Day 1 - Learn How to Build a Website Yourself in Wordpress 2017
I’m starting a new project – Learn how to build a website yourself in WordPress in 2017 – And this is Day 1.
I’m taking my inspiration from Jay here at WA with his 4 part video series with step by step, over the shoulder, live case study on building a niche site in 2017.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/build-a-niche-site-2017-live-case-study-1-of-4/play
For those of you that aren’t a Wealthy Affiliate Premium member, you won’t be able to access Jays training unless you sign up, it’s $19 for the first month and just this step by step live training is well worth the price as he takes you from start to finish on building a niche site.
I’m going to be following through with Jays training, doing the tasks and posting daily on how I’m progressing. My posts will create a basic outline on learning how to build a website in WordPress
AND… THE MAIN ATTRACTION WILL BE… Drum roll Please…
Seeing how long it takes me to make my first affiliate commission – the bit I’m most interested in – AND… I’m sure a lot of you out there are too!
I thought of doing this as a case study on my own website but decided it would be great to post my progress here daily instead.
I realize that in taking on this project that this is a mid to long term strategy. I will be building out my brand new website concentrating only on organic traffic, so it’s about getting traffic directly from Googles search engines.
I’m so excited to get this ball rolling… Woohoo!
So… Day 1
Step 1. Researching a Niche & Keywords
I already had a physical product niche in mind but wanted to check that it was viable enough to build my website around that niche. I went to Amazon to find how many products there were available to promote and see what sort of prices they sold for.
Presto, the prices are anywhere from $34.99 to $1790.00, wow that’s a huge scope in prices and the niche has about a hundred products that I could promote. So as far as the niche goes I’m pretty happy with the number and price of the products.
On looking at keywords I used the Keyword Tool here at Wealthy Affiliate and the results for my main keyword looks pretty promising with Searches of 3227, Competition of 178 and Article Power of 8.5.
One of the products that I would be promoting has Searches of 590, Competition of 109 and Article Power of 8.6, so that's looking good as well.
I went through my short list of product keywords and found that most of them had similar searches, under 300 competition and article power of 8 and over – so I’m going ahead with this niche – Woohoo!
Because I know at this point that the product list I have so far is within the WA Keyword Tool parameters I will do some more research later to increase the number of keywords to write posts about.
If you’re unsure of what the best parameters are for using the WA Keyword Tool here’s a great training by another WA member
Step 2. Finding an Affiliate Program
Having finished my research on my niche and keywords, I decided to stay with the Amazon affiliate program, especially since finding out that Amazon changed its fee structure in March 2017.
With the new structure I’ll be receiving 8% instead of a start of 4% for my category which is Pet Products.
I’ve created a post here on WA outlining the new Amazon affiliate program commission:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/jacquelines1/blog/amazon-affiliate-program-commission-new-structure
In order to find affiliate programs to promote, put into Google search bar – your keyword followed by the words, affiliate program, it’s just a matter of sifting through which ones you’re happy with, depending on how much they pay, when they pay and how they pay.
Well that’s Day 1 completed…
Catch you tomorrow with the next episode of Learn how to build a website yourself in WordPress in 2017.
You’re welcome to leave a comment or ask a question below if you wish to do so, thanks and …
Cheers,
Jacqueline
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Hey there Juliet,
Thanks for the 'All the best'...
Yeah, I'm pretty excited about this project of building a brand new website from scratch, I'm just about to put up Day 3 so we're progressing well.
I have the 'bones' there just starting on the content part of it now - Woohoo!
Cheers Juliet and thanks for coming along and leaving a comment,
Jacqueline
Hey there Albert,
Thanks for your encouragement. Yeah it does feel like a nice plan of attack and at least by posting here everyday it keeps me 'on task'.
Thanks again and best of luck with your campaigns, cheers,
Jacqueline
Hey there Maryann,
Thanks for the wow! Yeah once I set my mind to something, there's pretty much no stopping me.
Bring on that first Amazon affiliate commission for this new website venture - Woohoo!
Thanks for coming and leaving a comment Maryann, cheers,
Jacqueline
Hey Maryann
Yes it certainly will be 'Amen!' when that first affiliate commission comes in, I'll certainly be doing a little dance - Woohoo!
Cheers,
Jacqueline
@ JacquelineS1
Hey, This is s great start. Make easy goals for yourself and take it day by day.
The best way for you to keep on going is taking your big goal, divide it smaller and win everyday by completing the smaller tasks at hand.
You can never go wrong by learning a new skill.
Enjoy
Hey there John,
Thanks for your positive feedback. Yeah I thought that by putting my day to day progress here on WA would give me an incentive to keep the momentum going - and it's certainly done that!
I'm really stoked with creating this ongoing blog of learn how to build a website yourself in WordPress 2017. It's been an eye opener for me about how simple it really is as long as you have the steps in place to follow.
Thanks again John and all the best with your journey here, cheers,
Jacqueline
Hey John,
Thanks for coming along and leaving a comment. Yes, we're all good to go with posting once a day on learning how to build a website yourself in WordPress - exciting stuff!
Cheers,
Jacqueline
Hey there Michael,
Thanks for your good luck wish and yeah it's important to me that I post every day to keep the momentum going.
All the best to you Michael, cheers,
Jacqueline
Best of luck to you. Thank you for posting the new Amazon Affiliate Data. Keep up the good work.
Hey there Ken,
Thanks for coming along and leaving a comment. I'm glad you seen the new Amazon affiliate commission data and hopefully it will be helpful for your Amazon campaigns.
Cheers and thanks again,
Jacqueline
Hey there,
Thanks for the lovely comment, I will definitely keep on going as I'm super keen to see where this brand new website takes me...
AND...
to see how long it takes to make my first affiliate commission.
Cheers and thanks again,
Jacqueline
Wow!!! This is quite extensive, Jacqueline. All the best with moving forward with this series.
Hey Veronica
Thanks for coming along and leaving a comment.
Yeah I want to make sure that I'm giving as good an outline as I can into learning how to build a website. This is great training for myself as well as I haven't really documented the stages I've been through to build a website.
It's fun... Woohoo!
Thanks again Veronica and I hope everything is going great for you here at WA, cheers,
Jacqueline
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Thanks.I will be following you
Hey there Joy,
Thanks for following me and thanks for leaving a comment here.
I'm really enjoying this process of putting up a brand new website, it's certainly been an eye opener writing everything down as I go through each process.
I'll at least have a formula put together to follow when building new websites, which will be great.
All the best Joy, cheers,
Jacqueline