How to make an AFFILIATE MARKETING BLOG website with WordPress without a Premium Plugin or Theme #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- In this video,

I'm gonna show you how to create

an affiliate marketing blog using WordPress.

The site we're gonna be making looks just like this,

and it uses one of the free themes

that comes with WordPress.

It's really good-looking,

it's got a slider on the home page

and it's very content-focused

so it allows people to find all your articles and videos

and whatever else you're gonna create really easily.

I'm gonna take you through the entire process step by step.

From setting up your hosting to installing WordPress,

configuring the theme, adding your content and of course,

inserting those valuable affiliate links.

So, let's get started.

Hello, it's Alex here from WPEagle.

So yeah, in this video we're gonna be creating

an affiliate marketing blog using WordPress.

For those of you that aren't familiar

with affiliate marketing,

affiliate marketing is where you promote various products

and services within some content,

say an article or a review or a guide,

and when someone clicks on one of your affiliate links

from within that content and then goes off

and purchases that product

or not necessarily even that product.

It could just be something else on that site,

you get paid a commission.

An example of this is where you sign up as an affiliate

for Amazon and you might create a post all around books,

you know, your favourite books to lose weight, for example

and you include links then to Amazon for those books.

And then when someone clicks on those

and purchases the book, you get your commission.

So that's we're gonna be making today.

I'm gonna show you exactly what you need to do

starting from absolutely nothing and ending up with a site

that you can use as a blog to promote affiliate products.

I've tried to keep costs to a minimum in this video

so I'm not gonna be using any premium WordPress themes

or any premium WordPress plugins.

The only costs you're gonna have to pay out for today

are your hosting

and I'm gonna show you how to set up hosting with HostGator

and I've got a voucher that gives you a discount.

And in fact, if you only wanna go for one month's hosting,

it's gonna cost a penny.

So hardly any cost there.

However, I would recommend

that you go for something like a 12 months package

because there's some great discounts on that

and you can get like 12 months hosting for around 70 bucks

so you know, not a huge investment

to keep your website online for a full year.

The other thing you're gonna need is a domain name.

So that's the .com or co.uk, .net, dot whatever.

If you haven't already got one of them,

I'll show you how you can purchase one of them

through HostGator as well.

If you have already got one of them, that's fine.

I'll also show you how you can repoint it

and use that domain for your new website.

Now I've tried to keep this tutorial fairly straightforward

so I'm not gonna go into things like finding a niche

to promote or choosing products or any of that stuff.

You will find videos around those subjects on my channel

so be sure to check them out.

This video is purely about creating the site

and getting your content on there.

It's almost time to get on the computer

and start building our affiliate marketing blog.

If you're brand new to affiliate marketing and to WordPress,

I wish you the best of luck.

I'm here to help you.

If you stuck at any point,

please leave your questions below

or head on over to wpeagle.com/forums and post it there

and I'll do my best to help you out.

Now I know you can do this.

It's not that hard.

Take your time.

If you need to re-watch any part of the video,

just rewind and then watch it again

so you get it clear in your head.

By the end of it, you would have created

an affiliate marketing blog.

Now, being able to do this is a really valuable skill.

If you can start creating affiliate marketing sites

and the content to go with them,

you can start to earn some really good money

and that's money, that's residual income.

It doesn't require you to be there for you to earn it.

You're basically earning it in your sleep.

If you're interested in finding out

how some of my viewers have done

after watching previous tutorial videos of mine,

do check out the channel.

I'll put some links to them in the description below

but in those videos you better find out

the kind of money people have been making,

the sort of niches they've been promoting

and all that kind of stuff.

So yeah, do check that out if you not already convinced

that affiliate marketing is a great way

to change your life for the better.

So that's the end of the introduction.

I'm gonna get on the laptop now.

I'm gonna take you through

how to build this affiliate marketing blog.

Good luck.

So the first thing we're gonna do is set up our hosting.

Now, the hosting is where your website

basically lives on the internet.

You need hosting in order to create a website

and it's gonna be the one cost that you're gonna incur

when it comes to setting up the blog

that I've already shown you.

So I've chosen HostGator.

I love HostGator.

The main reason is they're great value for money.

I wanna keep your costs to an absolute minimum

so HostGator is a great choice on that front.

But just because they are good value for money,

doesn't mean that the service suffers in any way.

In fact, it's the opposite.

HostGator offer a great service when it comes to hosting.

Their support is excellent.

And the performance and everything you get from HostGator,

I've never had a problem with it.

