4.4 Securing Hosting for Your Website (AF)

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  • The value/cost balance necessary for early-stage website hosting
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  • Why purchasing a plan with “unlimited” domains is essential for internet marketing entrepreneurs

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4.4 Transcript Below

Okay, on to Lesson 4.4!

So you should have your domain name by now, and hopefully, you’ve registered it with your choice – unless your choice was the hosting company in which case you would combine both of those steps here: you would register as you paid for hosting; you would also pay for the domain name. Again, it’s not my preferred or recommended route but to each their own. Totally understand.

And so now we’re going to talk about where to secure your hosting for your website, what that means – all that stuff. You’ve probably heard it before. You may even have existing hosting but I encourage you to watch this video any way around it.

So Part 1 was getting the domain name. Part 2 is getting hosting. Those are the two essential components for owning a website online.

So in case you don’t know what hosting is, just really simply put: it’s your server. You’ve probably heard the term ‘server’ as well. It’s where your files are stored to deliver up to the people that visit your website. So when someone… again, an oversimplified explanation… but when someone types in RueTattoo.com, their browser pulls the files from my server and displays that to them. That’s what makes that my web page. Again, oversimplification – but that’s basically how it works.

So hosting is where your files are stored. It’s essential for having a website online. And there are a ton of different options. I’ve hosted with well over a dozen different companies over the years. I’ve hosted with every single one of the absolute best brands that’s out there and I’ve had varying experiences with each of them.

You know some of them I’ve had experiences that were bad enough to make me never register or never host my websites there again. I’ve also had some frustrating encounters – maybe live chat was a little bit too long – but based on the pricing and what I was paying for… you know… I couldn’t be too upset. I was upset at the time, but long term, it’s just the nature of shared hosting.

So in this video, we’re going to talk about my recommended host and that is Bluehost. And I mentioned this towards the beginning of the training – you know, one of the introductory videos – please use my link if you’re signing up for hosting. That is like the one point that Free Internet Marketing Project receives commissions and monetization consistently. So I would just ask that you please use my link. The link is StoppingScams.com/Bluehost. If for some reason that link isn’t working when you try to shoot me an email and I’ll give you the direct full code of the link. But that should work. StoppingScams.com/Bluehost.

And in my experience, you could Google… you could say, “Okay, should I host at Bluehost?” and you’re going to find a lot of people that are really upset. Because at the end of the day, that’s going to be true for HostGator, that’s going to be true for Bluehost, that’s going to be true for 1&1 Hosting, that’s going to be true for every low-cost shared host.

I have personally hosted with HostGator for years before I moved over to Bluehost. Just full disclosure: I just found the services and the support (the performance overall) to be much better with Bluehost than it was with any of the other kind of low cost shared hosting companies – which is why I recommend them. I personally think based on my experiences that they’re the best place for someone to start off hosting.

And just for full disclosure too, Bluehost pays anywhere from $65 for everyone that signs up. If I do a certain amount of volume, they pay me $125 per person. There are hosting companies that pay much better than that – much, much better than that. There are hosting companies that would pay me up to $200+ if I referred you to them but they’re going to be more expensive, they’re going to be lower quality.

And again, my priority is to put you in the best place, not to make as much money as possible. So I just put all that out on the table. I really hope you support the Free Internet Marketing Project by purchasing hosting through Bluehost using this link.

So the other thing to note is any shared host (whether it’s Bluehost or HostGator or anyone)… you keep hearing me use the term ‘shared host’ which… shared hosting means that you are sharing server space with a lot of other websites. You don’t have your own server. That would be a dedicated server where you are the only website on that server. And in between, there’s something called VPS which stands for ‘virtual private server’ – not to be confused with the VPN. That’s a very different thing that has nothing to do with hosting, typically speaking. But a VPS is a kind of an in-between. It’s a virtual dedicated server basically.

So there are other people on the server but you are allocated a specific amount of technical specifications like RAM and processor speed and memory. So right… this is again eyes glazing over, people are just falling asleep, and just like hitting keys on their keyboard trying to figure out how to make this stop. I understand that’s way more technical than most of you want to know, but I also want to throw it out there for the people that are curious at least at a high level.

So when I say ‘shared hosting’, it’s kind of the most basic level, the lowest cost hosting. You should hope to outgrow any shared host in time because when you get to a certain level of traffic and a certain amount of money per month, it’s just going to make sense for you to move on to at least a VPS (a virtual private server). It’s probably months, if not years down the road. Don’t worry about it right now. They’re more expensive and that’s why I don’t recommended them right off the bat. But you should hope to outgrow any shared host whether it’s Bluehost or HostGator or GoDaddy (if you hosted with them) but I find Bluehost and any shared host to be the absolute best value for when you’re getting started. And like I said, I find Bluehost to be the most dependable of those options.

The other thing is to make sure whatever host you’re going with, most of them will have a really low-priced tier that they advertise. They’re like, “It’s only $2.99 a year for hosting!” And then you look at it and you’re like, “Oh, that’s only for one domain name.” Again, as an internet marketer, you are probably going to run multiple websites in time so just spring for the unlimited domains right from the beginning.

I will also say full disclosure: I don’t say that because I get paid a bigger commission. I get paid the same commission whether you sign up for the one domain account or the unlimited domains account. I just say that from experience.

Technically, you could upgrade when you got to that point but I think it’s just easier to sign up for unlimited domains from the beginning because whether it’s you registering another domain two weeks from now and stating a different site, whether it’s abandoning the niche you’re working in and wanting to host another site two months from now, or whether you’re just expanding into multiple sites down the road… I think my main hosting account has something like fifteen domains on it (they’re all different sites that I run or have run in the past)… so long story short, make sure to buy the unlimited domains option.

Okay so we’re going to hop in and look at this. Again, just like domain registration… I haven’t finished checking out like I said I would but I actually will after this video because we’ll need it for the next video.

I want to come in here and I’m going to… you know… go to StoppingScams.com/Bluehost… and of course, it auto filled my Bluehost review of the URL… so that would take me to Bluehost through my affiliate link. Again, thank you so much if you go through the effort of doing that. You don’t have to. You’re going to pay the same amount either way and one way I get supported and another way I don’t. So I appreciate it if you do that. But you can see here they say, “Oh, starting at $3.95 a month.” That’s going to be the single domain option.

So the only thing I want to point out is really call your attention to the different hosting tiers I talked about.

So with the Basic hosting tier, you’re going to get one website, you’re going to get one domain that you can host. With the Plus tier, you’re going to get unlimited websites. And yeah, there’s all these extra stuff, too. You technically get an included domain.

Personally, again, I would still register it in NameCheap. I’m not even commissioned on those NameCheap purchases. I just say that because they’re going to give you that included domain for the first year, and then the next year, it’s going to build at $25 and every year thereafter – and you’re going to lose in the long run.

But if you want to take advantage of that free domain, the totally go for it. Just know that your costs are going to be higher in the coming years. So you know, you could go up to the next year. I don’t see any reason to. I don’t know why I’m… I don’t see the difference here. Okay, one spam experts, one domain privacy. I see. So even domain privacy wouldn’t be included here which their cost for domain privacy would pay for the first year with NameCheap anyways.

So the only thing I really want to show here is make sure you select the option with unlimited websites. So I would say RueTattoo.com. You would put in whatever domain name you registered and then you would come in and you would just fill up and just checkout anything else. You can uncheck Site Backup Pro (it’s just an upsell), uncheck Site Lock Security. These may change over time and don’t be too terrified of this price because that’s going to change here in a second, too. But they’re just checking those as upsells by default. Again, just like anything else, just like hosting, keep an eye out for those upsells and uncheck them.

And if you’re strapped for cash… again, I mentioned earlier on you’re going to need somewhere between $150 to $200 to get your business started up. The main chunk of that is hosting. So if you pay for more – you know, if you do 36 months; if you do 24 months – you’re going to get a bigger discount. But I am totally conscious of your pains as someone… a lot of you are trying to get a business started for as little money as possible so I just bumped this down to the lowest price for… or excuse me, the lowest term… which is the overall lowest total which is 12 months.

And you just want to make sure to uncheck any upsells because they very clearly add to your total down here. So just uncheck those and then you would input your information.

What it’s going to look like from here… again, I’m not going to checkout onscreen largely because I already own several Bluehost hosting accounts and I’ll use one of those to walk you through what we need to do later. But what’s going to happen is you’re going to get an immediate confirmation after you checkout and in your inbox you’ll see that. And once your hosting is set up for that account, you’ll receive another email that contains all kinds of information. You want to print that out, you want to star it, you want to keep track of that email because it contains some really important information that you may need down the road as long as you’re hosted with Bluehost. So potentially, you may need that email eight years from now if you stayed with Bluehost for a really long time.

So anyways, you would checkout for hosting. And at this point, by the end of this video before you move on the next one, you should have your domain name, you should have secured hosting with Bluehost or already have hosting somewhere else. And in the next video, we’re going to talk about how to link your domain registrar – wherever you registered your domain – to your hosting account at Bluehost.

And of course, if you bought your domain at Bluehost through this process – you know you’re going to pay a little bit extra over time, whatever – you can skip the next video. But anyone that registered a domain at GoDaddy or NameCheap or anywhere else and has hosting somewhere else, you’re going to need to watch the next video because I’m going to show you how to update those name servers. And it’s much quicker and more painless than it sounds. I promise.

If you have any questions, as always, please feel free to post them to the Facebook group – free for registered members.

For anyone that does end up buying through my affiliate link for Bluehost, go ahead and shoot me an email, forward me your receipt, and I have a nifty little bonus – kind of a really detailed reference guide for all of the kind of common problems and encounters and things that people need help with frequently when they’re setting up hosting and stuff like that. So forward me your receipt if you bought through my affiliate link and I will make sure to follow up with you and send you that bonus.

Otherwise… deep breath… we will get into the technical stuff now and I will show you how to update your name servers, connect your domain to your hosting, alright? I’ll see you in the next video.

4.3 The Best Place to Register Your Domain Names (AF)

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4.3 Transcript Below

Okay!

I just want to follow up on this video or on last lesson really quickly, and because I did, I took a little while. I probably would have taken more time if I weren’t in the middle of recording training and I didn’t want to keep going. But at the end of the day – again – I can rank for anything with really high-quality content if I decide to pursue this niche so I just decided… you know… I’m finally going to choose one of these.

So I’ve tried all kinds of things. I tried ByeByeTattoo. I looked at Lean Domain Search and NameMesh and all the tools we just looked at. And then eventually, I had some ideas I kind of liked like TattooRegrets.com – but that was taken. Of course, you know… things like ThinkBeforeYouInk and BeforeYouInk – ideas I was attached to before – those weren’t available. And so ultimately, I found a handful of… I think all of these would have been good options.

TheDisappearingTattoo.com I thought would have been good or DisappearingTattoo.com – I didn’t check if that one was available but I just felt like ‘disappearing’… something you get used to in this industry is people in your target audience on the whole are probably not as smart as you generally give people credit for… and I was kind of concerned that people would get lost in typing TheDisappearingTattoo and so I just didn’t do that one.

TattooRemovalWeb.com was on that kind of includes the exact match keyword. It’s not as brandable as I’d like it to be, but I found that one just straight through Lean Domain Search. I liked that one. That one would have been very good actually. Nothing wrong with that. Also, TattooRemovalJournal.com was really good because if I do build out this site eventually, it will be about my personal experiences with images from my tattoo removal process and everything like that.

But ultimately, what I decided on when I was looking at TattooRegrets, I went over to Google and I said, “Okay, what are synonyms for ‘regret’?” and one of the words was ‘rue’ like, “You will rue the day.” R-U-E.

And I understand… yes, there is potential for misspelling there. You know again, it doesn’t check all of the boxes; but it’s short, it contains a root keyword, and I really like kind of the double and triple meaning. Like of course, ‘rue’ is also the French for ‘street’… so you know technically, this is TattooStreet.com… So I like the fact that it kind of has a good rhythm to it: RueTattoo… and then of course, the fact that it means ‘regret tattoo’.

So ultimately, I think that’s the one I’m going to run with. So I’ll register that some other time off camera but I want to give you a quick kind of rundown of the steps I just went through and kind of the lens I evaluated these things through before I came to my conclusion. With that being said, let’s jump into Lesson 4.3 and we’re going to talk about the best place to register your domain names.

As I mentioned, it’s a lot more complex than most people think. It’s not as simple as “Oh go register here.” It can be like I could just phone it in and be like go register your domains at NameCheap or register your domains through your hosting company. But for me, that’s a disservice to you because there’s more to it than that.

So the three options I’m going to talk about here are registering your domain through your hosting company, registering a domain through GoDaddy (which is probably the most well-known brand for domain registration), and then also NameCheap (which some of you may have heard of; other people may not have). So I’m going to talk about these three major options.

There are a ton… there are dozens, if not hundreds of domain registrars out there (I’m not going to compare them all) but in my experience, these are the three that I’ve used over the years and I think these are the three most common in the internet marketing community.

So there are advantages to each of them. The main difference is cost. One thing that I want to emphasize is – you may or may not know this – if you register a domain name and you don’t pay for domain privacy, you open all of your registration information to the public. All of that information is public. So someone can search RueTattoo.com if I’ve registered it and I haven’t paid for domain privacy. They can find my address, they can find my phone number, they can find my email, and they can find my full name.

Personally, that’s not something I’m too comfortable with. I don’t think it’s something most people would be comfortable with. So always purchase domain privacy. And that’s included in all of the pricing we’re going to discuss here and it’s one of the things that really shifts the conversation from one registrar to another and makes one much more advantageous than the others in my opinion.

