A few days back I revealed to you that my niche selection process was originally floored and I had to review the niche I had chosen. Finally I am up and running with the new niche chosen and also beginning to have content produced. In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you the process on how to setup your niche website using WordPress and I show you step by step what I did. I’ve even included the checklist my team uses below so you can also use it as well. Watch the video now:

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Transcription Of Today’s Video

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Hi everyone, it’s Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com. In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you the next step which will probably be setting up the website and getting the articles onto it so that you can start getting traffic to the website because there’s no point obviously having a…a searched data and you completed all your research and not having a site because this is where we’re going to start making the money. All right, so I’m going to go through a step by step process where I’m going to show you exactly how my virtual staff go about setting up the website and then posting articles onto the blog.

Now, the posting of articles in the blog will be probably into another video for the next time because in this video, it’s quite in depth of what we need to do for setting up the website. So, I’m going to split it up into separate post so that way you can see exactly what needs to be done for posting articles. As this is all outsourced, it’s all done simultaneously but if you’re looking to do it yourself, then obviously you’ll need to spend a bit of time setting up the website then the articles after that. All right, so let’s just jump into it. I’m going to show you right now a checklist I’ve got in front of me. This is the checklist that I just give straight to my virtual assistant and also my programmer and all they do is just follow these step by step instructions. And, I’ll make sure I put a copy of it down here so that you can download in a Word document or PDF format and just copy it and use it. You know I got no problems with you just using it because that’s how I’ve used it to set it up with all my teams. All right, as you can see right here, here’s a simple checklist and steps setting up a WordPress site. This is the first thing that we need to do. It’s before you do set it up, you need to obviously get your domain name, and we’ve talked about that as well previously because after you’ve done your research, you’re going to purchase your domain name. Then after that, get some web space, hosting and it’s very, very cheap to host to your website on those shared service and then get straight into setting up the WordPress.

So the first thing as I’ve mentioned here to tell them to do is purchase domain name and also from Namecheap and then setup the domain on hosting on number 2. Okay so those are the two important things. Let me just minimize this and I’ll jump over to my screen, my web browser.

All right, this is Namecheap.com, an excellent place to get domains quite cheaply, that’s the reason why it’s called Namecheap. I’ve been using this to host all my domains that I have and I think from memory, every domain cost me about around about $10.15, $10.16 US per domain so if you are looking to purchase domain cheaply, this goes for the whole year. And, if you’re doing what Pat’s done, you can actually purchase through Bluehost and get one domain for free. That’s only if you don’t have hosting with Bluehost already. Because I’ve already got a hosting with Hostmonster which is also a subsidiary of Bluehost, I can’t keep in free domain names obviously. So what I’ve done is I keep buying domain names through Namecheap.com, and through Namecheap, I just link them straight over to Hostmonster. So check it out, it’s an excellent domain name place for that. There are few other around but this is the one I prefer to use.

Setting up hosting is quite simple as well. Once you’ve got domain name, you get to set up the hosting to host all your files in your server and I recommend using Hostmonster. Hostmonster is only $5.95 per month and they’ve always got special promos. You can sometimes get it down to probably as low as $4.95 per month but you know, $6 per month is absolutely nothing. If you can’t afford to that, then obviously there’s something that you’ll need to consider because it’s only going to be less than 100bucks a year to be able to host your website and also have a domain name which your website should be earning more than that. It should cover the cost. All right, I won’t go into too much detail about how to set that all up, it’s pretty simple. Just follow the step by step instructions provided by these hosting companies and you’ll be up and running. All right, let’s jump over now to have a look at the next step.

All right, the next step is to install WordPress, downloaded from WordPress.org and also install then upload Robots.txt file. All right so let’s just jump straight in. Once you’ve setup the account with Hostmonster, just simply get a FTP server program which I use which is called Filezilla and also all my staff uses as well. That’s for Mac and I know that it’s also available for PC as well. Once you’ve got that setup, then what you want to do is to upload your files into obviously your server. And, I’ve already setup…or they’ve got that setup for me already, and you can see right now this is just a WordPress site that we’ve already got up and running which you can see that it’s got everything already loaded in there. But if you’re to have a plain, basic website it’s just widened say WordPress at the top. Now this is just the plugin that you see here. You’ll see he’s loaded up a plugin called PopupDomination and it’s an excellent plugin that I’ve been using. It does cost some money to get but once you’ve got it, it’s really, really powerful because it pops up in front of people with different types of styles and gets them to opt-in. And the goal for my website that I want to setup here is to be able to get as many people opt-in to the database so I can build relationship with them and then potentially down the track, start selling things to them as well. All right, I’ll close this up.