I find their sites for the money to be nice and fast.

You've got all the features that you'd like

so it's very easy to instal WordPress

and all that kind of thing.

As I already said, if you have any problems

and they're raised, you get hold of via their live chat

and there's a few other things that they guarantee for you.

You get 24/7 support, 365 a year,

has a 45-day money-back guarantee.

So if for whatever reason,

you're not happy with HostGator,

you can just cancel it, get your money back,

get a refund, move on, no worries.

And they also promise a 99.9% uptime which is great

because you don't want your website to to go down

because I mean, you're gonna be missing out on traffic

and possibly sales.

So I love them, I'm always recommending them

and people that have used them based on my recommendation,

tell me that they've always had a good service

and nothing to worry about.

They've won some awards as well,

so I am highly recommend HostGator.

And as a little sweetener,

I've also got a discount voucher

which I'm gonna share with you in a few moments

which will allow you to get a discount

on the already low prices.

So let's get started.

We just need the basic Web Hosting,

that'd be fine for us.

If we do need to scale up in the future,

say we get quite a lot of traffic,

we could then maybe move to the Cloud Hosting

or even Dedicate if we get that big.

But for now, Web Hosting is just fine.

You don't need the WordPress Hosting.

Though we are gonna be installing WordPress,

you don't actually need the WordPress hosting,

you can do it with the Web Hosting

so that's a little tip there for you.

So here's the plans

and the plan you're gonna choose

basically depends on your requirements.

We're just gonna be setting up the one site

then the Hatchling Plan is probably fine for you.

If you're thinking that maybe you're gonna end up

having a nice portfolio of different affiliate websites

or web sites in general,

then maybe the Baby Plan or the Business Plan

might be better for you

because they offer unlimited domains.

So let's go for the Hatchling Plan.

I'm just gonna click Sign Up Now!

Starting at 3.95 a month but I'm gonna show you

how you can actually get that cost down in a second.

So we're over at the Order Form.

The first question it's asking us is about our domain name.

Now a domain name is a .com or .co.uk

or something similar to that.

It's basically the address of your website

so you're gonna need a domain name

in order to create a website.

You need hosting and you need a domain name.

Now, if you don't have a domain name already,

you can just start typing away into this box

and what'll happen is HostGator will do a search

that's gonna show you, weightlossadvice.

Something like that.

And you pick your extension.

So we were gonna go for .org.

Unfortunately, that one's not available

but then it's offering me the ones that are available.

So you can choose on them or you just go back here and start

adding some extra words or something

to try and find one that is available.

Obviously every domain name

needs to be unique for it to work.

So yeah, someone's already registered a domain name,

you better register it.

There we go, we found one that is free,

weightlossadviceblog.com.

So if I wanted that domain name, I'll then just carry on.

I've already got a domain name

that I've already registered over at GoDaddy.

So I'm gonna be using that one today.

If you've already registered domain name,

what you need to do is not use this box

but actually click on this tab over here

which says I Already Own This Domain.

Actually just gonna refresh this page

because I've confused it a little bit.

There we go, yes so, if you really got a domain name,

click on the tab I Already Own This Domain

and then enter your domain name in here.

Mine is rapidweightloss, I'm gonna type, losstools.com.

Let's just say it's a domain name

that I've already got registered over at GoDaddy.

If you've already registered domain name, that's fine.

It doesn't matter if it's with GoDaddy or someone else.

I'm gonna show you how you can use that domain name

as we go through the tutorial.

So that's the first bit done.

So you're gonna register a new domain

or you're gonna enter the domain you already own.

So the next part of the form is to choose our hosting plan.

And we've already selected Hatchling

and Hatchling will be fine.

We selected that on the previous page.

So the next question it's asking is a billing cycle.

So you can even just have a one month rolling contract

if you're not sure of the commitment

that you wanna give today.

However, I will recommend if you wanna get the hosting

at a good price, try and commit for as long as possible.

So the price starts going down when you hit 12 months.

You're getting a 33% discount

and I'm also gonna give you another code

that's gonna give you another discount

so that's really gonna bring the price down.

So if you can afford it today, do go for the 12 months

because it's gonna save you money in the long run.

If you've got even more cash

and you do wanna save and you're committed to this project

and you're gonna keep the site running

for a number of years,

then you wanna go for 24 months or the 36 months,

but probably 12 months is fine.

Your site's probably not gonna start ranking

and generating traffic for the first couple of months anyway

while you're building it and adding content.

So you're gonna need at least three to six months,

so you might as well go for 12 months,

save yourself some money.