So if you want the absolute easiest option, the best thing to do would be register your domain with your hosting company. The reason I say that is because there’s a technical step in between that I’m going to teach very clearly and it’s going to be very easy to follow which is called ‘updating your name servers’. If you register your domain with a registrar that is not your hosting company, you have to connect the two. I’ve got a lesson for it coming up. Don’t worry about it. Don’t panic. It sounds really technical and scary. It’s actually a really simple thing. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing or why it’s happening technically, it’s a very easy thing to do. And so, you’ll just have to follow the clicks that I make on screen and it won’t be an issue.

But if you register your domain with your hosting company, you eliminate that step because your hosting company is now your domain registrar. They know your name servers are theirs so you don’t have to connect the two. They’re both in the same place. But the disadvantage is that’s going to cost a little bit more. That’s going to cost about an extra $10 or $12 a year. The cheapest option but it is the most convenient without a doubt. The easiest $10 a year I know.

For some people watching the video, it may be like, “Oh it’s just $10 a year.” For a lot of people too, it may be like, “Man, $10 a year!” For some people, that’s actually quite a significant amount of money when we’re talking about startup costs.

And the thing I really want to call your attention to is as an internet marketer, you will probably own a lot of domains in time if you stick with this. I don’t even know how many domains I have. I know there are a lot of internet marketers… I’m not this extreme… but a lot of them own hundreds.

And so if you’re talking about a $10 difference times 10, that’s $100 a year. If you’re talking about a $10 difference times 100, that’s $1000 a year. Just for no real value add because you wanted to cut out a technical step.

So personally, I don’t recommend this option especially because in the training in the next lesson, I’m going to talk to you about how to tie the… not next lesson but this is 4.3… so 4.5 is about how to connect your domain name and your hosting company. Super easy. So I don’t recommend this option personally. You just don’t have anything to be afraid of.

The next option to discuss would be GoDaddy. I think a lot of people default to GoDaddy because they have some really good upfront pricing and they run some incredible promotions and so a lot of people tend to end up at GoDaddy because they could find a domain for $1 for the first year or $3 for the first year of a .com domain plus privacy.

And the problem with GoDaddy is they’re going to make their money back somewhere, right? They can’t just afford to take a loss always. So what’s going to happen is you’re going to get that really special promotional pricing for the first year; and then the next year – if you’re talking about a .com domain plus renewal fees – it’s going to be somewhere around $25 and it’s been going up over the years so depending… it could get up to $28, $30 per year. And for me, it’s just not a big enough value add.

You get the best deal in the short term so this year your domain may cost you a $1.08 after fees – I think it’s like $1.17 – or it may cost you like $3 including domain privacy. But every year after that, it’s going to be rebuilt at $25. And again, for one domain, not that big of a deal. For 10 domains, a little bit bigger. For 100 domains (if you end up having a pretty large domain portfolio because you just kind of find a domain you like and you’re, “Yeah, I’m going to register that.” It’s fun – a lot of people end up doing that) GoDaddy nor hosting company are going to be the best option because they’re going to be expensive… the most expensive… I shouldn’t say the most expensive but more expensive than NameCheap.

If you want the cheapest option long-term, as in the longest… you know, outside of talking about kind of bulk wholesale suppliers that you have to like pay an upfront fee with and stuff like that… the best mainstream, easy, approachable option is NameCheap.

So the first year, your domain privacy is included for free. And then this is where their big difference is: they only charge $3 for it for every year thereafter; whereas, GoDaddy charges like $10+ and the hosting company typically charges somewhere between $10 and $12 just for privacy alone.

And on top of that, NameCheap’s baseline pricing is also cheaper; whereas, GoDaddy charges about $15 for a dot-com domain per year at the full non-promotional price. The hosting company charges around the same. Some of them go up to $16, $18 or north of that. NameCheap typically starts somewhere around $10 or $11 especially if you have a coupon code for the first year.

So yeah, that’s that. My personal choice – in case you can’t tell – is NameCheap. I think I actually said it so I kind of ruined the punch line there.

So I want to take a quick look at how to do this. The process varies slightly from registrar to registrar but it largely remains the same. The steps are going to look very, very similar. It’s basically going to be find a coupon code using Google, and put the domain you want to register, purchase it, and then you wait sometimes an hour or two until the domain registration is fully-processed.

What I will say is don’t buy hosting through your domain registrar (obviously with the exception of people that are choosing the first path where you register your domain through your hosting company). It’s just not usually as good of hosting and it’s also more expensive typically and the support isn’t as good a lot of the time. We’re going to talk about hosting in the next video and my recommendations there. But for now, my recommendation – very strong one – is do not buy hosting through that just because you’re buying a domain with that registrar. There’s just not any reason to do that when there are much better hosting companies out there that are around the same price or cheaper and specialize in hosting rather than specializing in being a domain registrar.

So a quick walk through of how to get domains as cheaply as possible through GoDaddy and NameCheap. (So again, I’m getting way to too close to the camera, kind of cut off the top of my head.) So let’s look through here. So let’s get over into NameCheap. As you can see, I’ve already searched. I’m going back to the home page and start from the beginning though.

And actually, the first step would be find a discount code. So I’m just going to go ‘NameCheap discount codes’. NameCheap typically has their own page like you can see right here it’s on the NameCheap.com domain. So I can click here and I can see ‘Discounted Registration and Transfer’. DOGDAY8 is their current discount code. It’s not huge… but, you know… it’s worth a quick search. It’s worth a quick Google search.

The same thing, you could search something like this or ‘GoDaddy discount’ alone would probably pop it up and you’ll see here GoDaddy discount $0.99 domain names and more.

So I could type in RueTattoo.com, search for it, and you can see I would get $0.99 first year pricing on this. But again, if I add this to cart and I went through checkout, I think I have to sign in and go through checkout which I don’t.

So you can see privacy protection here is going to be an extra $8 per year and it’s going to renew at $10 per year. So, you know now… I’m going to pay $9 today but next year I’m going to pay $25 plus taxes and fees; whereas with NameCheap, I’m going to pay… what is it? What’s our current discount? $9.66 plus $0.18 and privacy is free for the first year, and then next year, it’s going to renew at $14 instead of $25 – which is why I register all my domains with NameCheap.

So next lesson, we’re going to talk about securing hosting. I want to… let’s see here really quickly… there’s linking… okay. So yeah, linking your domain name and hosting is what I’m actually going to walk you through step-by-step because it’s kind of intense. It can be kind of intense if you’ve never done it before. It’s really simple overall but there’s not much more to talk about.

I could checkout on camera and – I’m sure to the joy of many people – put my credit card information online. But I’m not going to do it. There’s just no reason to. I’m not going to register a domain live.

It’s just really, really simple basically. So we’ll go back to the domain search. I’ll put RueTattoo.com. I can search and then – if it’s going to search – I can come down here and I can say I want to add this to cart, I want to view cart, and then I would have to sign in to checkout, of course. I went too quickly and it didn’t get added to the cart.

So again, there’s just not much sense to me going through this. Basically in checkout, ta-dah, promo code, I apply DOGDAY8. Okay, I need to log in before it’s going to apply the promo code accurately. So again, I’ll do that off camera. I don’t want to share my username and log in to my account and share all domains on camera. I’m sorry, no offense. But you can see WhoisGuard available for free.

GoDaddy is actually a little bit more complex of a process. The thing you need to watch out for with GoDaddy is they’re going to try to hit you with upsell after upsell after upsell after upsell. Their checkout process is a horrible user experience. NameCheap is going to try and hit you… so they’re not going to try and hit you with some upsells… they’re going to offer you like hosting too, but it’s much more subtle and less in-your-face and annoying than GoDaddy.

The important thing to note… you know… like I said, I’m not going to do it on camera… but the important thing to note as you go through this process, it’s just like buying anything else online. You just need to watch the upsells to make sure you don’t accidentally purchase hosting or you don’t accidentally purchase an upsell that you had no interest in or no use for.

So with GoDaddy, your promotional pricing should stay pretty much unaffected on your final page of checkout with the exception of a few cents for fees. And the same thing for NameCheap. Just make sure you pay attention to the price on the final page of checkout before you confirm to make sure you haven’t accidentally added any upsells. That’s the only thing I can think to advise you on that’s noteworthy in the checkout process.

Other than that, I’m going ahead and buy this domain off-camera and I will see you in the next video where we’re going to talk about securing hosting and what that means and what the best options are for that.

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4.2 The Anatomy of a Perfect Domain Name (AF)

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  • How long it takes to find a good domain name
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Okay! Now that we’ve got all of that out of the way, let’s talk about your domain name. I think a lot of people will get tied up on this (again, just like everything else we’ve covered) and it can actually be broken down into a really simple set kind of rules so that’s what we’re going to talk about in this section and how to find a domain name, et cetera.

So the anatomy of a perfect domain name.

This process is more time-consuming than most people think. I think a lot of people jump into this and they can’t find a domain name within 30 minutes or an hour and they think it’s peculiar; they think it’s a bad sign and they’re alarmed by it. That’s perfectly normal. It’s perfectly normal for the process of finding a really good domain name to take one to four hours or more. You may end up doing it for six or eight hours over the course of two or three days. That’s perfectly normal.

So don’t feel like this is something you might just like hop on and be done in 10 minutes. I guess it’s possible, but there are some check boxes that we’re going to talk about in this video that you really want to make sure you check for a domain name and it takes time – especially in somewhat saturated niches – to find a really good domain name. But we’re going to look at some tools that helps with that, too. A lot. That help a lot.

So an important thing to note because I get this question sometimes: you cannot change a domain name later. You could build a different website on a different domain or you could transfer your website, have a… it’s kind of a technical thing so unless you’re technically inclined, you probably have a developer transfer your website from one domain to another. But it’s really not something you want to do. There’s a very particular way to do it correctly and it’s a difficult and technically challenging thing. So if at all possible, you want to get it right the first time.

So another thing worth noting – just like picking a niche – is not to fall into that ‘analysis paralysis’. It can be easy to fall into that, because you know again, we’re talking about a lot of different kind of things you really want to see in the ideal domain name. But at the end of the day, you’re not going to find one absolutely perfect; you’re going to do the best you can and hopefully you get something really, really good. You should get something really, really good if you follow the training and use the free tools that I’m going to point you to in this training.

So hey, I think it’s important… I can see a lot of people going, “Hey Ian, ‘to find good’ – what does that mean?” So let’s talk about some really clear and tangible guidelines for what makes a domain good, okay?

Old-school training is what’s referred to as an EMD which stands for ‘exact match domain’. If you search Google… like if you search the term ‘Google exact match domain’… like four words ‘Google exact match domain’ on Google, you will find articles where Google de-emphasized the importance of an exact match domain.

I want to pause here really quickly because if you’re more technically-inclined and very advanced – which I know the majority of the people watching these videos won’t be and that’s perfectly fine – someone might say, “Oh…” well someone I saw even recently in training said exact match domains are really good. And they can be. There’s a technical advantage that would be way, way, way too overwhelming to explain at this point because it has to do with off-page search engine optimization and search engine algorithms and what’s referred to as ‘anchor text’ which is the links or the text that is used in a link. Like if you see someone put ‘Click Here’ and that’s what they used to link to a site, the anchor text is ‘Click Here’.

So technically speaking, exact match domains are likely to get more links that contain their search phrase that they’re trying to rank for because it’s the name of their domain. And that can also insulate you, give you a little bit more cushion to not be penalized by Google. And right now I bet 90% of people watching this video are going… like your eyes are just glazing over… and that’s why I say don’t even worry about that because when Google de-emphasized the importance of an exact match domain, it definitely helped level the playing field some. And at the end of the day, if you create value, it doesn’t matter what keywords are or are not in your domain name. It doesn’t matter what your domain name is. It’s going to get ranked with or without the keyword in the domain name. So that’s the important thing to remember.

But the old-school training in internet marketing… if you see anything even from a couple of years ago… maybe even as early as a year ago and especially five years ago plus… you know, three to five years back… everyone was saying, “Okay, you want to find your main keyword that you want to target and you want to buy the exact domain that matches that.” And that’s why you see a lot of things like MensSupplements.com or MyMensSupplementsHelp.com, like these really crappy domain names because they were just trying to get their keyword into the domain name and you don’t have to worry about that stuff as much anymore.

So if that’s what you’ve been taught in the past, I give you total permission to just kind of chuck that in the trash and move on because there’s better more up-to-date training and that’s what you’re going to learn here.

As I mentioned, new-school present day, there’s a lot more flexibility for branding based on the more level playing field due to exact match domains being de-emphasized by Google. So let’s talk about the anatomy of a perfect domain or as perfect of a domain as you can possibly get.

Absolutely hands-down, .com if you can get it. .net and .org technically are also okay – they rank just as well. My problem with .net and .org are if I go to a website once and I pay attention to the brand name and I catch the brand name… say for example, StoppingScams.com… if I want to go back to that site I’m like, “Oh yeah, I saw this thing on Stopping Scams the other day…” and I’m going to put in Stoppingscams.com first. So if I had the domain StoppingScams.net or StoppingScams.org, that visitor would have trouble finding me. Maybe they can find me in Google if they search, but the top of mind as far as domains go is always – world-wide – .com. Flat out. And that’s why personally, I never register domain names that are not .com – at least, domain names that I’m trying to rank and make money with.

There’s some more advance training that I’d like to get into teaching at some point. I’ve dabbled with things like PBNs and private blog networks to make sure I’m up to date in the community so I’ve experimented with some things… you know, some properties I do not touch with PBNs because I don’t want to get them penalized… but other things I think it’s important to keep yourself up to date with all the skills in internet marketing.

So in that case, I have purchased .orgs and .nets but those aren’t to rank and make money with. Those are to use… you know, to leverage and to build ranking for other sites, which again, is so far beyond the level we’re at right now that is PBNs. To do them correctly are so technically demanding they require so much knowledge. So don’t even worry about that right now. If you’ve heard PBNs and you’re like, “I want to get into that!” If you’re still learning to build a website and you’ve never had a profitable internet business and you don’t even know the basics of on-page/off-page SEO, I would not venture into PBNs right off the bat because there’s so much foundational knowledge you need to build between here and there.

