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How to set up a Website

Categories: Online Business

Tags: achievement, free advertising, Free Traffic, Home Based Business, hosting, keywords, Online Income, online website builder, Professional Results, search engines, Squeeze Page, Success

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Published on: January 8, 2012

If you have a few minutes to spare, I’d like to show you how to set up a new website, optimize it to bring in an income and some of the tools I use. This is a basic step by step guideline and will work with setting up a simple site. If you know what the site will be about, skip down to website editors.

If you’re building a new site to put Adsense on or sell Clickbank or other product, you’ll need a simple, straightforward site. This post should fill the bill.

The best way I think to explain this process is like a recipe. You buy a bunch of ingredients at the grocery store and until you mix them all together and bake them, you don’t have a finished product. This process is the recipe and the steps are the ingredients.

Say you’re selling picnic tables and want a website to sell them. Here’s how to proceed.

First, you’ll need a domain name with the words picnic table in it. You’ll need to do a little research to find out what domains are available. Simply go to a site like Go Daddy, which sells domain names and use their domain search tool . Almost always, the exact name you want won’t be available so just pick something with a picnic table variation in it and go ahead and buy it.

Second, you’re going to need a company like Host Gator to show your new site to the world. Pick a plan that’s only what you need. If you’re only going to show a single site, go with the most inexpensive plan. If you’ll be hosting more than one site you’ll obviously need to kick the plan up a notch or two.

The third ingredient you’ll need is a website editor. Fortunately if you go with Host Gator or some of the other popular companies for your hosting, they offer a free site builder that’s included in your hosting plan. They also have website templates you can use for your picnic table site. If you don’t like the site builder they offer, there are lots of free website builders you can use. I did a quick search on Google just before I started this post – this is the first page they have for “free website design software”.

Fourth, you will have to be to point your new picnic table domain to your hosting company. For instructions on how to do this just go to my previous post “How to set up a blog” and take a look at the second paragraph on nameservers.

Ok. Let’s take a quick look at where we are with our recipe and maybe grab a cup of coffee. If you’re completely new to all this you may be grabbing an adult beverage ;-)

After you’ve completed all the above, you’re done with the ingredients for your recipe. Now we’re moving on to the seasoning. Just as with the recipe, your website will be pretty bland if you don’t add your seasonings. The seasonings for your new site are the keywords. Now, you’ll be heading over to use the free Google Keywords tool. to find some relevant keywords for your new site. Go to my previous post “Making money from home isn’t as hard as it used to be” for info on how to use this tool. Look for a high volume of searches for different words and ideally low competition. Click the box for each keyword you want to save and download them to a file – about 10 good keywords will do. For my keyword work, I use something called Market Samurai which has so many options to find promising keywords it’s amazing. If you want to use this tool free for 7 days to try it, there’s a link on the right side.

All you have to do now is “season” your new website with your keywords. How? Simply sprinkle some of the keywords you’ve uncovered into the text – especially the titles of your site when you’re building it. Don’t overdo it and don’t make it sound crazy. Just a pinch here and a dash there so the text or story sounds natural, flows well and makes the search engines know your site is relevant to picnic tables.

After your site has been up for a week or two, Google and the search engines will have had a chance to crawl it and you can start to check your traffic with Alexa. Sign up for a free Alexa account and you can check your traffic stats by just adding a snippet of code to your website. So how do you add this snippet to your site so Alexa can find it?

That’s for another blog post!

How to Really Get Things Accomplished!

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: achievement, Home Based Business, Network Marketing, Online Income, Success, Work from home business opportunity

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Published on: January 1, 2012

What’s the #1 obstacle when you are running an online business?

Distraction

When you have an online task you’re trying to complete, just stay focused. I know you’ve heard it before but I’ll repeat it again. Have you ever went online to look something up or had a simple task to do and went off on a tangent? I know I have. It usually happens when I’m searching for something and another idea pops into my head. I’ll just take a minute to check this out and get right back to what I was doing. A half hour later, I’m asking myself “now where was I”?

The web is a vast storehouse of everything you can think of and everything you’ve probably never thought of and it’s easy to get sidetracked. This happens to everyone, not just you. It even happens to seasoned internet marketers. So what’s the solution to get the things done you need to do? Write them down.

