In this video, I'm gonna show you how to create
your very own Affiliate marketing website
with some AdSense ads using WordPress
and the amazing Elementor page builder plugin.
The site we're gonna be making looks just like this.
The website uses a free theme,
offers a lovely clean and clear layout,
perfect for showing off your articles and your content.
As I mentioned we're gonna be using the Elementor page
builder, makes it really easy to add content
just by dragging and dropping things around.
And to make it even easier, I'm gonna be providing
you will all of the layouts and templates that I create
within this video so that you can use them on your site
and get you up and running really quickly.
All you've got to do is adjust them to suit your needs
and your niche.
Speaking of niches, or niches if you're in America,
I'm gonna be sharing with you some ideas on how
you can find a nice, how you can choose a niche,
how you can determine whether it's gonna be a good niche.
I'm also gonna be sharing with you some niches
that are best avoided.
As well as choosing a niche I'm gonna be sharing
with you some thoughts on how to come up
with inspiration for content, how to do some research
and find some good keywords, and basically give you
everything you need to get the site up and running
and enable you to work on it going forward
so you hopefully get to a point where you are getting
lots of good traffic and earning some good money from it.
Going forward I'm gonna be posting loads more videos
around the site that we create in this video.
I'm gonna be sharing with you my traffic,
my income, and all of the stuff that I do
on the site to get it working.
So if you're up for creating your very own Affiliate
marketing website, and you want to earn a bit
of extra income, then this is the video for you.
Let's go.
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Hello, it's Alex here from WP Eagle.
Thanks for watching, if you're new here
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As I mentioned I'm gonna be uploading loads more content
around the website that we create in this video
and you're not gonna want to miss it
because I'm gonna be sharing my earnings,
how much traffic I'm getting,
and all of the work that I do on the website
do what I do, and hopefully we'll all get some success
and earn some money.
Now before we get on the computer and start building
our website, I just want to share with you
a couple of things.
First is how much money we're gonna need to spend today.
I'm afraid there is a few costs involved with setting
up a website, but I've done my best to keep them
as low as possible.
First thing we're gonna need is a domain name.
If you've got one registered already that's great,
I'm gonna show you how you can use that domain name
a little bit later on in the video.
If you've not got a domain name,
a domain name is basically the .com
or the .co.uk or the .net.
It's the thing that people type into their browser
to access your website.
In this video I'm gonna show you how to register
a domain name and the cost for that is around 15,
16 dollars a year, similar amount in Pounds
if you're in the UK, so not a huge expense.
Second thing you're gonna need is your website hosting,
and this is basically where your website lives
on the internet.
You hire a little bit of a server from a hosting company
and they make sure that your website is online
and look after you and all that kind of thing.
I recently did an in-depth review into WordPress hosting
where I tested out loads of different hosting companies
and the one that came out best in terms of performance,
support, and features, was a company called SiteGround
and that's who we're gonna be using today.
And I managed to secure a fantastic discount
off your first year's hosting,
so be sure to follow my link to make sure
that you get that discount.
Cost for the hosting with the discount
comes at around 70 dollars.
So not a huge investment to give you a full year's
worth of hosting, it's around 70 Pounds in UK money as well.
I don't know why there's not much different
but I guess that's just the way it works.
So for you Americans paying in dollars,
it is slightly cheaper.
And this actually is optional is an add-on
for the elemental page builder
that I like to use.
It basically enables you to create tables
really easily as well as a whole lot of other cool stuff.
But it's the tables that I really like
'cause when I'm creating my content to show off
product in table form just to make it really
easy for my visitors to be able to choose
the best product for them.
I will be using it in this video,
but if you don't want to use it then it's entirely
up to you and maybe you'll find another table
to plug in for free somewhere, but it's my favourite
and I think it's worth the 49 dollar cost
in order to get ahold of it.
And as I say it comes with a whole load of other features,
not just tables.
So the costs should be up there somewhere.