And I hope to teach PBNs at some point as well, but for now, just again taking us back to the present moment… .com if you can get it and just know .org and .net are okay if you’re okay with them. But also, I want to share my personal standard: I keep searching until I find a .com always. If I’m trying to make money with a site, if I’m trying to build a brand through a website, I am going to find a .com even if it’s not the most desirable brands because that .com was taken and I have to come up with another brand, I will sacrifice that for a .com rather than going .net or .org. So keep that in mind.

A really important note here is I just very specifically mentioned .com, .net, .org intentionally. Do not use other domains. Do not use other what are referred to as TLDs (top-level domains) even… .com, .net, .org are the ones you should use.

Particularly, do not use like .co, .nz, or .com.uk, .co.uk – anything like that. Regionally-specific is going to severely inhibit your ability to rank worldwide and one of the beauties of an internet business is that you can rank and talk to people all around the world and make money from people all around the world as website traffic. And if you choose a regionally-specific domain, you limit that ability.

So again, if you’re going to venture out of .com, only venture into .net and .org. Don’t consider anything else, okay?

And you may be going, “Oh, but I’ve seen .infos rank!” It’s true, they rank just like… again, as a general rule of thumb, you can find contradictions to some of the things I’m saying but I’m absolutely giving you the best practices and I strongly recommend staying within those.

So the second component of a perfect – again, as close as you can get to perfect domain – is for it to be memorable, brandable (those typically go hand-in-hand) and easy to spell.

A lot of the times, you’ll see these days someone like drop a letter and sometimes you sacrifice one for the other. For example, Tumblr is a huge website and they’re not spelled correctly. It’s T-U-M-B-L-R. So they dropped the E. And it became a huge website. So that’s totally possible; but at the same time, is that level of success likely for everyone that launches a website? Definitely not. So you have to factor those things in.

So the more memorable and brandable it is and the easier to spell it is, the better. And also, the shorter, the better. I wouldn’t say there’s any hard rule… you know, I run the website PinTurningTexan.com, I have a VirtualRealityGinger.com – are both niche sites that I’ve profited from in the past and those are both pretty long domains all things considered. I’ve even had longer ones in the past way back in the day. So I would say priority over shorter. If you can find something that’s more brandable and memorable and it’s easy to spell but it’s a little bit longer, I say personally, go for it.

But you want to keep it as short as possible. You don’t want it to get out of hand. Just use your best judgment. There are no hard and fast rules like “Don’t exceed 15 characters”. It just doesn’t work that way. Just use your best judgment, be smart about it, and just know the shorter you can keep it, the better. I really would not try to make it more than two or three words if at all possible.

And the other thing to note is if you can include a root key word in your domain or brand, go for it. Do it. So an example of a root keyword would be… it’s a spin-off of an exact match domain so if your niche was ‘men’s supplements’, you may try to get ‘supplements’ and you may not need to get all of ‘men’s supplements’ in your domain name but you may try to get ‘men’s’ or ‘supplements’… you know, kind of root chunks of your keyword that are going to apply across a lot of the keywords and a lot of the articles you write over time. That’s awesome.

And if this just kinds of confuses you, you can just throw it out the window because these are kind of – again – in order of importance so .com is the most important. Memorable, brandable, and easy to spell is the next most important. The shorter the better is the next most important. And then if you can’t get a root keyword in it then fine. Like Stopping Scams ranks for a ton of keywords that have nothing to do with scams and they don’t have the word ‘scam’ in them. So you can absolutely rank for keywords either way – for search terms either way – so I wouldn’t emphasize this too much but if you find it kind of convenient, you can kind of stick it in there and sneak it in there. Perfect. Like that’s awesome.

It may help you with a little bit more of ranking power, but at the end of the day, it’s not going to do your business in just because you didn’t get a root keyword in there.

So I want to mention and then I want to show you really quickly a handful of really helpful tools. My absolute favorite is LeanDomainSearch.com. I’ll show you what that looks like. There are also a couple of potentially helpful tools that I’ll take a look at from time to time if I’m not finding what I need from Lean Domain Search. NameMesh is really good and so is Nameboy.com.

Typically, what I’m doing with these tools… occasionally I’ll find something that’s really good. I’m like I’m going to register that domain name. End of story. And it works out really well that way but it doesn’t always play out that way. I would say more often, what happens is looking at all of these ideas make me think, “Oh! I wonder about this. I like this one. It’s similar to that but not quite. But I like it. I think it’s really brandable.”

So you can use any domain registrar to check other ideas that rattle loose. A domain registrar is like GoDaddy.com, Namecheap.com – Google even has a service where you can register domains. And so you don’t have to obviously… you don’t have to buy everything you search.

And I’ve heard people have this ‘conspiracy theory’ that the moment you search on GoDaddy, a timer starts running and it’s only going to be available for so long. That’s not true at all. I’ve searched stuff on GoDaddy like years… like a year or months before I’ve registered it and then I finally get around registering and it’s still available.

So don’t feel like just because you’re putting it into a system, now some magical timer starts and someone can see and they’re going to register it before you. It doesn’t work that way, okay?

So as you go through these tools, you can pull up any other registrar. We’ll talk about which one is best to use in a coming lesson, but for now, you can use any of them – GoDaddy, NameCheap, anybody – to check those extra ideas that rattle loose. Because for me personally, those are typically the best ideas. Even though I’m using these tools to kind of stir up ideas, the best ones aren’t listed on these tools themselves.

An important thing to keep in mind, again, to aid with avoiding analysis paralysis is that there is no 100% perfect domain. There are going to be sacrifices one way or another: you may not get a root keyword in there; it may be kind of long. It may even… for some of you… if you’re okay making that sacrifice not be a .com. Again, that’s not something that I do but plenty of people do it with great success. So just keep that in mind. Like you want to get the stars aligned as closely as you can but you may not line them all up perfectly and it’s okay. That’s okay. It’s good. You need to be okay with that if that’s what happens.

So we’re going to talk about registration options in the next video and specifically talk about where you should register your domains because it’s not as straightforward as ‘Register Your Domains Here’. There are different advantages and disadvantages to each one (I’m going to talk about three different paths specifically) and that’s going to be in the next video. There’s more to it than a lot of people think. But for now, we’re going to hop into a couple of these tools and take a look at them and what they look like in person… right? Live.

So let’s hop over here and let’s take a look at this. So I’m going to go to Lean Domain Search… also like change my… (Oop! There’s the top of my green screen! Spoiler alert! Okay. So I’ll just sit further back from my computer so I’m not just like here the whole time because probably like that was a way too close. Sorry about that.)

So Lean Domain Search is my personal favorite. I really like it and I’ll show you why.

So let’s say for example… I think I’m still trying to decide between tattoo removal and dachshund discectomy – which of those niches I’m going to build out. I probably won’t build out fully; most of this is just for training purposes. But those are both niches I’ve thought about pursuing in the past and I think I might pursue. We’ll see. But at the end of the day, let’s just run with one.

So let’s just say, ‘tattoo’. You can also include ‘multiple’ here. I think you can include ‘removal’ as well. And you have all of these different ways to sort. This is why I love Lean Domain Search. You know, you can sort by Popularity; you can sort by Length (so if you sort by length now you’re going to see all of the shorter ones first); you can sort by Alphabetical; and you can also sort by Starts with Search Term or Ends with Search Term.

So I searched this specifically as a tattoo removal niche site. I can’t remember if Lean Domain Search does both… Yeah, so they do. They definitely do. So you can see they just kind of merge them together but you still have them adding prefixes and adding suffixes to kind of give you a mix and you can just like… this list just runs and runs and runs and I just see here and I go through some of these and I go, “Okay which one?” Like, “Okay.”

The domain that came to mind… One day I was thinking about… I was like, “I’m going to register that if it’s available – even if I don’t build the site out yet, I’m going to register that,” was ThinkBeforeYouInk.com. Just really brandable in my opinion. I think it would’ve been fun to build. It’s not available. And BeforeYouInk even was not available so it’s like okay, I’m going to have to find something else.

So you can see… like you go through and there are just all these great suggestions. A lot of them. Like I just saw one it was TattooRemovalResearch. And all these ones that are lit up green? These are all available. And I believe they are all available as .coms. So pretty handy, right?

And I could also just like put in plain ‘dachshund’ and so… you know, all kinds of… I wouldn’t make anything as a domain name DachshundDiscectomy whatever. Because again, that would not be easy for most people to spell. And even if they’re like, “Oh yeah, I can spell that.” Most people can spell it. Like how memorable is it, right? I’d rather be brandable than be an exact match domain in today’s search climate.

Interesting… DachshundMagazine.com is available… I find that kind of funny. So you just get all of these great suggestions and these are all available. And yeah, they’re all .coms. DachshundMagazine.com… that’s crazy that’s available. It probably won’t be after people watch it up in this video.

So I want to pull you over into another one. Let’s get in here to NameMesh. Go to page.

Alright. So again, this one I don’t find quite as helpful but it does have its uses. You can put in one word; you can put in two words. I also typed in ‘removal’.

Okay, so now… you know, if you have all different kinds of categories like none of these are going to be… again, a lot of these aren’t going to be .com, .net, .org… so we just wouldn’t consider any of these.

And same thing with these. Like they’re just playing around with the words I input and using top-level domains or domain endings to play into that keyword – and I just wouldn’t look at them.

In fun, you see they’ve kind of cut out characters. Again for me, personally, nobody’s going to remember this crap. Tttrmvl.com. Like yeah, oh I’m sure.

And even I think what’s most likely to happen with a domain like this is someone misreads it, they think it says TattooRemoval.com and the next time they try to come back to your site, they end up going to one of your competitors. So I wouldn’t even look at those.

And you see an SEO category. So you can play around with this one, too. It can be helpful to stir up ideas. I have found it helpful in the past but not always – I’ll just emphasize ‘not always’. But by far, Lean Domain Search is my favorite of these two.

So let’s get back in here… the keynote… and we’ll go to Nameboy.com. So Nameboy, you can actually enter them in different spaces and you can see that this kind of allow hyphens. I think I may have skipped that over in my training. I thought I mentioned it somewhere. I did not.

So another side note is I personally would recommend not using hyphens in your domain name. Maybe using one, but even that… like again, for me it’s a hard rule. Personally, I’m only going to use .coms. I am not going to put hyphens in my domain name. A lot of the times they’re just associated with lower quality websites. So I won’t click ‘Allow hyphens’ here and I’ll hit ‘go nameboy go’. And kind of like Lean Domain Search, it’s going to pop up a bunch of different combinations. This is an interesting mix between Lean Domain Search and NameMesh. Kind of some middle ground.

I think they even have a tool on Nameboy… No. There are tools out there too, where you can put in your own custom prefixes and your own custom suffixes and kind of just throw in the root keyword you want to work around and they’ll make suggestions. But I can’t remember which one that is. You can just also – in addition to these – Google free domain research tools or domain suggestion tools and you’ll find all kinds of other stuff.

I’ve just found personally over time… especially Lean Domain Search has been a go-to for me especially for stirring up ideas. And like I said, there have been times I’ve just been like, “Oh! DachshundMagazine… I’m buying that!”

So that’s the end of this lesson, we’re going to tie it up here. In the next lesson – like I said – we’re going to talk about the kind of differences between the major registrar options, what the pros and cons are, and basically it all comes down to cost and what your tolerance is there. And so I’ll talk to you about the cheapest option, the most convenient option, et cetera.

So that’s in the next lesson. I’m going to play around here for a little bit and find a domain that I can kind of use as an example as we continue throughout this section and I will see you all in the next video.

4.1 Winter Is Coming — Preparing for Website Setup and Design (AF)

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4.1 Transcript Below

Hey there! Long time, no see!

Once again, another day, another section. It’s time to get in and we’re talking about website building now. So we’re getting into some pretty serious stuff. This is kind of the very tangible and noticeable starting point for your business – like its birthday.

As soon as you get a website up, it all becomes very real. It can be a very challenging thing, but as always, I’m going to make very clear what you should expect. I’m going to do my best to help you temper a mentality that is going to set you up for success very well as you encounter some of these challenges. And most importantly, I’m going to put together some training. I’ve already put together some training that we’re going to go through together that I think sets you up for success better than anything else on the internet talking about this stuff.

So with all of that being said, I named this first lesson in this section “Winter Is Coming” which of course anybody from Game of Thrones will get… anybody that’s an actor in Game of Thrones will get that… anybody that’s a fan of Game of Thrones will get that. For the rest of you, it just basically means prepare for battle like things are about to get hard potentially and I’m about to equip you with everything you need to go into that battle. So don’t freak out. We’re going to start off by talking a little bit about what to expect and we’ll go from here. And we’ll get into actual like screen sharing and step-by-step – all that stuff – is going to kick off in this section.

So the important thing to know and keep in mind… The best mindset to have as you’re going into building a website – particularly if it’s your first time but even if you’ve never built a profitable full-time or part-time niche site – it’s really important to have the mentality of “I know this is going to be challenging. I know I’m going to encounter stuff that makes me angry, that frustrates me, but at the end of the day, it’s 100% necessary.”

Something for whatever reason is floating around in small pockets of people pursuing an internet business, they ask, “Can I make money without a website? Can I make money online without a website?” And the answer is, frankly, hell no! There may be ways where you can piece together inconsistent income, posting like to Craigslist and stuff like that, but even those businesses most of the time – the vast majority of the time – are highly dependent on having a website at its core.