It may seem kind of simple, but keep a small pad and pencil right there by the computer and write a short list before you even go online of what you need to do. This will keep you focused and get the task done. If, like me, something pops into your head just write it down and take care of it after the task at hand.

Procrastination

Don’t confuse distraction with procrastination. That’s a whole different animal. Procrastination usually happens with a big task you need to get accomplished. A few months ago I had a huge business task I needed to get done and actually found myself an hour later cleaning out my computer and internet files and hadn’t even started the task. Now THAT’S procrastination!

For a larger job, you’ll need a tablet and not a pad! How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Before even beginning, jot down the steps you’re going to need to take to start on the project. Work a bit at a time and before you know it a good portion will be done.

The last large project I can remember I had to do was setting up this blog. So many things to consider, like installing the script on the server, the format, the audience, the sidebar, widgets, plugins and everything else I’d need. I actually put it off for weeks, setting it up in my head and doing the list. One bite at a time – and it started to take shape.

The Distraction - Make a short list of what you need to do that day or that session and cross them off as completed.

The Elephant - Come up with that great idea, develop it, write down the steps, put each step into action, keep looking at the overall picture to make sure all the parts are fitting until it’s done.

These two simple things should help you get much more accomplished in a shorter amount of time.

Learning WordPress

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: achievement, keywords, Professional Results, search engines, Success, wordpress

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Published on: November 27, 2011

First, a little history. I started PaulTouranjoe.com on April 20, 2011. I knew nothing at all about starting or running a blog and absolutely nothing about WordPress, aside from the fact it was the platform most professionals use.

I learned everything I needed to know blog-wise from April until now. When I first started this blog it was ranked around 24.5 million of all sites and blogs worldwide. Today, I’m ranked around 1.8 million worldwide and 150,000 or so in the United States. This didn’t happen by accident. It took a lot of hard work – and I don’t intend to stop there. Set your sights high and achieve them.

How did this blog go so far, so fast? First, this blog never stays static and unmoving. I’m always adding new content and it’s good content. It takes a lot of research for these posts and that leads to another thing- which is the content itself. It’s what people can use, can help them and they can learn from. The hardest thing for me to learn was how to put content in the sidebar. I use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 for my website design work. Believe me, that has no importance here. To make images and text end up where you want them and are centered, you have to write in code. My background with Dreamweaver helped some with the code but this is still a horse of a different color and I had to learn it. It makes me appreciate people that work on blogs for a living that much more.

There are some things that make life easier with a WordPress blog, mainly plug-ins. There are literally thousands and you can go crazy here but don’t. Just use the ones you need. The ones I like are:

1. Add This Social Bookmarking Widget – allows people to add you to their favorite social site.

2. All in One SEO Pack – Lets you add your post title, description and toss in a few keywords that help you with the search engines.

3. Dean's FCKEditor For WordPress- uses a text editor like Microsoft Word for your posts.

4. Jetpack by WordPress.com- gives you a few different tools you can use to make your blogging life easier, too much to explain here.

5. Smart Affiliate Links – shortens, cloaks and tracks your affiliate links and makes them presentable.

6. WP Super Cache – caches your blog quickly which means quicker page loading for your readers. I get a lots of comments wondering how I make PaulTouranjoe.com literally pop onto your browser. This is how.

You can always disable any plug-ins if you want to turn them off. They’ll stay in your back office area until you enable them again or remove them completely. Once you start to see all WordPress offers you’ll realize why the pros use it. As for learning WordPress, you can select any area on the main sidebar then click help in the top right corner. This will bring you to the help area of the page you’re on and that’s how I learned it quickly. I much rather learn “hands-on” while I’m working than read a bunch of text.

Another great resource is the WordPress documentation itself which you can find at WordPress.org. You’ll also find the plug-ins I mentioned above and themes (the design for your blog) here. There’s also other people’s WordPress sites in the Showcase area where people submit their blogs and people pick their favorites – way cool, and it will give you an idea of how you can push the limits of the WordPress platform when you really know what you’re doing. Get your domain name, get it hosted so you own it and join the fun. But never start a blog and just ignore it. If you’re not going to work on it wait until you have the time to devote to it. When you do, see just how far you can take it. Maybe we’ll see your blog on the WordPress showcase!

