I have a website ! Totally under construction but still!
I am so excited. I am really doing this! I hope I will be able to figure out how to tweak my website and ad content easily. Its not too hard to figure out for a non techie right?
Like, now that I have my site up.. what should I do next? Continue with my lessons, or try to figure out how to make it look nice.
Also I had a question for outsourcing; if I went to "Fiver" for example and paid someone to tweak my website and make it look presentable with maybe a sleeping baby picture in the backround... how would they be able to do this remotely ? Do I give them the admin and password to my website and THEY go in and manually adjust the html or do they send me some kind of script which I plug in myself? The thing is, I have no idea where to plug ANY html! And installing wordpress... oh jesus, it seems like a piece of cake right ?
A really good thing is that this affiliate program I want to work with www.instantbabysleep.com has an Affiliate page where they GIVE you keywords and articles to use for your own site! They have their own banners and videos you can add to your page. They pretty much do everything for you, you just need to promote. Of course I will add more articles but I think its just really helpful that they provide me with like 7 articles already and about 30 keywords.
So what should I do now??
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Hi Sophia,
Great looking site - great work. As you say, you'll find the Wordpress content management system fairly intuitive and if you ever have issues, you have the whole WA community behind you to help at the drop of a hat! :-)
Focus on the content for now. You need to get the search engines crawling your site and to do this effectively, you need content. The certification course here at WA will help here as it sets relevant tasks and guides you to getting more great content on your site. So follow this and you can't go wrong. The pretty design stuff will come with time. If you do invite someone from Fiverr to pretty things up then you'll have to set them up with a temporary admin and shut down the access to limit them to what is required. This is all easily done in Wordpress under "Users". But for something like simple image uploads, the certification course covers all of this and so you shouldn't need external help. The beauty of Wordpress is that there is no need to get too heavy on HTML as the systems does all of that for you behind the scenes, but for more bespoke adjustments, then you can invite a little external help. But follow the course and make a judgement after as you'll probably find that you won't need it.
Just a small note of caution regarding the keyword info provided by instantbabysleep.com. You can bet if others are working with them too then the competitiveness of each phrase may well be very high - i.e. lots of sites using them to gain an advantage in the search engine rankings! So use the Keyword tool provided here at WA (see the button the left-hand navigation and check them all out. Better still, use the results to find new ones that aren't shown. Again, there is a lesson covering this on the course. I'd always find your own too as I'm sure your site will also cover a niche within a niche - if that makes sense! Oh, and one more thing. The link to instantbabysleep site gave me an error page! Just thought I'd better let you know. But your site is starting to look great. Good work and remember, we are all here for you if you need help. :-)
Good luck
Sean
Hi Sean, thanks for checking my stuff out. I appreciate you giving me the heads up about using content & keywords from instant baby sleep. It seemed almost too good to be true. But here, please try this link: http://www.instantbabysleep.com/affiliates
If that doesn't work, google "Instant baby sleep affiliates" but that link should work. If you scroll down you will see all the keywords and content and banners that they "give" you so you can use. I think the coolest "proof" they have on there that their product works is an actual video of a fussy, over stimulated baby, to which when the mom plays the "MP3 soundtrack from baby sleep" the baby goes right to sleep in less than a minute! My baby isn't a newborn anymore but oh... during those sleepless nights, if I seen such a video, I would totally be sold.
I was looking for the keyword tool you mentioned and I don't see it? But then again my screen settings are kind of messed up, so on the right hand side I don't see everything that I am supposed to see... here, I am going to take a picture of my computer screen with my cell phone and show you..
This is what could be seen from my screen, I don't know why its like that and I don't know how to fix it.
Oh my gosh. I am so stupid. Nevermind about my above post. I can now see the menu on the side. Jesus... I'm so ditsy sometimes.
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Congrats ..I would do a bit of both