27, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

How to Install WordPress Themes

One of the most popular CMS systems going around the world today is WordPress. Much of it’s success is down to ease of use, and how beginner friendly the whole platform is. This ease of use also extends to installing WordPress themes, but sometimes you need a bit of a hand.

Starting from WordPress Version 2.7 onwards. You can now install WordPress themes straight from your admin section. Once logged in into the backend, go Appearance –> Add Themes. From here you can search through WordPress own back catalogue of templates. After choosing one it is just a few simple clicks and follow the steps to install it.

However you may not always be able to find the template you are looking for through this catalogue. Often it is hard to gauge just how well it will look on your site from a tiny thumbnail. In instances like this you can surf around the web looking for free WordPress themes.

Once you find a theme you like, you will need to download it to your own PC. It will likely be in either RAR or ZIP format, so you will need a unzipping tool. WinRar is free to download if the file has a.rar extension. Once unpackaged, you will need to FTP/Upload the files to your own webhost. Most webhosts put your files into the “”public_html”” folder so that is a good place to start. If your WordPress installation is in the root directory, you should be in the right place instantly on connection, otherwise you will need to navigate through the folders.

You then need to navigate through to the themes folder. The directory tree goes something like: public_html –> *WordPress installation folder* –> wp-content –>themes.

You can upload your unpackaged theme to this folder.

Then it is is a matter of logging back into your admin panel. Going Appearance –> Themes and activating your new theme. If on this screen you cannot see a thumbnail picture of the the theme you just uploaded. Try doing a refresh of the page by pressing f5 on your keyboard. If it still doesn’t show, make sure that when you uploaded the new theme, that it was placed into it’s own folder. If this still doesn’t resolve the problem you may have downloaded a dud package and you can either try downloading it again, or finding another theme.

Learning how to install WordPress themes just becomes second nature after a while. Especially once you work out the WordPress directory structure. Plus don’t forget that once you settle on a nice looking theme, you rarely change it again!

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Making Money Online

By on July 25, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Making Money Online

There are countless methods and techniques that one can utilize to earn either a part-time or full-time income, and there are more people everyday striking riches on the internet. Like any other method of making money it definitely doesn’t come easy and you need to work hard in the first initial couple years to ensure you’re set-up for the future. Some of the ways you earn online are short-term quick means of cash and although these are great you should focus on the long-term sustainable income if you plan on working online full-time. Below are some of the methods you can use to earn an online income.

– Paid Surveys
– Selling Products/Services
– Affiliate Sales
– Advertising Sales

Generally these are the most common sought after methods of earning money online and cover basically any topic you could imagine. Paid surveys can be great for new webmasters looking to begin earning online, with surveys the money is slow but you’ll be able to get some income going and you’ll learn more about how the internet runs and how you can make money. I suggest you join a few survey networks as with only joining one you might not make sufficient funds. The more surveys you place yourself in front of the more chance you have of earning income. All surveys will pay you money, but there is definitely the need for doing a nice number of them to earn any substantial money.

For longer term income you can sell your own product or service, this can be done through your own website or through forums and social networking sites. There are countless amounts of people hiring freelancers from forums and social networking sites. If you want to earn an income through selling services and products then you’ll need to ensure you allow proper time to do so. It wouldn’t be honest to tell you that you can expect to earn hundreds of dollars a day from the get-go and generally this will never happen. With a product you need to set-up a website and then work on advertising it to your target audience and then hope you start triggering sales, which usually will happen in time but there are some products that never sell. If you’re offering a webmaster service then money can begin right away through forums, because there are always people looking for freelance webmasters to complete jobs.

If you don’t have your own product and you don’t think you could offer a service then you can do affiliate sales which is basically you selling someone else’s product for a commission. If you think you have sales talent and just are missing the product to sell then affiliate sales might work for you. You can also earn money through leads which is where you send people from your website to another website to sign-up for something free. Leads don’t pay nearly as well as sales but you can get your foot in the door with your affiliate network by setting up a few good lead offers on your site. You need to make sure that your product or lead that you offer on your site is targeted towards your audience or else don’t expect many sales.