There’s one other tip I’d like to share with you before I leave the blog for today. I get lots of compliments on my writing – thank you – and here’s the way you do it. Write like you’re talking to your best friend instead of people you don’t know. When you think about it, your readers are the friends you’ll meet through your blog.

Next up — Advertising

Setting up an online business the right way

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: Home Based Business, Online Income, Professional Results, search engines, Success

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Published on: November 16, 2011

I've been asked constantly how to set up an internet business so Google and the rest of the search engines find the site, how to choose and register a domain name, how to pick the best (and cheapest) hosting and the like.

I've decided to make each a series of blog posts starting at the first step – choosing a domain name right through setting up your business and advertising it successfully. If you do each one of these steps correctly, you should end up with a viable successful business or blog.

Throughout, I'll sprinkle each post with links to go directly to what I'm talking about and I'll set each link to open as _blank, which means the link will open in a new page or tab so you can stay right here on the blog. See? You've learned something already!

Choosing a Domain Name:

Many people don't realize it, but the fact is that names on the internet really matter. Choosing a domain name requires a lot of thought and planning before you even begin your site or blog. You should always choose a domain name that identifies your business or product and is easy to remember. Many people type only partial names into the search engine field so if you have a decent domain name the search engines should be able to find it.

Simply put, domain names matter! The best way I can explain it is like this. If you invited your family or friends to your house and they’ve never been there, the only way they’ll find it is if you give them your home address. It’s the same with domain names.

A domain name provides your website an Internet address. Under the Domain Name System DNS, domain names are composed of four elements – a server prefix, a domain name, a domain suffix and a country code (optional). For instance, www.mysite.com is an example of a domain name where ‘www’ is the server prefix, ‘mysite’ is the domain name and ‘com’ is the domain suffix. The country code can be .US for the United States or .CA for Canada for instance.

‘Dot-com’ is an example of a top level domain extension. Some ‘Internet Service Providers’, ISPs and Web Hosts offer bargain-rate domain services for the domain and their hosting, that essentially makes a domain name an extension of theirs. For example, if the ISP is something like ‘wehostyou’, then the resulting domain name could be www.wehostyou/mysite.com Not bad advertising for them as well as you. Watch out for this. A great rule of thumb is never buy hosting with the same company you registered your domain with.

A company like Go Daddy is best for finding and registering your domain name. Generally, they also have the cheapest prices. You can get a ‘Dot-com’ domain for under $10. After signing up for a free account, just follow the step by step directions to register your domain. It's just like shopping – cart and everything.

When registering your own domain name, make sure that the extension name looks like a professional one. Dot-com domains are the most professional looking and also the most expensive. Most of the best or obvious domain names are already taken, but variations on a good domain name are always available.

Use your noodle and think about what business or product you’ll be involved with and pick a domain that identifies this and remember to keep it easy to remember so your family and your customers can easily find you.

Next Up — Hosting

Tips for an online business

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business, Personal Achievement

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Published on: May 15, 2011

Seems Everyone today wants to start a business and work for themselves.

And why not?

The economy is still in the tank and there's a number of reasons why you'd like to start a business.

The key to success is to do something you love – whether you'd be paid for it or not.

If you love what you do, you'll become a success.
Please notice I said become.

Basically, here's the roadmap:

1. Determine what it is you love to do.

2. Apply this to the business you'd like to begin.

3. Find the quickest way from point A to B.

3. Rinse and repeat.

It's no more complicated than that. And this works for everything – especially an online business.

Here's a tip I'll share with you right now for an online business.

Use every piece of software at your disposal. Whatever you can use to help you get the job done quicker or more efficiently, why not use it?

Google some of the business, design, email software available now to help you run a business and it's amazing. And there's more arriving every day.

Here's another tip: Never stop learning. Everything new you learn will make you more valuable.

Here‚s a trick I use: When you learn something new, write it down (or copy & paste)
into a journal on your computer. Keyword the journal entry – so it's searchable.

You learned this once, you don't need to learn it again – but you will probably need to go back and reference it at a later time.

Think about it. If you learn one new thing every day, you'll know 30 new things by the end of each month, or 360 a year.

Let's get started…

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