So the best way I can think to explain it to people is trying to run an internet business without a website is like trying to run a brick and mortar store selling things out of the trunk of your car. Like you’re just set up so much better for success if you learn to build a website if it’s not 100% required – which I’m kind of in the mentality that it is but I know that there are exceptions and someone may come along and, “Oh! There’s this one guy that in a case study he didn’t have a website.” Like fine. And whatever. YouTube channels, all that stuff – everything works better, everything is simplified, everything is more in your control and you are more likely to succeed across the board if you’re operating a business online with a website.

So if that’s at all like a question floating around in your mind, the answer’s no. From me, the answer is no.

As I mentioned, there are going to be a lot of challenges ahead but this kind of big amorphous blob that may be so intimidating is what stands between you and your dream business, right? This is an essential step and this is some of the hardest stuff that we’re covering here. Everything from here out will probably not be remotely as technically challenging from here to when you’re making money. This is the technical stuff. This is the stuff that people are afraid of. But again, I’m going to walk you through it step-by-step, tell you exactly what to expect, and I’m going to walk you through everything on screen.

So there’s really nothing to be afraid of here. Just know that this obstacle that some of you may be very intimidated by is the most technical thing that’s standing between you and a successful internet marketing business of your dreams that you can travel with, that produces more income than you may be able to produce in the workforce, and et cetera. So it’s important to keep that in mind.

Also, this is what stands between you and a better future. A better future not only for yourself. But I know a lot of people are very motivated because they want to provide a better future for their families. This is you know… you just got to like rip it off like a Band-Aid. You know it’s going to sting but you got to go through it.

And the good news is you only have to learn a lot of this once. Also, a very important thing to realize as you go into this, there will be things that you encounter and you’re going to have to study them on your own. You’re just going to have to Google them and figure it out. But the good news is you only have to figure it out once because from then on, you’re going to know how to overcome that. And over time, you do that more and more and you see the amount of time you’re researching things go down and your productivity obviously goes way up.

So sometimes, you’ll be making slow progress; but just realize you make the slowest progress the first time you do it. And from then on – especially if you’re teaching yourself these skills as you go – it’s going to be easier and easier and easier until it’s almost second nature.

Another thing that I’ve mentioned in a previous video is it’s very important to have the mentality and realize even what feels like wasted time is not wasted. If you feel like you spent two or three or four hours just trying to troubleshoot this one problem and you finally get it and you think, “Oh God, I wasted three hours… I wasted four hours doing that.” It’s not a waste because you just tucked away something else in your arsenal that prepares you better for the same problem – the same challenge – down the road and it’s very, very important to remember that.

So the best way I can set you up for success here is to really emphasize that you need to have an independent mentality to succeed in this industry and this is the point where you are going to have to exercise that and practice that the most.

At the end of the day, there are millions of website owners online and a lot of them are using the same tools and going through a lot of the same challenges as you are. Not everybody that owns a website is a pro. I mean, I’ve been doing this now for over 10 years and I still don’t know how to edit code very well. I can still – very possibly – break my website when I edit code. So you’re looking at a guy that is not technical at all. I hire developers for that stuff or I just figure out a way to work around it and I’ve found a lot of ways to work around it over the years.

It’s just so important… you know, I was having a conversation with my wife recently – actually, just yesterday as I’m recording this video – because again, she’s starting her own internet business and she has a tendency as she’s getting started to interrupt over and over again throughout the day and say, “Oh how do I do this? How do I do this? Okay I did this what do I do next? Okay, after I do these things, what do I do next?”

It came down to a point where we had to have a conversation because it was interrupting my workflow. I’m trying to put together this just like massive amount of training, and then on top of that, I’m running my other businesses and managing team members. And I just couldn’t afford to deal with those interruptions over and over again so we had a conversation yesterday.

And I had said at one point like you’ve just got to figure it out like everyone else that runs an internet business, that tries to start and internet business. You’ve just got to figure it out. It’s what stands between you and success. And at the same time I can tell her a lot of what to do, but again, it comes back to the analogy: I want her to learn to fish. I don’t want to hand her the fish. Because then, she’s dependent on me for her whole business and that’s not sustainable for my business or for hers.

So we had to talk about it and she said, “I apologize. It wasn’t my default thinking basically to go out and research it before I asked about it. And now that it is, I know to do that.” And I have no problem if she researches at first and she can’t find the answers, she comes to me. That’s what I’m here for, right? She’s my wife. I frickin’ better be there for her when it comes to situations like that.

But I say that because it’s a very real thing and it made me realize other people are going to face this exact same challenge. And I had never even thought because I’ve had to be in research-first-ask-questions-later mode for years now. I had never even thought that someone’s thinking could default to “Oh I’m going to ask someone.” Because again, there are millions of people out there that have encountered… probably hundreds if not thousands of them… have encountered a lot of the issues that you’re going to encounter and a lot of the challenges and they’ve posted about it online and people that are more experienced have come and asked them.

So you just have to use the resources at your fingertips. Try and Google it first, use multiple search terms if it doesn’t turn up immediately – just do the best you can. And if you find yourself researching and researching for an hour and an hour and a half you still can’t find the answer, then post to the Facebook group. Again, as always, it’s free for registered members here and that’s what the community is there for.

So I really want to emphasize: you need to step into a very serious mindset of “I am on my own”. And I don’t say that in a bad way because you have to hit that point of independence to succeed in this industry flat out. Nobody succeeds in this industry just expecting to have their hand held every step of the way. It just doesn’t happen. You have to have a self-seeking, independent mentality to build a profitable internet business. Period.

So I’ll stop harping on this on this but it’s so, so, so important and I want to speak to this next point.

If you ask somewhat of a basic question in the community – you know, the Facebook page – or you email me, either me or another community member in the Facebook page says, “Hey, go Google that,” or “Hey, search the Facebook group,” don’t be offended by that because these things are out there for you to find. It’s your job to get in the mentality of seeking them out. Now for more advanced stuff, that’s totally called for to ask for help. But again, that’s what the community is there for.

But just keep this in mind: if you ask a fairly basic question, someone says, “Hey, just Google that,” or “Hey, search the Facebook group for that,” (and myself included) please don’t be offended by that. If we answer the same questions over and over and over again, nobody would ever get anything else done.

So it’s just essential that you hit this point. You know, I’ve said that a billion times now so I’m going to stop saying it but I can’t overemphasize it. I really can’t. It doesn’t set you up for success any other way than if you establish a very independent self-seeking, I’m-going-to-help-myself mentality.

So like I said, this is the most common place… as we enter into building a website… this is the most common place that people fall into that “hand-holding” trap. Like, “Oh, I just need someone to hold my hand!” No, you don’t. None of us had someone to hold our hand for all this stuff and we found a way to success and it is up to you to do the same.

There’s a lot of information out there, so again, the community is here to help as much as we can. But when it comes to really basic stuff, basically you just have to – if you encounter a problem – Google first. Google first, try to find an answer yourself, and then move on and ask the community if you can’t find an answer.

I’ve said this over and over again so I’m not going to say it again: just establish an independent mindset. You will find… and I don’t mean this in an offensive way… you will find that the quickest way to my bad side is to email me – especially repeatedly – with really basic questions that you could just Google.

Because again, I have a very strong passion about helping people. Please don’t mistake what I’m saying now to mean anything contrary to that. But I’m building a business, right? I’m running businesses, I’m running teams. For someone to send me an email to say, “Hey, how do I change this thing on my name servers?” (if that doesn’t make sense to you, we’ll talk about it later in this section) when it’s a really simple thing to Google, that just shows like it’s a matter of respect. Like I’m in the trenches with you, I’m trying to build a business, my time is very valuable. Like I don’t mind helping for really kind of specific difficult things. And again, that’s what the Facebook community’s for here at Free Internet Marketing Project. That’s why I check into the Facebook community and chime in and answer questions.

But at the end of the day, it’s not only the quickest way to my bad side, I think it’s the quickest way to a lot of experienced internet marketers’ bad side. It’s just a pet peeve, because again, none of us had that. So I think for anyone to fall into that mentality of like “I need to have my hand held” comes off to… even if it’s not the intention of the person on the giving end of those questions… to the person on the receiving end a lot of the time it comes off across as a sense of entitlement and a disrespect for that person’s time.

So anyways, I say all of that… again, winter is coming… I’ve harped on that enough… I say all of that to say fasten your seatbelt because it’s probably going to be a bumpy ride as we go through and we do a lot of the technical stuff for building a website. But this is it. Again, this is kind of the birth place of your business. This is where everything starts to get really tangible and exciting.

And yes, there are going to be some challenges but they are all totally surmountable and you can do this, okay? You just have to have the right mentality, you have to keep pressing forward no matter what, you have to learn from your mistakes, and eventually before you know it, if you keep the effort going, you’re going to have a profitable internet business.

So we’re going to dig in and start talking about how to find a domain name, we’re going to talk about where to get hosting, what makes a good domain name, how to connect your domain name to your hosting account, how to set up your website, install WordPress, what to look for in a WordPress theme – all that crap is covered in this section.

So it’s going to be a big one but it’s also going to be super helpful and it’s going to turn a big corner. Whereas up to this point we’ve talked about a lot of theory, we’ve gone through a lot of slideshows, this is when you’re going to start doing work and you’re going to have a really tangible output by the end of this section. So I’m excited for it. I hope you’re excited for it.

As always, if you have questions, feel free to post them in the Facebook group, alright? I guess research first and then post them in the Facebook group if you still can’t find the answer. And I will see you there and I will also see you in Lesson 4.2.

4.9.1 Yoast’s Settings Have Moved — How to Find and Change Them

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4.12 Setting Up Google Analytics and GSC for All Kinds of Helpful Data

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4.12 Transcript Below

Okay, one final step here.

We want to make sure we get Analytics and Google Search Console set up so that we can get some really helpful data. This data is technically optional; but if you spoke to any experienced internet marketer, they would tell you it’s an absolute necessity. So it’s important that we get it set up now and start collecting data because it’s going to come in handy later. So you aren’t going to need these like really extensively for a while; but when you do need them, you’re going to be super happy that you set them up early. Because at least in the case of Google Analytics, you don’t start getting data until you set up the code on your site. And if you wait until you actually need the data and you install the code, you won’t have historical data leading up to that point.

So what we’re going to do in this video is we’re going to create a Google Analytics account, we’re going to add our site to the account, and install the tracking code which we’ll do using a plugin. And then we’ll create a Google Search Console account, and we’ll add our site to it, and verify it using Yoast.

So I’m going to hop out of here, and after all of this, your website is going to be totally set up. So congratulations, your website is totally set up when you’re done doing this. So we’ll get to the real congratulations here in a minute.

So I’m going to come over into my web browser, I’m going to go to analytics.google.com, I’m going to come down here into More Options, I’m going to hit Create Account, and I’m just going to fill this form out really quickly. So my email is ian@ruetattoo.com… password (oops, of course they don’t match. Oops. Of course, on camera I choke up)… okay. I’m not going to put my real birth date on camera. We’ll just say January 1st 1980. And mobile phone… I’m not going to put my real mobile phone on camera either… so we’ll just go… I will verify that stuff later. You want to put in real information but you’re not going to be recorded. No! I need to verify my account. Crap. So I’m going to have to put in real information here. I’m going to have to put in real information so I’m going to have to stop the video and I’ll snip this part up.

So I verified everything and now I’m back at analytics.google.com. I just want to hit Sign up here. I need to input my website data so my Account Name for this can be RueTattoo, my Website Name can be RueTattoo. These don’t matter too much.

Again, because I’m on Bluehost and it’s automatic when you’re hosting with Bluehost these days, https is the protocol for the beginning of my website and it is RueTattoo.com. You want to be careful about… like a lot of people put www.RueTattoo (or whatever your domain is) .com and that’s okay. But you want to use the one that is in your settings for WordPress. If I come in here and you can see my WordPress address does not contain www. so I want to make sure to use the non-www. version consistently. Or if yours does have the www., you want to make sure to use that one consistently. Just make sure you keep it consistent across the board. It’ll keep things from getting out of control. So https://RueTattoo.com.

Industry Category… I guess technically it would be like Lifestyle and Leisure or whatever… Arts and Entertainment? Maybe Education? Technically, tattoo removal qualifies as Healthcare. We’ll just go Hobbies and Leisure. I don’t care. It doesn’t matter that much.

Okay, I’m going to set my Time Zone because that determines when your data resets for a new day. I personally don’t want to share anything with Google because I’m paranoid. So I click Get Tracking ID, now I need to accept the terms, and it spits out this handy-dandy Tracking ID.

So what I need to do is I need to copy this. So for me on a Mac it’s Command-C. You could also just right click and hit Copy. There are a number of ways to do it but your productivity will increase significantly as an internet marketer if you get used to keyboard shortcuts. So it’s Control-C for PC; Command-C for Mac.

So now I want to come in here to Plugins, I want to hit Add New, and I want to search for ‘header and footer’. Insert Headers and Footers. This is it. This is what we need. So I’m going to hit Install, I want to hit Activate.

And now under Settings, you see we have Insert Headers and Footers. I’m going to navigate there. So I need to add this script which is what we just copied from Google Analytics… I need to add it in my header. So I’m just going to… again, for Mac it’s Command-V; for PC it would be Control-V; or you just right click and hit Paste. So I want that script in my header. So since it’s Google Analytics, it’s really important. So I’m going to go ahead and hit Save. And now I have Google Analytics installed on my website. Easy as that.

It may take a couple of hours for Google Analytics to start receiving data and notice it’s actually set up. But you are set up if you did all of this correctly. If you copied the code, pasted it here – good to go.

So the next thing we want to do is we want to set up Google Search Console. So I’m going to come over here, I’m going to say ‘Google Search Console’, and I need to log in. Good. I got my password right the first time that time. Alright.