And if I do some maths off the top of my head
I think it comes at around 130 or so dollars
for the first year, which is only a really small investment
to get your online Affiliate marketing business
up and running.
One thing I will say is this video is probably best
watched over on WPEagle.com, you may be watching
it on YouTube right now.
If you go down into the description you'll find a link
over to this video on WPEagle.com.
And within that post you'll find links to all
of the templates, links to all of the things that I talk
about in this video including the hosting
and the extra plugins and any other tools
that may be mentioned.
Also below this video you'll find a whole load
of timings, so if you want to jump forward
or backwards within the video you can do that,
just have a look, click on the time
and you can skip forward for the particular
part that you're interested in.
And this video is quite long so you might need
to go forwards and backwards a few times
over certain bits.
But if you do get stuck for whatever reason
do leave me a comment below, I'll do my best
to read and reply to as many as I possibly can.
So yeah, if you've got a question or you're stuck,
just leave something below and I'll do my best
to get you moving again.
Now before we get on the computer, you are gonna need
to have thought of a niche.
Pretty helpful to know what your website
is gonna be about.
So when it comes to choosing a niche what I recommend
is you think of something that you're at least
a little bit interested in.
Kind of helps.
The site I'm building today is gonna be
all around roof cargo boxes.
It's something that I'm not particularly passionate about
but I did need a roof cargo box just recently
for a new car.
So I did a bit of research and I kind of found
that there wasn't a lot of information out there
around these roof boxes,
especially when I'm searching for specific roof boxes
for a specific make and model of car.
There was hardly anything, so it got me thinking
that maybe I could fill that gap
and add some content that would get ranked
quite well because there's not much out there
at the moment.
So yeah, think of something that you're slightly
interested in, and then start doing some research
on Google and on Amazon.
You're gonna want to go over to Amazon,
drill down into the categories,
you want to go as deep as you possibly can
because the more specific the products are,
the easier it is to get some rankings
on the search engines, and the easier it is
to create content.
So for me rather than just doing stuff around cars,
I've gone really deep and just focused on the roof racks
and the roof boxes.
Once you got a niche in mind, and you've got some ideas
around products, start doing some searches on Google.
This will give you some ideas for content
and it'll also give you an idea of the amounts
of competition around that particular search.
So for this particular website
I started doing some searches,
I entered things like best cargo roof box for,
and I just pressed the space bar
and waited to see what Google would suggest,
and it was suggesting things like best cargo roof boxes
for Audi Q5 and best cargo roof box for Ford Escape.
So it got me thinking that I could create some content
around each one of these vehicle types,
each make and model of car,
and then I was aware that I could create loads
of content because there are tonnes of makes
and models of car out there obviously.
So Best Roof Box for was going to be a great article idea.
I then started thinking about how people
use these roof boxes, so Google was suggesting things
like Best Roof Box for skiing or best cargo roof box
for fishing rods.
Again, these are all great article ideas.
Then I started running these search terms through Google
and I noticed that there wasn't many articles
that answered these questions directly.
So I started adding all these keywords to a list
and that's basically the foundation
of my content plan.
I also have tool called Keywords Everywhere installed
in my browser, it gives me an idea of how many
searches a month there are around a particular keyword
and I was looking for searches of around 100 a month.
It could be less, could be slightly more,
but I certainly didn't want searches
that were getting thousands a month.
Which you might expect that would be a good thing,
but it's not, because if a keyword is getting a lot
of searches a month, generally there is
a lot of competition.
When it comes to articles you really want
to go for those long tail searches.
When I say long tail that's basically searches
which have got four or more words.
So very specific searches because A,
they're easier to rank for because there's less competition,
and B, when someone starts typing in those specific
searches, they're almost ready to buy a product.
Someone types in cargo roof box,
they're just sort of thinking about getting a roof box.
Someone types in cargo roof box for Audi Q5,
they're almost ready to buy because they're being
very specific, they know what they want,
they just need a little bit of help
to make that purchase.