The last method to earn money that we’ll be discussing in this article is advertising sales. There are different ways to earn through advertising sales which consist of either joining an ad network like Adsense and using their ads to earn money, or you can find people to advertise your site by yourself. You’ll obviously make more money by selling your own ads on your site but this can be time consuming and often you’ll end up making less due to open spots. I find a good medium is too use Adsense and then sell the odd link or banner on the site for some extra income. This is the best way to utilize advertising income, you just need to make sure that you don’t place too many sold links on your site because your site can be harmed by this, which isn’t what you’re trying to do.

All of these great methods that I’ve walked through with you above are wonderful ways to earn money and you should try them all out. Once you begin to get comfortable you’ll be able to utilize more then one of the methods above on everyone of your sites that you make. You’ll want to focus on one site in the beginning but once you feel you have conquered some of the techniques you need to know then you can begin branching out and making new sites. Millions of people earn money online everyday and it can be done by anyone at any age from any country. If you’re serious about making money online there are tons of resources on the internet that you can use to become more knowledgeable in the area. You should remember to start slow and not expect to even earn a dollar in the first few months. You need to establish your sites and methods of earning before the real money starts coming in, those with the patience will notice success before those who throw away all their projects.

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WordPress Plugins – 5 Great WP Plugins For Your New Blog Or Website

By on July 25, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

WordPress Plugins – 5 Great WP Plugins For Your New Blog Or Website

WordPress is an amazing Blogging platform which makes it really quick and easy for anyone to publish their own blog or website.

WordPress Plugins are clever little programs created by Plugin Developers which can be quickly installed to produce literally hundreds of different features, effects and benefits for your blog.

So if you want to add video to your blog or website – there are many plugins to choose from. If you want to add photo galleries to your blog – then again there are lots of options to choose from. There is probably a plugin for virtually anything you can think of.

For the first time blogger or newcomer to WordPress I would recommend the following 5 Plugins to give you an idea of the range and versatility of WP Plugins. There are lots more if you need them, but the following plugins will literally give you the potential to transform your blog saving you lots of time, stress and hassle.

Here is my recommended list to get you up and running, you can find them from the Plugins Menu in your WordPress Control Panel – Just choose the option to ‘Add New’ and then just search for the following plugins:

List of 5 Recommended WP Plugins for Newcomers to WordPress Self Hosted Blogs

1) Smart Youtube WP Plugin – Add Youtube Videos

2) Photodropper WP Plugin – Add Flickr Images

3) Contact Form 7 WP Plugin – Add a professional Contact Form

4) AddThis WP Plugin – Add a ‘Share’ button to each blog post

5) Twittercounter WP Plugin – Add a Twittercounter to your sidebar

1) Smart Youtube Plugin – Add Youtube Videos

This is a plugin which allows you to quickly and easily add virtually any Youtube video to your blog post or blog page. You can easily customize the appearance of the video player in terms of color and size to fit perfectly with your blog theme and design.

To use the plugin all you need to do is copy and paste the Youtube video url into your blog post and then make a tiny amendment to the url (add the letter ‘v’) and that is it. It’s really quick and simple – no other code is required.

2) Photodropper Plugin – Add Flickr Photos

This plugin allows you to search for images by keyword from within your WordPress Control Panel. So as you are writing a blog post, you can just search out an appropriate image and Photodropper will present you with a list of photos which you have permission to publish.

All you do is simply select the image you like and publish it to your post. Again, like the Smart Youtube plugin – it is really quick and easy.

3) Contact Form 7 Plugin – Create a Contact Form Page

This plugin is really useful, apart from making it really easy to create a contact page for your blog it can also be used to produce more forms – so you could use it to collect other feedback from your readers and followers.

If someone leaves a message on the contact or feedback form, it sends you a copy of the message almost instantly to your designated email address. So you will get the feedback very fast making it easy for you to react quickly.