The next box is for the username.

This is gonna be the username

that you're gonna be using to log in to HostGator.

So enter whatever you like in there

and then a PIN number in the next box

and that allows you to contact support.

They can ask you for that PIN if you do ring them.

I'm not gonna fill in all this form right now.

I'm gonna do it in a second.

I'm not gonna bore you with all my billing details

and all that kind of stuff

which would be entering into this third section, so yeah,

enter your email, your name, address, all that good stuff

and of course, your payment information,

whether you're gonna be using credit card or PayPal.

Section four is the additional services.

Now, we're not gonna need any of these services

so we can just untick these boxes and again,

get the cost down on our hosting.

I've got other videos and I'm gonna show you

how to protect your site from hackers

and backup your stuff on my channel.

So yeah, be sure to check out my other videos

where I can show you how to do this stuff for free.

So section five, very important, is the Coupon Code.

So if we look, at moment, our subtotal is $71.40.

If you enter the code EAGLE30

and click Validate,

now it looks like it's gone up

but that's actually a little trick

because what's happened is HostGator has ticked this again.

Let's untick it.

There we go.

The price is now down.

You've got a really be careful with that

because HostGator for some reason,

try and it seems a little bit dodgy to me.

It's one thing that I'm not happy with them about.

They kinda try to add these extras without you noticing.

So be sure before you go on to the next page

that you've unticked all of these

and that they haven't tried to retick them again.

So yeah, the code EAGLE30 is my code

and give you an extra discount.

If you're gonna go for the one month plan,

it will give you that first month for just a penny.

If you're gonna go for a longer plan,

it will give you a 30% discount

on top of any other discounts that you're already getting.

It is an affiliate coupon

which means I will receive a small commission

if you do use it.

It's a great way of saying thank you for these videos to me

and I really appreciate if you do use the code.

So if you are using it thank you, thank you, thank you.

And now we're ready to go.

So, it's all good we just need to tick this box down here

which is that you've read the terms and conditions,

which of course we always read all the terms and conditions.

And then just click Checkout Now!

and it's now obviously asking me to fill in all those fields

so what I will do is I will fill in these fields

and I will sign up myself

and then we'll get on installing our WordPress.

So, I completed the form, entered my payment information,

all that kind of stuff.

It's all done.

I've got this message here

that they're gonna be setting up my account

so I need just wait a few minutes

and keep an eye on my inbox

because I'm gonna get an email very shortly from HostGator

with all my login details and everything I need

to set up my website.

So, as soon as that's here, we'll carry on.

So the email has arrived.

It didn't take very long.

This email contains very important information

that we're gonna need regarding our hosting.

So the first bit is the billing information.

So if you wanna check your invoices, that kind of stuff,

it's just your billing settings with HostGator.

You're gonna need this first link

and log in with your email address and this password.

But what we're gonna need is the control panel

and you can find the link to that just here

so I'm gonna give that a click.

Then if we just go back to email,

we can see that the username is weighttools

which is the one I actually entered into the order form

and it will be the one that you entered into your order form

and then the password is just here.

So I'm just gonna copy that into my clipboard

by highlighting it and then pressing Control + C

or Command + C on a Mac

and then paste it in with Control + V

or Command + V on a Mac

and then I'm ready to log in.

I click Log In.

I can save that password in my browser.

Got a few messages popping up,

I can just close those down.

Okay, so the control panel

may look a little bit overwhelming.

There's lots of things in here.

But the good thing is we don't actually need most of them.

What we're gonna be doing right now is installing WordPress

and there's a link to do that right here at the top.

Build a New WordPress Site so let's give it that a click.

And we've got this wizard that pops up.

So I'm gonna select my domain which is rapidweightlosstools.

This directory box, you can leave blank,

let's just click Next.

Let's give the site a name

so I'm just gonna call it the name of the domain

which is a Rapid Weight Loss Tools.

Create the admin user.

Just put wpeagle.

WP as my first name and Eagle as my last name.

Then my email address here which is [email protected].

Leave this box ticked that says

automatically create a new database for this installation

and then tick the terms of service agreement

and click Instal.

It's gonna take a few moments to instal WordPress for us.

And then it's done.

Now, this page is important

because it's showing us our WordPress login information.

So the login information that we just looked at

was to our hosting control panel.

This login is to do with our WordPress installation.

So make a note of this password.

I'm just gonna copy it to my clipboard.

I'll show you how we can change it in a second.

So the next thing we're gonna do

is we're gonna repoint our domain name.