And speaking of giving a little bit of help,
that's what we're here for as Affiliate marketeers.
We're here to help someone make that purchase.
So by offering good content
and answering their questions,
providing good information around a product,
we can help that person make that purchase,
they use our links, and we earn our commission.
So hopefully that's giving you a few ideas
on how to choose a niche and how to come up
with some content ideas.
I'm gonna be doing into this in a bit more detail
later on in the video when we start adding
content to the site, so yeah,
I'll go into a bit more detail.
But hopefully you've got enough information now
to choose a niche and get started with your website.
Good luck, I know you can do this, I'm here to help you.
Like I said, if you get stuck at any point
just leave a comment below and I'll do my best
to help you out.
Also I do a livestream pretty much every single week
on a Wednesday.
Within these streams, I'm there to answer your questions
live in real time, so yeah,
if you get stuck or need any help or you've got
some questions or just want to hang out, do join us.
To get a notification when I do go live,
again make sure you click subscribe and click the bell.
Or head over to WPEagle.com and sign up to my newsletter.
I generally send out a reminder email just before I go live.
So on that, let's get on the computer
and let's get this website set up, let's go.
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So the first thing we're gonna do
is set up our web hosting.
Web hosting is basically where our website
is gonna live on the internet.
We hire a bit of a server
and that gives us everything we need
to get up and running.
A company I'm gonna be recommending to you today
is SiteGround.
They offer some excellent web hosting at great prices.
The reason why I recommend SiteGround is that recently
I did a full test on hosting, I tested loads
of different hosting companies.
I tested them in terms of speed and in terms of features
and value for money, and when all those things
were considered, SiteGround came out on top,
so that's the reason I'm recommending them to you today.
On the screen now I'll see card, if you click that card
it'll take you straight through to SiteGround.
It is an Affiliate link so if you use it,
thank you very much, I will earn a small commission
and I'll also get a discount of 70% as well.
If you missed the card you'll also find the link
in the description of the video.
I'm really grateful to everyone that uses my links,
it really does help me out and allows me to carry on
creating YouTube videos.
Once you land on SiteGround you'll see a page
very similar to this and they offer basically
four different types of hosting package.
We're gonna go for the standard web hosting,
that's absolutely fine for what we want to do.
You'll notice there is WordPress
and WooCommerce hosting too, but we don't really
need them right now.
So let's just go for the standard web hosting,
which by the way we can instal WordPress on no problem.
So once you come through to this page you'll see
these three different packages available.
There's the Startup, GrowBig,
and the GoGeek.
Generally I'd recommend the GrowBig package.
It's perfect as it allows you to kind of scale up,
you can have multiple websites on it,
offers a good amount of space,
and allows for plenty of visits.
If you don't think you're gonna be doing
more than one website, you're just gonna start
really small, then of course go for the startup.
But today I'm gonna choose the GrowBig plan
and I recommend that you do the same.
See we've got the special price of 4.95 a month.
If you're in the US it'll obviously be in dollars.
SiteGround are fully compatible with US, UK,
whatever you like, you can in fact choose the server
location when you set up your hosting
so that it's nearer to the visitors
that you're going to be targeting.
Let's click get started.
First box is asking us about our domain name,
so if you've already got a domain name
registered with another company that's fine,
I'm gonna show you how you can use that domain name
with your SiteGround hosting.
If you've not got a domain name, you are gonna need
to register one right now.
Domain name is basically the .com or the .co.uk
or the .net or .whatever you like.
There's lots of extensions as you can see.
So you are gonna need a domain name in order to set up
a website because of course it's the thing
that people type into their browser
to access your site.
You can register one with SiteGround, that might be easier
for you, keep it all in one place.
You see they offer it for 14.95 a year,
which is a pretty good price.
So to register a new domain name you just simply type in
what you'd like, maybe something like mynewdomainname.
Then you come over here and you choose the extension
you want, maybe you want a .com,
and then you click proceed and it will sort that
all out for you.