So my website that I want to add… you can see it says ‘Welcome to Search Console’ so it’s all ready and queued up for me. Again, this is where it’s even more important than Google Analytics. You want to make sure that you use the version that is listed under your General Settings. This is very, very, very important when it comes to Google Search Console. So if you don’t have www. here, don’t put it in over here. So it’s RueTattoo.com. Double check for spelling, Add a Property, and now we’re going to need to verify.

Recommended method… I can’t remember which one Yoast is. So I’m going to go Alternate methods and meta tag… I think this is it. Let me navigate to that section in Yoast SEO. So I want to click in Yoast SEO… I can’t remember what yet. Webmaster Tools. Okay, you can. So, let’s see. They probably linked to an explanation… ‘verify meta values’… okay. So this should… I think this is it. So if I go Google Search Console and I paste this in, hit Save… okay. Verify. Maybe. Maybe we’ll see. Hey, good! I did it right! I’m not too rusty, I guess. So, that’s it. We have… and you can see it was to the correct URL: https://ruetattoo.com. So that’s it. And so now if we revisit… congratulations, your website is totally set up!

I know this has been a lot. Trust me, it’s taken a lot out of me to teach it so I can only imagine – especially if it’s your first time doing it – how much it has taken out of you as a student. However, it is essential to your success. Just keep reminding yourself of that. When you get overwhelmed, take a deep breath, take a break if you need to, take the rest of the day off – whatever. The important thing is that you always get back and keep making progress, alright?

So now that this is all set up, we’ve got our website set up, we’ve got our hosting set up, we’ve got our domain name, we’ve got our core content… I mean, holy crap! If you’re to this point in the video, it’s incredible! You’ve done a lot of stuff especially if this is the first time you’ve ever done it. And even if it’s not the first time you’ve ever done it and it’s the first time you’ve ever done it the way that I’m teaching and you’ve gone through all of this training, you are really ahead of the curve – I think compared to the average person that tries to pursue internet marketing.

So, if you’ve watched all of these videos and you’ve done everything I mentioned about setting up your website and everything I taught and you’ve watched all of the sections before this, you’re ready to go on to Section 5.

We’re going to start talking about keyword research. I need to stop doing that with my arms because I think it makes the microphone go crazy. I noticed earlier. Sorry about that. So we’re going to start getting into keyword research which is so important. I know I say that about everything but when you’re talking internet marketing, all of the stuff that I’m teaching is very, very important.

So keywords will determine… and I’ll talk about it at length… but they will determine whether your business is made or broken. So it’s essential. It’s something that’s not taught very well or very in-depth usually; but of course, here at the Free Internet Marketing Project, we’re going to fix all that.

So if you have any questions, as always, feel free to post them in the Facebook group. It’s free for registered members.

And I hope you’re enjoying yourself. I hope you’re not feeling too overwhelmed. I hope you realize what massive progress you’re making. Even if it just feels like you’re making baby steps, you are making some very serious progress as you go through these videos. And I look forward to continue helping you create a profitable internet business, and hope to hear in the coming months that all of this is paying off, and you are profiting.

So, I will see you in the Facebook group and I will see you in the next video.

4.11 Creating Your Site’s “Core Content” and Menu

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  • How to create Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy page(s) for your website

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4.11 Transcript Below

Okay, here we are in the home stretch.

So I want to talk to you about… now that we’ve got everything set up as far as your settings, and your plugins, et cetera, et cetera… we need to start getting some core content. And what I mean when I say ‘core content’ is kind of the content that every site has or should have. So that’s what we’re going to cover in this and then we’re also going to create a menu so that your site’s really easy to navigate and then that’s pretty much it.

We’re going to do one more video about some technical things you need to set up if you want data which is really important. I highly recommend it. That’ll be the last video this section (at least as I envisioned right now) but I may add to it later.

But long story short, we are in the home stretch; we are almost done here; and this will probably be one of the longest videos of the section. But I’ll try to move through it as quickly as I can.

So your core content is composed of an ‘About’ Page, a ‘Contact’ Page, a ‘Privacy Policy’, and a ‘Terms and Conditions’ Page. (Forget the sound of my dog flapping in the background). So ‘Privacy Policy’ and ‘Terms and Conditions’ are frequently the same page. Not frequently, but it’s okay. It’s not uncommon. And then we need to set up your menu.

So something that a lot of people get up really stuck on for some reason… I understand it especially if you don’t really consider yourself a writer – which, by the way, is something you’re going to have to push past if you want to succeed in this industry. Even if you did a lot of video blogging and stuff like that, writing is pretty significant and important to succeed in this industry.

So the About page… just to give some general rules of thumb… it can really be anything. People get caught up, I think, because they believe it needs to be something really specific and it needs to accomplish a certain task. This doesn’t accomplish anything except allowing people a personal way to connect with you and your website. So it can be anything about you, it can be anything about your niche, or your passion or your journey. Again, it can be about anything.

Ideally, it’ll tie you into the brand that you’re building. And typically, that’s going to be done by talking about if you have certifications; or if you’ve worked in the industry for so many years; or you just really enjoy doing it – you live, breathe, eat, you study this all the time because it’s just one of your biggest passions. So there are no specific requirements for the About page. Do not let it catch you up. Just write what comes to mind and tweak it afterwards. Again, don’t overthink it. And like I said, just type it out and then edit it when you’re done.

And I would say keep it to three to five paragraphs max. People don’t want to see… they don’t want to read a novel, they don’t want to read a dissertation, they don’t want to read a ton of stuff. If someone’s looking at your About page, they just want a really brief introduction to you and maybe the brand that you’re building. But that’s it.

Also I would highly recommend adding an image. I know that makes a lot of people uncomfortable for some reason. I know a lot of people have valid reasons for it. But at the end of the day, if you want to keep things private, you can use a stock image instead of an image that you own. We’ll talk about stock images later when we start talking about writing high quality content because images kind of play into that. They’re really important. Like Pixabay (pixabay.com) would be a really good place to find a stock image. I don’t want to get into that really extensively right now because we’ll cover it really extensively later. But if you’re wondering, “Where do I find a stock image that I can use?” Pixabay.com is a good place to start.

So the other thing is you don’t have to publish your last name on the site. There are a lot of people that kind of go through this cycle of picking an alias or a pin name – and then that can get really confusing in time. You’re totally welcome to do it. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just murky.

It can get complicated when… if that website becomes really successful, it can become really complicated to have to work around that. And maybe you accidentally sign the wrong name in your email, or you know, put the wrong name someplace… it just gets confusing in my experience. It’s not something I do. I just put ‘Ian P.’ on everything now. I don’t put my last name anymore.

I don’t have a problem putting images of me on the internet for my various sites and niche sites; but if you do, that’s how you get around it: use a stock image. And you can use a pin name or an alias – unless you have a really, really unique first name just to not put your last name along with your first name. That’s probably anonymous enough.

So your Contact page is another is another piece of your core content. You just want to add a really friendly invitation to reach out and then add the contact form shortcode. That one’s really simple. The most complex of any of these is the About Page and that’s pretty simple as I mentioned, too. So if that sounds like gibberish to you, just add a contact form and a short code – don’t worry I’m going to show it all on-screen.

And then the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions page or pages. My understanding… okay, so I need to give a very, very firm disclosure here: I can’t give legal advice. I am not a lawyer. I am not taking a single class in law. And even if I had, that wouldn’t qualify me to give legal advice. So if you need legal advice, don’t ask me. Don’t ask the Facebook group. I mean, I guess you can ask the Facebook group to see if anybody there has the experience. But at the end of the day, you need an attorney especially if it’s something really individual and important that you just can’t get wrong, the stakes are high, et cetera.

So I can’t give you legal advice, nobody in the Facebook group… even if they are qualified, they’re probably not going to give you really in-depth legal advice for free. So I want to give that disclosure as I start talking about legal stuff.

My understanding (after talking with attorneys over the years) is that legal writing is not copyrighted. So technically you can copy any legal documents that you find online and find and replace their company name or their website domain and replace it with your domain name or your company name. I’ve done it before. I’ve never had any issues with it. But again, I’m not a lawyer so for all I know I’m doing something really, really stupid here. Check with a lawyer before you jump out on that limb or do more research or whatever. But I’ve done it and I’ve had no problems with it.

You can also use any number of free generators online – both for privacy policies and terms and conditions. It’s just important that when we’re using content that’s duplicate content, that we use the checkbox within Yoast that keeps the search engine from indexing those pages. Similar to what we did when we were setting up the website and we set a couple of those pages to noindex so that the search engines wouldn’t index them and they wouldn’t look at them. That’s what we do for these pages as well. And I’ll show you how to do that. It’s really easy. Like I said, it’s just a checkbox.

And also, consult with an attorney for any special needs beyond this. I can’t overemphasize that. If you write me asking about legal advice, I’ll help as much as I can; but I’m also going to say very clearly: you can’t depend on this. You need to speak with an attorney, alright?

So final step in all of this is setting up your menu that links to all of these content. It’s also super easy when you know what you’re doing and I’ll show that on-screen as well.

So, are you ready to dive in? It seems like a lot, I know. It’s going to take some time for us to do it all. I kind of got a little bit of a head start so that it takes as little time as possible. But none of it is complex and it should only take an hour or two even if it’s the first time you do it. So even if this is your absolute first time doing this, it’s not something that’s going to eat up a bunch of time unless you overanalyze your About page. That’s the only thing I can see taking forever.

Once we’re done, your website’s entire foundation is set for months to come. You will not have to tweak any of this – as long as you do it right in the beginning – for months to come. Your appearance is ready; all the plugins are set up; you’ll have your core content up. So it’s all about adding content and promotion from here.

So after we finish this, we’ll also do a couple of things like I mentioned in another video about collecting really valuable data. But that’s really simple and easy. It’s just punching in a couple of codes.

And for now, let’s hop into WordPress and knock out all of the core content. So, of course, my WordPress Dashboard… you can see I’ve already got a little bit of a head start on my About page. I already wrote it just because I didn’t want you to be sitting here on camera watching it. You can read over it if you want. This is the URL for RueTattoo.com/about-ruetattoo-com. That’s it.

So I typically optimize my About page for my brand name so that when someone searches Rue Tattoo or RueTattoo.com, it’s likely to come up so I make sure to use it in the title of my About page.

And I also make sure… this is all of the… this is why we installed Yoast… this is all of the SEO stuff that you can adjust. You can set the Focus keyword like I put in here RueTattoo.com. And you can also edit. You can click Edit snippet and set your SEO title, set your Meta description, and set your Slug which we talked about earlier – your URL slug. And without getting too in-depth here, we will cover on-page SEO very extensively later in the training.

But early-stage stuff for your About page… if you want it to get ranked for your brand name or your domain when people searched in Google, you want to use the domain and the brand in the title of the page. You want it in the URL slug.

Obviously, you can’t have dots in your URL slug so it’s –com. And you want it in your SEO title down here with Yoast and you want it in your Meta description (this is also referred to as a ‘meta title’). And again, we’ll get to know all of these very, very intimately when we get to that step in the training. But for now, just know if you want to rank for when someone searches – in my case, RueTattoo.com on Google or Rue Tattoo – I’m going to put them in these places. Also, when I inserted this image, I put as my Alternative Text ‘RueTattoo.com’… I can actually probably change that ‘Ian of RueTattoo.com’. So you want to be descriptive but you also want it to contain the keyword you’re trying to boost the page for. You don’t want to abuse that. Again, we’ll talk about that very extensively when we get into SEO. But for now, that’s it.

So if you want to read the Welcome page or the About Me page, you’re welcome to. Yeah. I mean, as it very clearly explains, I’m an idiot for ever getting this tattoo. It’s now… like I said, I’m several sessions in and compared to that, you can barely see it now which I’m grateful for. But I’ve still got several months of treatments spaced out over time. So yeah, as the caption, I put, “Look at that idiot.”

So when you’re drafting this up in WordPress, you have all kinds of options that you can get overwhelmed by. But really, just type it up and you can… of course, you can bold, you can italicize anything, you can do something. You typically want to click this. You have a toolbar toggle here and this is called ‘showing or hiding the kitchen sink’ is what it’s referred to as for whatever reason. And so that opens up some extra options that can be helpful but you don’t really need to worry about them too much especially when we’re just talking about your About page and your Contact page.

So for now, I’m not going to go into them in-depth and you can play around with them in time. But when we start crafting actual content, I’ll talk about all of that stuff more extensively. But at the end of the day, your About page just needs to be three or four paragraphs – maybe five paragraphs. About You ideally include an image. In my case, the image speaks to my credibility in the industry as embarrassing as it is. And I’m not always this bright red. This is actually from my bachelor party years ago. I had accidentally belly-flopped into the lake. We had a party barge on. So yes, for those of you wondering, there was alcohol involved.

So that’s all you really need to know about the About page. Put your content in there and an image. I guess I need to show that the way you add an image in WordPress is wherever you want to put the image, so you put your cursor where you want to put the image, you hit Add Media. In this case, I uploaded a file… you can navigate to your computer to where the file is on your computer… but I already have it here. And when you click on it to insert it, you see this information? You can add a caption. I added… remember I edited this to be Ian of RueTattoo.com because the Alt Text can help me rank for RueTattoo.com or Rue Tattoo. And then you would just click… I navigated away from it too quickly… you would hit Insert into page and it would insert it where your cursor is.

Outside of that, largely as usual, I’m going to qualify this with… this is an oversimplification, but this is referred to as a WYSIWYG editor which is the acronym ‘what you see is what you get’… WYSIWYG… and they operate very, very similarly to Microsoft Word or any other word processor.

And the only other thing worth noting personally is I found working with international audiences over the years… I mentioned two-foot… of course you have to be conscious of the fact that if you are American or if you aren’t American that you’re probably going to end up speaking to both audiences. So whenever I use something like Fahrenheit, I also add the Celsius. It’s as easy as just Googling really quick. Fahrenheit to Celsius… you know, “What is 100°F to °C?” But the same thing with measurements. So I just searched, “What is 24 inches in centimeters?” and it’s just under 61 centimeters. So just something worth nothing. A little pro tip. Over the years, your website will probably get an international following if you stick with it. So just make things like that easy on people.

