Building Your Own TrafficProducing Website (Level 2) Review
Lesson 1: Your Own Domain, Your Brand. TRAFFIC
The first Lesson for the Level 2 WA Training provides a clear instruction and run-down, to include in-depth and relevant discussion related to how owning your own domain will benefit and most cases, increase your ability to rank and increase site traffic. Additionally there are discussions and instructions on how to best choose your domain name to brand your online business. The following topics are covered in the lesson:
- Buy a Domain From SiteDomains
- Join in the Discussion on Choosing Domains
- Transfer Your SiteRubix Website to Your Own Domain
Lesson 2: Building Out Your Website Theme-Based Content
The second Lesson for the Level 2 WA Training begins with the importance of visitor engagement and how it affects your site ranking in Google. This lesson continues to teach Setting Up Your Initial Website Theme-Based Categories. Lesson 2: Building Out Your Website Theme-Based Content provides clear instruction from creating theme based pages, to organizing your menus and finally creating themed based content for your pages. The following topics are covered in the lesson:
- Watch the Setting Up Theme-Based Categories Video Walk-through
- Create Your 3 Additional Themed Pages
- Organize Your Menu
- Build Out Content for 3 Initial Pages
Lesson 3: Setting Up A Domain Specific Email Account
The third Lesson for the Level 2 WA Training walks you through making your online business a professional brand for your visitors, which builds trust and moves you a step closer to customer retention. This lesson also initiates you to begin utilizing your Wealthy Affiliate Network Team to begin providing feedback to your website to allow you to make changes for a friendlier, and potentially, more specific content filled site to help improve your rankings and ultimately traffic to your website. The following topics are covered in the lesson:
- Watch the Creating Email Accounts Video Walk-through
- Set Up an Email Account OR an Email Forward
- Incorporate Email Into Website
- Offer Feedback on at LEAST TWO Other Websites Within the SiteFeedback Platform
- Post Your Website for Feedback Within the SiteFeedback Platform
Lesson 4: The Traffic Breakdown
The fourth Lesson for the Level 2 WA Training walks you through the time proven most cost effective marketing and cost efficient means of advertising your website. This lesson focuses on training your mind to focus on the fact that the purpose of a website is to attract visitors and teaching the best means of attracting traffic to your site based on proven systems implemented by the most effective and popular websites today. The lesson continues teaching how to implement keyword rich content that is meaningful to your visitors. If you are like me and have little to no budget to advertise your site, learning how to write keyword rich content in pages, blogs, articles and classified ads will be key to ranking your site, as well as, traffic to your site based on searches. Ultimately this lesson, in my opinion, is one of the most pertinent on the site, as it focuses on humanizing your visitors and making your site a valuable commodity to your visitors. The following topics are covered in the lesson:
- Create a New Keyword Rich Post & Publish
- Read The Customer Purchase Lifecycle Training
Lesson 5: Making Use of Visuals
The fifth Lesson for the Level 2 WA Training walks you through how people generally engage with reading, images, video and the like while surfing the net. Nowadays, I'm sure you will agree based on your personal preferences, that having a strong visual graphic to communicate a message is much more enticing than reading paragraphs worth of data at times. For example, If I happen to be on a website that has a visually striking image with a clear concise message that catches my attention, if something I am intrigued by, I will then take the time to read the article. The lesson walks you through, by video, where and how to find relevant images for your pages and posts and how to place them within the context of your content. The following topics are covered in the lesson:
- Watch the "How to Find & Add Images to Your Website" Video
- Add Relevant Imagery to Your Post
- Add Relevant images to all of your other pages
Lesson 6: Getting Crafty With the Wordpress Editor
The sixth Lesson of the Level 2 WA Training jumps in discussing how to best format your content to capture the attention of your visitors! This includes explaining the difference between using Pages and using Blog Posts on your Website. The lesson continues to walk you through six key steps to creating a successful blog post and getting your Wealthy Affiliate Network involved by swapping comments on websites... This will add credibility to your site and entice your visitors to continue participation in your website discussions. Overall, the lesson includes the following topics:
- Watch the "Using the Wordpress Editor" Video Walk-through
- Create a new blog post using your new knowledge of editor
- Offer 4 Comments Using the SiteComments Platform
- Request 2 Comments Using the RequestComments
Lesson 7: Understanding the Low Hanging Fruit
The seventh Lesson of the Level 2 WA Training begins by getting you acquainted with the idea of finding and utilizing the Low Hanging Fruit Keywords. This lesson teaches you how to run a full time business online by going after the low hanging fruit, in other words, keywords with very little competition and how to find keywords with very little competition relevant to you niche... That's right, step-by-step to find keywords with little competition relevant to your page themes. In all, the following is a list of topics covered by the lesson:
- Watch the "How to get Keyword Ranked With Low Hanging Fruit" Video Walk-through
- Come up with 5 keywords with under 100 QSR (Competition)
- Create on Page/Post Targeting Low Hanging Fruit Keyword
- Share Content on the "Give & Take" Discussion
Lesson 8: Making Face As a REAL PERSON
The eighth Lesson in the Building Your Own Traffic Producing Website Course Series ensures that you make a human connection between the site author, content and the site visitor. Ensuring you have a personal connection to your audience is key to customer retention, that is returning website visitors. The lesson has a walk-through video teaching you how to create a new user in wordpress and how to assign that author to your pages and posts, rather than maintaining the "Admin" default author, creating that personal connection to your audience you want to personalize your website and begin creating real relationships with your visitors. This is a short and easy lesson and the topics covered include:
- Watch the "How to Create a New User in Wordpress" Video
- Create a New User
- Update All of Your Pages & Posts to Reflect New User
Lesson 9: Amplifying Your Google Love With Google Plus
The ninth Lesson in the Building Your Own Traffic Producing Website takes you in-depth on how to get get rankings using Google Plus, the social networking site. Overall this lesson provides instructions for getting networked on Google Plus and also provides a terrific opportuntiy to grow your Google Plus Network through your Wealthy Affiliate Network. Below is a list of topics covered within the lesson:
- Set-up a Google Plus Account
- Add Yourself as a Contributor of Your Site
- Add at Least 5 People on G+ to Your Circles
- Add your Google + Account to the "Share Your G+ Account" Blog Post
- Create a New Post and Add it (with engagement) to Your Google + Posts Page
Lesson 10: Boosting Your WA Ranks!
The tenth and final lesson of the Building Your Own Traffic Producing Website Course begins with a short review of everything you have accomplished in the short time since you began! One of the great things about the training within Wealthy Affiliate, is that you will actually build your WA network and ranking the same way you will build your online business networks, website traffic and website ranking. You are able to grow your website business through your WA network. This final lesson goes into depth on how the Ambassadorship program works, what it offers and how it will contribute to the growth of your online business. The lessons truly get you on track with consistently interacting with your visitors and your website, which is afterall, what will make your business a success. Overall, the topics and tasks which will improve your interaction in any online community that are covered in this lesson include:
- Watch the "Benefits of Being an Ambassador" Walk-through Video
- Create one blog post within Wealthy Affiliate
- Check Your Ambassadorship Rankings.
- Comment on at Least 2 Goal Posts
- Help One Person Through the "Unanswered" tab on Dashboard