Obviously you can only register a domain that is available,
you can't register a domain that has already
been registered, so you may have to enter a few
different things in to try and find one
that you can order today.
Now I'm gonna choose I already have a domain
because I've already got the domain name
that I'm gonna be using today registered over at GoDaddy,
so I'm gonna enter that domain name into here.
And the domain name I've got registered is bestroofbox.com.
Just gonna enter that in and click proceed.
Now we've just got this final form to fill in,
it's all our account information,
so enter your email and password.
I'm not gonna enter in all this stuff right now,
that'd be a little bit boring,
into your billing information,
so your name, company if you've got one,
VAT if you've got one, and all that stuff.
Here is the payment information so enter your card details.
Down here we've got the purchase information,
so this is the plan we've chosen.
Here's the data centre, so you can adjust this if you like.
I'm actually gonna go for a US sever because
the site that I'm setting up is gonna be targeting
mainly US traffic, so let's go for Chicago.
The next box is the period, I would keep in on 12 month
but you can go longer if you like.
Let's keep with 12 months,
I wouldn't go for the one month, that's got a setup fee
and that kind of thing.
So just stick with the 12 months.
Down here we've got extra services, there is a website
file transfer thing which we're not gonna need
obviously because we're setting up a new site.
And then there was this sites scanning thing
which again we're not gonna need
because you can do site scanning stuff
with some free WordPress plugins.
Final thing is you just need to check this box here
to confirm the terms and conditions, and you can tick
that one as well if you'd like to receive
news and special offers by email.
Then click pay now and you're all done.
So I'm just gonna go away and quickly setup
my SiteGround account and then we'll move on
to the next step, which will be to re-point
our existing domain names if we've already got one.
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Okay, so I've filled in all the form
and got signed up and purchased my new hosting,
and I've just received this email from Site Ground.
Now this is quite an important email,
hopefully you've received something very similar
once you've signed up.
And this email basically contains everything
we need to know when it comes to setting up our website.
So the first thing I want to look
at is these two name servers,
now this part of the video is specifically
for people who have got a domain name registered
with a different, so for example GoDaddy
or Namecheap or Namester or one of those guys
that registers domains for you.
If you've just registered a new domain name
with SiteGround then you can skip this step,
but do keep in mind that new domain names
take a little while to register, so if it's not working,
if you go to a domain name and you can't see anything,
just give it a little bit more time.
As I said, it takes a little while for these domain
names to register and for the settings to be sent
all around the world and updated on all the different
servers and all that kind of thing.
So if you are one of those people who did just register
a new domain name with SiteGround,
then you can skip forward a little bit in the video.
I'll put a timer up on the screen now,
skip forward to that time and we'll carry on
setting up WordPress.
For the rest of you that have got a domain name
registered elsewhere like myself,
all we need to do is update the name servers
on the domain with these ones.
So I'm gonna do it with GoDaddy but the process
is pretty much the same for all companies
that register domains.
So I'm gonna head over to GoDaddy,
I'll do it in another tab.
Now I'm already signed in so I'm just gonna go over
to manage domains, I'm gonna find the domain that I want,
just type it in here, bestroofbox.com, there it is.
And I'm gonna click on these three little dots here,
and I'm gonna go do manage DNS.
So if you're not with GoDaddy, just look for a similar
kind of setting within your control panel,
it'll be to do with DNS or name servers.
And then you should be able to go in there
and change the named servers to the site ground ones.
So I'm gonna scroll down in GoDaddy and here we are,
here's our name servers currently set to the default
GoDaddy ones.
Click change, gonna select custom.
And we've got these two boxes here, back to the email,
gonna copy NS1 first, put that into my clipboard,
paste it in, and the next one, NS2,
copy that to the clipboard, paste it in.
So that's all done, so I'm gonna wait a few minutes
for this to update and the settings to be spread
around the world and update all the name servers
in all the different countries.