So this is for the guys

that have already got a domain registered,

maybe at GoDaddy or Namecheap or NameStore

or somewhere like that.

If you just registered a domain name with HostGator,

you filled in the box that said new domain name,

then you don't need to do this step

and you're probably good to go.

Although if your website's not loading up,

it's because you just need to wait a little longer

for the registration and everything to go through.

So yeah, if you've got a new domain name

then you can skip forward a little bit.

You can find a chapter list with timestamps

in the description of this video

so you can just click forward

to the next step if you want to

or indeed join us and watch as we repoint our DNS.

So I'm gonna log into GoDaddy.

Go to godaddy.com.

You would go over to whoever your domain name

is registered with.

I'm already logged in so I can go to Manage Domains.

Cool, it's gonna just ask me to login again, that's fine.

Okay, I'm just gonna type in a rapid.

There we go it's found it.

Okay, so that's the domain name

that we're gonna be using to the site.

I just need to adjust the DNS service.

So to do that, I'm gonna click on these little dots

and go to manage DNS.

Now, they're currently set to this one here Tsohost.

You also be set to probably the domain registrar's servers

and we're gonna do is gonna click Change.

I'm just gonna take these out,

and then I'm gonna go back to the email

that we got from HostGator and in here,

we can see our name server.

So the first one is this one.

I'm just gonna copy that to my clipboard,

paste it in there and the next one is just here.

Copy that to my clipboard, paste it in there and click Save.

So if you're not with GoDaddy,

what you want to do is just log into the control panel

with whoever your domain is registered with

and look for those name server settings.

They'll be under DNS or name servers

and you'll find the box within there

that you can paste those HostGator name servers into.

That's all done.

Now this change is gonna take a few moments

for it to go around the world and tell all the servers

and all that kind of stuff.

So we just need to wait a little while.

I'm gonna close GoDaddy.

Now, we know it's working

when we click on this login button.

And something appears.

Basically a login screen for WordPress.

At the moment, it's not there

because I just updated the name servers.

Okay, that didn't actually take very long.

I just waited like a minute or two

and now the WordPress login screen is coming up.

You'll find this login page

if you go to your domain name, /wp-admin.

Now in here, we're gonna need that username and password

from just few moments ago when we installed WordPress.

Now, if you lost the password,

for whatever reason you lost that page

that was open with the password on

while you were doing your domain name stuff, don't panic.

You will have received an email like this from HostGator

that says your WordPress is installed

and that's got your username, password in there.

So I can just copy that password.

I know the username wpeagle.

Password and then you click Remember Me.

Makes it easy on your app to log in again in the future.

So here we are, we could save the password if you like.

I've got a little kind of wizard here

but we don't need that so I'm just click I don't need help,

thank you very much.

And we're good.

The first thing I actually gonna do

is I'm gonna just change the password

so that I've got a password that I can actually remember.

So do that, I'm gonna go into here

and into Edit My Profile at the top.

And if I scroll down,

here is the the password, we can generate new passwords

or we can type one in that we might actually remember.

I can click Confirm use of weak password,

and there we go.

Now I'm using password that I'll actually remember.

So the first thing I wanna do

is actually just clean up this instal

because HostGator instal quite a few plugins

and things that we don't really need right now.

It's better just to instal your own plugin.

So I'm go into Plugins and Installed Plugins.

And I've got Google Analytics and things which is fine.

Actually that's not a bad plug-in for Google Analytics

and let's leave that one there.

But we don't need this Jetpack.

We don't need Jetpack and we don't need Hello Dolly.

So I'm just gonna untick those and click Delete and Apply.

They're gone.

Now, we don't need these other ones either.

The MOJO and the OptinMonster and WPForms Lite

so we untick those.

Go on this drop down down the bottom it and go Deactivate.

Then we can tick them again and select Delete.

Yes I'm sure, thank you.

So I'll leave the Google Analytics.

It's great way of tracking your traffic.

I've got lots of videos on my channel

about Google Analytics

but basically you just go over to Google Analytics,

create an account and then it's very easy to link it

just by doing the settings in there,

or indeed by clicking up there.

Okay, so we're good.

Let's have a look at the site.

If we click up here on Visit Site.

Here is our site.

It's running the basic theme, 2016 possibly,

might be even 2017.

So what we're gonna do next is I'm gonna change the theme.

This theme is nice but I've got another one that I like.

It's one that comes with WordPress straight out the box.

So we're gonna change the theme

and then we're gonna add some content.