So I hadn’t published this yet so I’m going to hit Publish here in a second. You can Preview your page to see what it’s going to look like. So this is what the page is going to look like on my website now that my theme is all set up which is pretty cool. So I’m just going to go ahead and hit Publish. And now, this website is live on RueTattoo.com. So if we just click this link, we can see… this is the URL… it’s live. We’re good to go.

So you just saw when I clicked here that my… well you can’t see this on-screen… I just realized it’s cut off… but there’s something called the favicon which is the icon next to the URL in the navigation bar, it defaults to Bluehost.

If you find yourself seeing things like that and you’re worried about it; again, you need to be in the mindset of “How do I find this out myself?” I can’t teach every tiny, tiny detail. I’ll teach you everything that matters. I’ll teach you everything that is necessary and sets you up for success making money. I may not always go into things like how to set a favicon – which is what that’s called. So you can search ‘how to add favicon WordPress site’ on Google and you’ll get that. Or ‘how to set icon for my WordPress site’ you’ll get that on Google.

And we’ll probably have Q&A webinars as time goes on and you can ask those things that I can show you on camera. But it’s really difficult, you know. We’re going to end up so in the weeds with things that don’t really matter. Again, I’m going to teach you everything that matters, everything that’s necessary and sets you up for success in making money. But little details like that, I’ll probably skip over and you can just fill those gaps in with Google. So if I skip over something, it probably wasn’t very important. Just know that.

So that’s the About page. The terribly embarrassing About page. And just to go over this really quick – we’ll go over it most thoroughly when we talk about SEO – it’s not so important about the About page… are not so important for the About page… but you get all kinds of feedback here about how well your page is optimized for on-page SEO. So this is going to be really, really helpful for those of you that are new to SEO whenever we get into creating high quality content that is optimized for the search engines.

So I’m just going to go ahead and close this out because this is done. And I didn’t create the About page off camera because I wanted to show that from start to finish. So I just hovered over Pages, I opened Add New in a new tab here and I’m going to call this ‘Contact’. And you’ll see that after I fill in the page title, the URL slug automatically fills in.

And I already have this over in a document actually… oops wrong one… ta-dah! So I’m just going to copy paste from the text document I have – at least the body of it. So I said, “Looking for something that you can’t find on our website, for some personal advice from someone that’s ‘been there’, or just wanting to say ‘thanks’ for something you saw here on RueTattoo.com? Just fill out the form below and I’ll send you a reply as soon as I can!”

So if I Preview that, there is not contact form here, right? Nothing magical has happened where you just say, “Contact Me” and WordPress knows. It just doesn’t work that way.

So sometimes, a theme will have like a contact page as a type of page you can select. This one doesn’t. So what we’re going to have to do is we’re going to go back into that Contact plugin we installed and we set up that form – if you remember that. So I’m going to click this form and you can see right here, “Copy this shortcode and paste it into your post, page, or text widget content.” So I’m going to highlight this, copy. And this is what I was saying earlier: if a shortcode made no sense to you, this is what it is. So you just hop in here, you put in the shortcode. You can put it in the Visual editor; the Text editor – typically – if you’re inserting like HTML code or something like that, it needs to go in this tab. So you would have to click this tab first and insert it and then click back.

But when you’re talking about shortcodes specifically which work with WordPress – it’s something that works with WordPress – you can just paste them in the Visual editor and it’ll work just the same. So if I hit Preview now, this will refresh, you can see my contact page is there. It’s like magic!

So everything that we set in an earlier video when we installed this plugin and set it up is now ready to rock. This would send to ian@ruetattoo.com as soon as someone filled out this form. So, pretty cool. Alright?

So you may notice these widgets on the side. I’m not going to worry about these too much. It’s as simple as hopping into Appearance – Widgets (I’ll open that up in a new tab) and I have all of these over here. It’s super easy. You can just kind of drag these off and it removes them. But I’m just going to go ahead and leave them for now. It doesn’t really matter. I mean, I guess I’ll go ahead and take them off now. So I’ll just remove Archives, I’ll remove Categories, I’ll remove Meta; and I’ll leave Recent Posts and Recent Comments and Search.

And now, you can see if I refresh the page over here, a lot of that junk is gone. And as comments get added to the site and as I publish posts – which is how we publish content to WordPress sites typically speaking – there’s a post versus pages question. I’m sure I’ll address that at some point when we get there. But as soon as I start adding posts, that’ll start popping up over here, too. So again, not really necessary at this point. Doesn’t really matter in the long run. We can just leave it alone and we’ll handle it when we start getting traffic, alright?

So now that I have filled this out, I’m going to edit my on-page SEO just because I don’t like leaving it not filled out even for basic pages. So I’m going to go, “Contact Ian @ RueTattoo.com”. It doesn’t need to be optimized for anything but I do like to fill it out. I’m going to leave the Slug the same. I just don’t like leaving SEO stuff defaulted. It’s a personal preference. I could have and it wouldn’t have really hurt anything. I’m not going to set a Focus keyword here because: (A) it doesn’t matter, it just helps with the analysis here; and (B) I’m not trying to rank for anything here. I just filled it out because I don’t like leaving it blank. So I’m going to hit Publish. I’m not going to insert any images here. And so now, I have my Contact page as well. It’s live. So I can click it here, you can see my meta data – my meta title – updated here, and everything’s like it should be. Right? So that’s good.

So I’m going to go ahead and close this, close this, just kind of clean up here, and I’ll even close my Dashboard.

So the last thing we need to add is the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. Of course, I mentioned several options there. You could search for them and just find one that was similar to what you needed, replace their company name with your company name or your domain name. For these purposes, I found a really good one at bennadel.com and it’s a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service generator. You can just search Google for Terms and Conditions generator or Website Terms generator and Privacy Policy generator. And you can create these as one page or two page whatever you want. But this one in particular I found to be really helpful.

And so, I’m going to put in… company name is going to be RueTattoo.com; company state for me is Texas; Generate Terms of Service Agreement; and we can see down here a preview for all the Web Site Terms and Conditions of Use. And the really cool thing about this particular tool is that it also spits it out in code. So all of these headers and everything, instead of copying and having to reformat it and all that stuff, we can just paste this code into our site – which is super, super cool.

So I’m going to go Pages – Add New again. I’ll do to ‘Terms/Conditions & Privacy Policy’. Remember I introduced you the Text tab a minute ago, so that’s where anything that’s put in code (I’m just going to edit my URL slug really quick because that’s going to bug me. I’m going to hit OK here)… so anytime you have a code which is that’s what this is – this is code… you can see open paragraph (<p>), close paragraph (</p>), open heading 3 (<h3>), close heading 3 (</h3>)– so whenever you’re going to paste something like that in… if you paste it in the Visual editor, it looks horrible. If we preview it here, it does nothing. So you want to make sure to put content like that in the Text tab. So I’m just going to go and paste that again. And now, if I click back to the Visual tab, you can see everything’s nice and beautiful and formatted correctly.

So this is a Heading 2. We’ll talk about what headings are when we get into SEO as well. But we’ve got a Heading 2, we’ve got a Heading 3 here, Heading 3 here, we have some numbered lists which is really, really cool – and it was all just done by that Terms and Conditions editor. Super, super easy.

This one I’m not even going to worry about. Besides… actually I lied… I am going to work. So I’m going to go ‘RueTattoo.com Terms, Conditions, and Privacy Policy’. So I’m just going to put ‘RueTattoo.com website terms and conditions as well as our privacy policy, can be found here.’ Close snippet editor.

And remember how I mentioned that we want to make sure that this does not get indexed by the search engines because a lot of this is duplicate content, right? I talked about that earlier. You want to hit over here this little gear icon, and you can see Meta robots index, we’re going to set this to noindex – and that’s it. That’s all we need to do. Now, the search engines will not index this page which is really important, because again, this is duplicate content. We do not want this indexed. Duplicate content can be very bad for rankings. And even though it’s probably not going to destroy you to have a Terms and Conditions or Privacy page that is indexed by Google and is duplicate content… they’re not going to slap the hell out of you for that… they know better… it’s just a best practice to set it to noindex which is really, really easy with Yoast. So I’m going to click Publish and if I open that up, now I have that on my website as well.

So now we face the issue… the very last step of this process is I don’t have a navigation menu that shows any of this, right? And we want people to be able to navigate to especially my About Me and Contact pages, but it’s also important that people can find our Terms/Conditions & Privacy Policy easily.

So creating a menu is that last step of this process. So all of these pages are done. We can navigate away from here. I want to hover over Appearance, and I want to select Menus, and this is going to load up. We don’t have any menus here so I’m just going to type ‘Main Menu’, Create Menu – and you can see all of my pages here. If I wanted to, I could also add posts or I could add a custom link to somewhere else – totally up to me. I’m just going to pop all of these in here, Add to Menu, and I’m also going to create a custom link for the homepage. I have https – again, through Bluehost. It’s automatic these days which is really, really cool. But I’m going to go https://ruerattoo.com and I’m going to set Link Text ‘Home’, I’m going to click Add to Menu.

Just a side note as we’re working with menus: if you ever want your menu to open in a new tab or a menu item to open in a new tab (which is sometimes it’s a very specific need but I’ve had the need in the past) you just need to select Screen Options up here and you need to select Link Target. And then if we close Screen Options, now you’ll notice that there’s this box here that says Open link in a new tab. If this is set to ‘Disabled by default’ – we don’t have that – so just a little pro tip. I don’t need any of these to open in a new tab.

So now I want to set the order of these. Whatever order I set these in is the order they’re going to appear in my menu. So I want my Home page first, I want About second, and then I want Contact page third, and I think I want my Terms/Conditions & Privacy Policy as a dropdown underneath my About page. So if someone hovers over About, they will see (excuse me, I’ve got a hair on my face)… they will see a Terms/Conditions & Privacy Policy. And you can change the labels for these… ‘Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy’… so now that’s what will show up in the menu. So I’ll probably have that open in a new tab just so you can see how that works.

I usually never check Automatically add new top-level pages. That would just make it so that anytime you created a new page that wasn’t categorized under another page… wasn’t sorted… wasn’t organized under another page… it would automatically be added to your menu. I just never check that. But something that’s very important to check… people ask me all the time, they say, “I’ve set my menu, I’ve created my menu, it’s not showing up anywhere. What do I do?” It’s because they haven’t checked this box. So make sure you check for your main navigation menu the Primary Menu box.

And you can also add things if you wanted to – like if you had a Facebook page or a Twitter or an Instagram or whatever – you could use the custom links to add those in there, too. And you would probably want those to open in new tabs because you don’t want people navigating away from your website unnecessarily. So if they’re navigating to another page on your website, you can do it in the same tab. But if they’re navigating off of your website – affiliate marketing, internet marketing – best practice is to have it open in a new tab. That’s true for your affiliate links, too. And you’ll notice it’s something I almost always do whenever you’re navigating on my websites.

So I think I already hit Save Menu but I’m going to save it again. Now if we go to RueTattoo.com, you can see over here on the left hand side, we have our navigation menu. And this is just based on my theme. So my navigation menu appears over here on the left for my theme. It’s something I could worry about right now. In the long run, do I want my navigation menu on the left side instead on the top of my website? Probably not. Is it something I might be able to change in the Themes Appearance settings? Maybe… let’s see… Customize – Menus – Menu Locations… so… but I really want to emphasize right now and it doesn’t look like I can really easily.

So this is one of those things. Like this bugs me. This is not what I wanted. But it just doesn’t matter. This goes back to one of the previous lessons: it just doesn’t matter at the end of the day. So do I like my navigation menu over here? No. I would prefer it to be up top. But again, it just doesn’t matter. And this was determined by my theme.

So you can see I can click down and if I click Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy, see how it opened in a new tab? It was because I selected that option in the Menus options.

So that’s it!

I want to make sure I didn’t miss anything here. So what are we going to do? Core content, About page – did it. Contact page – did it. We included the shortcode. Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions – we did those. I showed you how to find a generator and also talked about how to find different generators – if you don’t want to use that one. Or if you wanted to… I never showed you exactly how I found that… so we can just go ‘Ben Nadel terms generator’ and that’ll probably pop it up. Yeah! So there it is. Again, Google it. It’s as easy as that.

So we talked about all of these stuff, showed you how to set it all up, showed you how to set SEO at a basic level (we’ll talk about that more later), and then also showed you how to set up your menu so people can navigate to these pages.

And depending on the theme you choose, your menu will show up in different places. I’m not happy with where mine showed up, but again, it just doesn’t matter at this stage. It’s functional. Whatever. Move on. Don’t get too caught up in those aesthetic and design details yet.

So, all of our core content is set up. It’s almost completely done and ready to move on. Technically, it’s ready to move on now; but it’s really important that we put some foundational stuff in place so that you can get really good analytics and data on your website. Even if you’re not getting traffic right now, if you don’t have this stuff set up, you won’t know when you start getting traffic and you start seeing traction.

So, we’ll talk about them in-depth much later, but in this last video of this section –at least as I plan it right now – we’re going to talk about how to set up Google Analytics and Google Search Console for your website so that you can get that data when you need it. Very important step. Like I said, technically you’re all ready to rock right now; but if you don’t do that, you are going to regret it.

So if you have any questions, as always, feel free to post them in the Facebook group. That is free for registered members. And I will see you there and I’ll see you in the next video.

4.10.1 How to Check If Your Theme Is Mobile Responsive

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4.10.1 Transcript Below

Hey, guys!