And then when that's all done, when I visit my domain name
I should be able to see a SiteGround holding page.
Once I see that, I know that my domain name
is point to my new SiteGround hosting
and I can then carry on installing WordPress
and setting up my website, which is what
we're gonna be doing next.
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Okay, so my domain is now pointing at my new Siteground
hosting, I know that because when I go
to bestroofbox.com, I enter it into my browser,
I see this page which is the SiteGround holding page,
so we're good to go, we're now ready to set up WordPress.
So let's do that right now.
I'm gonna pop back to the email that I got
from SiteGround, here it is.
What I'm gonna do is click this big launch wizard button.
First question is choose your domain,
I'm just gonna go for decide later on that.
Oh, and it's automatically chosen the right one
that I selected or registered, that's fine.
Hopefully yours does the same.
Then the next question is set up your website,
I'm gonna select start a new website.
It asks the software that I want to instal,
I want to instal WordPress.
Then down here we need to enter in some login details,
so enter in your email address,
Next we need to enter a username, and this user name
we're gonna use to log into WordPress,
I think it needs to be eight characters or so long.
So let's go something like WPEagle2000, perfect.
There we need to enter a password,
so let me enter something in here.
Then retype it, and then that's that.
Let's click confirm, and we got a tick there
so that's perfect, tick this box to confirm
the terms of service and the privacy policy
and click complete setup.
It'll take a few moments, here we go,
it says we're all done, so let's proceed
to the customer area.
And if you go to my account, this is where you'll
be able to find your new hosting.
Here's mine, got another one on the go as well
with SiteGround.
Bowwowtech.co.uk, that's part of my hosting,
testing that I did as I mentioned, anyway.
So if we click manage account in here,
this is where we can do everything to do
with our hosting.
So here's our WordPress installation,
here's our information and settings,
so there's your name servers, your IP address
if you need it, FTP details
and all that kind of good stuff.
Now if you want to set up email addresses,
that kind of thing you'll find that in the see cPanel,
so you can click on that red button,
all that stuff will be in there.
So anyway let's go over to the website,
I've got it here, so if I just refresh this.
This is WordPress, I mean it looks a little bit broken
at the moment because there's nothing on here,
but this is WordPress, it's installed,
and it seems to be up and running fine.
SiteGround have also installed our SSL certificate
because we've got a little padlock here
that says the connection is secure,
so that's a good thing.
So the next thing we need to do
is instal our WordPress theme.
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So what we're gonna do in this part of the video
is instal our WordPress theme.
WordPress theme basically gives the website
its look and feel, gives you all the functionality
you need to lay stuff our and set colours
and all that kind of stuff.
The thing we're gonna be doing today is a free theme,
which is good news of course,
but there's a premium version available if you want
a few extra features, maybe some support,
that kind of thing.
But you don't have to spend any money on it today.
Now I've just had this email come in from SiteGround,
and it basically just confirms that everything is setup
and complete, and then if we scroll down
we've got the website information.
This is where we go to log into WordPress,
so I can just click this link,
it takes me to this login screen.
So just remember that you need to go to this page
to login and do stuff to your WordPress website.
WP-login.php or indeed you can
just go to WP-admin like that
and you end up in the same place.
Now the user name was the one that I set earlier
which if you remember was wpeagle2000
and the password was the one that I entered,
so hopefully you've remembered what that was.
If you haven't you can reset your password
with this link here.
I'm gonna tick remember me so that it doesn't
keep asking me to login all the time.
Okay, so we're in, this is our WordPress dashboard,
hopefully yours looks similar to this,
you may get this message pop up or it may even
look actually bigger than this and take up the whole screen,
it's the SiteGround WordPress starter wizard.
We're not gonna be using that today
so if you do get this screen or indeed a screen
that covers the whole thing talking about
WordPress starter, just click don't show
this again and you'll be fine,
and you'll be at this dashboard here.
So within the WordPress dashboard is where we do
basically everything to do with WordPress.
