Internet Marketing For Newbies

As I mentioned in my last post I’m working on a new WordPress affiliate site, offering products from several different venders. This is a new type of website for me, so what I thought I’d do is post here what I’m doing so you can follow along and hopefully show you some new things and give you some ideas for your own project.

I want to get the site approximately 50% done before I go live with it so I’ll need to set up the domain for no-indexing to keep me out of the search engines until I’m ready to go live. I’ll post a video on how to set up your domain for no-indexing tomorrow.

I installed WP on the domain and also created an index.htm file and uploaded it to the root directory. This way if you type in the domain name you will see the index.htm page and not WP. When I’m ready to go live all I’ll need to do is remove this file and WordPress will come up by default.

I uploaded the following plugins:
alinks
all in one seo pack
cforms
Google sitemap generator
adsense deluxe
privacy policy

I’ll be uploading a few more plugins later today.

I uploaded a theme template. I usually don’t like dark background themes but for this site I think it’s a good fit. I’ll have to play with it a little and see how ads, banners, pictures, etc… look with this background. I may wind up replacing the theme if I’m not happy with the look.