I just wanted to make one quick amendment to the last lesson. You will notice that the website is more built out because I didn’t realize this until a couple of days later but I forgot to show you how to tell whether or not a theme is mobile responsive. I mentioned that it was one of the most important things and then I just kind of left you high and dry and didn’t mention how that’s done. It’s actually really, really simple and this is going to be a really quick amendment.

But you know, you’ll notice my menu is set up and all that stuff – don’t worry about that – that’s taught in the coming lessons so you’re going to learn about all that. But I do want to tie off this loose end.

It’s really simple to tell whether or not a website is mobile responsive which means that it adjusts accordingly when it’s being viewed on a mobile device. Really essential in today’s search engine climate. There’s actually been a lot of information released by Google talking about how they don’t rank sites as well when they’re not mobile responsive – at least for mobile results – so, really important.

And the way you check whether or not your theme is mobile responsive is you just come over to the side until you get that little resizing arrow and you can click and drag. And as you’ll notice, it’s shrinking… it’s shrinking – that’s the first good sign.

But once it gets to that point that it’s like tablet-size, you notice how the header changed now the menu’s up here instead of off to the left. And you shrink more and more, and it just keeps reformatting, it keeps moving the content into thinner and thinner places.

And now you can tell it would be much more obvious if I had more content on the site yet, but we’re just not quite there in the training. And each side is going to look a little bit different. Your menu may not pop up into the top right. Don’t look for exactly what just happened on my site to happen on your site unless you’re using the same theme. But you want to see that it does something sort of along those lines. You particularly want to see that it’s shifting and resizing. That’s the main thing you want to see.

And of course, the ultimate way to check and see if the theme is mobile responsive is to pull it up on your phone; but this is a quick workaround.

So when you’re looking at themes and you’re like, “Is this one mobile responsive? I don’t know if it checks that box.” Just grab it and do that. And if it adjusts accordingly, then more than likely – almost guaranteed – it’s mobile responsive.

But if starts like looking really funky and crunched up and things just aren’t looking very good, it’s probably not mobile responsive and you probably want to rule it out.

So, that’s that. Alright? I just want to go over that really quickly. Sorry for forgetting it the first time around but at least I remembered. I was laying down to sleep or something and I was like, “Ah crap! I forgot to show them how to see if a theme was mobile responsive!” So there it is, alright?

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4.10 Choosing Your Theme and Crucial Design Tips

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4.10 Transcript Below

Alright!

So now that we’ve got everything set up and ready to go, I want to talk to you about some really crucial things that – again – most people don’t talk about. But in my experience over the years, this advice sets people up for success very well compared to people just really not talking about this topic extensively.

So I think we can cover it really quickly, but I just want to cover a few key points about choosing your theme which is the design of your website in WordPress. In WordPress, whatever theme you choose really heavily dictates what your design looks like, like what the layout is, et cetera. And also, some really crucial design tips that are specifically for people that are trying to get started in this industry to get you to profit as quickly as possible.

So I want to say you can choose anything you want – which is true. You can ignore everything I’m saying here and choose anything you desire. I would encourage you to keep all of these in mind and stick very closely to the advice that I give in this particular video.

So the things that matter right now are that your site is clean and easy to navigate and that it’s mobile responsive. That’s it. That’s all that matters at this stage. As we get into creating content and working on SEO, there will be other elements we introduce; but as far as the way your website looks right now, this is all that matters. Period.

The things that don’t matter right now and can be added later are: an image header (a header is the kind of banner image that you see at the top of either the home page or pages on the site); picking the perfect colors (I see that so many times, people are struggling so much to figure out what their background color is and what color their font is and stuff. It’s just a waste of time right now. Just flat out, there are better things for you to spend your time on); and all kinds of other stuff that people get caught up in.

But what this all adds up to is it’s very important at this stage that you pick your battles very carefully. As you set out on creating a profitable internet marketing business, you will find that you’re about to encounter over the next several months dozens of battles… probably. And it’s very important that you pick your battles wisely.

And a battle I see a lot of people pick very early on is what their website appearance and design looks like. And they’re trying so hard to get it perfect and really – again, I’ve already said it in this video – it doesn’t really matter. End of the day, doesn’t matter… yet. It will matter down the road but it doesn’t matter until you get traffic regularly and all you need to start getting traffic is a simple website that’s easy to navigate and mobile responsive and high quality content. And we’re going to talk about those other aspects – high quality content, promotion, and stuff down the road – but that’s all you need. That’s the whole foundation of what you need. And so, I really encourage you to focus on traffic producing activities only.

What a lot of people do when they try to get started in this industry is they pick all these battles that they don’t even know don’t matter right now. And I’ve done this myself over the years, so I’m… you know… I’m not the person… you know… to cast the first stone. I’ve done this myself, I’ve made these mistakes, and I’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds of people make this mistake in the past several years as well.

So when we are setting out on the journey to create a profitable internet business, we probably don’t realize it, but most of us, if not all of us have a certain bank of hours that we’re going to put into this before we just give up and before we get burned out and we’re so tired of it, we just say, “Screw this. This whole industry is a scam, I’m not going to do this anymore.” And none of us know what that number is. Nobody knows how many hours are in our bank. And it varies from every individual to the next.

So when you spend 12 or 15 or 30 or 50+ hours just worrying about your site design and sending it out to friends and family or posting it to Facebook groups and you’re just asking, “What does my design look like?” and largely receiving a lot of unqualified feedback – it just really doesn’t matter. The design is not that important at this stage as long as it’s clean, easy to navigate, and mobile responsive.

So for now, like I said, traffic producing activities means we need to focus on high quality content at this stage in our business; and that means we need to not spend too much time on design.

Once you’ve establish your site with enough high quality content, it may also include promotion. There are all kinds of promotion – we’ll talk about those pretty extensively here in the members’ area in another section – but every ounce of energy you spent on anything else right now besides traffic producing activities is wasted.

If you’re just trying to like… you’re like, “Where should I put my affiliate links? Where should I put my banners? My advertisements? What color should my site be? What images should I have? Is my header in throughout my posts?” Within posts images can be very important; but everything else: broad site design, you don’t need to be worrying about placing a bunch of affiliate links, you don’t need to be worrying about having a bunch of banners and stuff that drive people into sales funnels because there are no people yet. And until you have people in the form of traffic, just none of it makes any sense and you can always change all of this stuff later. You’re just delaying how long it takes you to succeed if you spend a lot of time on those particular aspects right now. So with that in mind, choose your battles carefully.

I would prefer that whatever theme you choose, it has no banner or homepage widgets… the kind of… speaking widely of widgets but very generally… but those kind of sections that have like, “This is what we do. This is what we’re about. Check us out here.” And it’s just like these little widgets with these little blurbs of text. They’re a pain in the butt to set up: (A) they vary a lot from theme to theme, (B) and at the end of the day, it just doesn’t matter. You can avoid it completely and just save your hours for things that matter right now.

So I would also prefer that it have a blogroll for the homepage at least while we’re getting started – again, something you can change very easily down the road. But what a blogroll is is when you go to a website and you see their latest posts published there; and you can scroll down and see what their latest posts were; and every time they publish a new post, it automatically gets added to the top of the list – that’s a blogroll.

And that’s just as simple as things get. Anything with similar minimalism within these guidelines is probably going to be fine; but at this point, the less set up, the better. The sooner we get set up, the sooner we can start creating content and doing things that matter that are going to result in traffic. And of course, as we’ve mentioned many times by now, traffic equals money. As long as you do it right.

So sites with complex home pages – like I said, with the little individual snippets and blurbs, and you know, a banner image, et cetera – they take a lot of exploring and tweaking and figuring out. And frankly, a lot of these things in WordPress aren’t standard. It varies widely from them to theme.

And so when you pick something that you haven’t seen someone go through step-by-step or you’re just kind of picking something randomly, a lot of exploring a new theme is just clicking to the settings, changing something, previewing the site, see if it works. Change more settings, preview the site, see if it works. And you just do that over and over again. And then sometimes, you can’t find out what you need adjusted and you just end up digging and digging through all the settings and features until you find out, “Hey! This thing can’t do what I want. I’ve got to change themes,” and then you start all over again. And again, it just turns into a vicious cycle – frankly – of wasted hours.

So let’s take a look at how this is done in WordPress specifically. So here I am at the RueTattoo WordPress Dashboard, the main admin panel. So I’m going to scroll down here to Appearance – just hover over it – and I’m going to go to Themes.

And like I said… you know… we talked about kind of what’s preferred: no banner on the homepage (I said no banner or homepage… I meant no banner on homepage… oh no, I did. I meant no banner or homepage widgets. Okay. Forgive me for everything.)

So if we come in here and we go into the Themes, we want to hit Add New. You could select from one of these – I think I am going to select from one of these – but just to show the theme marketplace really quick, you can go through and waste so much time here as well. But again, everything I’ve shared is what matters most and those aren’t difficult criteria to hit.

So I’m just going to come into Popular. It looks like… so Twenty Seventeen, if I preview this right now, if I hit Live Preview… It’s actually a fairly complex theme especially by WordPress’ standards. You see how I would have to change each one of these images? So now I have to find high quality images for each of these second sections; I have to figure out how to update them in the theme settings; and all of that. Again, it’s just wasted work right now. So I’m going to close out here in Twenty Seventeen. It’s definitely not going to be the theme that I use.

When I come back in here to Popular… and like you can see this one has a banner image. Banner image. All kinds of settings here to tweak. Banner image. This one looks like it could work although there’s an image off to the right… I’m not sure how that would work. Banner image. Banner image. Banner Image. And these, again, are just things we don’t need to worry about right now.

I used to use a theme called Hiero and it’s a really good theme. But at the end of the day, it just is not updated anymore which breaks my heart. So you can see here, this theme hasn’t been updated in over two years. But this was the perfect template for using when you were setting up a website that was just clean and easy to navigate, really simple – all that stuff.

So I think for this particular site, you can scroll through… and again, find something that doesn’t have a banner, preferably has a blogroll on the homepage, and it’s just really clean and simple, very neutral looking. You don’t want to go overboard here unless you’re a really experienced designer or an experienced UX designer which is an abbreviation for ‘User Experience’. I just wouldn’t risk it. Just pick something that’s clean and easy to use and simple. And for me, I think that’s going to be either Twenty Fifteen or Twenty Sixteen which – bonus – are both WordPress themes so they’re maintained pretty well. And all of this stuff on the right-hand side, we’re going to change. As we start building out content, I’ll probably remove most of these widgets, because again, they just don’t matter right now.

But you can see this is a really clean theme. Obviously, we don’t have any content in here yet – which we’re going to fix here in the next video – but either this one… so I’m going to Leave Page… so that one I believe was Twenty Sixteen… and then Twenty Fifteen. Pretty much just as simple except all of the navigation is on the left. So yeah, either one of those is going to work. It just really doesn’t matter. If I had a coin, I’d just flip it up in the air and check right now. It looks like the simpler of the two is going to be Twenty Fifteen, so I’m just going to hit Activate. And yeah, that means that the theme was originally from 2015. Frankly, I don’t care. It’s updated regularly. That’s what matters. It’s not going to be super vulnerable to security hacks and stuff like that. So Twenty Fifteen is going to be my theme. Done.

You can see that it looks like this might be a banner image. This is not a banner image, this is a featured image for a post – which we’ll talk about when we get to that point in creating content and stuff like that.

So, that’s that. I’ve picked my theme. End of the day, it has a blogroll for the homepage which I like; it doesn’t have a banner and a bunch of different settings I have to figure out early on; I can pick this theme; I’ve already activated it; I can just start focusing on content now and get to the things that matter.

So as always, if you have any questions, feel free to post them to the Facebook group – that’s free for registered members. And I will either see you in the Facebook group or I will see you in the next video where we’re going to get your website’s core content set up. And then after that, we are off to the races and we’ll start doing things that get you toward making money online. Talk to you then!

4.9 Setting Your Business Up for Profit in WordPress

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4.9 Transcript Below

Okay, now that we have stripped WordPress of all of the useless crap, we’ve got to set things up in their place – things that are actually good for our business and helpful. And we also need to adjust a handful of settings to make sure that your business can be profitable in the coming months as you add content and go through the rest of this training.

So (excuse me) Lesson 4.9, here we go! (And of course, I have to clear my throat 27 times before the video starts.)

So I want to make setting up WordPress as hassle-free as possible. We want your site structure to be optimized for SEO at a really basic level. We’ll get deeper into this later. Don’t – by any means – think that what we’re doing here is comprehensive SEO. It’s just kind of setting the stage for a very small aspect of SEO going forward but we need to do that.

Also, WordPress’ security vulnerabilities can be a total time-suck if you’re not careful. If your site gets hacked, if it gets injected with a virus – you could lose access. Technically, someone could delete your whole website if they wanted to. So we want to keep those security vulnerabilities as minimized as possible.

And none of this is going to be a concern for you after watching this video. So the goal of this video is whether you’re a beginner with WordPress or you’re super-experienced with WordPress, these are the practices that I have found to make WordPress as hassle-free as possible going forward long-term in your business.

So we need to install some plugins and set up your site structure for SEO – also known as your ‘permalinks’ which we’ll talk about here in a second.

So we need to install these plugins: we need to install Yoast and we need to adjust a handful of settings which we’ll do on camera. We need to install Easy Updates Manager for automated updates and security. Like I mentioned, we already have the updates set through Bluehost to kind of automatically update but we just are going to install a second layer just in case. And we need to install Wordfence. For security, it’s my preferred plugin. There are several security plugins – take your pick, really. And we need to install a Contact form plugin which you’re never going to guess what that’s used for and so we’ll use that to set up a contact form. And then we need to adjust your site’s permalink structure like I mentioned.