So we can manage our posts and pages and comments
and all that kind of stuff, and we'll be going into
these sections in more detail as we start
to add things to our website.
So let's get that theme installed,
if you remember the site looks like this at the moment,
bit of a mess, it's a default theme
that comes with WordPress, so let's instal
the theme we're gonna be using.
And go back into dashboard, go to appearance,
and then themes.
Then within here I'm gonna go add new,
then in this search box over here
I'm gonna type in base WP
and it's the first one that comes up,
this one here.
And I'm gonna click instal,
it's gonna take a few moments,
just gonna download it and instal it.
It's done it already, then I'm gonna click activate
to switch it on.
There we go, that's all done.
So it's popped up a couple of little boxes,
we don't need those,
click on the crosses.
Let's go back to the front of the website just here,
let's refresh and see what it looks like.
There we go, that looks a bit better, doesn't it?
Obviously it's all quite a bit of work to do,
but it's starting to come together.
So the next thing we need to do is instal some plugins,
so let's do that now.
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So let's instal those plugins, the first one I'm gonna
instal is Elementor, which is the page builder
we're gonna be using to put together our posts
and our pages.
As I mentioned at the beginning of the video
I've got some elemental templates that we're gonna
be using to kind of get the pages and posts
up and running really quickly,
and then all you need to do is edit them,
and make them your own.
You'll find a link to the page on my website
where you can download all of the Elementor templates
in the description of this video.
So let's get Elementor installed.
To get back into dashboard I'm then gonna go to plugins
and add new, then in the search box
I'm gonna type in Elementor.
It's the first one that comes up,
let's click instal then activate.
So there we go, we've got Elementor installed
and ready to go.
Now there is a pro version of Elementor that you might
be interested in.
You'll find a link to that in the description
of this video, pro gives you a few extra features,
like you can have global layouts, you can use templates,
it gives you a few extra modules that you can use
on your pages.
It's not gonna be required for this tutorial,
but say you might want to invest init going forward,
just give you that extra functionality.
I use it quite a bit and I think the pro is well worth it.
Now the next plugin we're gonna instal is called
Ultimate Add-ons for Elementor, and this gives us
a few cool things that we're gonna be using
within some of the posts that I'm gonna be adding.
You may or may not want this, I'd recommend it,
the main thing I like about this particular plugin
is that it gives you tables that you can use
within your post and tables are really good
for displaying product information,
doing comparisons, and just really making
your posts come alive and add that extra bit of value.
So if you want to follow exactly what I'm doing
in this tutorial with regards to adding tables
to posts, then I recommend that you get this add-on.
Now the cost for the plugin is just 49 dollars
for the one site, I think that gives you a year's worth
of updates, so it's not a huge amount to invest.
As I say, you'll find the link in the description,
in fact I'll put one up in a card as well.
The links is an Affiliate link,
so thank you very much if you use it,
but I only do recommend stuff that I use myself
and I think is worth spending money on.
So yeah, go take a look.
So let's go and get this plugin that I'm talking about,
open a new tab, gonna go over via my link
which is wpeagle.com/uae.
And here it is, now I've already got a copy of this
funny enough, so I'm not gonna buy it again,
but you'll need to buy it by clicking on buy now.
And as I said I think it's just 49 dollars,
yeah, which it is.
So I'd go for that one.
Once you have purchased it you'll be able
to access the download area, there we go.
I'm just gonna click here, gonna download it
into my downloads folder, will be fine.
There we go, that's downloaded.
Then I'm gonna pop back to the website,
gonna go to plugins and then add new.
Then I'm gonna click upload plugin,
choose file, and I'm gonna select that file
that I just downloaded, here it is, click open,
then instal now.
And I'm gonna click activate, there we go.
So we need to activate that plugin now,
so I'm gonna click on this link here,
so we can find this licence key if we go back
to the store, then go to account and licences.
There we go, there's my key.
Just gonna copy that into the clipboard,
back to the site, paste it in,
and then activate.