4) Add This Plugin – Add a ‘Share’ Button

This is fast becoming one of the most popular ‘Share’ buttons around. It allows your readers to share your content really easily through the option of selecting one of many social bookmarking sites and social networks.

Once you have installed this plugin, it will automatically place a ‘Share’ Button under every post you submit maximizing the chance for your work to spread around the web.

5) Twittercounter Plugin – Let everyone know how many Twitter Followers you have

This plugin is probably more for fun than anything, but if you do have a lot of Twitter followers then this might just boost the credibility of your blog.

Once you have installed it you will have a choice of Twitter counters, so you can select the one you think is most appropriate for your Blog.

What are you waiting for?

So, what are you waiting for – go ahead and try installing these plugins and you will be amazed at the results! Once you have tried some out you will find it much easier finding more plugins and customizing your site so that it does exactly what you are looking for.

One word of warning – don’t go installing too many plugins as each one will slow down your site a little – so just stick to the ones you really need.

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Why You Should Start a Membership Website

By on July 24, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, article directory, article plugin, article themes, Blog Business, Blog Platform, Blog Posting, blogging, Blogs, Conversion, Domains, Free Reports, Google Adsense, Membership sites, Mobil Blogging, New Blogging, SEO, Themes, Traffic, Web Design, Websites, widgets, wordpress, World Internet Summit, Wp Headers, Wp Themes, Youtube Video

Why You Should Start a Membership Website

Membership websites have been around since the internet began and they’ve always been very popular forms of revenue for webmasters. There are many reasons why you would benefit from starting your own membership website and we’re going to look at some of those reasons today. Membership websites are now more popular then ever due to software programs coming out that makes setting up a membership website a breeze. There are also over a dozen payment processors to choose from to process your member’s payments which help make things easy.

Basically you’ll be required to set-up your website and then from there you’ll only need to promote it and add updates. There are many choices you need to make when you’re setting up the website in the early stages. You’ll need to decide what you want to offer in the member’s area, and you should be using more then one type of content in your member’s area. For instance if you have a webmaster membership website you should have articles, reports, eBook, software, templates and anything else you can think of. People like seeing lots of options in the member’s area, even though they won’t use most of it they like knowing that you offer enough value for the money. Once you’ve chosen what’s going to be in your member’s area you need to get it done and add it in. You also need to set-up your payment processor and decide whether it will be monthly, yearly or one-off payment. This is strictly preference and you can choose what you want, but generally you should choose monthly.

With monthly recurring payments you’ll be making a stable income from your membership website and this is the goal. There is no point marketing your membership website and then selling one-off payments because then once the crowd joins you won’t make anymore money and you’ll still need to update it. I would go with monthly recurring payments and make sure you offer enough weekly updates so that your clients want to stay a member.

Once you have a membership website with members and recurring payments rolling in you’ll only need to work on updates for the website. This could be outsourced at this point in time since you’ll be making good money and then it’s on complete auto-pilot. You won’t need to do anything except whatever promotions you want to do, and whatever communication you want to make with the members. You should play a role in the communication because people like to talk with the owner and many people will also have questions. You should just make a forum and that will make it very easy for everyone to communicate.

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How To Build A WordPress Website And Start Making Money Online With Profitable Niche Sites

By on July 23, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

How To Build A WordPress Website And Start Making Money Online With Profitable Niche Sites

Have you heard about niche marketing? If yes, you are on the right track to making money online. If no, then please read on…

Niche Marketing is a super lucrative marketing method and online business system which focuses on targeting various micro lucrative niches to make money online. When I say “”micro””, it means niches that have not yet been discovered or are still pretty much untapped. By tapping into these micro niches, you will not be competing with the big guns out there. Instead, you will be catering to a targeted group of audiences and hungry customers that are waiting to buy your digital information and products.