I'm gonna show you how to add some affiliate links

and then you're good, we're all done.

I say this is a great quick and easy video.

If you wanna take a little bit more advanced,

add the extra themes then do check out

some of the other videos on my channel.

So yeah, let's do that thing first of changing the theme.

I'll just close my email, I don't need that.

So if we go back into the dashboard,

then go into Appearance and Themes.

So yeah, we're on 2017.

And a theme that I actually want is 2014 which isn't here.

So to add it, I'm gonna go up to Add New.

Type in 20, and it should come up.

And yeah, 2014, that's what I want.

And that's installed and then if we click Activate,

and we're good to go.

So there are a tonne of themes in that libraries.

All of them are free.

Although I'd recommend if you wanna take your sites

to the next level that you go for a premium theme

and check out somewhere like theme forest

and get something really nice from there.

Okay, so let's have a look at the site now.

And yeah, we're good.

So what we need to do is add some content.

I think it's good to get the content on as quick as we can

so then we can see what the site looks like

and how its laid out and all that kind of stuff.

Now I've got free articles ready to go.

They're in Word.

And what I'm gonna do

is I'm just gonna kinda copy and paste them in

and then I'm gonna add some images

and some links and that way.

Okay, so I've got some articles ready to go now.

I'm gonna recommend to you

that before you kinda launch you're site,

get everything ready.

You're gonna need around 10 articles,

good quality articles, even write them yourself

or you find a good writer on somewhere like Upwork.

Be sure to check out some other videos on my channel,

especially the ones with Doug Cunnington

where he talks about this in more detail.

Now I've got free ready so far for this site

and for this tutorial.

I've got this folder on my computer here.

Some free articles and I've also got a few images.

I'm getting my images from Shutterstock.

When you're getting images, be sure to pay for them

or at least get the correct permissions

before you start putting images on your site,

otherwise, you could get in trouble

and I wouldn't want that.

So let's start with the first article

which is this one here.

10 Ways you can lose weight FAST.

Just give it a click.

Here it is.

So it's quite a nice, long article.

You're gonna want probably around a thousand words,

really to make it really work well for you.

And a few images and that kind of stuff.

So let's add this to the site as our first one.

So to do that, I'm gonna go back to site

and look up here and go to New, Post.

And we can start entering all the content here.

So the first thing is the title.

So I'm just gonna copy and paste

and I'm gonna go back to the document.

Copy that to the clipboard, paste that.

10 Ways you can lose weight FAST.

And then I'm gonna get the rest of this content here.

I actually do it in chunks

because I need to add the images myself, ideally.

It's best not to copy and paste them out of Word.

So let's just take that bit of text,

and I'm actually gonna switch to the Text input.

Just 'cause I don't want any of the formatting and stuff

to come over from Word, I want to do it all myself.

So just paste that in.

I'm just gonna add a few spaces there

between these paragraphs like that.

And I'll add some text effects in a second.

I just wanna get it on here for now.

So I just wanna add an image down here.

That bit of steak or whatever it was.

Let's click Add Media and then click Select Files

and then we can just browse around on our computer,

find the right folder, hopefully.

Always having everything's in the wrong place today.

Rapid Weight Loss tools, Articles and yeah,

right about there.

So that's some image of some food.

I'm gonna align it centre.

There's some options down here.

And put it on Full Size, and there we go.

Insert into post.

That's good.

We can switch back to Visual

if you wanna just have a look at how things are going.

It's looking alright.

So let's carry on and add the rest of the content.

And at the end, we're gonna add some affiliate links.

I hate this layer on Word, just going to one, thank you.

I think I want that little snippet there.

Okay, let's copy this bit of text.

Here we go.

That's part one.

In fact I'm gonna take these images out of Word,

they're just in the way.

And I can copy and paste the all lot in one big go.

Why is number one down there again?

What's going on with my article here?

Okay, we're good.

Let's get rid of that.

So I'll just clean up the article.

Depends where you get your articles from

and how they come up, see if you write yourself,

then I don't have a problem

but if you bought them or whatever then,

they may need a little bit of tidying up.

So let's just copy all this stuff

all the way up to number two.

Hey, I don't want you, woman.

There we go.

Copy all that and paste it and there we go.

We got it all in here.

So let's go through and add some paragraphs.

In fact, now we can switch to the Visual

because I've pasted it all in.

I'm ready to start formatting.

So that's good.

Let's make this a heading.

So I'm just gonna highlight it, go up here

and let's go for Heading 3, that sounds good.