And it’s probably best that change your log in username – your log in nickname – because it defaults. Again, you really don’t want people to know your username. You all know mine which kind of sucks. I could change it if I wanted to but you’re just going to see it time and time again so whatever. So by default, if you post to your site, your log in is going to be your username that’s displayed to the world so we want to change your nickname and users.

So let’s just hop in and do it! So we’re going to start off and we’re just going to work our way down the list. I may have to reference back to this but it’s really quick and easy overall.

So we’re going to come over here to Plugins and we’re going to hit Add New. We’re going to type in ‘Yoast’; you’re going to hit Install Now, it’ll install; and I’m going to hit Activate. This is going to take us to our Plugins page. If you wanted to, you could kind of just keep installing the other plugins we wanted; but I’m going to kind of install one, set it up, install one, set it up.

So now what we need to do is now that you’ve installed Yoast SEO, you’ve got this little Yoast symbol down here on the left-hand side, I’m going to hit Dashboard and one of the first things that I’m going to do in Yoast is I’m going to click this General tab… I believe it’s in here… No, it’s Features tab. There we go. So under the Features tab, Advanced settings pages… this is going to unlock a world of hurt that could be very confusing; but again, I’m going to walk you through what you need to do. So the Advanced settings page, I just enabled that. I need to come down and hit Save.

And you might consider down the road looking through some of this and deciding what you actually use and what you don’t. Like personally, I never pay attention to the Readability analysis. And if you are writing really long posts, the Readability analysis can slow down how quickly you can type. It can make the editor very, very slow like when you get north of 3000 or 4000 words for a post.

So I do use Keyword analysis. And I just enabled the Advanced settings page. But you know, it’s just best practice. You don’t necessarily want to keep things enabled that you aren’t using because they’re just using resources on your server and possibly slowing down your website. So using resources on your server shouldn’t be that big of a deal unless it slows down your website.

So you know, you can click through and play around in here. You can set up your Webmaster Tools verifications through here which is really handy. Google Search Console – if you want to set up – is going to be super, super handy for your website. Google Search Console and Google Analytics combined can be really helpful for your website. So you can do that on Yoast – that’s really handy. I might actually add a video to this section to do that.

So we just want to come in here and now that you’ve enabled Advanced, you see all of these stuff over here. So we want to click Titles & Metas; and we want to hit Taxonomies; and we want to come down here to the Tags taxonomy and we want to change this to noindex; you want to hit Save Changes.

Of course, sometimes you’ll get errors like that. Just refresh the page, it’s not that big of a deal. I’m going to come back into Yoast. I’m going to come back into Titles & Metas. Sorry about that. It’s a great example though. Sometimes funky things just happen. They don’t really mean anything usually. So I’m going to come back into Taxonomies; I’m going to go Meta Robots, noindex; and hopefully it works this time. There we go.

So what you’re doing there – just to give you a heads up – I mean, you can just follow the actions and have no idea what you’re doing. It’s the correct thing to do; but by default those tags pages on your website can begin outranking content that you actually really want to rank. And the tags pages aren’t really valuable to drive traffic to usually and they’re hard to optimize for conversions and value. So we just keep the search engines from indexing them which means… ‘indexing’ I may have explained it up to this point… but indexing is just being included in the search engine in their database.

So if you are indexed, it doesn’t mean you’re on page one. Indexing and ranking are two very different things. But if you’re indexed, that means you’re included and people can find your site through Google if they search your brand name; or potentially – if you do have rankings – by searching a certain keyword and finding you on page one. So the reason you’re doing that – long story short – is because those are fairly worthless pages that compete against pages you may actually want to rank.

So we need to do it again for another type of page. We want to click Archives and we… under the Author archives settings… we want to hit noindex. That’s also a best practice. So these are just kind of setting up the stage for SEO down the road.

All these other settings don’t really matter too much. Like I said, I may make another video where we verify Google Search Console – stuff like that. But another nice thing is Yoast SEO automatically creates your XML Sitemaps so you can see XML sitemap functionality enabled. So you can also enable a user sitemap. So these are all the advanced settings. If you want to research some of these, you can; at the same time, if you don’t want to adjust anything else, you’re fine. You can just move on. You don’t need to dive into these weeds and start navigating all of these. Everything we just did is enough. That’s sufficient. And then as you learn more and you have more time, you can Google and play with these things if you want to.

So we’re going to go back to Plugins, Add New. The next one we talked about was Easy Updates Manager. So I’ll show you how to install that and set it up really quickly. Again, it’s this one right here. I’m going to install… I’m going to activate.

And this one, you actually just have an easy to access Configure box right here. If you didn’t want to access it here… you notice – unlike Yoast – it didn’t create its own kind of navigation menu… so we want to come in here in Settings. A lot of the time… and actually, it’s not even in here… so a lot of the time when you hover over Settings, you will get an option for a plugin if you don’t see it add a menu option for itself.

But it looks like the only way that we can… Tools… it’s not even in Tools… so it looks like the only way that we can access that particular plugin’s settings is from the Plugins page, hit Configure. And so… I’m just going to close this out. And you can see by default it’s got All Updates… all of these things… just leave this on. I’m going to turn on Major Releases, too. I will leave Development Updates off – there’s just not much of a reason. And then we want to hit Enabled for Automatic Plugin Updates, Automatic Theme Updates – enable both of those. And then you have the individual updates if you wanted to change the settings for each of those – I don’t. I want everything to be automatic. And so… I’m going to just click no thanks but good luck. And all of these save automatically so you don’t need to hit a save button – at least in the version of that as I’m recording this. In the version of the plugin, I should say.

So that’s it for Easy Updates Manager. What we just did by installing and setting this up was, again, we have kind of a second-tier. If for whatever reason Bluehost default automatic updates don’t act quickly enough, now we’ve got a second layer of protection. Technically, this isn’t necessary; but I just figure, why not? Again, you can’t… I shouldn’t say that… you can go overboard with WordPress security but it’s something you do want to take seriously.

So next thing we want to setup is Wordfence – speaking of WordPress security. So you can see Wordfence right here. 3,081 reviews with a solid 5 stars. So it is like one of the leading security plugins. Bulletproof Security is also a really, really good one. You can see it’s really highly rated. But I’m going to… Wordfence will pop up here, so I’m going to hit Install. You can see there all kinds of options. Again, if you want to use a different one, that’s fine. But… I guess it didn’t click correctly… Install Now. So we’ll install Wordfence, we’ll activate it… maybe. There we go. Don’t know why things aren’t clicking. Again, weird things happen. You just deal with them. They don’t even faze me anymore. I’m going to close this, I have no interest in going through their tour right now. You can if you want to – again, to get to know your site – I’m going to hit End the Tour.

And now we’ve got all of this Wordfence Security stuff setup. So this is really helpful. It’s going to help protect your site across the board. In my experience, its default settings are more than good enough and I just kind of… you know… leave it the way it is. But you can – again – go through and take a look at everything. You can scan whatever you want, see if you have viruses or anything that are detected; but this is almost in a lot of ways… it’s an oversimplification because it does a lot more… but this is like having a virus protection software installed on your website. And like I said, that’s an oversimplification; but at the same time, it’s pretty valid broadly speaking.

Wordfence also, I think, helps with stopping brute force. I mentioned those earlier where people have robots that come and just try to log in repeatedly. So you can Click here to configure and… I can’t remember which one… so they say based on their test this (Apache + suPHP) is the best one. If you get an error message here… I have before… frankly, if I get the error message in this, I’m going to move on. I’m not advanced enough to code this stuff. But we’ll go ahead and hit Continue now; we’ll hit Download .htaccess just in case we need a backup; and we’ll hit Continue; and we’ll see what happens.

Okay, cool. So “…installation was successful! Your site is protected to the fullest extent!” Right now, the Firewall Status is in Learning Mode which is pretty cool. So now you can see Wordfence is all set up. And like I said, in my experience, its default settings are really, really, really good. So, that’s Wordfence.

And now, we want to go ahead… so we want to come in here and install a Contact form plugin. So again, we’re going to go Plugins; we’re going to use Add New; and we’re just going to put ‘contact form’ and we’ll see what comes up. I really don’t have a preference here. So you really could – no exaggeration – use any of these options we can see. I’m typically going go to go for the one that looks like it’s really highly-rated and is updated really frequently. Two weeks ago is good enough. So, whatever. I’m just going to install Contact Form 7. I’m going to install that; I’m going to activate it just like all the others; and let’s see… it did not create a menu option either. So I guess the only other place we can access… oh, there! It created its menu option. It just created up here. Sorry about that.

So Contact form 1, I’m going to hit Edit. Again, you can pretty much leave the defaults. And this will vary. This will vary. If you install a different contact form plugin, you’re going to see something differently here and you’re going to have to figure it out on your own. This will come into play in another video soon; but right now, we’re just setting up the Contact form.

So this is the form that people would see whenever we embed the contact form on the page. So you can see <label> Your Name (required), Your Email (required). Subject, required. Your Message, required. So just a really basic one with a submit button and that sends it.

I want to hit Mail. It defaulted to my WordPress admin email which I actually need to update now because while I was off-camera, I created an ian@ruetattoo.com. Again, if you want to do that, you can just set up a Gmail. Nothing wrong with that. So if I wanted to do like ruetatoo2017@gmail.com or whatever – I could have done that; but I prefer to have… you know… my domain name on it. It’s just official. So ian@ruetattoo.com. The From [your-name] wordpress@ruetattoo… so I’m just going to go ian@ruetatoo. Subject… “[your-subject]”… I mean none of this really matters too much. Reply-To: [your-email] and then the Message Body, who it’s from.

So that’s good enough. I just wanted to make sure that the email address it sends to is the email address I wanted to send to which is the RueTattoo one. And nothing else matters. You don’t have to mess with any of this stuff.

So the next thing we want to do is adjust our site’s permalink structure. And if you’re like, “Ian, you barely set up a contact form. What do we do now?” Again, that’s in a future video.

So for the permalinks structure, we want to come over here, we want to go Settings. And in your General Settings, you have all this stuff. Like I said, I want to change this to ian@ruetatoo.com. And nothing else. We don’t need to change anything else. You wouldn’t even need to change that if you had the original admin email set up correctly when you installed. I did not because I just forgot the plan for that. So you have all of these settings over here which again you might go through at your own leisure. You have your Writing settings, you have your Reading settings, and all different kinds of things; but the thing we want to adjust is Permalinks.

So typically, I’m just going to set permalinks to the Post name. That is really helpful for SEO because if you are putting your keywords… which again we’re talking about soon… actually we’re getting to keywords in the next section… if you are putting your keywords in your title, they will automatically then be inserted into your URL slug. An example of a URL slug is like RueTattoo.com and if I had a post titled ‘Laser Tattoo Removal’, my URL would be RueTattoo.com/laser-tattoo-removal. So this right here is my URL slug.

And if you have set your permalinks correctly, whenever you title your posts… because you’re going to put the keyword that you’re aiming to rank for in your title… whenever you do that, you are also automatically going to get keywords in your URL slug – which are also really good for SEO. So that’s why we adjust permalinks to the Post name. It’s just because it helps with SEO.

So the last thing that I want to do (I mentioned earlier) is I want to come into Users and I just want to change the way my user profile presents to the rest of the world. So I’m going to go Edit and you can see right now it is defaulting (like I said it would) to my username that I use to log in and I personally (for security reasons) don’t want the world to know. So I’m going to type in ‘Ian’. ‘P.’ as my Last Name. Because personally, I learned the hard way… I don’t typically like to use my last name for my niche sites… it makes them really easy to hunt down and all kinds of stuff. So I just don’t do it.

And then you can also change your Nickname to whatever you want it to be. And then you want to change Display name publicly as. And now you have the options: your first name, your complete name, and your nickname. So I’m just going to select ‘Ian’. But totally up to you. And ian@ruetattoo.com is the Email for this subscriber.

If you want a profile picture (as soon as I update this, it’s going to change – this is the profile picture that’s associated with ian@stoppingscams.com), you will need to set up a Gravatar account if you want to assign your profile picture. It’s the only way to do it.

So you would just click this link, you would go through here, and you would create an account for that email address that you have associated with this user. So if I set up an email address or a Gravatar account for ian@ruetattoo.com, it will automatically start displaying whatever profile picture I set up on Gravatar. (I don’t know why. That is such an archaic way for profile pictures to work in WordPress but it’s worked like that since the beginning.) Don’t need to fill up anything out… I’m going to hit Update and now you can see that my name will be displayed publicly on my posts as Ian.

Alright, so that’s it. We did it. We did everything here.

We installed Yoast and set it up. We made it so that the Tags archive is not showing. (Or the… what is it called? The tags… here we go. Whatever. The Tags taxonomy. That’s what I’m looking for.) So we set it so that the Tags taxonomy is set to noindex. We set it so that the Author archives are set to noindex so the search engines will not archive those in a way that will compete with our website and the things we actually want to rank.

We installed and set up Easy Updates Manager. We installed and set up Wordfence. We installed a Contact form plugin. I think mine was called Contact Form 7. Again, it just doesn’t matter which one you use as long as it’s highly rated and regularly updated. So you really can’t go wrong. But just know: you might have to figure out some settings and that’s just part of this territory. Again, you just have to be willing to learn things, research them on your own, and figure stuff out.

And then we went ahead and we adjusted the permalink structure – that’s very important for SEO. And we also adjusted the nickname so that our username is not publicly displayed to the world. And of course, I did a couple of extra things like update my email address now that I have ian@ruetattoo.com set.

So, that’s it for Lesson 4.9.

In Lesson 4.10, we’re going to keep going with this. We’re going to start getting the site set up, start populating it with some core content, and stuff like that – here within the next couple of lessons – and you’re going to have a website up, running, and ready to go!

So if you have questions, as always for registered members, it’s free to post them in the Facebook group and myself or someone else in the community will come along to help. And I will see you in the Facebook group or I will see you in the next video. Talk to you then!

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