Doing niche marketing is a very interesting business as you get to venture into numerous different niches and markets. You will not only earn great money from niche marketing but you will also get to learn new things from niche marketing. I particularly enjoy doing niche marketing by creating multiple niche sites or niche blogs to promote affiliate products on various lucrative niches. I usually come out and build 2-3 niche sites every week to target profitable micro niches. Of course, before you can even start to design and build your niche sites, you will need to do intensive research, that is, carefully-structured keyword research, to discover hot profitable niches to market on your sites/blogs.

The thing about doing niche marketing is that, it is quantity that counts as you will need to have a collections of various lucrative niche sites in order to earn great amount of money online. Basically, for my own money-making niche sites, I will carefully research and find the top 10 most lucrative niches to venture into. Now you might be asking, “”Oh didn’t you said that we should target only untapped micro niches instead of common and extremely-competitive top niches?”” Yes, I did said that but I am not targeting these common popular niches… I am identifying the top 10 most profitable niches and then I will narrow them down, i.e. going into sub-niches. Bingo! By going deeper into the top niches and coming out with micro sub-niches within the niches, you will avoid the excessive competitiveness and get straight into making money online from your niche sites.

Niche marketing has become a prevalent online business system for numerous online marketers to utilize and make great money online. It simply works and if you put your time, effort and money into creating and venturing into more niche sites every week in and week out, your online revenue income is just going to be an exponential growth for the long run. Many Internet Marketing Gurus out there will tell you how they achieve their wealth online from their “”Secret Techniques”” or “”Secret Tricks””. They will usually say that they made big bucks online from here and there using secret tricks and techniques. Yes, they do make comfortable income online. But the thing is, they did not tell you the whole truth! These Internet Marketing Gurus make lots of money not from “”secret tricks and techniques”” but from their huge amount of hard work, time and money being invested into building a chain of lucrative niche sites under their belt. Simple! They made their money online from Niche Marketing and in fact, niche marketing is changing how people make money online. And I am not talking about active income streams but PASSIVE Income streams from niche marketing. In addition, the kind of niche sites that these so-called experts built are not simple cookie-cutter websites that are built within minutes using some “”revolutionary”” software. They have instead spent large amount of time, effort and money into creating and building many quality niche sites and monetize the sites for great profit online.

What is their SECRET? There is no secret at all! They simply build more and more lucrative niche sites as time goes by, and by the end of the day… they will make the bulk of the money online! If you look at the 80/20 rule, you will find that only 20 percent of the numerous Internet Marketers out there are making the most amount of money online. Why? Because they know how to do it the correct way. They may not be intelligent but they are clever and smart. They, including me, know that 80 percent of the online marketers are doing the wrong things or are either mis-led and only the 20 percent of us are making the real money online! We know how to do keyword research to identify lucrative sub-niches to target and then start building sites revolving around these sub-niches. Next, we will begin marketing these niche sites intensively and begin earning money online. And most of these niche sites are painstakingly built and set up once, monetized and optimized, do the marketing intensively for a few months and they are off to be left around to help us collect Passive Income online for the long-term!

Imagine if you have more than 100 such niche sites, if each niche site earns you just US$1 per day, one day you will earn US$100 and one month you will earn a whopping US$3000 just with these 100 lucrative niche sites! And the revenue doesn’t just stop there, you can keep increasing your portfolio of lucrative niche sites (i.e. create and build more and more lucrative niche sites), monetize the sites with more affiliate products and ads and then increase your marketing and promotion effort… then you will be making even more money online! That’s how the real Internet Marketers made their fortune ONLINE! This is the TRUTH that has been finally REVEALED!

Now, the thing that most newbie Internet Marketers face is the problem of building such quality niche sites online. Even if you have some web developing and web designing skills, you will still face another problem of how to monetize and optimize your niche sites. You are not a web designer and neither are you a SEO expert. In addition, the time and effort spent on researching and building niche sites are definitely not easy and most newbie Internet Marketers and even veteran marketers struggled at doing all these!