And this one too, Heading 3.

And a little bit of spacing here.

Oh, hang on, that's not right.

I'm just gonna undo that.

Just gonna add a bigger space.

Sometimes that happens.

There we go.

Now it's good.

I think you get the idea.

So I'm gonna carry on just doing this

and formatting everything up.

I'll do a quick edit on the video

so you don't have me painstakingly go through

and formatting my content.

It's something that's worth doing

and definitely spend a bit of time

getting your content looking as good as you possibly can.

There's videos on my channel

about using the WordPress editor and all that stuff.

But it's pretty straightforward.

It looks basically like Word.

And if you can use Word, you'll be just fine.

You just add headings and boldings

and all that kind of stuff.

It's also a little bit annoying like Word.

It just jumps around a little bit sometimes

where you don't want it to.

But I'm getting there so as I said, let's do a quick edit

and then we'll get on to just kinda adding some more images

and adding our affiliate links.

See you in a sec.

Okay, so I formatted all the content.

It's all looking good.

When you finish, just click the Publish button.

And we can take a look at the post by clicking here,

on the View post link.

So here is our lovely article.

I say lovely, it needs a few extra bits and bobs,

it needs some affiliate links, of course,

and it needs a few images.

So let's do that now,

and we also need to put it into a nice category actually

so that everything's organised correctly

on our WordPress site.

So let's do a category.

If you don't add any categories,

it's just gonna put them in Uncategorized

which is not very exciting.

So I'm gonna untick that,

I'm gonna click Add New Category

and I'm gonna just call it Lose Weight.

Yeah, Lose Weight is fine.

I'll maybe have another category on exercise

and that kind of thing.

And also you'll choose categories

that are suitable for your niche

or niche if you're American.

And yeah, make sure that you put everything

into relevant category

so people can easily find your articles.

The next thing is tags.

Now, technically they're useful

in terms of grouping stuff together.

So for this tag, we might just put again

Weight Loss, Diet, Exercise.

Just words that are about the content.

Allows WordPress to group stuff together again,

so it's more logical.

It's optional, later if you wanna remove tags

we don't want to.

So let's now set a featured image.

Now a featured image appears around the site

and sometimes at the top of the post.

So it's definitely worth doing.

So I'm gonna click set featured image.

Upload another file from my computer.

I've got a lovely one here called Belly Fat.

So just a quick tip though.

I'm inserting into this video

after I've actually recorded the bulk of it

but I realised as I got to the end of the tutorial,

that the best size for your featured image is 1038 by 576,

or an aspect ratio of that.

So if you've got a smaller image like this one,

say for example, a thousand wide,

then the height needs to be 555

and you can find these values by using an aspect ratio tool.

Let me show you what that is.

I'm just gonna Google it.

Ratio calculator will be fine.

I quite like this one.

I actually like the old one,

so let's go to the old one.

So you type in your original, the image size that we need

which as I say is 1038 by 576,

and if you type in the current width

that you've got on your image and then do calculate,

we can see that the height we need is 555.

But usually, if you get it that shape,

it'll look really nice on the site,

otherwise, there'll be kinda space around it

and it will look a bit weird.

So let's adjust the size of the image now.

The good thing is that you can edit images within WordPress

so I've selected the belly fat there

and if I click Edit Image

and then if I just highlight, kinda rough,

the shape and size that I want.

I could then type in over here, where it says Selection,

the actual real height and width, 1000 by 555.

Then if I click this little tool here which is Crop,

that's all done and then click Save.

And then set as featured image.

So now that should look really nice on the site.

So yeah, remember that size and you'll be fine.

1038 by 576.

Let's carry on.

There we go.

I've got a couple more images

that I wanna just drop in here.

I've got an L-Carnitine.

I don't even know what that is.

I've got one of them there,

I've got an image which I'm gonna add.

Like that.

Gonna centre it, it's already centred, that's fine,

insert into post.

Here we go.

I've got another one down here on fish oils.

Let's do that.

There we go.

So let's click Update

and just have a look at the post now.

See how it looks.

Okay, looking good.

There's a featured image.

A nice big belly at the top of our post, looks really good.

If we scroll down,

the post is like really coming together now.

It's got images, that kinda thing.

So and there's our tags

and people can leave a comment at the bottom if they like.

So the final thing we need to do on this post

is add some affiliate links.

So for this example, I'm gonna be using Amazon

as my main merchant that I'm gonna be promoting,

but of course, you may be promoting many merchants.