And that's done.
So it's just one more plugin that I'm gonna add now,
this plugin gives us our related posts
which is basically some lovely links that you get
at the bottom of the posts linking to other posts
on your site that are related, funny enough.
It does what it says on the tin.
So to add this plugin I'm gonna go to add new,
and in the search box we're gonna type in
related hosts for WordPress.
It's this one here, this first one that comes up,
gonna click instal now.
And then activate.
Yeah well that's weird, it's throwing up an error.
I'm sure it's nothing to worry about,
let's just go back to the dashboard,
I'm just gonna take off this bit that comes
after wp-admin.
Just gonna go back to dashboard, go back into plugins,
sometimes you get these weird little error messages
in WordPress with plugins.
But as you can see it's here and it's active,
so nothing to worry about.
Just double check the settings.
All looks fine, might come back in here later
if we need to make some changes.
So we've got our theme installed,
we've got our plugins installed,
I think the next thing to do is start adding
some content and making the site our own,
give it a name and a homepage
and that kind of thing.
So yeah, let's do that next.
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So in this section of the video what we're gonna do
is give the site a name and a strap line
and we're gonna add a homepage.
So let's start with this name at the top,
that's pretty easy to change.
We go here and go back into the dashboard.
We go to settings and general.
We can enter our site title in here.
Gonna enter Best Roof Box 'cause that's what
the domain is.
Then here we can enter the tag line,
sort of like fine the, actually let's do capitals,
Find The Best Roof Box for,
no capital on that one, You.
Or maybe we should have a capital on that one.
That'll do, language is great, isn't it?
Okay, let's go down and save that.
Let's go back and take a look.
Okay, so that's changed, so let's do the home page,
as I said I've got a template for this,
so get you kind of up and running really quickly,
and then all we need to do is make some tweaks
here and there if you want to.
So let's create a new page, when you come up here
to new, and then page.
Let's close this other tab down,
we don't need that any more, it's just confusing.
Here's our new page, we can get rid of the tips,
don't need them.
Then the title is gong to be Home Page,
that's a good name for a home page.
I'm gonna click publish and then publish again.
Now this is the Gutenberg editor that we're looking
at here which is the default WordPress editor,
we're not gonna be using that for this site
so let's click up here and switch to Elementor.
The button says edit with Elementor is all you need.
Now this is much better because it's nice
and drag and drop and easy to use.
So let's add that template, and you'll need these
templates saved on your computer, so if you haven't
got them yet, then head over
to WPEagle.com, you'll find a link in the description
to the blog post that you need on WPEagle.com.
And then within that post are the links to the downloads,
download all the files to your computer,
then you'll be ready to go.
So once you have those files,
you can come in here and click on this grey folder thing.
Up here on the right hand side there's this little arrow
which says import template, let's click that.
And then you need to find the files on your computer,
you can do that by clicking this green button.
So here's a couple of the templates,
I've got the homepage one here, so yeah,
you select the homepage one that you downloaded
from my website, select it, click open,
and there it is, let's click insert.
Just warning you that it's gonna overwrite
whatever is already there, press yes, here we go.
So it's looking a little bit squashed, so we need
to make a few little changes.
Come down to the bottom left you'll find
this settings section, a little cog,
give that a click.
The first thing we need to do is change the page layout,
I'm gonna change it to Elementor full width, like that.
It's looking better.
And that should lose the title.
We can switch this hide title to yes
and it's definitely gone then for sure.
Let's click update.
Then if we come up here to this little burger menu,
the three lines, we can then click here to view the page.
There we go, that's our homepage.
Now there's obviously no guides or articles showing
just yet because we need to add some
which is what we'll be doing very shortly.
And of course you're going to need to edit this page
so that it fits your niche, so I'm gonna show you
how to do that right now.
But before we do that, let's just set this
as the homepage, 'cause at the moment it's just
like a normal page, it's not gonna be the default
page that comes up when people come to the site.