The Good News is, I personally own a Niche Marketing Web Development platform where I help many of my clients to build lucrative Premium Niche WordPress Sites for them to get started on the Internet. If you tap on my more than 4 years of Niche Marketing experience to assist you in building these profitable niche sites, then you will not only reduce your own workload and stress but also get to quicken your process of learning how to make money online.

For a very limited period, I am offering my services to help you build your first Premium Niche WordPress Site. The niche sites that I will be building for you will be carefully-researched, gorgeously-designed, well-monetized and SEO-Optimized and superbly well-implemented with lucrative affiliate products and ads to help you start making money online with niche websites.

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Make-money-selling-ads-in-your-site

By on July 22, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Make money selling ads in your site

One of the easiest ways to make money from websites is to sell ad space. You can sell ad blocks of different sizes at different places in your site. And depending on the size and place where you are planning to sell the ad blocks, the money you’ll be getting out of them will vary. Advertisers will look for buying ad blocks that will be getting maximum exposure. So, try to sell ad blocks at places in your sites, where chances of getting a click to the ad blocks is maximum.

But in order to sell ad blocks, your sites should be with decent traffic. Try referring your friends to the sites that you want to promote. And ask them to refer to their friends as well. But a vast amount of the visitors won’t be coming back again to your site – if its not worth a visit again. That means, your sites should be having something special in it for the readers. Then only they’ll come and visit your site again and again. If it’s a blog, then create quality content. And if you keep on posting quality content, then without you even telling to others, they will start referring their friends. They will even bookmark your site so that they would be able to read it on a daily basis.

Even after you get traffic to your sites, it’s not over yet. Once you are with traffic, you should go and find advertisers. One of the best place to look for advertisers would be in webmaster forums like DP, V7n, and Netbuilders. There you’ll be able to sell links, ad blocks, banners etc in your sites. You may even find buyers ready to buy advertising on a long term basis. But in such cases, you’ll have to provide some discount on the price.

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5 Popular Must Have WordPress Plugins

By on July 21, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

5 Popular “Must Have” WordPress Plugins

If you have a WordPress blog, there are certain plugins you will need to install to make blogging easier. A lot of blog posts lately recommend various, “”must-have”” WordPress plugins. Most of the commonly recommended plugins include:

1. All-in-One SEO Pack: Easy fill-in-the-blanks features to optimize your blog post for first-page search engine ranking. Add a Title, Meta Description, and Meta Tags (keywords) to every post you create.

2. WP Greet Box: Shows a different greeting message to your visitors depending on which referrer url they’re coming from (ex., Google, Facebook, Digg, etc.).

3. Aweber Web Form Plugin: “”This widget allows you to quickly and easily…Drag and drop web forms that you have created in your AWeber email marketing account into your blog, without having to log into your AWeber account or copy and paste anything!””

4. Thank Me Later: Automatically sends a “”thank you”” email to anyone who comments on your blog and reminds them to engage further with your blog.

5. Askimet: This plugin comes preloaded on your blog, but you will need to activate it with a WordPress.com API. Just follow the instructions and this plugin will take care of all your blog spam.

Another popular WordPress plugin that you have to purchase and download to your WordPress blog is Popup Domination. This plugin undoubtedly helps increase your email opt-in rates and makes your blog look professional. Most importantly, it helps build your email list. It is widely used and comes highly recommended by professional bloggers. A more affordable alternative is another plugin called OptinPop.

You can find and install most of them from within your WordPress backoffice. Popup Domination can be found by doing a Google search for the product. Installation is usually quick easy with all of the plugins, but OptinPop requires additional technical know-how in order to make it work correctly. You can learn more about OptinPop on their website.

Of course there are more great plugins you can choose from and install on your WordPress blog, but these will definitely make your blogging experience much easier and smoother. This list of popular plugins was compiled from recommendations from professional bloggers and are most certainly recommended for a reason, but having the right plugins will not make you more profitable as a blogger. You have to learn the basics of blogging for success, then you must learn how to market professionally to monetize your blogging efforts.

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