Maybe you sign up for ClickBank or Affiliate Window

or Commission Junction, any of those guys.

The principle is basically the same.

You're gonna be generating a tracking link

that allows the merchants to track the clicks

from your site over to them and of course then,

track the sales so that you can earn a commission.

So as I say, yeah, the technique is generally the same.

You go over to the merchant, you generate a link

and then you copy and paste it into your content.

So let's do that right now.

If you're not really signed up with Amazon,

let me just head over there now, as an affiliate,

all you need to do is go down

to the bottom of the Amazon site that you're promoting.

Maybe it's amazon.com or amazon.de or amazon.co.uk

which is the one I'm on right now.

And you go down to Associates Programme down here,

and then you just kinda have to click that button,

Join Now For Free and off you go.

You'll have them ready to start generating links.

I'm gonna log in.

And I'm ready to go.

Now, I'm just gonna manage my tracking IDs.

This is a kind of Amazon only thing.

I'm gonna make sure that I've got one for this site,

which I don't think I have.

Nope, so I'm just gonna create one.

I'm gonna click Add Tracking ID

and I call it rapidweightlosstools

and click Create and there we go.

And now, I'm ready to start linking to some products.

So let's go back to Amazon.

And let's have a look at our article.

The first thing I'm gonna promote

is one of those supplements.

The carnitine.

There we go.

So I'm just gonna copy that and go to Amazon

and paste it in search box.

Find a product that looks good.

This one looks good.

Carnitine Xtreme.

Perfect.

Now of course, I could just link to this search page.

That'd be fine.

And to do that, I've got this SiteStripe across the top

and I just click Text and I've got a link here

which is the tracking link so I can insert that

or I could pick a product specifically,

like this Xtreme one.

And again, just click on Text.

That, there we go or we can even add an image.

Like that.

Sorry, that's Text and Image.

So click on Image to get an image.

I need to select the right tracking ID

which was that one, rapidweightlosstools.

Then I could just copy paste that in

and I'd get an image on my site as well.

But for now, I think I'm just gonna go for Text

and I think I will just link to the search page

because I don't know which one's best

so people can make up their own mind.

So I'm gonna click on Text.

I'm gonna select the right tracking ID which is this one.

Click Get Link.

There we go and then I can just copy this link,

go back to my content, click Edit Post

and then scroll down to here.

I'm gonna highlight that word there.

I'm gonna click on the little chain

and then paste the link in.

I'm also gonna click on the little cog

and just make it open in a new tab.

I'll click on this image.

Again, click on the link, insert the link,

open in a new tab.

The reason I do that

is because I don't them to close my site.

As if I had just want them to go to Amazon

but also stay on my site as well.

Maybe highlight that word as well.

Little cog.

Make the link in a new window.

There we go.

I mean, I'm sure I could probably go through this

bit of content and find other opportunities

to link off to products.

Here's an obviously another way to do it.

Another product even I can link to.

It's the omegas.

So let's search for a omega oil.

Wow, there's a whole load there.

That's perfect.

I'm gonna link to the search page again.

It's got the right tracking ID.

Copy that link back to the post.

Let's link omegas like that.

The image too.

There we go.

So I think that's fine.

There's a couple of valuable affiliate links in there.

Let's say I'll probably go and add some more

if I really wanted to, but that's fine for now.

Let's click Update.

And it's gonna take a look at what the site looks like.

Actually one last thing before we do.

I'm just gonna adjust the date on this post.

It's set to today's date which is the 4th October,

but I sure want this to appear

like it was done a little while back.

Just because I'm gonna be adding

another couple of bits of content today

and I don't want them all to be on the same date.

So you can adjust the dates here.

I set a date in the past back in September.

If you set a date into the future,

it will then schedule that post

and will automatically publish it when it hits that date.

Okay.

There's View post.

Okay, there's a big belly, and scroll down.

So we've got our link there and if we give that a click,

there we go, we're off to Amazon.

And then if anyone makes a purchase,

and it doesn't necessarily have to be a purchase

of these supplements.

They can purchase anything.

They could buy a telly or some boots or whatever, dog food.

You still get a commission.

And there's other ones.

That's looking good.

So let's just go back to our homepage.

Now, the homepage has,

I think we might need to set up our homepage.

It's just showing post at the moment,

so we'll do that in a few moments.

We'll do some pages

and kinda tidy this bit up down here as well.

And that'd be a good thing to do.

So what I'm gonna do,

rather than put you through me copying and pasting

lots of word content into the site,

I've got two more posts.