Now, this is just a customized theme from Woothemes that I’ve been using. Now you can purchase that as well from Woothemes and it’s a very, very lovely theme. What we’ve just done is just taken everything out such as the headers and stuff and then replaced it with the correct headers to match our 3daydetox niche market. And, you can just see here how simple it is. There’s nothing more than just a few articles I’ve already posted on the left here and then the 3daydetox plan subscribe. What I’ve been trying to do is just encourage people to subscribe to the newsletter or to subscribe to download something just as a gift. That way, I can get them onto the database. That’s really what my goal is, it’s not to start selling anything on this website right now. All I want to do is get them to hop onto database and build relationship with them and that’s just a strategic way to go about it because I want these customers for long term and I’m not looking to make quick selling right now.

Now you might be wondering, “Why are you putting advertising here on the right?” Well, just in case people don’t want to subscribe, they might also click on these and just go to affiliate links here if they want to do that. And it’s just quite common to post advertisements on the right hand side. Most people usually see it and might click on it and you might get a very, very small percentage but it’s just better to have it there. Over here, it’s just simply the articles that we’ve been writing and we put together. A lot of these articles that you see here are all specifically targeted towards the 3 day detox and my virtual assistant has been working quite hard putting these together and we’ve got probably about 15 articles already scheduled ready to go out but we’ve only posted a few so that we can get this blog showing with some articles. So once you set that all up, it’s as simple as putting articles in there and if you just scroll right down here, it’s pretty simple. There’s not much more to it.

I’ve kept it as simplistic as possible. The reason behind that is that you don’t want to distract your reader’s attention or your potential client from seeing what’s there. I’m just going to pop into the backend and also open up my task list right now for you. And, basically this section here…I’m just going to skip this is something that you can copy and paste which is uploaded robots.txt file and I’ve got that all attached as well down below. You just simply upload that and it allows any Google search engines to crawl your website. But the next thing is just important which is completing the WordPress site.

There’s a few main things that they need to do or you need to do to be able to have your website up and running for WordPress. Now these are just these extra plugins that I have. You don’t have to use all of them, you can choose or pick which ones you think are suitable and I’ve obviously listed the ones that I think are most important. And, as I said not all of these are important so these are all the things that I installed and I setup as well. I want to jump back to WordPress right now.

All right so these are the plugins right here. And, I’ve just got a few plugins actually, don’t have too many. I think the most important ones in my opinion are probably the Google Analytics to be able to track what’s going on and how much traffic getting through and Google XML sitemaps which basically is just submission to Google and you want to have that installed. Those are probably one of the most important plugins I think for the website. If you don’t have any of the plugins installed, these are probably the only ones I recommend, highly, highly recommend.

All right, that’s pretty much it. I think that’s…that’s something that you need to probably just spend a bit of time. But once you’ve done that, what I’ve got done is I’ve had just 7 posts currently, all put inside and we’ve scheduled it to actually have it posted out one a day just temporarily just to get these posts into the blog that way we get some comments then. The reason why we’ve done that is because it’s not very wise to actually have maybe one or two posts because say you’re getting traffic to the website, people want to start reading articles. So at least a minimum of seven articles on your website spread over each day not one day and you post seven articles but one a day. That way, you can just get some content out there and furthermore, Google sees that and will probably index that as well.

And, what we’ve done very successfully is that there’s an article that we have written up about 1500 words and we split it up into three parts because it’s actually quite long. That way, you’ve got a three part series already there and you’ve already got three articles written. So just consider something like that. And, it’s just important to basically lay it out nicely as well.

I think that’s what’s important right now. The next step I’ll probably be showing you in the next video is to probably how to setup the articles and get them written and then also start marketing out there onto the Internet. But the most important thing here is just to show you exactly how I’ve gone about setting up the WordPress site at 3daydetoxhq.com and as I’ve said it’s just a simple to-do list which anyone can just follow and implement. It doesn’t take very long, it just takes a bit of time to get it setup and once you’ve set it up, then the next process is really just to automate your article submissions and also set that up.

All right, that’s it really for today. I just want to share that with you so that you’ve got a clear understanding of how I’ve gone about the WordPress. If you’ve got any feedback, any comments, I love to hear from you, just leave it right down below here. In the next video, I really would love to show you the marketing strategy behind it but I think this is just crucial because you really need to set it up correctly. Once it’s setup, it’s automated for life. Okay well that’s it for today. My name’s Tyrone from Tyroneshum.com and I’ll see you in the next video. Bye for now.

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Links from the video:

• Namecheap
• Hostmonster
• Pop Up Domination
• Website Checklist
• Other Files (zip)

All right, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial today and I’m really, really looking forward to see all your niche websites setup as well if you are joining Pat and I in this challenge. So, if you’ve got any more suggestions or comments, feel free to share it below and I’d love to give you a hand to help in there too. Thanks for your time and I’ll see you!

To Your Lifestyle Business Success,

Tyrone Shum
Lifestyle Entrepreneur