I'm gonna show you that by clicking on the title here
and going back to the actual homepage
and we can see that it's not here.
So let's just set it as the homepage.
To do that I'm gonna come back into the dashboard,
then in settings and reading.
And then we have this option at the top here
that says your homepage displays,
I'll tick that to be a static page
and then I'm gonna select home page,
which was the page we just created.
If you called it something else,
you'll need to select that one.
So that's saved now, let's go back to the site
and here it is.
So let me just show you how you change this,
so you can actually see that there's a little bit
of text there that I need to change
because it's all gibberish.
So we're gonna do it all with Elementor,
or Elementor depending on how you say it.
So come up to the top and click with Elementor.
And here we go, we're now ready to make some edits,
it's very simple, you just click on what you want to change
and just start typing away.
Just like any other word processor you can highlight
text, you can make it bold, underline, italic,
whatever you need really.
Let's put that back.
There is actually an undo right here, you've got a history
where you can see what you've done
and then go back in time if you need to.
Let's have a look at this text box.
So again this works very much the same,
just type away, with hundreds of roof boxes,
I just basically needed a little bit of blurb.
Tell you what, let me just paste it from my clipboard.
That's better.
I just copied off my other computer
and then pasted it into this one.
So yeah, you just type away,
and it's just like any kind of word processor.
There are some options up here for your styling,
so you can change the text colour,
you can adjust the typography,
so the sizes, the weight, maybe you want it bold
or very thin.
It's totally up to you, I'm just gonna leave it as default
and adjust the font family.
Line height letter spacing, basically everything
to do with the text, all in here,
really easy to play around with.
You've got advanced option where if you need to adjust
the spacing or the padding, that's all in here too.
Got a background if you want to have like
a gradient background like that,
just add two colours and it does it for you.
Or you can just have a solid colour,
or indeed you can have an image, whatever you like.
You can have borders, I mean with Elementor
it really is powerful, and flexible, and easy to use.
So if you've used a web processor or something like that
before you should be able to find your way
around here pretty easily.
The other thing I love about Elementor is you can just
right click on an element to change it.
So just right click on the heading, select edit heading
and you can do it all over here.
Alignments and all that kind of stuff,
and again style and the advanced features
are all in there.
Now a page if made up of sections which is then
broken down into columns if you want
so this blue box is kind of covering this top section here.
Come down, this is another section here
with the blue line around it, and this is a third one here.
If you wanted to move them around,
you just get hold of it by these dots
and then you can just drag it around,
really easy to change your layout.
I want to bring it back down here, let's do that,
there we go.
If you want to change any of the options
for a particular section, again, it's just a right click.
We can edit the column, just the width, positions,
obviously the style, so set background and borders
and yeah, whatever you like really.
This top section is made up of two columns.
See that one, we go right click and edit section.
See there it's got the two columns,
now what I've done with this particular section
is in the advanced area under responsive,
I've reversed the columns round,
if that makes sense, so when viewing from a mobile,
what it's gonna do is it's gonna squish this down
and I can show you that by coming down here
and clicking on responsive mode.
Select mobile, we can actually see what it looks
like on a mobile.
You can see that it's put the image first,
so basically it's swapped those columns around.
Turn it off you'll see the difference,
that's the image down at the bottom.
It's entirely up to you, but I just prefer the image
at the top on mobiles.
So let's just go back to the desktop view.
This button here is very much the same
as the titles and the textures, click on it
and you can make some changes.
So in here you can change the text on the button,
you can add the link, which is something
I'll do once I've added some of the buyer's guides,
I'll come back here and link through
to the buyer's guide category.
Change the icon, you can change the icon position,
and all the other stuff really to do with the button.
And here you've got the colours,
and here again you've got the margin padding backgrounds
and other interesting stuff.
But I'm not gonna go into all of these settings
on every single element, it would be far too long
and I really want to keep this video
to a manageable length.
So these images that I've added, I got them
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