I'm gonna add them now and once I've done that,

I'm gonna show you what they look like

with their affiliate links and their images

and all that kind of stuff

and then we'll go on adding a few pages

and just tidying the site up after it's all done.

Not too much more to do, thankfully.

So yeah, I'll see you in a few moments.

Okay, so I've added some more content.

Now we got three posts in total.

They're slightly different.

So we've got the nine of the best books

to help you lose weight.

Obviously that's an easy one, really, for linking to Amazon.

So I have lots of books.

By the way, I'll just show you how I did these images.

I've used the image option over on Amazon

when you sign up as an affiliate

and you're using the SiteStripe.

I selected a large image

and then just copy this bit of code down here

and pasted it in.

I'll just show you exactly how that works

in a test post here.

To paste it in, you will need,

I'll just call this Test Post.

You will need to be on the text editor

and just paste in the code, and I switch to Visual.

There we go, we can see the image.

And it also adds a link

so that someone clicks on that image and goes to Amazon,

it's one of your affiliate links,

so you're gonna get paid.

Anyway, I don't need that post.

Let's move it to trash.

So the site is coming together nicely.

I say we've got these free posts.

This Hello World post

which is the default WordPress example posts.

We don't need that so let's click Trash.

If you need to get to this section,

it's under Posts and All Posts.

So yeah, we've got the free posts looking good.

The other one, sorry,

is the best gym machines for weight loss.

So again, it's coupon for link into Amazon

because I'm linking to expensive things

like this this treadmill which is like a thousand pounds.

So good commission on that if you sell one.

And and there we go, yes.

So, I bought these images,

as I said before, from Shutterstock.

They look really nice.

So we're kinda ready to just finish off the site now.

We need to add a couple of pages.

I'll show you how to do that.

I'll show you how you can customise these colours

and we'll also set up the homepage so a little bit better.

Maybe add a nice slider or something to the top.

So let's do that now.

The first thing I'm gonna show you is the pages.

So, at the moment, we got this thing called sample page.

It just shows a lot of pages.

So the page is different to a post

because the page is more static.

It doesn't change as often whereas posts,

you're gonna be adding on a regular basis.

Hopefully, fairly regular.

A page is static.

So pages are great for things like about,

as contact hours, any of those sort of pages

where you wanna show off some information.

And what we could do is just simply edit this page.

That's a good way of kind of starting.

We can just change this to About us.

When you change the permalink to about-us,

there's a hyphen.

The permalink is basically the URL

and then you can just add some text.

So we find you all the best products and information

on how to lose weight quickly.

Now, you probably want to, obviously,

put a bit more text than that

but I think you get the idea.

You can also set featured image

though that doesn't always show on pages

so it's not always necessary.

So let's have a look at our About Us page.

There we go, and it's changed to About Us up there.

If I wanted to add another page,

we go up here in New, Page.

This one could be Contact us.

If you have a question, please get in touch.

And then you'd maybe add your email address.

So like contact.

I actually not have an email address set up

but you could enter a real one.

If you're interested in setting up a form,

I'm not gonna go into that right now

but you could add a form to this page

where people just fill in the form

and then get in touch for you.

Do check out my channel.

I've got a couple of great videos on how to add forms.

I say great, I think they're okay.

I mean, I'm kinda bigger myself up there a little bit.

But yeah, there's a couple of videos on how to add forms

using free plugins or paid for plugins.

Let's say I don't wanna clutter this video up

with all that stuff,

so if you wanna do these extra things like add forms,

maybe a social media buttons, all that kind of stuff,

check out the channel.

There's stuff on there about all that stuff.

That's Contact us page.

Set a template if you want.

So maybe if you want it full width, you could do that.

And this is no sidebar, entirely up to you.

Okay, publish.

And there we go.

And it's added it to the menu up there which is nice.

If you wanted to adjust this menu along here,

you go to Customise.

And then Menus,

then you click Add Menu, we'd call it Main Menu.

Create Menu.

And we'll say appear in the top primary menu.

There is obviously another menu section down the left

if you need it.

And then we could add some items, we can add the Home

and the Contact us and the About us,

and then we can just kind of reorder them like that

by dragging them around.

Click Save & Publish.

There's our lovely menu.

Looking good.

So while we're in here,

let's go through the customization thing.

So I came into this section by going into Appearance

and then Customise

or by clicking on Customise across the top bar.

The first section is Site Identity

and it's, the name of site is Rapid Weight Loss Tools.

And we can change the tagline

to helping you lose weight and quickly.

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